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Part 2 of the Ladies Comics Project is up on She Has No Head! Please head over and check it out – it’s really interesting stuff and the post is getting some great traction on twitter, and with comic insiders. Heidi MacDonald from The Beat also did a nice piece on part one last week.
Illustraton for Ladies Comics Project, Part 2 by Tara O'Connor
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Easy choice this week as Mark Buckingham continues his awesome run of Madame Xanadu covers for the “Extra Sensory” storyline. Great color choices and stylized imagery.
Madame Xanadu #27:
Tags: comics!, Cover Of The Week
Greg Burgas called this on his What I Bought post last week, and I really can’t disagree. It makes me chuckle.
Puppets! Monkeys! Awesome!
Tags: comics!, Panel Of The Week
Now’s your chance!
Nick Marino of AudioShocker very kindly let me guest star on his superfun weekly podcast with Wetmoon and Shadoweyes creator Ross Campbell and Nick’s his dulcet toned girlfriend Justique as they talked about X-Men The Animated Series, Season One, Episode 2 (we talked about other things too, but I was mostly there as the nostalgic counter point to tearing the animated series to pieces).
Part 1 went up today, and because I can’t shut up, there will be a part 2, going up on Saturday October 9th. Check them out if you’ve been dying to get more of me (I mean, who isn’t?!).
Nick, Justique, and Ross are planning to watch and discuss the entire series (good luck dudes) and I’ll be popping in from time to time because who doesn’t want to be the “guest star”?
Ah, animated series Rogue, my first love.
Tags: comics!, shadoweyes
A new three part series began today on She Has No Head! called the Ladies Comics Project in which I got a bunch of ladies – those familiar with comics and not – to read a comic book and tell me what they think. Head on over to CSBG and check it out!
Update: Some really nice coverage of the post by The Beat. Thanks Heidi!
A gorgeous piece I commissioned for this project from up and coming artist Tara O'Connor
For a big project I’m working on for She Has No Head! I had to pull together images of all the comics I was planning to buy in the month of September…and since I’m frequently asked about my pull list, I thought since I’d already done the work that I’d share it with you fine folks here.
You can click to enlarge on all of the images below.
Additionally I bought Secret Warriors #20, Batman: Brave & The Bold #21, Crossed: Family Values #4, Joe The Barbarian #7, Heralds (hardcover), a new Betty & Veronica and a 1993 Betty & Veronica (long story), Last Days of American Crime 3, Justice League: Generation Lost #10 (thanks to the sweet Cliff Chiang cover), Batman #703, and The Muppet Show #10.
What was the best book I read this month? Well, taking Madame Xanadu out of contention as it hasn’t released yet, I’d say it was easily Stumptown #4 followed by DV8 #6. What was the worst book? Hmmm. Such a tough choice as there were a lot of mediocre books this month, but I’d say Star Spangled War Stories #1 was a horrifically lame train wreck of both writing and art, but with a fairly gorgeous Brian Bolland cover, which only made the insides MORE disappointing.
Tags: comic covers, comics!, ladies comics project, she has no head!
Not that wildly impressed with the covers to anything I bought this week, but the cover to Batman Detective Comics is pretty sweet. I like the nice balance of darks and lights, the stylized figures, off-center action/composition and the use of graffiti, which is surprisingly under used in comics as a visual device, all make a pretty nice looking picture.
Tags: comic covers, Cover Of The Week, things made of awesome
Bit of a weak week in panels (at least for what I bought) but I liked this kind of badass but quiet panel from Fables #98 of the young (again) Frau Totenkinder matter of factly drinking her tea and making her plans to kill Mr. Dark.
All of this would be much more badass and interesting (and somewhat revolutionary for comics) if Totenkinder hadn’t made herself young again and she was still her awesome old self getting these things done, but it’s still some good stuff. And thank the gods I have something good to say again about Fables which has been in a horrible lull for months as we waited for Rose Red to get over her depression (and getting over it was inevitable). Note to Mr. Willingham: Depression and mourning? Not a page turner.
From Fables #98 by the always superior Mark Buckingham:
And this was how I originally found the Baldus Wonder Woman from last week. Originally I found this amazing Kitty Pryde illustration that I believe was for a benefit of some kind. This image led me to Baldus’ website…and from there, all the other beautiful work he’s got up.
I never used to like Kitty Pryde, until Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men run when I totally fell for her – but it’s images like this that remind you what a great character – and what fantastic and unique powers she has (especially for the time in which she was created). Go Kitty.
Tags: things made of awesome
