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A new She Has No Head! – a look at Linda Medley’s excellent Castle Waiting Volume II is up on CSBG.

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DC’s “iconic covers” this month are making the pickings a bit slim for cover of the week, but this Fabio Moon Casanova Gula #1 is the easy winner…really cool blue tones with pops of yellow plus the integration of the cut out text and the badass starry eyes weirdness at the bottom…very nice.

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Why yes, I think so!

Walking The Comic Runway (http://comicrunway.wordpress.com)

It may be new, but in a handful of posts, this new blog had me laughing and nodding my head vigorously in agreement…not to mention full of anticipation of what will surely be coming with all the costume craziness I see (and lament).

Get on board now and be one of those “first fans”…it’s almost like discovering a new band…*

And may I offer up this, this, this, and this as potential fodder for posts on those slow days!

*big thanks to Ross for bringing Comic Runway to my attention!

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I don’t usually go for gross stuff (I’m a bit easily grossed out) but it was slim pickings in my comics this week and so this very cool, but very gross panel from iZombie #9 by Mike Allred takes the win.  Ick…but cool.

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A new She Has No Head! – a look at Jim McCann and Janet Lee’s The Return Of The Dapper Men – is up on CSBG.

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So let me just say, if more superhero art (and design) looked like the following Oliver Coipel cover for Wolverine & Jubilee #1…I would be reading more comics (and bitching A WHOLE LOT LESS).  I first thought this was a Stuart Immonen cover…and it has some great Immonen like qualities (highest of compliments coming from me)…but it’s Coipel and I have to give the man props because there is SO much right in this simple image.

First and foremost Wolverine is short.  Smaller than Jubilee style short. He’s also a bit stocky.  These are great things.

Now, onto Jubilee.  First of all, she looks at least a bit Asian…which is so rare, and a huge step in the right direction at a minimum.  Secondly, she’s very slight and slim and not crazy curvy and stacked like every other woman in comics – she’s got small proportions that befits the history of the character.  It’s so fucking refreshing I had to stare at it for full minutes to understand the wonderfullness (not a word!) that was occurring.  Lastly, the fashion forward-ness of Jubilee’s costume…it’s completely streamlined and refined and super cool (and hot) while still being both appropriate for superheroing and totally retaining her identity within the update. The yellow jacket and large pink-ish sunglasses are just unmistakably Jubilee…but paired with a slick black catsuit…I just…I am swooning over this.

AND a zippered costume that is zipped up?  PLEASE. MORE COMICS LIKE THIS.  ALWAYS. FOREVER.  BRING IT.

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No contest this week (assuming this actually came out, I wasn’t able to get it).  Skottie Young’s Ozma of Oz#3, which will definitely be on my short list for covers of the year.  Of the books I actually bought I have to say it was a plethora of mediocrity.  Until I realized Ozma of Oz came out this week and just wasn’t in my pile I was at a loss for how I would pick one winner out of this pile of not so good – ironically so far I’m enjoying the insides quite a bit…just not the covers…

Weird.

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Our last list of December (and of the year) to close out 2010 – check out the new She Has No Head! for a list of 2010’s ‘Bests’, and a few ‘worsts’.

Happy New Year to you all!

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Hey everyone, over the holiday weekend Jezebel ran part two of my 20 Favorite Female Comics Creators of 2010…so please check it out and comment there if you haven’t already on CSBG!

Thanks and I hope you’re all getting a bit of a holiday break!

Supergirl #58 by Amy Reeder

 

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Cass Cain vs Shiva in Batgirl #25

DC Women Kicking Ass has been running a fantastic series of posts spotlighting the top moments from her poll last month for “most memorable moments for the women of the DCU” and in anticipation of upcoming voting for the top moments of the last 75 years of DC Comics.

It’s a great idea to spotlight these moments in such a way and with the guest writers on board – it’s quite a sight – so far comics badasses Greg Rucka, Gail Simone, Phil Jimenez, Mike Madrid and Bryan Q. Miller among other great writers and bloggers have contributed.

It’s a rare treat to see creators writing passionately about these characters and moments.

As of today we’re on moment #11, and you should really check out the series.  I’d say you should take a look because yours truly wrote about moment #10 – the defeat of Shiva by Cassandra Cain in Batgirl #25 – but with talents like Rucka, Simone, and Miller on board, well, I think we all know who the A-listers are! 😉

But I was honored to particpate and urge you to read about all these wonderful women and wonderful moments.

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