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I wanted to post a panel from Marjorie Liu and Phil Noto’s X-23 #13 because the whole damn book was so beautiful…but I couldn’t find one single panel that really worked in a way that made the absolute awesomeness of this book clear on its own, so I decided to give you a full page. Enjoy!
From X-23 #13, art by Phil Noto:
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“It’s always exciting to see a new series by Terry Moore. Especially as a reader hungry for strong well-rounded female characters, I always know I’m going to get something interesting from Moore. I also always know the book is going to be beautiful, and probably pretty intriguing. “Rachel Rising” #1 is no exception, and delivers on all fronts…”
Click here to read the rest of my CBR Review of Rachel Rising #1
As always, likes and retweets are much appreciated and you can read all my CBR Reviews thus far here.
*Alt cover for Rachel Rising #1, since I featured the other version for Cover of the Week this week.
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Gorgeously simple offering from Terry Moore for his new series Rachel Rising:
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The Hooded Utilitarian site is partway through unveiling their ambitious “10 Best International Comics List”, you can start here at #10 if you’re so inclined.
I urge you to head on over and check it out. The undertaking was massive – not just in the scope of their poll – but also in the way they’re laying out the information – it must have taken an age to compile all the data and my hat is off to them.
Yours truly was invited to the poll, and one of my choices Jaime Hernandez’ “Love & Rockets” via “The Locas Stories” showed up today at #7.
Go comics!
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Unsurprisingly, the excellent (and truly horrifying) Detective Comics #880 takes this week’s panel of the week as well as cover of the week thanks to Scott Snyder and Jock being disturbing super talented geniuses.
Possibly NSFW, and definitely NSFWEAS (Not Suitable For While Eating A Sandwich) below the cut…
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And in the “NO FUCKING CONTEST” section of Cover of the Week, we have Jock’s unbelievable offering for Detective Comics #880.
Also, I’ll say it right now, a likely contender for the top 10 of next year’s 52 Favorite Covers since SDCC 2011.
Also, if you are for any reason not reading this ‘Tec run by Scott Snyder, Francesco Francovilla, and Jock…you are fucking up. Get on it. Here are some CBR Reviews to help convince you (this link is to the issue below, but if you scroll down you can get all the reviews that have come before).
And when I say “the year” I mean since last year’s comic-con in San Diego. That’s right, in honor of SDCC 2011, which I am, again, not able to attend I thought I’d do a list of my 52 favorite covers* since last year’s comic-con, so essentially July 2010 – July 2011.**
I’m not going bore you with lengthy descriptions about what I respond to in each image, but if you frequent this blog with any regularity, the choices will not surprise you. My tastes skew to specific things like anyone, and I reward covers that cater to those personal tastes. For example, as a woman, I tend to be interested in covers with female characters and at the same time you’re unlikely to see many covers with a lot of objectification and hyper sexualization. As an artist (but only sorta, and a crappy one at that) I tend to be a bit of a snob about what I think is a good or bad cover – good often involves highly graphic images, lots of great negative space, interesting/solid composition, single figures, white space, and good integration of text into the image.
Whenever possible I’ve included the full cover, with text etc., as I feel that’s part of the whole. I made a few exceptions if the covers were saddled with particularly horrible “event banners” or some such, or if I didn’t have access to a high enough resolution image including the text.
I’m sure I missed a bunch of great covers anyway and, as always, I never feel great about the order, but I tried my best! I hope you’ll enjoy, even if they’re not the covers you would pick, it’s a beautiful line up of cover gorgeousness.
If you’re new to the blog and haven’t seen my “100 Best Comic Covers” list, you can check it out: here, here, here, and here. As well as my “already second guessing myself” modified list here.
Next year SDCC, next year!***
* This includes only monthly saddle stapled North American comics since that is what I have access to and did not include graphic novels, trades, etc.
**Because comics are generally dated a month or two after they are actually released, there’s a bit of a fudging of the numbers/eligibility. It makes for a bit of grey area around the eligibility dates, but I did the best I could.
***Be advised, I say this every year.
052. BIRDS OF PREY #12. Jesus Saiz
50. ZATANNA #14. Adam Hughes
50. STREETS OF GOTHAM #15. Dustin Nguyen
49. SUPERBOY #2. Phil Noto
48. DEADPOOL PULP 4. Jae Lee
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Sometimes superhero comics are just FUN. Take a look at this page from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s Generation Hope #9.
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I don’t love the face on this Adam Hughes Zatanna #15 cover (it’s very pretty but doesn’t actually look very much like Zatanna to me), but it’s otherwise a really beautiful. The way she emerges out of the black is just wonderful and the integration of her title block into the image is fantastic, making it all look very clean and simplified.
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My good friend Tim Cummings has a book now available – Orphan Stories.
“Set in 1940s Florida, Middle America, Hollywood in the 70s, curious netherspheres between life and death, and deep inside the imaginations of characters whose greatest abundances are their emotions, the ten stories (and smattering of poems) in Cummings’s eclectic collection ‘Orphans’ evoke familiar and strange scenarios of love, loss, heartbreak, humor, spirituality, sexuality, and the quelling of violence. An unhappy housewife mired by the ravages of war fantasizes about killing her own daughter. An unlikely couple in the heart of Americana is brought together by strange sparks of magic trapped in a horoscopes column. The dark but achingly honest confessions of a Hollywood icon’s emotionally deranged son cause him to band together with like-minded misfits. A play about a sweet, sickly little boy illuminates a weird world of living, corporeal dolls that gently dance him to his imminent death. And there is more. In this refreshingly unpredictable assortment of short stories, poems, plays, and screenplays, a strong and imaginative new voice in American literature spins a majestic web of people, places, relationships, and situations.”
You can buy it in either print or digital editions, now.
If you like creative short fiction and want to support artists that are paving their own way, rather than wading through the (I can assure you exhausting) traditional publishing machine, I urge you to get your copy now. Mine’s in the mail. Congratulations Tim! 
