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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““The Intrepids” is what more comics should be like. It’s vibrant and fun, smart and enthusiastic. Reading it feels like reading something someone is in love with. It has flaws, sure, but being creator owned you can feel the very soul of the creators being poured into it. I wish more comics felt this way. I wish more readers of comics would give books like “The Intrepids” a chance, because I think they’d feel the passion too…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of The Intrepids #5 here.
As always, likes and retweets are much appreciated and you can read all of my CBR Reviews thus far here.
“Expectation can be a bad thing. It can turn a perfectly good comic into a disappointment. And really that’s what we have here with “Fables” #107, a perfectly good comic that disappoints me nonetheless. Sleeping Beauty is a favorite character of mine, and while she hasn’t gotten much play in Willingham’s “Fables” universe thus far, for a lot of reasons, including the fact that her “superpower” is basically to “fall asleep and take everyone with her,” I was excited to know this issue would feature her….”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of Fables #107 here.
As always, likes and retweets are much appreciated and you can read all of my CBR Reviews thus far here.
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).
““Supergirl” #66 hits an excellent blend of Kara being traditionally heroic, and even donning her costume, while also allowing her to hone her detective skills as she searches for missing students at Stanhope College…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of Supergirl #66 here.
As always, likes and retweets are much appreciated and you can read the rest of my CBR reviews here.
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A new episode of 3 Chicks Review Comics is up! In this episode we review three recent comics, talk about the news coming out of SDCC, and pick a long time coming Chick of the Week!
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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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