Sometimes less is more, except when it’s blood and then more is always more!
Go Fiona Staples with this excellent cover (and issue – her interior art is fantastic) from Jonah Hex #66!
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A new She Has No Head! – a look at Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s exceptional Demo Volume 2.
Check it out!
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Though I continued to read the regular “season eight” Buffy comics even when they annoyed me this past year, I’d fallen away from the more intense (and frequently confusing for me) Angel stuff. It’s entirely possible that that’s my fault and that I just wasn’t paying enough attention – there was a lot going on in some of those books. However drama between Willingham and Whedon’s people over all the Twilight nonsense (which I ended up hating anyway) didn’t help restore a lot of faith in what was going on in the books. All that to say that I wasn’t really intending to pick up Angel & Faith forthcoming from Dark Horse. Until today. Until I realized Rebekah Isaacs is going to be drawing it.
And now? I’m so in motherfuckers.
If you’re a fan of Isaacs, check out the interview at the link where writer Christos Gage tells a pretty great story about working with Isaacs (the rest of the interview is good too).
Also, check out the pieces I wrote on She Has No Head! about Isaac’s work on the miniseries DV8: Gods & Monsters – including a Brian Wood interview – here, here, and here. Sue, Maddy, and I have also talked about Isaacs and about her current series Magus on the 3 Chicks Review Comics podcast – episode #04 and episode #010.
And here, so you know can know in a moment what you’ve been missing, is my all-time favorite page of Isaac’s from DV8: Gods & Monsters:
Awesome.
I’ve got one more week of reviews coming on CBR, though it will only be two books, so get the reviews while you can!
In addition to reviewing The Walking Dead #83 and Wonder Woman #609 earlier in the week, Zatanna #11 and Cyclops #1 went up today.
Please remember to click the “like” and “tweet” buttons if you like what you read – thanks!
You can read all my CBR reviews thus far here.
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No contest this week on Panel Of The Week…I knew it before I read any of my other comics. Some intense shit.
That said, do not click through the cut if you:
A) Read The Walking Dead and have not yet read The Walking Dead #83.
B) May one day read The Walking Dead and hate spoilers.
or
C) Are eating a sandwich.
Tags: comics!, Panel Of The Week
Not a very strong week for covers in my books, which makes this very pretty Zatanna #11 cover by Adam Hughes an easy pick. Plus I like to give him points for some restraint in the boobs/cleavage/etc. areas. This is still very pretty, and exceptionally executed, but without making me feel all squirmy as Hughes covers sometimes do.
More of this please, sir!
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week
I did two big reviews this week already for CBR – one for The Walking Dead #83 which is a MAJOR issue, and the second for Wonder Woman #609.
Please beware if you read The Walking Dead, or plan to, as the review contains major spoilers.
Head on over to CBR and check them out, and if you like them, please “tweet” or “like” them via the CBR buttons. Thanks everyone!
You can also read all of my CBR Reviews thus far here.
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Sometimes you just gotta pick the simplest panel that is the best example of great storytelling and great character work.
When an artist can tell me the internal thoughts of a character in just a single expressive panel – in this case a tiny sliver of a character’s face – you have to realize you’re dealing with an insanely talented artist…the kind of artist that makes comics worth reading, worth loving.
As is the case with Phil Noto on this week’s Wolverine and Jubilee #3.
Take a look:
So goddamn good. Thank you Phil Noto!
Another week of reviews! Get ’em while you can!
I read some really good stuff this week (two books that got 4.5 stars), and some really bad stuff (I gave my lowest rating yet – 1.5 stars) so find out which books to avoid and which to put on your must read list!
Also, if you’re feeling generous…please click on the “like” button, or “tweet” button next to the reviews…if they know people like what they read, I’m more likely to get asked back – thanks!
And you can read all my CBR Reviews thus far here!
Tags: comics!