Aka “The Time Travel Cast”!
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It’s a Secret Avengers kinda week around 1979 Semi-Finalist this week, what can I say?!
The following are panels I just could not decide between from Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie’s wonderful Secret Avengers #16:
Look at their faces! So great. Click to enbiggen!
Don't worry...Hank apologizes later.
heh.
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So it’s not TECHNICALLY a flying car, but it’s still 100% badass. I want Jamie McKelvie to draw like 82% of my comics.
Jamie McKelvie’s Secret Avengers #16:
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week, things made of awesome
“The “Angel” series (and related books) at IDW were, for the most part, good and interesting books with compelling stories and solid creative teams, but somehow it feels comforting to have everything that goes with “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” safely housed under one publishing roof, Dark Horse. Already “Angel & Faith” feels more tightly tied to “Season 8” of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and I suspect all will be the better for it in the long run as well…”
You can read the rest of my CBR Review of Angel & Faith #1 here.
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Tags: comics!
“In my perfect world, all superhero comics are like “Secret Avengers” #16. Well, they don’t all have to have time travel, these specific Avengers or many other things this issue includes, but they should all use this book as a blueprint for smart, funny, well-constructed, beautiful, modern and fun comics.
Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie take over “Secret Avengers” with issue #16 for a standalone story and in a single stroke make it a book to be absolutely reckoned with. In this issue, a handful of Avengers are investigating a secret city built more than a mile under Cincinnati and the results are action-packed, hilarious, creative and smart. Too smart for me, in fact, but that’s usually the case with anything relating to time travel, so I won’t hold it against Ellis, or this book…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of Secret Avengers #16 here.
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I mean seriously?
Is there any doubt about the awesomeness of this splash page by Paul Azaceta and Dave McCraig in this week’s Northlanders #43? I am going to miss this book like crazy when it’s gone. 🙁
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““Gates of Gotham” #5 does not end as strongly as it began, but it’s still a solid book with a strong ending to what was a compelling and different kind of Bat series.
Delving deeply into Gotham’s history, Scott Snyder and Kyle Higgins brought us something new and interesting with this series, and an aspect of Bat books that is too frequently paid lip service to but not actually explored: Gotham as a character itself…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of Gates of Gotham #5 here.
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Tags: comics!
Fellow CBR Reviewer Ryan K. Lindsay runs this really great comics writing site called Thought Balloons with a handful of other gents. Thought Balloons is a great writing experiment in which the contributing writers alternate weeks choosing a character and each prepares a one page script for that character and posts it. The scripts posted can be an excerpt of a larger script, a standalone page, just about anything, so long as they are only one page. It’s a great way to get feedback (writing in a vaccuum is one of the biggest challenges for any writer) and also to help keep the ideas freely flowing, which is key and very hard to maintain as a writer, especially as you try to break into the business.
This week Ryan asked me if I’d like to join them as a guest writer. I of course jumped at the chance and on his suggestion gave Ryan a handful of characters I’d be especially pumped to write for. Of those characters, Ryan picked Kate Kane/Batwoman, and today is Batwoman’s introduction on Thought Balloons and the debut of my page.
And because it’s always fun to show some Kate Kane art, here’s a Batwoman variant cover that I love from Amy Reeder. A cover that apparently WILL NOT be hitting shelves anytime soon (it seems DC has cut back on variants and as such this cover won’t be used…such a shame).
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“Finally, we come to the end of this unsatisfying “Odyssey” arc for “Wonder Woman.” It’s hard not to breathe a sigh of relief and look with hope toward Cliff Chiang and Brian Azzarello’s take on Diana next month.
This issue of “Wonder Woman” feels like it was tacked on to get the “Odyssey” arc to match up with the September re-launch and, as a result, it reads like an anti-climactic re-hash of issue #613, with some saccharine pages at the end. Diana, having “reabsorbed” the rest of herself (don’t ask) in “Wonder Woman” #613, now fights Nemesis and defeats her. But since Diana kills Nemesis with Nemesis’ own sword, the sword binds to Diana and tries to make her the “new” Nemesis…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of Wonder Woman #614 here.
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Tags: 3 Chicks Cast, comics!
A tie this week between this fantastic classically heroic Justice Society of America #54 cover by Darwyn Cooke
And this lovely Dustin Nguyen Gates of Gotham #5 variant, which nicely features my girl Cass Cain as Blackbat.
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