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I liked quite a few covers this week, Janet Lee’s Emma #1, David Yardin and Sonia Oback’s X-Factor #216, Greg Tocchini’s Captain America And The Falcon one-shot, but I’m still going with the awesome Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers #7. Great white space and movement paired up Oeming’s always cool character design.
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These Esad Ribic Uncanny X-Force covers continue to impress me. The kind of stiff, slick style is usually not my thing, but how Ribic stages the composition gives them this fantastic movement…they feel full of movement and that we’re just getting a look at a split second of it all on pause. I really like them…this one is so flawless and elegant it almost looks like dancing…like ballet…which I guess has more in common with great choreographed action than we probably give it credit for.
I’m not sure why only one character is an actual X-character…but I don’t really care. When you’re cool, you’re cool.
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While I don’t like the implications of Justice League: Generation Lost #19‘s cover, it’s pretty hard to beat Dustin Nguyen when he is just BRINGING IT.
This is beautiful, simple, pared down and incredibly effective. The use of limited color, basic shapes, composition, positive and negative space…it’s just exceptional.
Any other week John Cassaday’s clever Superman #708 cover would have had a great shot at “best”, but Nguyen just nailed it.
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So for the second iteration of The Ladies Comics Project – aptly called, Ladies Comics Project: Phase II – I had women (32 of them this time!) picking from my own library of graphic novels and trades for their reading and review. Below are the books they had to choose from.*
Beyond being limited by what I already owned, I limited the selection further by selecting only titles that I felt confident were female friendly. Additionally, for solely financial reasons (this project cost a pretty penny out of my own pocket) I removed some larger/heavier books that I would have otherwise liked to include (Black Hole, Blankets, Box Office Poison, and Local were some of the great books sadly left out due to sheer size and heft).
The books are listed roughly alphabetically and you can click (and actually double click) to enlarge all images to readable sizes.
For what it’s worth, I think the ladies picked very well. Though many of their selections surprised me, just as they did last time. If there is one big miss for me in the selections it’s that nobody picked Beasts Of Burden, which is a beautiful engaging book that I think any one of these ladies would have loved…and been really surprised by how much she loved it. But maybe next time! Who knows what future Ladies Comics Project iterations will bring!
*Please note that Secret Science Alliance (which totally should have been on the list anyway!) and Scratch 9 (which should have been on the list, but which I don’t own), are both being read by young participants of The Ladies Comics Project Phase II, despite not being pictured above.
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Though I had a few covers I liked a lot this week (Northlanders #36 stands out especially) it’s no surprise that I’m going with Wolverine & Jubilee #1 by Oliver Coipel, which I raved about in more detail just recently here. Also nice is that I really liked this issue too. Yay for comics!
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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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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.
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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And with that we’re caught up!
I love this Jock cover for Detective #872. Love everything about it. Slam dunk.
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Playing a little catch up here from while I was away and not picking up or reading my weeklies…
This was a pretty unimpressive cover week for me, as I don’t think this Streets of Gotham #18 by Dustin Nguyen is his best work and it’s still easily the best of what I got this week.
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