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Panel Of The Week – 2/2/11

February 5, 2011 in art, artists, comics, marvel comics, superheroes | Permalink

She-Hulks #4 gets lucky with a very weak week in my comics reading, and as such picks up panel of the week with a nice splash page by  Ryan Stegman of Jennifer and Lyra getting their butts kicked but doing it while well-dressed (and well-drawn).

This was my least favorite issue of the series, as it felt rushed and unsatisfying, and all the emotional beats fell completely flat, possibly in part because this was cut from an ongoing to a mini-series early on and the plotting may have been adjusted to fit that new schedule, but the art was still really good throughout.  It would have been nice to see this series, which had serious potential, given a chance.  I could have done with fewer bubble baths, cruise line crashes, and Jennifer and Lyra looking a little different (and definitely different ages!) but the costume choices were smart and well-considered throughout and the art overall was very pretty and easy to follow.  Too bad it was cut short.

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Panel Of The Week – 1/26/11 (and something funny as a bonus)

January 30, 2011 in art, artists, comics, marvel comics, superheroes, x-men | 12 comments

So we’ve got a tie this week, mostly cause I just love me some Emma Frost and Chris Bachalo.  First is this great splash page panel by Daniel Acuna of Luke Cage (POWERMAN!) and his wife Jessica Jones (POWERWOMAN?) having dinner in New Avengers #8.

I love it.  It’s really fun and smart and has great attention to detail from the clothing of our heroes, to the one slightly falling sock of our waitress…it’s just damn fine looking comics.  And really, this scene goes on for several pages and with the exception of one very weird Jessica Jones expression panel it’s pretty fantastic.  I miss Stuart Immonen like crazy on this book already and am horribly disappointed that he’s no longer on the book…but Acuna is a good replacement if I have to have one.  I’m really bummed that I have to drop the book when Deodato (and Chaykin?) come on board…but maybe Acuna will stay?  Maybe I can keep reading?  In fairness to Deodato, I thought his cover to New Avengers #8 was pretty good, and very restrained in his depiction of Jones…which is usually where he loses me (his depiction of women).

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But I couldn’t resist Chris Bachalo’s great cartoon-y fun take on the X-Men and especially Emma Frost in this panel from X-Men #7. Apologies to Mr. Bachalo for the liberties I took (I had to crop a bit as it was an unwieldy shape – also the crease is terrible – double sorry!) but look past it please to the beautiful extremely detailed personality filled artwork there.  The combination of lights and darks, the highly complex detailed work, the great composition, character design and acting.  FABULOUS.  Also, Emma, you so funny.  :)

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And now for the fun stuff…

Apparently Emma’s clothing is SO CRAZY all the damn time, that even though Bachalo has made an effort to put Emma in pants (and thank you for that Mr. Bachalo) colorists DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS PANTS.

They probably went to color it and were like…”No…just regular pants?  That can’t be right…This is EMMA FROST!  I bet it’s some kind of weird underwear thigh-high boots situation…!”

And that is how you end up with something that looks like this:

Yeah.  That’s just wrong.  Even for Emma.

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Panel Of The Week – 1/19/11

January 22, 2011 in art, artists, batman!, catwoman, comics, DC Comics | 1 comment

This was a week full of good books and thus good panels.  A heartrending panel of a tearful Buffy from Buffy The Vampire Slayer #40 almost made it, but it’s hard to compete with Batman and Catwoman making out as drawn by Dustin Nguyen in Batman: Streets of Gotham #19.  WOO.

All right, fine, I posted two panels…but are you really going to complain?  No, I thought not!

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Panel Of The Week – 1/12/11

January 18, 2011 in comics, marvel comics, superheroes | 2 comments

I’ve never really read Silver Sable before but Brad Walker’s take on her in Heroes For Hire #2 is AWESOME.  I’m in.

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Panel Of The Week – 1/5/11

January 11, 2011 in art, artists, comics, vertigo | 1 comment

I don’t usually go for gross stuff (I’m a bit easily grossed out) but it was slim pickings in my comics this week and so this very cool, but very gross panel from iZombie #9 by Mike Allred takes the win.  Ick…but cool.

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Panel Of The Week – 12/29/10

January 4, 2011 in comics, marvel comics, x-men | 3 comments

There was so much wall to wall awesome in Kaare Andrews work in Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #4 that I just had to share a FEW bits.

First…HOLY HELL WOLVERINE!

HOLY CUTENESS WOLVERINE (and Armor!):

And then something that is just damn good comics, even though Wolverine isn’t involved.  For those that don’t already know, the character pictured (Armor) has an armor-like exoskeleton that she fights in and which protects her from just about everything…apparently except the thing she’s fighting now…and it is freaking TERRIFYING to watch.  Really good comics that make you go “OH MY GOD” while you read.  *slow clap* Nice work Ellis and Andrews, nice work.

Awesome, yes?

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Panel Of The Week – 12/22/10

January 3, 2011 in cliff chiang, comics, DC Comics | Permalink

Still catching up…my favorite panel(s) from 12/22/10…

Panel #1. A completely ordinary panel from Zatanna #8 by Cliff Chiang.  And it is the very “ordinariness” of it that makes it spectacular.  If only more comics could be like this!  Chiang’s attention to detail in the way Zatanna is rendered from her hairstyle down to her clothing choices (which also actually look like clothing – with real folds and everything!).  I wish this wasn’t extraordinary…but it SO is.  Also, for anyone out there listening…I would buy almost any book that Chiang was the regular pencilier on…bonus points if it has a female lead as he is EXTRA good at that.  Wonderful!

Panel #2.  Do I really need to explain why this panel from Yanick Paquette’s Batman Inc. #2 is totally awesome?  No, I probably don’t.  AWESOME.

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Panel Of The Week – 12/15/10

December 20, 2010 in art, artists, comics, marvel comics, superheroes | 4 comments

Well, make that PAGE of the week.  And if you think I’m having trouble editing myself, know that I could have easily scanned pretty much the entire issue of Marvel’s Strange Tales II #3 and put it up for contention.  Great, great issue.  Kate Beaton knocked it out of the park (twice!) in her funny pieces, and everyone else brought their A game as well…but I couldn’t resist this page from Eduardo Medeiros’ piece (with an assist by Judy Leheup).  I tip my hat to you sir…awesome stuff.

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Panel Of The Week – 12/8/10

December 14, 2010 in art, artists, comics, marvel comics | 6 comments

This is, yet again, a bit of a cheat as it’s actually four panels…but in order to get the joke/feel I think you need them all.  This is from Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen’s New Avengers #7, which was filled with hilarious bits this week, including this excerpt which is about the Avengers talking about getting a paycheck and specifically Spider-Man realizing he can’t get one because he’s the only one that still has a secret identity and that the government can’t issue him a check.  I DO love Bendis’ Spider-Man…it always makes me think I should actually be reading Spider-Man.  Look at that gorgeous Stuart Immonen art…so fucking good!

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Panel Of The Week – 12/1/10

December 7, 2010 in comics, marvel comics | 1 comment

I actually picked out a different panel – an image of Falcon from Brad Walker’s Heroes For Hire #1, but it didn’t work well out of context from the entire page, so we’re going to go with this great runner up – a full page action shot from Ryan Stegman and She-Hulks #2.  This is great for a lot of reasons, including the fact that both Jen and Lyra are appropriately dressed for the cold weather…and nobody’s back looks broken.  :)

Both Stegman and Walker did great work on their respective books this week.

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