tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28503845795902257102024-03-05T01:49:28.665-08:00The Waffle Press BlogsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-76864330705990580522015-05-31T19:38:00.001-07:002015-05-31T20:52:44.465-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 31 – Comic(s) You Feel Bad About Leaving Off The List<div class="MsoNormal">
May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 31 “A comic you feel bad about leaving
off the list.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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You’re shitting me right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Listen I’ve played along with your stupid list the whole time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve dug back into my 30+ years of
comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gone through my long boxes
trying to remind myself of things I may have forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve written every day for a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now that I get to pick something totally
on my own you tell me I have to limit it to one?<br />
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Fuck that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m doing
30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real quick hits but here are 10
comics you should find a chance to read if you haven’t already.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory: </b>Currently the funniest book on the racks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follows FDA agent Tony Chu, who has the power to pick up the memories of anything he eats, in a world where all powers are food based and chicken is banned due to Bird Flu.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deadly Class by Rick Remender and Wesley Craig: </b>A homeless teen gets recruited to be trained at an academy of assassins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite that it happens to be one of the more deeply personal and emotional stories in comics today.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta: </b>Hickman might be the best at building a complete and full world in comics since…. Jack Kirby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A post-apocalyptic science-fiction western whose main character is the personification of Death, and he’s the good guy.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Impulse #3 “How To Win Friends and Influence People” by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos: </b>Maybe my favorite individual issue of all time sees Bart Allen go to a normal high school for the first time and managing to get into a fight with the entire school at 3:00 pm after school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, during a class assignment on France he runs to France to do research.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mind Mgmt by Matt
Kindt: </b>An espionage agency made up of agents who all have some form of
psychic powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is the story
great Kindt finds a way to use both outside and inside cover, the
advertisements, the letter page, and ever the margins of the pages to add to
the narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, a Goddamn genius.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stray Bullets by
David Lapham: </b>Maybe the best crime comic book ever made, although there can
be arguments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Went on a long hiatus but
is now back and it didn’t miss a beat.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe
Eisma: </b>This book is the hardest thing to follow in the world and I legit
don’t recommend it to anybody who needs to have an understanding of what is
going on, needs things to make sense, or impatient people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book really is my “book that nobody else
likes but me” and I don’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the
other 29.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson: </b>Spiritually
this is Spider-Man redone for the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Kamala Khan, a Pakistani muslim teen gets
superpowers. Truly wonderful comics.</div>
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<b>Saga by Brian K.
Vaughn and Fiona Staples: </b>A massive space-opera that also tells a story
about the futility of war while focusing on the most realistic family dynamic
in comics today (minus one having horns and the other wings). Staples’ art is absolutely magical and there
is a reason it’s on the top selling list everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Stray Bullets by David Lapham: </b>Maybe the best crime comic book ever made, although there can be arguments. Went on a long hiatus but is now back and it didn’t miss a beat.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-41186411998700327082015-05-31T17:51:00.001-07:002015-05-31T17:51:41.494-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 30 – A Truly Smart Comic<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 30 “A truly smart comic.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Super Spy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Matt Kindt<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The word
genius is thrown around way too much in this day and age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like “epic” in that regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add bacon to a meal? “You’re a genius.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find a way to schedule a four day weekend
during your college years? “Genius!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Watch a stand-up comic who doesn’t suck? “That guy is a comedic
genius!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s tired and over-played.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by using the word genius to describe
things that really only are “pretty clever” we devalue the word.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So believe
me when I say that Matt Kindt is a goddamn genius.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I
legitimately could have put any one of Kindt’s solo works on this list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His original graphic novel Red Handed has one
of the most brilliant plot twists and themes I’ve ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His monthly series Mind Mgmt from Dark Horse
is not only has one of the most tightly plotted stories in years it
consistently does things with the comic book form that I have never seen
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact I probably didn’t pick
Mind Mgmt because I’m afraid I’d miss an example of his brilliance and not only
undersell its genius but also make myself look like an idiot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But by no
means is Super Spy any less brilliant than any of those mentioned above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kindt uses
two techniques that are often tried by other creators in various media: that of
non-linear storytelling and various stories that seem unrelated coming together
to form a full narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What makes
Kindt’s work distinct is they aren’t tricks intended to make his work seem more
sophisticated, but rather they elevate the work and even come about
organically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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When I
picked up Super Spy I didn’t know much about it other than I really like
Kindt’s work on Mind Mgmt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appreciated
his take on a “super-powered” espionage group in that book and wanted to see
how he handled more “real-world” spy craft (in my mind all this meant was super
powers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my surprise Kindt really did
focus on the reality of the spy game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was no James Bondian excess in Super Spy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I started the book I thought I was reading
a very well researched and well done graphic novel collecting short stories
about unconnected spies during World War II.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I said
earlier that his brilliance was in the organic aspect of how he uses his
technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the stories become
connected together you realize that it is not because of authorial technique
but by the very nature of espionage that the main characters don’t
interact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A spy often works disconnected
from others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It increases the paranoia
and intrigue of the book to realize that many of these characters are not only
on their own, but the success of their mission can be put in jeopardy if any single
one of them makes a mistake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kindt’s
artwork and coloring choices (linked to specific time periods and/or locations)
are amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story and characters
are great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d explain more about
Kindt’s brilliance but to do so would be to step all over the plot and this is
something that needs to be read to appreciate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-66135067448295273312015-05-30T21:34:00.003-07:002015-05-30T21:34:45.409-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 29 – A Great Comic For Kids<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 28 “A Great Comic for Kids”</div>
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Where do I
start?<o:p></o:p></div>
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My writing
style to the contrary I am not actually a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I haven’t been a kid for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact I’m so much not a kid that I am actually allowed to teach other
people’s kids and receive money for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am generally not the type of person who should answer this
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought
about using a comic from when I was a kid, figuring it would still be good to
this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I realize when I was 10 I
read a Spider-Man comic where, on-panel, one of the lead characters was mowed
down by a shotgun blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in X-Men
one of the lead characters became evil and ate a sun which destroyed an entire
planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I now know
why I am the way I am.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I figured
the next best thing would be to ask a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I went down to the park at a playground and was prepared to ask a random
child about what their favorite comic book was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Luckily I thought twice about that and had watched enough Law and
Order:SVU to realize this was a bad idea.</div>
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I was
stuck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seriously wasn’t sure what to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went home and asked my 8 year old
son, Chris, if he knew any kids who read comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He put down his issue of Spider-Man: Web
Warriors and sighed loudly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Yes, I’m
stupid).<o:p></o:p></div>
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So here is
the interview I conducted with my son about what a great comic for kids is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Um…
Teen Titans Go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because I like it when they, like, fight the villains.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Um….
My favorite character is Cyborg<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Cuz
of all of his... like… robotic things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like his… he can actually turn himself into an oven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Well
no, he has a built in oven inside him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wanted to cook a turkey with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He ended up not doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead
they cooked it in a real oven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Umm…
I’m only going to tell you some of them I do know. I think there’s like… Mr.
Cold? Ummm… uh… the H.I.V.E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I forgot
what villains they have on that team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Robin
cuz um…. The weapons he uses are pretty cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like he has a bird-a-rang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris:
Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s instead of a bat-a-rang …
it’s a bird-a-rang. He also has a pole that he whacks enemies with I guess<o:p></o:p></div>
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favorite?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: (Long
pause) Starfire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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character right?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris:
(laughing) I know <o:p></o:p></div>
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least?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris:
No…it’s just because I love her less than I love you.. all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(mood
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob: You love… Starfire less than the
others you mean?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: No… I
… ummm… I mean yes<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob: Ok, we won’t go further with that
part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is it about Starfire that you
like the least?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: Her
fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are weird looking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob: Why are they… wait are we still
talking about Starfire (my wife has weird fingers so….)? Why are they weird
looking?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: When
she makes like a this (holds his hand up for a hi-five) instead of five she has
four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they are like… pokey looking.
It’s pretty weird.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris: Yes….
She has ENERGY BLASTS and that’s all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh
and she can fly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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far?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you remember?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: Ummm…
when they had the sleep over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well all
the girls did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris:
No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just liked it. It was funny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tried to play a game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bunch of games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They played Candy Crush… well the candy
looked exactly like Candy Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
something like… Money Rush Hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Bubble Bots.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob: What did the boys do while he girls
were having their sleepover?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris: They
went bowling at a bowling alley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
Cyborg won.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always got a lot of
strikes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would do his aiming and after he shot it
he would say “boo-yah.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And defeated all
the pins in one shot, but it actually destroyed a bit of the bowling alley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>One last question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you learn
anything from reading Teen Titans?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Chris:
Ayyyy…. Ummmmm…. No.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chris Godinez is 8 years old and is the
closest thing I have to an expert on Kid’s Comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reads Teen Titans Go!, Tiny Titans,
Skylanders, Doodle Jump, and Angry Birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 28 is “A comic that changed the way you
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Scott Snyder<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Jock<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Matt Hollingsworth<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If you’re
following along with the blog that these prompts originated from you might have
noticed I shifted a day around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
trying to line up an interview for one of the days so bear with me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, if
you go back through this list to Day 9 (which by my calculations was 4 years
ago) the topic was a comic that totally blew my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up until last week I would have probably
reused that answer of The Invisibles here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Invisibles definitely made a lasting impact on how I see the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But last week saw the release of Wytches #6,
which ended Scott Snyder and Jock’s first arc on the series, and it left me
both frightened and secure that other people share my same fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no, it isn’t witches that I am afraid of.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It goes way
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Wytches
tells the tale of the Rook family, and in particular the father Charlie and his
daughter Sailor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the series opens we
find that the family has just completed a move into a new neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find out the reason for the move is an
incident that occurred in their previous hometown when a school bully, named
Annie attacked Sailor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sailor was badly
hurt, and Annie disappeared leading to persistent speculation that Sailor
killed her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Figuring the best way to
flee the rumors was to leave town the Rook family migrates in order to get a
fresh start.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However the
new town hosts a supernatural presence that sets its sight on Sailor almost
immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are creatures in the
woods that surround the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
creatures, the wythces, can grant wishes for the townspeople, but only if they
“pledge” another person to them. Once pledged they belong to the Wytches, and
it becomes quite apparent that Sailor has been pledged by somebody.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One prompt
that isn’t on the list that this comic definitely would have made was “A Comic
that Scares the Living Shit out of you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a truly disturbing comic on perhaps every level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jock’s illustrations of the town and its
surroundings alone set up a mood of absolute terror and anticipation of
horror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it comes time to actually
draw the Wytches themselves Jock makes them so natural yet twisted that I am
not sure I ever want to go to the woods again, because I’m sure I’ll “see” them
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changing my life by not making me ever want to camp again, how else did Wytches
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I mentioned
earlier about Kieron Gillen’s ability to craft a compelling narrative while at
the same time examining a theme and how he always finds the perfect balance
between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snyder is able to pull the
same act here by giving us a creepy horror story that would be a perfect
Halloween flick to scare the living bejesus out of us while at the same time
making a story that explores a theme that is extremely close to my heart; the fear
of making a mistake as a parent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Snyder talks
in greater detail about that fear in the back matter of the book, and while I
appreciate those essays greatly, it wasn’t needed for me to make the connection
to the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sailor might be the
character that things are “happening to” the most but we experience most of it
through her father Charlie’s eyes and reactions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s Charlie’s fears; fear for his daughter’s
safety, fear that he’s made the right decisions for his family, and the fear of
not knowing what his daughter is going through; that make this book beyond
surface level frightening for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s that
last fear, the fear that your child is going through something horrible and
huge and damaging but not having any idea what it is, that resonates most with
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son is 8 and so far is pretty
good at telling his mom and me what is going on at school and what he is
thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I know he’s going to get
to the age at some point where he will hesitate to tell us stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either he’s going to think he’s old enough to
handle it on his own, or that it would get him in trouble, or he’s embarrassed,
or (worst of all to me) that we won’t try to understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a teacher who works closely with teenagers
I can say without hesitation that some of these kids go through massive amounts
of shit and that the adults in their lives often only know the surface level of
that pile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Snyder was
able to personify those fears through Wytches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He gave it a face and he gave it a name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And while I already had these fears, he did something very valuable for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He let it be known to the world that
he has them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By writing this story, and
the back matter Snyder let me, and others know, that it is natural to have
those fears. He reiterated the importance of trying to stay connected to your
child, even when it is hard and difficult and they don’t think they want that
connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snyder let me know I was not
alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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never be alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially in the
woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Jock ruined camping for
me too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw). It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year. May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.
May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not
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Legitimately
this entry could have gone to a number of different books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I own several editions of Cassanova
(single issues, trade, ICON reprints) and I’ve read each of those a number of
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve re-read Invisibles at least
once a year since I got those trades, mostly to see if I actually understand it
still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the future I think Young
Avengers will probably be in the running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the end I know that if Transmetropolitan wasn’t exactly number one on
the list, it is right up there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Transmetropolitan
is probably Warren Ellis at his most Warren Ellisy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s equal parts speculation about the
future, biting social commentary, and optimism hidden behind the cynical
outlook of the protagonist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set in the
23<sup>rd</sup> century our story begins with Spider, holed up in the mountains
away from civilization getting badgered by his publisher because he still owes
two books on his deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spider ends up
returning to “the City”, which is basically what happens if our obsession with
technology, social media, and consumerism continues to grow at its current
rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although there are several
“mini-stories” throughout the run the main story centers on Spider’s coverage
of the Presidential race between the incumbent, known as The Beast, and his
challenger Gary Calhoun, AKA “The Smiler.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Transmetropolitan
is science fiction in the best use of the term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It gives us a futuristic setting with wonderful technology and uses it
to speak about modern society through that lens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ellis uses Spider to examine consumerism,
body modification, apathy, politics, social media, alienation through
technology, homogenization of culture, and the power of the media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Spider is based on a number of
journalists (and Ellis himself) he has most often been compared to
“gonzo-journalist” Hunter S. Thompson in his approach and lifestyle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spider has no problem not being objective (he
is a columnist after all) nor inserting himself into the stories he is
writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the better, overlooked
issues, eschew dialogue and only have an article of Spider serving as our
narration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anybody who
knows me will understand why I continually come back to this comic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, I am a sucker for the “power of
journalism” storyline that runs throughout the series, no matter how
unrealistic or rare it is in the real world. The Newsroom, Sports Night, Murphy
Brown, and All the President’s Men have shaped this hope that although it isn’t
the norm, there are good reporters out there who will deliver the truth for the
good of our society and hold people accountable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spider is that idealized journalist that I
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In the end
though it is the interplay of cynicism and optimism that really drives me back
to Transmetropolitan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too often I
believe that people view cynics as pessimists who can turn a witty phrase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I think Spider is an accurate
portrayal of what a cynic really is; an optimist whose expectations for the
world and the people around him are so high that he is constantly
disappointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spider has a genuine love
for the world around him and not just the “beautiful things.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes to the impoverished areas and
basically wonders in a world where so much is possible, why do people have to
live like this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a trademark of
Ellis’ (you see it a lot with Jenny Sparks in his Stormwatch and Authority
runs) for his protagonists to constantly remind people that this could be a
much better world than it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 26 “A Guilty Pleasure Comic”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Adventures of Dr. McNinja</b></div>
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<b>Written by Chris Hastings</b></div>
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<b>Pencils and Inks by Kent Archer, Christopher Hastings</b></div>
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<b>Colors by Carly Monardo, Anthony "Nedroird" Clark</b></div>
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I have
issues with this category.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A guilty
pleasure, I guess, is supposed to be something that you shouldn’t like for
various reasons but still have a fondness for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To me guilty pleasures make sense only when talking about food, which
can actually be objectively bad for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it comes to entertainment however I think I’ve grown out of this
concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guilty pleasure, as applied to
comic books, I think comes from that period of time in your life when you
combine the general feeling of people telling you “you’re too old for comics”
and actually giving a fuck about what other people think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guilty pleasures suggest you should be
ashamed of what you are enjoying, and I no longer have that shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re talking to a guy who not only
religiously watches Pretty Little Liars, but listens to a podcast about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That being
said, the entry needs an answer. I decided to approach it from the following
perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“If somebody
saw me reading this in public it would probably produce the weirdest faces when
I explain what it is about and why I like it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And for
that, we have Dr. McNinja.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. McNinja
is, as the name implies, a ninja who also happens to be a doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As awesome as that sounds it creates some
internal conflicts as he is driven by the twin desires to heal and to
kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact he is often criticized by
his parents who are disappointed that their ninja son also became a
doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and his medical school
advisor was a clone of Benjamin Franklin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To say this
comic is based around the highest of high concepts is an understatement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. McNinja
is joined by his sidekick Gordito Delgado, a 12 year-old boy who grew a full
mustache through sheer force of will in desire to become a man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wields two revolvers that were given to
him by his circus performer father who was killed by assassins from
P.E.T.A..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also rides a pet dinosaur
named Yoshi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McNinja also has a
receptionist Judy, who is a gorilla who understands English and speaks in sign
language, which Dr. McNinja does not know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Probably Dr.
McNinja’s “best” enemy is King Radical, who before becoming royalty was known
as Sir Sicknasty of Spades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King Radical
is a crime boss whose illegal actions don’t appear to be malicious and often
end up helping Dr. McNinja through roundabout ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is later revealed that he is a
time-traveler from an alternate universe who, in his time, invented pizza,
basketball, skateboarding, jet skis, and tennis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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His most
deadly enemy is Frans Rayner, who is basically what happens if you mix
Jean-Claude Van Damme with Michael Dudikoff (from the American Ninja
movies).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a former member of the
Guild of American Ninja who decided to commit genocide against all ninjas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has the ability to manipulate his body so
that only one part of his body has a weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In his first storyline this was in the middle of his butt cheeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can see
the face you are making, don’t worry it gets weirder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In order to
explain EVERY NINJA MOVIE EVER, in Dr. Ninja’s world there is the Law of
Conservation of Ninjutsu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The law
explains that one ninja is an unstoppable fighting force while a horde of
ninjas become cannon fodder for one heroic person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frans Rayner, in my favorite story line,
takes advantage of this by creating clones of Dr. McNinja to weaken his
power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. McNinja decides then to form
an alliance with an unwilling Rayner to kill all of his clones so that he once
again becomes an unstoppable fighting force.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not insane
enough for you yet?<o:p></o:p></div>
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How about
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The personification of Death in
the McNinjaverse is a skeleton with a pencil thing mustache who is a dressed as
a maître d’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes those that die to
Purgatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is an extremely large restaurant
with the worst service ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fact is
I can go on and on about all of the batshit crazy aspects of Dr. McNinja.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is almost 100% purely plot driven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It contains an evil mime based on Ronald
McDonald.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And I love
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s just
very hard to explain to others why I do and I guess the looks on their faces
makes me think I should consider this a guilty pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 25 “A Comic By A Favorite Creator”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Kieron Gillen<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils and Inks by Jamie McKelvie<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Clayton Cowles<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Matt Wilson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There are a
handful of comic creators I will always give a chance to no matter what book
they are writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently Matt Kindt,
Matt Fraction, Johnathon Hickman, Rick Remender and Jason Aaron are near the
top of that list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there are two
very specific reasons why I went in another direction with this pick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, as much as I love their work on
the whole, they have produced some comics that I am less than enthused
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, in this case I am not
just going with a single creator but rather the pair of Kieron Gillen and Jamie
McKelvie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everything
that the team of Gillen and McKelvie has produced over the years has been
golden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve already mentioned Phonogram
and Young Avengers on the list already, and I might as well add on with their
current series The Wicked + The Divine. It’s a gamble going with a series that
is just getting off the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
have been plenty of comics that have started strong only to fizzle out for
various reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But given the track
record of the two I am willing to be that it will end up being a modern
masterpiece.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What Gillen and
McKelvie do almost as well as anybody in the business is balance the narrative
of the story with the themes they are exploring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of their Phonogram series (Rue
Britannica and The Singles Club) as well as the Young Avengers explore concepts
like pop as magic and being a fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Despite the fact these themes are quite clear the storyline never gets
weighted down by the themes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result
is a thoughtful exploration of concepts and ideas perfectly folded into
compelling and exciting stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Wicked +
The Divine is another example of this ability. It exists simultaneously as a
thrilling mystery driven by engaging characters as well as a study of the
concept of celebrity in the modern age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The basic conceit of the book is that every 90 years a group of 12 gods,
known as “The Pantheon”, merges their spirits with normal human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While those humans are gifted with extraordinary
powers the cost is high because in two years they will all be dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing you aren’t long for the world, there
is no reason for self-improvement or for setting long-term goals, so they
essentially become celebrities with an expiration date.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile we
see most of the series through the point of view of a young woman named Laura,
who is the aspirational fan who dreams of becoming a god like her idols. Her
counter point, a blogger named Cassandra, gives us the cynical view of
celebrity that is more interested in taking them down rather than examining
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laura’s maturation and interaction
with the members of the Pantheon is a definite high point of the series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jaime
McKelvie’s art along with the coloring of Matt Wilson elevate the overall
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McKelvie’s biggest strength,
of many, is that even with a book that is dealing with complex ideas and
experimental layouts he brings clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are never confused about what is occurring on the page or the panel
progressions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile Matt Wilson
might be the first colorist I’ve ever really paid attention to when reading a
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The color palate and choices
emphasizes the magical quality of the gods.</div>
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I won’t go
into the details of the plot as it is one thing to spoil a 30 year old comic
and another to spoil one currently on the stands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice to say it is near the top of my pull
list, my choice for best comic of 2014, and along with the current Cassanova
series in the running for best of 2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 24 is “A Comic That Makes You Laugh.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Warren Ellis<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Stuart Immonen<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Wade Von Grawbadger<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Dave McCraig and Paul Mounts<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This was
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a comic book, released by
Marvel during the publication of their Civil War event, has a cover that looks
like a Civil War tie-in has a character holding a sign that says “Mark Millar
lick goats” you are going to win.</div>
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Nextwave is
by far the funniest comic I have ever read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That hard part wasn’t selecting this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That hard part was trying to figure out what
examples to put.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I could basically reprint
all twelve issues here I would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
that good and that laugh out loud hilarious.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a primer
Nextwave was a 12 issue series written by Warren Ellis and drawn beautifully by
Stuart Immonen (right before he took over on Ultimate Spider-Man with Brian
Bendis).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team consisted of mostly
cast off characters from various parts of the Marvel Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was Monica Rambeau (formally Captain
Marvel and Photon from the Avengers) as the leader of the group, Tabitha Smith
(aka Boom-Boom from New Mutants and X-Force), Aaron Stack (aka Machine Man aka
X-51), Elsa Bloodstone (daughter of the great monster hunter Ulysses
Bloodstone), and the Captain (an Ellis creation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were working for a group called H.A.T.E.
(The Highest Anti-Terrorist Effort) until they found out it was being funded by
the Beyond Corporation (which is a terrorist group) so they steal a jet and
take off to try and stop them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds
serious right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we found that out right away
because the H.A.T.E. agent send to capture them is named Dirk Anger.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tone of
the book is best described by Warren Ellis when he said, “I took The Authority
and I stripped out all the plots, logic, character and sanity… It’s an absolute
distillation of the superhero genre. No plot lines, characters, emotions,
nothing whatsoever. It’s people posing in the street for no good reason. It is
people getting kicked, and then exploding. It is a pure comic book, and I will
fight anyone who says otherwise. And afterwards, they will explode.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then he does a page like this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m going to
try to give a few examples of the humor that don’t require much set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice to say that this is not just the tip
of the iceberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the small drop
of water running down the tip of the iceberg because global warming is causing
the iceberg to melt and you should hurry up and go read this comic because we
are all going to die soon because of global warming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You like
parodies of ridiculous moments in comic book history?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elsa got something for that</div>
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You wonder
what a macho super solider who has frozen in the 1940s would think of women
fighting in combat?</div>
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You want to
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dinosaur that wearing a smoking jacket?<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I said
this is just a small sample of panels, out of context that should make you
laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole series is just as
hilarious and ramps up to the last two issues where Nextwave has to fight their
way through Beyond’s headquarters and all of their “Unusual Weapons of Mass
Destruction.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is capped off by 6
double page spreads in issue #11 where Ellis and Immonen take every insane idea
they have ever had and throw it up against the team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nextwave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because…. Comics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw). It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year. May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.
May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?</div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 23 is “The first comic you ever bought.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
#49 “Enter the Smuggler”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Jim Mooney<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Ken Feduniewicz<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Rick Parker<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I had just
turned 5 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom had taken me
to the drug store, which if I remember was called Newbury’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This being a simpler, or more naïve, time it
wasn’t of any consequence to let your kindergartener son run up and down the
aisle without any supervision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
checked the woefully inadequate toy section, which featured absolutely no Star
Wars action figures, and was looking around for something else to hold my
interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turned down an aisle and
next to the magazines in racks on the wall I saw my very first spinner rack of
comic books. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(You see kids, a spinner rack is what stores
used to display comics back in the days that stores other than comic book
stores actually sold comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was near
that spinner rack where I met your mother, but I’ll get to that on Day
1,033,879).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had seen
comic books before as both my parents had brought a couple home for me to read
before and the son of my Godparents had an extensive collection, but I had
never seen them in the wild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a
kid, and I didn’t think about where things came from before I saw them in my
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as I knew my mom found
that roast on the side of the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
walked up to the rack and quickly looked through a few of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most had characters I was already familiar
with to some extent, although I had no idea who this Rom guy was (hint: he was
pretty awesome).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turned the rack to
look at more and then I saw this cover in front of my eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had no
idea who the Smuggler was, nor did I have any idea what smuggling was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I knew is the guy was bad ass enough to
kick Spider-Man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled it off the
rack and started to open it when my mom showed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Rob, come
on, we have to go”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Wait, I
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“We’re
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“Can we get
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“How much is
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“50 cents.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“50 cents?!?
No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you’re going to use your own
money.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not only was
this the first time I bought a comic, it was the first time the option of using
my own money to buy things I wanted was presented to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At age 5, it was cool and liberating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can buy my own stuff?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pretty soon I’ll be moving out and working in the big city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Today, I
like it when people buy me things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
easier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I said
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As a comic
itself, it’s ultimately forgettable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sadly the Smuggler didn’t have super-smuggling powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s actually the guy who eventually becomes
Atlas in Thunderbolts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there are two
highlights I will always remember. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was an
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for years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SMUGGLER:
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And there
was the ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it’s Peter
Parker, and because his number one super power is the worst luck/timing of
anybody ever he can’t just defeat the Smuggler and go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ends up running out of web fluid and
literally having to hold the Smuggler over his head while figuring out what to
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run, this was an inconsequential comic even for the age of comics that didn’t
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development as a comic book reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
stated on an earlier day (go back and read it, this list has its own continuity
now) I ended up collecting Spectacular up to issue 111, and discovered comic
book shops and was able to go back all the way to issue 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that comics, at least in the early
80s, were out there for me to go find rather than waiting to see if Mom or Dad
had picked one up for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And given that
comic books sold for the ridiculously high price of 50 cents each I had to
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May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 21 is “A comic that makes you want to
have sloppy makeouts with someone.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1 “More than
You Bargained For.”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Mark Brooks<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Jaime Mendoza<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Dave Stewart<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Chris Eliopoulus<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I think I
really need to set the mood for this entry so excuse me a second.<o:p></o:p></div>
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/Takes off
backpack<o:p></o:p></div>
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parents aren’t home<o:p></o:p></div>
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Boyz II Men album<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now… where
were we girl??<o:p></o:p></div>
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One might
think this is an oddly specific prompt but it is quite possibly one of my
favorite on the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sloppy makeouts”
is not about the “sexiest” comic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
not about the one in which the characters hop from bed to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not about the one where Psylocke comes
out of the pool, dripping wet, in a barely there bikini…. Skin glistening as
every curve is accentuated and she walks tow….<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry…
anyway…. It’s not about that stuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sloppy makeouts to me is about a very specific type of infatuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The type of infatuation that actually can be
described by somebody as, “I really like this person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean I like-like them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It suggests innocence and newness and
nervousness and awkwardness and shuffling my feet and looking down at the feet
because you have this totally goofy look on your face and if they see it I’m
sure I am going to blow this chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s stealing a glance in the hallway between classes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s writing their names on your folder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s imaginarily naming your kids before that
type of action was real enough to cause full on panic attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloppy makeouts occur in a car parked outside
her house, but not directly in front in case her parents look outside. Or they
happen in between classes and break up only when a teacher walks by or you
realize you’re going to be late to your class if you stay another second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloppy makouts are more high school than
Algebra homework, the homecoming game, and acne.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a comics
reader who began in the 80s I am obligated to have a huge crush on Kitty
Pryde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kitty Pryde, to an almost
ridiculous extent, is perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
perfect blend of cute without being intimidatingly sexy, of being smart but not
super geeky and nerdy, of being a smart ass without coming off as a total
asshole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add in the fact that is she is
a ghost ninja ballerina super-hacker and you’ve just described my platonic ideal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my favorite sloppy makeout comic is the
Ultimate Spider-Man annual that shows Kitty Pryde’s first date with Peter
Parker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure my 2<sup>nd</sup>
through 10<sup>th</sup> favorites also involve Kitty Pryde because, again, the
80s.</div>
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Both Kitty
and Peter find themselves in similar situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are coming off the ending of
relationships as Peter broke up with MJ because she was constantly putting
herself in danger while Kitty’s romance with Iceman fizzled because he was a
jerk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both feel trapped in their
situations, as Kitty doesn’t really have interactions with others her age
(besides her now ex) at the mansion while Peter can’t really be open to anybody
in case the Green Goblin tries to kill them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Frustrated, feeling alone, isolated… you know… high school!</div>
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It begins
with Kitty calling Peter out of the blue to ask him out, because again Kitty Pryde
is perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What follows is a completely
awkward and awesome first date (it’s awkesome) between the two at a mall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bendis perfectly portrays their interactions
as both are trying to come off as calm and collected and cooler than they
really are while at the same time being so nervous that they come off way less
calm, collected, and cool than they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each of them, at various points, are sure that they said something
stupid that blew the date while the other one is actually falling for them more
because of what they said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course a
b-list supervillain shows up and while Peter rushes to save the day he
instinctually tells Kitty to be safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kitty reminds him that her entire power is based on nothing being able
to hurt her, planting the seed for a future relationship in Peter’s mind since
she is equipped to handle the danger inherent in being his girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The date
concludes when the Kitty’s ride shows up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course instead of her dad’s paneled station wagon it’s the X-Men’s
blackbird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it ends with a kiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A kiss that, much like the relationship, is
awkward, sweet, cute, innocent, and beautiful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now if
you’ll excuse me, I’m going to write “Kitty Godinez” on my folder a couple of
times.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 21 is “A Comic you used to love but now
you hate.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Identity Crisis”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Written” by Brad Meltzer<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Rags Morales<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Michael Blair<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Alex Sinclair<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Ken Lopez<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I’ve done a
lot of things in my life, and I’m not proud of all of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once stole a friend’s toy car because I
really liked it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drank before I was
21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took the tags off a mattress even
through it says do not remove under penalty by the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I said, I’m not proud of those things but
I learned lessons through them that have helped me become a better person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I wish I had made different
choices at those times, I wouldn’t take any of it back, except for buying,
reading, and enjoying Identity Crisis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Whatever
lessons I learned from it does not outweigh the shame and horror I feel every
day of my life when I realized I bought this piece of shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while some days are better than others I
never have quite forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last
time I pruned my comic collection I gave away a long box full of books I’d
either read too much, probably won’t read again, and generally didn’t like I
ended up keeping Identity Crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t
push that on to my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t
take the risk of throwing it away and having it end up in some kid’s hands when
he was playing near the dumpster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
if I shredded it I fear it would reassemble itself like the T-1000 and continue
to destroy all it comes into contact with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is my burden and I will live with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For this I
have no excuses, but I do have an explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Identity
Crisis came out right as I was getting back into regularly collecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got busy, didn’t have a lot of disposable
income, and had fallen out of the comic scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finding myself back in a shop every week I didn’t exactly have much to
guide me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked up things that
interested me and when a story is pitched as a murder mystery with superheroes
in it would be very hard for me to say no. Especially when it was centered in
the DC Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was never an
exclusively Marvel or DC guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always
felt good comics were good comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
DC has Batman and he is a detective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
this should have been good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am not
alone in disliking Identity Crisis but I am taking the brave step in admitting
I liked it at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember being
engaged at the start of the story, trying to piece clues together, enjoying the
art, and thinking there was real emotion involved in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while the enthusiasm tapered off towards
the last issue, I certainly didn’t dislike it when it was done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was still, I thought, a very good comic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people
point to the reveal of the killer (it was Jean Loring, ex-wife of the Atom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve spoiled this for you so you don’t have to
read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re welcome) and the mystery
as being implausible and stupid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be
fair, while it wasn’t the cleverest way to pull off the murder of Sue Dibney, I
thought the motivation made sense and the method was clever enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cut Meltzer some slack on the mystery part.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meltzer then
Carradines himself with the slack.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is often
said that comics learned the wrong lesson from Watchmen, and nowhere is this
more on display in Identity Crisis (if you want a current version, please read
every comic in the New 52 that DC is putting out).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real lessons from Watchmen should have
been that you can have a story that is mature on many levels (themes,
motivations, and technique), that you can darken the mood in a comic book, and
that you don’t have to have established characters to bring about a story that
emotionally impacts comic book fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What was learned was that maturity means comics need sex and violence
(and sadly violent sexual acts), that darkness means that heroes need to be
just as bad as the villains, and that established characters need to start
taking on these characteristics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alan
Moore wasn’t presenting Rorschach as the hero, and DC put him on t-shirts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At its core
Identity Crisis not only sets the tone for an increasingly darker and
infinitely less fun and interesting DC universe that we still see today but it
retroactively goes back and tries to interject this darkness into the goofy
charming silver age stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the
murder mystery holds everything together (that is a relative term) the biggest
revelation is that the JLA in the past have used Zatana’s magical powers to
mind wipe and, in some cases, lobotomize villains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would they do that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Well,
remember that fun story in the 1970s where the Injustice Gang swapped bodies
with the JLA? Well apparently the first thing they did was unmask and figure out
secret identities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when they were
stopped?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They needed their minds wiped. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh and you
know Dr. Light, the goofy and ineffective criminal who was also a main
character on the Teen Titans cartoon show for kids?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, he actually is a violent rapist who
raped Sue Dibney back in the 80s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
reason he was goofy and ineffective is because Zatana magically fucked with his
brain, not because some criminals were silly and not good at their jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh and they
mind wiped Batman to make him forget about the lobotomy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Identity
Crisis not only centers on the heroes doing horrible things to villains and
each other, but the worst part is that the story itself never deals with these
issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mind wipes are left to be
dealt with later, causing a split in the heroes and tension between them that
probably still lasts to this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Batman
doesn’t realize he had memories and removed until later, which puts him at odds
with Superman because apparently what we want to see is not Batman and Superman
being heroes together, but them fighting each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence Brad Meltzer is why we’re being
subjected to a Batman vs. Superman movie in which neither character is going to
actually be a hero (and it will suck).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Identity
Crisis is unique among bad comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
isn’t just a bad experience to read and ultimately set to the side and try to
forget. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t just that Identity
Crisis sets a tone that is still be followed in the vast majority of DC comics
(and movies and TV shows other than Flash for now).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s that, like a bad time travel movie,
Identity Crisis tries to reach back into the past and interject that darkness
and moral grey area into the Silver Age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Without even
touching on the underlying misogyny, bad storytelling, and the fact that
Deathstroke can apparently take out the entire JLA in less than 10 seconds
Identity Crisis is not only insulting to readers, it directly insults the
readers themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Identity Crisis is
basically saying that those wonderfully colorful stories with fantastical plots
and characters that had basic senses of morality are things we should be
embarrassed about enjoying as adults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But don’t worry, because underneath the cheer and positivity there was
this deep dark stuff going on so you can feel adult about pulling them out of
your long boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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TL DR
version: Identity Crisis sucked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
confused rape and violently killing people with being a mature, serious story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-80452460209819891982015-05-20T08:31:00.004-07:002015-05-20T08:31:55.145-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 20 – A Comic with Witty Dialogue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 20 is “A Comic with Witty Dialogue.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One Hundred Bullets “The Counterfifth
Detective”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Brian Azzarello<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Eduardo Risso<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Patricia Mulvihill<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Clem Robins<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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100 Bullets
is a work that divides people into two camps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On one hand it’s fans paint it as a great modern crime book that paints
a fully realized world in which there is a conspiracy, steeped in the tradition
of noir fiction, in which those with power wield it above the concerns of us
common folk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The detractors of the book
usually attack Azzarello’s dialogue as an attempt to be “clever” rather than
authentic and claimed the story got away from him along the way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I also think
those people are reading into the story what they want it to be and not what it
is actually about, but that’s an argument for a different day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When it
comes to the dialogue aspect of 100 Bullets I beg to differ with its
critics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you go back to old school
noir fiction, both in the novels and the movies, you won’t find authentic
speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s often said the creator
often tries to portray his “ideal” world though his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Azzarello’s ideal isn’t reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a world where everybody speaks like
they are in a 1940s crime novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where
there are guys who think they are tough and then real tough guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while all of 100 Bullets moves along
these lines, “The Counterfifth Detective”, is Azzarello’s tribute to those
novels and movies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a
long running backstory that plays out throughout the story which we won’t get
into here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice to say all that’s
needed to know is that the arc is centered on Milo Garrett, a private
investigator who wakes up in the hospital after an accident with his face
bandaged up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find out he was hired by
Echo Memoria, one of the two fem fatales will we meet, to track down a stolen
painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with all noir stories there
is a double-cross, followed by a triple-cross, and the “good guy” doesn’t win
at the end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But this is
about dialogue and, in my opinion, Azzarello’s word play and double meanings
are outstanding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Agent
Graves, a mysterious benefactor of revenge (tip of the iceberg but to explain
the backstory would take up way too much time) shows up when Milo is in the
hospital recovering from his accident where they have this exchange:<o:p></o:p></div>
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GRAVES: I’m
Agent Graves<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO:
Peachy. I’ve been waitin’ for you to show up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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GRAVES: Have
you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO:
GODDAMN RIGHT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An’ you better be here to
tell that after my deductible, I’m covered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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GRAVES:
Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not an insurance agent,
Milo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though once you look over what
I’ve got, you’ll find I do have everything covered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or Milo
interviewing one of the art dealers, Frankie Monroe, at a strip club.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: Do I
know you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: No,
but I know you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: I
don’ like the sound of that<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: (Opens
coat to show his gun): You like the sounds a one of these?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: Not
really. I got a nervous disorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loud
noises’re bad for my heart<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: I’m
sorry to hear that<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: Then
I’m sorry I said it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would you like
to hear?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: You
take requests?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: Name
the tune.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: Karl
Reynolds<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE:
Reynolds. Reynolds.. could you hum a few bars maybe, get me started?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO:
Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How ‘bout tra la la you
double-crossed him<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE: The
melody you got- but the lyrics are all wrong<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: Well
pardon me Frankie. Why don’ you sing for a while?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MONROE:
Look, I don’t know Karl Reynolds from a hole in the head.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO:
Interesting choice of words, seein’ how I found Karl sportin’ one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This leads
probably my favorite scene in the book from a banter point of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Milo finds himself going to one of his
regular bars, to hook up with one of his regular girls, a bartender named
Nadine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Milo enters
bar, face still bandaged)<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: Well
well well, look who it is… What the hell happened to you Milo?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO:
Nadine. How’djoo know it was me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: You
could walk in here with yet head up yer ass, I’d still recognize that cheap
suit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usual?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: Make
it a double.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: So
what’s the other guy look like?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: Like
his next suit is pine with a satin lining.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: You
in trouble?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: I’m in
here. Any around? (hand motion insinuating sex)<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE:
Knock it off, Milo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: How
‘bout I knock this back first (holds up drink)<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: Then
what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: That
depends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: On?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: What
time you knock off?<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE:
Yeah? We got a date tonight?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO: You
buys?<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: You
really you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILOL
(STANDS UP AND UNZIPS HIS PANTS)<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE:
(Looks) Twelve<o:p></o:p></div>
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OLD MAN
BARTENDER: On a scale of what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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NADINE: I
get off at twelve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Scene cuts
to bed room)<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO
(CAPTION): So I got off at ten to one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MILO (CAPTION):
And two fifteen.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-54448695608768096132015-05-19T20:32:00.000-07:002015-05-19T20:35:16.561-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 19 – A Comic That You Quote From<div class="MsoNormal">
<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 19 is “A comic that you quote from.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scott Pilgrim<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Bryan Lee O’Malley<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This one was
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people who know me know I am a
quoter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I regularly drop lines from
movies, television shows, and music lyrics into conversations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pretty much have a quote from The Wire
ready to go for any situation I face.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Quoting
comics is a little more difficult due to the fact that, as much as it shouldn’t
be the case, comics aren’t consumed as much by the mass population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even amongst my friends that read comics we
also tend to have such different reading tastes that a quote may be lost on
them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unless of
course we’re dropping lines from Scott Pilgrim.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are a
couple of reasons why Scott Pilgrim is my go to for quotes in everyday
conversation but the main reason is that despite the video game reality they
live in, the basic themes of the book are common to anybody who is or will be
in their 20s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing up, taking
responsibility, relationships, and making bad decisions is universal to any
20-something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also helps that they
made a movie out of it and kept a lot of the comic script for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are
some you can use in everyday situations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
breakfast?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Today a
child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Talking
trash about somebody in your social group?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Let’s be
friends based on mutual hate.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Friends
doing something stupid at a friend’s party or gathering?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Maybe I
should have mentioned my friends are retarded douchebags.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Talking
about your diet?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meeting your
friend’s new girlfriend?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re too
good for him.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Best apology
ever?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m sorry
about me”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know
when you’d use this but it would be awesome if you did<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What kind
of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives?!?!?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And probably
my most used line from the entire series…<br />
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And if you
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 18 is “A comic that deserves a soundtrack.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phonogram: The Singles Club #4 “Konichiwa
Bitches”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Kieron Gillen<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils, Inks, and Letters by Jamie
McKelvie<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Matt Wilson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This one is
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Adding a
soundtrack to a comic seems like a natural aspect of the reading
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that I often find
myself reading my books with some type of music going on in the
background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I can’t remember a
specific time where I attempted to match the type of music with the books I was
reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As comic creators have
established a larger presence on the internet one of the benefits has been a
look into the various things that have inspired their creative process, and
it’s no surprise that music is often cited as a primary influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no comic creator wears those musical
influences on his sleeve more than Kieron Gillen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gillen’s first
volume of Phonogram centered on Britpop and the concept of music as magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gillen not only constantly referenced songs
and albums in the narrative but created a “soundtrack” for the series using
Spotify.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His second volume, The Singles
Club, was a bigger experiment in the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whole of the series takes place in one night at a club, and each
issue follows one character throughout the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you go through the series as a whole you
can actually see how the character’s actions are playing out in the background
and impact the other characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
actually a masterclass in the technical aspect of constructing a time line for
the story that both Gillen and McKelvie deserves major kudos for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Issue #4,
“Konichiwa Bitches”, may be my favorite single issue comic ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It focuses on the DJ of the night, Seth Bingo
and his partner “Silent Girl.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vast
majority of the book consists of the back and forth between the two, or mostly
the forth since Silent Girl is mostly silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But watching them go back and forth over the crowd and the music is just
a joy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main
reason I think this comic deserves a soundtrack is simply because the songs
referenced by Seth and the crowd are amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “theme” of the night is music by female vocalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any genre is fine but its female vocalists
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And I want
this to be a real album I can buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
mean, I know I can use the Spotify list, or compile my own, but I really
actually want to spend money on this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Plus having
spent time behind a DJ booth this part about taking requests really hit home.</div>
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So, I picked
a comic that overtly references the music and that has a soundtrack already
posted on the internet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-11200597390563489432015-05-17T21:05:00.000-07:002015-05-17T21:05:24.365-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 17 – Comic That Makes You Think Of Somebody<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 17 is “A comic that makes you think of
somebody.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Superman (Volume 2) #59 “Superman’s Fiancé
Lois Lane”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Dan Jurgens<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Dan Jurgens<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Brett Breeding<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Preta Scotese<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by John Costanza<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I really
wanted to go for a joke here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I wanted to
pick a Rob Liefeld comic and say it reminded me of my friend Tricia because
she’s always late.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wanted to
pick a Spider-Man comic and say it reminded me of my friend Peter because he got
bitten by a radioactive spider.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But at the
end of the day this is list is about really showing love for the comics medium
and exposing people to stuff they didn’t know about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I pick
the most famous comic book character ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Go figure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s amazing
that despite Superman’s history two of my favorite Superman stories deal with
him sitting down and talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Superman
#59, despite having one of the worst titles for a story ever, basically
involves Superman and Lois having a six hour conversation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And it is
pretty amazing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The plot
basically revolves around Lois and Clark’s relationship and the struggle they
have to find time to spend time with each other given the fact that his second
job involves saving everybody in the world on a consistent basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clark attempts to take the time however and
decided to fly Lois up on top of Mt. Fuji to discuss the unique aspects of their
relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The reason they
have the time to talk for 6 hours is that one of the Linear Men, a group that
is charged with monitoring the space-time continuum, has decided to make up for
the fact that they sent him on a six month journey through the time stream by
freezing time around them. (Hilariously against the wishes of the other Linear
Men).<o:p></o:p></div>
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If this
story was done today it would be a six issue arc, with each issue representing
an hour of the conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jurgens
does a perfect job going in and out of the conversation and showing us the
highlights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest question hanging
in the air is how can Lois deal with the fact that Clark is Superman?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand she has the same need and drive
that all of us do, to feel like we are valued and a priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand she is smart enough to
realize that the world needs Superman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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While I am
not Superman, as far as you know, I can’t help but think about myself and my
wife when reading this comic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My day job
can take a lot of time and often demands some crazy hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure that not everybody could deal
with it as my partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my wife
understands the importance of what I do and how much I love doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shows the patience, love, understanding,
and compassion that Lois does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
love her for that.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-28728256446226370332015-05-16T10:11:00.002-07:002015-05-16T10:11:37.760-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 16 – A Comic That Makes You Cry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 16 is “A comic that makes you cry.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I Kill Giants<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Joe Kelly<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Art by J.M. Ken Nimura<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This one was
tough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was tough
in the sense of being a difficult task as there have been plenty of instances
where I have at the very least teared up while reading comics if not out and
out bawled like a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Off the top of
my head the last issue of Hitman, the last issue of Y the Last Man, the Death
of Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man, the death of Skurge, almost all of We3,
and a number of parts of Saga so far have all moved my eyes to various levels
of moisture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end I had to go with
I Kill Giants, simply because it is the most real, raw, and emotional story
I’ve come across so far in comics (although while doing research I found
something that I’m going to have to get that may beat this out next year).<o:p></o:p></div>
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But this was
tough in a few other ways as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going
back and reminding myself about I Kill Giants meant digging in and feeling the
story all over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It meant putting
myself back in the position of Barbara Thorson and taking on her life,
struggles, pain and eventual triumph in the face of that pain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Joe Casey is
a mixed bag for me but the one thing I’ll admire about him is he’s willing to
take chances and not write the same old, same old cookie-cutter story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of the results of his chances I
can never say that he didn’t try to do something new and interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I admire comics that I might not think
are “good” but at least attempt to be interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With I Kill Giants Joe Casey not only wrote a
type of story that I’ve never seen before but made it have a depth of character
and emotion that was needed in order to properly execute it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The two
biggest weaknesses in “bad” comics, to me at least, are the inability to
portray fully-formed characters and to make the reader care about said
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are obviously linked as
most readers find it difficult to care about cardboard cut-outs and recycled
genre tropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Punisher works if you know
his back story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Punisher knock-offs
didn’t because other creators just copied the big guns and willingness to kill
without giving us a reason to care.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I Kill
Giants centers around Barbara Thornson a fifth-grader who will gladly tell
everybody around her that she kills giants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As one could expect Barbara is an outcast, a “geek” girl who loves
baseball stats and Dungeons and Dragons and carries around a hammer called
“Coveleski” in her purse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the great
things is that while the world around Barbara seems to be basically our world,
as comic readers we are have to be inherently suspicious of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it possible that she actually does kill
giants?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it her destiny to be the
secret protector of a world who views her as a little bit crazy? Or is she an
example of somebody who has let their imagination and fantasies infect her
reality?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ken Nimura’s art does a great
job of playing with this idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
pencils and cartoonish nature of the art subconsciously make us question the
possibility of Barbara’s world being inhabited by giants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the story
progresses we understand that the giants are really just a metaphor and that
the things haunting Barbara are, sadly, the type of things that all of us have
or will face at some time in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her struggle with a bully at school is done in such a painful way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand Barbara does and says things that
I think every one of us who has ever dealt with bullies has wanted to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, sadly, the fantasy fulfilment ends there
as the results just cause Barbara more emotional and physical pain.</div>
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In the end
however it isn’t the bully at school that is the “giant” Barbara needs to
slay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the problem “upstairs” at
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not a spoiler, as Casey
reveals about half way through the series, that Barbara’s mother is very ill
with cancer and Barbara can’t bring herself to face that fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out of necessity Barbara has created the
Giants, as something tangible to show she isn’t afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because while Giants are big and terrifying,
they can be punched in the face. Cancer can’t<o:p></o:p></div>
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I won’t
spoil the ending other than saying it is both extremely heartbreaking and
uplifting all at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tears that come from it are genuine, but they are the best type of tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tears both representing the sadness that
human existence will bring us, and the triumph and resilience of that same
humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of those books
that even if you know exactly where it is going to go, it doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its story is so universal, the main
characters so fully formed, and the execution done at such a high level that it
will hit you like a ton of bricks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now if
you’ll excuse me I need to find a box of tissues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?</div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 15 is “A comic that makes you smile.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Young Avengers #1 “Style > Substance”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Kieron Gillen<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Jaime McKelvie<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Mike Norton<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Matt Wilson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letters by Clayton Cowels<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“I have no
powers and not nearly enough training, but I’m doing this anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being a super hero is amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone should try it.” – Kate Bishop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frankly I
could just add some art right now and call it a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That one sentence sums up the attitude and
tone of Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie’s excellent run on Young
Avengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kate Bishop, the other
Hawkere, in the middle of a battle with Alien beings, stops and reflects on how
awesome the situation she finds herself in and reminds us why we all started to
love comic books as kids.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Young
Avengers are Marvel’s legacy heroes, which is usually a term associated with DC
comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A legacy hero is the descendent
or a relative of a previously existing hero that takes up the name, powers,
and/or mission of those that came before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As DC has changed the tone of their books over the years to one that is
more <s>utterly fucking depressing </s>“serious” those legacy heroes often find
themselves with more angst than a season of Dawson’s Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are either taking up the legacy of a
father who died, or trying to make up for the bad things that their parents had
done, or doing drugs and swinging a dead cat around in an alleyway (this actually
happened with Speedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the only
scene I will watch if it is ever put into <i>Arrow</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And Gillen
and McKelvie are here to save us from being morose motherfuckers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be honest
every issue of Young Avengers could make me smile and I gave serious thought to
naming the entire run, which was only 15 issues, or the very last issue as my
choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gillen has often said that the
Young Avengers was his “pop album” and fittingly the series concludes with a
two issue story that depicts the after party (after the interdimensional battle
with demons it’s the after party, after the party it’s the hotel lobby). But in
the end I went with issue #1 because once I picked it up and read it I realized
that I was reading something new and had a feeling that I hadn’t had in a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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While we
often complain about pop music, we also know that we sing the chorus to ever
Katy Perry song that comes on the radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m sitting here writing about a great comic and I got T. Swift lyrics
running through my head that no matter how hard I try I just can’t seem to
shake them off…. Damnit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s impossible
to sing along with those songs and not smile while you’re doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not dangerous or edgy, but it’s also not
ashamed to be happy and joyous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How does
Young Avengers #1 make me smile?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me
count the ways (not even counting the Bryan Lee O’ Malley variant “Scott
Pilgrm” style cover)<o:p></o:p></div>
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First of
all, we get the return of quite possibly my favorite new character of the past
two decades from Marvel in Kate Bishop. Kate Bishop is to the Marvel Universe
is what Ana Kendrick is to our universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s absolutely perfect in every way and we all don’t deserve her, but
she makes it seem like it’s no big deal and is self-deprecating about everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and
she’s waking up from a night with Marvel Boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Midnighter in Authority) or forced together so inorganically (like Northstar
and everybody).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a great
depiction of young adults who are in love, but who might not yet know how to
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 14 is ”A Comic You Love That You Will
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First of all
I want to thank Diego Crespo for killing me, taking over my body, and
fulfilling my duties yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
wouldn’t be comics if we didn’t have at least one “fill-in” along the way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This prompt
is interesting in a number of ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, why would we willingly stop reading something we genuinely
enjoy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One would assume that event taking
into account the law of diminishing marginal returns that if we no longer
enjoyed it, then it wouldn’t be something we loved anymore and wouldn’t
count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been things I’ve read
so much that my feelings towards them have diminished (Noble Causes) through no
fault of their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I still love that
thing? Or would that count?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I almost
imagine a heart-wrenching break up scene of me holding a trade paperback tight
saying “It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s just I am not IN love with you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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However
interesting that question is to ponder, I had an answer ready to go for this
prompt the minute I saw it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in
previous entries I’ve often reflected on how the comics I’ve read have changed
me this is the first time I’ll get to talk about how a change in my life has
impacted my relationship to the comic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s not
exactly popular to speak ill of The Walking Dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time it is by far the most profitable
and valuable comic franchise not owned by one of the big two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People I know who have never touched a comic
in their life will post countless memes on social media counting down the
months, weeks, days and hours until the TV runs another episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking Dead is an important comic for the
industry in many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has shown
creators that there is plenty of money to be made going the independent route,
it has shown there is room in the market for a high quality black and white
book, and it can serve as a gateway comic for those who set foot into a store
for the first time to see where their favorite TV show originated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And not only
is it an important comic, but it is a good comic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I say I
love the Walking Dead, I really do mean it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Robert Kirkman took a tired genre and breathed life (oh irony) into it
by expanding the story beyond a 2 hour movie or a 500 page novel or a limited
series comic book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I legitimately
attribute the drop in people bragging about being able to survive the Zombie
Apocalypse to this book, because people now know it isn’t a matter of making it
2 hours and you get to live happily ever after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Walking Dead is a character study in how not only individuals but
society would react to a calamitous experience that really did “change
everything forever.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by making it an
open ended series with no “cure” (at least not yet), or safe haven (they’ll
find a way in eventually), and no hero (Rick’s done some fucked up shit) he
brings a real sense of terror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
think we’ll ever have a zombie infestation, but if we did? It’s going to look a
lot like this shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I made it
through 14 volumes of the trade paperback before I had to stop reading it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t that I found the story boring (it
wasn’t).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t that I wasn’t
interested in the characters (I was).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
wasn’t even that I can no longer afford to buy it (I never could in the first
place).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happened is that I had a
son and I’ll be damned if I didn’t put him in the place of Carl every time I
kept reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what used to be something
scary and intense in a good way became scary, intense and sad to experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d finish
the latest trade paperback and set it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d think about it a few seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d get up out of bed (I read mostly at night), go into my son’s room
and check to see if he’s ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d give
him a kiss on the forehead or something and slowly look at him before I went
back into the bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There I would
immediately find something “happy” to either read or watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to chase away the terror and
darkness before going to bed or else I’d have nightmares, which sadly were much
more “reality based” than a zombie outbreak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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stopped reading Walking Dead because Kirkman did his job too well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His ability to convey the intensity, danger,
and fear made it real for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art
work, particularly in the expressions of the characters as well as the visual
“weariness” they display weighed on my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292711156873073637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850384579590225710.post-41000130603659781042015-05-13T17:01:00.000-07:002015-05-13T17:01:02.275-07:0031 Days of Comics: Day 13 – A Great Plot Twist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u> </b>May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Out prompt for Day 13 is "A Great Plot Twist"</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Amazing Spider-Man #700 "Dying Wish"<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Dan Slott<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Humberto Ramos and Richard Elson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Victor Olozaba<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><u>DIEGO'S NOTE (PLOT TWIST):</u></b> For this edition of 31 Days of Comics, I, Diego Crespo, will be taking over for Rob in a plot twist of our own! My pick is a reflection on everything that came after and a re-evaluation of the original text. It will also make the less open minded fanboys mad. Fuck it, if you're willing to give this series a shot, you won't be disappointed. </div>
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Superior Spider-Man is the best thing to happen to Spider-Man since Spider-Man: Blue (aka the best Spider-Man comic). The comics revolving around the big 2 companies (DC + Marvel) is the stories never really give their creators room to breathe. The writing may be good, sure. But there's rarely a comic series that feels like it's playing outside the box of editor demands. What I love about Dan Slott's run on Spider-Man (still going strong) is it's one of the few mainstream titles that isn't just a good read, it's redefined the character for a modern era. He's the only writer who's fully cracked the code on writing an adult Spider-Man as he continues to struggle into adulthood.</div>
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But what Slott did with the last few issues of Amazing Spider-Man are more than just a look at what Peter Parker means to people, it's a deconstruction of the famous line, "With great power, comes great responsibility."</div>
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After a dying Doctor Otto "Octopus" Octavius swapped bodies with Peter Parker, the nefarious villain finally defeats our hero (classic Parker luck, ain't it?). Peter Parker is dead but not before leaving Otto with an understanding of what Spider-Man is. Like <i>Inception</i>, the ideals of Spider-Man have been successfully implanted into the mind of Peter's second-best villain.</div>
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Fans were outraged with some even sending death threats (go fuck yourself if you did this). I still know people who won't even touch this 31-33 issues of Spider-Man's run. To be honest, I wasn't happy about it either. It's not like it was the first time Spider-Man died (and how many love interests have died for the sake of his man-pain?) but this one felt different. It felt final.</div>
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A few issues of Superior came out and I was told from a good friend how great the writing was on the series. But Peter Parker was dead, so why should I care? I was morbidly curious and asked if I could borrow the first volume.</div>
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Slott's Spider-Man run had been good, borderline great, with a few lulls here and there. Superior Spider-Man is like the equivalent of Breaking Bad for comics. Bad people are being bad. Good people are being hurt. And Otto is just trying to be the best Spider-Man he can be. It's a beautifully constructed disaster of an arc that will live beyond original infamy.</div>
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I know I just spent most of this choice talking about everything that came AFTER issue #700, but it's necessary. After seeing Slott's analysis of what great power/responsibility mean to a man who spent his life as a villain, it all fit into a bigger picture for me.</div>
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A revaluation of the final run on Amazing wasn't an option. It was mandatory. Lo and behold, it all fit perfectly. A tragic puzzle piece revealing a painting of beautiful thematic webbing. Killing off Peter Parker in the 616 universe was the best decision Dan Slott could have made.</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Garth Ennis<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Look, if I
am being quite honest I could have probably picked 31 different issues of
Hitman to fill out the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The series
really was that damn good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I wanted
some diversity in the list because the idea was to expose people to a bunch of
different comic books they may have never encountered before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said this is the holiday issue
that, to me, stands out as the one I remember the best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My usual
issue with holiday issues is that they tend to tell the same story just in
various different ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is completely
understandable though given the circumstances in which they are written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing a 6 issue trade arc centered around
Christmas or Valentine’s Day makes little sense as the holiday seasons don’t
last that long (no matter what big consumerism tells us about Christmas). Today
most holiday issues get released as “special” issues that don’t fit into
continuity in anyway, so they tend to be “done in one” stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the movement towards decompression in
comics an easy way to do a single issue story is to take a familiar story (Say
“A Christmas Carol”) and then plug in existing characters into the roles of the
familiar story (Say Hawkeye as Scrooge, Captain America as the Ghost of
Christmas Past, Iron Man as the Ghost of Christmas Future…. Actually I’ll stop
now as I think I want to pitch this to Marvel).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What usually happens is an enjoyable, slightly cheesy, and ultimately
disposable book that doesn’t stick with you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unless you
are Garth “F’n” Ennis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Santa
Contract” picks up on one of the great reoccurring gags of the series (for
background on Hitman you can go back to the entry on Day 1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a research facility in the Cauldron
that isn’t exactly concerned with things like safety, ethics, or the lives of
their subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every so often an
experiment or accident will give somebody powers and turn them into a rampaging
monster, as comic science often does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When this happens, the facility has Hitman on speed dial and he takes
care of the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Christmas ever
an accident infuses a man with radioactivity and he decides to become a
super-hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is, his power is
basically to kill anybody who he touches and “Death-Man” probably isn’t going
to be invited to join the Justice League.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Deciding to become a super-villain instead, he dons a Santa costume and
begins to wreak havoc on the last minute shoppers out on Christmas Eve (last
minute shopping is deadly people).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
“hero?” Tommy is called in, and with his best friend Natt the Hatt, they are
given to job of killing the radioactive Santa Claus.</div>
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Oh, did I
mention that all the narration is a rewriting of “T’was the Night Before
Christmas?” Yeah, that’s right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While Ennis
is often seen as a cynical writer, especially with his takes on superheroes
what is often overlooked is his sentimentality towards things that he
legitimately enjoys or respects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
said before, the best Superman story ever is in Hitman #34 and what makes that
work is the respect he has for Superman as the “ideal” hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here Ennis, in a very odd way, pays tribute
to the idea of family through the relationship of Tommy and Nat while at the
same time taking a piss on the consumerism of the holiday season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even with
the hidden sentiment in the issue the fact of the matter is this issue is just
plain hilarious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ennis’ verses along
with McCrea’s depiction of a murderous Santa Claus are legitimately laugh out
loud funny at certain points. And of course what Christmas story is complete
without a lesson learned at the end.</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 11 is an ”Old Comic You Love.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Captain America #175 “Before the Dawn”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Steve Englehart<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pencils by Sal Buscema<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inks by Vince Colletta<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Charlotte Jeter<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest I am not sure how to define “old”
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we talking about “old” in
terms of the number of years I have walked the earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we talking about “old” in terms of the
lifespan of the modern comic book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Considering that question, and considering I don’t want to pick a book
that I consider “old” and have anybody reading say “oh that came out like 5
years before I was born… you remember that?” I think I will go with a comic
that came out before the “modern age of comics” (roughly coinciding with either
“Watchman” or “Dark Knight Returns”).<o:p></o:p></div>
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While my
first legitimate comic reading came in the 1980s I have been able to go back
and read quite a number of books that came out in the 1970s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while every writer and book had its own
tone and its own story tics there is one thing that seems to unite comic books
of the 70s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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They are
literally insane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Captain
America #175 is living proof of this insanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This issue
is the culmination of the Secret Empire storyline that kicks off in issue 169,
which today would be a typical “written for trade” length of an arc for most
comics, but at the time was an epic storyline for a book to be concluded in a
milestone issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time Cap was
joined by the Falcon in his adventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the time the Falcon couldn’t fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He seriously was just named Falcon because he had a pet falcon because…
you know… the 70s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The start of
the storyline sees the Falcon, feeling inadequate, going off to Wakanda to see
if the Black Panther can hook him up with some technology that will make him
feel like he’s more of a partner to Cap instead of a walking plot device that
Steve Rogers needs to save every issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile Cap investigates the Committee to Regain American Principles
(that’s right CAP investigates C.R.A.P.), which is thinly veiled substitute for
Nixon’s C.R.E.E.P (Committee to Re-Elect the President).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the way Cap is framed for the murder of
a super-villain by a group called the Secret Empire, who attempts to replace
him with their own “hero” known as Moonstone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moonstone captures Cap, who is later “broken out” of jail by
“supporters”, hired by the Secret Empire to throw even more suspicion on the
hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the storyline involves
the X-Men, as the Secret Empire is kidnapping mutants in order to fake the
landing of a flying saucer, Captain America disguised as a bum and then
infiltrating the Secret Empire with the Falcon (who now has the power to glide
thanks to millions of dollars of Wakandian technology and “things that stick
out under his armpits”) and in full costume stealing materials for them to
prove their loyalty, and the Secret Empire having a weapon called the Atomic
Annihilator which is just the most comics name a weapon can have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This brings
us to the concluding issue, which basically says “the amount of drugs we were
on to write the lead-up is nothing compared to the amount of drugs we took when
we did this one.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fake saucer lands
on the White House lawn and the new hero of the American public, Moonstone,
instead of “defeating” them to secure his popularity does something a bit
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He flat out surrenders to the
aliens in an attempt to demoralize the American public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily Captain America shows up and defeats
Moonstone, who eventually reveals the ruse and outs the Secret Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The head of the Secret Empire, known only as
#1, escapes into the White House with Cap on his tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Captain
America tracks down #1 in the Oval Office, defeats him, and takes off his hood.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While #1’s face is never shown it is
heavily implied when #1 states, “High political office didn’t satisfy me! My
power was still too constrained by legalities!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>#1 eventually pulls out a gun and kills himself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
the reason this comic is my favorite old comic is not just because of the fact
that Falcon’s big upgrade was “super-gliding”, or that Captain America pulls a
robbery in full uniform, or that the Secret Empire has a “Wheel O’ Mutants”
powering their scheme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The reason
this is my favorite old comic comes from the fact that the conclusion of the
story is when Richard Nixon commits suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although Marvel tried to distance themselves from the ongoing Watergate
scandal by claiming the storyline was in development a year in advance, people
believed that about as much as they believed Vanilla Ice’s baseline to “Ice Ice
Baby” wasn’t sampled from “Under Pressure” by Queen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">ROB'S NOTE:</u> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 10 is “The Most Beautiful Scene in Any
Comic”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thor #362 “Like a Bat Out of Hel”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written, Penciled, and Inked by Walt
Simonson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Max Scheele<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This one was
very close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So close I’m going to
briefly go over my runner up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Jane
Watson was introduced as the happy-go-lucky party girl in the early days of
Amazing Spider-Man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She eventually
evolves into the one true partner for Peter Parker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key scene in this is right after the
death of Gwen Stacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter, obviously
distraught, is yelling at MJ to leave him alone in the hospital as she never
had “time for squares” like Gwen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in
one move Mary Jane gains a depth of character and a metaphor for her
relationship with Peter (until Marvel ruined it with One More Day).</div>
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As great and
powerful as that scene is I think it pales a bit in comparison to the one I
ended up selecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Walt
Simonson’s run on Thor is widely regarded as one of the single greatest runs on
any character, if not the greatest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not exactly the biggest Thor fan but the parts of this run I have read are
spectacular and I plan on going back and reading the whole thing when time and
income allow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even if your
fandom for Thor is limited the scene depicted in issue #362 will leave you in
equal parts awe, shock, depressed, and happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thor, Baldar and a few others have just led a mission into Hel to rescue
the souls of a number of people from Earth that were trapped there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were joined by longtime Thor villain
Skurge the Executioner, who had asked to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Freeing the souls the group still needed to escape as they reached a
bridge that would take them to safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Realizing that the hordes of hell would overrun them and they needed to
buy time to cross the bridge an already injured Thor stepped forward to
volunteer for this suicide mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thor
is then hit over the head and rendered unconscious by Skurge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While at first his actions appear to be that
of a traitor he is instead volunteering to make this sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baldar informs him that he will most surely
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skurge replies that he is viewed at
as a joke by most, and that each time he hears of everybody laughing at him he
thinks he already is dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Baldar
was always too kind to laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All he
asks of Baldar is that he and Thor have a drink and toast him one day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we get this<o:p></o:p></div>
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So many
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE: </u></b>May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 9 is “A Comic That Totally Blew Your Mind”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Invisibles<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Grant Morrison<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Art by Various Artists<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There are so
many ways to interpret this prompt that it has taken me a while to come to
grips with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blowing your mind can
mean so many things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be the plot
twist you never saw coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be
the page of art that makes you just weep at its beauty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s the incredibly stupid decision made
by a writer or editorial that makes you clutch your head and yell out “Why
would Peter Parker make a deal with the devil?!?!?!?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end however the true mind blowing
experiences in your life are the ones that forever change the way you look at
the world around you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was Grant
Morrison’s goal with Invisibles, and with me (and countless others) he
succeeded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The story of
the Invisibles is easy to explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a secret war going on between the Outer Church, a group that wants to bring
about conformity and order to society, and the Invisibles, a group of terrorist
cells organized to bring freedom to the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a basic story, in that regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s good vs. evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s control
vs. freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s order vs. chaos
(although in this case chaos is actually preferred).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the hands of a less talented writer (who
has done less drugs) it becomes a simple, paint-by-numbers action story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the hands of Grant Morrison it becomes
something much, much more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ideas
behind Invisibles are complex to say the least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only thing I’ve read more times that the Invisibles is a book called
“This Sentence is Up” which is a 300 page companion book exploring
Invisibles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nature of reality, the
nature of magic, the nature of fiction, violence, duality, morality, and the
essence of time all go through the ringer here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Morrison spends almost 60 issues weaving these ideas throughout the
narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a comic to be
read as escapist entertainment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
as taxing as a 300 level philosophy course at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Although
many of the ideas of the story continue to bounce around my head one in
particular stays with me to this day and is the biggest reason I say Invisibles
totally blew my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane, aka Jack
Frost, starts the story as our point of view character who is slowly recruited
into the Invisibles in their fight with the Outer Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Invisibles become convinced that Dane is
the key to winning the war and train him in their ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the conflict progresses Dane comes to the
realization that the conflict itself is a sham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Order and Chaos, Freedom and Control, and all of the other supposed
difference between the factions are part of reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the different sides of the same
coin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The goal of the struggle isn’t to
“win” the war and vanquish the other side, it is to bring the two sides
together and merge so that humanity can advance to the next stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence Dane realizes that this isn’t a mission
meant to destroy the Outer Church. It is a rescue mission for humanity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So many
times in our life we find ourselves in conflict with others and immediately go
into the mode where we must “win” the conflict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We don’t take the time to understand the others’ point of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t look at the reasoning they are
using.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t ever try to reconcile
our different perspectives into one that elevates both sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I was guilty of this constantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10 years ago my goal would have been to prove
that fans of the TV show Arrow were wrong and make them feel bad and
defeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I seek to come to an
understanding of why they are wrong and rescue them from this state so they can
evolve (ok, so I’m not as evolved as Dane yet).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Invisibles
is a book that is meant to not only be read multiple times (it’s first line of
the book is “And so we return and begin again”) but to also to be re-read from
the perspective of different characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are other Morrison books that are technically better, more
thrilling, and more emotional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there
is no other comic book that attempts to do as much as this one does, and for
the most part succeeds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw). It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year. May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.
May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<br />
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge. A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best. You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you. For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge. It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites. The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 8 is “A Gorgeous Comic”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Killer<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Written by Martz<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Art by Luc Jacamon<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This will be
the shortest entry of the 31 days. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you’ve
read some of the previous entries I am a self-admitted amateur when it comes to
art. I am very much in the category of
“I don’t know art, but I know what I like” types of critics when it comes to
the visual aspect of comic books. I can
talk about the use of art in comics for story time devices, the use of panels
and space between them, and how it impacts the narrative. But when it comes to the details I’m pretty
much stuck with “woah, that’s pretty.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And The
Killer is very pretty. The Killer is a
tale about an assassin for hire and the drives and things that guide him. It’s a character study that occasionally has
some action. It’s really good. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So here are
some examples of why it is gorgeous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>ROB'S NOTE:</u></b> May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even
though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress…
pshaw).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is when Marvel drops their
big movie of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May also sees the
annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place on the first Saturday of the
Month, so I hope you all got to check that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the
wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seth Hahne, who runs the blog <a href="http://goodokbad.com/">GoodOkBad</a>,
has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daily challenge in which you are given a
category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re all on the internet, I
shouldn’t have to explain it to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my hope it encourages others to make
and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own
websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sharing not only might
turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of
a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our prompt for Day 6 is “Your Comfort Comic”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Planetary<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by Warren Ellis<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colors by Laura Martin<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When we
think of comfort food, we think of something familiar to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think of something that transports us back
in time to a place where we felt safe and loved, often our childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many, including myself, no food does this
better than Mac ‘n’ Cheese. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as
an alleged adult, I don’t always crave the dish that with the nuclear orange
glow that my mom would serve up a couple of times a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look for the same comfort but in a slightly
more “adult” package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A different take
and twist on my childhood, reconstituted for the tastes I have acquired over
time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Planetary is
the “Truffle Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Lobster” for comic books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Writer
Warren Ellis described the basic concept of Planetary as taking something old
and making it new again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set in the
burgeoning Wildstorm universe Ellis was able to reconstitute a hundred years of
superhero history and frame it in new perspectives, without losing the majesty
and awe that you had as a young child picking up your first Superman or
Fantastic Four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Framed around a group of
“mystery-archeologists” who work for an organization called The Planetary,
dedicated to detailing these wonders of the world, almost every sci-fi,
mystical, and super hero genre gets a once over by Ellis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pulp heroes, the JLA, Fantastic Four, the
giant monster movies of the 1950s, and even Hong Kong horror movies all get the
once over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t help but look back
upon your first encounters with the various genres and relive the feelings you
had.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While
scheduling problems came from both Warren Ellis’ own health and the amount of
time it took John Cassaday to pencil the book each issue was beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Ellis’ goal was to restore the sense of
awe and wonder in an aging and more cynical comic book reader he couldn’t have
found a better artist to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cassaday’s splash pages, usually depicting the scale or majesty of
whatever new discovery made by the team, are breathtaking and trigger a
nostalgia that is all too familiar to long time comics’ fans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Planetary is
the rare book that reads almost as well in singles and trade format, another
reason it is a comfort comic for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I started reading there was not trade market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you wanted older issues you became your
own “mystery archeologist” and traveled from shop to shop or convention to
convention with a list of things you had never seen and only heard about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there are overarching story lines
throughout the run (“Who is the mysterious fourth man who finances Planetary?”)
each individual issue tells a complete story about the genre or archetype it is
exploring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on your love and
exposure to each archetype some issues will hit or miss more than others, my
Dad was never a big comic guy but remembered some of the old pulp heroes from
novels and radio shows so he dug the issue about that, but Ellis takes care in
expressing a genuine love for each one. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What makes
Planetary a comfort book beyond others for me is that it firmly sets up a
conflict between two opposing world views.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Planetary team, made up of Elijah Snow, Jakita Walker, and the
Drummer represent the forces of optimism, hope, and wonder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They see the world as strange and different,
but want to celebrate and bask in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For them there is joy in discovery, especially when those discoveries
can be somehow used to make the world a better place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In contrast to them stand “The Four”
(answering the question of what would happen if Mark Millar created the
Fantastic Four).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Four sees the
wonders of the world as things to possess and control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By hoarding this secret knowledge it places
them above humanity, where they believe they belong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously this can be read in a number of
ways but I prefer to see it as representing different ways in which comic books
can be seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are either wondrous
adventures to be given to friends to be read and re-read until the staples fall
out, or they are to be locked away inside your long boxes, properly bagged and
boarded with the fear that exposure to others will somehow diminish their
value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully the good guys win.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And in case
you didn’t know who the good guys are, you can borrow my copies of Planetary
anytime you want.<o:p></o:p></div>
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