BoP #3 Previews, Thoughts on Comic Art and Objectifying Women

[mad]

I had a very negative reaction to the preview for Birds of Prey #3, and wrote about it on my Tumblr, but am re-posting it here, with images added for illustrative purposes.

In total this post contains about one page's worth of art/panels from the BoP #3 previews, maybe a bit over. (Most of them are from the preview on the DC Comics website, but one is from the preview on IGN.) Also, I've included the cover art to Gotham City Sirens #9.

Fair warning: this post contexts a lot of text.

( ranting, ahoy! )

Balder the Brave mini-series Part 2

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

As you know by this point, I love Thor's supporting cast and Balder the Brave best of all. So I'm posting scans from his 1985 mini-series. It's Simonson and super-sweet. Enjoy!

Balder has returned from his journey with Thor into Hel and discovers Frost Giant tomfoolery!

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Why has no one made this yet?

[hatman]

From The Tick (New Series) #4. It's board game night at Arthur's place. (Outside, unnoticed, an epic underwater battle is taking place in the flooded streets of The City as all sorts of wacky parody creatures fight for dominance of the world's oceans.) As our heroes discuss which board game to play, Tick proposes his favorite - CONFECTIONER TYCOON!

Behold the majesty of a board game of the Tick's own creation:

( One page from the latest issue )

Someone make this already! I want to play!

(Only one existing - and woefully underused - tag seems to fit, and I know we're near, if not already at, the limit, so I left off a few. Possibilities for del.icio.us, if you feel like it - publisher: new england comics, title: the tick, char: arthur, char: bumbling bee, title: the tick)

Vampires and the French Revolution!

[ravenous_raven]

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Supergirl Solicits

[hero_of_lallor]

Newsarama has the previews

( The World's Finest? )

Star Wars #70: The Stenax Shuffle

[recognitions]

Released by Marvel Comics in April 1983, just a month before Return of the Jedi's release. Written by Mary Jo Duffy, drawn by Kerry Gammill and Tom Palmer.

The Star Wars Marvel series began with the comic adaption of the original film, and continued as a regular monthly, relating adventures of the gang in between the films, finally grinding to a halt a couple years after Jedi's release. Sales were down, and everyone pretty much felt like the Star Wars phenomenon was over (ho ho ho). It's now become one of the relics of the SW Expanded Universe, with a lot of its continuity largely ignored or forgotten, with a few major exceptions. This isn't surprising, as some of the early issues, under the auspices of old Roy Thomas, not only had some ridiculous ideas (the deluded would-be Jedi Don-Wan Kihotay and the legendary rabbit warrior Jaxxon) but were badly hurt by later changes in continuity (Luke/Leia romance was hinted at, and Jabba the Hutt was depicted as a bipedal, rodent-looking thing). But particularly after Empire, the stories, largely under Duffy's writing, took a much less "wacky" tone, concentrating on characterization and tight plotting, with arcs spread over several issues that tied the comics to the films.

( I know you're to blame for this, Solo! And someday, somewhere, I'm gonna get you for it! )

Introducing Jessica Jones!

[schmevil]

darklorlei and I recently watched a bunch of classic noir films and reminded me of how much Alias is a love letter to those films (and novels). It's clear Bendis is also drawing heavily on more recent stuff, but man is this such a classic detective story opener.

The first four pages from Alias #1 by Bendis and Gaydos. ( Read more... )

PS. Yes, my modcation was fab. How have you all been?