One Perfect moment: Kate and Jake Kane
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scans_dailyI started reading Greg Rucka's run on Detective Comics for one reason: the back up feature about the Question, Renee Montoya. At first I only read the man feature because hey, I'd brought the book, I may as well read the whole thing. I liked it but still it was the backup feature that was what really made me keep reading it. Then something happened. Issue 859 was released.
I don't have the words to describe how this issue - how the page I am posting in particular - made me fall in love with Kate and her father and with Greg Rucka too. All I know is that the moment is about as perfect as father-daughter moments go in comics.
I cry every time I read it. It's so simple and yet so beautiful. Everything from the art to the storytelling in this issue is so damn perfect.
I was lucky enough a few weekends ago to meet Rucka himself at the London Film and Comic Con for a signing and a panel. When it came to deciding what I would get signed, the answer seemed to elude me for a while but then, while I was waiting in line and talking it over with my friend it kind of became obvious which issue would mean the most signed:
Sorry about the quality, my scanner is all packed away at the moment so you'll have to make do with a photo instead.
Anyway, turns out this issue has practically perfect behind the scenes story to tell as well. While we were cueing to have comics signed my friend pointed out to me a few panels that come earlier in the issue, just before Kate gets kicked out of West Point:
Some of you might recognise the man Kate is talking to as Dan Choi, the man who made the news when he came out as gay on the Rachel Maddow show and was kicked out of the army because of it. I don't know if I hadn't noticed the first time I read it or if I'd noticed and just forgotten that he was in it but after having it pointed to me in the cue we asked Greg how it had come about - Dan also has a special credit for research on this issue - assuming of course that it was as a result of Dan's appearance on Maddow.
Not so. The real story is, as Greg put it far more serendipitous than that.
As it happens while Greg was researching West Point he made a Facebook statement about wanting to talk to someone who knew what it was like to be gay at West Point and someone he had known at college responded and put him in touch with a friend he knew through choir. That man happened to be Dan Choi. A few weeks later, Dan was on Maddow.
So there you have it. One perfect moment, and one perfect behind the scenes story from what I consider to be one of the most perfect comic book issues I have ever read.
I don't have the words to describe how this issue - how the page I am posting in particular - made me fall in love with Kate and her father and with Greg Rucka too. All I know is that the moment is about as perfect as father-daughter moments go in comics.
I cry every time I read it. It's so simple and yet so beautiful. Everything from the art to the storytelling in this issue is so damn perfect.
I was lucky enough a few weekends ago to meet Rucka himself at the London Film and Comic Con for a signing and a panel. When it came to deciding what I would get signed, the answer seemed to elude me for a while but then, while I was waiting in line and talking it over with my friend it kind of became obvious which issue would mean the most signed:
Sorry about the quality, my scanner is all packed away at the moment so you'll have to make do with a photo instead.
Anyway, turns out this issue has practically perfect behind the scenes story to tell as well. While we were cueing to have comics signed my friend pointed out to me a few panels that come earlier in the issue, just before Kate gets kicked out of West Point:
Some of you might recognise the man Kate is talking to as Dan Choi, the man who made the news when he came out as gay on the Rachel Maddow show and was kicked out of the army because of it. I don't know if I hadn't noticed the first time I read it or if I'd noticed and just forgotten that he was in it but after having it pointed to me in the cue we asked Greg how it had come about - Dan also has a special credit for research on this issue - assuming of course that it was as a result of Dan's appearance on Maddow.
Not so. The real story is, as Greg put it far more serendipitous than that.
As it happens while Greg was researching West Point he made a Facebook statement about wanting to talk to someone who knew what it was like to be gay at West Point and someone he had known at college responded and put him in touch with a friend he knew through choir. That man happened to be Dan Choi. A few weeks later, Dan was on Maddow.
So there you have it. One perfect moment, and one perfect behind the scenes story from what I consider to be one of the most perfect comic book issues I have ever read.
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Date: 2010-07-29 11:31 pm (UTC)right now everyone's kind of just happier with how things are, so...
*nods* I know that feeling. Until I have a serious girlfriend there's no point upsetting the apple-cart as my mother would say.
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Date: 2010-07-29 11:43 pm (UTC)(Which..."Hey Ma, this is _____, oh, yeah, I may have forgotten to mention the liking girls thing, like maybe since 2003. Hey, you made pie!" I'm cringing for my lucky lady in advance. But it seems like the least worst way to do it.)
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Date: 2010-07-30 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-30 06:20 am (UTC)