Firebreather: Holmgang #1
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scans_dailyTitle: Firebreather: Holmgang #1
Creators: Phil Hester (writing), Andy Kuhn (art)
Availability: On sale now.
So there's a new Firebreather mini out...
Firebreather is really freakin’ high on my list of comics that more people should be reading. Imagine that, in the course of wreaking a city, Fing Fang Foom met a woman, they fell in love, and had a kid ( don’t think on that too hard, OK?). Then they got divorced, and their custody agreement (which is an actual NATO treaty) stipulates that the kid, Duncan, spends weekends with his dad to learn the family business of rampaging, threatening, and getting the crap kicked out of you by larger monsters.
This is the kind of thing that really puts a crimp in a sixteen-year-old’s social life. The wings and scales don’t exactly make fitting in a piece of cake either.
As of the close of the last series, Duncan’s life has taken a serious turn for the shitty. His father’s been murdered by ancient enemies. Not only can he not tell anyone about this, he’s got to go on pretending that his dad’s alive as he maintains his training to (hopefully) keep from being murdered in turn.
All of this is taking its toll and Duncan’s being, to put it mildly, kind of a jerkass toward his friends, his mom, and everyone around him, including best she’s-not-my-girlfriend, Isabel, seen above trying to convince him to help out with school play.
And so, after a night in which people on all sides are assholes, Duncan flies over to the house of Jenna, on whom he has a crush and has spoken about eighteen words to over the course of the series. He asks her to prom. She tries to demure. He starts acting an ass…
...and gets utterly told.
Ideally, I’d have preferred Isabel be the one to smack him upside the head, but still, I do so love it when authors don’t let a protagonist get away with crappy behavior just because he’s the star of the book.
In short, buy more Firebreather. The Firebreather: Holmgang mini just started up, and there are two trades out, with a third likely on the way once this series wraps.
Creators: Phil Hester (writing), Andy Kuhn (art)
Availability: On sale now.
So there's a new Firebreather mini out...
Firebreather is really freakin’ high on my list of comics that more people should be reading. Imagine that, in the course of wreaking a city, Fing Fang Foom met a woman, they fell in love, and had a kid ( don’t think on that too hard, OK?). Then they got divorced, and their custody agreement (which is an actual NATO treaty) stipulates that the kid, Duncan, spends weekends with his dad to learn the family business of rampaging, threatening, and getting the crap kicked out of you by larger monsters.
This is the kind of thing that really puts a crimp in a sixteen-year-old’s social life. The wings and scales don’t exactly make fitting in a piece of cake either.
As of the close of the last series, Duncan’s life has taken a serious turn for the shitty. His father’s been murdered by ancient enemies. Not only can he not tell anyone about this, he’s got to go on pretending that his dad’s alive as he maintains his training to (hopefully) keep from being murdered in turn.
All of this is taking its toll and Duncan’s being, to put it mildly, kind of a jerkass toward his friends, his mom, and everyone around him, including best she’s-not-my-girlfriend, Isabel, seen above trying to convince him to help out with school play.
And so, after a night in which people on all sides are assholes, Duncan flies over to the house of Jenna, on whom he has a crush and has spoken about eighteen words to over the course of the series. He asks her to prom. She tries to demure. He starts acting an ass…
...and gets utterly told.
Ideally, I’d have preferred Isabel be the one to smack him upside the head, but still, I do so love it when authors don’t let a protagonist get away with crappy behavior just because he’s the star of the book.
In short, buy more Firebreather. The Firebreather: Holmgang mini just started up, and there are two trades out, with a third likely on the way once this series wraps.
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Date: 2011-02-03 10:01 am (UTC)I think it's that learning to draw chubbiness simply isn't part of the training for most comics artists. You learn certain ways to construct bodies, and those habits are very hard to break. It's like all those Captain America issues where we see pre-serum Steve Rogers and he looks like an underwear model. Realistically, to get rejected from the army in 1941, he'd have to look like a walking skeleton, but nobody learns how to draw a 6'2", 130-pound man, so they just don't.