#The Marvel Comics Art Of Wally Wood

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The Marvel Comics Art Of Wally Wood

Thumbtack Book (1982)

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Wally Wood’s style guide for Matt Murdock.

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“They’ve Changed!”

Fantastic Four #39 (June 1965)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia, Wally Wood and Stan Goldberg

Marvel Comics

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Daredevil #6 - "Trapped by... the Fellowship of Fear!" (December 1964)

Written by Stan Lee Art by Wally Wood (pencils, inks)

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Daredevil #5 by Wally Wood

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The absence of the superego psychological structure in JSA bronze age comics, an observation

One thing that makes reading the JSA revival run from 1976 such an interesting experience is just how much of their inner thoughts they are willing to share with each other. The members of this team will express the most intense feelings of despair, anger and every other emotion without thinking twice, it makes for a very intense reading experience. These people are on the edge and they will let you know about their intrusive thoughts, deep feelings and desires, the drama is always through the roof, and I didn't even include Power Girl's exchanges with Superman and Wildcat (I'm saving these for another post)

In Freudian psychology we have:

(...) the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.

And I can only think of the challenge the JSA team of this time would present for these definitions, because they seem unburdened by the superego aspect of their mind, just saying what their id demands, particularly when it comes to sharing their feelings. And that is not to say these characters don't have interesting inner lives, it's just that they're very transparent about their feelings and it's absolutely appealing to witness such a dynamic

This particular style of writing reminds me of what Chris Claremont was also doing with the Uncanny X-Men at Marvel (All-Star Comics revival and Claremont's X-Men were published only 6 months apart), which might just be an example of how the writing trends of superhero comic books were changing with the times. The difference is: the X-men heroes were younger and less experienced while the JSA characters are jaded, they share a common history of decades with each other and their foes, this leaves a lot of room for drama and conflict (not to put these books against each other they're just different and I love both). Honestly I'm a melodrama fan, I have an appreciation for this soap opera style of comic book narrative and I'm glad there's so much good material to get into. There's a reason why the JSA characters are still popular to this day

From All-Star Comics (1976 revival), collected in Only legends live forever TPB (2019). Written by: Gerry Conway & Paul Levitz. Art by Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

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I found a copy of The Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood (Thumbtack Books Inc. 1982). The color is pretty garrish on the slick paper, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to read all these stories in one collection.

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Prelims round 1, poll 1

Propaganda:

The Halls of All-Knowing, various Thor comics:

None

Williston Library, Smif College, Questionable Content by Jeff Jacques:

None

Basement at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, various She-Hulk comics:

In the mid-2000s She-Hulk solo titles, law firms in the marvel universe practising superhuman law keep comics libraries of marvel comics, which are officially licensed biographies and used in court as primary sources!

Tales of Our Own, Green Lantern Far Sector:

None

The Hicksville Lighthouse Library, Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks:

Once a comics writer hits a certain point in their lives, they can go to the town of Hicksville, NZ. There are about three dozen inhabitants, all of whom are very knowledgeable about all types of comics. Old men bicker on the merits of Edward P. Jacobs vs Sergio Aragones, the municipal library has multiple mint condition copies of Action comics #1, the tea and the rarebit are especially good at the local café. It's easy to find accommodation and art supplies there.

Here, comics writers can write the comics they always wanted to. Unbound from commercial appeal, material difficulties, anything. Once in Hicksville, they can do it. Then it goes in the lighthouse library. You can read the comics of Picasso and Lorca, Harvey Kurtzman's History of war, Wally Wood's Map of magic, the finished Phoenix by Tezuka and so many more. All the great works that could've made the medium sing, from writers the world over, pure freedom in a million different formats. The only rule to observe is that the works here are Tapu, Taboo in the Maori sense (the caretaker of the place is Maori) as in, a community resource that must not be exploited.

The library is located partly underground, partly in the Hicks Point lighthouse in New Zealand.

Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, Guardians of the Lost Library by Don Rosa:

"The Junior Woodchucks Guidebook?", you no doubt ask. "Isn't that just a book? A single book does not a library make?" And yes, it is just a book - and at the same time, no, it absolutely is a library. The library, actually. This tiny book is the actual, literal lost library of Alexandria, and contains all its lost wisdom and lore (except, sadly, the plays and poetry) preserved and expanded through the ages as various keepers cared for the library, preserved it by constantly transcribing and transferring it into the newest media and adding more and more content along the way - for instance, Marco Polo added all the books he brought back from China - until eventually, the library came to Duckburg, where it was collected in one single, huge volume - which a bit later became the very first "Junior Woodchucks Guidebook" - with some added modern knowledge and an entire organization dedicated to it's continued safekeeping. So, yeah - Junior Woodchucks Guidebook = Library of Alexandria + more

[justforbooks]

Nothing can sum up Keith Giffen’s character better than the Facebook post he wrote to announce his own death at the age of 70: “I told them I was sick … Anything not to go to New York Comic Con. Thanx. Keith Giffen 1952-2023. Bwah ha ha ha ha.”

That eruption of maniacal merriment was recognised by comic fans as a last defiant laugh from the sardonic comic writer and artist, who has died of complications following a stroke, after a 50-year career during which he created many memorable characters including Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle), Rocket Raccoon, Ambush Bug and Lobo.

A Mexican-American teenager, Reyes first appeared in Infinite Crisis #3 (2006) and became Blue Beetle two issues later, when he gained superhuman powers via a scarab that morphs into an alien battle suit, eventually going on to appear in the 2023 Blue Beetle movie.

One of the stars of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies was created by Giffen early in his artistic career. Rocket Raccoon was a smart-mouthed anthropomorphic weapons expert who first appeared in Marvel Preview #7 (1976), written by Bill Mantlo, who resurrected the character in his own four-part miniseries in 1985.

Among Giffen’s other early creations, Ambush Bug’s debut in DC Comics Presents #52 (1982) and its sequel, which involved the Legion of Substitute Heroes, were so successful that they led to several miniseries and one-shots drawn by Giffen featuring the absurd, fancifully dressed alien wannabe hero, and a one-shot Legion of Substitute Heroes Special (1985).

In 1982 Giffen joined the writer Paul Levitz on The Legion of Super-Heroes #287 and began transforming the series into a saga of considerable depth. One of the most popular storylines in comic book history, The Great Darkness Saga (#290-294, 1982), featured Darkseid as its cosmic villain and Legionnaires and other heroes from across time teaming up to confront him. As a result, Legion of Super-Heroes became one of DC’s bestsellers of the early 1980s.

Lobo, who first appeared in Omega Men #3 (1983), was intended as a parody of violent characters such as Wolverine, but became a poster boy for violence when Giffen teamed up with the writer Alan Grant and artist Simon Bisley for Lobo: The Last Czarnian (1990), which spawned numerous miniseries and specials in which Giffen continually pushed the envelope of acceptability as Lobo battled everyone from Santa Claus to his own children. Combat Christ and the Howlin’ Apostles proved to be DC’s limit.

Giffen was heavily involved in numerous crossover event series, designed, he said, to “significantly alter the status quo or introduce new characters into the status quo”, including Invasion! (1988), the weekly 52 (2006-07) and Countdown to Final Crisis (2007-08) for DC, and Annihilation (2006-07) from Marvel. His creativity and tongue-in-cheek humour earned him a loyal fanbase and he won an Inkpot award in 1991.

The son of Rosa Ann (nee Duncan) and James, a salesman for a textile company, Giffen was born in Queens, New York, but grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey. He was a fan of comics from the age of eight, when his mother handed him a copy of World’s Finest, and especially loved Marvel’s monster books and Gene Colan’s Giant-Man. He began creating his own characters at high school and went on to spend “one abysmal year” at the School of Visual Arts in New York (“the less said about that, the better”).

Apart from a year of night classes at duCret School of Art, New Jersey, Giffen was self-taught, studying books on anatomy and perspective during his four years working as a hazardous materials handler at Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals. During a week’s holiday he decided to submit samples to comic companies. At Marvel, an artist had dropped out of illustrating a back-up story (The Sword and the Star) for Marvel Preview, and Mantlo, who had spotted Giffen’s portfolio, suggested they give him a try.

Giffen briefly produced layouts for Wally Wood on Justice Society of America for DC’s All Star Comics (1976), but was let go. After a period of selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door and other odd jobs, he tried again, drawing horror stories and Doctor Fate as a back-up strip in The Flash (1982), and working his way up to the Legion of Super-Heroes.

An accusation of “swiping” the work of José Muñoz in Ambush Bug (1985) – Giffen said he “parroted” it, rather than doing an outright copy – derailed his career for a time, until he was offered the chance to plot, and do breakdowns for, Justice League (1987-92) and its spinoff, Justice League Europe (1989-92), working with JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire. He also plotted and did breakdowns for Aquaman (1989) and plots for L.E.G.I.O.N. ’89/’90 (1989-90), a superhero group spun off from Invasion.

The range of Giffen’s output over the next 30 years was astonishing. He drew the superhero parodies The Heckler (1992-93) and Punx (1995-96), the return of Justice League International in Justice League: Generation Lost (2010), and episodes of Outsiders (2011), O.M.A.C. (2011-12) and Infinity Man and the Forever People (2014-15). He plotted or wrote full scripts for Eclipso (1992-93), Vext (1999), Suicide Squad (2001-02), a biography of HP Lovecraft (2004), Blue Beetle (2006-07), Midnighter (2007-08), Wetworks (2007-08), Reign in Hell (2008-09), Doom Patrol (2009-11), Booster Gold (2009-11), Magog (2009-10), Justice League 3000 (2014-15) and The New 52: Futures End (2014-15), all for DC; and for Marvel he wrote stories featuring Marvel Monsters: Where Monsters Dwell (2005), Drax the Destroyer (2005-06), Defenders (2005-06), Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos (2005-06) and Annihilation spin-offs Annihilation: Silver Surfer (2006) and Annihilation: Conquest – Starlord (2007).

During the same period he also penned or plotted various comics for Image (1993-94) and Valiant (1994-96), adaptations of Japanese manga, Battle Royale (2003-06) and Battle Vixens (2004-10), for Tokyopop and 10 (2005), Hero Squared (2005-07), Planetary Brigade (2006-07) and others for BOOM! Studios. He was also a storyboard artist for the animated shows Batman Beyond and Static Shock, as well as writing episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi for Cartoon Network.

In early 2023 he produced a podcast titled I’m Not Dead Yet, and had recently moved to Tampa in Florida.

He is survived by his children, Kyle and Melinda. His wife, Anna, predeceased him.

🔔 Keith Ian Giffen, artist and writer, born 30 November 1952; died 9 October 2023

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THE SCHOOL, NOT THE OLD

I had a conversation today with an editor buddy of mine who was put out to pasture long before his expiration date. And that got me wondering.

Y'see, yesterday I went into my friendly neighborhood comic book shop and thumbed through a bunch of new comics from Marvel, DC, and several other companies -- some of which I'd not even heard of before yesterday.

One thing really jumped out at me: How much some of these writers, artists, letterers, colorists, and inkers DON'T know about the comics they're producing.

The page-after-page of conversation scenes in a visual medium; some horrible balloon placements; submarine-shaped balloons that look horrendous; boneheaded spelling errors; colors that look "off" because someone probably colored in RGB then converted to CMYK, not realizing how much colors shift when printed; so much art that so obviously looks digital; truly weak storytelling with characters just standing around, never making eye contact or interacting with their environments; and on and on.

And yet so many talented comic book creators have been minimized or sidelined because their hair turned gray or were considered "old school" without being even a chance to reinvent -- focusing on the word "old" instead of "school."

In my recent dealings I've discovered so many editors who don't even know how much they don't know. Or artists/inkers whose minds turn off at the mention of Will Eisner or Wally Wood or Alex Raymond or Jack Kirby. "Oh, a dead guy, so he doesn't count," one artist said to me.

So much can be learned from talents like Tony Isabella and Alex Saviuk and so many others. The very idea exhausts me at how so much inferior work could be made so much better just by listening to the still virile, available veteran professionals who have so much to teach.

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2022 comics reading log

In the early days of last year, I was inspired by some twitter mutuals to post my comics reading in the new year and kept it up from Jan 1 2022 till just about the bitter end. Something about it really helped keep me invigorated by the medium even in some pretty bleak times, so I’m going to keep it going this year, but here at Longboxd instead of on twitter, which I'm trying to spend less time at. Before I can do that though, I want to archive the 2022 entries in a spot that’s more permanent/less twitter-iffic, so here we go—pretty much every comic I read in 2022! (As transcribed from here)

Part 2: 22-38 (of 387)

(I can "only" post 30 images at a time here, so that’ll dictate the length of these catch-up posts)

22) Silver Star #1 by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer - Kirby’s Blubber? Very Beto vibes—very Lynchian, held together by spit and nonsense.

23) Shattered Earth #1 - The best story in this anthology has a horny dog that gets cucked by a wandering wasteland hippie.

24) Sun Runners #2

25) Shade, The Changing Man #50

26) True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys: NATIONAL ANTHEM - Narratively, it’s firmly in the "halcyon days of vertigo" mold, and that’s cool, but between Romero and Bellaire this is one of the more stunning art showcases I’ve seen in a while. God-tier coloring, IMO!

27) The Terminator #1 (1990) - Chris Warner tha gawd with nice chunky inks from Paul Guinan, and a script by DH genre MVP John Arcudi that swings between terse and pleasantly purple. This and the Predator series the year before (also drawn by Warner) set the mold for decades of movie tie-in books.

28 & 29) Blood n’ Guts #1 & 2 - These are very bad comics by a weird, probably bad dude who's weird & not always bad comics I grew up with. Not much to them (this is from one of Blair's big firehose-of-comics periods) other than a *great* logo I assume was made by Dave Cooper.

30) Alien Worlds #7 - I loved this series as a kid—it's mostly an art showcase (Corben, Morrow, Anderson & Perez in this issue!) but Bruce Jones' short stories are trashy scifi paperback anthology style fun, routinely see-sawing btwn kind of hokey & total bleak nihilism, often on the same page. one story, theoretically concerned w/recreating The Thing inside an implied sketch of a Wally Wood/EC planet setting, mostly actually focuses on infidelity leading to murder (a common Jones trope). In the end everyone dies after the revelation that their parkas are hungry aliens. 

31) Eclipse Monthly #2 by various

32) Sensation Comics #6 - This is the pure, uncut shit.

33) Head Lopper #15

34) Marvel Team-Up #101 - Robot hippies and Peter Parker favorably compares the trauma of Nighthawk killing his girlfriend in a drunk driving incident to Uncle Ben’s death.

35) The Swamp Thing: Becoming TPB

36) Head Lopper #16

37) Skull, The Slayer #1 - Sorta standard Th’unda etc white adventure guy thrown into a prehistoric setting to fight dinosaurs kinda thing, (the twist being that this guy? He’s a real piece of shit!) but Steve Gan does impressive work, and Marv Wolfman’s colors are surprisingly effective.

38) The Man-Thing #8 - I haven’t read many of these. Pacing is slow if not deliberate, vampy gothic vibes. With Ploog’s squishy art, it kinda reads like a Golden Age Underground. 

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To be continued! Read Part 1 here

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What a difference in inking. Wally Wood on Thor would’ve been wonderful, as seen here.

“Jack Kirby and Wally Wood Journey Into Mystery #122 Odin, Thor, and Crusher Creel Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1965). "Truly Impressive" does not come close to describing the power that exudes from this titanic twice-up image of the All-Father, Odin, masterfully created, by two titanic talents themselves... Jack "The King" Kirby and "Wandering" Wally Wood! It's possibly the best cover image of Odin...ever. Considering their long and incredibly prolific careers, Kirby and Wood really only worked together a few times. There was; Challengers of the Unknown #4-8; Journey into Mystery #51 and 122; Fantastic Four #39; Sandman #6; and briefly on the late 1950s newspaper comic strip Sky Masters of the Space Force, plus covers for Avengers #20-22; Daredevil #5; X-Men #14; and Tales of Suspense #71. Most of their collaborative covers are not know to exist anymore, making this "Pop Art Productions" era cover even more rare and special.”

I looked for Marvel’s official image, with modern coloring, and an image of the comic in situ and found an error. Inker credit goes to Wood, not Colletta. The guy at CGC must’ve been on automatic; Colletta did ink almost all of Jack Kirby’s Thor covers. Here’s a glimpse of the wealth then available: Bill Everett and Wally Wood amongst a plethora of Golden Age artists and Thor got Vince. It’s not the same quality.

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some black and white Wally Wood.

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“Wow!”

Fantastic Four #39 (June 1965)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia, Wally Wood and Stan Goldberg

Marvel Comics

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The Year In Review - 2022 The Cranky Old Man picks his Favorites of the Year

An Occasional Attempt to Read, Discuss and Review the Wonders of Comics By: John Rafferty, cranky old man, and Fan of All Things Comics

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As the Sun slowly finishes its trip around my waist, the time has come to look back at some of the truly amazing offerings that arrived during 2022.

Now, as with all things, these rankings are subjective. Since they are mine, they are also correct.

Now, get off my lawn, and please enjoy!

Top 5 Comics of 2022:

Number 1:

The Human Target (DC, 12 Issue Series) - Writer: Tom King  Artist: Greg Smallwood

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‘My name is Christopher Chance. My game is THE HUMAN TARGET. This is how it’s played.

You hire me to pretend to be you. So you can see who hates you enough to kill you. You live, I die. 

Everyone wins.’

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Leave it to Tom King to give us a story anchored by a character relegated to B-Stories, a noirish murder mystery, and the bumbling, lovable incarnation of the Justice League gifted to us by the maestros Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, and Al Gordon, all wrapped up as a ‘50s style detective show, complete with booze, broads, bullets, and an angry Guy Gardner.

Oh, and Christopher Chance has 14 days to solve his own murder. 

Life is good.

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Number 2:

Nightwing (DC, ongoing) - Writer: Tom Taylor   Pencils/Inks: Bruno Redondo   Colors: Adriano Lucas

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‘Hey, Jon, guess what Batman keeps in his belt?

Some sensible people have pointed out he keeps his LOLLIPOPS dangerously close to the Smoke Bombs that are a similar shape and size, but he’s pretty stubborn.

Here you go. Want to see me juggle?’

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Yes, I know this run began in 2021, but it hit its stride in 2022… not that the first 11 issues weren’t incredible.

Mentoring Jon Kent, teaming with Wally West, ‘shipping with Barbara Gordon (in the neatest version of Batgirl since Gail Simone’s ‘Batgirl of Burnside’ run), battling Heartless and Blockbuster for the ‘heart’ of Bludhaven, Tom Taylor has given us the Dick Grayson fans have wanted for years.

The MAN Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth raised to be the best version of Richard Grayson.

Add to this the beautiful art and triptych covers of Bruno Redondo, and this becomes one of the don’t-miss series of the year.

Oh, and let’s not forget Bitewing and NiteMite (I. WANT. THIS. FUNKO. POP.)

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Number 3:

Public Domain (Image Comics) Creator: Chip Zdarsky (So appropriate)

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‘Let’s fight for what’s ours.’

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This one line says everything you need to know to understand the story Chip Zdarsky is telling. It’s the story of Kirby, Ditko, Wood, Toth, Wrightson, Morrow, and going back as far as Siegel and Schuster, those masters who created characters, and unwittingly, signed away their creations for pennies.

Zdarsky’s portrayal of Sy Dallas and his family trying to wade through the decision process comes down to one question - what is the value of everything you create?

I have been hanging on every page of every issue, waiting for a final answer. 

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Number 4:

Avengers - X-Men - Eternals: Judgement Day (Marvel SUPER-Event, 17 various issues)  - Writer: Kieron Gillen, Artists: Various

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‘We simply have to build a GOD. Help us. Help us build our God.’

‘This plan is pure hubris… but speaking broadly, I’m PRO HUBRIS.

But… How on EARTH do you think we are going to MAKE A GOD in a few hours?’

‘Look around you, Mr. Stark of the Avengers… WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED.’

Ajak of the Eternals and Tony Stark

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Druig of The Eternals has proclaimed the X-Men are X_Treme Deviants, and attacked them in ALL their seats of power, with help from an excommunicated Moira MacTaggart.

Sersi, Ajak, Makkari and others of the Eternals Society removed themselves from the society over ‘directional differences’. 

The Avengers, having monitored spikes in the expenditure of ‘Celestial’ energy, assume a pending attack against HUMANITY by the Eternals.

Mistakes are made. Lives are lost.

Hilarity ensues.

Kieron Gillen, of DIE fame, has undertaken the writing task for this Marvelverse-spanning enterprise, beautifully incorporating these three disparate groups, along with the Titan Starfox, Iron Fist, and human vessels… 

A story of destruction and zealotry, where blindly following a laid-out path without understanding the repercussions leads to reaction rather than thought.

Where the flawed are perfect in their understanding, principle is more important than purity, and those who stand against the unprincipled are the TRUE heroes.

And the only things that are eternal are love and shame.

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Number 5:

Joe Hill’s Rain (Szyzgy  Press / Image Comics) Author: Joe Hill, Adapted by: David M Booher, Art: Zoe Thorogood

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‘At least Yolanda and I had the kiss.

“OUCH!”

‘Can one kiss last a lifetime?

‘Count yourself lucky if you never have to find out.’

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Have you ever been in a rainstorm that felt like needles piercing your skin?

Now, picture those piercings being razor-sharp shards of ice impaling people with the misfortune of being caught in this first downfall…

Joe Hill’s apocalyptic story is beautifully and painstakingly translated to the comic page through the deft scripting of David Booker, and the hauntingly beautiful renderings of Zoe Thorogood.

The story, a mere 5-issues, is deserving of multiple reads, to fully absorb the various details in the artwork, and to thoroughly embrace the wonder and devastation of Honeysuckle Speck.

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Honorable Mentions:

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The Variants (Marvel Comics)  Writer: Gail Simone, Art: Phil Noto

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‘Killgrave is beyond being able to hurt anyone, Maria. I’ve seen him. I KNOW.

‘You think I’m begging you to help me, Ms. Jones-Cage. I’m not. I’m WARNING you.

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GAIL SIMONE!! 

JESSICA JONES!!

KILLGRAVE!!

A Multiverse of Jessicas, including a CAPTAIN F’N AMERICA!!

Well worth the read, #6 in a Top 10!

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Stray Dogs: Dog Days  (Image Comics)  Writer: Tony Fleecs  Art: Trish Forstner

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The beginnings and the fitting end for the Stray Dogs tale, showing how each of the Strays came to be in the Yard…

Fleecs and Forstner succeed once again in making this cranky old man sob!