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Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out  this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators, \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week...\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1721\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QL79SKUWYdY\/YZqmpY72VlI\/AAAAAAACXXg\/BKWNsYyooXUGLAjYSPyzef7w09gU0l-swCLcBGAsYHQ\/w298-h400\/963443._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"298\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe History of Science Fiction by\u0026nbsp;Xavier Dollo and Djibril Morrisette, published by Humanoids\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt's no secret I'm a huge fan of speculative fiction generally. I grew up on it from my mother's love of all things sci fi\/fantasy\/horror, which led me quickly to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and so many others. Comics were a natural outgrowth of this, really. And of course, I'm married to my award-winning writer spouse (and periodic Panel Patter contributor) \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ericasatifka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EErica Satifka\u003C\/a\u003E. So I'm hugely excited to sit down and read \u003Ci\u003EThe History of Science Fiction\u003C\/i\u003E, a massive undertaking published by Humanoids. Looking to cover everything from Mary Shelley to the modern era, this is ambitious as hell--just like the best the genre has to offer. Naturally, there's a ton of text, but the illustrations are right there, too. The samples I've read so far show a varied artistic pallet (essential to any history project like this), with changes in style, coloring, and structure, while the words keep things moving in both dialogue bubbles and text boxes. I really dig the way they integrate the awesome visuals already present in sci fi literature, too. It's going to take me awhile to read this all the way through, but I can't wait. This is a perfect gift for the sci fi fan in your life--and then pick up a second copy for yourself, too.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WnHjD6ClSa8\/YZqmpPnGxfI\/AAAAAAACXXc\/pcNJvL9XYCED-aLwQYjciSzxWw4JU-SJQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/973562._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJim Henson's Storyteller: Tricksters by Various Creators, published by Boom! Studios\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt's a shame that the real-life Storyteller show didn't get as much attention as it deserved at the time. I think if they rebooted it now, the show would be a top streaming series. I'm so happy Boom! is using the concept to tell amazing all-ages anthology stories, because it's a perfect fit. This time around, the theme is tricksters, ranging from an awesome Loki story that doesn't try to imitate a popular version of the mythological figure to tales of Anansi (which has a really cool visual of webs forming out of the lumpy liquid words \"story\"). Also included are Eshu (admittedly new to me, so that was a great treat!), and a story of a fox from Middle Eastern Culture (also new to me, also awesome). The art varies between each to fit the story, with each artist working to create a world their chosen characters alone might inhabit. This is definitely one of my favorite of the \u003Ci\u003EStoryteller\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;series so far.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERachel's Pick: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"446\" data-original-width=\"290\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyHWVehnFDM\/YZrODkQvaDI\/AAAAAAACXXs\/p4mQQxhCX9wd4MFW9z15NYxniwY7QrdpgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/fine-print-vol-1-ogn-tp_803b929050.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFine Print by Stjepan Sejic, published by Image imprint Top Cow\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the start of the pandemic, I noticed that Menachem Luchins, the owner of Escape Pod Comics, was offering a recommendation service. I asked for a title that wasn't too violent, was funny, had character development, and that had beautiful art. Menachem recommended Death Vigil by Stjepan Sejic. This was my introduction to Sejic's work and I was blown away with how gorgeously he draws his characters. So when I saw that Fine Print, a new series, was starting, I immediately picked it up. There's so much attention to detail. Yes, the vast majority of his characters are very good looking, but they don't all look the same. Characters have different body shapes, different types of clothing, different ways of carrying themselves, etc. And when it comes to depicting the emotions of someone who just found out that their crush is engaged, Sejic perfectly nails the facial expressions and body language. Note that there is a lot of sex with are a variety of pairings (man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, a threesome etc.) in this volume; you probably don't want to leave this book out on your coffee table if you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner. However, there's also humor and understanding of depression and heartbreak. Sejic doesn't just want to draw beautiful people making out, he also wants to get to the heart of what makes a person happy or miserable.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vGeh_4TWuE0\/YZql9d5CzGI\/AAAAAAACXXE\/OsFQQZDM5WAndXzwoZYAFyUL-vJy0dozACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/894823._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDecorum #8 by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, Rus Wooton, and Sasha Head, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI'm thrilled for the return of \u003Ci\u003EDecorum\u003C\/i\u003E. This is high-level, weird  science fiction which feels like it has a micro story, a macro story,  and an \"I have no idea what the hell is going on\" story.\u0026nbsp; But that's  fine because it's really engaging and is one of the very best looking  comics out there. Mike Huddleston is an absolute beast on art - he's  like 5 incredibly talented and distinct artists all rolled into one.\u0026nbsp;  The micro story follows an incredibly well-mannered assassin, and he  attempts to train a courier as a protege. There's also a story about  maybe trying to birth some sort of robot messiah, and there's god? I  don't know. It's a lot, but I really love it. Apparently this is the conclusion of the series, so I just recommend you read it when it's collected. Amazing work all around, including incredible design work and lettering from Sasha Head and Rus Wooton, respectively. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ra4HmCLmTPQ\/YZql9rxS1DI\/AAAAAAACXXM\/M8xoS9Z4k-Ish881QzXW9XYqMfOeSp5qQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/944358._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlack Panther by John Ridley and Juann Cabal, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThis is a brand new creative team, as Ta-Nehisi Coates concluded his run on \u003Ci\u003EBlack Panther\u003C\/i\u003E earlier on this year (the latter part of that run was with Daniel Acuna  and I was a big fan). But this is a new creative team that I'm excited  for. The story is being written by John Ridley, who is an Oscar-winning  screenwriter (\u003Ci\u003E12 Years a Slave\u003C\/i\u003E) but has also entered comics this year in a big way, with some \u003Ci\u003EBatman\u003C\/i\u003E comics, and with \u003Ci\u003EThe Other History of the DC Universe\u003C\/i\u003E.  I really enjoyed the latter book, as it is definitely on my shortlist  for favorite comics of the year. It's a really big, ambitious project,  which told the story of the DC universe but from the perspective of  characters from underrepresented populations. Now he's taking his  talents to Wakanda and I couldn't be happier. He's teaming up with Juann  Cabal who is a fantastic superhero artist (I really enjoyed his work in  \u003Ci\u003EX-23\u003C\/i\u003E) and this is a great team and a promising new start.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yNwc6jzc_Aw\/YZql9STe7AI\/AAAAAAACXXI\/rjZu-kDN3QARtRx7SizdNC_oAptG3OJDwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/966136._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThat Texas Blood #12 by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThat Texas Blood\u003C\/i\u003E is one of my favorite comics I'm reading right now. It's a fantastic  murder-mystery crime story, but it's more than that. It's paced more  like a movie from the 70's, when the director wasn't in quite as much of  a hurry to get us from point A to point B to point C. This story takes  pace in rural Texas, and while I've never been to rural Texas (just been  to a few cities there), I found myself getting a sense of place from  the story. The current arc involves the Sheriff (in the present day) telling the tale of a grisly case from decades before.It's tense and eerie and suspenseful, and the art from Jacob Phillips is perfect for this tense crime story. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/6983424711236163071"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/6983424711236163071"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/science-fiction-double-feature-catch.html","title":"Science Fiction Double Feature: Catch It's November 24th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QL79SKUWYdY\/YZqmpY72VlI\/AAAAAAACXXg\/BKWNsYyooXUGLAjYSPyzef7w09gU0l-swCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w298-h400-c\/963443._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-8875520268507504449"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-17T09:00:00.448-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-17T11:49:32.618-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bilquis evely"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mat lopes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"series review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tom king"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The True Grit of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_d01a_3ed2_4d8f_2fed\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zu5iYBE_IMc\/YY2BMaS-mFI\/AAAAAAACXVA\/Hr2AgDHmGcQe6ST1sU7OAOzcpMZ_eTmXQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/945443._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 260px;\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_b393_b8b5_5f94_8a70\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-t8629Ke_WQs\/YY2CgXLnixI\/AAAAAAACXVw\/BQmlrTzycTMyStt3pJ_w3LC3CjnC90g5gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/964547._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 260px;\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWritten by Tom King\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EArt by Bilquis Evely\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EColors by Mat Lopes\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI read lots of good comic books, and sometimes read excellent comic books, but it’s only occasionally that I read something that I would really describe as being extraordinary or special. Well,\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u003C\/i\u003E (\u003Ci\u003ESWOT\u003C\/i\u003E) is one of those special, extraordinary comics and possibly my favorite comic of all of 2021. It’s a thoughtful, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, occasionally very funny comic, that’s brought to life with truly next level art and colors. This is some of my favorite work ever from writer Tom King (which is high praise because I love a lot of King’s work), and the combination of artist Bilquis Evely on art and Mat Lopes on colors is an absolute revelation. If you’re not reading this comic, you’re missing out on something really special.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAs depicted in the below pages, our narrator for \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Eis Ruthye Marye Knoll. Her father has been murdered by a kingsagent named Krem of the Black Hills. Ruthye has left home in search of a bounty hunter she can hire\u0026nbsp; (with the sword that was used to kill her father as compensation) to exact revenge against Krem. The first one treats her with great disrespect (he takes the sword she was offering as compensation, and hits her), but he is stopped by another patron in the bar as he's leaving. Thankfully for Ruthye, and us, that patron is none other than Kara Zor-El, a\/k\/a Supergirl. Supergirl is on Ruthye's world because it's her 21st birthday, and she wanted to commemorate the occasion by getting drunk. Only, she can't do that on Earth since her powers prevent her from getting drunk. So, she made her way to Ruthye's world, which orbits a red sun. Even drunk and without her superpowers, Kara is formidable, and she makes easy work of the bounty hunter and gets Ruthye her sword back. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_dd87_6f9d_96fd_716b\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aojzv5ZAnCI\/YY2BMgrJiOI\/AAAAAAACXVI\/x7MhkhfOk5UmrZRmEJ_FH8HR0DbudLmFgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/99726284ad334741ff34079b29dbf643._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name=\"more\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EUnfortunately for Ruthye, Kara is initially reluctant to help Ruthye, as  she has her own significant responsibilities to return to, and she  initially tries to explain to Ruthye the differences between justice and  revenge. But Krypto was hurt by an arrow from Krem, and the only way to heal him is to find Krem and find a way to undo the specific poison, and agrees to help Ruthye (time to go \u003Ci\u003EJohn Wick\u003C\/i\u003E on that guy).  They begin their travels across the universe in search of Krem, on what  is essentially a space Greyhound Bus. Eventually making their way back  to a world with a yellow sun, they begin their search in earnest. They  learn that due to their shared love of violence and cruelty, Krem has  joined a group called the Brigands, that roam from world to world  bringing violence and death, and finding a way to profit from it (by  only killing *some* people in exchange for compensation). Throughout the  heart-wrenching fourth issue of the series, in particular, Supergirl and Ruthye go from  world to world, always a few steps behind the Brigands, and always too  late to stop the terrible violence. Issue 5 is out this week.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThere are so many interesting ideas that King is working with in \u003Ci\u003ESWOT\u003C\/i\u003E, and the character depictions are fascinating, but where I want to start is the stunning art from Evely and Lopes. This is my favorite-looking comic on the stands now, and Evely (\u003Ci\u003ESandman: The Dreaming, Wonder Woman\u003C\/i\u003E) and Lopes (\u003Ci\u003ESandman: The Dreaming, Batgirl\u003C\/i\u003E) work together so seamlessly that it's impossible to think about the linework without thinking about the color, and vice versa. I recently learned that they've worked together previously, and I'm not at all surprised. I hadn't seen much of Evely's work prior to this, so her work was an absolute revelation for me. Beautiful doesn't really begin to describe it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFirst things first, Evely is an exceptional sequential storyteller. My standard for this is to ask the question “would you be able to understand this comic if there were no words on the page?\" and in the case of SWOT, the answer is an emphatic yes (obviously this question doesn't work for all comics). Such as in the above page where the action between the parties is clear and the setting of the sun conveys the passage of time. Or in the immediately below page where Ruthye comes to her dead father and the camera moves to her hand, and pulls back to her eyes on the sword, and then to her whole body (as she decides to take the sword). We see her thought processes and her plans begin to take shape, even without the words on the page. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_e5f0_4f87_903f_f818\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3wtG3W_uits\/YY2BLwz_fLI\/AAAAAAACXU4\/M0qm7OQDc-AsqCKGBzTkQGiBtiIIumk5wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/88513331d25d317c9e5e96ec73682526._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAnd  beyond being able to tell her story sequentially, Evely does so much  intricate, gorgeous work on every page. In fact every individual page of  the comic feels like its own little story or tableau, and I want to  linger on each page and not read through too quickly. Evely puts a  tremendous amount of detail into each page. Whether depicting the inside  of a spaceship, the office of a local official, or a sad hospital  room, that rich sense of detail is present on each page.\u0026nbsp; Part of what  makes Evely such an effective storyteller in addition to a great sense  of pacing and rhythm, is the ability to portray some of the most  effective, striking facial and body acting than I’ve seen in a comic in a  long time. Evely draws the most expressive faces, there’s definitely a  heightened sense of emotion on every single page and within every single  character. I sort of think of this kind of like the comic equivalent of  a silent movie, where silent movie actors and actresses used to have to  act in a larger-than-life way in order to compensate for the fact that  there were no words on the page.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThankfully,  there are words on the page, and we'll get to those. But it’s the eyes  in particular. Evely has an incredible knack for being able to portray  so many different emotions just in the eyes of her various characters,  whether those emotions are resignation, fear, steely determination, unbearable anguish, sorrow and frustration. All of these emotions  come across incredibly clearly through the eyes of the various  characters in the story. And what wonderful characters those are. If I  were to try to describe the style of art Evely has, on a scale of more  or less realistic I would say, it’s a it’s like a heightened sense of  reality. Everything is a little bit bigger and \u003Ci\u003Emore \u003C\/i\u003Ethan realistic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EBut the emotions,  the actions, and the way characters look an act and interact with one  another, all feels incredibly grounded, notwithstanding the fantastical  settings of the story. Ruthye is always steely and serious. Her sense of  determination almost never seems to waver, and she is clearly a child that is  wise and serious far behind her years. And Evely‘s Supergirl is a woman of beauty  and strength and tremendous grace. She does not generally attempt to intimidate any of those who would challenge her, but her strength and determination clearly come  across on the page, particularly in the initial issues of the story. Whenever she is fighting, she knows that she doesn’t have her  superpowers and she is vulnerable but she fights with the strength and  determination that is unmatched, regardless of the presence or absence  of super powers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_3b14_e82f_4ef4_989\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xJ0BuimWveI\/YY2BLbU-GlI\/AAAAAAACXU0\/EZGcXMoyknQjYh0vKWr1-wmQpSldfVFfACLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/2d0ee730e1799d2db0cb0e3336ddad1e._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut as I said before, this comic would not be what it is without the artistic team of Evely \u003Cb\u003Eand \u003C\/b\u003ELopes. As gorgeous as all of Evely‘s work is, it’s the addition of absolutely stunning colors from Lopes that really helps bring this comic to life. These colors can vary from the rich warm colors of the hearth of Ruthye‘s home, the blazing red sunsets of her world, to the rich, varied, and weird selection of colors that illustrate all of the various alien species that Ruthye and Supergirl meet in their travels. In the below scene of the spaceship in which Ruthye and Supergirl travel, those bright colors are contrasted with the worn-out, faded colors of the ship itself. On the final few examples of pages below, the colors of tragedy and massacre and bloodshed are so rich and bright as to be almost overwhelming. It feels like the sky is the color of the blood that has been shed, and even the Supergirl is only one small being surrounded by that violence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut all is not gloom and doom in Lopes' colors. To the contrary, the richness of his color palette throughout the comic brings into extraordinary life even the most grim of situations. And in other parts of the story, Lopes and Evely work together to create images of unsurpassed beauty, such as a troublesome space dragon that Supergirl has to fight so that the spaceship can keep going without danger. Lopes has a wonderful grasp of light and shadow; there are panels in which one person is relaying the nature of the attack upon he and his friend by the merciless Brigands, and the use of light and shadow in his hospital room really brings to life the despair and desolation and pain of that moment. It’s really quite masterful work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003EAs I read \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003EI realized that the basic outline of the story reminded me of \u003Ci\u003ETrue Grit\u003C\/i\u003E by Charles Portis, first published as a novel in 1968. It was made into a movie in 1969 starring John Wayne, and remade in 2010 by the Coen brothers (with a young Hailee Steinfeld). She stars as a girl who decides to hire a retired US marshal to hunt down the man that killed her father; he's initially reluctant, but takes on the assignment. \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Eof course does not have a plot identical to \u003Ci\u003ETrue Grit\u003C\/i\u003E, but there are some meaningful similarities. The story of \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Ehas a plot that \u003Ci\u003Esounds \u003C\/i\u003Elike that of a western; a man is murdered in cold blood, and his child seeks out a bounty hunter in order to exact revenge against the man who killed her father. She and her hunter\/protector set out across vast landscapes and through all sorts of treacherous obstacles in order to seek vengeance (or justice), and to put a stop to this man’s reign of terror. While being very much a superhero\/science-fiction story, that sense that a western provides, of adventure, a vast scope and simple, primal goals and motivations, all of that is quite present in \u003Ci\u003ESWOT\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_64a5_10ae_8fbb_e35f\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EbGPFLm5UN8\/YY2BLfJ-IYI\/AAAAAAACXU8\/LqYIK2ri5QkuLgG3QM6RloIG_3yKqwCDgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/29a99012c0efbfcd9bd4ac61b47c9640._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI mentioned before that the art of Evely and Lopes is so good  that you \u003Ci\u003Ecould \u003C\/i\u003Eunderstand the story without any words on the page.\u0026nbsp; However, I’m so glad that this isn’t that sort of story. King (one of my favorite writers in comics (my deep dive \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/12\/strange-adventures-by-tom-king-mitch.html\"\u003Einto Strange Adventures here\u003C\/a\u003E) does some  of his absolute finest work as a writer in the pages of \u003Ci\u003ESWOT\u003C\/i\u003E. There’s a  fair amount of text, as the entire story is being narrated by a  much older Ruthye, decades in the future. Ruthye‘s narration is  serious and informative and thoughtful, but also at times extremely funny,  and always incredibly additive to the story. It is through this narration that  we get so much of a sense of Ruthye's life. She is an entirely  serious child, wise beyond her years, but it's also clear how little she truly understood (at the time) the task she was undertaking.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ERuthye is  steadfast in her focus, and King effectively conveys that in her  dialogue and narration. When Supergirl wants to Stop Ruthye from seeing  footage of some of these atrocities, Ruthye is completely offended and  says “I am not some innocent with eyes moistened by the morning dew!” and  later challenges Supergirl by saying “We both have our missions! My  vengeance is not lesser than your nobility!”\u0026nbsp; It's an interesting juxtaposition. Ruthye is operating from some of the most basic motivations. And Supergirl feels  responsible for Ruthye, and feels like Ruthye has already seen too much  horror in their travels (and she wants to shield Ruthye from any unnecessary trauma). But Ruthye feels bound to witness all of the  horrors. This is part of their journey and their mission, and she feels a  moral obligation to see all of the suffering that has been caused by  the man against whom she seeks vengeance. It’s not necessarily a  motivation that can stand up to adult logic and scrutiny, but to a precocious and serious  child who lost their beloved father to murder, Ruthye's motivation and  logic\u0026nbsp; make perfect sense. Sometimes, when you’re attempting to  deal with uncomfortable truths and pain, one of the most tried and true  methods for dealing with that pain is to try to replace your sadness  with anger. Supergirl understands this as a general matter, which is why she's willing to have Ruthye accompany her on this quest to find Krem.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3wtG3W_uits\/YY2BLwz_fLI\/AAAAAAACXU4\/M0qm7OQDc-AsqCKGBzTkQGiBtiIIumk5wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1968\/88513331d25d317c9e5e96ec73682526._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_dca3_497f_b3d1_39ca\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-n-y7nil6I8Q\/YY2BM4SMB9I\/AAAAAAACXVQ\/6BaLL3gprCI8DQOmIG3kF3bIP-PBgr7WwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/cfd7f221d230939e1f35215e77810d18._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EAnd who is Supergirl in the story? Almost all of our interactions with  Supergirl are seen through the eyes of Ruthye. Ruthye speaks of  Supergirl with reverence and admiration. But she also brings a great  deal of insight as she describes the character and personality of  Supergirl. More generally, as we see in the story, Supergirl is far more  than just a heroic icon. She’s a real person and an extraordinary one,  but a person nonetheless, subject to real emotions and reactions and  limitations. She came to Ruthye‘s planet because she just wanted to get  drunk on her 21st birthday like any person would on Earth. But for her to do something as mundane as get drunk, she had to travel halfway across the universe. And while she was  initially reluctant to take on Ruthye's cause, she found her own  motivation, other than just revenge, that would motivate her to take on  this quest. Through Ruthye‘s descriptions and through the action we see  on the page, Supergirl is a figure of tremendous patience and  compassion. Her kindness towards children (and people who are suffering generally) is nearly  boundless.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EBut while Supergirl's compassion is almost infinite, her patience is  not. We see that she can get frustrated like anyone else, and she can get  weary. Even if not physically tired, Supergirl is not impervious to  emotions, and as the pair make their way from one world to the next, the  limits of her ability to process not just this much suffering, but this  much cruelty, become apparent. In one of  the powerful scenes in issue four, we see as Supergirl  flies all the way inside a star just so that she can let out a scream  and not hurt anyone or anything else in the process. This leads Ruthye to a  really insightful observation about Supergirl which is that she has to  spend most of her life being incredibly careful and constrained, making sure that  she doesn’t grab a person's hand too firmly, or move something or  someone too quickly. Ruthye imagines just how incredibly difficult it  must be to feel so constrained, so slowed down by all of the regular, non-super people in her life. She speculates that Supergirl must be in pain as a result of having to limit herself so much. Her biggest super power seems to be holding back her own power and greatness in order to function amongst the ordinary, weak people with which she is surrounded. In this way, Ruthye (and King) make  having superpowers (and being Supergirl) actually seem pretty sad and constraining. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HSAGGEi7330\/YY2BMVYUYlI\/AAAAAAACXVE\/WhLIdvysjLkWAPIcU4uUWob-xepHJ0CRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1968\/97c43d592609f2ffa17963008bdbffcb._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_7cd0_aa26_2ffb_5ec7\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HSAGGEi7330\/YY2BMVYUYlI\/AAAAAAACXVE\/WhLIdvysjLkWAPIcU4uUWob-xepHJ0CRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/97c43d592609f2ffa17963008bdbffcb._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHalfway  through the story, I’ve wondered, what exactly King‘s perspective is on  Ruthye and Supergirl's quest? What does he think about Ruthye's  continuing motivation to seek vengeance for the death of her father?\u0026nbsp; Early on in the story, Supergirl attempts to dissuade Ruthye from going  after Krem, and speaks of the difference between vengeance and justice.  However, ultimately Supergirl agrees to work with Ruthye to find Krem so  that he can be held responsible for his actions. It’s hard to say that  it is justice that keeps these characters moving along from moment to  moment as they attempt to track down Krem. Or even vengeance, really.\u0026nbsp; My sense is that the quest  itself becomes all consuming, whether you call it justice or vengeance. They’ve gone down such a long road now (and invested so much time and emotion) that it's too late to  back. At a certain point, when Supergirl feels that they’re getting a  little closer, she wants to send Ruthye back home, to try to spare  Ruthye from any more suffering. But Ruthye insists, and Supergirl is at this point too worn down by what she’s seen to push back too much. She understands, they're in this together and there's no turning back. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI think there are some  pretty interesting ideas here at play, about the emotional toll that a  single-minded quest for revenge can have on a person. As I mentioned  earlier, I think Ruthye's single-minded focus on vengeance, and the  seriousness of her character, are intended to function as coping mechanisms, for her tremendous sense of grief and loss. She says it herself,  her father was her whole world and without him she feels adrift. Having lost a parent myself, I can say that anger and frustration and  impatience are far easier emotions to reckon with than grief. Grief can  feel like a bottomless hole from which you can’t return. With anger, I  think you at least feel like you were in control. I’m not sure if it's ultimately helpful to try to cope with an emotion by covering it up with different emotions. But it can at least feel better to  be able to direct those emotions somewhere as anger, particularly towards things where you feel like you potentially have some control. But it's a defense mechanism, and the grief is always still there, until you actually deal with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0000ee;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_3e28_7ec4_78f5_c895\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-q_tMUOQggOE\/YY2BLd_YQzI\/AAAAAAACXUw\/B1stKMHy5CALnR4yUoTp1I_6wUScLmFXgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/05231cb811619867088df3c4ac3bf504._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0000ee;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0000ee;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI've  loved many of King's other stories for that sense of ambition, and all of the big ideas he explores such as those relating to identity, reckoning with war and the costs of those wars on all parties involved.  Specifically he’s dealt with the shifting and elastic nature of morality in war, and the  blurry lines that exist sometimes between a hero and a criminal.  King has also confronted the profound sadness and loneliness of  depression, particularly dealing with serious depression while also  attempting to function in a highly stressful work environment. And some similarly interesting ideas are present in \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Eand I am sure  that they will make themselves even more clear as the story moves  along. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" id=\"id_20b1_b239_3198_ddc7\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZowXHpT0-6o\/YY2BM8AxTlI\/AAAAAAACXVM\/ERf-3x6FaVsQK3qhMy7aDkLOhLJPp4zCQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/9bc194117ab72ab7a072eb2fd0e7f710._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 416px;\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0000ee;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBut ultimately, it’s not the ideas about grief and loss and vengeance that make me truly love \u003Ci\u003ESWOT\u003C\/i\u003E. It’s the story, and it’s the  characters, and it’s the way that they are all  brought to life in such a stunning manner that makes me love \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Eas  much as I do. Were it just a comic of great ideas, I don’t think I would  have the emotional attachment to this comic that I do. But there’s  tremendous heart on every page of this comic. Very much like a western,  the values and motivations of the characters feel primal and  fundamental, and ultimately extremely understandable. And it's brought to  life by art that’s so evocative and rich and empathetic, that I can’t  help but love the heroes of the story, and hate the villains. The conclusion of issue 4 is definitely a low point for these characters, but  I trust King and Evely and Lopes in the story that they’re telling (and I'm certainly hoping that even if things get even worse, we're going to see a satisfying conclusion). And  I absolutely couldn’t imagine not following these characters in their  journey to the very end. \u003Ci\u003ESWOT \u003C\/i\u003Eis a special book. It's not always an easy read, but I think you'll love it as much as I do. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8875520268507504449"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8875520268507504449"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/the-true-grit-of-supergirl-woman-of.html","title":"The True Grit of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"James Kaplan"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08677155836689043778"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zu5iYBE_IMc\/YY2BMaS-mFI\/AAAAAAACXVA\/Hr2AgDHmGcQe6ST1sU7OAOzcpMZ_eTmXQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/945443._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-4297301775180455986"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-16T11:00:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-16T11:00:00.220-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"titan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vault"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Comics Apocalypse: Catch It's for November 17th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1199\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--HqfpRZRkIY\/YZMW2vE4pmI\/AAAAAAACXWE\/-6GYlEEGxX8APgHQObNPZNEmZy5ys24_wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w268-h400\/913358._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"268\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERadio Apocalypse #1 by Ram V, Anand RK, Anisha, and Aditya Bidikar, published by Vault\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EBakerstown is one of the few communities left after a disaster turns the world to hell. A radio station gives some hope to the people there, all 94 of them, but it's not enough to overcome human nature--which often reverts to base instincts out of desperation. Both the good and the bad are on display in this first, admittedly bleak issue. This is a really dark comic, despite Anisha's bright colors, and not for those who want a sense of hope--at least, not yet. Ram V's dialogue and pacing are as sharp as ever while Anand RK's linework provides a vast, abstract canvas for the story to play out. With new residents on the way who've lost their own community, things are likely going to only get worse in a comic that's setting up to be excellent but definitely challenging to read.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1942\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2lDM5cZQui8\/YZMW2wviYfI\/AAAAAAACXWI\/jN2Ff3sdb0U0llBNVZJvHqNo2A6tKhzqwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/962322._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who Empire of Wolf #1 by Jody Houser,\u0026nbsp;Roberta Ingranata, and David Buisian, published by Titan comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EWhile I really like Dr. Who, I admit I've fallen away from the core TV series. But I still enjoy reading the comics, especially those written by Houser. This time around she's playing with the 8th(!!) and 11th Doctors, an interesting pairing to be sure as the 8th Doctor has a lot of un-mined potential. Better yet, theu appear to be going up against an evil version of Rose Tyler, who is typically associated with the 9th and 10th Doctors, so Houser is pulling against type. Turns out \"our\" Rose isn't done with the Doctor after all, and has to find a way to help two different incarnations than she's used to stop a figure she'd never expect--herself? This should be a lot of fun for long-time Dr. Who fans!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4rpX9nL-CKM\/YZMYdORYKOI\/AAAAAAACXWc\/vAfkE5vuFEk6fLpoGne82jcaIMcTkF89ACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/975855._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENot All Robots #4 by Mark Russell, Mike Deodato, and Lee Loughridge, published by AWA\/Upshot\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFew people do dark satire better than Mark Russell, and he is firing on all cylinders on \u003Ci\u003ENot All Robots\u003C\/i\u003E, with artist Mike Deodato and colorist Lee Loughridge. Deodato is a great, inspired choice for this comic. He's a more realistic, less \"cartoony\" artist than others that have worked with Russell on various projects. This story has a dark air of menace to it, and \/Deodato (a veteran superhero artist) brings that real sense of danger and menace to life (wth terrifically grim colors from Lee Loughridge). The robots are here and they're basically in charge, and things are awkward. This is an excellent, darkly funny read.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"585\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8r-YYX7TAKg\/YZMYZpXYGMI\/AAAAAAACXWY\/ucdyKOCr_U4EeZa2dDNjAAYyuuC7BroTgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/965851._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPrimordial #3 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart, published by Image Comics \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EGideon Falls is one of my favorite comics of the past 5 or so years. That was from the all-star team of writer Jeff Lemire, artist Andrea Sorrentino, and colorist Dave Stewart. Well that story ended, but the great news is that the creative team is back at it with \u003Ci\u003EPrimordial\u003C\/i\u003E. This is a dark, alternate tale of the space race. Where after a short while, we stopped sending anything to space because \u003Ci\u003Esomething else\u003C\/i\u003E was out there. Whatever it is, it has taken Laika the space dog, and two space monkeys aboard its ship. Things are getting pretty weird. The interacting animals gives me a little of a \u003Ci\u003EWe3 \u003C\/i\u003Evibe (an amazing story from Morrison and Quitely), and of course there's no shortage of great horror in space. Sorrentino is better than ever. He's really getting super wild in his layouts and storytelling. It's some pretty mind-bending stuff, which is awesome to see. And Stewart is of course a master colorist and does wonderful work in this series, bringing everything to eerie life.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1528\" data-original-width=\"994\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IjWsX0gHjX0\/YZMYPHUoacI\/AAAAAAACXWU\/UWBkNmtXzQAbtAsxnZtUIFeHBt-0sFwxACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/972757._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #5 by Tom King, Biolquis Evely, and Mat Lopes, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EI really love \u003Ci\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u003C\/i\u003E. I have a full review of the series going up on the site Wednesday, so I don't want to say too much. But I will say that it's a gorgeous, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking series about compassion and vengeance and justice, and how much suffering even a superbeing can take. It's a smart story (from writer Tom King) with great characterization, and the art from Bilquis Evely and colors from Mat Lopes are truly stunning, like \"you have to see them to believe them\" good. Read this comic. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/4297301775180455986"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/4297301775180455986"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/comics-apocalypse-catch-its-for.html","title":"Comics Apocalypse: Catch It's for November 17th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--HqfpRZRkIY\/YZMW2vE4pmI\/AAAAAAACXWE\/-6GYlEEGxX8APgHQObNPZNEmZy5ys24_wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w268-h400-c\/913358._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-7833394735224049478"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-10T09:00:00.388-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-10T09:00:00.211-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Claire Dezutti"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Image Comics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Matthew Rosenberg"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"single-issue review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tyler boss"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What's The Furthest Place From Here #1 by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"976\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_1655_6d09_74d7_ef28\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ei-n3CA0MMA\/YYBQKzq_twI\/AAAAAAACXJc\/tGRfTr5VB00vaL9Rnq-nfVXniEXrcU4WACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL206622.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 260px;\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWhat's The Furthest Place From Here #1\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWritten by Matthew Rosenberg\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIllustrated by Tyler Boss\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EColor Assist and Design by Claire Dezutti\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELetters By Hasson Otsmane-Elhaou\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWhat’s The Furthest Place From Here\u003C\/i\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E) (from writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Tyler Boss) is an excellent, stylish, detailed, very satisfying (oversized) debut issue. It does absolutely what I want from an issue #1, which is getting me really intrigued about the world and wanting to read more. But it does more than that. Issue #1 tells a satisfying story in its own right, in addition to building out the weird, post-apocalyptic world and making me care about the characters. It's \u003Ci\u003EStand By Me\u003C\/i\u003E meets \u003Ci\u003EThe Warriors\u003C\/i\u003E meets \u003Ci\u003EEmpire Records\u003C\/i\u003E, and it's an absolute must-read.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the world of \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E, it appears that society has collapsed. All of  the adults have disappeared and all that is left is different groups of  kids trying to survive. \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E is focused on a group of kids that  have taken refuge in and a building containing a record store. This  record store is their home, and the fellow inhabitants are the closest  and only thing they have as far as family is concerned. Their world is  not one that exists without danger, as there is sometimes violence  between different groups of kids. Different groups of kids seem to  have taken on different thematic identities. There are kids in pig\u0026nbsp; masks and business suits and other themed gangs. By the end of the first issue, the kids have gone out searching for one of their number who is missing (or has been taken). In that way, it’s kind of a nice nod to the 1970s movie \u003Ci\u003EThe Warriors \u003C\/i\u003E(where a gang of teens has to  make their way across New York City from one side to another confronted  by one ridiculous gang or another with adults and law-enforcement and authority  pretty much absent, as they try to make their way home to safety). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1122\" data-original-width=\"740\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L0zWilKAL90\/YYfV35qTcfI\/AAAAAAACXK8\/kiui3pobzJcfHmHIgTTZ2Kj6U84SdzCxQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w422-h640\/WTFPFH-01-11-page-0001-1.webp\" width=\"422\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ERosenberg and  Boss are a fantastic creative team and I was very much in the  tank for them before I even read \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E. They wrote the spectacular  \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids Walk Into A Bank (4 Kids)\u003C\/i\u003E, which in case you haven’t read it, you  should really go read it right now (my review of issue #1 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2016\/04\/4-kids-walk-into-bank-1-advance-review.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). That is a story about, you guessed  it, four kids that decide to rob a bank. And it is about that,  but it’s really about so much more than that. What \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E did so  successfully was something that most comics have a hard time doing  which is just created a great group of characters with whom I just want to spend time, just hanging out with them and following them around, regardless of what they're up to.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA lot of that comes from the amazing work that Boss did in that comic. He is a fantastic artist, but  saying that doesn’t even really do his work justice. He is an illustrator, but more than  that, he brings an amazing sense of design and structure to any comic that he's drawing. Boss has a distinctive style that has already made him one of my  favorite artistic voices in comics in just a relatively short amount of  time. He absolutely has distinctive line work, but the work of David Aja and Chris Ware also comes to mind in thinking about Boss' work. Aja and Ware are exceptional, game-changing storytellers that do an incredible job in  bringing the formal structure of comics into the story itself, and just  generally playing a lot with the way that the story itself and other  information are laid out within the comic. I'm not saying that Boss is a master of the entire medium just yet, but I think his work is in the same general category, and he is on his way to being that level of visual storyteller.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1122\" data-original-width=\"740\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fZjvA86TN3k\/YYfV34ns8II\/AAAAAAACXK0\/mVHbGXBCu9kXzeerxCZuBW1u31Zd3F3qgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w422-h640\/WTFPFH-01-12-page-0001.webp\" width=\"422\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI know that this is a review of \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH \u003C\/i\u003Eand I keep talking about \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E, but hey, it's a special comic (and it's a completed work) and it is still one of the coolest, most interesting, and distinctive looking comics  that I've read. There's a lot of incredibly  creative panel layout and design, and a lot of use of repeated identical  panels for dialogue that somehow finds a way to not feel repetitive but  instead feels hilarious and additive and a natural part of the story. When the story calls for it, Boss is an exceptional action storyteller  as well, whether it is an imagined fantasy set piece from a Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons game or it is an actual high-speed car chase through city  streets. Boss absolutely has those storytelling chops. But what he  does that I love the most is the character moments. He really does a  wonderful job with character interactions and bringing to life real  relationship moments, all while setting a wonderful sense of place.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoss  has been showing his range this year, as he released a miniseries  called \u003Ci\u003EDead Dog's Bite\u003C\/i\u003E in which he was writer and artist. That was an  excellent story as well, with humor, heart, poignancy, and a ton of visual flair  and rich detail. And all of these trends continue in the first issue of \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E. I feel like Boss' skills as an action storyteller have only continued to improve, and that's on display in this first issue. There's genuine tension from panel to panel, even in panels where Boss changes only one small detail from one panel to the next. And throughout the story, Boss brings moments of big action and tension to life, whether it's the record store being under siege, or the kids venturing out side of the record store into the dangerous remains of the city.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoss is also an exceptional colorist and  that continues in this book. Boss uses a somewhat muted color scheme and goes for flat coloring which immediately gives the book a classic, timeless feel, and prevents it from looking dated (credit also to Claire DeZutti for color assist). The color choices inside the record store feel a little more atmospheric (and less strictly realist). I think that gives the inside of the record store a sense of warmth, as in an uncaring world, this place is the little oasis of warmth that these kids call home. However, those big, bright colors show up later when our group tangles with another group of teens who all weird pig-faced masks. There, the page is saturated with reds that convey the action and intensity of the scene. There's also some gorgeous, distinctive color work later in in the issue when we see a few characters up on the roof. The sky has a weird, foggy, almost pixelated kind of look to it. It's great, interesting work throughout. The skill and attention to detail extends to the lettering from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, who provides consistently strong lettering which works well in the action and emotion of a particular scene.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1122\" data-original-width=\"740\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bpmKR-PAIfY\/YYfV3-RuUzI\/AAAAAAACXKw\/E7h676yGD1IO3Ww5-6Q0ClYoGKLDFCErQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w422-h640\/WTFPFH-01-14-PREVIEW-page-0001.webp\" width=\"422\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComics writer and podcaster David Harper refers to the aesthetic of a certain kind of comic that I love as a \"hangout comic\", and that perfectly describes certain beloved comics to me. It's a comic where the story is cool and the art is great, but I'm really just there to hang out with these fun characters because I enjoy spending time with them.\u003Ci\u003E 4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E (which was one of my favorite comics of the past decade) fits this bill. As do 2 other comic series that were among my favorites of the past decade, \u003Ci\u003EPaper Girls\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EGiant Days\u003C\/i\u003E (which also happen to be stories about young people). Despite the disparate stories, what (in part) makes these comics so great, and what they have in common, is how much I enjoy spending time  with these characters. I'd be perfectly happy reading a comic that follows the characters around for a day where nothing of significance happens.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH \u003C\/i\u003Eis definitely an action-oriented comic (as is Paper Girls), but I really appreciate that Rosenberg and Boss take their time telling the story in this first issue and really letting the story breathe. We get action, but by the time we get there we have already gotten a chance to know the characters somewhat and to get a sense of their personalities. I can't say that WTFPFH will be a \"hangout comic\" in the same way that the other comics are, but I appreciate the ways in which Boss and Rosenberg are building out the characters and their world such that even in quieter moments, these are characters I'll really care about, and want to know hat they're thinking and how they're feeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the big ways that Rosenberg and Boss do this is with the focus on music in the story. Music  and movies and popular culture are clearly very  important to Boss and Rosenberg; they were in \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E and they  are here as well. The kids take very seriously the fact that they live in a  record store, and make music a big component of their personality and  identity. At a certain age, each kid needs to choose an album  that best exemplifies them or with which they most identify. This is a  serious choice, not to be taken lightly. That love of music really comes  across on the story, as the characters get into pretty detailed  discussion of different bands and albums.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a world where the presumably very digital society is gone, it's probably really nice and important for these kids to have a physical, tactile object with which to identify (as I'm assuming that Spotify is no longer up and running in this story). I feel like if you asked Boss  and Rosenberg, I bet they both have pretty strong ideas about what  albums they would used identify with. I’ll definitely have to consider  that question for myself. But what the music does for the story is two-fold: (1) it gives this world some level of grounding and detail and a feeling of being lived-in, and (2) relatedly, it gives you the sense that these characters are real people with real interior lives. And these are the sorts of details that are both non-essential and entirely essential. It's also very cool that Boss and Rosenberg are bringing in musicians to record a song to go with each issue, and releasing those as vinyl records.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1122\" data-original-width=\"740\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Koh26jfKZQ8\/YYfV4apXCRI\/AAAAAAACXK4\/im3o_5X4S0s0Ya00f3P1Umr6hr9yfel0ACLcBGAsYHQ\/w422-h640\/WTFPFH-01-16-page-0001.webp\" width=\"422\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH  \u003C\/i\u003Eis in some ways treading on familiar ground, but it's ground that I think Rosenberg and Boss are trying to explore in a unique and interesting way. In the  world of \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E, all of the adults are gone (and people disappear when they turn 18) and society has collapsed; there are just kids. These  kids live in a world that just seems to be loose groups of kids divided up into different\u0026nbsp; groups\/gangs. These kids are trying to make sense of  the strange dystopian world that they live in, and trying to survive  and hopefully find some answers to what happened to the world, and  hopefully find potentially a better life for themselves. They have to do  it themselves, because (as I mentioned) there are literally no adults around, and people seem to disappear when they are 18 years old.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe theme of worlds (or stories) without adults (whether literally or figuratively, from \u003Ci\u003EThe Lord of the Flies\u003C\/i\u003E to \u003Ci\u003EStand By Me\u003C\/i\u003E) is a fertile one for exploration of ideas about growing up, figuring out the world, and managing difficult transitions. \u003Ci\u003EPeanuts \u003C\/i\u003Eis actually very much an exploration of those ideas; adults are basically a non-factor such that you can't even hear what they're saying in the cartoons. The theme of  absent adults (and particularly, parents)is being explored in \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH, \u003C\/i\u003Eand in that way it feels like a continuation of the exploration of those ideas in \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E. In \u003Ci\u003E4 Kids\u003C\/i\u003E, the kids decide that they need to rob a bank to prevent  their leader's dad from robbing the same bank and going back to jail. It’s a story about kids not trusting or believing in adults, because  those adults have shown them that the adults don’t deserve their trust  or faith. And kids having to take their lives, and their futures, into  their own hands. It seems like \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH\u003C\/i\u003E is taking that idea and  extending it and making it not just figurative, but literal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"546\" data-original-width=\"970\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-w-3qnFty6kI\/YYfxBlmUFyI\/AAAAAAACXLQ\/tsDTB3xnkr4YV0yp4-q5eLfDSlzzBA7EQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h360\/CcyJuuuSNfkwScziJpkGWU-970-80.jpg.webp\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH \u003C\/i\u003Eis fun and stylish and moving and a fantastic book to look at. All of that is thanks to the incredibly holistic creative partnership between Rosenberg  and Boss. They both have such great voices,  whether to plot or art or dialogue, but it all comes across on the page  in a unified whole. \u003Ci\u003EWTFPFH \u003C\/i\u003Eis a special book, and I think you'll love it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/7833394735224049478"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/7833394735224049478"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/what-furthest-place-from-here-1-by.html","title":"What\u0026#39;s The Furthest Place From Here #1 by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"James Kaplan"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08677155836689043778"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ei-n3CA0MMA\/YYBQKzq_twI\/AAAAAAACXJc\/tGRfTr5VB00vaL9Rnq-nfVXniEXrcU4WACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/STL206622.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-5012287194692293587"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-09T11:00:00.263-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-09T11:00:00.222-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ahoy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"boom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel comics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lemire the Merrier OR All's Well That's Cantwell: Catch it's for November 10th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mMTA_ULFvsE\/YYBSnp2bbRI\/AAAAAAACXJ0\/SlakVYhY9RIcl4EAhwhdav7tClvBcEVfgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/STL195347.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EShe Could Fly vol. 3 TP by Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've really liked the first 2 volumes of \u003Ci\u003EShe Could Fly\u003C\/i\u003E. It's a serious, sad story about mental illness and the difficulties of life. But it's also a story of conspiracies, big ideas, and dreams. I think this is the first comic work by Christopher Cantwell that I'd ever read, and it really made me want to pay attention to anything else he did in comics. Thus far his work has been great, and it'll be really interesting to see him revisit the first story that brought him to comics. Martin Morazzo is a fantastic artist, able to bring the weirdness of this story to life in an incredible way. He's a fantastic storyteller, with a unique, weird style.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1503\" data-original-width=\"1944\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PxZFlVjJ-GE\/YYBShpBM8AI\/AAAAAAACXJk\/inkYnVppqCIueUpFugL9KCS6xgSBqC4ggCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h309\/STL194292.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlack Panther #1 by John Ridley and Juann Cabal, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is a brand new creative team, as Ta-Nehisi Coates concluded his run on \u003Ci\u003EBlack Panther\u003C\/i\u003E earlier on this year (the latter part of that run was with Daniel Acuna and I was a big fan). But this is a new creative team that I'm excited for. The story is being written by John Ridley, who is an Oscar-winning screenwriter (\u003Ci\u003E12 Years a Slave\u003C\/i\u003E) but has also entered comics this year in a big way, with some \u003Ci\u003EBatman\u003C\/i\u003E comics, and with \u003Ci\u003EThe Other History of the DC Universe\u003C\/i\u003E. I really enjoyed the latter book, as it is definitely on my shortlist for favorite comics of the year. It's a really big, ambitious project, which told the story of the DC universe but from the perspective of characters from underrepresented populations. Now he's taking his talents to Wakanda and I couldn't be happier. He's teaming up with Juann Cabal who is a fantastic superhero artist (I really enjoyed his work in \u003Ci\u003EX-23\u003C\/i\u003E) and this is a great team and a promising new start. \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1171\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-63Raftb1cg4\/YYBSh_RjPSI\/AAAAAAACXJw\/vX1cgBVOd_wqo3s1TbP1c6ysGd-f281VACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL206581.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMazebook #3 by Jeff Lemire, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeff Lemire is one of my favorite creators in comics. He's certainly prolific as both writer and artist, and has created a ton of great work in multiple genres. But there are definitely themes that feel like they're important to him, to which he returns. Themes such as loss, trauma, mourning, and regret. He often does so on his written and drawn work, including in \u003Ci\u003EMazebook\u003C\/i\u003E. It's a sad story about a father, whose daughter died a number of years before. He thinks he is seeing clues left by her in different puzzles, and goes out to search for them and follow up on them. Is he imagining things? Is it just wishful thinking? Is some of it really happening? I'm not sure, and as with most of Lemire's work, the answers are often complex and not clear. But the journey is as important as the destination, so I'm glad to follow Lemire on this one. He just really gets the sense of emptiness and longing, and does a great job weaving in elements of the fantastical. I'd definitely recommend \u003Ci\u003EMazebook \u003C\/i\u003Efor fans of his prior work, and for anyone who wants to get sad (in a good way) reading an excellent story. \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-679Z2SNM0f0\/YYBShtUvOrI\/AAAAAAACXJs\/FLl_04iWRZAtGOWsnSD3vVWyq5j3Ne9yQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/STL195347.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EUnbelievable Unteens: World of Black Hammer #4 by Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of great Jeff Lemire stories, I'm loving all of the various comics in the interconnected \u003Ci\u003EBlack Hammer\u003C\/i\u003E universe these days. \u003Ci\u003EUnbelievable Unteens\u003C\/i\u003E is no exception. It's the story of an artist living in Spiral City who draws a teen superhero comic, only it turns out that the stories she is drawing are in fact real, and are based on the adventures that she and her fellow \"Unteens\" had years before (they're very melodramatic X-Men type stories). But the truth is coming out, and everything is going haywire. This series is a lot of fun, and artist Tyler Crook is (unsurprisingly) doing amazing work. His painted style really brings to life the dramatic, exciting story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1529\" data-original-width=\"994\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9xV6Atn5MDw\/YYlSmUBhFnI\/AAAAAAACXLw\/VlGACVb7Pu8NoYxrB9_LVc1E6YWHPb59QCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL205197.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERegarding the Matter of Oswald's Body by Christopher Cantwell,\u0026nbsp;Luca Casalanguida, and Others, published by Boom! Studios\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe tragic death of John F. Kennedy and then his assassin may never be truly resolved, depending on what information is still waiting to be declassified. It's perfect fodder for the vivid imagination of storytellers. In this new series, Cantwell and Casalanguida pick up one of the threads--the idea that maybe Oswald wasn't buried in his grave--and run with it in an entertaining and intriguing start. A group of talented minor criminals are gathered together by a man calling himself Frank, who has a friend named Jack. It's insinuated they'll be part of a cover-up, but right now it's just tantalizing clues. The mystery is well-developed by Cantwell does a great job in the Michael Walsh vein of illustration, reminding me a lot of the latter's\u003Ci\u003E X-Files\u003C\/i\u003E work from a few years back. It's straightforward but extremely detailed, giving a good sense of the world. This one's going to live and die off the handling of the plot, but I trust Cantwell to have it well in hand and am extremely excited to see where this one goes.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"781\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Lm8bWQQZiys\/YYlTKYnswAI\/AAAAAAACXMI\/MHT1hIBp-Xkd-rjB2gRabkj2UNrZ9QCbQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/RBN_BM_Cv1_00111_61134bd13b3734.27365942.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERobin and Batman #1 by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ENormally, I'd roll my eyes at another Year One style story about anyone, especially someone in the Bat Family, but this is Lemire and Nguyen, so I'll make an exception. The awesome pair from \u003Ci\u003EDescender\u003C\/i\u003E, a Dynamic Duo in their own right, take a look at what it was like for Dick Grayson to be Robin for the first time. Sure, we've seen this so many times before--from the original Kane written (or ghosted) stories to the excellent Chuck Dixon material to the versions on the big screen and television. But that's the thing about legends--there's more than one way to tell them. With one of the best (and most prolific) writers in comics paired with an amazing illustrator who can do everything from all-ages books to more mature work, this is going to be a great mini-series that should match up with the best stories about one of my favorite DC characters.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1285\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5mci4EJVf1Q\/YYlSmUENgaI\/AAAAAAACXL0\/gNUq_iqHoUwSiLfmib-rlA2NFP-RSQWVwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w251-h400\/STL203964.jpg\" width=\"251\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EE\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003Edgar Allan\u0026nbsp;Poe's Snifter of Death #2 by Dean Motter, Andy Troy, Holly Interlandi, Greg Scott, Lee Loughridge, Rob Steen, Rick Geary, and Others, published by Ahoy\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EWhatever the name on the cover, this series is always fun, as Ahoy's various stable of creators and some talented guests take some time to lovingly stretch Poe's work to its very limits. That's especially true of Interlandi's sharp approach to \u003Ci\u003EAngle of the Odd\u003C\/i\u003E, in which she pulls the story into a variety of genres in the most comedic way possible, showing off her skills as a visual artist. (My favorite might be Poe as Shojo protagonist.) Dean Motter, meanwhile, goes after the essay Poe wrote about a supposed computer chess player of the early 19th Century, with a few nice jabs amid the historical fiction. It's great fun and I'm so glad to see the Poe cycle continuing strong.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1349\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i8rLJS1YItk\/YYlSmWMhoXI\/AAAAAAACXL4\/RwyH0x0901MPEhe1FFpsZHDrsguIfOTEACLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL206547.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Thing #1 by Walter Mosley, Tom Reilly, and Others, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EEvery so often, Marvel gives one of their best characters a solo series, letting a set of creators go wild with arguably the best character Jack Kirby ever co-created. This time around it's Mosley and Reilly, and while I know very little about it so far beyond the premise (Ben goes on a quest that sees him interact with a large swath of the Marvel U), I'm absolutely intrigued because of how much Mosley likes the lovable lump of orange rocks. There's a few samples out there of Reilly's look for the Thing, and I'm digging it. No idea how many issues this will run, but it sure looks like it's going to be my Thing, pun intended.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMike's Pick:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1238\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S9crtAXRFYw\/YYnlMBwexOI\/AAAAAAACXMs\/uy-fK7tKTpEAO-_3tP7VdT7Nzah_OlkBACLcBGAsYHQ\/w291-h400\/pasted%2Bimage%2B0.jpg\" width=\"291\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFantastic Four # 1: Panel by Panel by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chip Kidd, and Geoff Spear, published by Abrams Comicarts \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E It’s high time that one of the most important comics of all time gets a panel by panel annotation, and Chip Kids and Geoff Spear are a fantastic team to complement the seminal work by Kirby and Lee. Abrams is good at these kinds of books. They know how to package something like this. Part academic piece, part art book, this is something to put in a place of pride on the bookshelf.\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5012287194692293587"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5012287194692293587"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/lemire-merrier-or-alls-well-thats.html","title":"Lemire the Merrier OR All's Well That's Cantwell: Catch it's for November 10th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mMTA_ULFvsE\/YYBSnp2bbRI\/AAAAAAACXJ0\/SlakVYhY9RIcl4EAhwhdav7tClvBcEVfgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w266-h400-c\/STL195347.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-4708591692180333223"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-03T09:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-03T09:00:00.199-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ed brubaker"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"graphic novels"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marcos martin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"muntsa vicente"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"panel syndicate"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"976\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5YOYi3S9t4Q\/YXtCQ9WleCI\/AAAAAAACXII\/bMCueKi_4n0xgZRTvy8Ggzne20Uu6h3wACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL196622.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFriday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas TP\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWritten by Ed Brubaker\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EArt and Letters by Marcos Martin\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EColors by Muntsa Vicente\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Image Comics (originally published digitally by Panel Syndicate)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EDid you read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ENancy Drew\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EHardy Boys\u003C\/i\u003E, or\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;Encyclopedia Brown\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;stories when you were a kid? I definitely did. They were so much fun. It was incredibly rewarding to try to figure out the mystery. But even more than that, I loved reading stories where kids were smart and capable and could figure things out for themselves. I loved the idea of kids my age going out there, taking risks, solving mysteries (particularly since I was a pretty risk-averse kid myself). But what happens when those kids grow up? A 12-year old running around solving mysteries seems cute and precocious; at 18 years old, it seems odd. And what if one of your dynamic duo of mystery-solvers wants to just grow up and do normal teenager things, and the other one doesn't? Well then, it could get pretty awkward.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat's the basic premise of the absolutely wonderful \u003Ci\u003EFriday\u003C\/i\u003E. First published digitally through Panel Syndicate, this volume from Image Comics collects the first 3 issues of \u003Ci\u003EFriday\u003C\/i\u003E.  For anyone who ever enjoyed reading those kid-mystery stories, or for  anyone who ever grew up and moved away from home and then came back and  it was weird, this is an absolute delight to read. Artist Marcos Martin  and color artist Muntsa Vicente perfectly create a charming, snowy New  England town where weirdness is lurking just under the surface. And  writer Ed Brubaker's script brings to life a wonderful combination of  teen angst, self-awareness, and genuine mystery and terror. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1689\" data-original-width=\"1100\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qH3QK7Sdt-w\/YXwHJl8oVJI\/AAAAAAACXJE\/Y91eoERhHRI7-tqeYDBdrqEdJwPkRlhEgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/Friday1.jpg\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EIt's December, 1973 (\u003Ci\u003ELive and Let Die\u003C\/i\u003E was in the theater earlier that year). Friday Fitzhugh has taken the train  home from college for winter break, back to the charming New England  town of Kings Hill. She's nervous about returning home, particularly  with regard to her best friend Lancelot (Lance) Jones. They've been  friends for years. But not just friends, crime solving partners. Theirs  was a partnership like those classic \u003Ci\u003EHardy Boys\u003C\/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003ENancy Drew\u003C\/i\u003E stories. But people get older, and high school senior Friday Fitzhugh  wanted to know if there was anything more between them than being  friends and crime solvers. But Friday doesn't even have time to go home  before she is swept up into  solving a mystery alongside Lancelot and Sheriff Bixby. There are  definitely weird, scary, and surprising things going along in Kings  Hill. These first 3 issues show the mystery just opening up, while also  providing some important history between Friday and Lance.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFriday \u003C\/i\u003Eis really such a fun, engrossing story. I immediately felt pulled into the world of the story, and so much of that is thanks to the artistic team of Martin and Vicente, who have worked together many times before (\u003Ci\u003EDaredevil, The Private Eye, Barrier\u003C\/i\u003E) and are just seamless, holistic storytellers. There's so much going on in each page, the art is really immersive. To start, Martin is (as you hopefully know) just an exceptional artist and storyteller. He's been drawing extraordinary comics for a very long time (his interpretation of Spider-Man is among my favorite interpretations of the character). Martin does not skimp on the details on every single page. This story really made me think of a New England town in winter, and also really brought to life the early 1970's (a little before my time, but I am pretty familiar with it).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1691\" data-original-width=\"1100\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0d_qwaCH1ok\/YXwHO-P2EJI\/AAAAAAACXJI\/QBqubh-UTfAIEDbR0DrKxyOSjNXxAK-yQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/Friday2.jpg\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EFrom the streets to the trees to the buildings, Martin does not skimp on any important detail. You just know you're in incredibly safe hands with Martin as a storyteller. Not to say his storytelling \"safe\" by any means - just, from panel layout, character acting, facial expressions, and general world-building, there are few (if any) artists I'd trust more than Martin. In fact, Martin makes a lot of creative, out-of-the-box choices. His character design in \u003Ci\u003EFriday \u003C\/i\u003Eis more exaggerated, less realistic, and a little more \"cartoony\" than you might be used to from his superhero work. It took me a little time to adjust, but I've come to really love it. These character designs feel very impressionistic and are exaggerated in strong ways that convey character. Friday herself is a little blocky and angular, conveying her hard, strong quality, Lance Jones is more slight and boyish, conveying his innocence, and (frankly) his need to have someone like Friday around to ground him and protect him from others and himself.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Martin, as in many prior collaborations, has a fantastic partner in Vicente. Munsta uses a flat coloring technique that suits the older setting of the story and really gives the art a clasic and timeless feel. The colors are rich and bright and, while not \"realistic\", in most scenes they feel very real. Such as in the panels shown here, the color of the snow and the trees and the sky, contrasted with the glare of the flashlight, really creates the sense of walking through the woods on a snowy night. In other parts of the story, Vicente is equally adept at creating mood and atmosphere through color, such as sequences that feel more like a horror story, or pages that feel like a psychedelic vision. In all of these cases, Vicente's colors bring the story to life.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1689\" data-original-width=\"1100\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lY-IgUbDlsk\/YXtFLVCEjfI\/AAAAAAACXIU\/uUkHoxEvamAdxEuw53tF-HGG8CN4nzMqgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w416-h640\/friday%2B3.jpg\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThere are some double-page spreads where Martin completely changes up his style, using a much more strictly realistic, documentary style (when depicting legends or historical events). In those pages, Vicente provides great, complementary colors, conveying an \"aged\" feel appropriate to stories from a long time ago. It really feels like Martin and Vicente are having a lot of fun, as they're doing a ton of different things in the pages of Friday. Including, showing the covers of fictional books\u0026nbsp; that one would image would be the covers of the books about the adventures of Lancelot and Friday.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnd Ed Brubaker is just the person to tell this story. Brubaker is a fantastic storyteller (\u003Ci\u003ECriminal, Velvet, Captain America, The Fade Out, Reckless\u003C\/i\u003E) who is equally adept in telling noir mystery, horror, espionage, crime, and superhero stories. So I'm not surprised that he's telling a terrific story that blends mystery with coming-of-age. He really conveys quite effectively the grounded human struggles amidst all of the mysterious and horror elements. Growing up is hard. You grow and change, and the people around you do as well. But they don't necessarily grow and change in the way or at the rate that works best for you. And Brubaker really conveys the ideas that it's both hard to leave home and hard to come back. You go away, you change, you have new experiences, but you come home and everyone just thinks of you as the exact same person you've always been, and expects you to just fall into old routines.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are a lot of great ideas in \u003Ci\u003EFriday\u003C\/i\u003E. So, come for the stunning art and mystery story, and stay for the coming-of-age and relationship drama (and again, the absolutely remarkable art). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/4708591692180333223"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/4708591692180333223"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/friday-book-one-first-day-of-christmas.html","title":"Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"James Kaplan"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08677155836689043778"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5YOYi3S9t4Q\/YXtCQ9WleCI\/AAAAAAACXII\/bMCueKi_4n0xgZRTvy8Ggzne20Uu6h3wACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/STL196622.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2039919071174165795"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-02T11:00:00.123-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-02T11:00:00.207-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"drawn and quarterly"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fantagraphics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vault"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Reading Comics can make you a Human Target! Catch Its November 3rd, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"925\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9REV5vV3r1o\/YXtHpqROIRI\/AAAAAAACXIo\/TeaiFMNfEbIhymBLffFZyQ0xRChmp-xCwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/large-8731616.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHuman Target #1 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've been SO excited for this comic ever since it was announced. I'm a huge fan of almost everything that Tom King has written (I really enjoyed \u003Ci\u003EStrange Adventures\u003C\/i\u003E and I am LOVING \u003Ci\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u003C\/i\u003E). But I've gotta be honest, the real draw for me is artist Greg Smallwood. GREG. SMALLWOOD. Smallwood is an artist that does absolutely stunning work. I was such a huge fan of his work in the Moon Knight series he did with Jeff Lemire and Jordie Bellaire (read me going on and on about it \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/04\/is-my-mind-moon-knight-by-lemire.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). He has a clean line, and immaculate character work, and his panel payout is incredibly interesting and innovative. You should also read his work in this \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.comixology.com\/Marvel-2020-6-of-6\/digital-comic\/911498?ref=c2VhcmNoL2luZGV4L2Rlc2t0b3Avc2xpZGVyTGlzdC90b3BSZXN1bHRzU2xpZGVy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMarvel \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003Eseries of stories. That \u003Ci\u003EMarvel \u003C\/i\u003Eseries feels like it might have been something of the inspiration for the new \u003Ci\u003EHuman Target\u003C\/i\u003E series. I'll be honest, I don't know anything about the character of the Human Target. But, everything I've seen of this new series gives it this bright, stylish, sexy 60's spy vibe, which is more than enough to sell me on this series. This one is sure to be a delight.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1215\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DfnQGDSAG-o\/YXtHpiOyAwI\/AAAAAAACXIk\/Mzsb_iBoJvk-tHJMDy7Fh5JyiHaWxBSFACLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL199985.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Rush #1 by Si Spurrier, Nathan Gooden, Addison Duke, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, published by Vault Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVault has had some excellent horror series (like \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/01\/the-plot-series-review.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Plot\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2018\/10\/halloween-horror-deep-roots-by-watters.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDeep Roots\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/01\/black-stars-above-series-review.html\"\u003EBlack Stars Above\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E) and\u003Ci\u003E The Rush\u003C\/i\u003E looks like it is going to continue in the tradition of those great books (links to all of my reviews above). Like \u003Ci\u003EBlack Stars Above\u003C\/i\u003E, this is a story of horror in the remote, 19th-century Canadian wilderness (which seems like a great horror setting and a ROUGH place to be). And I already know that I love the art in this first issue, having given it a read. It's gritty and detailed and grounded, but also weird and imaginative. The team of artist Nathan Gooden and color artist Addison Duke make for a fantastic combo. Duke uses some very washed-out, sepia-toned colors, and gives all the pages of the story a really fun weathered feel, so this definitely feels like an artifact from a long time ago. I loved this same art team earlier this year, in the Vault series \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/04\/advance-review-barbaric-1-by-moreci-and.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBarbaric\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E. So what I'm saying is, this book is great, Vault books are generally pretty great, and you are going to want to check this out.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"976\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9BPmz_JOOoA\/YXtHplUa_2I\/AAAAAAACXIg\/zzxCT4AjV4AL2udWhpb13ftRJexvFEiowCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL206323.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENewburn #1 by Chip Zdarsky, Jacob Phillips, Nadia Shammas, and Ziyed Yusuf Ayoub, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've read \u003Ci\u003ENewburn \u003C\/i\u003E#1 and I can tell you it's an excellent comic. It's the story of a former New York police officer that now works as a private investigator on behalf of various mob families. He walks a delicate line, as he works closely with criminals, but also maintains his contacts and relationships with the NYPD. The first issue is fun and engaging, and creates a character that feels different than ones that I've seen in crime comics previously. But I'm not surprised, as it's from an excellent creative team. Chip Zdarsky has been on an amazing comics run. Note that long ago, I knew him as the hilarious illustrator of Sex Criminals, who, along with Matt Fraction, was just a really wild and crazy guy. But it turns out that Zdarsky is an incredible comic writer as well - he's written various \u003Ci\u003ESpider-Man\u003C\/i\u003E comics have all been excellent, as has his \u003Ci\u003EDaredevil\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;and independent books such as \u003Ci\u003EStillwater\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp; And Jacob Phillips has been doing absolutely excellent work in \u003Ci\u003EThat Texas Blood\u003C\/i\u003E where he is both line and color artist. That's another crime comic (albeit one with a very different feel) that I would highly recommend. Anyway, \u003Ci\u003ENewburn \u003C\/i\u003Eis a strong debut and a lot of fun for anyone interested in genre crime or detective stories.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"916\" data-original-width=\"750\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yALVnAk6XiU\/YYCwWVS-KTI\/AAAAAAACXKI\/ragV6i-AyBYz8OyTJ9kRRRO66pRsOT2FgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w328-h400\/STL194360.jpg\" width=\"328\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELure by Lane Milburn, published by Fantagraphics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EScience fiction stories have the power to shine lights on areas we'd otherwise prefer not to think about, especially when they increasingly cut closer to home. Milburn's \u003Ci\u003ELure\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a perfect example of this, taking the (probably? possibly?) fantastic idea of being able to live on other worlds and turning it into rich-person tourism, with artists serving at the pleasure of the highest of the upper classes. As the Earth continues to degrade, our protagonist finds out the corporate overlords are even worse than everyone expected--and that's when things get really bad. With stunning color contrasts, imaginative ideas for this speculative world, and soft lines that evoke Tillie Walden, \u003Ci\u003ELure\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;definitely, well, lured me into wanting a copy for myself. I'm betting there's quite a few of our readers who'll want to get a copy, too, because this is an awesome combination of science fiction, visual storytelling, and morality play.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1602\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ebL6xBeJCKI\/YYCwWeHc3qI\/AAAAAAACXKQ\/-YQ96nnx6R8a-FD7Hg_1J0mqJu3jMVNngCLcBGAsYHQ\/w300-h400\/STL197900.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Haunt of Fear Volume 1 by\u0026nbsp;Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein, Gardner Fox, Harvey Kurtzman, Harry Harrison, Wallace Wood, Graham Ingles, Jack Kamen, and Jack Davis, among others, published by Dark Horse (originally EC)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EOh, please like Halloween being over was going to stop my horror picks. Of all the genres right now going on within comics, horror is not just my personal favorite--I think it's where some of the best work is being done right now. But there's always time to go back to the classics, and the EC classics are some of the best. Dark Horse continues reprinting the original issues as created, with updated colors, this time turning to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EHaunt of Fear\u003C\/i\u003E--covering issues 15-17 and 4-6. (Yes, that's not a misprint--so much for \"numbering used to be easier to follow in the old days!) While these stories vary in quality and of course are also written for a different time, whenever you can read work from Craig, David, and Wood all in the same book for about 20 bucks, you're in for a steal. I'm so happy these are now in affordable editions for all comics fans to enjoy!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"976\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gDRHvx_ZS8s\/YYCwWoXzCPI\/AAAAAAACXKU\/Mb8c28MYO_UlYOloBc_mJRARDoHtoiiLgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL206717.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESilver Coin #6 by Michael Walsh and Joshua Williamson, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ETypically, an anthology series with a recurring theme uses a narrator. Not so with \u003Ci\u003ESilver Coin\u003C\/i\u003E, which continues into an ongoing series after the awesome mini-series wrapped up. The conceit here is a cursed coin, forged when a woman sold out her friend to avoid a puritan's wrath, continues to wreak havoc with whomever gets ahold of the coin. Working with awesome collaborators, creator Michael Walsh keeps the settings varied. For this first new issue, he and Williamson combine to find a kid who's tired of losing coins to his favorite fighting game. When he uses the Silver Coin, everything changes. A perfect mix of horror and a concept from my childhood. The first five issues of this series were extremely solid and I see no reason for that to change anytime soon. A nice twist on the one-person anthology idea that, along with \u003Ci\u003EIce Cream Man\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;and some other books, is showing Image isn't done being a horror provider of choice just yet.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1384\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lXn0q-O4raM\/YYCwWYyjJoI\/AAAAAAACXKM\/xPow6yTnHcMxdBM2MMg3cSwAOc_oyBidACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/2040826_xl.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDark Knights of Steel #1 by Tom Taylor, Yasmine Putri, and Others, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENot sure why DC doesn't call them Elseworlds anymore, which was an awesome name and branding, but here we have an alternative DC in which Superman's ship lands not in modern America, but in a Medieval time. The explosive change will have ripple effects in a universe set up by Taylor and Putri. I don't know much about this one beyond the premise but the art looks slick and very realistic, with a nice fantasy vibe that looks like it's going to work perfectly for the story. Plus with the cover teasing a literal Dark Knight, I can't wait to see what Taylor, Putri, and their collaborators have in store here.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKelli's Pick:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1667\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_ClR39cNBMw\/YYCveHwVTOI\/AAAAAAACXKA\/3_XoWSy5v9oT6GD2b2Y0Gj94IKaoM1jGQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w325-h400\/STL194067.jpg\" width=\"325\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong, published by Drawn and Quarterly\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Waiting is the follow up novel to Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s award winning graphic novel Grass.  Just like Grass it is a heart wrenching, somber and important read. It tells the story of families torn apart by war, of people separated forever, never knowing the fate of sisters, brothers, children, and parents.  The Waiting was inspired by the true story of Gendry-Kim’s mother who was separated from her older sister at the beginning of the Korean War.  All of Gendry-Kim’s mother’s family made it out of North Korea, but her sister missed the last train out of Pyongyang. And just like that her sister became a ghost. Graphic novels like the Waiting should be required reading, for me it hit as deeply, if not more so than wartime classics such as The Wars, A Diary of Anne Frank, and Obasan. Just make sure you have a box of Kleenex near by. \u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2039919071174165795"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2039919071174165795"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/11\/reading-comics-can-make-you-human.html","title":"Reading Comics can make you a Human Target! Catch Its November 3rd, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9REV5vV3r1o\/YXtHpqROIRI\/AAAAAAACXIo\/TeaiFMNfEbIhymBLffFZyQ0xRChmp-xCwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/large-8731616.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-5920714681162575499"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-28T14:15:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-28T14:15:21.565-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"halloween horror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rebellion"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Halloween Horror: Rebellion's Monster Fun Special is Just That: Fun!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i116plUlDzs\/YXdroLxIGVI\/AAAAAAAAOx0\/GdTbeIcwJ-owPNH6xG5C3l4GkRMoHr6mACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1016\/monster.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1016\" data-original-width=\"750\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i116plUlDzs\/YXdroLxIGVI\/AAAAAAAAOx0\/GdTbeIcwJ-owPNH6xG5C3l4GkRMoHr6mACLcBGAsYHQ\/w295-h400\/monster.jpg\" width=\"295\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMonster Fun Special:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWritten, Illustrated, and Lettered by Various Creators\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Rebellion\/2000AD\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ENot going to lie--I was a little skeptical about this Monster Fun Special. The cover looked like the kind of gross-out all ages humor that honestly just isn't my thing. Well, there's definitely some of that going on inside, but there's also great slapstick, clever short-shorts, and even a nice set of Easter eggs in the opening story.\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIt's hard to believe how much they packed into this special (20, I think if my math is right) and how many worked well. The special opens with a banger in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EFrankie Stein Monster of the Year\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(by Cavan Scott, John Lucas, Gary Caldwell, and Amber Cee). A really bumbling version of the creature ends up beating out his competition by being unintentionally scary via some awesome wordplay and physical comedy. It helps that that this one featured some very familiar Mad Scientists, no doubt hatching an evil scheme. Lucas did such a great job on the likeness, I picked up the reference based on the actor's signature grin alone. Combined with the ability to comedically exaggerate everything that Frankie does, this was definitely my favorite of the collection, and a great opener.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EOther stories I enjoyed included:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDraculass\u003C\/i\u003E (by Cavan Scott, Rositsa Vangelova, and Kay Nines), where a young vampiress thinks she's attacking humans in costume, but gets a rather nasty surprise. Vangelova's facial expressions are amazing on this one and it features my favorite line in the issue, \"Come back and face the music of the night!\" I literally laughed out loud\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETeddy Scare!\u003C\/i\u003E (by Maura McHugh, Steve May, and Ferre Schultz) features a mysterious market where items are more than they appear and a kid teased for being too childish gets to show the power of imagination (with a little help from magic!). May's style is very reminiscent to me of early 2000s Nickelodeon cartoons and it works well for the story being told.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETokoloshe \u003C\/i\u003E(by Ned Hartley, Juni Ba, and Leila Jess) is a great little mash-up of an old legend and modern woes, blending them into an awesome final panel that should probably be a meme. Ba packs more into two pages than some artists manage in ten, keeping everything together in a tight romp that hearkens back to things like Gremlins without feeling like a copy.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Lame Halloween\u003C\/i\u003E (by Doug Graves, Edward Whatley, and Pioro Dziob) tweaks the nose of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, featuring Batman\/Robin\/Batgirl analogues and even a cameo by a parody of Superman as they fight a Solomon Grundy-style villain who speaks potty humor doggerel while they fail to stop him by traditional means. Only thinking outside the boxer can save the city! This one definitely has a bunch of jokes that might land better with adults like me but the story itself is fun, and Whatley's art style is heroic, but in the \u003Ci\u003EMad Magazine\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;way. This would have felt right at home there.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWiz War\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(by Kek-W, Lew Stringer, and Kreig Zauberer) also evokes \u003Ci\u003EMad\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;to me, in a fight between wizards that reminded me of Spy vs Spy. Using different items in a magic store, the two duel to a comedic ending.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThose are just some of the treats and tricks in store for you. \u003Ci\u003EKid Kong\u003C\/i\u003E, where the protagonist tries to capture movie glory from a bygone era, had some great moments, and \u003Ci\u003ELeopard of Line Street \u003C\/i\u003Ewas a solid story that sets up more, even if it felt a little out of place among the jokes. That's the fun of so many stories--everyone will have their own favorites.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EMonster Fun Special\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a great way to close out my Halloween Horror selections, and if you haven't gotten your copy yet to read with your little ghouls (or even just yourself!), there's still plenty of time to snag a copy and enjoy!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5920714681162575499"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5920714681162575499"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/halloween-horror-rebellions-monster-fun.html","title":"Halloween Horror: Rebellion's Monster Fun Special is Just That: Fun!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i116plUlDzs\/YXdroLxIGVI\/AAAAAAAAOx0\/GdTbeIcwJ-owPNH6xG5C3l4GkRMoHr6mACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w295-h400-c\/monster.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-8217777198733115568"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-26T11:00:00.202-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-26T11:00:00.236-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AfterShock"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"yen press"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Never open your comics! Catch It's for October 27th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKelli's Pick:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"861\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFBd8nJ6G_E\/YWy5prUi3lI\/AAAAAAACXE0\/AQUS5UvoPmoWrj39_xSgN0Z5gT6ixewugCLcBGAsYHQ\/w279-h400\/IMG_0382.jpg\" width=\"279\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cb\u003ENever Open It:  The Taboo Trilogy,  art and words Ken Niimura, published by Yen Press \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Niimura’s Never Open It was announced by Yen Press in April, I’ve been waiting like a kid on Christmas Eve for the release date and it is finally here.  Niimura, who is based in Japan, has won a number of awards, including an Eisner for his work Umami and the Best International Manga award for I Kill Giants, a collaborative work with Joe Kelly.  Niimura has a whimsical, lyrical art style which is well suited to his current work, which is a retelling of traditional Japanese folktales.  His rendering in Never Open It kind of reminds me of Natsume Ono’s work [House of Five Leaves, Gente]. Folktales in any culture are usually cautionary and moralistic in nature.  Niimura twists the retelling of three well known tales by posing the questions: Who decides what is right and what is wrong? Why is certain behaviour considered taboo, and who are the rules meant for? I’m digging the limited pallet of black, white, grey and red. The images on his website from the novel are stunning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJames'\u0026nbsp;Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"923\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CX4YLiunFMM\/YXHBZ5PdstI\/AAAAAAACXGk\/wM04-776wiA4uytO3-1otSVzOG6mU3p_ACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/959620._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAdventureman #6 by Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAdventureman \u003C\/i\u003Ereturned not too long ago with an issue wrapping up the first arc. But, much to my delight, there is a NEW issue of \u003Ci\u003EAdventureman \u003C\/i\u003Ecoming this week! Why am I so excited? This is a series that really is everything I want in a comic book. There's action and adventure, great dialogue, stunningly gorgeous art. And most importantly, a sense of imagination and wonder, like this is a comic where anything can happen. And seriously, the art from Terry and Rachel Dodson is absolutely stunning. It's a world of beautiful architecture and beautiful people, and high stakes action and adventure. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1968\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dkrar6lyKq0\/YXHBadfdM3I\/AAAAAAACXGs\/ofMTkx8Ld7cepi6iOG_g0cdHVunhGXu2wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/961431._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFear Case TP by Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, and Hilary Jenkins, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFear Case\u003C\/i\u003E is a good Halloween read. It's a dark, creepy, terrifying story. There's a case that can cause terrible things to happen, that's been around for centuries, possibly millennia. Writer Matt Kindt and the art team of Tyler and Hilary Jenkins bring to life the weird, mysterious world of the Fear Case in this highly engaging 4-issue mini. Apparently the Fear Case is a mystery that the Secret Service has been trying to crack for a very long time. We join a new agent and a veteran as they dig deeper into the mystery of this weird case (and Case).\u003Cb\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1350\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JkL_0g49l1I\/YXMt_a2RunI\/AAAAAAACXHM\/gwqLW4VuxywPeF1itY2avDVjS2QAt9XhwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL202229.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlack Widow #12 by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI've loved the current Black Widow series. Writer Kelly Thompson has Natasha living in San Francisco, as she is dealing with the repercussions of the first arc of this series (where she had amnesia and she believed herself to be married with a son, who actually do exist but are not around right now - it gets confusing). Anyway, now she is out there super-heroing, and trying to do some good. Yelena Belova has been sticking around for a while, which is great, because she's a terrific character. I'm happy that Elena Casagrande is returning on art duties this issue. I've enjoyed all of the art in the series, but Casagrande is doing some next-level work with her action and panel design and gorgeous character work. It's a great book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"923\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xFiE0KIHs_Y\/YXHBZ2uIa0I\/AAAAAAACXGg\/J90o23xTUEcLMfSLMdAAJ_MDaZvnoyFRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h260\/959655._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEcholands #3 by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman, and Dave Stewart, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESpeaking of gorgeous art, \u003Ci\u003EEcholands \u003C\/i\u003Eis an absurdly gorgeous book. J.H. Williams and Dave Stewart are on overdrive with this story, which takes place in a weird, fantastical version of San Francisco which appears to contain people and beings from many different fictional realms. And so many of the different characters are drawn with different art and coloring styles. This book truly is a labor of love, as I can't even imagine the amount of work that goes into every single page. It also reads landscape, which works well with the weird, wonderful world of the story.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--l4R1X55aHE\/YXdqCMo0vpI\/AAAAAAACXHY\/looALaPc1_s5Tc1zT1E4pXho9YWxmCHSwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/STL195203.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDark Horse Book of Horror by Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, Kurt Busiek, Sean Phillips, P. Craig Russell and many, many others, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHellboy shorts! The start of Beasts of Burden! A whole bunch of other hidden gems are included here in this collection of shorter anthologies that I devoured when they first came out. (I'll even \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2009\/01\/dark-horse-book-of-hauntings.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Elink you to one of the old reviews\u003C\/a\u003E--please forgive how awful it is!) This is a great idea for a reprint, as it's some of the best short-form storytelling I'd seen collected. I'm so glad to see these back in the public eye.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"930\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-K0h53TZ5JZw\/YXdqCG9ETLI\/AAAAAAACXHg\/T13amAFy_Bwwt2OZbVSa6HAAJ7kKjaBkQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w258-h400\/STL189775.jpg\" width=\"258\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENuclear Family Volume 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Tony Shasteen, JD Mettler, and Troy Peteri, published by Aftershock\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPhilip K Dick's ability to blend science fiction into the paranoia of American society is just about second to none. He had more to say in a short story like \"Breakfast at Twilight\" (on which this is based) than many people can manage across their entire creative life. With Phillips, Shasteen, and company at the helm, Dick's story about the world changing around an ordinary family, while on a different subject of fear, rings incredibly true about our own, current fears--and reactions to those fears. Shasteen keeps the pace moving with a lot of action lines and some truly terrifying depictions. It's a cautionary tale that echoes throughout the decades, from Dick's time to ours.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1171\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wcPUq-m_Eg8\/YXdqCI2RstI\/AAAAAAACXHc\/k3zMXQ28_D8QaorIJ23wOACWd2NjFQYDwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL202463.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHellboy: The Silver Lantern Club #1 by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Ben Stenbeck, Christopher Mitten, Michelle Madsen, and Clem Robbins, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESpeaking of Hellboy, it's always fun to get new stories from a re-invigorated Mike Mignola, working with Panel Pal Chris Roberson and a clever framing devise. Shocking no one, Hellboy is happy to sit down and listen to stories of the Silver Lantern Club told by one of its members and linking some of the pieces of Mignola's ever-expanding universe. This time, the spirits (like almost all my music and probably over half of my comics) have gone electronic, and for people in the early 20th century, that's arguably more terrifying than traditional demons. It's a cool idea, illustrated handily by Mitten, with Stenbeck doing the frame sections. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8217777198733115568"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8217777198733115568"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/never-open-your-comics-catch-its-for.html","title":"Never open your comics! Catch It's for October 27th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFBd8nJ6G_E\/YWy5prUi3lI\/AAAAAAACXE0\/AQUS5UvoPmoWrj39_xSgN0Z5gT6ixewugCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w279-h400-c\/IMG_0382.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-3248234352887541064"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-25T11:00:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-25T11:00:00.292-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aditya bidikar"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chip zdarsky"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"comixology"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"halloween horror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jason loo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"paris alleyne"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Halloween Horror: Afterlift's Art Keeps It from Accelerating"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rrYrHTi-eE8\/YXC63520K6I\/AAAAAAAAOxg\/2p15m9Q2HjkevSPuvyJUDR9t0GhGfHxWACLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/after.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1332\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rrYrHTi-eE8\/YXC63520K6I\/AAAAAAAAOxg\/2p15m9Q2HjkevSPuvyJUDR9t0GhGfHxWACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/after.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAfterlift\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWritten by Chip Zdarsky\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EArt by Jason Loo and Paris Alleyne\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELetters by Aditya Bidikar\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Comixology (Digital) and Dark Horse (Print)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA young woman who struggles with her own inner demons finds herself face to face with the real thing when she gets caught up in a race to control the soul of a recent suicide in a fast-paced adventure that has a lot of Zdarsky hallmarks, which isn't a bad thing.\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChip likes to look at the idea of personal hangups and explore them in different ways. In this case, it's about Janice thinking about how she caused problems in her family and can't let them go, and how trauma impacted her, her father, and her mother in different ways. Using the idea of being trapped in hell -- or just unable to get into heaven -- because of the guilt holding you back is a great metaphor for how guilty feelings can make it hard for us to move on in real life. That's a great idea from a great writer. Zdarsky always seems to find a way to make the stories seem different from each other, even as the themes are recurring. Not all creators are able to to manage this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Janice, we find a person we can easily relate to. She's told she isn't doing enough with her life, even as she's making the best of the current economy. Her customers can be complete dicks, and maybe even dangerous. She has to hustle just to keep her life together. When you add in the trauma surrounding the family tragedy, it makes for a compelling character. Janice also does a great job of realistic disbelief in the fantastic situation she's in, then trying to seize what control she can by refusing to just follow the requests of the demons who, by all right, should paralyze her with fear. It's an amazing character arc, right up to the final scene with her father.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, with respect to the artists, I just didn't care for the style of this comic at all, finding it at odds with the script and setting. The design of the demons is pedestrian, for example. Loo doesn't stray far from the typical hell playbook, which mars an awesome opportunity. No two people think of hell exactly the same. It's a chance for an artist to cut loose. Instead, we get figures that could have appeared in any other comic set in the circles. The details just aren't there, either. I was left wanting more. The facial expressions were what bothered me the most, because they're the most easily controlled. At the very least, characters need to emote in some way, and Loo's simply do not do it strongly enough for the strained situation they find themselves in, demon and human alike.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rrYrHTi-eE8\/YXC63520K6I\/AAAAAAAAOxk\/buUHWlGMLlk9-HnSCNU7Cl6tgVYbyS1mACPcBGAYYCw\/s2048\/after.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1332\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rrYrHTi-eE8\/YXC63520K6I\/AAAAAAAAOxk\/buUHWlGMLlk9-HnSCNU7Cl6tgVYbyS1mACPcBGAYYCw\/w416-h640\/after.jpg\" width=\"416\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cover is a perfect example--Janice is trying to fend off a demon horse and two cars with fire all around them. The setup is terrifying. But Janice looks like she's about to attempt to merge in traffic while her passengers have their eyes shut and closed mouths.\u0026nbsp; This should have them scared for their lives or curious as to what's happening or something, \u003Ci\u003Eanything\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;other than what we see, which is better suited for a slice of life comic. It's a missed opportunity to show the action going on in the plot and to draw attention in a crowded comics market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESometimes linework that's struggling a bit to provide details can be aided by the color artist, but that's not the case here, either. The colorist's overall palette is a series of red-orange and blue-purple that lacks crispness. Sharpening the focus of the color would have gone a long way toward emphasizing the expressions we do see, or perhaps given some extra detailing to the backgrounds and characters. Unfortunately, the choices made by Paris Alleyne highlight what's missing instead of concealing them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another story, this combination would have worked, perhaps even excelled. But for a story with horror and thriller elements, it drags down the overall feel of the comic for me. Still, I liked this enough to move it into \"give this a try\" territory, since I don't typically do reviews of comics I disliked. Even with some flaws, Janice and her heroine's journey is one we'd all do best to heed.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/3248234352887541064"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/3248234352887541064"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/halloween-horror-afterlifts-art-keeps.html","title":"Halloween Horror: Afterlift's Art Keeps It from Accelerating"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rrYrHTi-eE8\/YXC63520K6I\/AAAAAAAAOxg\/2p15m9Q2HjkevSPuvyJUDR9t0GhGfHxWACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/after.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-5819984212375403796"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-21T11:00:00.011-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-21T11:00:00.298-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aditya bidikar"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"all-ages"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cat Ferris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cullen Bunn"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"halloween horror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"harper collins"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"horror comics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Halloween Horror: Everyone Should Love the All-Ages Ghoul Next Door"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uDq-Etp1cQg\/YWsN_8Y8suI\/AAAAAAAAOw4\/VZl30g0jDL0TS7oS0VR5R0-tlA0tv3f3gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/ghoul.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1365\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uDq-Etp1cQg\/YWsN_8Y8suI\/AAAAAAAAOw4\/VZl30g0jDL0TS7oS0VR5R0-tlA0tv3f3gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/ghoul.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECreated by Cullen Bunn and Cat Ferris\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELetters by Aditya Bidikar\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Harper Collins\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E9780062896100\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EGrey lives in Ander's Landing, and it's haunted. At least Grey is pretty sure it's haunted. Turns out he's right, and soon finds he has a stalker of the supernatural kind. And while his phantom friend turns out to be a benevolent ghoul, their relationship is deadly dangerous for Grey. Before long, Grey's caught up in an underworld he never knew existed containing its own private horrors in an awesome collaboration from two creators I've been following for a long time, Cullen Bunn and Cat Ferris.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E2021 has been the year of Cullen Bunn, as the man has worked on some awesome stuff this year. He's already almost certainly hitting my favorites list at least once, and his name is all over my short and long list as it stands right now with a few months to go. What's really impressive to me is his versatility as a horror writer. \u003Ci\u003EGhoul Next Door\u003C\/i\u003E couldn't be more different from \u003Ci\u003EHarrow County\u003C\/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003EShadowman\u003C\/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003EBone Parish\u003C\/i\u003E, and each of those were unique in their own right.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EPart of what makes Bunn so versatile as a creator is his ability to make his protagonist someone you want to care about. We immediately understand Grey; he's a little bit every friend we comics reading types every had combined with a little bit of ourselves, too. At the same time, he's the prototypical Everyman, tossed into some weird, scary crap. But Bunn makes sure he's not a cardboard cutout, using his skills as a writer of some of the best dialog in comics to give his creation life.* All of the characters get a lot of great lines as the story progresses and their bantering back and forth times out perfectly, especially when things go wrong for Grey as he attempts to navigate the worlds. There's definitely some tongue in cheek work going on at times, and while with other writers it falls flat, Bunn's love of the genre always makes it work.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EPaired with Ferris, a Helioscope Studios creator (Cat gleefully packs in several cameos of work from her friends were in a great Easter egg), whose artistic style nails the tone here, Bunn is able to combine with her to tell an all ages story that really works for any reader. Ferris's watercolor-like work keeps things from looking too perfect and really sings when it's time to make things shadowy or ominous because of the blending tones. It also means the colors pop a bit more. Her designs on the ghouls themselves are positively creepy. They really look like desperate souls who shuffle their way through life, a pale echo of the living humans they live beneath. With a bit more gore, they could easily live (unlive?) in an adult title, but Ferris ensures she keeps the line balanced just right.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dlin5-0JoeE\/YWsPX9sPZDI\/AAAAAAAAOxA\/Gh54jI1Vs4otJchwVPdO4RoZbkyS-GToACLcBGAsYHQ\/s862\/ghoul%2B2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"862\" data-original-width=\"625\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dlin5-0JoeE\/YWsPX9sPZDI\/AAAAAAAAOxA\/Gh54jI1Vs4otJchwVPdO4RoZbkyS-GToACLcBGAsYHQ\/w464-h640\/ghoul%2B2.jpg\" width=\"464\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E(That being said, some of the scenes with skeletons everywhere might make this a bit too scary for the younger end of the age range, unless they were like me, watching horror movie after horror movie the second my mother fell asleep on the couch. Even I had a few \"ooh, that's creepy!\" moments when we're down in the land of the dead and the undead.)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFerris' art on these pages is some of the best of her career. The panel structure is phenomenal, like when the final villain shows up despite Grey's best efforts and looms over everyone or the way she choses to place Grey across the panels, keeping him off-balance and showing his lack of control by not being the center of very many pages. Almost no panel is a straight-on view, not even when we're just hangingout with Grey's family. You can pick up on the vibes of the story from her artistic cues. Bunn is so good as a writer that he can make any artist work for him. But when he's got a collaborator who really understands what he's going for, such as Ferris or Tyler Crook, his work takes on another gear. That's the case here, as the close work between the two shows off on every panel.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-I30cCItKoVc\/YWsPjLDPGHI\/AAAAAAAAOxE\/ErvHrW6DRZs2Q08QMmbvGGVx0k5MTqaWwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/ghoul%2B1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1365\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-I30cCItKoVc\/YWsPjLDPGHI\/AAAAAAAAOxE\/ErvHrW6DRZs2Q08QMmbvGGVx0k5MTqaWwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w426-h640\/ghoul%2B1.jpg\" width=\"426\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe two do an excellent job of pacing the story and keeping the reader moving from page to page. After setting up that Grey is an ordinary kid with typical kid problems, we move fast into the ghoul making his life a bit harder with her gifts, then the next thing you know, he's in the cemetery with his friend, getting spooked by rats and ending up smack dab in the middle of a world he didn't know existed--and might be better off not ever really knowing, since it looks pretty likely that he's not going to make it out of the world of ghouls with his flesh attached.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThat's where this story really works. All-ages books tend to keep the stakes on the lower side because they don't want to upset anyone. The best ones, however, like Ben Hatke's \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EZita the Spacegirl\u003C\/span\u003E, ensure that the losses or potentially losses are real, pushing the envelope of what's safe. I won't spoil here what the costs are this time, but they aren't small, and while the ending is happier than an adult horror book, it's not exactly smiles all around, either.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ESwitching easily from the human world to that of the ghouls, Ferris keeps things grounded visually while Bidikar's lettering makes Bunn's lines of dialogue crisp and easy to read, working with the art to lead the reader's eyes down the page. If Ferris shows Grey going down a staircase or trailing off into another room, Bidikar places the balloons accordingly. That's the kind of thing that makes the difference between a good letterer and a great one and helps make a book even better.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Ghoul Next Door\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a perfect book for the season, but is also a great gift for that younger reader in your life who can't get enough scary things, especially if they keep trying to use your Shudder account after you drift off to bed. It's a great story with great art--and, if the Ouija Board I used the other day is correct (or maybe it was Twitter, they're about equally as dangerous to your eternal soul), I think we'll be seeing more Grey and his world soon. I can't wait!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E*Yeah, that's a gratuitous reference. Deal with it.\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5819984212375403796"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5819984212375403796"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/halloween-horror-everyone-should-love.html","title":"Halloween Horror: Everyone Should Love the All-Ages Ghoul Next Door"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uDq-Etp1cQg\/YWsN_8Y8suI\/AAAAAAAAOw4\/VZl30g0jDL0TS7oS0VR5R0-tlA0tv3f3gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w266-h400-c\/ghoul.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2035498835858892788"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-19T11:00:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-19T11:37:15.915-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"oni press"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"valiant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"viz"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Destroying Monsters is Engaging Work: Catch It's for October 20th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"938\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_7dbe_5560_d378_99c1\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SAta5kSj9G0\/YWjLkDz4TAI\/AAAAAAACXDQ\/c2WXA2GM9wQ8Lx5XgQMsqEhexKe986C2wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w313-h400\/CTWLC_Cv1_Main_60e76d88a983c2.37921344.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 313px;\" width=\"313\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECatwoman: Lonely City #1 by Cliff Chiang, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECliff Chiang is one of those artists where I will check out literally anything he does. His work is that compelling and meaningful to me. Chiang has a gorgeous, distinct style that is incredibly accessible and inviting. The closest parallels I can think of is a slightly-more Manga influenced Fiona Staples (so, incredibly high praise). His work on \u003Ci\u003EWonder Woman\u003C\/i\u003E, and even more so on \u003Ci\u003EPaper Girls\u003C\/i\u003E, was absolutely legendary. Not surprisingly then, I’m so excited for this series. It’s Cliff Chiang writing *and* drawing, which is all I need to know. The story is about Catwoman, and appears to involve an older Catwoman. What I’ve seen so far looks amazing, and I’m thrilled to see Chiang make his debut as a writer. He’s an incredible visual storyteller, so I have no doubt that this will be excellent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_26df_c666_c55_5200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-J3gBPX-KL18\/YWjLkoqXCkI\/AAAAAAACXDc\/KmaQk5KLdo0vM-M6OQWzYp68c7u38w6QACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL189793.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 260px;\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDestroy All Monsters: by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of books I have no doubt will excellent, the third “\u003Ci\u003EReckless\u003C\/i\u003E” book from excellent writer Ed Brubaker and the incomparable Sean Phillips (on art) comes out this week, with colors by Jacob Phillips (a talented artist in his own right). I’ve really enjoyed the first two books in this series. They are a series of stories involving Ethan Reckless (fantastic name) who solves problems for other people and deals with problems and baggage from his own life and history. I love all of the stories set in the “\u003Ci\u003ECriminal\u003C\/i\u003E” Universe, but I’m also glad that Phillips and Brubaker are trying to tell different sorts of stories as well. This is also a crime story, but it has a different feel to it than “Criminal” stories. Ethan has a dark past, but he isn’t quite as much one of their classic doomed protagonists. The art is unsurprisingly gorgeous, with the seedy 80’s LA setting brought to vivid life. If you enjoy crime stories, or, you know, stories, you should be reading this book.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1317\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_a34d_2280_d057_3af4\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CesI22bHmpc\/YWjLkVIdcTI\/AAAAAAACXDY\/HEhgPob46Mkk2u_fCBzhXsEsq1fjB9QmACLcBGAsYHQ\/w258-h400\/91GYEjzia1L.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 258px;\" width=\"258\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFar Sector TP by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFar Sector\u003C\/i\u003E is an excellent sci-fi series set in the DC universe, but only nominally. It involves a city with a billion people, and a murder investigation conducted by a Green Lantern from Earth. I started this series and really enjoyed it, but decided I’d rather read it once it’s collected. It’s a really smart, intriguing murder mystery set in a location that is as alien to the lead character as it is to us. Jemisin is an award-winning sci-fi writer, and while I haven’t read her books, she’s clearly an incredibly talented writer, telling a complex, layered story. The art from Jamal Campbell is absolutely stunning. Really, he’s doing incredible work here. And the great news is that you really don’t need any familiarity with the current state of the DC universe in order to enjoy this story.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1186\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_9882_ed1_49b_df69\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-k6s7efJQsEw\/YWjMspscyDI\/AAAAAAACXDs\/9UI3HHuwwEgbcGLd20g1P8cgltHOVr7HACLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL200467.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 264px;\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBryan Edward                   Hill,            Priscilla Petraites and Marco Lesko, published by AWA Studios \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPut on some Vangelis, Eurythmics, or Depeche Mode, and journey with me into the land of \u003Ci\u003EChariot\u003C\/i\u003E. This series (a super fun story from Bryan Edward Hill) mostly takes place in the present day, but it evokes the style and feel of the 1980’s, with beautiful women, stylish cars, and just the right artistic touches. There’s a hyper-intelligent car that basically has someone’s consciousness inside of it, and it’s an amazing car that can do remarkable things. And it’s found by a guy that’s down on his luck. And…all sorts of adventures ensue. This story (with terrific, stylish art from Priscilla Petraites and colors by Marco Lesko) feels like an 80’s B-movie, in the best possible way. The creative team really channels the whole synth pop vibe in a fun and engaging story. So grab your aviator glasses and your pastel suit jacket with the sleeves rolled up, and check out \u003Ci\u003EChariot\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" id=\"id_14d2_c225_734_6889\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LU1vA4ho-iA\/YWjLkR3oQ2I\/AAAAAAACXDU\/PEbtqd9IrYobvECZvar1Am66qNOTELSqgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL186963.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; width: 260px;\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDepartment of Truth vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, and Aditya Bidikar, published by Image Comics\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDepartment of Truth\u003C\/i\u003E is a big, ambitious, popular series that, as far as I’m concerned, lives up to all of the hype (my review \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/11\/department-of-truth-issues-1-3-by-james.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). Writer James Tyrion is really interrogating the concepts of truth, media, belief, and ideas in this story. In this endeavor he has remarkable artistic partners in Martin Simmonds, letterer Aditya Bidikar, and designer Dylan Todd. Simmonds is doing career-defining work in this book (though I will not be surprised when he goes on to even greater heights). His art is weird and jagged and unsettling, along with just being remarkable storytelling. There have been some talented guest artists as well (like Elsa Charretier), which have made this book a real treat to read. A weird, mind-bending treat, but delightful nonetheless.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0L023JU5Osc\/YWysrUgkHqI\/AAAAAAACXEg\/H2J1RhS1YhEjnW1PXljJiKcmkDr84K86QCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL159106.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EShadowman Vol 1 TP by Cullen Bunn, John Davis-Hunt, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles, published by Valiant\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ESometimes it takes a monster to kill a bigger monster. At least that's what Jack hopes. He uses his ties to the Loa to try and find a way to keep the horrors he encounters daily from ripping humanity apart. Things are getting really strange, though, as now the manipulative Baron is supposedly helping him, but that Loa has an agenda all his own. After being battered by seemingly every spirit imaginable, some of whom think they're doing what's best, Jack is faced with the knowledge that maybe, just maybe, he's been going about things the wrong way all along. It's a total mind-messing masterpiece, with Bunn delighting in pretending the Baron is telling this story, not him in the classic EC horror style. Meanwhile Davis-Hunt and Bellaire just kill the art here. They're a killer combo that easily shift between the mundane world and Jack's world of Loas. It's terrifying beauty that makes Bunn's script sing.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1725\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dcpQgqCAGgI\/YWysrWo_YnI\/AAAAAAACXEc\/axbeHJsq4-8IcD3B1x3AeHMTpa7KZFPTQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w279-h400\/STL189820.jpg\" width=\"279\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAsadora Volume 4 by Naoki Urasawa, published by Viz\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIt took me awhile to get my hands on Asadora, and boy was it ever worth the wait! Continuing the theme of monsters, Asa tries to keep her life moving, even tagging along with a friend to go to an audition, which is never any fun for the person who isn't reading lines. But that strange creature whose footprint devastated her world won't let go, and with a new sighting and new possibilities, she's off and running to try and stop it once and for all--if she can. When you decide to read Urasawa, you have to be in it for the long haul, as he sets up a mystery page by page. This is really getting good and I can't wait to see where it goes, with engaging, flawed characters and art that's extremely distinctive. It's definitely in the Japanese style, but there's elements of Buscema in there, too.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1349\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YaIxc1-pd4w\/YWysra-xLxI\/AAAAAAACXEk\/TD6jFJg7yPkecoBfUDafhJn3fP1sVcwlwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL194620.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EShort Order Crooks by Christopher Sebela,\u0026nbsp;George Kambadais, Lesley Atlansky, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, published by Oni Press\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ERock runs a food cart, but he's struggling. When the people who control the Portland food cart scene put the screws to him, he's faced with moving from criminal markups to being a criminal, with his new assistant Harper dragged along for the ride even as she tries to make Rock's food more Hipster Portland friendly. Not going to lie, I think this one shines a bit more if you live in Portland, where food carts are bigger than anywhere else I've ever lived. But Sebela's comedic timing that mixes with dead serious crime works for anyone, and Kambadis's linework is always good to see. Order a few street tacos and pull this one off the shelves.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKelli's Pick:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8o6u30Z0eAw\/YWysJWYOB2I\/AAAAAAACXEU\/AzlFF06SdQcOeOO_s573c14POjs7gVVaACLcBGAsYHQ\/w280-h400\/no-5-vol-2-9781974720774_hr.jpg\" width=\"280\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENo. 5, art \u0026amp; words Taiyo Matsumoto.  Published by Viz Media  \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  We get a bit of backstory with volume 2, which is great, because this story is incredibly confusing. I would describe the plot as nebulous, so nebulous in fact one could ask, is there a plot?  Basically there are a bunch of super humans, who appear to have been created by an organization that has yet to be named.  They were part of the military, but now that the world is essentially at peace, they have lost their purpose.  One member of this group, No.5 has gone rogue, kidnapping a girl and killing anyone who comes near them, including his former team members. As the story continues in this second instalment, No.4, a pair psychic twins attempt to dissuade No.5  from continuing on his journey with the kidnapped Matryoshka.  They enter his mind pulling him into an alternate reality. This volume also digs into the past of other team members, including No.1 the team leader, and colonel Victor and Nazarov.  As confusing as it all is, there is something about the story that just su\u003Cspan face=\"Avenir-Book\"\u003Ecks you in. I am still along for the ride, even if it is a little meandering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2035498835858892788"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2035498835858892788"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/destroying-monsters-is-engaging-work.html","title":"Destroying Monsters is Engaging Work: Catch It\u0026#39;s for October 20th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SAta5kSj9G0\/YWjLkDz4TAI\/AAAAAAACXDQ\/c2WXA2GM9wQ8Lx5XgQMsqEhexKe986C2wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w313-h400-c\/CTWLC_Cv1_Main_60e76d88a983c2.37921344.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2394689478965058158"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-18T11:00:00.065-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-18T11:00:00.262-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"halloween horror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"horror comics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"horror manga"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"manga"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"manga-seinen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"q hayashida"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"seven seas"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Halloween Horror: Dai Dark is Gloriously Drawn, Over-the-Top Murderfest"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1000\" data-original-width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FipSn-3HjjY\/YWjgu3Nq5XI\/AAAAAAAAOwc\/oUrbPgoCsGkXs7Mg209BbBkStK6kwINygCLcBGAsYHQ\/w280-h400\/dai.jpg\" width=\"280\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDai Dark Volume 1\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eby Q Hayashida\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPublished by Seven Seas\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EA young man is cursed to have special bones, but the bright side is that he can utilize powerful dark powers to keep people at bay who literally want to skin him alive and get to the treasure inside.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIt's irreverent as all hell, completely over the top, and just a plain old murderfest.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurprising absolutely no one, I loved it.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EI make no bones, as it were, about my love of stories that are, above all, fun. From start to finish, this opening volume is all about the joy to be had in following this guy who can do just about anything he wishes to defend himself and rips people's skeletons out when he's finished. We aren't discussing the morality of killing, the trauma of the experience, or anything like that. That's for a different comic. It might get a few pages or panels, but the focus here is on how much murder we can fit per chapter, ramping up the violence as we go along.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHayashida's art is great for this. There's lots of details within the gore, too. Sometimes a book like this gets very sloppy with the linework. The creator will use blood and flying body parts to cover up the fact that they didn't really establish any strong perspective or intricate details and people's shapes are left unfinished. Backgrounds turn into nothing but action lines. Even if you like the story, you might want to Bleach your eyes at times.*\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThat's not the case here. Among the punches, evil axes, and various other ways to kill people, Hayashida finds a way to make everything look so intricate that it could be an artistic work that people would write reams of paper about. Given the subject matter, it's a little less likely to get that kind of ink, but it's deserved. The thin, scratchy but not scribbled lines make all the skeletons, ghouls and death's head imagery that Q uses really pop.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1824\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rgl9AC3UMlg\/YWjkce2iNkI\/AAAAAAAAOwk\/S2U2z83ZJX84isrscQHhyV__HNygS6hEQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w450-h640\/dark%2B1.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThis is a series that opens with a 3-headed space pirate captain. You know you're in for some zany shit, which as I said is the biggest draw for me. But look at how each head is slightly different. Notice the detailing on the dead(?) spaceman they're investigating. Check out the framing of each panel. There's a lot going on here, and this is just early on. A later spread is nothing but slayed skeletons, arranged so that the reader's eye gets to see the pattern, the details, and the sheer carnage. Despite the premise, Dai Dark is very creative artistically, just like a well-directed slasher flick. Hell, I liked the black and white art so much,\u0026nbsp;I actually preferred it to the color openings. (Sorry, I know they're expensive to reproduce!)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThere's so much to enjoy here, if it's your thing to enjoy items like a death monster who only kills in round numbers, gloriously expounding upon it as it rips people apart. That's pure poetry for me! Another character announces how they'll murder you, including \"death by poking.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EDai Dark, as I said above, isn't for everyone. But if you enjoy incredibly tightly drawn mass murder, make sure you buy this book. It's a clinic on how to do a great gorefest!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E*I kid because I love. Well, until I eventually gave up on the meandering story...\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2394689478965058158"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2394689478965058158"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/halloween-horror-dai-dark-is-gloriously.html","title":"Halloween Horror: Dai Dark is Gloriously Drawn, Over-the-Top Murderfest"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FipSn-3HjjY\/YWjgu3Nq5XI\/AAAAAAAAOwc\/oUrbPgoCsGkXs7Mg209BbBkStK6kwINygCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w280-h400-c\/dai.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2475003723282209928"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-12T11:00:00.025-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-12T13:21:16.713-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"viz"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Catch It's for October 13th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Pick:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IJdaII-ohnM\/YWTM3Rga5vI\/AAAAAAACW24\/2bl2NoGtIPMVDFV6T6ysOO59X5BeDpUMwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/STL201579.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMarvel Meow by Nao Fuji, published by VIZ\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENo one cares that Captain Marvel's \"cat\" isn't really a cat, because the idea of it being a cat is so awesome. The idea inspired Fuji, who worked with Marvel to create a series of Instagram comics for their feed. They became such a big hit, he got to rework and expand them, and now Viz is putting them out for those of us who think reading comics on an ipad is bleeding edge technology. There are bits featuring Spidey (of course), Iron Man, Deadpool (read it anyway), and even Thanos and Galactus(!). I've only seen a few of these, but they're adorable as all hell, funny gag-strip work, and the heroes look really good--better than I expected, actually. (Not because of the artist, but because I was expecting more of a twee approach.)\u0026nbsp; these comics are sure to be a hit with the comics\/cats Venn diagram, which is basically just two circles overtop each other, right?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1400\" data-original-width=\"1799\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AkICccor1TM\/YWTMjgI598I\/AAAAAAACW2s\/unM9uihfbqULUK2WUA7ICTZayhnh7-3jwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h311\/STL202272.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EImmortal Hulk #50 by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe end of \u003Ci\u003EImmortal Hulk. \u003C\/i\u003EIt really feels like the end of an era. Over the past number of years, \u003Ci\u003EImmortal Hulk\u003C\/i\u003E has not only been Marvel's most consistently great book, but it's just been a remarkable, intelligent, insightful, weird, horrifying, disgusting, ride. Al Ewing and an amazing collection of artists (primarily Joe Bennett) have done incredible work in delving deep into the psyche of the Hulk, and his allies, and his enemies. They've also explored the gamma, and all of the weird, dark, terrifying places that the gamma taps into. It's an incredible run. I'm sad to see it end, but I'll be thrilled to revisit it, again and again.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1171\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-auL_Y597WT8\/YWTMsPIi0II\/AAAAAAACW2w\/bsGSisxSc20CftE3aBUMZiBatbhkPtWjACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL202620.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMazebook #2 by Jeff Lemire, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIf Jeff Lemire is writing and drawing his a comic, you can pretty much guarantee it's going to be a must-read. The works that he fully handles as a cartoonist are among his most emotional, dramatic, and personal works. In \u003Ci\u003EMazebook \u003C\/i\u003ELemire is wrestling with unthinkable tragedy and the idea of being able to still connect with loved ones once they are gone. Lemire continues to evolve as a cartoonist, and in Mazebook his work is better than ever. It's weird and layered and complex. This is the story of a father who thinks that his late daughter's puzzles are the key to unraveling a mystery that relates to her, and that she might still be alive. It's already a heartbreaking read, and a special book. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2475003723282209928"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2475003723282209928"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/catch-its-for-october-13th-2021.html","title":"Catch It's for October 13th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IJdaII-ohnM\/YWTM3Rga5vI\/AAAAAAACW24\/2bl2NoGtIPMVDFV6T6ysOO59X5BeDpUMwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/STL201579.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2712019156432304749"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-11T11:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-11T11:00:00.261-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"admin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Help Us Improve Panel Patter!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EHi Folks!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the site moves into its 14th year, which I can hardly believe, it's time to ask our readers what we can do to maybe do the unheard of and go another 14 years or more!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeBR6DiiOChzHi4y5-w5Kf-lmjxlMpotUBGH1c87ImIBOv1OQ\/viewform?vc=0\u0026amp;c=0\u0026amp;w=1\u0026amp;flr=0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EYou can take our survey here!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's hard to keep anything going this long, let alone a site that's entirely volunteers. I am completely and utterly humbled by this, and I can't thank everyone who's ever helped keep the site going, year in and year out. Contributors, Creators, and Readers alike--you've all helped make this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThank you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow let's go be even better!!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E-Rob\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HLT5vASYjQQ\/YWOda_gFU6I\/AAAAAAAAOv4\/pLz1dnYMf1USbPwNIqBT-5BRgwcvOOsswCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/PXL_20210911_224734748.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HLT5vASYjQQ\/YWOda_gFU6I\/AAAAAAAAOv4\/pLz1dnYMf1USbPwNIqBT-5BRgwcvOOsswCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/PXL_20210911_224734748.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2712019156432304749"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2712019156432304749"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/help-us-improve-panel-patter.html","title":"Help Us Improve Panel Patter!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HLT5vASYjQQ\/YWOda_gFU6I\/AAAAAAAAOv4\/pLz1dnYMf1USbPwNIqBT-5BRgwcvOOsswCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/PXL_20210911_224734748.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-7089508168684273976"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-05T11:00:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-05T13:52:15.353-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"boom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Halloween Horror: Scary Stories at the Comic Shop for October 6th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"923\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TO1oSnlssxY\/YVulqKTzYDI\/AAAAAAACVr4\/Q95gQoIGuMIgaZGJV0YXFEJlq5Ix7JwFQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/TST_Cv8_00811_DIGITAL_6155fd1f7aa2e4.15881420.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Swamp Thing #8 by Ram V, Mike Perkins, and Mike Spicer, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've really enjoyed this most recent \u003Ci\u003ESwamp Thing\u003C\/i\u003E series. It's about a different person turning into the titular character (not Alex Holland); Ram V brings to this story the great mix of horror and colonialism and industry that he brought to These Savage Shores. And Mike Perkins does some of my favorite work I've seen from him, with wonderfully atmospheric colors from Mike Spicer. It's grounded but also weird and scary and unsettling. The Suicide Squad are involved now in the story as well, but this is still a story very focused on the new Swamp Thing (Levi Kamei), and his own life and legacy and the legacy of the character. It's great work.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1920\" data-original-width=\"1249\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iFBkbrNIzsk\/YVumYa519oI\/AAAAAAACVsA\/fexlF-8NONs4yX-_Xu0qgQKBXKuS-ySJwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/0821DC162.webp\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Nice House on the Lake #5 by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno, published by DC Comics\/Black Label\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis  book is so good, and so terrifying, but not for the reasons you might  think a book called \"The Nice House on the Lake\" is terrifying. You  might picture some sort of Friday the 13th slasher-type story, and that  could not be further from what this story is. I don't want to give away  anything abut this story, except to say that it is fantastic, and James  Tynion is firing on all cylinders right now with 3 different, excellent  non-superhero books (this one, \u003Ci\u003ESomething is Killing the Children\u003C\/i\u003E, and \u003Ci\u003EDepartment of Truth\u003C\/i\u003E) (links to my reviews \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/10\/review-something-is-killing-children-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere \u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2020\/11\/department-of-truth-issues-1-3-by-james.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;  He's got an incredible read on the zeitgeist, as his books feel  incredibly timely and topical and relevant for all sorts of depressing  reasons. The art from Alvaro Martinez Bueno is absolutely stunning. I  didn't know his work before but now I will absolutely want to seek it  out.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"733\" data-original-width=\"477\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EHJTU8wUYzM\/YVxIslVT05I\/AAAAAAACVsQ\/oLT6Yv-8oNs34lyqsVS5hwgpXqX0QDFdQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL193847.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAbbott 1973 by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela, Mattia Iacono, and Jim Campbell, published by Boom! Studios\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGoing to quote myself here, because honestly I can't really say it any better in a short space:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EChange is in the air in Detroit, but not everyone got the memo, as Abbott finds herself threatened once again by the Umbra--as well as her new boss--in the eagerly awaited sequel to the first series. The art doesn't miss a beat here, with the strong, innovative linework of Kivela making every page visually interesting, aided and abetted by Iacono's coloring, which helps us see when Abbott is in danger--even if she can't. The series once again is a clinic on storytelling and working with the art team to really make things pop. Ahmed's writing is as sharp as ever, and his depiction of what happens to Abbott--as well as her own fears about being bisexual--really shines here.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"976\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-00ZZ_-vF2X4\/YVxIshovM8I\/AAAAAAACVsM\/PnPEIXopvvksmxpQVe9xMlcm_MN3iSXNQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL189798.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENocterra Vol 1 by, by Scott Snyder, Tony S. Daniel and Tomeu Morey, published by Image\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIn world with no sunlight and where darkness makes people monsters, Val tries for the moon to save her brother Em in a team-up of Batman creators that works extremely well. This future is bleak, but Daniel makes it work despite his style tending more towards the slick line of superheroes. Meanwhile, Snyder shows how good he is in the horror genre. The monsters are scary as all hell and Snyder keeps the pace moving. Can't wait to see what Snyder does with his new digs with Comixology!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/7089508168684273976"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/7089508168684273976"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/10\/halloween-horror-scary-stories-at-comic.html","title":"Halloween Horror: Scary Stories at the Comic Shop for October 6th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TO1oSnlssxY\/YVulqKTzYDI\/AAAAAAACVr4\/Q95gQoIGuMIgaZGJV0YXFEJlq5Ix7JwFQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/TST_Cv8_00811_DIGITAL_6155fd1f7aa2e4.15881420.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-8835020123339634325"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-28T11:00:00.024-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-28T11:00:00.321-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"humanoids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Comics are an Adventure, man! Catch It's for September 29th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xAjTM5ahSq8\/YVDkWWqJ6oI\/AAAAAAACVqo\/ja1tA9qlyZgj3PMFnpUrMRd9KZ2xwrxnACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL199243.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAdventureman #5 by Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, and Clayton Cowles, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAdventureman \u003C\/i\u003Eis coming back! I love this series so much, it's just a pure delight of fun and wit and action and adventure. Before you pick up the new issue of \u003Ci\u003EAdventureman\u003C\/i\u003E, you should go read the first volume. But before you do that, here's a little bit about the first volume (from my favorite comics of 2020): \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Adventureman \u003C\/b\u003Eis possibly the most purely fun comic I've read this year. It's  written by Matt Fraction, illustrated by the Dodsons, and lettered by  Clayton Cowles. So what I'm saying is, you're in incredibly capable  hands with this book. What's great about this book is, well, pretty much  everything. But more specifically, what's great about \u003Cb\u003EAdventureman \u003C\/b\u003Eis  that it provides the reader with several different kinds of stories all  in one. The story begins in an idealized, pulpy 1930's New York, as the  city is under attack from evil invaders. But the police commissioner  calls upon Adventureman and his band of science\/mystical heroes to save  the day. Adventureman is a classic barrel-chested, square-jawed \u003Ci\u003EDoc Savage \u003C\/i\u003Etype  hero, and he and his allies do their best, and all appears lost...and  then we realize that we've just been hearing about a story that a mom is reading with her son. It's present-day New York  City, a much more mundane place. Adventureman is just a long-lost  pulp-fiction character.\u0026nbsp; OR IS HE???\u0026nbsp; You'll just have to keep reading  to find out. I promise you'll have a great time, and you will just want  to pore over the incredible art from Terry and Rachel Dodson. Seriously -  the characters, the city - it's all so gorgeous. This book is a real  delight.\"\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"975\" data-original-width=\"1500\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Sjm67tv0wq4\/YVG7FBMeQ4I\/AAAAAAACVrE\/NIxonmedmqcFDon-ziod46pwuA3qmiDdwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h260\/STL199183.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEcholands #2 by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI just read issue #1 of \u003Ci\u003EEcholands \u003C\/i\u003Ethe other day and I immediately texted my comic shop owner afterwards, saying he had to pull issue #2 for me. This book is STUNNING. And considering how much great art I look at in comics, I really really mean it. The art in this book will blow your mind. It's a fantasy series set in a weird mishmash world that looks like San Francisco, but with lots of other weird elements to it. It concerns a person who can cause people's heads to explode when she gets upset, and magic, and all sorts of weird stuff. And There's like 20 different types of characters in this story, all drawn with different animation styles. And the layouts are innovative and weird and make reading this book a total adventure. J.H. Williams is doing in credible work, with the stunningly good colors courtesty of the exceptional (and keeps getting better) Dave Stewart. This book is a blast.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BXJVvOhUoIE\/YVDkWPO2YII\/AAAAAAACVqs\/S4hpzt9y4PEQyKAddiOHCygDBJWg8y1GQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL191845.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECrossover #8 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe, and John J. Hill, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy pitch for why you should read \u003Ci\u003ECrossover \u003C\/i\u003Ealso comes from my 2020 favorites. This is a big, exciting comic, full of crazy twists, but also some really interesting ideas:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"Crossover is an absolute popcorn thrill ride of a comic, and some of  the most fun I had reading a comic all year, which is why it's on this  list even though only 2 issues have been released so far. It's a  meditation on the significance of fiction and on our relationship to  fictional characters. And it's also...a story about love and hope and  community?  Above all of that, it's a stunning work of art that you can  stare at slack-jawed all day. There's so much happening in Crossover,  and the comic is just bursting with ideas (in the same way that the  extraordinary artwork from Shaw and Cunniffe burst off of the page).   First, let me reassure you and tell you what I do not think this comic  is about: I don't think this is intended to be any sort of  Watchmen-style deconstruction of the superhero genre. This isn't a story  about the world of superheroes; this is a story about us. Our  relationship to fiction, our relationship to problems and fear, and  ultimately our relationship to each other.  But, you know, there's also  superheroes involved.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1365\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FkncY8crfCw\/YVDkWV75GDI\/AAAAAAACVqw\/sSwwx6xneIcymdpnoKtRqqBI5jDdvatLACLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/STL198350.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EInferno #1 (of 4) by Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EI am so excited for this book. This book relates to the X-Men stories (specifically Jonathan Hickman's X-Men stories), and Krakoa, and things that have been long hidden are going to come to light, and it is not going to go well. I have t admit, my attention has been wavering a little on the X-books. But this book has my attention. This story is going to address threads that were left dangling from \u003Ci\u003EHoXPoX \u003C\/i\u003Ein 2019.\u0026nbsp; I loved that series, and I loved Moira McTaggert in that series, and I can't wait to see what happens when the s%^t hits the fan. Which it will.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Pick:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GmWed80bpO8\/YVKCOtRLYWI\/AAAAAAAAOvc\/cAEPeXRE-0472JQtG4F6j4aFnfdIcn8VwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/Lugosi%2Bcover.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1574\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GmWed80bpO8\/YVKCOtRLYWI\/AAAAAAAAOvc\/cAEPeXRE-0472JQtG4F6j4aFnfdIcn8VwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w308-h400\/Lugosi%2Bcover.jpg\" width=\"308\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula by Koren Shadmi, published by Humanoids\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EThe cover really says it all here, and that's a good thing! This graphic bio of Lugosi is absolutely gorgeous, making the master of the macabre look menacing and capturing his arrogance, unbowed even when times were rough, from start to finish. I'm less sure of the perspective taken here, but like all biographies, there's a tendency to side with the subject over anyone else. But really, what you're here for are the depictions of Lugosi being prepped to play Frankenstein or his aged form struggling to find dignity with Ed Wood. This is a perfect segue into the best month of the year, HallowTober.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8835020123339634325"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8835020123339634325"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/09\/comics-are-adventure-man-catch-its-for.html","title":"Comics are an Adventure, man! Catch It's for September 29th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xAjTM5ahSq8\/YVDkWWqJ6oI\/AAAAAAACVqo\/ja1tA9qlyZgj3PMFnpUrMRd9KZ2xwrxnACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/STL199243.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-6809587463525198594"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-21T11:00:00.124-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-21T13:23:28.120-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AfterShock"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dynamite"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kodansha"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scout comics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tokyopop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"viz"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"warrant publishing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Impossible Jones is Impossibly Fun: Catch It's for September 22nd 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JobhvWy37n4\/YUftStVO2zI\/AAAAAAAAOuM\/kfZXSFqYBZYaKJ20zcxoI6RtPidKxRM8ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/imp.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"364\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JobhvWy37n4\/YUftStVO2zI\/AAAAAAAAOuM\/kfZXSFqYBZYaKJ20zcxoI6RtPidKxRM8ACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/imp.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EImpossible Jones #1 by Karl Kesel, David Hahn, Tony Avina, and Comicraft, published by Scout Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003ESometimes heroes are born. Sometimes heroes are made. And sometimes heroes are just criminals hoping people won't notice among the heroic deeds. That's Impossible Jones, a \"grin and gritty\" book that long-time Panel Pal Karl Kesel and David Hahn came up with, and it's finally seeing a comic store release after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Per Karl, this is a bit of Harley Quinn (whom he used to write on a great run before they turned into mediocre female Deadpool for awhile), a bit of Plastic Man (as you'll see from her abilities), and a touch of Dick Tracy (well, you'll just have to see for yourself on that one). The story is fun and David Hahn and Tony Avina nail the art, capturing the wacky nature of things. Hahn's lines are perfect for the work, too, giving it a cartoony feel that doesn't take the exaggeration too far. Impossible Jones doesn't want to take itself seriously, but definitely delivers a seriously good comic!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5A2kuiqXkdE\/YUf0Tuq5tUI\/AAAAAAAAOuc\/I3FipoHcYS8ufKJOqF71SA73MmLhv3sbQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/red.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"369\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5A2kuiqXkdE\/YUf0Tuq5tUI\/AAAAAAAAOuc\/I3FipoHcYS8ufKJOqF71SA73MmLhv3sbQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/red.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003ERed Sonja Black White Red #3 by Gail Simone, Walter Geovani, Hassan Otsmane-Elahou, and Others, published by Dynamite Entertainment\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EOne of my all-time favorite comic runs of any kind is the Gail Simone-Walter Geovani Red Sonja run, where Gail put together a story that really showed the potential of the character to not just be \"Sexy Conan\" and Walter drew the hell out of it, looking like a modern-day John Romita, Sr. but with his own takes on Jazzy Johnny. The two are back as part of this anthology, with a story that spreads across Sonja's lifetime. Meanwhile, another friend of the site, Hassan, pits Sonja against a damned dragon, and that's just two of the stories included. This is a great chance to sample the character without having to go into deep backstory. Even if the \"black white splash color\" trope is getting a little old, these stories show there's a lot left to do with the concept.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-teIwnx9EX50\/YUf1KSEiEsI\/AAAAAAAAOuk\/0TcbcQqgoMwi6k1b-O9-iWhebRS76H_8gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/scout.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"364\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-teIwnx9EX50\/YUf1KSEiEsI\/AAAAAAAAOuk\/0TcbcQqgoMwi6k1b-O9-iWhebRS76H_8gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/scout.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EScout's Honor by David Pepose, Luca Casalanguida, Matt Milla, and Carlos M. Mangual, published by Aftershock\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWhen everything goes to hell, the only surviving document looking like a guide to life is an old Ranger Scout manual. It's soon the Law of the Land. There's only one problem: It might not be as truthful as everyone's been led to believe. Now Kit has to figure out the truth in this incredible mini-series by Panel Pal David Pepose* along with Luca Casalanguida and company. I'm honestly surprised I didn't see anyone try this yet, as it seems like such an obvious idea, but I'm glad that David is the one who took the reins. As we've seen from Spencer and Locke, Pepose can adapt from source materials without it seeming like a direct clone and also provide some amazing depth that just keeps getting better as he matures as a writer. And Casalanguida's art is perfect for a story where realism is essential to keeping the book on pace. He's also no slouch when it comes to working in the details, either, which also ensures we feel like we're in a possible alternative future. The creative team deserves a merit badge for this one.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ao4fiaaVtHA\/YUfxqWf4RuI\/AAAAAAAAOuU\/fTaRwu4XWCcrg6YqAHiDmxUVkFRoSIgTQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/shud.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"447\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ao4fiaaVtHA\/YUfxqWf4RuI\/AAAAAAAAOuU\/fTaRwu4XWCcrg6YqAHiDmxUVkFRoSIgTQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w319-h400\/shud.jpg\" width=\"319\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EShudder Magazine #1 by Various Creators, published by Warrant Publishing\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003EThe name may change, but the intent is still the same--a way to honor the old Warren Publishing comics, often with some of the same creators who worked on the old horror magazines themselves. After re-organizing a bit, the company is back with a new magazine and a new \"hostess\" for the stories, but the aim and theme are the same: Classic horror gotchas drawn in greyscale. It's a bit of a lost art and I'm glad to see someone keeping it going--and ensuring classic creators can still get paying work. Maddeningly, Warrant doesn't list who's going to be writing\/drawing any particular issue, but my past experience is that they are eerie, creepy tales that are perfect for a horror fan looking to read new stories with an old-school feel to me.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E*\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EI know, that's three picks in a row by people we know well. Just happens sometimes! I can't help it if we know some of the best creators in comics!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003EKelli's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1439\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VYcIIIji6NA\/YUlFF_jVcrI\/AAAAAAACVqM\/OFlZZPF5B0EvsWyywbLpjF1LdNXnh69DwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w281-h400\/9781646512195.tiff\" width=\"281\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESweat and Soap vol. 9,  words \u0026amp; art Kintetsu Yamada published by Kodansha\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh god, Asako is crying again, what the heck has Natori done now?  Natori and Asako have been together for over a year now, they’ve shacked up, met the respective fam, fended off rival suitors, and navigated being a couple and keeping it profesh at work.  It should be smooth sailing from here on out, right?  Apparently, not.  Maybe the sheen’s come off the relationship. Maybe Natori really is the playboy everyone seems to think he is, or maybe it’s got something to do with Asako.  Asako’s past comes knocking in this latest instalment of Yamada’s office romance.  Yamada continues keeping it fresh, as the love story enters it’s final arc.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dWR8E3qqVrA\/YUlFC68TyCI\/AAAAAAACVqE\/JQmh_udX0j0WJHJlfjhO0f5eraIMabpdACLcBGAsYHQ\/w280-h400\/IMG_0379.jpg\" width=\"280\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMaison Ikkoku, words and art by Rumiko Takahashi. Published by Viz Media\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems like volume 4 of the Viz collector’s edition of Maison Ikkoku dropped yesterday.  Not that I’m complaining.  Discovering this series via the collector’s edition has been a treat.  The large trim size makes for a great reading experience and the colour pages of Takahashi’s watercolours for the series are one of my favourite parts of the book.  Takahashi’s humour is as sharp as ever as she continues to chronicle the lives of the tenants of Maison Ikkoku. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1256\" data-original-width=\"834\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aCsWqUvH62w\/YUlFCzVzwPI\/AAAAAAACVqI\/7HgG6DnwucgcqoaU0D2VW7y2HUVVK3vFwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w265-h400\/IMG_0378.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWould You Like To Be A Family?, words and art by Koyama, published by Tokyo Pop\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould  you like to be a family is a sweet collection of BL stories.  The main  story centres around Takemura and Masaki.  Bullied as a teen for being  gay, Takemura prefers to keep to himself. He carefully  keeps his  personal life and work life separate.  That is until he bumps into his  coworker Masaki at the local convenience store. Masaki is thrilled to  find out that they are neighbours and invites Takemura over for dinner.   So begins the gentle love affair between the taciturn Takemura and  single dad Masaki. There are two other stories in collection, one about a  high-shooler’s first love and the other is about a two college kids  trying to figure out if they like each other.  Would You Like To Be A  Family is a fluffy collection of romance stories that makes for a breezy  read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1528\" data-original-width=\"994\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ccEYHhNaiF0\/YUifnYDCmxI\/AAAAAAACVp0\/zdhL8tr8kKsiBLCYjVg0YABQGZv4Z7jSwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/964547._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #4 by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Mat Lopes, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EI love Tom King's work. I've loved it since I first read \u003Ci\u003EOmega Men\u003C\/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003ESheriff of Babylon\u003C\/i\u003E a number of years ago. King is a really smart, interesting writer whose work always has a lot going on below the surface. \u003Ci\u003EMister Miracle\u003C\/i\u003E really resonated with me, as a remarkable portrait of someone walking through life with depression and yet still being a high-functioning human (or New God). But I know there are some people who have an idea that King only writes a certain sort of protagonist (sad married guy), and I'm here to tell you that that's not the case at all. \u003Ci\u003ESupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow \u003C\/i\u003Eis a really remarkable, special comic. Kara is celebrating her 21st Birthday, but under a yellow sun she can't get drunk. So she finds a remote alien world to get drunk on (that has a red sun) but along the way she encounters a remarkable girl named Ruthye, who is on a quest to seek vengeance against the cowardly man that killed her father. This is unlike any Supergirl story I've read, and unlke any King story I've read. Ruthye is a remarkable girl, a model of steely determination. And Kara has taken on her quest because, well I'm not entirely sure why. But here's what I can tell you. This is one of the most stunning books on the shelves right now. Evely has a gorgeous style that reminds me a little of a Joelle Jones or a Sean Murphy, but with softer lines. She's remarkable at small, emotional moments, and equally at home in vast, epic, scenes. She has an amazing eye for detail, and that is complemented by the stunning color wok being done by Mat Lopes. The colors are bright and saturated and feel warm and alive. The book is a joy to look at and a joy to read. \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1000\" data-original-width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M4YLpoNE3IY\/YUifsGbJW7I\/AAAAAAACVp4\/In-uWJ-r_0oBVKo7L2wFwkmmllRVYJu6gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/952273._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThat Texas Blood #10 by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThat Texas Blood\u003C\/i\u003E might be my favorite Image book I'm reading right now. It's a fantastic murder-mystery crime story, but it's more than that. It's paced more like a movie from the 70's, when the director wasn't in quite as much of a hurry to get us from point A to point B to point C. This story takes pace in rural Texas, and while I've never been to rural Texas (just been to a few cities there), I found myself getting a sense of place from the story. These are towns that are very clearly not the big city, and the story moves at the slower pace of the small town. And I'm really loving it. Condon writes excellent, very naturalistic dialogue that certain feels authentic to the place and also to the kind of story that he and Jacob Phillips are telling. And Phillips is building a wonderful world visually in the story. That sense of place I mentioned, really comes across in the art. It's dusty, and vast, with lots of space between any two places. The sense of loneliness definitely comes across. And Phillip's line is really strong and realistic. To be clear, not photorealism which I find unsettling and it takes me out of the comic. But a sense of really being true to life. Phillips' style certainly feels like his father Sean is an influence, but Jacob has his own style and it's really fun to read each issue and see his distinct style emerge. This book is an absolute delight, and one of my favoite books of the year.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/6809587463525198594"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/6809587463525198594"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/09\/impossible-jones-is-incredibly-fun.html","title":"Impossible Jones is Impossibly Fun: Catch It's for September 22nd 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JobhvWy37n4\/YUftStVO2zI\/AAAAAAAAOuM\/kfZXSFqYBZYaKJ20zcxoI6RtPidKxRM8ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w260-h400-c\/imp.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2134376988267291486"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-14T11:00:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-14T11:00:00.317-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fantagraphics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"idw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"image"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scout"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Space is weird and terrifying!\" and other themes: Catch It September 15th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1186\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-31tYqrHbP7g\/YT-2XvzzWQI\/AAAAAAACVo4\/h7F1X8yjSpgKOQ0jbFBS4_Z0dlEYEf22gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL195395.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ECanopus TP by Dave Chisholm,\u0026nbsp;Published by Scout Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECanopus \u003C\/i\u003Eis a weird, beautiful poetic story, about loneliness, determination, and hope. I don't want to say too much about the details but it's an absolutely wonderful, slightly bizarre journey into space and memory. There's an astronaut marooned on a barren planet, alone except for her robot companion. She just wants to get back to Earth. And things get...strange. It's a compelling story, about finding things to believe in when that seems impossible. Chisholm is a fantastic storyteller in all aspects, and his animated, expressive, dramatic art tells the story beautifully.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"975\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-O2iW9b0lIR4\/YT-2XqCEw8I\/AAAAAAACVo8\/gdx-eAiyPMwYOjep5dXdJlrRt95Rm6CWACLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL199151.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EPrimordial #1 by\u0026nbsp;Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart, published by Image Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EKeeping with the space is weird and dangerous theme, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EPrimordial is the new book from the creative team that brought you Gideon Falls. That's great news, because I loved Gideon Falls. It was an amazing, weird, sci-fi-horror meta-story, with tons of twists and turns. The first issue of Primordial sets up a different 1960's than we remember. There's no space race. \u003Ci\u003ESomething \u003C\/i\u003Ehas scared America and Russia away from going out into space. We don't know what yet, but this is an excellent debut issue that hints at a vast scope, and great story to come.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kWZGJOzKK5M\/YUAu383gUDI\/AAAAAAAAOts\/CJ93oN9hogAl1fhCBcGQOk5oua04v5BagCLcBGAsYHQ\/s700\/fang2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"700\" data-original-width=\"466\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kWZGJOzKK5M\/YUAu383gUDI\/AAAAAAAAOts\/CJ93oN9hogAl1fhCBcGQOk5oua04v5BagCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/fang2.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFang Vol 2: Weekend at Medusa's by Marc Palm, published by Fantagraphics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EFang, the monster hunter, gets bit by a snake and has a nightmare. And because this is an off-the-wall kind of book, it involves everything from drugs to vampires to some good old fashioned mythology along for the ride. Palm's art works perfectly for a story like this, where there's just enough reality to keep things grounded while moving off into some strange directions. This is exactly the type of book I enjoy from Fanta--strange, horror-tinged, and with plenty of drugs. There's a Weed Witch, people! Do I have to say more?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FZKe7kWePCc\/YUAyAAeZrCI\/AAAAAAAAOt0\/UvzzSe9CJRQzq64KCdzUC0w4qrtvFCeeACLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/god.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"369\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FZKe7kWePCc\/YUAyAAeZrCI\/AAAAAAAAOt0\/UvzzSe9CJRQzq64KCdzUC0w4qrtvFCeeACLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/god.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EGodzilla Rivals Vs Mothra by Mary Kenney, SL Gallant, Maria Keane, Adam Guzowski, and Nathan Widick, published by IDW\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EGodzilla's about to do his usual run of devastation, and only Mothra might be able to keep the carnage down. But despite the efforts of a photojournalist, the military wants to keep the giant insect on the sidelines. Is the lesser of two evils a better bet? It's an excellent question that Kenney poses, taking us down a journey where Godzilla is unambiguously evil and the quandary\u0026nbsp;is whether the cure is worse than the disease. I love the premise, but the answer is a bit less ambiguous than I think it could have been with a stronger artist. Gallant tries but can't quite show the stakes, and Godzilla and Mothra never seem as imposing as they need to be for this story to work perfectly. Still, it's a great Godzilla tale in a cool anthology series, and despite a few rough edges, it's still a pick for me this week.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2134376988267291486"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2134376988267291486"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/09\/space-is-weird-and-terrifying-and-other.html","title":"\"Space is weird and terrifying!\" and other themes: Catch It September 15th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-31tYqrHbP7g\/YT-2XvzzWQI\/AAAAAAACVo4\/h7F1X8yjSpgKOQ0jbFBS4_Z0dlEYEf22gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w264-h400-c\/STL195395.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2185328229012667765"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-07T09:00:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-07T17:00:49.062-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vault"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Deadly DVD Machines, unhappy robots, the end of the world, and More! Catch It September 8th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1215\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3ri6-SdThac\/YTa8Y79DU-I\/AAAAAAACVnQ\/Es9pq-bBgJYbVnrgo2x1EOqlKPtl0eqVwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL193737.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDeadbox #1 by Mark Russell, Ben Tiesma, Vladimir Popov, and Andworld Design, published by Vault Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf Mark Russell is writing a comic, I am *going* to check it out. He's got a great track record of writing fascinating comedic series full of sharp social satire. So, I'm excited for Deadbox because it seems like a change of pace. I'm sure it will be full of smart observations, but this seems like more of a horror story and I'm thrilled to see him play in that genre. The idea of a cursed DVD machine seems like a great one, and I'm thrilled to check this out. I'm not as familiar with Ben Tiesma's work, but what I've seen from him so far looks terrific. Providing vibrant colors to suit this eerie tale is the excellent Vladimir Popov, and letters are by the always great Andworld Design.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1186\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ikCR91FrN78\/YTa8Y_uxacI\/AAAAAAACVnI\/grIqeorGaeEh5_weQG-Uq7C6b5ni4P0YwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL197323.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENot All Robots #2 by Mark Russell and Mike Deodato, Jr., published by AWA\/Upshot Studios\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMark Russell is clearly thinking about technology a lot these days. This is his second comic this week to wrestle with the idea of scary technology. I really enjoyed the first issue of this dark social satire, set in a world where robots have basically taken over most work, and humans are dependent on them but also afraid and resentful of them, and the feeling is mutual. The first isue of this comic had some funny moments but it was a pretty dark story, with unhappy robots with possible murderous impulses. It's also a world where robot police appear to be no less corrupt than their human counterparts. Mike Deodato is a terrific artist, usually known for his superhero work. But his action-oriented, dramatic work brings a level of seriousness to the story. This is a very strong book. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1171\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EZAoPPefG_k\/YTa8Yx1xvgI\/AAAAAAACVnM\/roJOzmlBi1MKsYOVG5sosyCa_6Ib0-O0wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL197880.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMazebook #1 by Jeff Lemire, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA creator-owned Jeff Lemire book that's written *and* drawn by Lemire? You know I's going to check that out. This book is right in Lemire's wheelhouse, in the intersection of where personal tragedy meets the supernatural and the nature of reality. This story concerns a father mourning his daughter who loved puzzles. He believes that she has reached out to him from inside a labyrinth, and he is going to rescue her. This seems like a fantastic premise, using mazes and puzzles as a way for the father to work through his grief. I love when Lemire writes and draws his own work, as he has produced some incredible stories (\u003Ci\u003EEssex County, Sweet Tooth, The Underwater Welder, Trillium\u003C\/i\u003E, many others) and this one sounds very promising. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1332\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JsKUDYVEQPo\/YTa8ZW6URaI\/AAAAAAACVnU\/UgmBxCEYJ1A0kb79Qfvnn0dPvRjpWDvkQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/STL198112.jpg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Unbelievable Unteens (From the World of Black Hammer) #2 by Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of Jeff Lemire, he's also created a really fascinating universe in the Black Hammer Stories. Unbelievable Unteens is the newest addition to that world, and I absolutely loved the first issue. There's a writer of superhero comic who learns that the fictional comics she has been writing are in fact true stories about herself and others! She was one of the Unbelievable Unteens. The first issue was a blast, and was brought to life by the spectacular Tyler Crook, who also did incredible work on the \u003Ci\u003EColonel Weird\u003C\/i\u003E miniseries. I've loved virtually everything about the world of Black Hammer, and this one has been no exception. This is a very fun read. \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"791\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fVQzvM0rNiA\/YTa8ZewP9zI\/AAAAAAACVnY\/7o1tBxTvdNUev10lrAl_N-Gs69BanNCXACLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL202728.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Nice House on the Lake #4 by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EThis is one of my favorite comics of the year. It's so weird and it's not at all what I was expecting. Let's just say it will subvert your expectations as well. This is creepy and weird and existential, and full of incredible twists and turns. Tynion is doing great work right now, and the art here from Alvaro Martinez Bueno is just fantastic. If you're looking for weird, unsettling, scary stuff that subverts expectations, you should definitely be picking this up.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2185328229012667765"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2185328229012667765"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/09\/deadly-dvd-machines-unhappy-robots-end.html","title":"Deadly DVD Machines, unhappy robots, the end of the world, and More! Catch It September 8th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3ri6-SdThac\/YTa8Y79DU-I\/AAAAAAACVnQ\/Es9pq-bBgJYbVnrgo2x1EOqlKPtl0eqVwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w264-h400-c\/STL193737.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-2256206798853492585"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-31T11:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-31T11:00:00.233-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"idw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"yen press"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Get Outdoors! Camp with Girls and Groo! Catch Its for September 1st, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mUvUPrjOmDk\/YSw5FQpBQFI\/AAAAAAAAOsI\/3n4IIlv0eSs5_lLFa1Bn2RH0a7uG4ONGwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/groot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"373\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mUvUPrjOmDk\/YSw5FQpBQFI\/AAAAAAAAOsI\/3n4IIlv0eSs5_lLFa1Bn2RH0a7uG4ONGwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/groot.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGroo Meets Tarzan #2 by Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Thomas Yeates, Tom Luth, and Stan Sakai, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EOur hero must fight off lions and snakes and rhinos just to survive! But enough about Sergio. Groo finds his way into Tarzan's world in his own inimitable way, getting ready to bravely (if obliviously) face off against the slavers that vex the Lord of the Jungle as this preposterous but unambiguously awesome story kicks into high gear. As I wrote about the first issue, Mark and Sergio are doing an amazing job of finding a way to make this all work, wrapped around a silly set of circumstances for the two creators. (I'm not sure who has it worse--Sergio trapped in a bargain basement Tiger King nightmare or Mark having to sit on so many Comic-Con panels!) Jokes aside, Evanier's script for the Tarzan section is really good, its seriousness just as solid as the silly \"reality\" sections and of course, Groo's desire for cheese dip. Aragones' linework is its typical detailed self, as is Yeates, though in a completely different fashion. Watching the two artists interact on the same page, as we start to see here, is going to be a real treat. I especially love how Luth ensures that the coloring purposefully highlights the differences, too. With 2021 starting to look like a different variant of bad, a comic like this is a lifeline of escape.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vOiwwL2NLrs\/YSxVNv9YPNI\/AAAAAAAAOsw\/YgPpGKDTJh4MKTD1FdhFJFCh1hcfwzknACLcBGAsYHQ\/s499\/camp.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"333\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vOiwwL2NLrs\/YSxVNv9YPNI\/AAAAAAAAOsw\/YgPpGKDTJh4MKTD1FdhFJFCh1hcfwzknACLcBGAsYHQ\/w268-h400\/camp.jpg\" width=\"268\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003ELaidBack Camp Vol 10 by Afro, published by Yen Press\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003ELaid Back Camp is an entirely different kind of escape from our current reality than Groo, but it's just as much fun and perfect for an hour or two of getting away by reading. With the subject being camping, it's especially true for people who aren't yet ready to go outside again. I admit I'm a little behind on this one, but the adorable main characters will grab you immediately and make you wish you were out with them on an adventure. This time out, the camping is closer to home, as rather than finding a new place in the outdoors, the gang looks to be headed to Ena's for an overnight stay. This is just a really wholesome series that honestly isn't typical brought to English readers. I'm really glad Yen is keeping it going, and if you haven't tried it yet, I think you'll enjoy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vyRK6KRfoo\/YSxMLLF4r1I\/AAAAAAAAOsU\/Tizu9ytr-KMTkKIgMTFhul1AK1_XmVaLwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/vault.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"419\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vyRK6KRfoo\/YSxMLLF4r1I\/AAAAAAAAOsU\/Tizu9ytr-KMTkKIgMTFhul1AK1_XmVaLwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w299-h400\/vault.jpg\" width=\"299\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003EThe EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 1 by Various, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003EThe Vault of Horror is not what one of my favorite publishers calls the pitches they reject,* but rather one of the classic EC Comics titles that holds stories from some of the best creators that came out of the 1950s:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EAl Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Bill Gaines, Johnny Craig, Wally Wood, and Harvey Kurtzman, just to name a few who appear in these first six issues (which start with #12 because back then you just re-titled books for economic reasons that I can't remember offhand). These stories are often a little wordy (I recommend only reading the dialogue, you'll catch the drift) and can frequently be a bit problematic for a modern audience, but you can see with every panel the modern comic as we know it being formed. Especially for those of us with horror in our DNA. I'm glad to see Dark Horse starting to offer these in a more affordable trade paperback version. Definitely can't wait for more.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-84DmKmBg_zU\/YSxRM2RMgjI\/AAAAAAAAOsg\/YpxuojcmG9EZenAE9eDhmaet2uCfujNJwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/crime.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"376\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-84DmKmBg_zU\/YSxRM2RMgjI\/AAAAAAAAOsg\/YpxuojcmG9EZenAE9eDhmaet2uCfujNJwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w269-h400\/crime.jpg\" width=\"269\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003ECrime Comics Confidential by Various, published by IDW\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003ESpeaking of amazing old comics, here's a treasure trove of pre-code comics that featured sensational tales of actual people like Al Capone and Pretty Boy Floyd, side by side (or, if you prefer, page by page) with gangsters only the fertile brains of people like Jack Cole, John Buscema(!), Gene Colan, Alex Toth, and a ton of others could come up with. While Dark Horse and Fantagraphics generally stick to more well known publications, IDW often digs deep into the weeds of some comics that can be really good, or, honestly, really bad. But with the creators involved here, there's definitely going to be more winners than losers. I also really enjoy the intros on these books, which offer some fascinating insights. Restored to the best of their ability--and again, with the same caveat regarding content as above, this is for people like me who are \u003Ci\u003Eultra\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;classic comic geeks.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LaNFxa5UZj0\/YSxTamPlXhI\/AAAAAAAAOso\/niGFeRYzvMYcwJsgfskgBcYunn4WQeifACLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/dark.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"372\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LaNFxa5UZj0\/YSxTamPlXhI\/AAAAAAAAOso\/niGFeRYzvMYcwJsgfskgBcYunn4WQeifACLcBGAsYHQ\/w266-h400\/dark.jpg\" width=\"266\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003EDark Ages #1 by Tom Taylor, Iban Coello, and Others, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003EIt's pretty bad when the Watcher gets feeling like he might need to pack his bags on the Moon (or wherever he is these days; I admit I thought he was still dead, so maybe he decided Mars was easier to defend from random acts of Nick Fury and Marvel Writers) and pick a new place to observe, but Tom Taylor and Iban Coello promise to bring high stakes to this new series. I know next to nothing about it, but when you say Peter Parker (hopefully) will team up with his Fantastic Four Family, you catch my interest. Even in bad times, that's a bond that makes for great storytelling. Combine that with Taylor on the scripting duties and a promise of a new evil we haven't seen before (which is better than an endless reliance on older ones IMO), I'm in for an issue to see what's in store for the Marvel U.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E*Maybe they do? I'll have to ask. \u003Cb\u003EI\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;would call it that. Then again, that's why I'm not a publisher.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2256206798853492585"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/2256206798853492585"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/08\/get-outdoors-camp-with-girls-and-groo.html","title":"Get Outdoors! Camp with Girls and Groo! Catch Its for September 1st, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mUvUPrjOmDk\/YSw5FQpBQFI\/AAAAAAAAOsI\/3n4IIlv0eSs5_lLFa1Bn2RH0a7uG4ONGwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w266-h400-c\/groot.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-1079861643508401856"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-24T11:00:00.038-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-24T11:00:00.220-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2000ad"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"denpa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kodansha"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rebellion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"titan"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Manga Noir? Yes Please! Catch Its for Aug 25th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week. Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!) Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERob's Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CJrEnt4wdQ0\/YSRoFvXJmNI\/AAAAAAAAOrA\/gEOVKKLzVlsobiRV5aMxjw9KI6dvET9kwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/gamma.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"362\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CJrEnt4wdQ0\/YSRoFvXJmNI\/AAAAAAAAOrA\/gEOVKKLzVlsobiRV5aMxjw9KI6dvET9kwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w259-h400\/gamma.jpg\" width=\"259\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGamma Draconis by Benoist Simmat, Eldo Yoshimizu, Lauren Bowes, and Mark Bourbon-Crook, Published by Titan Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EComic book characters never learn, do they? Don't investigate the occult. It never, ever ends well. Lucky for us as the reader!\u0026nbsp;Aiko Moriyama is an art student with an eye on the religious, but when she gets hooked into studying some occult work, things quickly spiral out of control. Soon she's replacing lecture halls and art galleries for secret talks and dark alleys as she's drawn into a web of intrigue. It's a fast-paced plot from Simmat (more on him from my colleague Kelli below) that keeps moving, aided by the artwork of Yoshimizu. My God, he draws the hell out of this graphic novel. The details are at the level of George Perez, which is about the highest complement I can give on background work. Even better, he's done an amazing job of varying the panels and packing them to the gills, all the while ensuring that the pages don't look either cramped or same-y. This is a great comic that should be on the radar of anyone who enjoys a good crime story in graphic form.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MpSH7znrTts\/YSRobXUBG1I\/AAAAAAAAOrM\/eIrC9SRekMg9NzNjbwQfYGK60tMIaSYTgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/dredd.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"426\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MpSH7znrTts\/YSRobXUBG1I\/AAAAAAAAOrM\/eIrC9SRekMg9NzNjbwQfYGK60tMIaSYTgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w304-h400\/dredd.jpg\" width=\"304\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EEssential Judge Dredd Book 3: Origins by John Wagner, Kev Walker, Carlos Ezquerra. Chris Blythe, and Annie Parkhouse, published by 2000AD\/Rebellion\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe cool thing about the world of Judge Dredd is that it keeps on moving, 44 years and counting. The hard part is that it can sometimes be hard for a newer reader to jump in. Or even to just sample things to see how they like it. 2000AD\/Rebellion is working hard to help this by creating the \"Essential\" series. This third edition looks at how the Judges came to be. Featuring some art by Kev Walker, the majority of the work is by Dredd co-creator Carloz Ezquerra, working with the other co-creator, John Wagner. President Booth is bombing and only the actions of Judge Fargo can \"save\" Mega-City 1. If you can call the hellscape that is Judge Dredd's world saved. It's a trip into the past by the men who first conceived of Dredd and his world. Walker's art is a bit of an acquired taste, but it's always fun to see more Ezquerra Dredd, even if I quite honestly like him best in black and white. If you are one of those people who are a bit unsure about Dredd, here's a great place to start.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKelli's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pu-2rIVg52Y\/YSRo2WS95AI\/AAAAAAAAOrY\/djyAVM84aO44PSfE69hupQ-RUcbklU8kACLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/lil.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1438\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pu-2rIVg52Y\/YSRo2WS95AI\/AAAAAAAAOrY\/djyAVM84aO44PSfE69hupQ-RUcbklU8kACLcBGAsYHQ\/w281-h400\/lil.jpg\" width=\"281\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELil’ Leo by Moto Hagio Published by Denpa\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThose who know Moto Hagio’s name from titles like The Heart of Thomas [a phenomenal read, but sadly out of print], Other World Barbara and most recently The Poe Clan, might be surprise to see her name attached to a story about an anthropomorphized kitten. Where is the angst, the tragedy; the sexual tension?\u0026nbsp; There isn’t any.\u0026nbsp; Lil’ Leo is all about the adventuresome kitten Leo, who believes if something is possible, he will give it a try.\u0026nbsp; So Lil’ Leo goes to school, gets an editorial job, tries his hand at acting, works as a manga assistant, and even attends marriage interviews. A charming and funny manga for fans of classics like Stuart Little.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9GVl-UUIr2A\/YSRoNG911SI\/AAAAAAAAOrE\/tIVWUIV5gi8P6peDU4JmJYhq4rA9DFGawCLcBGAsYHQ\/s560\/gamma.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"362\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9GVl-UUIr2A\/YSRoNG911SI\/AAAAAAAAOrE\/tIVWUIV5gi8P6peDU4JmJYhq4rA9DFGawCLcBGAsYHQ\/w259-h400\/gamma.jpg\" width=\"259\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGamma Draconis by Benoist Simmat, Eldo Yoshimizu, Lauren Bowes, and Mark Bourbon-Crook, Published by Titan Comics\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESimmat and Yoshimizu team up to bring readers a story three years in the making, Gamma Draconis.\u0026nbsp; It’s an action packed thriller, that centers around Aiko Moriyama a religious art student at the Sorbonne.\u0026nbsp; Moriyama’s research, which focuses on the occult, pulls her into a web of intrigue and murder.\u0026nbsp; She finds herself fighting for her life as sinister forces conspire against her and those around her. I stumbled upon Eldo Yoshimizu’s art while scrolling Twitter. He does some really detailed and interesting work.\u0026nbsp; His character design is illustrative, more realistic and less stylized than that of most mainstream manga.\u0026nbsp; His panel composition is really solid as well, he incorporates really interesting POVs, it’s like watching a film. His backgrounds are delicious and the detail is insane. They really help to ground the story which hops around landmarks in the UK, France and Japan. The story is written by Benoist Simmat.\u0026nbsp; He works primarily in non-fiction and as a screenwriter, although he did author a couple of graphic novels about the wine industry.\u0026nbsp; For Gamma Draconis, Simmat wanted to write a story about the occult, trans-humanism and the dark side of the internet. I’ll definitely pick this manga based on visuals alone.\u0026nbsp; I hope the story is as solid as the art work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cMjNNG2Q6Vc\/YSRpLz3qZ0I\/AAAAAAAAOrg\/SnMNg1QxxwUD3jAHXXukt_5uf-5RGh5igCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/image_6487327.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1422\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cMjNNG2Q6Vc\/YSRpLz3qZ0I\/AAAAAAAAOrg\/SnMNg1QxxwUD3jAHXXukt_5uf-5RGh5igCLcBGAsYHQ\/w278-h400\/image_6487327.JPG\" width=\"278\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESaint Young Men Vol.6, By Hikura Nakamura, Published by Kodansha\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAs per usual, there is no synopsis for this volume, so I have no idea what these two boys get up to in this instalment of Nakamura’s Saint Young Men.\u0026nbsp; Expect moments of absurdity and high jinks as Jesus and Buddha continue their extend earthly vacay.\u0026nbsp; Volume 5 saw Mary making a surprise visit to Jesus and Buddha hoping her son could make her some wine. Buddha reached out to his nemesis, Mara, for a second hand cell phone and Jesus experienced another Christmas in Japan, where the holiday is less of a religious event and more of a date night.\u0026nbsp; The scene where he goes to pick up his birthday\/Christmas cake and asked for the decoration to be of him, but half-naked and dead, was golden!\u0026nbsp; Oh, and when he admitted that he was jealous of Santa Claus, and was considering banning St. Nicholas from the church, I was in tears. I can’t wait to see what Nakamura has in store for us with volume 6.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/1079861643508401856"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/1079861643508401856"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/08\/manga-noir-yes-please-catch-its-for-aug.html","title":"Manga Noir? Yes Please! Catch Its for Aug 25th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CJrEnt4wdQ0\/YSRoFvXJmNI\/AAAAAAAAOrA\/gEOVKKLzVlsobiRV5aMxjw9KI6dvET9kwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w259-h400-c\/gamma.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-8211600282434253714"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-17T09:00:00.135-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-17T10:49:02.143-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catch-it"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dark horse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"idw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kodansha"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marvel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mmc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rbm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"red 5"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"titan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"viz"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Soaring with the clouds and the Kaiju: Catch It Aug 18th, 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWelcome  to Catch it at the Comic Shop, where the Panel Patter team looks at  what's coming out at your favorite store or digital device this week.  Each one of us that participates picks up to five items due out this  week, with a little bit about why we like them. (NOTE: We use  solicitation material for this, so if we miss creators,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003Eplease talk to your publisher\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E!)  Sometimes we might only have a few items to share, other weeks, keeping  it to five will make for hard choices. Here's what the team wanted to  highlight this week...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKelli's Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1024\" data-original-width=\"751\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bD6a-n0H7JM\/YRsDUr_LWoI\/AAAAAAACVic\/D-pqAypJOBIzLKWnTF87TB53pQhvSHzLwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w294-h400\/9781949980714-GowiththeClouds_05-751x1024.jpg\" width=\"294\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGo with the Clouds North by Northwest vol. 5 by Aki Irie published by Vertical [now Kodansha Books] \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAki Irie’s Go with the Clouds North by Northwest is part travel guide and love letter to Iceland and part mystery novel.  Kei Miyama left Japan to live with his eccentric grandfather in Iceland.  To stay occupied and make ends meet he works as a detective, taking simple jobs like finding stay dogs, tracking down runaways and lost lovers.  Little does he know that his skills will be put to the test when his kid brother, Michitaka, is accused of murdering their aunt and uncle. Kei is also hiding a secret; he has a unique connection to and can communicate with mechanical objects.  A useful ability to have as he continues to track down his illusive and increasingly violent brother. Meanwhile in Japan the police continue to dig into Michitaka’s troubled past.  Slowly a portrait of a disturbed youth begins to build. Kei doesn’t believe for a moment that his brother is a killer, but can he continue to believe in his innocence as the evidence piles up?  Go with the Clouds is not your conventional mystery story. I mean the main character communes with cars, cell phones and other electronics.  His grandfather can communicate with and control birds and his kid brother can apparently kill people with his mind and a touch. The murder mystery is interspersed with tours of famous and not so famous spots in Iceland. Volume 5 sees Kei heading out to Laki, a mountain in the south of Iceland.  He’s on a job, but he has Lilja, his love interest, in tow.  They are like fire and ice so expect lots awkward flirting and the odd fight.  Michitaka, meanwhile is making his way to Kei’s house, hoping to connect with his brother and assert his innocence.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yqLZsVeOXh8\/YRsAoXVqonI\/AAAAAAACViU\/GPgX9aZW-MkFmPWXzjNCNl-_6FhWTjeLwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w280-h400\/asadora-vol-3-9781974720118_hr.jpg\" width=\"280\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAsadora Vol.3 by Naoki Urasawa published by Viz Media \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReading  Asadora is like reading a Dan Brown novel but better, so much better.  Actually, I’ve only read one Dan Brown novel, The Da Vinci Code.  I  crushed it in one night.  Reading Urasawa’s manga is just like that.  It’s two in the morning and you’re like, just a couple more pages, and  I’ll go to bed.  The next thing you know the sun is rising, your eyes  are grainy and your alarm is about to go off.  Asadora is the perfect  combination of nostalgia, history, and adventure.  The story spans 6  decades from 1959 to 2020 and follows the spirited Asa Asada who in 1959  lost her home and part of her family in a devastating typhoon. Her  family’s disappearance may in fact not be connected to the typhoon, but  rather to a mysterious creature that was sighted on the day the typhoon  landed.  In volume 3, Asa continues to investigate the creature that she  believes is connected to her family’s disappearance. She discovers that  she is not the only one who is interested in what occurred that day.  The Japanese government and a disgraced scientist are also trying to  track down the beast.  A shadowy arm of Japan’s Self Defence Force  reaches out to Asa, who is now an accomplished pilot and her guardian  Kasuga with a difficult mission. To find and neutralize the creature.  Kasuga, a veteran of WWII, an ace pilot and sharpshooter agrees to the  mission. If you are looking for some light, fun summer entertainment  then grab a cold drink and settle into a deck chair with a copy of  Asadora. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJames' Picks:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W5rJ9QFZNvQ\/YRsT7WS1aQI\/AAAAAAACVik\/Fyi78nCfwF490Gr-ynmKF8k82vfG7-MdgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w280-h400\/asadora-vol-3-9781974720118_hr.jpg\" width=\"280\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EAsadora Vol.3 by Naoki Urasawa published by Viz Media \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI'm thrilled to be able to pick up volume 3 of this series. It's been a pure delight so far. Urasawa is a masterful creator, writer, storyteller, world-builder, artist, etc. \u003Ci\u003E20th Century Boys \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003EPluto\u003C\/i\u003E are absolute masterpieces, each is vast and epic in scope. But Urasawa is also at home in smaller, more intimate stories, such as the adventures of insurance investigator \u003Ci\u003EMaster Keaton\u003C\/i\u003E and charming heist story \u003Ci\u003EMujirushi\u003C\/i\u003E. Asadora is the story of a remarkable girl who will grow up into a remarkable woman, and hopefully save the world. She's a wonderful character, and I highly recommend you pick this up. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uktdULMJYN8\/YRsT7hNgMfI\/AAAAAAACVio\/6rQEizn8qpQAaiBoefLg7cyXeGxLZT7WwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/STL194295.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1349\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uktdULMJYN8\/YRsT7hNgMfI\/AAAAAAACVio\/6rQEizn8qpQAaiBoefLg7cyXeGxLZT7WwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/STL194295.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKang the Conqueror #1 (of 5) by  Collin                         Kelly, Jackson                         Lanzing, and Carlos                         Magno, published by Marvel Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EKang is clearly very much in the zeitgeist after the events of \u003Ci\u003ELoki\u003C\/i\u003E. I don't know much about the team or story, but this promises to tell the origin story of Kang, and I'm thrilled to read up on it. I've enjoyed Carlos Magno's art elsewhere, and this looks like a great read. \u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EMike's Pick:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1332\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GQC0nApofME\/YRsXeJoBz9I\/AAAAAAAALpI\/A4c5kf9wly4PwjoArdeNtkdm5jJCbfy1wCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/image.png\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENightwing 83 by Tom\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETaylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas, and Wes Abbott, published by DC Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI can't say enough about what Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo are doing on \u003Cb\u003ENightwing\u003C\/b\u003E. It is my favorite superhero book on the stands. I love that the series is a return to the basics. It's sometimes difficult to describe what makes Tom Taylor such a good writer because I think what he does is so smooth and efficient that it belies his technique. Fundamentally, Taylor understands characters, and not just in context of their publication history. He understands how they interact with one another, and, more importantly, how they reveal themselves through each other. It's why he's so well suited for team books, why he works deftly with pairs, and why he was able to distill emotion from something as expansive as \u003Cb\u003EInjustice\u003C\/b\u003E. With Nightwing, Taylor both returns Dick Grayson to his roots as a street level hero, stripping away years of excess and drama to reset the hero, allowing him to cope with the loss of Alfred and the events of Joker War. He accomplishes so much of this in the first arc through Barbara Gordon, who functions as a spunkier Jiminy Cricket type for Dick. All the while, Bruno Redondo is putting on a masterclass. The book is clean and bright, aided by Adiano Lucas' vivid palette. Redondo provides a bit of a silver age touch to this book. He makes the panels sharp, and he maximizes the space on the page with clever approach to layering. And the lighting. Wow, do Redondo and Lucas know how to capture different hues. The end result is a cinematic effect, but not the \"wide screen action\" type. No, it's more of art-house action, like \u003Ci\u003EDrive\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;or \u003Ci\u003ELooper\u003C\/i\u003E. Capping off all it is a sense of whimsy to the book. Taylor and Redondo know how to have fun. I mean, look at that cover! Certainly, the book is serious, but it's never dour. It doesn't dwell on itself; it doesn't eschew other facets - and that's important, because that is what always drew readers to Dick Grayson. He offers a more complete character than many superheroes, and Taylor has reinvigorated that dynamic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERob's Pick:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"560\" data-original-width=\"369\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DfZRYOgbllM\/YRssS7PoupI\/AAAAAAACVi8\/usg6ykhz72wYLJiOG7ZI9EzALb2ZgVQMQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/elric.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EElric Dreaming City\u003Cbr \/\u003EOriginal Story by Michael Moorcock\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdapted by Julien Blonde, Jean-Luc Cano, Julien Telo \u0026amp; Robin Recht\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublished by Titan Comics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElric is one of those characters who gets a bit lost in the sword and sorcery genre for some reason and doesn't seem to have the staying power in comics that others have achieved. Maybe it's because he's a bit mopey, but the guy has a good reason. You try being haunted by the God of Chaos and dragging around a cursed sword that eats souls. Regardless it's great to see Titan giving this a go, especially working in chronological order. I can't speak for the text of the adaptation based on the samples I've seen so far, but the art by Telo and Reht is perfect for the genre--realistic but with just enough style to keep it from feeling lifeless. The panel angles work well for this, too. Elric is a man of action and it needs to bleed out of the page. I hope this is the start of a long run for the character, who's bounced around from publisher to publisher over the years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ESean’s Picks:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AtdmurAvfJk\/YRtLPgIdnjI\/AAAAAAAACQE\/S8lQYM8Urtkeou1dsA-8pB9azzkTiRpAgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1845\/5027F25C-2052-41EF-8761-5C3E9632E558.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1845\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AtdmurAvfJk\/YRtLPgIdnjI\/AAAAAAAACQE\/S8lQYM8Urtkeou1dsA-8pB9azzkTiRpAgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w260-h400\/5027F25C-2052-41EF-8761-5C3E9632E558.jpeg\" width=\"260\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKiller Queens #1 by David M. Booher, Claudia Balboni, Harry Saxson \u0026amp; Lucas Gattoni, published by Dark Horse\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003EMeet Alex and Max, the recently reformed galactic-assassin sass slingin’ queer duo with enough development to their character in this debut than some do in an entire first arc. Brought to us by the creative minds behind IDW’s Canto, and Image’s Fairlady, Booher and Balboni have got a shimmering gem on their hands. This book is gonna turn lots of heads, and at about half way through this debut my head literally did a repeat read through as I found myself looking at what instantly become my single most favorite series of panels in a comic book. Don’t sleep on this one. There’s a monkey with otters as henchmen. There’s sass slapping on every last page. This is how you do comics. This is about as fun as they possibly get.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eVDekKT5Xg0\/YRtLqEq1q2I\/AAAAAAAACQM\/PBRzMuCVSRs8XFJQAAqa8uNwP8RGTJ1ogCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1566\/5C106660-29FC-42FA-A526-C247C72E6763.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1566\" data-original-width=\"1032\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eVDekKT5Xg0\/YRtLqEq1q2I\/AAAAAAAACQM\/PBRzMuCVSRs8XFJQAAqa8uNwP8RGTJ1ogCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/5C106660-29FC-42FA-A526-C247C72E6763.jpeg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBermuda #2 by John Layman, Nick Bradshaw \u0026amp; Len O’Grady, published by IDW\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003ENick Bradshaw is drawing the pants off of John Layman’s story about the island called “The Triangle”. (Ok.. maybe that pun was better suited for my previous recommendation but, still, Bradshaw is doing next-level amazing illustrations here so don’t miss out)! Issue 1 had fish-men. Issue 2 has pirates. Both issues have Bermuda. And just to catch you up, Bermuda is not the island, she’s the girl, and she’s pretty stinkin badass. But she knows when to keep her mouth shut when the fish-people come scavenging. I can tell that this is going to be a fun title to share with the kids when it’s done and collected. I’m excited to share it with them. The story is adventurous and the visuals are ..well, I kind mentioned how fantastic they were at the top of this. Pick this one up!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Js_dbsANItY\/YRtL_RDum8I\/AAAAAAAACQU\/nqCkTV2svOEclxUhBcmulchrEPhsy91zgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1800\/5868B4DB-9E4D-4B6B-A44A-3D6EDAE52446.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1800\" data-original-width=\"1186\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Js_dbsANItY\/YRtL_RDum8I\/AAAAAAAACQU\/nqCkTV2svOEclxUhBcmulchrEPhsy91zgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w264-h400\/5868B4DB-9E4D-4B6B-A44A-3D6EDAE52446.jpeg\" width=\"264\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBox #1 by Joshua Starnes, Raymond Estrada \u0026amp; Steve Dellasala, published by Red 5\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003EIf you are not aware of Raymond Estrada artwork yet [picks self up off floor] ..then now is as good a time as any. His style is rigid but organic, raw yet refined. There is an existence of pure and authentic life that manifests from the pages he creates. Now ..visualize all of those words and follow me over to Red 5 for a story that’s about to raise the bar to the phrase “…what’s in the box!?” Leo Bloom, a detective, is partners with ..a box. Why a “box”? Because it’s a magic box, of course. Think: a magician’s hat, or ..Santa’s sack (again with the ill-placed pun better suited for recommendation #1, Sean?!) but it’s a box. Leo can just about pull anything he wants from it. Ok, I’m listening. I’m at least here for the artwork. I’ll then stick around for the premise, because it’s just so wild and bonkers that I’m pretty sure it’s going to be phenomenal.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8211600282434253714"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8211600282434253714"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/08\/soaring-with-clouds-and-kaiju-catch-it.html","title":"Soaring with the clouds and the Kaiju: Catch It Aug 18th, 2021"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Panel Patter"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12354673590872893078"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bD6a-n0H7JM\/YRsDUr_LWoI\/AAAAAAACVic\/D-pqAypJOBIzLKWnTF87TB53pQhvSHzLwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w294-h400-c\/9781949980714-GowiththeClouds_05-751x1024.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-5662336068997392592"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-15T09:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-15T09:00:00.224-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conventions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MICE"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"MICE is Back! Mini-MICE is coming, August 28 - 29, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1550\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yK41XQnQXFk\/YRh80Tg-_SI\/AAAAAAACViA\/LQtCJc0DT-gjwmlchgoYrMul-vyy8UGTgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w310-h400\/miceWeb2021.jpg\" width=\"310\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAre you going to be in the Boston area on August 28-29? If you are, then you should definitely go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.micexpo.org\/mini-mice\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMini-Mice\u003C\/a\u003E, the outdoor comics event taking place in Cambridge, Massachusetts that weekend. It's brought to you by the good folks behind MICE (the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.micexpo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMassachusetts Independent Comics Expo\u003C\/a\u003E), the absolutely fantastic event that's become a great local institution in the Boston comics scene.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2018\/10\/mice-preview-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eloved \u003C\/a\u003Egetting to go to MICE in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2017\/10\/mice-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eprior \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2014\/11\/mice-2014-highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eyears\u003C\/a\u003E. There's always something for comic fans, young and old, new and long-time. This year's event will be a little different, as it will be entirely outside, and set up in a way that is COVID-safe for artists and guests. The event will be held outdoors and masks will be mandatory for all. There's a lineup of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.micexpo.org\/exhibitors\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E64 artists\u003C\/a\u003E, with different artists on Saturday and Sunday. So, you'll want to go on both days!\u0026nbsp; Erica Henderson, Karl Stevens, Kurt Ankeny, Colleen AF Venable, Andrew Maclean, and many more! This really looks like a wonderful (completely free!) event, and I recommend you go if you can.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAugust 28 – 29, 2021 | Starlight Square | Cambridge\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E12 – 4:30PM • 84 Bishop Allen Dr • Central Square • Cambridge, MA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5662336068997392592"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/5662336068997392592"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/08\/mice-is-back-mini-mice-is-coming-august.html","title":"MICE is Back! Mini-MICE is coming, August 28 - 29, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"James Kaplan"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08677155836689043778"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yK41XQnQXFk\/YRh80Tg-_SI\/AAAAAAACViA\/LQtCJc0DT-gjwmlchgoYrMul-vyy8UGTgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w310-h400-c\/miceWeb2021.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8675936740079831063.post-8890032282968757714"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-14T06:30:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-14T06:30:00.216-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"evan m. cohen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sc"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ceci n’est pas​​ un lever de soleil - a look through Evan M. Cohen's Morning"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nOpEHTKnFCA\/YRbVgds9MkI\/AAAAAAAAxPk\/UkdESTP9V5UprmihW6I_VDMYSqacCSu1QCNcBGAsYHQ\/w286-h370\/Morningcover.webp\" width=\"286\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“I woke up today to find my wandering mind searching for a moment that was left behind.”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EReading \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.evanmcohen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEvan M. Cohen\u003C\/a\u003E’s \u003Cb\u003EMorning\u003C\/b\u003E is a lot like watching a sunrise.\u0026nbsp; You see something dawning and the effects of that action ripple out of it.\u0026nbsp; It can be a life-altering experience to see the renewal of time happening right in front of you. Cohen’s storytelling, largely wordless, leads from one ripple into another, intersecting with other ripples to transform into something new. Maybe the act of just trying to recapture the feeling of a sunset in this comic is one of those ripples, one that blends with an actual sunset to give birth to this comic that’s far more a sensory story than a narrative one.\u0026nbsp; Cohen’s art is something to stare at, wash over you, and let it transform you even if it’s only for the time you spend reading this comic.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EThis comic envelops you, pulling you into it as you become an element of it.\u0026nbsp; On a very basic level, it’s about watching a sunrise.\u0026nbsp; It’s an ode to that daily event that happens whether we witness it or not. Cohen’s comic turns the event into transformative action. His artwork displays the breakdown and reconceptualization of an idea, of a person, of life as we know it on an almost daily basis.\u0026nbsp; A sunrise is not just a sunrise.\u0026nbsp; It’s a new beginning. It’s time and space full of infinite possibilities, all happening at once. The progression of time and space happens in small, incremental changes that welcome you while happening where you’re present or not.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eRmAHDJokug\/YRbXv_czjhI\/AAAAAAAAxPs\/HJ5BB020Zf4wmxvVqB7vcuUElILOrTNnQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s3643\/C2F0D300-A347-4C13-ABE6-9EE7A87C81C9.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2681\" data-original-width=\"3643\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eRmAHDJokug\/YRbXv_czjhI\/AAAAAAAAxPs\/HJ5BB020Zf4wmxvVqB7vcuUElILOrTNnQCNcBGAsYHQ\/w468-h344\/C2F0D300-A347-4C13-ABE6-9EE7A87C81C9.jpeg\" width=\"468\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003ECohen sees time as a progression of smaller moments.\u0026nbsp; These moments contain even smaller, fractal-like moments as space becomes living, breathing, and organic. It’s constantly unfolding but always embracing. Each page contains a mystery and the answer to it while Cohen plunges deeper and deeper into the concept of a “sunrise.” This almost falls into the classic “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.renemagritte.org\/the-treachery-of-images.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECeci n'est pas une pipe\u003C\/a\u003E” territory but Cohen’s comic isn’t about a sunrise but the idea of sunrises. ​​A sunrise is a daily certainty that we have mapped down to the minute of its happening. Cohen uses that to express his feelings during the sunrise.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EBlue lines with color pencil-like red, orange, and yellow hues help suspend time and expand space in this comic. The cool night gives way to the warm day but that transition is largely balanced with neither set of colors dominating the image.\u0026nbsp; The blues are a base and the oranges rise out of the night, revealed by the sunrise. Creating this hazy moment that’s neither night nor day, Cohen uncovers this magical time outside of reality.\u0026nbsp; HIs panels flow one into the next, creating an animated sense of movement, color and light become our guide on this journey.\u0026nbsp; You have to read the images and follow this constant transformative propulsion only to have the images embrace and enfold you.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-R0K7Yq6Fn9s\/YRbXv7dd-LI\/AAAAAAAAxPw\/-W9OGxhWMCs7qK79aQlyZ7D9aZO_LxyqQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s3507\/1A655EE4-10FC-4CE5-90A9-B4B75C19ED20.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2617\" data-original-width=\"3507\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-R0K7Yq6Fn9s\/YRbXv7dd-LI\/AAAAAAAAxPw\/-W9OGxhWMCs7qK79aQlyZ7D9aZO_LxyqQCNcBGAsYHQ\/w473-h353\/1A655EE4-10FC-4CE5-90A9-B4B75C19ED20.jpeg\" width=\"473\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003ECohen provides a Rorschach test of a comic.\u0026nbsp; The images aren’t abstract or random but there are probably as many interpretations of Morning as there are readers of it (which should be a lot.) With the constant dissolving and reforming of images, the optimism of the comic is almost overpowering.\u0026nbsp; We fall into, get absorbed, and then metamorphosed into something new only for the cycle to happen again over and over until the sun finally rises. The ability to recognize an obliteration of self while still retaining an individual consciousness makes this a fascinating reading experience.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003ETrying to describe \u003Cb\u003EMorning\u003C\/b\u003E feels a lot like trying to read one of its pages, an exercise in giving a voice to something that doesn’t need a voice. The page exists; there’s a point where we should just let Cohen’s comic be. We should let it exist so that we can experience it, letting it do its work, to do its thing. It is not that Cohen’s work is inexplicable but in a lot of ways, it feels like it doesn’t need us.\u0026nbsp; It exists where we’re here to read it or not. It doesn’t need us but it’s a gift to be able to experience it.\u0026nbsp; A lot like a real sunrise, I guess.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8890032282968757714"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8675936740079831063\/posts\/default\/8890032282968757714"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.panelpatter.com\/2021\/08\/ceci-nest-pas-un-lever-de-soleil-look.html","title":"Ceci n’est pas​​ un lever de soleil - a look through Evan M. 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