For more than forty years, Brian Braddock has been saving the day, fighting evil, and being a decent guy in the Marvel Universe. Captain Britain has been drawn by some of the greats, like Herb Trimpe, Carlos Pacheco, and Alan Davis. Here are ten pages from ten different comics, giving a ten-sided perspective on the man, the myth, the superhero.
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The Defenders is the Clifford, the Big Red Dog of superhero comics. Every outing is an exercise in how do we make this work? Too powerful for most threats. Too territorial for one comic. Too touchy to team up. So, how did Al Ewing and the gang pull it off?
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The best horror host, in any form, anywhere, any time, is British phantasm, Misty. In her self-titled anthology comic, she lures us in, and though the comic has not run in decades (though it has been resurrected as a shared irregular comic, along with Scream), those Misty issues retain both allure and power.
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Tom Taylor and an array of visual artists’ X-Men Red has generated more than a few discussions and op-eds about viral ideas, terrorism, indoctrination, media saturation, bigotry, and fault. Most of them, most of us, want to see the threat as someone else, some other evil or manipulated person, but as Gabby puts it, even if someone made it that way, “The sentinels are us.”
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Grant Morrison has appropriated throughout his career, whole pages, whole panels, lines from songs, a cache of styles and techniques applied to one scene or one book. He is, generally, fairly open about it outside of the books, it’s only within the comics that the appropriations are masked.
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They may be tasty bait for news outlets and your reactionary Facebook friend’s new they’re ruining everything post, but these are five things that get you all excited, maybe worried, and are forgotten a few years later.
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Comic Watchers Show EP 014 – Tom Taylor’s Batman Annual #3, Miles Morales, Into the Spiderverse and more!
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An interview with X-23, Supergirl: Being Super, and This One Summer writer, Mariko Tamaki.
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Tom Taylor’s phenomenal run on X-Men: Red was more than a good story paired with wonderful art, it was an allegory for the monsters currently stalking our world — as well the golden thread which will lead us all out of the labyrinth.
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The hug and cup of coffee ethos and efforts in New Universe books, Squadron Supreme, and other mid-80s comics tested these waters, as well as The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, and while this was now over thirty years ago, to be honest, superhero comics have not significantly matured since. The Unstoppable Wasp is out there being a forefront book, right now.
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Turning on the question of what you can do to be more beautiful, more exciting, alluring, cool or attractive, my favorite thing about Marie D’Abreo’s Beautiful, might be how much it talks up to its audience, be that the child audience or the adult, and how easily you can, then, find reviews from adults, mostly parents, who lament the book was not preachier, did not have the ultimate answers to the ultimate questions, and that it did not dictate a lifestyle to their daughters.?
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West Coast Avengers’ debut villain, BRODOK, is a former rapist telepathic supervillain with a swelled head, but so is one of their teammates?
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