ACHOO! The flu chronicles
It's been a week and I'm still battling the flu. I'm keeping a close eye to make sure that it's not going to hang around and turn into some sort of chest infection1. So I'm home, knitting, swigging juice and reading some comics. Overall, the content's been a huge miss. Ultimate Captain America; the less said about that, the better.
Captain America and the Falcon was a feint, in that it was a story pretty much about the Falcon, doing a favour for someone who's a part of his history, and as a result of it, has to pretty much dip into his past as Snap. People keep telling me that Marvel's retoconned Sam Wilson as a pimp, but every time I try to get into 616 Sam, I keep running into his whole past as a pimp and it really blocks me from liking the character as much as his 1610 counterpart but I digress. It's a decent story, with an ending that doesn't necessarily sit well with one, but it made the story work. Anyway, allow me to coo over the art just a wee bit.
Dude, Rebekah Issacs is the truth. It's hard to find a comic artist who can draw ethnic (aka non white) people well. You find that comic artists either draw the same face, just dipped in different inks, or if they draw other races, their lack of care tends to be their downfall2.
Rebekah Isaacs, I'm glad to say, doesn't have that problem at all.
Look at Sam's features, OMG. A strong sharp profile with a nod to his ethnicity done right. Full lips, defined cheekbones, and his sharp hairdo ain't half bad, either. If this had been done in black and white inks, you'd know that Sam wasn't Caucasian due to the clues the artist gives.
Look at her other drawing of a poc here (different ethnicity, but doesn't read 'white')
Again, if this were in black and white, you'd know that the young lady here was a poc. Ms Isaacs doesn't do the 'cheat' of over exaggerating features, or try for the easy way out. She looks like she's actually studied other ethnicities, as if she lived in a big city, oh like, New York or something.
Gee Marvel, can you give her her a mainstream title? Puhlease? Pretty please? Her art was the light inside my gloom today.
Right, no food in the house. Off to the supermarket,then.
Although coughing up traces of blood is worrying and I can't get to the doctor until the day after and it's not extreme enough for me to go to Casualty. Anyways
2 I see you Jim Cheung with your one face, but what a face, OMG. In terms of poc equals 'the other' so you draw them odd, I call Alan Davis to the stand. When it comes to Caucasians, his stuff is lovely, but when he has to draw other ethnicities, it's as if he thinks poc= simian features, especially when it comes to Luke Cage and Eli Bradley. Bleh, I see you, Alan Davis.
Captain America and the Falcon was a feint, in that it was a story pretty much about the Falcon, doing a favour for someone who's a part of his history, and as a result of it, has to pretty much dip into his past as Snap. People keep telling me that Marvel's retoconned Sam Wilson as a pimp, but every time I try to get into 616 Sam, I keep running into his whole past as a pimp and it really blocks me from liking the character as much as his 1610 counterpart but I digress. It's a decent story, with an ending that doesn't necessarily sit well with one, but it made the story work. Anyway, allow me to coo over the art just a wee bit.
Dude, Rebekah Issacs is the truth. It's hard to find a comic artist who can draw ethnic (aka non white) people well. You find that comic artists either draw the same face, just dipped in different inks, or if they draw other races, their lack of care tends to be their downfall2.
Rebekah Isaacs, I'm glad to say, doesn't have that problem at all.
Look at Sam's features, OMG. A strong sharp profile with a nod to his ethnicity done right. Full lips, defined cheekbones, and his sharp hairdo ain't half bad, either. If this had been done in black and white inks, you'd know that Sam wasn't Caucasian due to the clues the artist gives.
Look at her other drawing of a poc here (different ethnicity, but doesn't read 'white')
Again, if this were in black and white, you'd know that the young lady here was a poc. Ms Isaacs doesn't do the 'cheat' of over exaggerating features, or try for the easy way out. She looks like she's actually studied other ethnicities, as if she lived in a big city, oh like, New York or something.
Gee Marvel, can you give her her a mainstream title? Puhlease? Pretty please? Her art was the light inside my gloom today.
Right, no food in the house. Off to the supermarket,then.
Although coughing up traces of blood is worrying and I can't get to the doctor until the day after and it's not extreme enough for me to go to Casualty. Anyways
2 I see you Jim Cheung with your one face, but what a face, OMG. In terms of poc equals 'the other' so you draw them odd, I call Alan Davis to the stand. When it comes to Caucasians, his stuff is lovely, but when he has to draw other ethnicities, it's as if he thinks poc= simian features, especially when it comes to Luke Cage and Eli Bradley. Bleh, I see you, Alan Davis.