" but they built up - w/their bare hands - what we still can't do today "
ITEM! this is a sortof "meme" thingy that i've half inched from tom spurgeon's the comics reporter blog: plse list the last five gomics or gomic strips you read - goob or bad - of any type, kind, shape or form - from fifth to first position ( no.1 being the most recent )
so here are the results from the w.o.agwu jury:
5. gaptain america #31
by ed brubaker & steve epting ( marvel gomics ) - cap's still dead but his gomic = better than ever - this issue dr faustus tortures bucky while headless chickens sharon carter, falcon, b.widow & t.stark run around trying to foil the red skull's dastardly scheme ( some excellent expressive red skull drawings by epting ) - another v.goob shock ending too - i'm hoping this is all setting things up for bucky to become the new cap in a few issues time
4. batman & robin the boy wonder #7
by frank miller & jim lee ( dc gomics ) - super slick artwork in service of miller's silly enjoyable gareering romp - i think this gomic is gradually sewing the seeds "explaining" why dick grayson = such a nutjob in millers the dark knight strikes again - this issue: "the goddamn batman" brutalises some more criminals & gets to shag the black canary ( since when was she irish? ) - i counted 8 goddamns
3. mighty avengers #5
by brian michael bendis & frank cho ( marvel gomics ) - old school superheroic storytelling spoiled only by cho's plastic unfantastic artwork, focusing on tits & bums to an absurd degree - the drawings superficially look goob but = morally & spiritually bankrupt - having said that, the scenes with 100s of iron mans are goob tho & bendis's atlas = turning out to be a great fun character - also nice to see hank pym in ant man clobber again too
2. new avengers #35
by bendis & leinil yu ( marvel gomics ) - the hood ( no, not sir bendhi kingsley from thunderbirds ) & his new supervillain army start to tear things up - most noticeably tigra, in an unnecessarily detailed horrid & exploitative scene where she's beaten half to death - bendis's gomics usually have some fun to redeem 'em - but this is unrelentingly grim - plse bring back jessica jones & her gomedy baby - yu's storytelling = weak in places - but he's still miles better than cho ( imo )
1. moon knight: the bottom tpb
by charlie huston & david finch - my birthday pressy from
martinskidmore ( thanks martin...! ) - a gollection of the first 6 issues of the new mk series - can you find the "clever" subliminal message in the title? i wonder if moon & the bottom slipped past the editorial team unnoticed? ( - a fair few typos did ) - anyway, this satisfactorily gonsolidates all the mk stories that've gone before & nicely sets things up for new uns - the familiar mk cast, grew & accoutrements are all present & huston manages to make reasonable sense of it all - & tells a goob, if grim & gritty story w/gatchy dialogue
finch still has problems w/panel to panel gontinuity but his striking statuesque artwork = far more suitable here than on his avengers run - he needs to goncentrate on making his characters more distinctive tho - its sometimes hard to tell who's who, & therefore what's going on - & the dark colouring presumably supposed to add "atmosphere" often actually just obscures things - finch only really comes a cropper when he tries do do one of sienkiewicz's more flashy artistic tricks, describing character traits w/words & pointers in the artwork, like that leo baxendale
if you only need to have one m.knight gomic in yr gollection this is as goob as any & better than most - it's the best mk story i've read - tho admittedly i'm not particularly fond of the character ( the 3 secret identities gimmick never "gonvinced" me ) ( - i certainly thort thought that the moench & sienkiewicz's issues were overrated - imo they did much better work separately - moench on mokf & planet of the apes and sienkiewicz on new mutants & elektra )
- so, my 5 most recent reads all = mainstream superhero gomics ( 4 marvels & 1 dc ) - says more abt me than cash ever can - gap & batty = the best of 'em but bendis's usually goob avengers may just be having a slight dip in form
all = v.welcome to join in - if you don't read gomics then how abt yr FIVE MOST RECENT ANYTHING...? ( songs heard or books read, films or telly progs watched, cardigans knitted or sandwiches eaten ) ( goob or bad, etc )
ITEM! strictly come dancing results shocker - bye bye obsessive gompulsive gompetitor gabby - her professional dance partner's weird pinched face & frightening bouffant hair can't have helped
anyway, well done the voting public ( now, plse can you get rid of her awful hubby next week...? ) ( - if he's in the bottom two with anyone except kate garraway & her broken plates then he'll be out ) ( towards the end last night i thort they were gonna be having a husband versus wife dance off - which wld have been goob telly - if cruel )