Boy oh Boy!!! It's a humdinger folks! We're especially lucky this week to have special guest artist and creator Brandon Dayton of the indie comic Green Monk in the Warriors Den (TM) to chat about his process and the in's an out's of pushing your own ideas. Also what happens when you really don't know who happens to be writing Superman comes up to say hi. You really don't want to miss out! Check out Green Monk and be sure to help support creator-owned comics.
Jonas's PickFlash Rebirth #5(starts at 1:00)
2009's Spike TV scream award winner GEOFF JOHNS Best comic book writer presents! Whew that's a mouthful but it's on every DC Cover... THANKS DC! The greatest threat to face the Flash Family in decades stands revealed! A new hero will step into an old speedster's boots! And Barry Allen will make the ultimate sacrifice: his life! Oh yeah, you read that right, but you'll never believe just what it means! They always say nothing will ever be the same, but trust us, this one will rewrite the history books!
CREATORS: STORY BY: Geoff Johns / ART BY: Ethan Van Sciver
Henny's PickAdventure Comics #4(starts at 10:50)
Oh snap! Another Geoff John's book? Really, I couldn't have anticipated that!? So Henny likes this book but hates this book? I'm still unclear about a lot of our picks as of late but Superboy Prime is actually reading a copy of Adventure Comics #4 as are you so your reading a book about Superboy Prime reading the book your holding. It sounds like an out of body experience to me. But he does seem to have a pretty well organized collection of comic books and quite a lot of action figures so I have to cut him some slack. Tha'ts weird superheroes collecting superhero comics? Yea... I dunno.
CREATORS: STORY BY: Geoff Johns / ART BY: Jerry Ordway, Clayton Henry
John's PickRasl TPB #1(starts at 17:50)
Finally something not from DC. Jeff Smith creator of Bone
has been kinda put out of commission with a hand injury that has forced him to really slow his output on books and that's why RASL comes out so infrequently but believe it or not its on a schedule and its just a really messed up schedule. Rasl's an inter-dimesional art thief traveling to and fro in the cosmos with seemingly little issues who has to travel to parallel worlds to save the people he loves.
CREATORS: STORY BY: Jeff Smith / ART BY: Jeff Smith
Sean's PickUsagi Yojimbo: Yokai(starts at 22:09)
With the 25th anniversary of the black and white versions of Stan Sakai's antropomorphic samurai ninja the celebration kicks off with the series first ever original painted graphic novel. Miyamoto Musashi, is a wandering swordsman on a warrior's pilgrimage, selling his services from time to time as a bodyguard ("yojimbo") to make his way. Over the course of Sakai's long-running series, Usagi's stories have found inspiration - occasionally direct inspiration - in the films of Akira Kurosawa and the manga "Lone Wolf and Cub." Anyone even remotely interested in Japanese feudal culture should check it out.
CREATORS: STORY BY: Stan Sakai / ART BY: Stan Sakai
RASL is awesome. When I had read the first issue I didn't like it as much but it all reads very well in trade. It totally changed my perspective on the book.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the end of Green Monk.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love RASL.
And I have not met many people that remember Dinosaucers. I loved that show as a kid.
Yea RASL really suprised me at how much I liked it I had a bunch of other books I was sure I'd love and RASL was still the one that stood out to me the most out of my pile. I'd really have to say its a great book too bad about his hand and the super postponed release schedule.
ReplyDeleteThe blue He-Man was named Fakor. I recently sold mine on Ebay and I miss it.
ReplyDeleteI bought Green Monk today, based on your praise of it. I really enjoyed it.
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