August 2012
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Here’s a fabulous two-page spread from the <em>Daredevil</em> annual in that story, in fact—Davis crams pretty much every major story in the DD canon into this gorgeous illustration of the character’s life flashing before his eyes as he slips off a fire escape. Highly recommended reading.
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A lovely Kevin Nowlan page from his currently running Man-Thing story, based on Steve Gerber’s last script for the character and tying back into an old Gerber story. I’ll be picking this one up in trade, believe me. Marvel is really putting out some good work these days—I bought a Wolverine comic for the first…
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…and also on a pulpy note, J.G. Jones’ lovely cover to DC’s wildly misbegotten First Wave, in which pulp character Doc Savage teams up with parody of a pulp character The Spirit and pulp character mutation Batman. The only really pulpy thing about the series was Jones’ wonderful cover art, which is very convincingly evocative…
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Along similar lines, here’s Joe Chiodo doing a jungle babe and her lucky gorilla pal. Similar principles and a more air-brushy, painterly style. Chiodo’s the only artist I can stand to see on Danger Girl besides creator J. Scott Campbell. That series has a really cool pulp-with-cheesecake-intact flavor that not a lot of people can…
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Here’s a great Bruce Timm drawing of Death from Neil Gaiman’s excellent series The Sandman (and her own, eponymous series, I suppose, although if you read either and enjoy it, you owe it to yourself to read the other). Timm is a wonderful artist. Not only did he completely revolutionize children’s television by proving that…
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Here’s Kevin O’Neill’s magnificent cover to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century—1969. This book has gotten better and better, and the recent conclusion of this volume was maybe as good as it’s ever been. Moore really seems hell-bent on writing a good story all the way to its conclusion; in a lot of ways, it’s…
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John Totleben is slowly losing his vision, which is a tremendous shame, because he’s a wonderful, wonderful artist, as evidenced by this Swamp Thing cover.
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I love Will Eisner. I love The Spirit. That is all.
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Geof Darrow drew this as the cover for his beautiful miniseries Hard Boiled, with Frank Miller writing. It’s terrific. It’s got that schizoid thing that Miller uses so often (fragmented dialogue, overlapping trains of thought, heavy irony about consumerism), but it works very well with Darrow’s ultra-clear, incredibly busy linework as a running counterpoint, rather…
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Here’s a page from Tom Strong #14 by Chris Sprouse, a wonderful artist who took over on Supreme and left the book with Moore after publisher/creator Rob Liefeld’s backers pulled out, leaving the publisher in limbo for several years. Moore and Sprouse reworked the Supreme stories they’d been working on and a pitch for another…
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