One Cool Thing 1-20-2021 Finished Killing And Dying by Adrian Tomine. Some of the stories feel like the natural evolution of his storytelling abilities where as some like the leading Hortisculpture shorts feel like a strange autobiography. A good collection either way. #1ccolthing, What’s Cool With You?
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One Cool Thing 1-8-2021 Jim Lee raises money
One Cool Thing, 1-8-2021.
Jim Lee is selling the below piece on ebay to raise money for comic shops struggling during this past year with covid. The current bid is a very nice 6,100 with two days left, https://www.ebay.com/itm/PENGUIN-DC-Comics-Original-Art-Sketch-By-JIM-LEE-Batman-Rogue/203242202317 #1coolthing, What’s Cool With You?
One Cool Thing 1-3-2021Poxeii
One Cool Thing, 1-3-2021 This two page comic by@poxeii is brilliant. #comics, #1coolthing, What’s Cool With You?
https://twitter.com/poxeii/status/1345591972300349440
Not reposting the pages here out of consideration for the artist.
One Cool Thing 8-23-2020 The Batman
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One Cool Thing 8-18-2020 Heroes 40th
Heroes in Charlotte celebrates 40 years with a outdoor dollar sale this labor day weekend. Check out those long box deals. Lots of comics for your dollar. I think about the changes to the comic book industry that Heroes has seen over 40 years. Sometimes the store tells a story of the clientele but to make it for forty years is a very impressive feat in any retail venture. Congrats Heroes!
One Cool Thing 8-5-2020 Like Hell I Won’t.
This is a fascinating documentary about Todd Mcfarlane, Creator of Spawn, founder of Image comics and McFarlane Toys. I wish the documentary would do more than gloss over his struggles including coming out of bankruptcy, but it’s a great look at his rise in the industry and the changes he made. I remember the boom that came with Image and then the fall of the comics industry that happened later, partly because of the success.
#1coolthing, What’s Cool With you?
The Walking Dead Volume 23: Whispers into Screams.
The Walking Dead Volume 23: Whispers Into Screams
After 23 volumes many comic series start to drag. The very short life of many of the characters in the Walking Dead make this unlikely. Sure we are still following Rick, Carl, Andrea, and Maggie at this point but so many of the cast has met their end already. This makes finding new people, and new stories a neccessity. And in this story we get just that as we are brought into the world of the Whispers. This group of people made an interesting choice when they decided how to deal with the dead, they become them. Rather they wear zombie costumes made from the skin of the dead and walk among them. It’s pretty brilliant and a step further than Rick and company took while wearing the blood of the zombies in previous issues. They have instant protection but of course if you live with the dead the question becomes how much are you living?. After 138 issues, i’m still interested and have volume 24 in the to read pile.
The Walking Dead Volume 23: Whispers Into Screams (Walking Dead Tp)
The Walking Dead: Compendium One
Best of 2014: Comic
A great year for comics as Image published a lot of new groundbreaking books and the big two kept plugging along. Out of everything coming out I feel like Chew by Layman & Guillory is hitting its endgame stride and continues to provide the best and most bizarre at times story. It is always a fun read and the main strength is that it perfected it’s style way back in the first issue and hasn’t wavered in that initial feel for the entire run. It’s my pick for best comic book of 2014.
Saga Volume 3 : Kill Your Darlings.
SAGA Volume 3: By Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Collects Issues 13-18, Published by Image Comics.
Finally got around to Saga volume 3, and it doesnt have the same wow factor I felt with the first two volumes. Granted it’s still one of the best series being published today, but the first series hit me with the grand spectacle of this whole new universe Vaughan & Staples had created. The second volume played nicely as it cemented our characters story arcs and showed us a little bit about where we are going.
For me Volume 3 felt a little like an exercise in Vaughan demonstrating his writing skills around his like and dislikes around the art of writing. Since a central characther in this arc is the author Heist, Vaughan seems to exorcise some demons he has about other writers and the education of writing.
He even spends a few pages musing on the writing phrase “Kill Your Darlings”
It’s hard to tell if he’s making a stance that writers should focus on what they love or not? It hampers the progress of the story and at times it distracts from the plot causing part of this episode of Saga to feel essay centric and less grand scale epic awesomeness of the first two volumes.
Saga is a sweeping intergalactic ,well, Saga, but here’s hoping later volumes remember it is a big show, and perhaps not the perfect forum for a lecture on the art of writing.
One wonders if Vaughan whose work on Y The Last Man, was not just entertaining, but one of the most important political and social comics ever, wants Saga to be that kind of comic.
I’d be okay if it decides to just entertain.
Daytime Ghost Hunter minis now available
As many of you know I am the cocreator with my wife Jessica C. White of the comic Jessica Parasol, Daytime Ghost Hunter. We have two mini comics out currently. EVP and Tea for Two are both available on Jessicas shop. They are both $1.