| Cho on New Avengers, etc |
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Frank Cho is the artist on this month's New Avengers (#15), and it's a great-looking book. He inserts various little gags - as an example, in one panel Wolverine is shown wearing a "Beltsville" t-shirt, which is a reference to Liberty Meadows, Cho's famous strip. Another amusing little vignette is Wolverine guzzling an entire gallon of milk, at least some of which winds up on his costume. Historically Wolverine has been more frequently depicted guzzling beer and smoking cigars, so I assume this is social satire by Cho. Warning: spoilers on any number of comics below. Cho will be the cover artist on the new Ms. Marvel series [samples on Cho's site], and the character shows up as a guest in this issue of New Avengers. In one panel Tony Stark tells Ms. Marvel that she looks "fantastic," which I assume is an editorial nod to Cho's work. And of course, with Cho's habit of upholstering his female figures with rather abundant, um, adornment, she does look fantastic. In other comics news, Warren Ellis is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Now mainly I wrote that last sentence so it would show up here, but that doesn't mean it's incorrect. Ellis has a new comic out called NextWave, which is a parody of the traditional Marvel superhero comic and also the explanation for those of you wondering why Boom-Boom was included in the 198. I'm not entirely sure Warren Ellis should be penning a humor series, though. From his prior work I assume Warren Ellis is kind of emotionally dead inside. (Whoops, there I go again.) That's not my only problem with the comic. On the splash page we're informed that the scene is set in "Abcess, North Dakota," which is unfortunate in that it is both an obvious joke and a not-funny one. Then on page two we're shown the view from the main drag in Abcess, which consists of a beautiful array of snow-capped, jagged peaks and vistas, of the sort you might see from any number of towns in the Rockies. North Dakota, however, does not contain any portion of the Rockies, or any other mountain chain worth mentioning. The highest point is White Butte in the Badlands, which is 3500 feet above sea level. North Dakota's average elevation is almost 2000 feet above sea level, so White Butte ain't exactly Mt. McKinley. Ellis also spends really way too much time observing that Fin Fang Foom is a) wearing underpants and b) has no obvious genitalia. This is something I first observed circa 1983, and it frankly didn't do a whole lot for me even at that time. I was 13. The big guy was much more amusingly portrayed in last year's Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four. Other titles worth reading this week:
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All-Star Superman #2 - this comic is supposed to merge the wonder and implausibility of 1950s and 60s Superman stories with modern science fiction. It is not based on the standard DC continuity, and it's pretty darn good. This issue is a build to an updated version of those great stories from the past when Lois Lane somehow acquired super-powers, which will occur in #3. We get to see her "Superwoman" costume on the last page, and it is HOT. I suspect it is meant to be derivative of the costume of Alan Moore's Avril Lear, aka Marvel Woman or Miracle Woman, depending on which side of the Atlantic you call home.| < Prev | Next > |
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