Best From The Past Week: Fearless Dawn: Secret of the Swamp One-Shot - A LOT of good comics in the past week (with Severed #7 and Wolverine and the X-Men #5 being my other two favorites). Honestly, sometimes when I have a virtual “tie” like this, I choose the winner based on how many panels each comic has left seared into my brain. That’s a big deal because honestly, by the end of the week, I often cannot remember anything about some comics. But, that’s not a problem with Fearless Dawn and Steve Mannion’s wonderful art and clever storytelling. I can close my eyes and recall pretty fine details of ~10 panels from this issue. It’s THAT good. Do yourself a huge favor and check his work out.
Most Anticipated: Batman #6 – After the tour de force that issue #5 represented who can wait for this? Even if I STILL think the spinning page orientation was a gimmick that overshadowed other subtle excellence like Capullo’s art when Bruce retreated back into his corner of the maze….like a bat…. I mean…..the work that Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are putting in here is just tremendous and this is what you get when you have a great writer and great artist who are working together. Every issue from them is “can’t miss”.
Other picks: Hmm… It’s a very light week. Amazing Spider-Man #679.1, Daredevil #9, Glamourpuss #23, Thunderbolts #170. Take advantage and go read some back issues or Jacques Tardi graphic novels. That’s what I’ll be doing.
Filed under: Picks of the Week Tagged: | Amazing Spider-Man #679.1, Batman #6, Daredevil #9, Glamourpuss #23, Thunderbolts #170
Do you speak French, Dean? There’s only a handful of Tardi’s work that’s been translated.
Nope….I just read the Fantagraphics translations. My bilingual-nature stops at being able to passably read Spanish but I don’t speak well at ALL.
But, I would bet that with some of the new tools like Google Translate, that someone with zero French could probably work their way through a Tardi comic.