This week’s main review is for Freddie The Fix, a film from Garth Ennis and Mike Perkins Image Comics launches new brand. add, The Wednesday Comics team typically lists new #1 comics, finales, and other noteworthy issues from non-Big 2 publishers, all of which you can find below…enjoy!
freddy fix
writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Mike Perkins
color: Mike Spicer and Andy Troy
letter: Rob Steen
Publisher: Image Comics/Ninth Circle
reviewer Clyde Hall
The odds in the movie industry are longer than most lotteries. Just like in comics, when all the talent adds up to more than the sum of any of its parts, that’s the magic that makes money. It’s also rare. It’s hard to blame moneyed interests like producers and studios for taking precautions when it comes to image, given the amounts, people and faults involved. In fact, it is the mediator’s job to keep these interests from being blamed, no matter how corrupt and self-aggrandizing they may be.
Freddy is one such mediator, one who has an almost magical ability to make sinful things disappear. Condition. photo. litigation. And in this Garth Ennis Freddy One-Time requires Chaos Management abilities on a mystical level as he specializes in dealing with famous people and famous people with supernatural tendencies. In his world, there are monsters, not just industry standard and practiced types.
A horror superstar known as “The Monster” who was a key component to the success of two film franchises has been found dead in his human form. The VIPs who have lost so much have already greased the Hollywood machine to remove any nasty elements associated with the matter. But this requires extra care and special overview. Freddy had a unique perspective that saw what was going on beneath the surface and made sure the monster’s disgusting flirtation died and was buried with him.
This should be easy money, but it’s not. Freddy finds himself dealing with supernatural elements of Los Angeles’ vampire scene, union longshoremen, and even the Reptilian cult.
All in all, this is exactly the kind of dirty deeds story Ennis This is a work that plays to all his strengths as a writer, his narrative style meets the cold PI sweet smell of success and expertly immersed in a nightmarish black reality. Indeed, some foreshadowing is more important than Ernest Borgnine’s eyebrows. However, in the hands of someone with fewer screenwriters, such clever this two jacks Both the tribute and the wisdom of John Huston can easily go wrong. but Ennis’s is an Allstate-caliber comic-writing claw you can rely on, and he proves it yet again here.
Mike Perkins Embrace the visual elements of all mentioned film reels and absorb their essence to bring this storyline to the undead. His Hollywood Hills consists of Mike Spicer and Andy Troy The sun is shining brightly in California, but the dirty, dark side of the streets feels just as real. Their artwork reveals the sulfurous bedrock, the gremlins beneath the glitz, and the horrors revealed.
However, the one that hosts all the layout and panel work is perkins facial expressions. Whether it’s the shapeshifter’s clueless stare that dooms the tragic ending, or the T. rex baring its fangs as it quotes Draculaor a vampire’s rage at forced sunbathing, he masterfully captures the thrilling moments. The cinematic elements of these panels, namely the framing and close-ups, also serve the tinsel town backdrop well.
The first Ninth Circle imprint title blends showbiz horror and humor as happy bedfellows with anachronistic supernatural elements. After all, it saves a lot of your special effects budget! fix freddy Giving us a Hollywood world where people are willing to sell their souls, perhaps more realistically than real life, in order to succeed… even if it’s tainted with optimism. Some would say this is the price paid to avoid a real box office hemorrhage, and it’s worth every drop. Freddy might disagree. But he’s an excellent guide for discovering what ambitions would be willing to ascend to the altar of celebrity. It’s a gorgeous tragedy meets a short-themed comedy that lets the reader decide where one begins and another ends.
Wednesday Comics Review
Missing Moon #1 (Crazy Cave Studios): Neon Noir is a fitting description as we learn about the troubled history and troubled characters surrounding this mystery Cory Crater. Judging from his actions in the first few pages, wow, the main character, Daniel Schwinn, is certainly a terrible person. For money, the sins are great; the difference is only that they are compensated. Schwinn is a private eye who gets paid handsomely for something that doesn’t seem so fishy, as he’s hired to find a billionaire’s missing child, which should be a pretty hefty paycheck. He goes around the moon, from streets filled with homeless people down on their luck, to shabby, well-lit clubs and oxygen-filled dome housing outside of civilization, and this is a gorgeous book worth reading. Damian Cursillo Art, Patricio Delpesh color and Hassan Otzman Elhou Lettering. Even more striking is the choice of location. The moon of 1997 is a neon-lit bastion of capitalism with a deeply divided populace and an airlock system designed to drive away those on one end of the spectrum. This first issue is full of character and atmosphere and I think it’s worth your time. —Khalid Johnson
Star Wars: Lower Decks (2024) #2 (IDW Publishing): Arrives the same week as the anime series finale, Star Wars: Lower Decks (2024) #2 Brings the promise of continued hilarious adventures to the crew of the USS Cerritos — in comic form. Seriously: I laughed out loud multiple times over the course of this issue, including during the hilarious epilogue page (no spoilers). Another highlight of this issue is T’Lyn. While this doesn’t make sense with the timeline, I missed writer Ryan North’s inclusion of T’Lyn in the first three issues lower deck miniseries. But luckily our favorite Vulcan science pal (the 24th century version) is making up for lost time this issue. Building on the first issue, issue two continues the trend of borrowing heavily from legacy franchises – but as we just learned with Rift Quest, that’s not always a bad thing. However, due to the variety yes Spice of Life, Never Be Afraid: The trailer promises that the third installment won’t rely so heavily on callbacks. Like the first issue, this one is beautifully drawn by Derek Charm, with excellent lettering by Clayton Cowles and design and production by Johanna Nattalie . Once again, my greatest wish for future issues is to return to the issue. Don’t make me beg…we need every ounce lower deck Content available to us. Fortunately, the series is off to a good start. —Avery Kaplan
Ninja Turtles #5 (IDW Publishing): Jason Aaron’s Working on the new IDW volume ninja turtles The game has been an exciting new direction over the past few months, with a gritty tone and melodrama that hearkens back to the original Phantom comics. In issue four, after the Turtles are finally reunited briefly, Aaron focuses his attention on a new villain, Hieronymus Hale, a New York City district attorney with a hatred of mutants. This issue gives us a background on this nasty politician and how the Foot Tribe ended up being his personal police force. boy artist Darrick Robertson Drawn with the help of Norm Rapmund’s inks, their long, rough lines and Robertson’s ability to reveal the ugly hearts of characters through exaggerated, exaggerated faces fit perfectly with the story. Hale is portrayed as a pathetic, petty man who is a convenient tool for the Foot to seize power. As with the previous four issues, Aaron’s script is an intimate, dark and reflective story. Tony Avinia Colors become muted and desaturated, making the issue look washed out. This may have been a conscious decision to emphasize Hale’s off-putting aura, but the end result is unappealing. Sean Lee’s The letters take Aaron’s weighty narrative and weave it naturally into art. This is the weakest chapter of the series so far, partly because Hale is so annoying, but it starts to tie together some of the threads Aaron has laid out. The four brothers finally reunited next month with a new regular artist, but despite the re-entry of Casey Jones and a cliffhanger ending, it felt like a delayed return. Perhaps a necessary chapter, but probably a better read once collected. —Tim Rooney
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AD 2000 2413 (Rebel Publishing): This week’s special issue is the 100-page X-Mas Mega Special, in which most of the stories either stand on their own or start entirely new stories. It’s a great read, cover to cover, and a great way to end the year, as the magazine will be on break until January 8th. program. This is my first full calendar year and reading it every week without missing an issue has been one of the highlights of my week. With digital comics platforms degrading or collapsing, it’s great to have this set of excellent and thoughtful comics available digitally every week. If you want to start a new regular comic in 2025, maybe consider giving it a try? You can buy the digital version for a very reasonable $1.99 here! —Zach Quentins
Editor’s Note: Thank you so much for reading Comics Wednesday in 2024.
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