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nancy wins friendship (Published by Andrews McMeel) Olivia Jaimes’ new interpretation of the latest collection Nancy The run included a comic strip during the COVID-19 lockdown, and after all the superhero comics seemed to ignore the fact that COVID-19 ever existed, it was interesting to see an iconic comic book character deal with the pandemic in any meaningful way. .
For Nancy, a little girl, this mostly meant going to school over the Internet to read a series of comics and how the always creative James found a way to make jokes around it (Sluggo, his uncle Apparently on the way, moved in with Nancy and Aunt Fritz during closing).
Funny, funny, and creative, always finding creative ways to tell new versions of jokes or see the world in new ways, Nancy remains a bright spot in modern American newspaper comics and is an absolute pleasure to be in a series like this meet.
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Baby Bear’s Bakery, Part 1 (radio wave) This adorable manga from creator Kamentotsu tells the story of a little bear who knows how to bake delicious cakes and desserts…and pretty much nothing else. In the first strip – each page consisting of a separate strip of four or five pieces – his most frequent customers have to haggle with him because he only charges 20 yen for two desserts. Later, when another person gave him a credit card to pay for the order, Baby Bear thought he could keep the cool-looking card.
Eventually, the regular character featured in the first comic strip begins working for Baby Bear, who teaches him about business and modern human life in general. Much of the series’ humor comes from Baby Bear’s innocence and his learning of new things: Santa and Christmas celebrations, New Year’s celebrations, lunch deliveries, how money works, libraries, where milk comes from, and more.
While Kamentotsu’s characters are highly abstract, even as simple as a children’s picture book, the bear himself is rendered highly realistic…and adorable. That cuteness and that ignorance are the twin engines driving this delightful little comic.
At the end of the volume, there’s a fairy-tale comic about how Baby Bear learns to make cakes, formatted more like a comic than a dominant tower of several pieces.
Batman/Superman: World’s Finest Vol. 1: Nezha Demon King (DC Comics) Writer Mark Waid (and, for the most part, Grant Morrison) does a great job here: writing what is essentially a Silver Age comic book story, but stripped of the superfluous narrative and thought balloons , with modern storytelling sensibilities and rocket-paced pacing.
The story takes place in the “not too distant past” when Batman wore blue with a yellow oval around the Bat logo, Dick Grayson was still his sidekick Robin, and the story follows the best team in the world Battle Poison Ivy and Metallica in Metropolis…even though the villain is working for another unseen enemy.
When Superman drinks a deadly cocktail of red kryptonite, Batman takes Robin’s advice and calls in “a doctor who specializes in treating this disease.” Strange transformation!”, Dr. Niles Caulder and his Doom Patrol. Soon Supergirl is called in as well, and the heroes split up to track down the element of the mysterious villain behind the other villains: an ancient, immortal Chinese warlord, Now known as the devil Nezha (see volume title).
The book focuses on the heroes’ big, crazy moments in a more-or-less typical day, including casual time travel, encounters with other Justice League heroes and villains, and the creation of a new, very temporary composite version of— —Superman. There are also some fun, character-defining moments, like answering Superman’s question about how to solve the concept of Hell, or Batman’s penchant for detecting things and planning ahead.
Given continuity and more twenty-first century comic conventions, it will be interesting to see if the book will move into the future/present at some point, and if doing so would limit Wade’s storytelling style too much ( It’s hard to imagine Supergirl (for example) with Robin traveling to the distant past to interrogate important witnesses in a modern story, rather than a Silver Age story). At least in this book, it delivers the kind of big, crazy elements that often appear in Superman/Batman team-up books, coupled with Wade’s sharp, smart writing and familiarity with the character and his legacy lore.
The story is more than just a joke, it reads like a satisfying one-shot adventure. It leads directly into “Batman vs. Batman,” another story Wade wrote. Robin, the final page is set “years later”, with Damian in his current Robin costume investigating some goings-on on Lazarus Island, the island setting of the adventure we’ve just finished reading.
Dan Mora is an artist who does an amazing job. As one of the best superhero artists working today, Mora has had the opportunity to draw not only Superman, Batman, and their supporting characters, but also Doom Patrol, much of the original Justice League, some classic villains, and designing some fantastic new villains and Heroes (and that composite Superman, which does sing, although the original design worked just fine in this case).
I finished reading this book and it has two gripping stories (what happened to the present Robin on Lazarus Island and what happened to the original Robin Dick Grayson lost in time) and I Don’t want to wait to see what happens next. This, I believe, is the ideal way one should feel after writing any type of sequential story. Unfortunately, because I decided to read the trade instead of the issue, I have over a month to wait for more content.
Jurassic League (DC) At the center of the project is a fairly true but somewhat silly joke, apparently inspired by the fact that both “Jurassic” and “Justice” begin with the letter J: What if the familiar members of the Justice League were all dinosaurs? The idea seemed to belong to co-writer Daniel Warren Johnson and writer/artist Juan Gidon and could have easily sustained a short story or one shot, but it was stretched into a six-issue miniseries, and unfortunately, the result was the same The basic jokes are repeated over and over again, and the narrative is a very basic, generic Justice League story about Earth’s heroes coming together to fend off Darkseid’s invasion. Except, of course, they’re both dinosaurs.
The most obvious example is that the series is a little too long for its own crazy concept, with artist Gedeon unable to draw the entire piece, and filler artist Rafa Garres having a strong, but very different, and ultimately rather incompatible, draw. Issue three needs style. I obviously don’t know the ins and outs of serial super comic publishing, but in my opinion the need for a supplemental artist in a miniseries is silly and just leads to an aesthetic problem that could have been easily addressed by a greater comic solve. a completely independent one).
In a prehistoric era when humans, dinosaurs, and humanoid dinosaurs lived together, there was a group of extraordinary humanoid dinosaurs whose origins sound familiar: one with superpowers, from a dying planet, adopted and raised by humans; A secluded island warrior with legendary martial prowess who dresses as a bat and fights to avenge his parents (yes, that last one is Dinosaur dress like batI guess, if humans existed, it must have existed at that time).
They are Supersaur, Wonderdon, and Batsaur, and fight alongside Aquanyx, Flashraptor, and Green Torch to save the defenseless little humans from the likes of Jokerard, Brontozarro, Blackmantasaurus, and Reverse-Slash. Bad dinosaurs are collecting them to provide food for their owners, but they haven’t hatched from their huge eggs yet. Apparently, this is brown sugar. They team up in twos and threes until they finally unite to take on the main threat, though it’s not the result of teamwork but Super Lizard’s unique powers that defeat the bad guys.
Gedeon’s design is so much fun, the over-the-top action between the dinosaur-turned-heroes and villains, and the whole big, silly premise idea isn’t enough to just get through 120 pages without feeling bored or uncomfortable. My lies were good enough, I just couldn’t help but wish I could do them better.
DC does not rate their graphic novels, but individual issues are rated for ages 13 and up. Honestly, it’s a little weird that a comic book with dinosaurs as superheroes is meant for older readers. I initially thought this was a comic book that might be suitable for kids (that is, something I might review) Good comics for kids), but the level of violence in this first issue/chapter is pretty surprising.
Most of the book has proper pro-wrestling-level violence in the fights (seriously, the Dinomen use wrestling moves on each other; see above), but the first encounter between Butterso and the Joker is pretty brutal . It’s so brutal that it blew my mind, and it actually earned a thumbs-up from older teens, which is kind of weird for a book that mixes two of the little kids’ favorite things in the world, you know? One can imagine that the entire readership of this book will not be able to find it because, like many of the works of the two giants, it was produced by adults for other adults.
Interview:
Danger and other unknown risks (Penguin Workshop) New collaborations brought about by this reunion The Incomparable Squirrel Girl The story of the team of Ryan North and Erica Henderson is difficult to talk about because of the twists and turns in the narrative that impact the entire story. It’s not so much a twist ending as it is a new way of looking at the story that will change the reader. Well, this seems like a difficult book to read because it’s hard to talk too much about the plot without spoiling anything. Even though it is easy to break, it seems to have broken to a certain extent. So instead of reviewing it at all, I sought out an interview with the creator. As it turns out, this is interesting and perhaps not surprising. Check it out here and make sure you read it Danger and other unknown risksboth before and after my spoiler-free conversations with the creators.
Girls Take Over: The Lois Lane Story (DC Comics) Starring a young, coming-of-age, pre-Superman/Clark Kent Lois Lane, this new original graphic novel differs from other Lois Lane stories in a dramatic, perhaps superficial, way : this Louis is Japanese-American. In this interview, I talk with writer Sarah Kuhn and artist Arielle Jovellanos about the character changes and their books overall Good comics for kids.
