but this was a dramatic start with issue # 71. What stands out the most was Peter David’s writing. It’s very funny, with superheroes bickering and witty dialogue. Quite similar to the 1980s Justice
Two best friends. One overbearing mother. Trapped with no heat in a cabin during a brutal blizzard. Helena Santos’s struggle for her life and her life’s work has just begun. Read the gripping thriller by Brett Simon and Sergi Domenech!
Zatanna Zatara is a character written by Gardner Fox and designed by artist Murphy Anderson. Her first appearance in comic books was in Hawkman #4. Zatanna is both a stage and real magician like her father Giovanni “John” Zatara and is known for her involvement with the Justice League, an...
Even more so than the task of condensing a narrative, or deliberating over dialogue, this is the biggest challenge in any such adaptation. In a comic, something must alwayshappen. It can be mundane, it can be remarkable, it can be somewhere between the extremes. But something must happen,...
Next we have Adrian Tomine’s graphic novelSHORTCOMINGSpublished in a hardcover format by Drawn and Quarterly in 2007. This is a disciplined study. It has been carefully drawn in monochromatic form…predominantly and appropriately in close-up…with an emphasis on facial expression and dialogue to ...
He had been having trouble rejuvenating his powers with the radioactive meteor that had given him his powers. Nearly powerless, he had still shown up to help out his friend. (Note: the dialogue sets up the timing to establish that this story takes place prior to the story in Megaton #1 ...
The main story finishes well. The best ending we've had so far from the Superstar initiative. The art, including the cover remain fitting for the story but not quite to my taste. A lot of the dialogue decisions...Read More 0 0
This legendary issue features a Snake-Eyes solo mission, the first appearance of Storm Shadow, and a full-length, action-packed story with NO DIALOGUE. I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer #1 (Cover B - Daniel Hillyard Rolling Stone Homage) ...
Beaming with joy, Trinidad Escobar’s drawings are full of energy and capture several quiet moments between Jamila and Keisha that speak volumes. Through a strategic use of dialogue and powerful panel composition, Jamila and Trinidad create a stirring comics reading experience about foundational friends...
'The Sack', a wonderful strip told in pantomime (without dialogue) every week in the US Army magazine Yank, featured the nation's most hopeless, useless and witless GI, virtually permanently on 'KP' ('Kitchen Police'), the lowest form of life in the Army. ...