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This Week in Comics: 08/30/10
Drake, Kid Cudi, Childish Gambino, 808s and Hearbreak. Please tell me SOMEBODY saw this coming.
Welcome to This Week in Comics, where every day is a comic book.
MONDAY
First Issues
Freedom Fighters #1
(Jimmy Palmiotti/Justin Gray/Travis Moore/Trevor Scott)
DC Comics
Freedom Fighters = Agents of Atlas.
Just sayin’.
TUESDAY
New Manga Day
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse Volume 1
(Ming Ming)
Dark Horse Comics
Yeah, I’m still a sucker for Evangelion. This one seems a bit too schoolboy drama when it should be a great big pseudo-religious sci-fi mindf*#k, but I’ll take what I can get.
WEDNESDAY
Mainstream Superhero Stuff
Wolverine #1
(Jason Aaron/Renato Guedes)
Marvel Comics
Someone at Marvel said “You know what’ll boost sales a bit? A new Wolverine #1.” And then it happened. Looks like this is the only Wolverine series we have going on now thankfully, and it’s got Jason Aaron writing so you can expect a crazy violent comic book.
Wolverine’s been overexposed over the past 20 years, but I totally support a Wolverine solo series. There’s a lot you can do with the guy outside of fighting to protect a world that hates and fears him — much of it not germane to an X-Men comic — so there’s always a lot of potential.
THURSDAY
Speaking of Wolverine…
Franken-Castle #20
(Rick Remender/Tony Moore)
Marvel Comics
…I love when Wolverine and the Punisher clash, because it always turns out hilariously violent. Remember when Garth Ennis had the Punisher blast Wolverine in the face with a shotgun, so he spent the a good portion of the story with his skull exposed? Yeah.
And this time Punisher’s a Frankenstein. And he has to fight TWO Wolverines.
FRIDAY
TGIS(carlet)
Scarlet #2
(Brian Michael Bendis/Alex Maleev)
ICON/Marvel Comics
Scarlet #1 came out on the same day as Casanova #1, so Fraction’s sci-spy opus kind of overshadowed Bendis’ American uprising comic or whatever it’s going to turn out to be. The first issue gave us Scarlet’s origin story with some great narrative devices (I’m totally going to rip off his grid of Scarlet’s life firsts one day) but hasn’t really gotten started yet. I imagine issue 2 will kick into high gear and will be awesome.
SATURDAY
Essential Reading
Eden
(Pablo Holmberg)
Drawn & Quarterly
Look I can’t be arsed to rephrase this:
Argentinean artist Pablo Holmberg creates a bucolic, medieval folktale in Eden, where nature is the protagonist, and characters are the scenery. Follow a king as he converses with the moon, a star as it is born, and many more in four-panel strips that combine the playfulness of a Sunday comic with the simplicity of a haiku. Surreal yet friendly and approachable, each strip celebrates the thrill of being alive and encourages the reader to do the same. Eden is Holmberg’s chimerical cosmos where the author’s imaginative storytelling is purposely reliant on the reader’s interpretation.
A playful new collection of comic strips which were originally syndicated on his website, Holmberg reinvents the comic strip convention by emphasizing situations and natural landscapes rather than personalities and human interaction.
SUNDAY
Last Issues
Gorilla-Man #3
(Jeff Parker/Giancarlo Caracuzzo)
Marvel Comics
I loved the first issue of Gorilla-Man, as it was insane. The second issue? Not so much. Too much of Gorilla-Man in disguise as a human. If someone picked up Gorilla-Man #2, they’d be mighty confused at the lack of Gorilla-Men. I’m hoping issue 3 proves a worthy finale, but I’m not holding my breath.
Danny Djeljosevic
