Comics Fondle

A talking heads issue, mostly. Starting it, I thought Roger Petersen got the worst inker ever (the kind who gave the fifteen year-old girls breast enlargements). No, just a new penciller–Giuseppe Camuncoli, who’s a terrible fit for the book. He can’t do Vaughan’s cinematic scenes and, while his people do look different, their faces just […]

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I missed these issues the first time around, the danger of multi-story-arc collections… I read the first arc and forgot about the second.
Actually, going straight from issue three to issue six works. These two issues, though they do show a lot of backstory in scene, are covered in conversation in the subsequent collection. The end […]

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There’s something very genial and inoffensive about Deadman #1. Even with the bad dialogue–mostly when the main character is talking to himself, so I get it… needs to exposition, right?–the issue is a bit of a goof. Not a bad goof, but a good goof. It spins the reader around and around and stops he […]

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At first glance–if I’d picked up a copy of Scalped #6 and just paged through it–it might look like Aaron’s doing some kind of done-in-one, a jumping on point every issue. Until one started reading the issue and realized he or she was completely lost. This Scalped run centers around the casino opening and an […]

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And down again. Well, not completely, but closer than it ought to be. Vaughan embraces his standard practice for the series again–shunning Tefé as a protagonist and instead showing the human response to her actions. Here, it works, but for a handful of dumb reasons. First and foremost, he’s not reminding the reader every other […]

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