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The first of several orders arrived today. I'll have to reread the earlier volumes of Monstress first, but I'll start with Isola.
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57681239
"Mystery of Penquan Island" is the first LoK one-shot graphic novel. It takes place after the show, and focuses on Mako.
When a strange missing persons case falls into his lap, Mako is forced to choose between his job and doing what he feels is right! An upturned room and an unhelpful witness aren’t promising starts to the investigation, but when his brother Bolin comes across a surprising clue that ties their own mother to the case, the pair embark on a journey to the small, rustic island of Penquan. The island’s inhabitants seem to have things to hide, and the brothers are determined to get to the bottom of it—even if it means uncovering uncomfortable parts of their family’s past.
The comic released March 4th. It is written by Kiku Hughes with art by Alex Monik and Diana Sousa, made in collaboration with Mike and Bryan.
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The cover and the inside art is drawn by Jim Lee, who is my favorite Punisher artist. He gives Frank a proper grittiness, has exaggerated but rarely wonky figures, and pays attention to drawing guns both in making them look like more than collections of random bits and in choosing unusual models. In the cover Frank has an L86 LSW in hand while speeding towards tropical danger. While the LSW sadly doesn't actually appear in the comic, the Sterling submachinegun is a decent consolation prize.
Full credits:
A jet ski, a Hawaiian shirt, a bueatiful sunset, and all the ontologically evil thugs you can shoot.
Micro, Frank's long time sidekick, gets to do some actual shooting this issue rather than simply being Frank's man in the chair.
Punisher holds bloody stick while someone else babbles about the plot, big Doomslayer 2016 energy.
Frank shooting his acquired Sterling SMG.
More Sterling action.
Frank is trapped.
Fortunately, he thinks up a clever plan to escape.
Budda budda budda firefight.
Micro opens fire to make an intentionally flashy entrance.
He then uses cultural appropriation for good in order to scare the superstitious thugs.
Micro meets up with Frank and they share what passes for humor.
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mild spoiler
And this image isn't even the highest peak.
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'Kill Six Billion Demons' is an insane, sprawling story that you can read online (or buy physical volumes of)
(killsixbilliondemons.com)
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Credits:
I didn't really follow the story beyond an uprising against Darkseid on the planet Apokolips, but art was wonderful.
Super heroic moron flying through space, vaguely near his space horse.
An especially super heroic landing.
I do genuinely love the old school approach to color of metallic objective like Darkseid's armor here.
Sire, the peasants are revolting.
This panel suffers from some proportion issues meeting with the intrinsically goofy design of Darkseid to produce a kind of squished action figure visual.
A standout panel. The white silhouetting is inventive and evocative.
A helmeted lasergunslinger.
Oh good lord. At least there won't be a closeup of that face.
Oh no.
The planet broke before the peasants did.
Just a super intense panel.
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This is a short story from the February 1982 issue of Epic Illustrated.
The story begins with the British and Germans in the trenches of WW1
The main character is shot and in his daze gets separated from everyone else in no man's land.
Eventually he finds himself in a fantastical world.
Eventually he meets a German soldier, and they share a meal before he passes out again, and wakes up back in the trenches.
There's a final few panels where the apparent hallucinations are given some context as German officers decide not to use the "experimental" new gas anymore after reports one of their own men was affected and reported having a friendly meeting with a British soldier.
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Cover at the Simon Comics crowdfunding campaign.
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32876527
As a child of the 80s, it is a real treat to add this to the collection. “Wings of silver. Nerves of steel…”
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And anything with multiverses and parallel worlds, reading tom strong made me feel some chidlike wonder. Enjoyed the dark undertones.
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