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Strip Panel Naked: 'Unstoppable Wasp' And Complicated Layouts
Strip Panel Naked: 'Unstoppable Wasp' And Complicated Layouts
Strip Panel Naked: 'Unstoppable Wasp' And Complicated Layouts
I love the fun Marvel books, like last week's Unstoppable Wasp. It reminds me why I started reading superhero comics in the first place, and the whole thing is a blast. You can tell the creators --- Jeremy Whitley, Elsa Charretier, Megan Wilson and Joe Caramagna --- are having tonnes of fun, too. It starts to bleed into the way they present the story, with some non-traditional layouts on quite a few pages. The comics form is often limited to just regular panels, gridded pages and the like, but it's not the only way to draw a story on a page, obviously. So when you see an example like Nadia recounting a story of her father --- Hank Pym --- and it's told through the mask of Ant Man, that stands out. It breaks the normal mold of what you'd expect, and it does a couple of things that help tell a story.
Bottleneck Gallery Debuts Classic 'Simpsons' Episode Prints
Bottleneck Gallery Debuts Classic 'Simpsons' Episode Prints
Bottleneck Gallery Debuts Classic 'Simpsons' Episode Prints
What's your favorite episode of The Simpsons? It's a tough choice right? For over twenty-five years and hundreds of episodes, Springfield's favorite family have provided some of the best episodes of television ever created and inspired a generation of artists and fans in the process. To celebrate the show, Bottleneck Gallery are debuting three prints based on classic Simpsons episodes by the artist Florey.
Strip Panel Naked: The Considered Approach of 'Hulk'
Strip Panel Naked: The Considered Approach of 'Hulk'
Strip Panel Naked: The Considered Approach of 'Hulk'
Sometimes when you read a story, something sticks out at you. A page might feel weird, or a layout might seem odd and distracting. It could be that it's just a bad choice on the team's part in figuring out the approach to tell the story, or it could be an example like in the new Hulk book where it's very deliberately done for effect. Mariko Tamaki and Nico Leon have a very specific visual style for the majority for the book. It's not that it's simple, but there's an obviousness to it. It looks like comics. Some panels overlap, but there's a standard structure that doesn't look too unusual. Everything works on columns and rows, and it's fairly regimented. It all breaks apart in a scene with Jen in the lift.
Costume Drama: Reimagining The Original X-Men, Again
Costume Drama: Reimagining The Original X-Men, Again
Costume Drama: Reimagining The Original X-Men, Again
Welcome to Costume Drama, where we turn a critical eye toward superhero outfits and evaluate both the aesthetics and the social issues that often underlie them. For this installment I'm looking at five characters who've been redesigned as a group more than perhaps any other team: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel and Beast, the original founding members of the X-Men. In particular, I want to look at the costumes that the teenage versions of these characters have worn since they traveled to the present in Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen's All-New X-Men.
Check Out Giannis Milonogiannis's 'GI Joe' Sketchbook
Check Out Giannis Milonogiannis's 'GI Joe' Sketchbook
Check Out Giannis Milonogiannis's 'GI Joe' Sketchbook
This week saw the release of the all-new GI Joe series, and as part of their efforts to re-establish America's Daring, Highly Trained Special Missions Force as the Crown Jewel of the Hasbro Universe, IDW has done a lot of really interesting things. It's changed the lineup and pared it down to a core team and added a new member that... well, that you could only really have on a version of GI Joe that exists in a unified Hasbro universe with all the other toy comics surrounding it. But one of the most impressive things about the new series is that it features the art of Giannis Milonogiannis, who --- paired with writer Aubrey Sitterson --- has given GI Joe the kind of look that I'm not sure it's ever had before. It's a completely new take on the the aesthetic of ninja-based military fantasy. Now, Milonogiannis has released an 18-page sketchbook that features pages from the first issue, and his character designs for Scarlett, Shipwreck, Rock 'n' Roll, and more.
Strip Panel Naked: Center Focus In 'Lake of Fire'
Strip Panel Naked: Center Focus In 'Lake of Fire'
Strip Panel Naked: Center Focus In 'Lake of Fire'
I love Lake of Fire, by Matt Smith and Nathan Fairbairn. I mean, I really love it. It's an incredibly well told story from a formal point of view, and both Smith and Fairbairn bring a lot to that book. It wrapped up this past week, which means it's as good a time as any to take a look at one element it repeatedly uses throughout its final issue; center focus.
Best Covers Ever (This Year): IDW 2016 Edition
Best Covers Ever (This Year): IDW 2016 Edition
Best Covers Ever (This Year): IDW 2016 Edition
In the latest of our galleries celebrating the best covers of the year, we're looking at the best covers from IDW. IDW maintained its impressive and diverse line of licensed properties in 2016, from Ninja Turtles to Little Ponies, as well as ambitiously expanding and collating its Hasbro properties under the "Revolution" banner, and reviving and reinventing the Micronauts, M.A.S.K., and Rom.
Best Covers Ever (This Year): Archie Comics 2016 Edition
Best Covers Ever (This Year): Archie Comics 2016 Edition
Best Covers Ever (This Year): Archie Comics 2016 Edition
The Holidays are upon as, and the year is basically gone. And as you know by now, that mean that here at ComicsAlliance, we're looking back at the best that comics had to offer in 2016. So here, to give you warm feeling as you head into your holiday weekend, are the best Archie Comics covers of the year.

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