ComicsAlliance Week in Review: January 15-21
Reviews:
-Aaron Colter presented the Best Webcomics Ever (This Week)
-David Brothers dug into Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations
-Lauren Davis rounded up 17 diary-format webcomics
-CA critics dug the new directions of Rob Liefeld's old Awesome properties taken in Prophet and Glory
-Sims called Mark Waid and company's "The Devil and The Details" story, which crossed-over from Amazing Spider-Man into Daredevil, the first great comic of the year
-Lauren Davis caught up on Gisèle Lagacé's NSFW webcomic Ménage à 3
Previews:
-Chris Roberson and Rich Ellis' Memorial #2, complete with an exclusive pin-up by Ellis
-The cover of Wolverine and the X-Men #9, the Avengers Vs. X-Men tie-in, plus a mess of other AvX covers
Publishing:
-DC's new logo continued to receive plenty of attention, including Sims' discovery of decades worth of CA comments criticizing DC's past logo updates, professional graphic designer Dylan Todd's analysis and DC's mid-week full reveal of the interactive component of the new design
-The new Valiant will relaunch with a new volume of X-O Manowar by Robert Vendittie and Cary Nord
-The first "volume" of R Stevens' webcomic Diesel Sweeties has been made available as a free eBook
-IDW will launch a new Popeye comic by Roger Langridge and Bruce Ozella in April
ART:
-Loston Wallace (pin-ups of cartoon and comics characters)
-Entries in LA's Gallery 1988's Adult Swim-inspired show
-This week's Best Art Ever (This Week)
-Francesco Francavella's "Hellbrown" Peanuts/Hellboy mash-ups
-Yasmin Liang (superheroes, original characters)
TOYS:
-Marvel's Fear Itself event/story will be commemorated in a line of Minimates
-Hasbro's Avengers toys from the upcoming movie will look like this
TELEVISION:
-FX passed on the Powers TV pilot as is, but they're considering ordering a rewrite and reshoots
-The CW is green-lighting work on a live-action Green Arrow pilot
INTERVIEW:
ORIGINAL COMICS:
-The guys from Let's Be Friends Again explain Donna Troy...or come as close as anyone can come to explaining Donna Troy (Warning: Strip includes images of Terry Long!)