Comics: The Meaning

com-ics (kom'iks)n. plural in form, used with a singular verb. 1. Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.

"If Comics' spectacularly varied past is any indication, comics' future will be virtually impossible to predict using the standards of the present.... Those of you who make comics for a living - or would like to someday, probably know that keeping up with all the advances in today's comics is a full-time job. However much we may try to understand the world of comics around us, a part of that world will always lie in shadow - a mystery.... As it is, it should be kept in mind at all times that this world is only one of many possible worlds!
Our attempts to define comics are an on-going process which won't end anytime soon. A new generation will no doubt reject whatever this one finally decides to accept and try once more to reinvent comics. And so they should. Here's to the great debate."

Excerpts and paraphrased from the amazing Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art."

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

THE BZZZ - 04.25.2012

A quick look at this week's (04.25.2012) new graphic novels, new comic book #1s and crossovers. Plus, my book of the week!

TPB = TRADE PAPERBACK
HC = HARD COVER
PREM = PREMIER

BOOK OF THE WEEK

DAREDEVIL #10 - OMEGA EFFECT PART 3
Cover #81055
The Omega Effect”‌ Concludes! • Daredevil And Spider-Man Join Frank Castle In A Blitzkrieg Takedown Of New York Crime-- But Don’t Take It For Granted That These Heroes Are All Working Together.


GRAPHIC NOVELS

DARK TOWER TP BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL
Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill TPB
The World Has Moved On. Nine Years Gone Since The Gunslingers Protected The Land. Nine Years Gone Since The Fall Of Gilead, When The Good Man’s Dark Army Brutally Took The Ancient City From Those Same Gunslingers And Pushed Them Into The Wilderness Beyond. With The Affiliation Busted, It’s Been A Time Of Retrenchment For Roland And What Remains Of His Ka-Tet, Hiding And On The Run From Marauding Mutants And Farson’s Mercenaries. But Now, With The Revelation That One Of The Beams That Support The Dark Tower Is Broken, Things Couldn’t Possibly Be Any Worse: First Roland’s Homeland, And Now Mid-World Itself, Are On The Brink Of Destruction. The Dark Tower’s Thirty-Issue Run Concludes With A Final Showdown Between Darkness And Light At Jericho Hill! Collecting Dark Tower: The Battle Of Jericho Hill #1-5.


NEW #1s

POPEYE #1 OF 4

Popeye the Sailor Man sails again! E.C Segar's classic creation is back, with his first original comic in over 30 years! Written by the Eisner Award-winning Roger Landridge (The Muppets), with pitch-perfect art from rising star Bruce Ozella, it's a new take on the classic character that's true to its roots! With a rare incentive cover from legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer!


CROSSOVERS & TIE INS

DAREDEVIL #10 - OMEGA EFFECT PART 3
Cover #81055
The conclusion to the 3 part OMEGA EFFECT crossover that began this month in AVENGING SPIDER-MAN and the PUNISHER.  Part 2 ended with DD getting shot off the upper balcony at Grant Central Station by the new Punisher, Rachel Alves.  Rucka and Waid continue to take the Marvel U places it needs to go.

AVX VS #1 (OF 6)
Cover #95803
The Premier Tie-In To Avengers Vs. X-Men! • All-Out ActionFeaturing CoTo Cover Battles, Each Issue Expanding On Fights From The Main Avx Book—In Ways You Can’t Imagine! • This Issue: Iron Man Vs. Magneto And Thing Vs. Namor!
 
NEW AVENGERS #25 AVX
Cover #92300
Avx Tie-In! • Iron Fist Discovers The Shocking Connection Between Himself And The Cosmic Phoenix Force…!


LIVE IT LIKE YOU LOVE IT!

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