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, July 4, 2012

THE BZZZT - 07.04.2012

A quick look at this week's (07.04.2012) new graphic novels, new #1s and crossovers. Plus, my pick of the week!

TPB = TRADE PAPERBACK
HC = HARD COVER
PREM = PREMIER

PICK OF THE WEEK

ACTION COMICS #11
Superman’s NEW secret identity revealed! • LOIS LANE continues her investigation into the mystery of Earth’s FIRST Superman! • Plus, in the backup story: We know where Superman got his armor costume, but where did he get all those “S” T-shirts?


NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS

BATMAN EARTH ONE HC
From GEOFF JOHNS and GARY FRANK, the acclaimed team behind SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN and the SHAZAM! stories in JUSTICE LEAGUE!• In the tradition of SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE, this spectacular original graphic novel gives new insight into BRUCE WAYNE'S transformation into BATMAN and his first year as THE DARK KNIGHT. • In this all new take on the Batman mythos, Bruce Wayne is on the hunt for his parents' killer. His target? The Mayor of Gotham City!• Plus, who is Alfred Pennyworth – and why is he so determined to put an end to the Batman?
 
SECRET WARRIORS OMNIBUS HC
Secret Warriors Omnibus HC #1-1ST
Collects Mighty Avengers (2007) #13 And 18, Secret Warriors (2009 Marvel) #1-28, Dark Reign The List Secret Warriors (2009) #1, Siege Secret Warriors (2010) #1 , And Material From Dark Reign New Nation (2008) #1. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and Jonathon Hickman. Cover Art by Jim Cheung. Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury And His Newly Minted Team Of Secret Warriors Uncover A Conspiracy That Reaches From The Oval Office To Japan - And Even Beyond Death. When A Shadow War Breaks Out Between Leviathan And Hydra, It's Up To Fury And His Warriors To Take Them Both Out. The Reconstituted Howling Commandos Join Fury's Ranks, But Tragedy Waits In The Wings As The Conflict Blossoms Into An All-Out War On Three Fronts. As Hydra And Leviathan Ready For Their Final Strikes - On Each Other And The World - Fury Will Have To Make Some Of The Grittiest Life-And-Death Choices Of His Long Life! Hardcover, 904 pages, full color
 
 
NEW #1s
 
CAPE 1969 #1
It’s 1969 and the war in Vietnam rages on. Captain Chase, a Medevac helicopter pilot for the US Army, is shot down over enemy territory. He and his crew are in a fight for their lives as they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Vietcong. We soon learn that machine guns and grenades aren’t the only scary things hiding in the jungle. Find out what happens in this origin prequel to last year’s Eisner Award-nominated hit, with story by Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella, and art and colors by Nelson Daniel (Road Rage, The Cape). Explore your dark side.
 
HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #1
HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE return to comics in an all-new miniseries!  SKELETOR strikes with his master plan to rule ETERNIA!  Can ADAM and the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE remember what ETERNIA was like in time to save it?
 
BEFORE WATCHMEN:  OZYMANDIAS #1
"I have goals to achieve. Dreams to make come true." Plus, a new CRIMSON CORSAIR backup feature from writer LEN WEIN and artist JOHN HIGGINS!
 
 
CROSSOVERS
 
AVENGERS VS X-MEN #7 OF 12
AVENGERS VS. X-MEN 7 (WITH DIGITAL CODE)
Cyclops changes the game with these three words: "No More Avengers!"
 
UNCANNY X-MEN AVX #15
UNCANNY X-MEN 15 (AVX, WITH DIGITAL CODE)

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