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."

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

THE BZZZT

This weekly column will now be dedicated to 5 comics and 2 graphic novels that are MUST reads for that given week.  If you haven't read these issues, hunt them down.

BATWOMAN #13
WRITTEN BY J.H WILLIAMS III/HADEN BLACKMAN AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A COVER BY J.H WILLIAMS III - Batwoman and Wonder Woman team up to fight Medusa!  Batwoman and Wonder Woman team up to fight Medusa! (We're so excited we had to say it twice).
 
BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN #4 OF 6
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A COVER BY DARWYN COOKE.  CRIMSON CORSAIR WRITTEN BY LEN WEIN AND ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN HIGGINS -"You tell them, Hollis. Tell them all what they did to us!"
 
WONDER WOMAN #13
WRITTEN BY BRIAN AZZARELLO, ILLUSTRATED BY TONY AIKINS AND WITH A COVER BY CLIFF CHIANG - A terrible betrayal forces Wonder Woman to make a deal with the gods who want her dead!  Ares, god of war, takes a sudden interest in the Amazing Amazon!
 
DAREDEVIL #19
WRITTEN BY MARK WAID, ILLUSTRATED BY CHRIS SAMNEE AND WITH A COVER BY PAOLO RIVERA - The streets of New York run red with blood!  Matt's mind unravels as the Coyote creates chaos!
 
HAWKEYE #3
WRITTEN BY MATT FRACTION AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A COVER BY
DAVID AJA - What is the Vagabond Code?  Barton and Bishop mean Double the Hawkeye...and Double the trouble.  Fraction and Aja are back with a chase that will blow not only your mind, but several your ancestors' minds as well. 
 
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY TP VOL 03
TERRORISM MYTH
WRITTEN BY KIERON GILLEN, ILLUSTRATED BY MITCH BREITWEISER/RICHARD ELSON AND COVER ART BY STEPHANIE HANS - The Serpent, Norse god of fear, has been vanquished, thanks to Loki - once the god of mischief, now reborn as a child. But FEAR ITSELF was the stuff of nightmares, and now those nightmares are threatening to destroy the world. Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan, is investigating a string of bizarre deaths - and all signs point to Loki. Literally. Like, on a map. But as the infernal exorcist and young god battle, the fear lord Nightmare is gathering enough fear energy to rule the world. And the mother lode is inside Loki's mind. Aided by an undead handmaiden, a demon puppy and a shirtless half-devil, Loki will have to risk everything on a scheme so crazy, it might as well have been thought up by...well, a god of mischief! Collecting JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #632-636.  
 
PUNISHERMAX TP HOMELESS
WRITTEN BY JASON AARON AND ILLUSTRATED WITH COVER ART BY STEVE DILLON - Since his family's death, Frank Castle has waged a brutal, never-ending war on crime as the Punisher. Once, he was the most feared man in the city - but no more. Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, has brought him as low as he's ever been. No home, no weapons, no resources - just a broken old man with nothing to lose. And the Punisher has never been more dangerous. There's no way Frank can get to Fisk in his ivory tower - surrounded by soldiers and his deadly ninja bodyguard Elektra. But Frank has a plan to draw Fisk out. Now, the Punisher's war is about to reach its grisly conclusion. In their final battle, either Wilson Fisk or Frank Castle will die - but neither is going down without a hell of a fight. Collecting PUNISHERMAX (2010) #17-22.
 
 
LIVE IT LIKE YOU LOVE IT!
 
 
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