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, April 8, 2014

THE BZZZT - BEST NEW TITLES & JUMPING ON POINTS IN COMICS THIS WEEK!

FOR RELEASE 04.09.2014 - This is what the world of comics has in store for everyone this week.  Some great new titles & jumping on points, plus the 2nd volume of a Jonathan Hickman epic!


 ALL NEW ULTIMATES #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Michel Fiffe (A) Amilcar Pinna
THE NEXT GENERATION OF ULTIMATES IS HERE!!!
•  SPIDER-MAN, BLACK WIDOW, KITTY PRYDE, BOMBSHELL, CLOAK & DAGGER officially unite to tackle the vicious, rampant crime wave overtaking Hell's Kitchen!
•  DIAMONDBACK leads the teen gang, the SERPENT SKULLS, as they run West Midtown's drug and weapons trade & deal in murderous citywide terror!
•  Detective Brigid O'Reilly and her anti-gang unit are on the hunt for a serial mask killer called SCOURGE; they get close but not without some casualties!
•  Written by Michel Fiffe, the creator of the acclaimed indie series COPRA

 
BATMAN ETERNAL #1
DC COMICS
(W) Scott Snyder & Various (A/CA) Jason Fabok
Don't dare miss the start of the Bat-story so big it's going to take every week of the month to tell! A massive cast of Gotham City's best (and worst) examines the relationship between Batman, his allies and his city. In this debut issue, Commissioner James Gordon is caught on the wrong side of the law!

 
 
IRON FIST LIVING WEAPON #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W/A/CA) Kaare Andrews
High above the city, in a multi-million dollar penthouse, Danny Rand, a.k.a. Iron Fist, "The Living Weapon," is haunted by the consequences of choosing death over life. A message from Iron Fist's mystical homeland of K'un-Lun brings Danny back to his blood soaked origin of betrayal and vengeance! Revenge is a weapon that cuts both ways.... Will Danny survive the bloodletting? A one-of-a-kind kung fu action epic directed by the inimitable Kaare Andrews!
 
 
NIGHTCRAWLER #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Chris Claremont (A) Todd Nauck (CA) Chris Samnee
NIGHTCRAWLER IS BACK!
Newly-returned from the afterlife, veteran X-Man Kurt Wagner finds himself in a world that's a far cry from the one he left: Professor Xavier is dead, Cyclops is on the run, and the X-Men are divided. But determined not to let his new lease on life go to waste, Nightcrawler hits the road alongside Wolverine, eager to right some wrongs and safeguard the future mutantkind...and he's going to do it by the means he loves most: swashbuckling, lady-charming and-of course-BAMFing!
 
 
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 02
WE ALL ARE ONE
 
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Nick Dragotta
The second volume of the most exciting new book in the industry is here! "We Are All One" follows our cast around the fractured future-scape of America as we learn more about a world that's rapidly coming to a end.
 
 
 
LIVE IT LIKE YOU LOVE IT!
 
 



 


 

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