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."

Monday, April 14, 2014

THE BZZZT - NEW TITLES & JUMPING ON POINTS COMING AT YOU THIS WEEK.

FOR RELEASE 04.16.2014 - This is what the world of comics has in store for everyone this week.  Some great new titles & jumping on points, plus the 1st volume of another Matt Fraction Image Comics epic and the end to the Superior Spider-Man!

 HULK #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Mark Waid (A) Mark Bagley (CA) Jerome Opena
ALL-NEW DIRECTION! THE EPIC "BANNER D.O.A." BEGINS NOW!!!
Following the shocking events of last month's INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK finale, Bruce Banner lies at death's door! If he survives, it WON'T be as the Bruce Banner we've known! How will the Hulk wreak vengeance on Banner's assailant? How CAN he?
 
 
SINESTRO #1
DC COMICS
(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Dale Eaglesham
Thaal Sinestro has lost everything he's ever loved: his home, his family, his only friend. But no matter how desperate he becomes, Sinestro will never be without fear...a lesson his one-time ally, one-time enemy Lyssa Drak is eager to teach him! Can he take back the despicable Yellow Lantern Corps? Or does the universe have a new destiny in mind for Sinestro?
 
 
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage (A) Will Sliney (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli
• SERIES FINALE! The end of an era! A tale of triumph and tragedy! The GREEN GOBLIN unmasked! A hero reborn! But what does this mean for OTTO OCTAVIUS?!
•  There's only one man who can save us from the Goblin Nation... PETER PARKER: The one, true SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN!
 
 
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 01
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Chip Zdarsky
Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here, by MATT FRACTION (SATELLITE SAM, Hawkeye) and CHIP ZDARSKY (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops).  Collects SEX CRIMINALS #1-5
 
 
 
LIVE IT LIKE YOU LOVE IT!
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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