Last week was a bit of a bummer insofar as news about quirky comics I like. First, Jason Aaron announced the end of Wolverine and the X-Men: The original plan was for me to write both WatXM and AMAZING X-MEN as sister titles. One dealing with the school, the other with the X-Men from that …
(Images from Power Pack #1 and #50. Art by June Brigman / Bob Wiacek and Jon Bodganove / Hilary Barta, respectively). Probably one of the better twists in Simonson’s run on Power Pack was the infamous Power Switch. Sure, super-heroes had swapped bodies before, and people with external powers like armors or rings had passed …
(From Power Pack #1. Words Louise Simonson, pencils June Brigman, inks Bob Wiacek, colors Glynis Oliver.) It’s one of the things kids do most often. It’s essential role playing, really. Whatever it is you’re interested in that week, that’s what you’ll be when you grow up. Having fun with football? You’re going to the NFL. …
As usual, once my brain latches onto something, it tends to go into mental pitbull mode. Peter Pan is no better at escaping those steely obsessive jaws, it seems. How obsessive? How about turning a gag line into a mission statement? There’s a bit right after Peter meets Wendy, when he says “You mustn’t touch …
My fiancée is in the preparatory research stage of costume designing a local production of Peter Pan, which means there’s a lot of Pan talk around the homestead. And, honestly, there’s a lot to talk about. We’ve nattered about discussing the “Indians” quite a bit, as that section of the show is especially … delicate. …
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Via Comics Worth Reading comes a link to Raina Telgemeier giving the ins and outs of her latest book, Drama, a post which hits on a bunch of interesting bits for my money, beyond my general interest in process posts. I suspect at least a few of the steps involved are exclusive to established cartoonists, …
