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Jormungand: SEAL Team 9 – “the Night Nine”

I read Jormungand, Vol. 10

I posted a review at the ComicBookBin (which has free smart phone apps and comics).

I Reads You Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #2

ALL-NEW X-MEN #2
MARVEL COMICS

WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILS: Stuart Immonen
INKS: Wade von Grawbadger
COLORS: Marte Gracia
LETTERS: VC’s Cory Petit
28pp, Colors, $3.99 U.S.

Rated T+

The Marvel Comics event, Marvel NOW, is a re-launch, re-vamp, or re-something. It means lots of new first issues and restarts. One new title has shockingly (to me) and totally captured my imagination and attention. That title is All-New X-Men by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Stuart Immonen. I have not been this excited about an X-Men title since John Byrne’s X-Men: The Hidden Years and Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s New X-Men.

All-New X-Men has started with a series of bangs. Cyclops/Scott Summers, one of the original X-Men, has become a highly controversial figure. Cyclops is the public face of a new mutant revolution. He and his teammates: Magneto, the White Queen, and Majick, are gathering new mutants as fast as they appear.

Meanwhile, the X-Men at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning: Storm, Wolverine, Beast, Iceman, and Kitty Pryde fear that Cyclops’ activities will trigger a mutant apocalypse. In a desperate bid to stop this from happening, the Beast/Hank McCoy goes back in time to ask the original X-Men for help.

As All-New X-Men #2 opens, the Beast confronts the original X-Men: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman, and his younger-and-lacking-blue-fur self, the Beast. He wants them to return to the future with him so that perhaps, younger Scott, seeing the way older Scott is acting, will change things. But if the original X-Men decide to help, who says they won’t do it their own way?

Why is All-New X-Men so good? It’s simple. Brian Michael Bendis’ thoughtful, occasionally dense, and character-centric writing, which focuses on Marvel’s mutants, both as people and heroes, is ideal for an X-Men comic book. This opening storyline (“Here Comes Yesterday”) allows Bendis to define personalities and ambitions and aspirations. These are the things that drive the conflict within each individual and within the team, as well as within the larger mutant community and the larger world.

Stuart Immonen’s pencil art delivers compositions that capture the intimate moments and the superhero melodrama of Bendis’ script. It tells the story in a compelling and dramatic way that makes each moment and each panel necessary to the story. Inker Wade von Grawbadger gives the story even more dramatic heft, adding a dark overtone while also making the art eye candy. Immonen and von Grawbadger present some of the best graphical storytelling that X-Men comics have delivered in a decade, as far as I’m concerned.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

Bakuman: One-Shot and Stand Alone

I read Bakuman., Vol. 17

I posted a review at ComicBookBin.

Review: DUB TRUB: “Our World is in Danger Now!”

DUB TRUB: “OUR WORLD IS IN DANGER NOW!”
CANDLE LIGHT PRESS/Warning Comics – @candlelightpres

CARTOONIST: Carter Allen
ISBN: 978-0-9766053-7-9; paperback
PIN-UP: Jeremy Smith
108pp, Color, $10.95 U.S.

Dub Trub: “Our World is in Danger Now!” is a 2003 graphic novel from comic book creator, Carter Allen. Allen is a writer/artist and graphic novelist who has produced several comic book series and graphic novels. “Our World is in Danger Now!” is the first in a sci-fi adventure and comic space opera series that follows a pair of enhanced, female super-soldiers, who lead the fight against an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth.

Originally published in black and white, Dub Trub: “Our World is in Danger Now!” returns in a 2012 color edition. The book looks good, because, as I said years ago, Dub Trub should be in color.

The title characters of Dub Trub are Special Agent Red and Special Agent Black. Red is a brunette who wears red sunglasses, and Black is red-haired hellion who wears black shades. Like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the X-Men’s Rogue, this duo is at the forefront of the fight against the Voyd, an extraterrestrial horde invading Earth. The Voyd essentially leads an interstellar Axis of alien races fighting on their side, such as the Khan’Leb, a mercenary race hired by the Voyd to help with human subjugation. Over land, air, and sea, with visits to the moon, New York City, and Moscow, Red and Black lead the charge in the fight to save Earth and humanity.

Not only have I previously read Dub Trub: “Our World is in Danger Now!,” I have also read the other Dub Trub graphic novels. Reading this color edition of “Our World is in Danger Now!,” however, I feel as if I’ve read it for the first time. The color makes the art pop off the page, and it also makes more obvious how Dub Trub relates to other science fiction, fantasy, and comic book works.

With the debut of new versions of such characters as Flash (1956) and Green Lantern (1959), the DC Comics of what is called the Silver Age of comics had a Space Age quality to it. It was a kind of futuristic, forward-looking attitude that remains with the publisher to this day. In terms of story and art, Dub Trub seems like a neo-Silver Age DC comic book. I can imagine Gil Kane and Julius Schwartz tinkering with this book.

Carter Allen also recalls World War II-era comic books with the Voyd ably stepping in for Nazi Germany and the Axis. In the last of the book’s four chapters, Allen juxtaposes WWII-like propaganda with the story of a lonely and weary foot soldier. I never thought of these things when I first read this book, but color brings out so much more subtext and layers to the story.

If you have not before, here is another chance to read Dub Trub: “Our World is in Danger Now!” It’s certainly prettier than before.

A

www.candlelightpress.com
www.dubtrub.com
www.warningcomics.com

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

Afterschool Charisma: The Leonardo Da Vinci Foundation

I read Afterschool Charisma, Vol. 7

I posted a review at ComicBookBin.