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Monday, January 4, 2021
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 6, 2021
Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 6, 2021
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Sunday, January 3, 2021
#IReads You Review: CHEW VOLUME 1: Taster's Choice
CHEW, VOL. 1: TASTER'S CHOICE
IMAGE COMICS – @ImageComics
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
WRITER: John Layman
ART: Rob Guillory
COLORS: Rob Guillory with Lisa Gonzales
LETTERS: John Layman
ISBN: 978-1-60706-159-5; paperback (April 2011 – second printing)
128pp, Colors, $9.99 U.S.
Chew created by John Layman and Rob Guillory
Chew is an ongoing comic book series from writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory. Published by Image Comics, Chew became an immediate hit, selling out, and earning critical acclaim. By the end of its first two years of publication, the series had won two Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards (Eisners), including “Best New Series” (2010).
The first five issues of Chew are collected in the trade paperback, Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice. This first collection of the hit series includes, of course, Chew #1 (cover dated: June 2009), which introduces Philadelphia Police Department Detective Tony Chu, a cop with a weird secret. Tony is “cibopathic,” which means that he can get psychic impressions from whatever he eats or tastes.
If he eats an apple, Tony sees images that can tell him about the tree from which the apple came, what pesticides were used on that tree, or even when that apple was harvested. Or Tony can eat a hamburger, and the pictures that appear in his mind could be a replay of when the cow was… harvested.
In the world of Chew, poultry is illegal because chickens were blamed for a bird flu epidemic that killed 23 million people in the United States and 116 million worldwide. Tony and his partner, John Colby, stumble upon a black market poultry operation. By the end of it, Colby is grievously wounded and Tony commits a shocking act of cannibalism. Tony is recruited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) to join its Special Crimes Division. He is matched with a new partner, the loquacious Mason Savoy. Suddenly, cannibalism is the least of Tony's problems.
Of the many things that work successful with Chew, I think the fact that Tony Chu's life becomes more complicated is probably what keeps the series fresh and hopping. Writer John Layman shows off his imaginative and inventive sides, producing plots which reveal that things are both what they seem and not what they seem. The expected and unexpected are fickle lovers with a bad sense of timing where Tony Chu is concerned.
Layman also gives Chew a wicked sense of humor that plays on cop fiction stereotypes – the by-the-book newcomer (Tony to the F.D.A.), the wise old bull of a partner (Mason Savoy), and the legion of criminal enterprises, street hoods, and assorted lowlifes. Yet Layman's depiction of a world of government corruption, bureaucratic putrefaction, and institutional decay make Chew not only timely, but also timeless. Chew is imaginative science fiction as a satire of our society for all seasons.
In artist Rob Guillory, Layman has found the proverbial perfect man. I can imagine another artist drawing Chew, but I do not believe that anyone but Guillory could be the series' conceptual designer or its graphical storytelling guide. Chew would not be Chew without Guillory anymore than Pixar would be what it is without John Lassetter.
I have revisited the beginning of Chew, so that I could start over and move onto what I have not read. Unless it has experienced a tremendous fall-off, it is one of the best comic books of the past decade.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Saturday, January 2, 2021
#IReadsYou Review: DEMON SLAYER: Kimetsu No Yaiba Volume 2
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 2
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
MANGAKA: Koyoharu Gotouge
TRANSLATION: John Werry
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Steve “Stan!” Brown
LETTERS: John Hunt
EDITOR: Mike Montesa
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0053-0; paperback (September 2018); Rated “T” for “Teen”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 U.K.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotoge. The manga was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020. VIZ Media has been publishing an English-language edition of the manga as a paperback graphic novel series under its “Shonen Jump” imprint since July 2018.
Demon Slayer is set in Taisho era Japan (1912 to 1926). Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who sells coal in order to support his mother and four siblings. After one particularly taxing trip to sell coal, Tanjiro returns to his home in the forest to find his family slaughtered. He discovers that a younger sibling, his sister Nezuko, has herself been transformed into a demon by the unknown demon that killed his family.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Vol. 2 (Chapters 8 to 16) opens as Tanjiro battles a demon as part of the final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps. Next, he must choose the kasugai crow that he will use for mission communication with the corps. Tanjiro must also choose the ore from which his sword will be made, but after his sword is made, something unusual happens.
Tanjiro's begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer by heading north to a town where young girls are disappearing. Plus, Tanjiro learns of the name of the demon he must eventually confront, Muzan Kibutsuji.
THE LOWDOWN: The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba manga is the latest in a line of excellent titles that VIZ Media has released in the last year. A supernatural fantasy and revenge drama, Demon Slayer is demonic treat.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Graphic Novel 2 takes reader into the beginning of Tanjiro's quest and of his profession. Creator Koyoharu Gotouge does not make things easy for his young hero. I don't get the feeling that he will be defeated, but that he will undergo a learning process that we readers will get to experience with him. I think that makes for a fun read.
I also like that Gotouge is not leaving Tanjiro's sister, Nezuko, as a mere victim or as nothing more than a liability. When Gotouge gives her something to do, the cursed sister becomes a wild card character, engaging and appealing. I almost want her to have her own manga; in the meantime, she makes Demon Slayer twice the fun to read.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of demon-fighting heroes will want to read the Shonen Jump title, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba.
A
9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Friday, January 1, 2021
#IReadsYou Review: CHAOS CAMPUS #29
CHAOS CAMPUS: SORORITY GIRLS VS ZOMBIES #29
APPROBATION COMICS
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: B. Alex Thompson – @ApproBAT
ART: Anita Zaramella
COLORS: Anita Zaramella
LETTERS: Krugos
POST-SCRIPTING/POLISH: John P. Ward
EDITORS: B. Alex Thompson and John P. Ward
COVER: Anita Zaramella
28pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. print/$1.99 U.S. digital (2016; digital release date – May 24, 2017)
Rated: Teen 13+ / 15+ Only – comiXology rating
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies created by B. Alex Thompson
“One Night at Pheromones”
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies is the long-running zombie apocalypse comic book series from Approbation Comics. Mixing in elements of comedy, horror, and adventure, it is the creation of B. Alex Thompson. The series is set during a zombie invasion and follows the adventures of three members of the sorority, Epsilon Alpha Zeta Upsilon (EAZY): ass-kickin’ Jamie Lynn Schaeffer, brainy and magic-wielding Paige Helena Patton, and sexy Brittany Ann Miller.
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies #29 (“One Night at Pheromones”) opens in the aftermath of “The Road to Salvation” story arc. As usual, our heroic trio is seeking a momentary safe haven from the zombies. They head to “Dinah's Haven,” an all-female city and military garrison. Upon entry, the girls discover that there is a weapons checkpoint and that they must relinquish all of their weapons.
There, they meet two mystery men, Marco and Dylan, with whom Brittany and Paige immediately become smitten. Seeking a place where they can get to know each other, the EAZY girls and the new guys head to Dinah's Haven's only drinking establishment, the strip club, “Pheromones.” The new friends find plenty of pretty girls, do some lap-dancing, and discover the secret of Dinah's Haven in this issue written by B. Alex Thompson; drawn and colored by Anita Zaramella; and lettered by Krugos.
THE LOWDOWN: After bringing “The Road to Salvation” story line to an end, writer B. Alex Thompson brings some levity to the standalone story, “One Night at Pheromones.” It reminds me of those standalone issues of Uncanny X-Men that writer Chris Claremont used to do so well.
The star of this issue is artist-colorist Anita Zaramella. Her elastic and fluid drawing style yields compositions that pop with energy and makes this story move quickly. The graphic storytelling offers readers a sexy romp in the series usual wheelhouse. Zaramella's coloring is bright and vivid, and the colors bring club “Pheromones” to life as the exiting and NAS-TAY! place to be.
Chaos Campus #29 is a surprisingly good one-off issue. It features one of Chaos Campus' strengths – its ability to not take itself too seriously while being true to its driving force. This issue is a good place to start for new readers.
POSSIBLE AUDIENCE: Fans of zombies and of horror-comedies will want to try Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies.
8 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Thursday, December 31, 2020
#IReadsYou Movie Review: WONDER WOMAN
Running time: 141 minutes
MPAA – PG - 13 for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content
DIRECTOR: Patty Jenkins
WRITERS: Allan Heinberg; from a story by Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg, and Jason Fuchs (based on characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and created by William Moulton Marston)
PRODUCERS: Charles Roven, Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, and Richard Suckle
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Matthew Jensen
EDITOR: Martin Walsh
COMPOSER: Rupert Gregson-Williams
SUPERHERO/FANTASY/WAR/HISTORICAL
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Said Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, Eugene Brave Rock, Lucy Davis, Elena Anaya, Lilly Aspell, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ann Wolfe, Ann Ogbomo, Emily Carey, and James Cosmo
Wonder Woman is a 2017 superhero fantasy, war, and and historical film from director Patty Jenkins. The film stars the DC Comics superhero, Wonder Woman, who first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (1941) and was created by writer William Moulton Marston (with artist Harry George Peter). The movie takes place when Wonder Woman was only known as Diana, princess of the Amazons, a young, trained warrior who goes out into the world to discover her full powers and her true destiny. Wonder Woman is also the fourth film in the DC (Comics) Extended Universe film series.
Wonder Woman opens in present-day Paris, in the Louvre, where Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) works as an archivist of some type. Bruce Wayne has sent her a gift, a World War I-era photographic plate that contains an image of Diana and three men.
This image returns Diana's memories to her past, beginning when she was a child (Lily Aspell) on the hidden island of Themyscira, home to the Amazon race of warrior women. Diana is the daughter of the queen, Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), who does not want her daughter trained to be a warrior. Hippolyta's sister and Diana's aunt, General Antiope (Robin Wright), believes that Diana should be prepared for the eventual day when she will have to fight.
As a young woman, Diana rescues an American pilot and spy, Captain Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), after his plane crashes off the coast of Themyscira. The Germans pursing Trevor invade Themyscira, but are repelled by the Amazons. Diana interprets these events as signs that she must accompany Trevor as he returns to the world of men, where Diana believes she must confront the reason for the world war that rages across Europe (World War I). Diana believes that Ares, the god of war, is behind the so-called “War to End All Wars,” but Diana does not realize that this journey will reveal the truth about her powers, her destiny, and her identity.
Since its release to theaters in the United States (almost a month ago as of this writing) and around the world (over a month as of this writing), Wonder Woman has received rave reviews. Women and children, especially girls, have embraced the power of this beloved female superhero who finally stars in her own feature film.
I get it; I understand the appeal and the adoration, but for me, Wonder Woman the movie is, at best, a slightly above-average superhero movie. Gal Gadot is wonderful as Wonder Woman, which surprised me because I thought she was all wrong when I first heard about her casting. However, here, Gadot is so good that I had trouble imagining another actress (except maybe Linda Carter) as Wonder Woman. Gadot embodies the strength and independence of a woman raised in a society in which women do not think of themselves as subordinate or inferior to men.
In the character drama, in the film's quiet moments, in the times when Diana fights for the forgotten and ignored (the “little” people?), director Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot deliver on what Wonder Woman has meant, what she means today, and what she can mean in the future. Jenkins and Gadot depict the ability of women to pursue the best of themselves and to pursue the best for humanity at large – with their endeavors as equal or even superior to those of men. To nurture and to create; to defend and to take the initiative: Wonder Woman/Diana and women can do anything men can do.
The problems with Wonder Woman the film are the men who contribute to this film. Co-producer and co-writer Zack Snyder's handiwork is all over the cheesy, slow-motion camera fight scenes. The fact that the last act devolves into a ridiculous supernatural battle between Diana and Ares is typical of the previous Warner/DC Comics films. Those movies reeked with the ludicrous fights that were the climaxes of Snyder's The Man of Steel and Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as last year's Suicide Squad, which is also part of the DC Extended Universe.
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot deliver some superb movie making with Wonder Woman. Unfortunately, the perspective of males, one of whom is a hack filmmaker, ruins it.
6 of 10
B
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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