Today I learned there's a third version of The Death-Ray, a softcover edition with new front and back covers published in 2023 by Drawn and Quarterly.
John Jakala@jjakala.bsky.social · 7d agoDouble Death-Ray
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John Jakala@jjakala.bsky.social · 7d ago
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DC Finest: Aquaman: The King of Atlantis is available now on DCUI Ultra. I have the physical copy but this'll be convenient if I want to grab screenshots of certain panels.
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John Jakala@jjakala.bsky.social · 2y agoSetting my out of office notification to "Aquaman readathon"
Interesting that after meeting Batman in Brave & the Bold (and Man-Bat in Batman Family) Wonder Woman was the next character in the DC Universe that Etrigan met. And together they had to face the machinations of Klarion the Witchboy. dcuguide.com/Etrigan_Chro...
A beautifully illustrated version of Snow White by Charles Vess.
I didn't realize Joe Sacco drew several stories for DC (for their Paradox Press imprint, but still).
Tuesday evening library pickup: a big batch of Big Books.
Mail call! Axel Pressbutton #1–6. I'd read a couple of the stories in the original Warrior magazine but this series also has later chapters I'd missed (as well as a couple other reprints I hadn't seen) plus I think #6 was a then all-new story for Eclipse.
"Its giant energy pits feed on the world itself, to gain its power and light!" "It is a dismal, unclean place of great, ugly houses sheltering uglier machines." I feel like Kirby is talking about Earth and the mad push for huge data centers: consuming the life of the planet to power ugly machines.
I didn't realize it until reading Mark Evanier's afterword in New Gods (1984) #1 but the coloring I'm used to isn't the original version — it looks like all subsequent reprints used Anthony Tollin's updated coloring from the 1984 Baxter reprints.
John Jakala@jjakala.bsky.social · 3d agoMail call! I realized there was another format I hadn't read Jack Kirby's New Gods in.
Mail call! I realized there was another format I hadn't read Jack Kirby's New Gods in.
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Those are some of the most lovingly rendered feet I can recall seeing in a comic.
Had to pull out my copy to compare it to the colored version.
John Jakala@jjakala.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's interesting comparing Kirby's pencils to how it looks inked because even though Royer is very faithful to the pencils you can see how he has to interpret things, especially for scenes with lots of shadow. I'm especially impressed with Royer's work on this tiny figure almost all in shadow.
It's interesting comparing Kirby's pencils to how it looks inked because even though Royer is very faithful to the pencils you can see how he has to interpret things, especially for scenes with lots of shadow. I'm especially impressed with Royer's work on this tiny figure almost all in shadow.
