Showing posts with label weissman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weissman. Show all posts

Friday, November 02, 2012

Meanwhile, at ComicsAlliance...

Hey remember last week, when I linked to that review of Steve Weissman's excellent Barack Hussein Obama I wrote for Las Vegas Weekly...? Well, I had a lot of questions about how that comic strip got made, so I asked those questions to Weissman, and you can read his answers at ComicsAlliance today, in a piece with an extremely generous amount of preview pages from the book. You can read it here. The above strip is one of my favorites, featuring Sasha and Malia meeting Obama's evil overlord...or whatever.

And while I'm linking to things, I neglected to post an exhortation to go read my contribution to Robot 6 this week, so let me do that now: Here's a post on Ghosts, which features the late, great Joe Kubert's apparently very last work, and the first issue of his Joe Kubert Presents.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Meanwhile...

I have two pieces of writing about comics up on the Internet today that you can go read, if you like. First, at Las Vegas Weekly, I have a review of Steven Weissman's excellent Barack Hussein Obama. And then, at Robot 6, I have a review of the first issue of Brandon Graham's Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #1.

The above image is the first half of one of Weissman's Obamastrips, in which the president is confronted in his bedroom by the ghost of President James A. Garfield. Speaking of Garfield, guess what I am doing this weekend...? One of my least favorite things to do! I'm pretty excited about where I'll end up this time, however, as I'll be within walking distance of President James A. Garfield's house. Sweet, huh?

Hopefully it won't interfere too badly with my EDILW posting schedule, as I really should get started posting this year's "Super-Endorsements" series, seeing as how the election's like, days away now...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Is this every Zook and Cryll shared appearance from the past ten years...?

The other I mentioned Sholly Fisch, Rick Burchett and Dan Davis' latest issue of The All-New Batman: The Brave and The Bold, which featured a few uncredited cameos by old-school alien sidekicks Zook and Cryll, who used to pal around with Martian Manhunter and Space Ranger. Those are the panels above (I have a feeling some of those other aliens running about may also be "Easter Egg" style cameos, based on how specific their designs are and how strongly they vary from one another, but I didn't recognize any of them).

Would you like to see more of Zook and Cryll, in other DC Comics? I can't think of a better story to start with than "Without You, I'm Nothing," which was written by Evan Dorkin and drawn by Steven Weissman and appeared in 2001's hardcover anthology Bizarro Comics.

It begins with various obscure, semi-forgotten sidekicks standing around like day-laborers, waiting for someone to come along and take them on a superhero adventure. You can see Cryll and Zook front and center.

The sidekicks who don't get picked up retire to a bar to complain about their lot in life. After kicking things around for a while, Cryll suggests they do what other sidekicks before them have done: It doesn't work out all that well for them:After Evil Star hands them their asses, Cryll comes up with another idea: Some other stuff happens after that, but I don't want to spoil it, as it's a very sort story (Like all of those in the Bizarro Comics book, save the Stephen DeStefano-drawn Mxyzptlk/Bizarro team-up that bookends the contents).

I basically just wanted to share Weissman's takes on a lot of these weird characters (You can see his Tawky Tawny in that first panel; like Batman and The Scarecrow, he's a character I love seeing different artists draw for some reason). The story is a ton of fun, in large part because of all the rich little details Weissman works into each panel. For example, just in the four above, look at his Ace The Bat-Hound—he never talks, but is in almost every panel of the story and his silent mimicry of the talking characters' actions never fails to make me smile a bit.

Also, I love the panel where Evil Star is beating them up, and one of his little minions, The Starlings, is wearing Doiby Dickles' hat. Talk about kicking a guy when he's down...

Friday, April 18, 2008

Now here's a sound effect you don't see used very often...




(Panel from Steven Weissman's Mean, a 2007 anthology of the Kid Firechief and Champs creator's earlier work, published by the good people at Fantagraphics)