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The Ettatorial for the Week of 2-13-08
By Etta | February 16, 2008
A pretty good week this week, filled with a diverse group of books. Two books stood out for me, one a recent continuing favorite, the other something new (yet, strangely, something old as well).
The first book this week for my pick is Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag #6. Yes, this has managed to get quite a bit of love from me for past issues, and this one will be no exception. I really have fallen in love with the series, and really feel that the book is one of the best things being put out by the main DC line at the moment. It’s filled with everything a good book needs, and deserves more attention than it has been getting. Really, I’m not going to be able to convince you to get into the book this late into the mini-series, but take my word for it, it’s a definite winner. If you’re lucky, DC will put it out in trade paperback for all of you on the fence.
The second pick this week is something decidedly different. Fantastic Comics #24/The Next Issue Project #1 is a daring experiment from Image. Image has found a ton of old comic titles published back in the thirties and forties, and have fallen into the public domain. Now, they’re bringing the titles back, with the next issue that would have been published. Each issue has a huge list of creators, most of them big names in either mainstream books or indy giants, each working on stories for the book, using a diverse group of characters from the book’s original run. Now you don’t have to worry about continuity, as golden age books never really worried about that, instead just focusing on the moment and the characters at the time. The book is truly fun comics, not taking itself too seriously, and just telling stories that comics either used to tell, or stories that they can be telling now. The book is oversized, in both actual size (the book is much broader than modern age books, actually bigger in size) and in page count, with each issue clocking in at 64 pages. The pages are an awesome paper stock, able to both mock newsprint, and also take in the latest in coloring processes, giving the book a true golden age feel if the creators felt like it. And something else I really got a kick out of was the old ads that the book used, for a range of products that only could come from the golden age of comics. So while the book is a bit steeper in price ($5.99), it’s a great value when you consider the talent involved, the page count (it’s actually almost 2 and a half issues worth of content of a normal book) and the fact that nobody is publishing anything like it today.
So there you go, your picks for this week. I’ll see you back here next week, with a new batch of picks, just for you.
Topics: Comics, The Ettatorial |
Tags: fantastic comics | next issue project | suicide squad.