It's taken me a couple of months, but I finally got to read Witchblade #131. This is the first post-war issue, and it's basically a recap of the status quo so that new readers feel comfortable picking up the series. However, Ron Marz is an old pro, and he does this with grace and flair and the reader never feels like he's being told stuff he already knows. Marz achieves this by having an ongoing conversation between Gleason and Julie throughout the whole issue, and even though we can "hear" them the whole time, we can only see them some of the time. When they are not featured in the panels, we see what Sara is up to, and her actions blend seamlessly with what Gleason and Julie are saying about her. This way, Marz gets to both show us and tell us what's going on in an original way that's neither talking heads nor captions explaining what you can already see on the page. Tricky to pull off, but that's why Marz is the man. Plus, he nicely sets up the Angelus miniseries that spins off Witchblade this month, and that will also be masterfully illustrated by Stjepan Sejic. Buy Witchblade already!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Witchblade #131
It's taken me a couple of months, but I finally got to read Witchblade #131. This is the first post-war issue, and it's basically a recap of the status quo so that new readers feel comfortable picking up the series. However, Ron Marz is an old pro, and he does this with grace and flair and the reader never feels like he's being told stuff he already knows. Marz achieves this by having an ongoing conversation between Gleason and Julie throughout the whole issue, and even though we can "hear" them the whole time, we can only see them some of the time. When they are not featured in the panels, we see what Sara is up to, and her actions blend seamlessly with what Gleason and Julie are saying about her. This way, Marz gets to both show us and tell us what's going on in an original way that's neither talking heads nor captions explaining what you can already see on the page. Tricky to pull off, but that's why Marz is the man. Plus, he nicely sets up the Angelus miniseries that spins off Witchblade this month, and that will also be masterfully illustrated by Stjepan Sejic. Buy Witchblade already!
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Joer, Fel, haces que suene maravilloso leer Witchblade. Si no hubiera leido ya algo antes, diría que exageras.
Vaya mono que me ha entrado así de repente otra vez.
Hahaha. Los de Top Cow me tendrían que pagar por toda la promoción que le hago a la serie. Y ya que estoy, no puedo sino señalar el pedazo de homenaje que Chris Bachalo le rinde al eternamente popular anuncio de Coppertone en esta portada. Lástima que no sea ésta la que tengo!
Y ya que saco el tema, os enlazo el anuncio original de Coppertone, el homenaje de la revista Esquire con Carmen Electra, y el de Rolling Stone con Jim Carrey.
Definitivamente me quedo con el de Carmen aunque no es una de mis "actrices" favoritas.
El famoso anuncio de Coppertone debe ser la ilustración más homenajeada de la historia. Anda que no lo he visto ya veces, yo, que no sigo lo que se dice con regularidad este mundo del comic.
La de Jim Carrey es impagable, hahaha.
Y sí: debe ser de las ilustraciones más homenajeadas de la historia, estoy de acuerdo.
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