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May

100 Bullets #84

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Categories: New Issue Review, Vertigo Comics, New Story Arc, DC Comics and 100 Bullets Tags: 100 Bullets, DC Comics, New Issue Review, New Story Arc, Vertigo Comics.

Your favorite Vertigo series is back and the synopsis of the July issue is released! Marching towards the last 15 issues 100 Bullets becomes more thrilling than ever, the plot is finally being revealed step by step and the dark characters of Azarello’s and Risso’s noir vision approach the grand finale. What really happened in Atlantic City? What’s agent Graves’ secret agenda? What will be Dizzy Cordova’s fate and what about the rest of the Minutemen? Well, in a little more than a year there will be no secrets left so enjoy it while it lasts!

After the events of #81-83 in Rome the story shifts to two other heroes, the Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome, the description in the official site of Vertigo is the following:
“Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome are in need of a vacation, so they head to scenic Lake Tahoe for some R and R with the beautiful people. But you know what they say — “All play and no work make The Minutemen dull boys…””

So is this going to be a revealing issue about the facts of the past through a seemingly indifferent event or a break between two big story turns? There have been quite a few of both in the past 83 issues so any bet is not safe, but really who cares? This is one of the best written comics ever made, a masterpiece of narrative coming to a peak, are you really going to ignore it?

Apr

Hellblazer

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Categories: New Story Arc Tags: Comic Movie, New Story Arc.

There are many disputable facts when you talk about comics, some of them though gather around them too many supporters to be ignored. Like who’s the best comics character in an ongoing series the last 20 years, if you ask me and some more thousands of readers we’ll tell you John Constantine, the Hellblazer. Many writers and artists of the best in the field have worked with this historical character and considered it an honour (Gaiman, Moore, Azarello, Risso, Ennis, Delano, Ellis, Carey, McKean, Frusin, god I can keep up all night) offering us some of the best stories we ever read about the absolute antihero, the cynic bastard whose friends always end up badly, the magus whose soul will be claimed by Satan himself, he’s John bloody Constantine and he’s the man!

Hellblazer is something more than a comic series just like Sandman was something more than a fairy tale, but in a profoundly different way. It started in the 80’s, an era of neo-conservatism and numerous changes and it found its unique way of commenting on serious stuff like religion, politics, economics, hooligans and criminality through a satiric filter of black magic, demons, angels and magicians. It even made it to the big screen recently (Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves) in a totally different from the comic, though pretty decent edition.

After the last story arc written by Denise Mina and the one-shot issue by Mike Carey this is a new chapter in the series with a whole new creative team. Andy Diggle (The Losers, Batman Confidential, Swamp Thing) writing it and Leonardo Manco (Archangel, Doom) as the artist promise “some old-school supernatural horror with a social conscience”. In this first issue of “In at the Deep End” John wakes up cuffed to a post in the river Thames while the tide is rising, if he’s going to survive this he’ll have to do some smooth talking, and pretty fast too.

John Constantine talking, I don’t know about you but I’ll be there!

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Mar

Fables

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Categories: New Story Arc Tags: Fables, New Story Arc.

New issue, new story arc for Fables, Bill Willingham’s most famous creation. I feel the urge to apologize from the beginning, I can’t be subjective with Fables as it is one of my favorite ongoing series still publishing but if you make the effort to read some issues you might share my enthusiasm.

The story is about all the heroes of fables, fairy tales, stories, myths and legends, all those characters created by folk or writers and established in the collective unconscious, and thus existing in a world called the Homelands, all that until a mysterious Adversary gathers a huge army and takes over their entire world. The Fables (those that survived the war) leave their lands and arrive to our world somewhere after the Middle Ages, refugees trying to hide their nature in their closed communities. The story catches up with their community in the present; those of them able to look like humans living in New York (and various other cities) while the rest are kept contained in the Farm, a safe establishment away from curious eyes. Their personal stories and the war that finally comes to their new homes offer the story a huge potential of narrating, and the creators take full advantage of it. That, combined with a distinctive, sarcastic sense of humor (quite adult usually), an extensive reconstruction of traditional fables like Bigby the Wolf, Snow White, Frau Totenkinder, the Beauty and the Beast and so many other and of course magic art by various artists, creates a comic book like no other.

In this new 3-issue story Flycatcher makes his way to the farm for an important conversation with his pal Boy Blue, after the revelations of the Christmas issue and the return of his memory Fly seems to earn his rightful position as a primary character in the series. Also Prince Charming finally encounters the notorious Hansel, Frau Totenkinder meets Kay and the flying monkey sees the Forsworn Knight (that one I have no idea about). One of the few comics that deserve the money spent for each issue!