This week's column features reviews of Drawn and Quarterly must-read Aya and the cumbersomely titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Soul's Winter—The Collected TMNT Work of Michael Zulli (Trust me, it's as good as the title is long), plus some more thoughts on Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil.
And as long as I'm posting links...
Matt Brady and Tom Brevoort chat in detail about Civil War #7, and Brevoort brings along Millar’s outline for the end of the series, apparently just to prove nothing got changed along the way (And what, that the deadlines were missed simply because Steve McNiven draws slow, not because of rewrites?). The ending in the outline is actually pretty good, and it’s too bad Millar strayed from it so bad. Also, they forgot to make the fight spectacular, as the outline says it should be (and n all caps, no less).
The fact that so much of the interview revolves around what actually happened in the book is pretty telling about how poorly executed said book was. Should we need to check in with the editor on a comic book news site just to know what the characters’ motivations were after a goodstory?
The Invincible Super Blog once again proves it’s super-ness by presenting Civil War in 30 seconds. Add this to the list of parodies that are better-written than the original. There are some really sweet character designs in there, too.
Finally, Abhay makes fun of Civil War #7 much better than I could, although he seems to have really enjoyed it. Here's a sample: "There's this awful panel of superhero silhouettes falling from a giant cloak hovering over New York. It is very funny. Also, there's a panel of a superhero punching another superhero and saying 'That's for screwing up the plan, creep.' I like both those panels because they both feel like they came from a 4th grader's notebook. "
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