This week in Caleb-writing-about-comics-somewhere-other-than-here: I have a short piece up at
Las Vegas Weekly recommending a some trades featuring Batman, Bane and Catwoman (another neat thing about that
Knightfall trade? Each chapter is done by alternating creative teams, which generally doesn't serve a story very well, but in this case it
does manage to give a casual reader a nice overview of what the Batman books looked like during a decade that represented one of the long-lived franchises high points; one can get whiplash going back and forth between the work of Norm Breyfogle and Jim Aparo, but, on the other hand, Norm Breyfogle and Jim Aparo art! And Kelley Jones cover!), and at
Robot 6 I have
a review of sorts of the first issues of two IDW series based on two very diverse licensed properties, Battle Beasts and The Crow.
You can go read them if you like. Or just click on those links, and give
LVW and
Robot 6 your page-views, whether you read them or not. I don't really care.
The above image, by the way, is not—I repeat
not—a variant cover for
Battle Beasts #1, but it totally should have been! (You know, having spent some time looking up images of the original toys, I don't think the character designs of the new comic are quite as awesome as the ones above—look at that fucking rabbit guy, for example—but it's still early; maybe they'll get more awesome and include more of the toy designs in the future).
In the meantime, fingers crossed IDW is working on a heat-sensitive sticker variant cover...!
From that image above I had..the kangaroo, the ram, the fish, the moose and the rhino. And maybe that white lizard in the second row...
ReplyDeleteI totally used to play with Battle Beasts. They had this heat sensitive sticker on them that would show you what element or I guess team they were on. I think there was wood, fire, and water. So I guess this means that almost every toy I had as a kid is now being made into a comic? They totally should make a Go-bots and MASK comic and that would pretty much take care of it!
ReplyDeleteI think the deal is that they have the rights to the name not the original designs.
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