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MEANWHILE FREAK/SLAY/LOVE VIKING VIXENS….VINYL VIGILANTES MOM MECHAS...PSYCHO SUPERSTARS AND OTHER FURIOUS FEMALES MARCH 2019 - NO. 27 PLUS...THE SONS OF EL TOPO David AND SOME OTHER DUDES, TOO B Moebius Jean Giraud Jose Ladronn Jean-Pierre Gibrat Gibrat Steve Skroce B. B. Alejandro Jodorowsky The Comics & Graphic Novel Bulletin of An infamous– and Global sensation exhausted- perfor- Emma draws and mance artist ex- discusses the re- A quartet of new graphic novels spot- multiple voiceovers that make up “The amines her life of light the struggles of the modern wom- Big Burning House”. Nowak’s realistic Musician and writer Gerard Way has and even less love for other vigilantes. alities of wom- an...and the post-modern woman...and depiction of women’s bodies is given a been the ringmaster of Young Ani- Not even that crepuscular Clown of cultural crime as the pre-modern woman. And when we sci-fi twist by artist Rachael Stott in mal comics since the birth of the line Crime, the Joker, can aid her war en’s lives in THE say “struggle”, we mean physically as Vertigo’s Motherlands. A super-science in 2017. As noted in 741.5 #9 Sept 17, against the Collective, ruthless rulers of she plans her final well as emotionally. Set in those halcy- bounty hunter in a mad world made of Young Animal is a subsidiary imprint of Gotham A.D. Meanwhile, as Space MENTAL LOAD, a on days before the rise of the Web, scrambled realities, Retriever Tabitha DC meant to provide a safe space for Case and Lotion the cat re-imagine assault on decent Heavy Vinyl (Boom!Box) stars a quintet Tubach is a big, solid gal who’s forced weird comics. Now the latest collec- their relationship, the Doom Patrol collection of her of young women who work at the by a new contract to work with the tions of YA titles are available at your find themselves in the $#!+ when that society in Michael coolest record store in town. That’s worst person she’s ever known: her favorite LPL locations! And, with the fabulous flavor enhancer corners the m u c h - s h a r e d their day job. At night, they become a mother! Simon (Suicide Squad) Spurri- exception of Cave Carson Has An Inter- market...in mutation! Customers go DeForge’s BRAT vigilante strike force! New girl Chris er’s script keeps up the ultraviolence stellar Eye, they’re all about women. Cronenberg as the DP’s arch-enemy online comic strip joins the group just as the disappear- while also exploring the pain of familial Take Eternity Girl. She’s actually a Mr. Nobody returns with his brand ance of her fave lead singer draws the strife. Aydis the Viking is all too familiar grown woman. A super-woman, in fact, new Brotherhood of Nada and a toy (Fantagraphics) (Seven Stories) five furies into a vast rock’n’roll con- with strife. She is a woman in a world with all the tangled, tragic history that tie-in gone wrong plots to wipe away spiracy in this manga-influenced mash- of brutal, savage men...and their brutal, involves. Magdalene Visaggio scripts a reality! But as Shade can tell you, reali- A long-wandering Pop music con- up of Scooby-Doo and Fight Club called savage gods. Forced out of her tribe rumination on purpose and identity ty ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Having Riot On the Radio. Meanwhile, over in for daring to love another girl, Aydis is that works as a critique of the culture blossomed into Shade the Changing wife returns to the nects an British Girl Town (Top Shelf), vengeful neigh- dead to the land of mortals. So she industry’s rapacious abuse-through-re- Woman, she swims through the Mad- bors are caught in a spiral of hipster rides her brave steed Saga into the use of its properties. Sonny Liew’s ness Zone with her mentor, Rac Shade, family she reject- couple in the payback and unspoken love while the realm of the gods on a quest to free lively scrawl bestrides the everyday and while things go from bad to worse on heartbroken Diana salves her pain with the rebel queen of the Valkyrie from the exotic while Chris Chuckry adroit- both her new home Earth and her old ed for the road in 60s, a pair of the companionship of a robot boy- Odin’s curse. That sort of thing draws ly replicates the coloring styles of home Meta, Friends become foes as a friend. Carolyn Nowak’s loose-limbed attention, specifically that of Odin’s bygone eras of comics. Speaking of new anti-alien directive from the gov- HOBO MOM, a friends in the cartooning is strengthened by her love- wife, Freyja, Goddess of Love. Natasha time travel, YA’s caped crusader ernment makes Shade a fugitive. Go to ly and expressive coloring, whether Alterici’s bold story and spare, spectral Mother Panic finds herself trapped in lexpublib.org to reserve these and other quiet mix of the 70s, and a ret- delineating the wares and wonders pen line gives new life to old myths. a future Gotham City with no Batman graphic novels from Young Animal! found at the fantasy market in You can find Heathen and these other clean line styles of ro rebel in the “Radishes” or the screen shots and fine books by going to lexpublib.org! Charles Forsman 80s in the love- & Max (Bastards) ly I AM YOUNG de Radiques (Fan) (Fantagraphics) MEANWHILE netherworldly baddies show up to take ad- vantage of a situation so dire, the dread Dorma- mmu’s one of the good guys! Follow Doctor Strange and his new pal Bats the talking ghost dog as they fight their way through demons and depression. Look in TEEN for other new Marvel releases starring Daredevil, Cloak & Dagger, the Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Spider-Man, and Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, not to mention the EPIC collec- tion of the first adventures of Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, star of the upcoming Marvel movie Captain Marvel! Meanwhile, marvels of a more ancient kind fill the pages of Hasib and The Queen of Serpents (NBM). The latest from David B., the creator of Epileptic and other fine graphic novels adapts the Arabian Nights tale of Hasim Karim ad-Dim, simple woodcutter turned reluc- tant hero. Known for his exquisite black and white art, B. proves equally adept at work in color. Just look at that amazing cover and you’ve “War was on the menu, and crowds jostled caught but while, Eve has died and Abel wants to kiss for food in case the buffet should run out and make up with his brother. Like his influ- before everyone had a chance to feast.” Thus ence Moebius alias Jean Giraud, artist does the namesake of the graphic novel Jose Ladronn has two styles: the sci-fi hy- Matteo note, with typically acerbic wit, his per-reality of Elephantmen and his Inhu- French neighbors’ gleeful entry into what mans, and the stately naturalism of his would become known as World War One. The Westerns such as this, the first volume of a latest EuroComics release from master car- series. Find The Sons of El Topo at Central, toonist Jean-Pierre Gibrat follows the hand- Tates Creek and Village. More magical mis- some Matteo, a Spaniard living in the south chief is afoot in Maestros. Compiling the of France, as he first avoids the war, then Image title nominated for the 2018 Eisner gets pulled into it. As always, Gibrat draws Award for Best New Series, Maestros is a like a dream, so Book One: 1914-1915 is raucously violent rejoinder to Harry Potter one of the prettiest depictions of the horrors and other fantasies of sorcerous empower- of the trenches you’ll ever see. Find it at ment. The tale of the half-human son of the Beaumont, Central and Village. LPL’s TEEN greatest wizard of them all makes the point sections are where you’ll get Doctor Strange: that living in a world ruled by magic would City of Sin. A beat and burnt out Stephen really, really suck. Power tends to corrupt, Strange attempts to resurrect Las Vegas, and Willy, the life-long whipping boy for his destroyed during the controversial Secret vicious father, knows that lesson all too well. Empire event of 2018. It doesn’t go well. In Whether he’s truly learned it is the question fact, Sin City becomes the hang-out of Me- asked by writer/artist Steve Skroce, who phisto, the Devil of the Marvel Universe. draws so pretty, even his maggots look While Mephisto’s playing Doc for a sap, other scrumptious. Get Maestros at lexpublib.org! caught but a glimpse of the wonders rendered by the award-winning Frenchman. B. keeps his line simple but spares no details when drawing this fantastic world where flowers sing and fish catcall and buildings speak. B. loves a good battle scene, too, and there are several amazing examples, my favorite being the rumble be- tween the ape people and the giant spiders. This Oversize volume of sheer visual poetry is available from Central, Northside and Tates Creek. Another founding myth from the Middle East forms the basis for The Sons of El Topo (Archaia). Written by visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, Sons is a sequel to that most cultish of cult films, El Topo, originally released in 1970. Just as El Topo was described as an “acid Western”, Sons reconfigures the story of Cain and Abel as a spaghetti Western.

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