The Best of the Week in Panels – 02.02.2011

Panels,
Panels.
All the world's waiting for you,
and the power you possess.

 

Transformers Infestation #1

By Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Nick Roche

There's no time for your breakdowns in this robot's army. Optimus can't stand for it. He won't stand for it.

— Josh Flanagan

 

Jonah Hex #64

By Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Nelson, Rob Schwager, & Rob Leigh

This made me laugh for two reasons. One, I love it whenever some idiot local challenges Jonah Hex at the saloon. That bitch is scheduled for immediate ventilation. Two, Josh is always decribing Josh Brolin as "big head, tiny shoulders" and Josh Brolin played Jonah Hex in the movie and here Jonah Hex is described as having narrow shoulders.

— Conor Kilpatrick

 

Superman 80 Page Giant 2011

By Steve Horton, Dan McDaid, and Patrick Brousseau

Bizarro JLA parade. The Flash is fat. That's just a big win right there.

— Josh Flanagan

 

Invincible #77

By Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, FCO Plascencia, and Rus Wooton

Just like Optimus Prime these jerks!

— Josh Flanagan

 

Batman: Odyssey #6

By Neal Adams, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ginger Karalexas, Cory Adams, & Ken Lopez

Hey, sometimes Bruce likes to have a lay down on the floor of the Batcave to take a nap in the middle of an important mission. So what?

(Neal Adams is a mad genius.)

— Conor Kilpatrick

 

Hulk #29

By Jeff Parker, Gabriel Hardman, Elizabeth Breitweiser, and Ed Dukeshire

Oh come on! What happens to the mustache?!

— Josh Flanagan

 

Comments

  1. Optimus is echoing my feelings for this Infestation event so far.

  2. From now on , napping on the floor in work willbe my new mantra. Now where did I put that pillow….?

  3. Power Girl’s shirt says”nothing to see here” lmao.

  4. When this is all over can someone please explain to me what in sweet hell Batman: Odyssey is about?

  5. Bizarro Dr.Fate is wearing a bucket on his head. Bizarro Power girl’s shirt says “nothing to see here”. Excuse me while I go purchase Superman 80 page Giant immediately.

  6. lol @ a robot having an exisential crisis.

  7. Ummm…I’m guessing Kupp has become Dennis Hopper in his really old age.  “I’ve seen things man….things you wouldn’t believe!!” 

    The idea of Bruce Wayne having to sleep is great.  It always bugged me that most writers make him this machine who goes on forever, but in real life, that’s what would happen.  Even adrenal highs wear off sooner or later. 

  8. I got a theory about Rulks ‘stash. The stash is not affected by the growth. It stays the same. But as Rulks skin thickens, the pores also get deeper. So much so that the individual pores housing the ‘stash hairs are deeper than the hairs are long. So the ‘stash remains there but is embedded in the skin. When Rulk returns to human form, the pores shrink and the hairs reappear.

    Does that work?

  9. @marshak75  In that same vein, I’ve always appreciated how some artists will draw scars on a hero’s body (Matt Murdock, Bruce Wayne) to properly depict years of brutal battles.

  10. That’s hilarious that Hardman literally makes sure we don’t see the mustache during transformation.

    My favorite panel comes from Deadpool and Cable #26 (bare with me here). Deadpool decided to build a ‘Cable Amusement Park’ in honor of Cable’s passing. One of his attractions is one of those squirt gun games where you need to shoot at a clown to blow up a balloon. But the squirt guns are actually one of Cable’s BFG’s and the sight (which Fernandez draws) of little kids trying to grab onto those BFG’s made me laugh out loud. 

  11. @JNewcomb  Not that it really bothers me, but then why does the hair on his head not disappear?  Regardless, I love this panel.

  12. Really surprised the last page of Brightest Day didn’t make it.

  13. @monkeypaw787  I thought about it, but I didn’t want to ruin it for people.

  14. “That’s better!” = HAHAHA!

  15. @JNewcomb  You win,it makes perfect sense now!
    @ ANYONE, I second Heroville’s request.Just what is Batman Odyssey about?!
    (maybe Bruce just had a big thanksgiving dinner)

  16. Prime!

  17. @Duraflametree  The hair on his head is somewhat longer and therefore only shortens and does not entirely disappear?

  18. Man, I’m loving Infestation! I would have picked a different panel from this issue though, about 6 pages in where Galvatron is fighting the zombies and robots he tells the humans “Get out of your vehicles, humans! They are raw metal I can pound the enemy with!”

    Not sure about how they draw the ‘Formers anymore and since when is Bumblebee anything but sad comic relief?

  19. The mustache is clearly pubic hair. I thought people figured that out by now.

  20. @Mangaman: ok. so where does the pubic hair go.

    @TNC: again with the deadpool & cable? fuck me! No, but seriously, i saw a preview online it looked ok

  21. i believe the strands of mustache hairs re-assemble, wander downward to the nether regions and create the large, stretchy pants Rulk wears.

  22. I saw Deadman and immediately thought it was Brightest Day and I was like, “What the f–!?”

  23. That Hulk panel makes me want to read The Hulk.

  24. In one of the old Hulk Made for TV movies with Bixby, he has a beard and it disappears every time he turns into Ferrigno.  Crazy huh??

  25. @marshak75  He never turned into me! My beard is still here!

  26. I love Dr. fate’s bucket LOL

  27. Optimus Prime does not get peeved, i’m sorry but that is wrong.