The Best of the Week in Panels – 02.23.2011

Just put your panels together and blow.

 

Detective Comics #874

By Scott Snyder, Francesco Francavilla, & Jared K. Fletcher

Francavilla did a lot of amazing and dynaic work in this issue, but it was this panel — a simple shot of Dick and Tim — that made me want to kidnap Francavilla and chain him to a desk and make him draw Batman books forever.

 

Star Trek: Infestation #2

By Scott Tipton, David Tipton, Gary Erskine, Casey Maloney Luia Antonio Delgado, & Chris Mowry

When a hot vampire chick shows up, Bones knows that he's on his own. Great eye roll.

 

Scalped #46

By Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco, & Steve Wands

Just remember: no matter how bad your day is going it's not nearly as bad as the day that Officer Falls Down is having.

 

Morning Glories #7

By Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma, Rodin Esquejo, Alex Sollazzo, & Johnny Lowe

This was the biggest twisty, "oh shit!" moment of the week.

 

Power Girl #21

By Judd WInick, Sami Basri, Jessica Kholinne, & John J. Hill

Here's the thing: Maxwell Lord is screwed.

 

Captain America #615

By Ed Brubaker, Butch Guice, Stefano Gauiano, Rick Magyar, Elizabeth Breitweiser, & Joe Caramagna

I love that Bucky is rocking the 70s style wardrobe while he's on trial for being Winter Soldier.

 

And now a bonus "all grief" section of the Best of the Week in Panels!

 

Amazing Spider-Man #655

By Dan Slott, Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente, & Joe Caramagna

In a week filled with images of grief this one was easily the most powerful.

 

Fantastic Four #588

By Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, Paul Mounts, & Rus Wooton

This panel says so much. Sue's pain is palpable and Reed's inability to reach his wife is on stark display.

 

Fantastic Four #588

By Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, Paul Mounts, & Rus Wooton

The simplicity of this panel really got me.

 

Fantastic Four #588

By Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, Paul Mounts, & Rus Wooton

This might have been he most startling moment of the week. Valeria's anger is kind of scary.

 

Amazing Spider-Man #655

By Dan Slott, Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente, & Joe Caramagna

Peter's subconscious guilt has never been more beautifully rendered.

Comments

  1. What a week of comics…

  2. Detective had some great pages…  musta been a tough choice. That full spread of Batman and Red Robin fighting was pretty sweet.

  3. Super Awesome.

  4. What a great week of comics.

    My favorite panel of the week goes to those last 2 panels of rocket red after examing blue beetle. You can just see the sadness in his face, beautifuly rendered.

  5. Peter’s dream sequence was amazing and the one of Jonah is haunting.
    That being said I thought that there was a panel worthy of being Best of the Week on almost every page of Fantastic Four. Without giving too much away that shot of you-know-who taunting Reed with you-know-what what downright scary.

  6. Is it just me, I thought Annihilus died during “Annihilation” from DnA.  Did they ever explain Nova in Secret Avengers? Or did Marvel forget about all the Cosmic stuff?

  7. Dragotta kind of reminds me of Tim Sale. This was an amazing week. I had three 5 star books.

  8. @PotatoPope  he died alright but he was reborn. it’s all explained in this http://marvel.com/universe/Annihilus

  9. That page for Scalped is fucking amazing. Maybe I should give it another go….

    You pretty much took all my picks for panels with Fantastic Four….expect for one.

    In the back up you have Spidey trying to make Franklin feel better. The panel that stood out to me instantly is where Parker asks Franklin for money to get a hot dog. It was a great balance of humor to get out of the sadness of the story and it really did make me laugh. The fact that he’s asking a little boy for change, even if this is the same boy that lost someone, just had me in stitches. 

  10. I didn’t really like much of the art in the Fake Final Issue of Fantastic Four. The Spider-Man/Franklin back up was really good though.
    It’s really to bad Marvel pissed me off with their mishandling of #587, their FF miniseries sounds interesting but I really don’t care about getting it so I’ll probably wait until they trade it and might come back to Fantastic Four with next year’s #600.

    Amazing Spider-Man was…Amazing.

  11. I was hoping you guys would pick the panel where Bones made the prescription filling joke. Still, that whole book was a ton of fun. Plenty of great panels to choose from there.

  12. I love that the Spider-Mobile is part of the whacked out guiltscape of “people who are dead because of Spider-Man”.

  13. WOW…. That should about some up everything i want to say

  14. So I’m guessing next issue, Peter will go run to Mephisto to make it all better, since that’s what he does now?

    That said, that is a beautiful spread in ASM.

  15. Marcos Martin’s page of the week, page of the year. 

  16. god damn marcos martin. also, that ff panel is brilliant in so many ways.

  17. Where is that panel of Gwen Stacy with her neck twisted to the left while she is speaking to Peter? Freaked the living crap out of me.

  18. My exact thought after reading that last panel of Power Girl was that Max is fucked. Royally.

  19. I love that panel with the Torch’s funeral, think i’ll be picking up Hickmans run in trades

  20. Marcos Martin’s Spider-Man’s guilt panel is pure comics.  That right there is what makes this medium so amazing.

  21. I don’t believe it is the fact of Valeria’s anger in that panel that has a lasting impression, given the situation most people would have a moment of feeling that way, instead it is our knowledge of what capabilities she has available to her to follow through on those feelings. If she really means it, she just may be able to do it.

  22. morning glories #7 was definately the holy fuck!!! moment of the week for me.

  23. That Fantastic Four panel in the bedroom just seems like the creepiest thing ever. I would put up a force field too if my husband tried to grab me like that.

  24. Am I the only person who doesn’t get Franckavilla’s art???  It all looks the same, chuck some reddy/purple haze over the top done.  His cover on Detective this week was ridiculous, what was up with Batman’s leg?!?

    Sadly I’m reading two books with his red murky mess in.  This and Black Panther.

    I know there are alot of fans so sorry to them, but I just don’t get it!

  25. @houseian I don’t think you’re going to have much luck finding a satisfactory answer to your question – it’s not about ‘getting’ art … you look at it, it doesn’t appeal to you, that’s fine.

  26. I liked the panel that is at the bottom of the page with the Detective comics panel above. It’s where Dick makes a joke about sunglasses at night.

  27. In another setting, that image of Sue putting up the forcefield might have been humorous, but here the emotions are just palpable and well, I think this was the first panel that got me choked up and tears in my eyes.  So many breathtaking and heartbreaking moments from that issue, Im amazed you were able to keep it to just three (though I can’t argue with the ones you finally picked, they c were beautifully done)