One panel can make you fly like an eagle, another can give you the strength of a lion, but only one in the Cycle Of Life can fill your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.
Baltimore: The Plague Ships #5
By Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Ben Stenbeck, and Dave Stewart
This is just one of the panels from this week's Pick of the Week that made me appreciate the issue so much. Look at Baltimore (the guy) bristling with weapons, and the crazy deep sea contraption he's attacking is just so well done. Finally, that knife clearly has nothing friendly about it at all. I can't even put my finger on it, but I just love the look and feel of it.
— Josh Flanagan
By Lots of People
Things I never thought I'd see: J'onn J'onzz shanking Superman in the neck with a Kryptonite shiv. SHUNK!
— Conor Kilpatrick
By Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Grey, Eduardo Risso, Rob Schwager, & Rob Leigh
And he means it too. I know. I've been reading this for a long time.
— Josh Flanagan
By Harrison Wilcox, Ryan Stegman, Michael Babinski, Guru eFX, & Ed Dukeshire
I can't even tell you how many of my Saturday nights end in a similar fashion…
— Conor Kilpatrick
By Jeff Lemire, Jose Villarrubia & Pat Brosseau
This is the moment where Sweet Tooth takes a stand, and says, "no more" to his tormentors, and you better believe he damn well means it. This panel set the tone for the whole issue.
— Josh Flanagan
By Paul Cornell, Marco Rudy, Val Staples, & John J. Hill
"Ready your mind! There's a danger it might be blown!" is a great line. I'm totally going to steal it one day.
— Conor Kilpatrick
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It’s a good line but not coming from Darkseid. Its just too casual, to oddly slang like, for the reserved god of evil. It would be as weird as hearing the line coming out of Doctor Doom’s mouth. I loved almost everything else about this issue and I am a HUGE Cornell fan but I’m sorry he just did not get Darkseid’s dialouge right for my taste.
Not even God can help those men standing over Hex.
“Superman – I SAID – Give Me Your Pudding!”
I just knew that when I read the Action Comics Annual that this would be a best of the week in panels shot.
That’s it. I’m ordering Volume 1 of Jonah Hex. I can’t take the cool any longer. I don’t know what’s made me wait this long. This is why I love iFanboy.
No Giganta and Dwarfstar from the end of Secret Six? Boo…
FWIW, the knife in Baltimore is a Nepalese blade called a kukri. It is very heavy and the blade is on the inner part of the curve (unlike a scimitar). It is quite useful, since it can be used like a machete or scythe in agriculture or as a good weapon to pry open mechanical sea creatures (which are not a big threat in Nepal).
Yet. Not a big threat in Nepal yet. Never know what tomorrow may bring after all. 🙂
Superman was talking to J’onn all wrong….his tone…it was all wrong….
My copy of Action Comics Annual #13 is still at my LCS, so I haven’t read it yet, but remembering the New Gods from Kirby’s original run, they were prone to letting common (human) usage slip into their language now and then. Even Great Darkseid. Given what the times were, one might forgive Jack for using language like “there’s a danger it might be blown,” but after he left the characters (and DC) in other hands, the New Gods became less ‘familiar’ with slang and more stand-offish (read: god-like). I don’t know if Cornell knew this or not, but it is a fair representation of the characters at that time.
Also, the extra heavy line around Darkseid’s word balloons (showed here) was something I wished they never dropped. In my mind’s ear it made his voice sound different from everyone else.
That Brightest Day panel is awesome!