Aerodynamics

October 9, 2008 4:55 pm

@: J4K3

They're actually quite good nonpoliticized biographies of two of the most important men in world right now.

October 8, 2008 10:48 pm I think it just comes down to the fact that nothing much interesting ever happened in McCain's life.

October 8, 2008 10:44 pm

There is an entry for the version with both: it's listed as 'Presidential Material Flipbook'.

October 8, 2008 5:04 pm This mini is turning out to be suprisingly engaging. Good story.

October 8, 2008 5:02 pm This issue's substory is far and away the best one yet, and Akin's art is top-notch.

October 8, 2008 4:59 pm

I didn't think that this would be appealing at all, but when I started reading it in the store I was oddly hooked.

Also, it makes a great memento.

October 8, 2008 4:56 pm I intended to pick this up today, but while flipping through it in the store I realized that I just couldn't.

October 7, 2008 11:47 pm

#1 was all kinds of excellent.

Look at that cover. You don't see color work, line work or composition like that!

September 19, 2008 7:31 pm

@cutty - Taste in art, as in all things, is subjective, but as for me personally what I really can't abide is the phoniness and impropriety exuded by most of the images Land produces. His figures look like tracings of bad fashion and advertising photography, which they evidently are. As cloying as these images are (to my eye) they are only that much worse when shoehorned into a comic book narrative. In my opinion, a vast portion of the appeal of comic books is their ideosyncratic aesthetic--the aesthetic famously emulated and exulted in the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein--which has grown, matured and expanded over the decades. Land's approach, to me, has the air of a step away from the glory of the medium, and it hinders his ability to convey a narrative. I do like his cars, though.

In any case, far be it from me to act as an arbiter of taste. This is just one reader's explanation of 'the hate'.

September 18, 2008 11:38 pm

Pixie's scooter has a Pixies sticker?!

OMG, WTF is happening to me? POSTMODERN/IRONY OVERLOAD !!!!!!!