ArtisticallyChill

I’ll be catching up on a lot of the Batman family titles this week. After hearing about all the reboots going on in 2 months from Keith at Keith’s Komix, I must decide whether or not to even buy comic books from DC these next 2 months and then further contemplate whether or not to even pick up the new reboots. Maybe I’ll just cut DC out all together and go indie. Decisions like these tend to keep me up all night. It’s a good thing I have a lot of comic books to read.

• ASTONISHING X-MEN #39
• BATGIRL #22
• BATMAN #711
• BATMAN AND ROBIN #24
• BATMAN BEYOND #6
• BATMAN INCORPORATED #6
• BIRDS OF PREY #13
• DETECTIVE COMICS #877
• GREEN LANTERN MOVIE: KILOWOG
• JUSTICE LEAGUE #56-57
• JUSTICE SOCIETY #50-51
• MARK SCHULTZ – VARIOUS DRAWING VOL.5
• POWER GIRL #25
• RED ROBIN #24
• THE SCOURGE #4
• SOULFIRE #1
• TEEN TITANS #96
• UNWRITTEN #25
• WONDER WOMAN #611

MY PICKS OF THE WEEK:
BATMAN AND ROBIN #24

Written by JUDD WINICK; Art and cover by GUILLEM MARCH

The Red Hood is out! But the bigger mystery is who broke him out of prison – and why? His liberators seem to have plans for him. Plans that Jason wants no part of. It’s a street brawl, and unlikely allies come together! Batman, Robin and The Red Hood must fight alongside one another in a knockdown, drag-out battle, taking on the people who sprung Jason Todd.

BATMAN #711

Written by TONY DANIEL; Art by STEVE SCOTT and RYAN WINN; Cover by TONY DANIEL

Batman acts on his suspicions of a newly elected political figure in Gotham City and finds himself in deep water. With piranhas. Meanwhile, Two-Face fights his way back from the brink of death to find an unlikely ally who will show him that there are two sides to every story.

SERENA’S PICK OF THE WEEK: MARK SCHULTZ – VARIOUS DRAWINGS VOL.5

This fifth volume of Various Drawings showcases a generous selection of private art and commissions, along with a smattering of previously published pieces, all created by Mark Schultz over the past two years. A wealth of sketches, preliminaries, studies and finished art, this new installment will appeal to longtime fans of Mark’s work, as well as those discerning souls who seek only the best examples of modern imaginative illustration to add to their personal collections. Despite being an acknowledged modern master of pencil and brush and ink, Schultz has never stopped expanding his visual vocabulary, never shied away from experimenting, never slowed in his relentless pursuit of graphic Nirvana. Nor has he forgotten his first loves and obsessions: pulp and noir-fueled dames, otherworldly SF and fantasy pinups, slavering dinosaurs and fearsome women, gleaming spaceships and alluring cosmic femmes. Schultz brings all of them-even entire worlds-to pulsing life with his pencil or brush, the slightest nimbus of tint, a revelatory breath of dry brushstroke upon the page. Herein reside Hannah Dundee of the Xenozoic age, the bravos featured in the forthcoming Storms at Sea, a glorious 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea centerfold, and stranger vistas still.

Mark Schultz has been cartooning, illustrating, and writing for over twenty years. He is best known as the creator of the award-winning speculative adventure comic book Xenozoic Tales, which has been adapted to television as the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Schultz is the recipient of five Harvey Awards, two Eisners, an Inkpot, a Spectrum, and three Haxturs (the last from the Salon Del Internacional Comic del Princapado de Asturias). Currently, he writes the Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip. In addition, Schultz is working on his new book, Storms at Sea.

Formerly a teacher of composition and Renaissance literature, he currently writes and edits technical documentation for a large software company and has edited numerous volumes of theory and conversation about comics illustration. He wrote Modern Masters Volume 15: Mark Schultz from TwoMorrows Publishing and is working on a novel, The Night’s Tale.

HAPPY READING!

~ LoneWolf