In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing the books and stories and moments that people really champion -- including plenty of stuff that I've forgotten about come Christmastime.
So have at it, Legionnaires! It's a bold new year! What in 2017 has knocked you out?
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This volume collects Convergence: Swamp Thing #1-2, Swamp Thing #1-6 and the Swamp Thing Winter Special, as well as the never-before-collected Swamp Thing (v2) #94 & #100 (Kelley Jones' debut on the character) and Batman #521-522 by Doug Moench and Jones (guest-starring Swamp Thing), plus the unpublished layouts with surviving pencils for Len wein & Bernie Wrightson's never-complete return to the character, Swamp Thing: Deja Vu.
'Nuff said!
Oh, man. That Spectre omnibus is really tempting!
ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY No. 7: GIRL COMICS:
This new volume in Fantagraphics' and Marvel’s collaborative Atlas Library presents Girl Comics #1-12, a long unseen subversion of romance comics beautifully designed for a new generation of readers!
In 1950, Timely/Atlas/Marvel took a typical romance title called Girl Comics and turned it into a sister companion to its successful men’s-adventure comics: an empowering girls’-adventure comic! Mystery, adventure and suspense was promised and delivered! At the hands of a stellar artistic line-up, including John Buscema, Mike Sekowsky, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Russ Heath, and Bernard Krigstein, Girl Comics evolved from heart-stricken love stories to hair-raising girl-power thrill rides like “The Death Plunge!,” “The House of Shadows!,” “I was a Murderer’s Daughter!,” “They Called me a Spy!,” “The Dead Hands at the Controls,” and “The Dark Hallway.”
This volume also features the story behind the stories, with editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo’s essays on Marvel publisher Martin Goodman’s enthusiastic relationship with romance comics and magazines at a time when the artform was cementing itself into American youth culture!
Just stopping by to post this Amanda Connor variant cover for Batman Deadpool 1 (DC version) -- my favorite of the variants for these new intercompany crossovers.
The book itself is fine -- the Harley Hulk crossover is fun, Hayden Sherman delivers some great art for the Constantine/Doctor Strange story, and there's a terrific Nightwing/Wolverine (the former X-23) story by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo. Plus, the main event -- by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora -- brings back an old piece of Morrison-adjacent continuity as the maguffin, which is fun.
THE DEMON TRILOGY:
I don't think I've ever mentioned it before but, other than the initial storyline, I've never had much use for Ra's al Ghul (or his daughter Talia, either). But so much continuity is based on these three graphic novels (Son of the Demon, Bride of the Demon, Birth of the Demon) mades this three-in-one edition too hard to pass up.
I just reread Son of the Demon as part of DC Finest: Batman: The Killing Joke, and it was more effective than I remembered -- and sucnh a contrast from the more lighthearted stories Mike W. Barr was telling in his Detective Comics run. Man, that Jerry Bingham guy can draw.
ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY No. 8: SNAFU:
Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and Marie Severin, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Stan Lee and others in a gorgeous new package!
When Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines launched EC’s Mad comic book as a warmly received satirical magazine, a flood of imitators soon filled newsstands, but the first and best to follow in Mad’s footsteps (coinciding with the second issue of Mad magazine) was Snafu, edited and written by Kurtzman’s former boss: Stan “The Man” Lee!
Snafu was packed with Marvel/Atlas’ top humor creators and, following the Mad playbook, filled pages with ad and news spoofs, alongside film, television, and book parodies like “The Blackboard Forest” by Russ Heath, “Pete Kelsey’s Booze” and “Bleed, You Bum!” by Joe Maneely, “Drugnet” by Howie Post, “Emily Toast’s Etiquette Page” by John Severin, and “Snafu’s Lovely Ladies” by Bill Everett, with production supervised by Marie Severin. Seen here is some of the most eye-popping work of Maneely’s short life, including great Hollywood caricatures done in a wash style.
In this new volume in our Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, Fantagraphics is tickled pink to present for the first time, the complete Snafu collection along with a history of Martin Goodman’s humor publications in all genres by editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo.
Thanks for highlighting this. I just preordered it.
I don't know how far back it goes, but the military expression SNAFU was apparently in use in WWII. No matter what the news media tells you, the fourth word is not "fouled."
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FRITZ THE CAT:
I'm not finished reading this yet, but I must confess to being somewhat disappointed in the art. It's very crude... in style, I mean, not content, although it is that too. I flipped through to the end expecting to see the art improve by the end, and it does I guess, but it's nowhere near the level I have come to expect from R. Crumb.
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