CASABLANCA - Okay, okay, okay.  Now you’ve read easy-to-get-into comics, comics about comics, literary comics, and down-and-dirty mystery comics.

You’ve done your homework and now it’s time to cut loose.  Let’s pick up some dumb fun.  Then, we’ll check in with my comic collecting compatriots and see what comics they’ve enjoyed in the past and in the present!

But I know what you’re saying: “I was led believe there would be a man wrestling a squid.”

Well, here ya go, ya punk!

BAM! Page 1 of this week’s comics selection:

The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite

Written by Gerard “Yes, the guy from My Chemical Romance, JEEZ, let it GO!” Way

Illustrated by Gabriel Bá

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GOTHAM CITY - A dark night in a city that keeps its secrets.

But one man is still trying to find the answers to life’s persistent questions…

Guy No- wait, no. Cash Money!

I love me a good mystery and I love it even more when it’s 90% shadows and fedoras.  A femme fatale, a dangling cigarette, and some chopper-wielding gunsels hanging off the running-boards and I’m raring to go.

Let’s take any of your classic flat-foot sleuths, replace his trench-coat with a black cape and change his Stetson into a cowl and you get this week’s feature:

BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN

Written by Jeff “The Guy Who Writes Heroes” Loeb

Illustrated by Tim “Cash’s Favorite Comics Guy” Sale

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PORTLAND, OREGON - There is no secret to drawing comics.  Draw all your female characters with odd proportions, have them wear skin-tight outfits with their boobs hanging out, then have all the dudes have their teeth clenched, make sure they have a dark past that has come back to haunt them, punch a few dudes.

Done and done.

Everyone goes home with an Warner Brother’s animated series with Mickey Rourke in a villain role for your sequel.

[lights cigar with $100]

[puts feet on desk]

[gloats]

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Written & Illustrated by Scott McCloud

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COAST CITY – One of the biggest stigmas still attached to comics is that they are low brow.  Uncouth. Degenerate.

Like this.

But it’s not all like that. Yes, sadly, much of comicbookery is very smart and very interesting and very, very well illustrated.  Many comics have won prestigious literary awards and run the gamut of subject matter including social commentary, political commentary, and sexual commentary (and the boobs implied therein) – yes, comics have it all.  It’s not all about men in tights and improbably proportioned women.

That said, comics featuring these men and women can be used to express the same high-falutin’, literary, socio-political drama.  And, apparently, they can be made in using gouache.  This is perhaps most true in my second recommendation:

Kingdom Come

Written by Mark Waid, Esq.

Illustrated by the Rt. Hon. Alex Ross

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200 WEST 40th STREET – Ohhhhh, comics.  I love ya, I love ya.  After a long day of making grim decisions and dealing with mankind, it’s so nice to pick up a glossy folio where all of life is reduced to GOOD and BAD.   A copy of Secret Six, a Singapore Sling, maybe some Call me Poupée, and I’m a happily anesthetized little, fuzzy, man-child.

Ho ho.  Good times in the Money Manse.

But not everyone loves comics the way I love comics.  And that is terrible.

No worries, though, I -as ever- am here to help.

Over the next five (5) weeks I’ll bring you a few general tips and some specific recommendations to get you and keep you into comics once and for all.

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