Category: Comics.
Sometimes I think I still read too much straight up superhero comics and not enough alternative things, although…
• Ultimate Avengers 2 #5 (Marvel Comics)
• New Ultimates #3 (Marvel Comics)
• The Avengers #3 (Marvel Comics)
• Secret Avengers #3 (Marvel Comics)
• The New Avengers #2 (Marvel Comics)
• Astonishing X-Men #34 (Marvel Comics)
• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant #4 (of 5) (Marvel Comics)
• Scarlet #1 (Icon/Marvel Comics)
• Haunt #8 (Image Comics)
• Officer Downe (Image Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Batman and Robin #13 (DC Comics)
• Batman: Odyssey #1 (DC Comics)
• Batman #701 (DC Comics)
• Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #4 (of 6) (DC Comics)
• Hellblazer #269 (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Hellboy: The Storm #1 (of 3) (Dark Horse Comics
• Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain #1, #2 (Dark Horse Comics
• Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream #3 (Blood Thirst variant) (Avatar Press)
• Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island #2 (Avatar Press)
• Neonomicon #1 (Book of the dead variant) (Avatar Press)
• Hotwire: Deep Cut #1 (Radical Publishing) — RECOMMENDED
• Shiny Beasts — Rick Veitch (with Alan Moore and S.R. Bissette) (King Hell) — RECOMMENDED
Following on from the previous post, more June-bought comics than I have time to read…
• The Avengers #2 (Marvel Comics)
• The Secret Avengers #2 (Marvel Comics)
• The New Avengers #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate X #3 (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate Avengers 2 #4 (Marvel Comics)
• Powers #5 (ICON/Marvel Comics)
• Haunt #7 (Image Comics)
• Ted McKeever’s META 4 #1 (Image Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Turf #2 (Image Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Crossed: Family Values #2 (wraparound variant) (Avatar Press)
• 7 Psychopaths #1, #2 (BOOM! Studios) — RECOMMENDED
• Hellblazer #268 (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #3 (of 6) (DC Comics)
• GANTZ #11 (Dark Horse Comics) — RECOMMENDED (Buy US
• The Life And Times Of Martha Washington In The Twenty-First Century TPB (Dark Horse Comics) — RECOMMENDED (Buy US
Comic news site Broken Frontier has just published an interview with designer Jeff Powell and myself where we briefly talk about our work in comics and discuss designers’ aesthetics.
Another month (and a half) of new comics, with recommendations.
Looks like I went on a little Avengers binge…
• Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1, #2 (of 5) (Marvel Comics)
• SIEGE #4 (of 4) (Marvel Comics)
• The New Avengers Finale #1 (one-shot) (Marvel Comics)
• The Avengers #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Avengers Prime #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Secret Avengers #1 (Marvel Comics)
• The Invincible Iron Man #26 (Marvel Comics)
• S.H.I.E.L.D #2 (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Spider-Man: Fever #2, #3 (of 3) (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant #2, #3 (of 5) (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Ultimate Avengers #2, #3 (Marvel Comics)
• New Ultimates #2 (Marvel Comics)
• Stephen King’s N #3, #4 (of 4) (Marvel Comics)
• Nemesis #2 ((Icon/Marvel Comics)
• Hellboy In Mexico (Dark Horse Comics)
• B.P.R.D. King of Fear #5 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Gravel #19 (wraparound variant) (Avatar Press)
• Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream #2 (painted variant) (Avatar Press)
• Tom Strong and the Robots Of Doom #1 (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
• Batman #700 (DC Comics)
• Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, #2 (of 6) (DC Comics)
• Batman and Robin #12 (DC Comics)
• Daytripper #6, #7 (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing (Vertigo/DC Comics) — RECOMMENDED (Buy US
• Ashley Wood’s F.I.! #1 (IDW Publishing) — RECOMMENDED (Buy US
• BIOMEGA #1 (VIZ Media) — RECOMMENDED (Buy US
Comic news site Newsarama has an extensive interview with yours truly cheekily titled Tom Muller on the “Rise & Fall” of Design in Comic Books— where I talk about comics work and my feelings & views towards the current state of design in comic industry.
What I’ve been buying this month… with recommendations of things you should definitely pick up.
• Invincible Iron Man #25 (Rian Hughes & Salvador Larroca variant) (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate Avengers #6 (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate Avengers 2 #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate X #2 (Marvel Comics)
• Powers #4 (Icon/Marvel Comics)
• Stephen King’s N #2 (Marvel Comics)
• S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Spider-Man: Fever #1 (of 3) (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Black Widow #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant #1 (of 5) (Marvel Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• Crossed: Family Values #1 (wraparound variant) (Avatar Press)
• Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream #1 (wraparound variant) (Avatar Press)
• Gravel #18 (wraparound variant) (Avatar Press)
• Batman and Robin #11 (DC Comics)
• Hellblazer #265, 266 (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Daytripper #5 (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• B.P.R.D. The King of Fear #4 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Hellcyon #1 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Turf #1 (Image Comics) — RECOMMENDED
• The Light #1 (Image Comics) — RECOMMENDED
VIKING Volume 1 cover
in all good comic shops and bookstores is the massively oversized hardcover of the first season of VIKING, collecting the first 5 issues of the comics series by Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein. Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been involved with the series from the word go as the logo and cover designer, so when the time came to work on the collection, the 3 of us stuck our heads together to see how we could push the design of the book a bit further after the initial waves it made in the industry — with the design and format of the single issues — and create a package for the book that would stand out on the shelves.
A lot of people have asked why we changed the VIKING logo. The logo worked well on the single issues, so if it ain’t broke, why fix it? There were a few good reasons why I decided to change the logo and the overall look of the cover, which I’ll explain below.
Continue reading…
No, I hadn’t abandoned this series of posts, but thats what happens when you move house. Rest assured, I haven’t stopped reading comics. Anyway, we’re back — and here’s whats in my March pile. Again, I’ll highlight and link the comics & books I think you really should be reading.
• Gantz #8, #9 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Mesmo Delivery (Dark Horse Comics) — BUY
• American Vampire #1 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Daytripper #4 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Hellblazer #264, #265 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Batman & Robin #9, #10 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Northlanders Vol. 3: Blood in the Snow TPB (DC/Vertigo Comics) — BUY
• Justice League Rise & Fall Special #1 (DC Comics)
• The Rise of Arsenal #1 (DC Comics)
I only bought the 2 above because I designed the trade dress
• SIEGE #3 (of 4) (Marvel Comics)
• Stephen King’s N. #1 (of 4) (Marvel Comics)
• Nemesis #1 (Icon/Marvel Comics)
• Powers #3 (Icon/Marvel Comics)
• New Ultimates #1 (Marvel Comics)
• Ultimate Avengers #5 (Marvel Comics)
• B.P.R.D. King of Fear #3 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Haunt #6 (Image Comics)
• Image United #0 (Image Comics)
• Battlefields — Happy Valley #3 (of 3) (Dynamite)
• Supergod #3 (wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)
• Crossed #9 (wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)
• Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island #1 (Avatar Press)
• Gravel #17 (wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)
• Mezolith Book 1 (DFC Library/David Fickling Books) — BUY
GREEN ARROW #31 cover
For the series I was asked to design the trade dress and the RISE AND FALL/RISE OF/FALL OFF logos for the storyline, which they applied to the covers. Nice to see the final results!
I’ll be posting more about this later.
A few days ago comics scribe extraordinaire (and fast becoming Hollywood darling) Mark Millar held a little ‘design a new logo for my forum’ competition.
Now, before I hear everyone yelling ‘SPEC WORK!’, sometimes you have to give in to your inner geek and have some fun for half an hour or so.
Of course I didn’t win. But now I have the beginnings of a new typeface.