Who has two thumbs and likes a Pull-List full of two great books? This guy!
Prez #2
I've been on my own personal crusade for people to buy this book. DC solicits sold it as a fun "teen girl president" book to get with all your other teen girl books like Batgirl and Black Canary, but Prez is really something different.
Its part teen girl becoming president and part satire on a very bleak future that the United States is currently racing toward. The way Mark Russell and Ben Caldwell incorporate the growth of technology and advertising in our lives is scary and also on the nose. Its a future that doesn't seem all that incredulous. Its the over-the-top insanity that makes the book a lot of fun instead of a look at a dystopian future.
Caldwell really draws the hell out of the book. His style is all his own. He understands what writer Russell is doing with the book and their work together fits like a glove.
Check out Prez. Its a much smarter book than you've been led to believe.
First Place:
Captain Canuck #3
Where do you go when DC and Marvel keep letting you down? You go north, my son. To Chapter House comics and Captain Canuck. Canada's very own Captain America. Three issues in and this book has expertly taken the best parts of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and blended them with some heavy sci-fi and even a little B.P.R.D.
Writer Kalman Andrasofszky has given Tom Evans (Captain Canuck) an excellent supporting cast with a personal story of Tom and his brother Michael. #3 uses a flashback to explore Tom and Michael's backstory with the mysterious site Aleph in the North Pole. The site where, presumably, Tom gets his powers and Michael gets his mechanical hand. There have been enough hints throughout the first three issues to see that Andrasofszky has a long term plan built for his run on the book.
Pretty amazing stuff coming from an unsuspecting source. Love to see this book keep it up and have a great series run.
Captain Canuck #3
Where do you go when DC and Marvel keep letting you down? You go north, my son. To Chapter House comics and Captain Canuck. Canada's very own Captain America. Three issues in and this book has expertly taken the best parts of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and blended them with some heavy sci-fi and even a little B.P.R.D.
Writer Kalman Andrasofszky has given Tom Evans (Captain Canuck) an excellent supporting cast with a personal story of Tom and his brother Michael. #3 uses a flashback to explore Tom and Michael's backstory with the mysterious site Aleph in the North Pole. The site where, presumably, Tom gets his powers and Michael gets his mechanical hand. There have been enough hints throughout the first three issues to see that Andrasofszky has a long term plan built for his run on the book.
Pretty amazing stuff coming from an unsuspecting source. Love to see this book keep it up and have a great series run.
Panel of the Week:
Caldwell draws some pandas fighting to the death... because that's what U.S. senators do in this universe.
-Gint
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