Panel of the Week Voting 23.01.08

See? I told you I'd be back to a weekly schedule!

Last Week, Machine Man once again won over the competition with a landslide 42%!

Today's choices are exclusively Marvel, and in fact dominated by the insurpassable Chris Giarusso and his Mini Marvels appearing every week in the back of the Marvel Adventures titles.

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Panel A Peter and JJ, sitting on the floor, K-I-etc (Amazing Spider-Man #547)


Panel BBob, Agent of Hydra (Cable&Deadpool #49)


Panel CIron Man in a Savage Land (Marvel Adventures Avengers #20)


Panel DMail Your Coupon NOW (Marvel Adventures spider-Man #35)
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Teen Titans Lost Love Annual #1

Teen Titans Lost Love Annual #1

Writer: Rob Haney
Pencils: Jay Stephens
Inks: Mike Allred
Colors: Laura Allred
DC Comics

The long-finished annual, which the DC editorial was refusing to publish back when Geoff Johns relaunched the titans franchise because it would clash with the cartoon and the new title, has been dwelling in the bat-cave archives for 6 years now. Thankfully public bashing from Mike on his message boards, further publicised from Rich Johnston's Lying In The Gutters, helped turn the titde and get this little gem out to its adoring public.

And the world is a better place for it. Observe:

President JFK getting abducted by Alien Body-Snatchers from the Planet Andy Warhol--

-- getting taken to their Dali leader--
--to lead them in battle against their Jack kirby Hairy Hippie Enemies!

Also Featuring:

Inter-spacial Inter-racial Inter-species (Under-aged) Harems

and

Seduction of the Innocent (in the White house!)

(heretofore referred to as 'Robingate')

Certainly the most unapologetically fun and nastily retro read of the month, providing laughs, thrills, action and the most eerie JFK assassination theory since Milligan's Shade the Changing Man!

8/10

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Sidekicking

Batman providing valuable parenting tips.





Source: Teen Titans Year One #1 (DC Comics)
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Who (The Hell) Is Donna Troy?

Source: Countdown #15 (DC Comics)
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Prophetic After The Fact

Source: Cable&Deadpool #49 (Marvel Comics)
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Dan Slott brings back the funny

Amazing Spider-man #547: a great, fun read with a timeless version of Spider-man, combining action, humour and great villains, in the traditional Spider-comics recipe.

Yup, just like any issue of Marvel Adventures, only with sharper higher-budget artwork (Civil War's Steve McNiven).

It's still not good enough to justify the existence of One More Day
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With Great Cake...

Source: Marvel Holiday Special 2007

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Panel of the Week Voting 15.01.08

Welcome back to the once-more-weekly POTW voting! Last week Gail Simone and her tribute to Wonder-woman/Power Girl slash fic proved to be an instant favourite, winning first place with 45% of the votes!

This week the selection is thinner with more gross, some usual suspects and unintentional gaffs.

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Panel A
Let's not talk of this, ever again. (All-New Atom #19)


Panel B
She-Hulk Vs PETA (The Hulk #1)


Panel C
Post-trans-gender/trans-race body-transplant Machine Man/Aaron Stack (Ms Marvel #23)


Panel D
Wasp Eye for the Super Guy (Mighty Avengers #7)
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December '07 H-O-T Grade

At the close of every month, LYSAD will be putting out the absolute and final word on what was H-O-T in comics.


1. ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOL 18 HC (Drawn & Quarterly)

2. SHIRTLIFTER #2 (Drawn, Out Press)

3. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #9 (Dark Horse)

4. UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE #4 (Dark Horse)

5. WONDER WOMAN #15 (DCU)

6. X-MEN #206 (Marvel)

7. CROSSING MIDNIGHT #14 (Vertigo)

8. IMMORTAL IRON FIST #11 (Marvel)

9. THE ORDER #5-6 (Marvel)

10. WORMWOOD ONE SHOT (Avatar)
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Graham Norton does Speed Dating

Thanks to Costas for introducing me to the Divinity of Graham Norton!
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Panel of the Week Voting 04.01.08

Happy New Year and a return of the ultimate LYSAD favourite!

It's been a while since we've done the POTW voting, so let's catch up with the last 6 weeks' worth of panels for your voting pleasure!

Vote for the panel of the week month

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PANEL A
S stands for Spam - (WORLD WAR HULK: AFTERSMASH)


PANEL B
...or at least a thong and fishnet stalkings, eh? (JLA #15)


PANEL C
Speed-y & Pot (GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY #3)


PANEL D
Atom dreams of electric >BEEP< (ALL NEW ATOM #18)


PANEL E
Frogzilla & the Statue of Sexual Liberty (CAPTAIN CARROT #2)

PANEL F
Dave Sim, Jungle King (JUNGLE GIRL #3)
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Greetings Citizens...

...we are living
in the age in which
the pursuit of all values
other than:

Money
Success
Fame
Glamour

has either been discredited or destroyed

for we are living
in the age of the thing



From the movie 'Party Monster'
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Mighty Avengers #1-6 readers' digest

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Holiday Roundtable: Looking forward to 2008

Welcome back for the last part of our Holiday special!

What are you most looking forward to, for 2008?


Cecil Castellucci: More NORTHLANDERS by Brian Wood. All of the new MINX books (including Emiko Superstar, NY Four, Burnout, Token, All Nighter, and of course my own Janes in Love!) THE GOOD NEIGHBOURS by Holly Black. CHIGGERS by Hope Larson. RAPUNZEL'S REVENGE by Shannon Hale. And anything SUPERMAN.





Cliff Chiang: Just getting more issues of GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY under my belt!




Paul Cornell: I'm most looking forward to the rest of DAN DARE, Gail's WONDER WOMAN, and Marvel's big event.





Nate Cosby: The football season. Mississippi State's winnin' EIGHT this year, baby!!!!!
Oh, you mean comics? Huh. Well, I hope the IRON MAN movie's good. And DARK KNIGHT. I don't really know what's coming out as far as non-continuity stuff, so I couldn't tell ya what I'm excited about yet. That's the nice thing about reading comics that don't tie into other comics: You can go to the store, see a cool cover, open it up, just start reading without having to catch up on the lore.

Oh! Mike Kunkel's SHAZAM'll end up being good, I bet. That guy's awesome.





Jason Aaron: Reading NORTHLANDERS from Vertigo and '76 from Image.
Writing more SCALPED and getting my hands on GHOST RIDER.





Nicola Scott: Whatever's next.



Mike Carey: THE BLACK DOSSIER, which I haven't managed to pick up yet. I know, I know, that's an evasive answer. How about SECRET INVASION?




Manolis: Thanks again to Mike, Tom, Nicola, Christo, Paul, Cecil, Cliff, Nate, Heidi and Jason; and a Happy New Year to everyone from me and the Comics Nexus team!
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Holiday Roundtable: Creators' Best of 2007

Which stories and titles stand out as your favourite from 2007?

Jason Aaron: THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, DMZ, CRIMINAL, CASANOVA, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, FEAR AGENT, SENTENCES: THE LIFE OF M.F. GRIMM, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: THE BLACK DOSSIER.



Cecil Castellucci: I loved ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. DMZ. Y THE LAST MAN. ASTONISHING X-MEN. THE ARRIVAL. ROBOT DREAMS. CURSES.






Cliff Chiang: SCALPED, DMZ, GREEN LANTERN, any of the SHOWCASE editions





Paul Cornell: This year I particularly liked: The AVENGERSs titles; CAPTAIN AMERICA; Gail Simone's ATOM (and all her work); Morrison and Dini's BATMAN books; 52; DAN DARE.




Nate Cosby: Hrmmmmm…hang on, I gotta check what came out this year. SPIDERMAN FAMILY #7 was really good (Chris Eliopoulos' Frog Thor!). Everything Jeff Parker did (X-MEN FIRST CLASS, his issues MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS), everything Fred Van Lente did (MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN - FANTASTIC FOUR - SPIDER-MAN, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP, FANTASTIC FOUR/POWER PACK). THE SPIRIT was REALLY good. Hmmmm…oh! ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN keeps being good.





Christos Gage: I'll mention five that I really enjoy and think should be getting more attention: I think CROSSING MIDNIGHT from Vertigo is an extremely well done horror/fantasy book that should be on more peoples' radar. JONAH HEX continues to be top-notch, as it has been since it began. WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY is something every fan of Gail Simone should check out; it's up there with her best stuff, and you don't need to follow any other books to enjoy it. Ed Brubaker's CRIMINAL is bringing hard-boiled crime back to comics in a brilliant way. And Oni's RESURRECTION is off to a very promising start. There are many more, but I've only got so much space!






Nicola Scott: Gail's start on WONDER WOMAN and Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory, particularly the ZATANNA and KLARION stories lines.






Mike Carey: I got a lot of pleasure out of CIVIL WAR. If you're going to do big event comics, then you should do them like this: really huge and epic, and with a real-world significance hiding behind the super-heroics.

I was blown away - as most long-term BUFFY fans were - by Joss Whedon's triumphant continuation of the Vampire Slayer's story in season eight.

I read a weird, haunting, silly but poignant manga called THE CLARENCE PRINCIPLE that I liked a lot. And I loved the first volume of the re-released Parasyte.


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