#nick spencer

From Bedlam #5 by Nick Spencer and Riley Rossmo. I particularly like how you’re constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop in this series. 

A major reason why I started reading more and more Image Comics in the last year or so was because of this guy. The Infinite Vacation is probably my favorite work of his to date, but if you’ve been reading this blog enough I just about flipped out at Bedlam. I’ve fallen off Morning Glories because I’ve been reading it in trade. 

Also, I want to know if it’s in the Marvel exclusive contracts that they start Tumblrs, because I feel like most of the staff is on this service. If so, sweet. 

BEDLAM is a very sick and twisted book and I love it. Like everything about this book makes my skin crawl, right down to Fillmore’s doctor [in the third panel]. 

Riley Rossmo’s NY Comic Con variant cover to BEDLAM #1. I’m not going to NYCC, because I’ll be heading down there for Halloween and I just can’t justify two trips to the city in the same month, but this cover nearly makes me want to go down there just for this issue alone. (Also the preview is deliciously messed up.)

Also, also there may be some COLLECTIVE news coming out during the con so stay tuned. 

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I’ve said it before: I love these ads.

Nick Spencer and Riley Rossmo introduce Bedlam, cover art by Walter O’Neal. 

This too, I’m excited for. I’ll be honest with y’all, I’m probably more excited for these great Image books than I am for any other company book. 

From T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS, vol. 2, No. 1, written by Nick Spencer and drawn by Wes Craig. 

I really liked this particularly human moment between Colleen and Toby where they’re talking about the Menthor helmet and how Jennings, the creator of the suits the agents wear that give them their power, put a safeguard into the helmet. The inventor, Colleen says, “realizes he can’t always make the wearer of the helmet a good person. He realizes there will be military applications and he can’t force morality on the machine outright,” but it can “improve the human condition.”

The helmet makes the wearer do something that will improve the condition of the person. It will protect the philosophy of what makes us who we are. That’s going above and beyond in terms of justifying power and I think that’s why this series is one of my favorites of the year, because the drama is rooted in character and the superhuman suits these people wear have a cost on the lives of the people who wield them.

Also, I thought it was rather sad that Cafu was put on another book, but I have to say Wes Craig’s character work is really great. The expressions alone have a distinct, perfectly human affectation to them.  

Man, I wish I had any kind of ability to be out there. There’s a few things I would go to: Stories and Scripts with Brubaker, Hickman, Seagle (one of my childhood favorite writers), Spotlight on Saga (obvs), Writing Workshop with John Layman. His scripts are amazing if you haven’t seen them.

Because you fucking should. It’s free. And it’s awesome.