Leave Your Spandex @t the Door 14.11.07

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Counting up, I bring you number 109, beware:

• Panel of the Week voting

• H-O-T Grade October ‘07

• Con Report: BICS 2007 part 3

• Mike Carey Is Messed Up

• The Complete Ms Machine saga

• Real Life Message Board Meeting

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This week in comics…

PANEL OF THE WEEK VOTING 04.11.07

What a race! Last week‘s voting had led to a TIE, between Ultimate Spider-man and the early favourite Bob, Agent of Hydra, until Bob narrowly cut the ribbon at the time of this writing. Each panel had about 32% of the votes.

It’s catch-up time this week, running panels from two weeks to get back into the proper timetable. That means it’s a record 6 panels running for the best spot this week:


Panel A
Marilyn Monroe’s got nothing on our Queen (ASTONISHING X-MEN #23)

Panel B

Low Blow (ASTONISHING X-MEN #23)

Panel C

Aaron Stack, Ms Machine Man (Ms Marvel #21)

Panel D

PWNED (Uncanny X-Men #492)

Panel E

Bizarro Dark Knight Returns (DC Infinite Halloween Special)

Panel F

M.O.D.O.K. = (Pinky + Brain) (Super-Villain Team-Up: M.O.D.O.K.’s 11 #5)

October ‘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. PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP TRIAL OF COLONEL SWEETO HC (Dark Horse)

2. ESSEX COUNTY VOL 2 GHOST STORIES (Top Shelf)

3. CASANOVA #10 (Image)

4. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #7 (Dark Horse)

5. CROSSING MIDNIGHT #12 (Vertigo)

6. BLACK SUMMER #3 (Avatar)

7. UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE #2 (Dark Horse)

8. PARADE WITH FIREWORKS #2 (Image)

9. EMPOWERED VOL 2 TP (Dark Horse)

10. RUNAWAYS #28 (Marvel)

October saw Dark Horse seizing the game, and taking home a record 4 spots in the chart, with the excellent webstrips colection from PBF, the still-amazing Umbrella Academy, BKV’s Buffy and Adam Warren’s ode to T&A, Empowered.

Image, Vertigo and Top Shelf upping their game meant Marvel barely scraped in the Top 10. Gems that almost made it in the list: DCU’s only saving graces: Simon Dark and Infinity Inc, Marvel’s MODOK’s 11 and Image’s hot new premieres: The Sword and Suburban Glamour.

Plenty of new titles makingit into the chart, although it was a skip month for Astonishing X-Men, Y the Last Man and the Order. More on those next month!

Mike Carey is messed up

I rest my case.

(Source: Crossing Midnight #12, Vertigo Comics)

BICS coverage part 3: Photo Parade – the Creators

Part 3 of our BICS coverage

Kieron Gillen (Phonogram) and Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram, Suburban Glamour),
winners of the charades award

Dave Kendall (Bad Planet) drawing on the ImagineFX booth,
winner of the second tallest -after me- award

Rich Johnston (Lying in the Gutters)
dedicating the newest -colour- edition of the Flying Friar

Guest-of-Honour Kevin Nowlan
sketching for his fans, and mrs Nowlan

Mike Carey… and Mike Carey on the limited edition cover of his first novel The Devil You Know,
winner of the fan-friendly award for his hours talking and drinking it up with our great unwashed lot

Alan Davis and Mark Farmer,
a penciller and inker team even in the sketch sessions

Adi Granov (Iron Man),
winner of the biggest sketch queue award (take that, Mignola!)

Staz Johnston (Underworld),
winner of the Best Hair award

Ilya (far right) and his army of writers and artists from the Mammoth Book of New Manga, vol. 2,
winners of the 300-UK award

Dean Ormston (Testament, Lucifer, Books of Magick),
winner of the bottomless pint award

Essad Ribic (Loki, Silver Surfer) ,
winner of biggest and sexiest artist award (phwoar)


Mark Buckingham (Fables) and Irma Buckingham,
winners of the friendliest bunch award

Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Green Lantern Corps),
winner of the Friends of Budgie award

BICS Coverage Archive:

Part 1: the Convention & Arrival
Part 2: Comic Artists Flip Out

Ms Machine Man

Didn’t you wonder what the story behind that panel in this month’s voting was? Here is the complete abridged story:

Who cares about civil War, and the Initiative? Can’t we just have comics like this every week instead:

It all kicks off in Ms Marvel #21, after Aaron Stack (the superhero robot stud formerly boringly known as Machine Man) loses his body in a cliffhanger explosion

Later:


Real Life Message Board Meeting

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Manolis Vamvounis
a.k.a. Dr. Dooplove

ah, the good old Dr Manolis, the original comics Greek. He's been at this for sometime. he was there when the Comics Nexus was founded, he even gave it its name, he even used to run it for a couple of years. he's been writing about comics, geeking out incessantly and interviewing busier people than himself for over ten years now and has no intention of stopping anytime soon.