Free comics. Can’t be a bad thing. The opening five pages of INDIANA JONES AND THE TOMB OF THE GODS 1 are now available to read at Newsarama, with issue one being in the shops next week (July 2nd). Take a look:
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Don’t you just hate blogs that don’t get updated? I do. Bastards. I click on them day after day, desperately hoping to inject a milli-second flicker of interest into my thoroughly mundane existence (I’m sitting in front of a computer, for God’s sake, what do you expect) and do they momentarily give my brain an excuse to wake up and actually think shiny thoughts? Just for a brief moment before I wander off desperately in the vague direction of Facebook trying to find something else I can shallowly substitute for joy? No, they do not. Because they have not been updated. Bastards.
Anyway, LOW LIFE is currently running in the JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE (Not shouting, just upper caps, calm down). It’s a four-parter called War Without Bloodshed and after Henry Flint and Si Coleby had previously made my undercover Judge in Mega City 1 scripts looks all pretty, Rufus Dayglo takes over here. It’s the first time we’ve worked together and I’ve loved it so far. Rufus is currently drawing the new incarnations of Tank Girl for both IDW and the Dredd Megazine, I think – no, I don’t quite get that either. He’s got a real abrasive energy about his pages, something that suits Aimee Nixon and the thoroughly nasty Low Life down to the ground.
Here’s a page from part 3, featuring everyone’s favourite fascist bastard lawman Judge Dredd in a cameo. Very nice, this. The script called for us not to get a good establishing shot of Dredd, rather to build the man’s charisma and mystery by only seeing parts of him and the reaction of those around him. The script has a line I love, too, about how Dredd’s like the church, he offers nothing and people project themselves onto him as a result.
I’ve been posting a lot about the upcoming Indiana Jones mini and raving about Steve Scott’s artwork there, but I’m in a very happy place with the pages coming through from Dustin Weaver too from our two-issue Star Wars: Rebellion arc of the Vector crossover, which starts in July. Dustin’s not been in the comics biz that long but he’s a future star, I’m convinced. For me an artist needs to have a strong storytelling sensibility, first and foremost (everything on the page has to be clear to the reader), they have to have some innate grasp of dramatic imagery, and then they have to make it all look good. Dustin has all that and more – he’s also able to put insane amounts of detail in the background of panels while not sacrificing the panel’s main storytelling point (that’s the key there – it’s too easy for an artist to go overboard on detail while missing the main point of the panel).
Anyway, Dustin Weaver = groovy. Here’s a few Star Wars: Rebellion pages from the forthcoming Vector arc:
