![]() ![]() ![]() Hawkeye is kinda like Marvel’s answer to Aquaman, he’s an easily dismissed one-trick character who’s known better as a piece of a team than as an individual hero (plus they both look great with beards but always end up tragically clean-shaven). “Murder Falcon” by Daniel Warren Johnson If you like “Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End Times” read: If you read “Apocalyptigirl” there’s always going to be a couple pages that stick with you, maybe just come back to them when you need a boost, the End Times are always a comfortable place to be. All the fights and movements are frenetic, which comes as a surprise when you compare it to Maclean’s other book “Head Lopper” where all the characters are massive beefcakes and severed heads (a notoriously, un-mobile crowd). The art here deserves it too, everything feels really fluid and quick, like Adventure Time covered in vaseline (don’t think about that too hard). There’s a lot to like about single creator comics, a lot of modern comics have really protracted plots that just don’t fit in 20 pages that well, but solo creators seem a lot more willing to tell something fun and decompressed, give their work some room to breath. I guess, “Apocalyptigirl” is an end of the world story that doesn’t dwell on the end of the world, it just takes you for a ride and shows you that there’s always a reason to keep on keeping on. Or maybe I’m just at my happiest when a mech-suit is around. Maclean’s stories feel really effortlessly light-hearted, like the stories never seem to be pushing you towards a certain chirpiness, but they all feel infectiously upbeat anyway, maybe it’s because it serenades you. The book follows Aria as she tries to breathe life back into a crumbling world and the incredible machines society left behind. “Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End Times” by Andrew Maclean is a bundle of joy that brings a kind of optimism to the page that I thought died with Flash Gordon. Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End TimesĪlright, when I put this list together I realised it’s almost entirely super popular comics, so I thought I’d put my best foot forward and give you the one book you maybe haven’t heard of first. ![]()
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