Alex Spencerさんのイラストまとめ

The whole book is stylised – and stylish – as hell. The dialogue is turned up just a little too high, full of impossibly polished word-bombs. It’s incredibly arch and I love it.

They’re also characters who sample multiple aesthetics and pull them into a superhero universe, so it’s appropriate that the three stories here jump between genres: martial arts to super-spies to mystery story.

It’s time for another #oneweekonecomic! This Wednesday: @JedMacKay /Travel Foreman/ @JoeyVazquezArt’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON: DEEP CUTS. (Originally released as ‘digital originals', now in print for the first time, so I figure it falls within my own 'new comics only' rules.)

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...Which is really interesting, but it all pales in comparison to the single most important thing about this issue – the introduction of my new favourite X-Men character: Fungus the bear.

There’s something inherently wrong about seeing the X-Mansion, a centre for this community that has been the target of so many supervillains' schemes, just... replaced, with these individual single-person homes.

The key rule of X-Man’s world is: no relationships. The prologue one shot last week went hard on the romance angle of this, but it’s actually more affecting to see how it stops them from forming a family.

Similarly, I really like the final balloon here. It’s a simple trick, but having to squint (or, in my case, zoom in) to see what it says makes you a more active participant.

The really smart bit, though, is that the big rescue takes place inside one of X-Man’s Cerebro centres, so we get a chance to see the inner workings of this society. It’s not treated as a big reveal, just background detail, because our heroes already know all about this stuff.

I love that it’s an issue without any traditional baddie, and the X-Men are just rescuing people – and animals – from natural disasters. Always nice to see some superheroics that don’t involve punches to faces.