A Moment of Comics After Election Day

I've been waiting to post this page. Didn't know how appropriate it would be. One more from the "Year of the Bastard" storyline in Transmetropolitan #14, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson with inks by Rodney Ramos, 

A Moment of Comics Counting Down to November

This will be me in front of any computer all the way up to Election Day. One of my favorite pages from the "Year of the Bastard" storyline in Transmetropolitan #14, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson with inks by Rodney Ramos, who I might have not given enough credit to this month. I will go back and correct my posts later. Hope you all vote blue next week. I really do.

A Moment of Comics Counting Down to November

In the Transmetropolitan future, there are revival hostels for people who were frozen, revived in the future and brought to a catatonic state from the shock of the future world. Sometimes I wonder if this is going to happen to my generation in real time. A page from"Another Cold Morning" in Transmetropolitan #8 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. Rodney Ramos inks this issue.

A Moment of Comics Counting Down to November

Let's hope canvassing in battleground states is going better in real life. Another page from Transmetropolitan #21 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.

A Moment of Comics Counting Down to November

If we had our way, the "60 Minutes" interview with Trump would have been something like Spider Jerusalem's interview with "The Beast." From Transmetropolitan #21, part three of "The New Scum" by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. 

A Moment of Comics Counting Down to November

Though writer Warren Ellis has been at least partially cancelled, his early opus, Transmetropolitan with artist Darick Robertson, is still something I look to when I think of elections in America. The ultraconservative president Bob Heller (The Beast) seems now seems like a slighly more eloquent version of Trump. Below is a page from Transmetropolitan #15, part of the "Year of the Bastard" storyline.

 

A Moment of Comics

John Cassaday passed away earlier this week. People have been posting his pages from Captain America and Astonishing X-Men. These are good choices, but despite Warren Ellis' fall from grace, Planetary deserves to be in print forever. Cassaday was at his best when he was creating his own worlds. If it wasn't for Cassady, comics in the early 2000's would have been far less interesting.

He seemed to work exclusively on covers after Astonishing X-Men. That move was smart, but then we missed pages like the one above from the groundbreaking Planetary #1, written by Ellis, drawn by Cassady. Laura Martin's colors can't be overlooked either. RIP, Mr. Cassaday.

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I've covered this comic before, but posting a page where a deranged, status-hungry man sacrifices one of his lowly acolytes to gain back his lost power seems appropriate given this past weekend. From Druid #4 by writer Warren Ellis and artist Leonardo Manco.

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Warren Ellis has great ideas that end up being throwaway. I liked this spot in Astonishing X-Men #35 (art by Phil Jimenez and Frank D'Armata) where the X-Men are all called out for looking like supermodels with none of the truly weird looking mutants among them. Mutants that were ugly never lasted in the comics. Remember when Marrow and Maggot were on the team? Exactly. This is the perspective lacking in Joss Whedon's mutant cure storyline at the start of the book's run. Pity it was never explored in any depth.

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From issue #7 of Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen. Not the flashiest choice for Pride Month, but it's a section of  dialogue I always remembered back when so-called fans got angry about the thought of a gay Captain America.

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Continuing with the theme of connecting to National Poetry Month, a page from the first issue of Druid, the short lived series by Warren Ellis and Leonardo Manco. Another rare mention of poetry in a mainstream comic.

Kill poets on sight. Their souls are Pus-ridden with cowardice and duplicity.