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Developed by Dean Motter and various alternative cartoonists including (but not limited to) Los Bros Hernandez, Seth, Shane Oakley and Paul Rivoche!
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๐ฆนi grew up reading this comic and recently reread it it rocked. this comic by joe quesada and joshua middleton, which was tragically discontinued, follows the lives of young mutants who reside on the lower east side. i wont spoil it but i will say that they do molly and work as dominatrixes. i think marvel should let harmony korine direct a movie of this series and cast me as x23.
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the trailer for "i saw the tv glow" has me thinking about my favorite analysis of the media/fan relationship, flex mentallo!
dc comics' vertigo imprint in the 80s/90s was as fringe and weird and beautiful as dc comics can get, but flex mentallo was no one's expectation for a character that would be the focus of the deconstruction of the reader's relationship with comics. initially created for grant morrison's 80s "doom patrol" run, flex mentallo is a superman archetype straight out of the golden age, not quite as punk as the rest of the doom patrol cast but surely twice as strange: he's so strong he can fight people by flexing his muscles and using the vibrations to alter reality, even turning a pentagon into a circle!
morrison's 1996 flex mentallo miniseries was released over 4 issues and can be purchased as a graphic novel wherever you buy your comics. abandoning the proper dc universe, this miniseries follows parallel journeys of flex solving the mystery of a missing friend, and a depressed rockstar who loves comics. no spoilers, but historical context is necessary: the first three issues revolve around the three "eras" of comics at the time: the golden age, following great world war 2 era comics like superman and batman, the silver age, with scientific wonders like the fantastic four and the flash, and the dark age, the post-watchmen era that this comic was contemporary to, and that third issue really highlights all the wrong lessons that contemporary writers learned from alan moore's genius deconstruction of superheroes.
the fourth issue? maybe the very future we live in today! i think this comic grows more relevant with time for the comics medium, but it can say a lot about people who grew up loving any art and their adult relationship with it.
definitely requires a reread or two, so good thing it's short. grant morrison (who is also gerard way's comics mentor) is a master of the medium, and this is my favorite of their works, and there's nothing like a good quitely book.
morrison's 1996 flex mentallo miniseries was released over 4 issues and can be purchased as a graphic novel wherever you buy your comics. abandoning the proper dc universe, this miniseries follows parallel journeys of flex solving the mystery of a missing friend, and a depressed rockstar who loves comics. no spoilers, but historical context is necessary: the first three issues revolve around the three "eras" of comics at the time: the golden age, following great world war 2 era comics like superman and batman, the silver age, with scientific wonders like the fantastic four and the flash, and the dark age, the post-watchmen era that this comic was contemporary to, and that third issue really highlights all the wrong lessons that contemporary writers learned from alan moore's genius deconstruction of superheroes.
the fourth issue? maybe the very future we live in today! i think this comic grows more relevant with time for the comics medium, but it can say a lot about people who grew up loving any art and their adult relationship with it.
definitely requires a reread or two, so good thing it's short. grant morrison (who is also gerard way's comics mentor) is a master of the medium, and this is my favorite of their works, and there's nothing like a good quitely book.
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