Yes, a couple less-than-stellar movies might have roughed him up a bit of it, but Superman can take it. Few remember the other characters who shared the pages of Action Comics #1 with Superman (Sticky-Mitt Stimson, anyone? Pep Morgan? Scoop Scanlon?), but he's still with us, in the ether, having pervaded the consciousness of the entire world. DC, Marvel, Image and more continued to bring their A-game, which not only made the task of ranking the year's. Shuster's art wasn't big on detail - his eyes were slits, his mouth an em-dash - but it conveyed a tremendous sense of power and (thanks to the addition of a cape, snapping behind him as he jumped through the air) speed. 2017, more than recent years, has had its fair share of memorable comic book moments.
Along the way, he beat up a wife abuser, rescued a tough girl reporter from a kidnapping attempt and secretly wooed that same reporter while wearing a clever (your mileage may vary on this point) disguise. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman leapt - literally - onto the scene in a patently ridiculous circus strongman outfit to save a wronged man from execution. It was a banner year for movies based on comic book properties, with highly regarded entries from the MCU, the X-Men universe, and the world of Spider-Man, but it was Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman that set the critics' hearts afire.
BEST COMIC BOOK READER 2017 MOVIE
This is it, the comic book that launched a character and a craze and ultimately - among many other things - the state of our modern cinematic reality. These are the best-reviewed comic book or graphic novel movie adaptations released in 2017. Moody, moving and darkly beautiful, this work helped the wider world accept the notion that comics can tell stories of any kind, the only limit being the vision of their creators. He imbues each story with an elegiac quality reminiscent of the fables of Sholom Alecheim, replete with a fabulist's gift for distilling the world's morass into tidy morality plays. Eisner sets his stories in and around a Lower East Side tenement building very like the one he grew up in, and it shows. But it's not on this list because it was first, it's on this list because it remains one of the most beloved. So let's put it this way: Eisner's 1978 A Contract With God is widely regarded as the first modern graphic novel. It's nothing so pat and simple as a coming-of-age story it's a beautifully wrought, bittersweet and achingly real examination of two young women - one who believes herself ready for adulthood, one longing to remain a child for just a little longer.Ĭomics nerds are a nitpicky, combative lot, so whenever Will Eisner's collection of comics short stories gets called "the first graphic novel," the "um, actually"s descend like so many neck-bearded locusts to remind everyone about Rodolphe Topffer and Lynd Ward and to point out that it's not a novel, it's a collection of stories. The story, about two girls whose families have been spending summers at the same lake for years, perfectly captures the moment when everything changes - when feelings, both expressed and unexpressed, begin to color and distort a childhood friendship, when long-simmering jealousy, fear and rage finally bubble over. But relatively few comics have taken up the transition from girlhood to womanhood, and none have done so as sensitively and searchingly as This One Summer, written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. Yes, the culture as a whole feels fairly f-ed right now, dominated by an old-guard oblivious to the open and equal tenets their favourite heroes were founded upon back in World War II, but that shouldn't stop us from taking a moment to celebrate all the best and brightest comics 2017 gave us, from Marvel, DC and beyond.Comics about awkward young men struggling with adolescence are thick on the ground, which makes sense, given that the medium seems expressly suited to exploring the anxiety, self-consciousness and other ephemeral emotions that come with puberty.
Tom King continues to amaze us all with his work at DC, Atlantic reporter Ta-Nehisi Coates is over a year into his seminal stint on Black Panther, and even Garth Ennis himself marked a triumphant return to the medium with a prelude to his character-defining run on the Punisher with The Platoon. It's a shame, because there have been so many amazing comics published this year, from DC, Marvel and beyond. That's not to say that the industry hasn't been without its calamitous moments this year Secret Empire set about defining the meaning of 'tone-deaf' to a whole other level entirely with its Nazification of Steve Rogers, Marvel managed to upset just about everyone with Marvel Legacy's variant cover crisis and - for a long time at least - it felt as though the year would be typified more-so by the publisher's managerial woes than by the very real and very apparent quality that was rolling off their printing presses.
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