Feb 25th 2010 By: Laura Hudson
EXCLUSIVE: 'Girl Comics' #1 Preview
Next week, the first issue of Marvel's "Girl Comics" anthology -- a title written, illustrated, edited, colored, and lettered entirely by women -- hits the shelves, and ComicsAlliance has an exclusive preview of the first ten pages. In honor of the series, which is part of the year-long Marvel Women initiative spotlighting projects by female creators, next week is going to be GIRL WEEK at ComicsAlliance, with interviews, commentary, and focusing on women in comics -- both the real and the fictional.
For now, enjoy the preview with an intro by and writing by Colleen Coover followed by the Nightcrawler-themed short by Willow Wilson, Ming Doyle, Cris Peter and Kathleen Marinaccio.
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Fenchurch
Erm, because the guy in red pushes Nightcrawler to the floor, and is looming over him, when the girl hits him in the back of the head with her shoe. So she saves him as well.
February 27 2010 at 6:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Estara
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Okay, why does Nightcrawler say "Thank you" to the girl he saved, and she says "You're welcome"? He saved her! All the other German is in the right place, but come on, you could have used dict.leo.org to check that you use the correct phrase for the correct character...
February 27 2010 at 4:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ben Siegel
It seems that by inverting the traditional dialectic of hero/damsel and reveling in the subsequent triumph of the heroic female, thanks are most certainly in order from the good Mr. Wagner. In keeping with the theme of female empowerment, it's interesting to see these trite gender roles reversed.
From both a literary perspective and that of a Feminist, I enjoyed this story very much. I hope Marvel keeps up this quality of work; I've grown exceptionally weary of Marvel reinforcing sexist attitudes.
Nataniel
Looks gorgeous. I think the lettering is elegant, as the artist herself. We are just used to see hand-written letters, that doesn`t mean there are no other choices. Can`t wait to read the whole thing.
February 26 2010 at 12:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Eden
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Hey, Marvel, can we get Collen Coover's intro image as a poster? PLEASE? I already know a bunch of people who'd buy it. I'd get one for every room.
February 25 2010 at 10:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Tamarbatavraham
I'd buy Two! It's about to become my new computer background.
February 26 2010 at 9:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
BradyDale
The lettering is just so terrible. Is the whole series going to be like that? Seriously... I know hardly anyone letters by hand anymore but at least pick the stuff that LOOKS like it was done by hand and don't be so careless about floating them in the balloons that you can virtually see the computer's formatting in your mind's eye.
Ick.
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