I, who've worked as a janitor three places (a movie theater, a health-service center, and a YWCA) really want to read this comic series, Damage Control---about a clean-up crew that repairs the wreckage superheroes leave behind.
It was created by Dwayne McDuffie, envisioned as "a sitcom within the Marvel Universe".
via phoenixseattle.com/damage-control ^
Below, from Damage Control v2 #3, by Dwayne McDuffie (story), Ernie Colón (art):
--"We need super-villain code names. Something catchy like "Cloak and Dagger."
--Or "Hammer and Anvil".
--How about "Thunder and Lighting"?
--I dont like it. "Fold and Spindle"?
--Nah. "Mortar and Pestle"?
Damage Control appeared intermittently between1988-1991. Luckily the issues were recently published in one book, which the library owns: Damage Control: The Complete Collection (2015).
I found this comic because I was looking for multicultural comic artists who were fans when they were kids---and that's McDuffie (though he's a writer, not a visual artist).
He says he was a proto-nerd growing up, "a motor-mouthed black fanboy".
From this interview with Evan Narcisse published in the Atlantic in 2010, shortly before McDuffie's death from heart disease at only 49 years old:"Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie"
It was created by Dwayne McDuffie, envisioned as "a sitcom within the Marvel Universe".
Below, from Damage Control v2 #3, by Dwayne McDuffie (story), Ernie Colón (art):
--"We need super-villain code names. Something catchy like "Cloak and Dagger."
--Or "Hammer and Anvil".
--How about "Thunder and Lighting"?
--I dont like it. "Fold and Spindle"?
--Nah. "Mortar and Pestle"?
Damage Control appeared intermittently between1988-1991. Luckily the issues were recently published in one book, which the library owns: Damage Control: The Complete Collection (2015).
I found this comic because I was looking for multicultural comic artists who were fans when they were kids---and that's McDuffie (though he's a writer, not a visual artist).
He says he was a proto-nerd growing up, "a motor-mouthed black fanboy".
From this interview with Evan Narcisse published in the Atlantic in 2010, shortly before McDuffie's death from heart disease at only 49 years old:"Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie"
Superhero comics that are funny?--this sounds great to me. The recent trend seems to be pretty humorless.
Below is not by McDuffie--it's from Vixen: Return of the Lion, drawn by Cafu, script by G Willow Wison, ©2009 DC Comics
--"Why do they wear their undergarments on the outside?"
--"You should not laugh, Abiesa (sp?)--it's their culture. They can't help it."
^ from an interview with G. Willow Wilson
2 comments:
Underwear outside--Robin Hood must have been the first superhero! Looking forward to reading this book!
BINK: Yep, you know I thought of you getting dressed up as Robin Hood when you were little, putting your undies on over your clothes!
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