Hello, and welcome to Saturday Morning Panels, your new favorite Multiversity column! It’s a very simple concept: since none of us are up to watching Saturday morning cartoons anymore, we are instead going to share with you our favorite panels from the week before. It’s a bit like Comics Should Be Cheap, except with more pictures and less reading.
And, of course, spoilers are probably abundant.
We encourage you to play along at home and let us know what your favorite moments of the week were in the comment section! In the meantime, our picks —
Matt’s Pick: “Secret Avengers” #3
It’s such a simple joke… and yet, such a great one,
Alaskan David’s Pick: “Thor, God of Thunder” #7
Bar none, this was the best comic this week. I mean, this was a good week of comics and holy shit, here comes Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic in making awesomeness rain down upon us. No part made that awesomeness more apparent than the last page, in which we get the revelation as to what type of god Thor’s little multi-eyed, no eyelidded friend was. Excuse my French, but that is a fucking ending. Good lord.
Zach’s Pick: “Hawkeye” #9
Seriously bro, Fraction could write an entire issue’s worth of variations on this catchphrase and it would be the best. thing. ever.
Walt’s Pick: “Age of Ultron” #5
If you didn’t read my review, I had opinions about the latest issue of “Age of Ultron.” They were not positive opinions, for the most part. That being said, the funny bits in Fury’s little safehouse, while strange in context, got a laugh out of me, particularly in regards to Tony. In these panels (well, one here, since the two-page nature makes it really difficult to crop), Bendis nails that wistful nostalgia that typically fills someone when happily recalling an old car… only, in this case, the car is a weapon of mass destruction in the shape of a man. While there may not have been anything else good in this issue, I’d be lying if I said this moment didn’t make me smile.
Vince’s Pick: “Thor, God of Thunder” #7
Between this and “Uncanny Avengers”, this week had more than a handful of “Thor loves alcohol” moments. I picked this one because there’s nothing like toasting to yourself before going to beat up a god-killer. I imagine that the not-so-sober Tony Stark of years past would have had many (less literal) conversations like this with himself.
Scottish David’s Pick: “Fantastic Four” #6
I could have easily use almost any panel from this week’s “Fantastic Four” for this column, but this is the one that stood out to me the most. Why? Well, because the thing I love more than anything about the F4 is that before anything they are a family. And while Fraction’s first issues may have had a rocky start, I think he gets that fact really well. I know everyone loves Hickman and all that, but I think Fraction might just be the next big contender.
Michelle’s Pick: “Saga” #12
In an issue full of great, deadpan lines, this is a great, deadpan line. D. Oswald Heist is such an awesome character, and he pretty much makes this conversation-based issue. Let’s just hope he sticks around for a little while — there are too few badass novelists in comics these days, amirite?
