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 –
Matthew’s Pick: “Wolverine and the X-Men” #29
I have a weird fascination with comics that predict the future, especially futures we probably won’t see. Granted, Aaron has a very long career ahead of him, and if he takes over the X-Men franchise and has a run as long and as fruitful as Claremont’s, I won’t complain. If we even see just a little bit of the stuff talked about in this scene, I’ll be happy.
In Aaron I trust.
Vince’s Pick: “Helheim” #3
Joelle Jones is drawing the hell out of this book. Many of the series’ finest moments so far have been silent beats and wordless sequences of mayhem. Here, the silent panel provides a darkly comic beat that only gets darker once you realize that Rikard is going to ask this girl to sew part of the head of creature he’s just killed onto his own decimated head. And somehow it comes off as the beginning of a very sweet friendship.
Highlander David and James’s Pick: “FF” #7
Remember when everyone said that Fraction’s “FF” couldn’t possibly be as good as Hickman’s “FF”? Yeah… –David
I think Fraction and Allred are just messing with us in the best way possible.-James
Insomniac David’s Pick: “Fables” #129
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Walt’s Pick: “The Legend of Luther Strode” #5
Luther Strode: it’s bloody good fun for the entire family!
Seriously, though, Tradd drew the ever-living crap out of this revoltingly bloody sequence. I’m not normally a blood n’ guts kind of guy, but I can’t help but find the hyper-violence of the Luther Strode minis oddly captivating, primarily because Justin Jordan and Tradd Moore do it so well. I mean, come on, can’t you just hear the splat in that second panel?
…be right back, going to take a long shower.
