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:
David’s Pick: “Young Avengers” #8
There were a lot of good options – anything from “Gamma,” a number of parts from “Lazarus,” the Living Tribunal being found dead in the messy “New Avengers” #8 – but when it got down to it, man, I really enjoyed this book. In particular, I love anything Gillen does with Loki, and I loved his rejection of the inevitable horrible. Inevitable horrible is always so great in the hands of Gillen and McKelvie.
James’ Pick: Gamma #1
“Hey Dusty! Where are you headed?!”
Gamma is truly an inspiring book.
Vince’s Pick: “Batman/Superman” #2
The story of the Earth-2 Superman meeting the Prime Earth Superman is woven around Jon and Martha Kent in this issue to splendid effect. In the ‘New 52’, we’ve lost Ma and Pa far too early, if you ask me. Yet if we hadn’t lost them early, we’d have missed out on Greg Pak taking that ball and running with it. He uses Clark’s loss of his parents to contrast his behavior with that of the Earth-2 Superman – a guy who is more like the “boy scout” we knew and loved before the reboot. I may only be reading a small handful of DC titles these days, but Greg Pak is proving that it is possible to turn lemons into lemonade.
Sam’s Pick: “Batman/Superman” #2
Jae Lee beautifully captures Selina Kyle as a ferocious feline femme fatale in a way that is both animalistic and stunningly gorgeous. She’s as much cat as she is woman here from the shape of her silhouetted face, to the arch of her back.
Also, I love that Bruce comments on her desire to ‘banter’ and finally articulates what Batfans have been screaming at showdown pages for years.
Hendo’s Pick: “Batman/Superman” #2
“Oh nothing, just me wishing the rest of the New 52 was half as interesting as ‘Batman/Superman’.”
