Hello and welcome back to Saturday Morning Panels!
With the shutdown of Diamond Comics Distributors due to COVID-19, there won’t be new comics for who knows how long. Rather than put our column on hold, we took a page out of our Special Edition playbook and bring you our favorite panels around a particular theme.
This week, as the site celebrates the founding of Image Comics in April 1992, we asked our staff to come up with some of their favorite moments from Image series past and present.
So kick-back, watch out for spoilers, and talk about your favorites in the comments section below! And if you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming installment, leave it in the comments. Stay safe, wash your hands, and stop touching your face. (Reading a comic will help with that last one!)
“Analog” #7: I’m reminded of a nursery rhyme my mom sang to me when I was little:
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good she was very very good
And when she was bad she was horrid. – Kate Kosturski
“Astro City” (1995) #2: It’s a shark army. A sharmy if you will. – Elias Rosner
“Blackbird” #5: This is a stupid sexy look if I ever saw one. BRB in love. – Kate Kosturski
“By Chance or By Providence”: Jesus: the Mob Years. – Elias Rosner
“Curse Words” #14: Look out. It’s gonna blow! – Elias Rosner
“Descender” #16: Driller not cry. Driller leaking oil. – Elias Rosner
“Farmhand” #1: Kid whatever you do DO NOT WATCH the 1986 Transformers movie. That’s going to leave you emotionally scarred for LIFE. – Kate Kosturski
“Fatale” #10: Well yeah, that’s what the gun is for. – Elias Rosner
“Flavor” #1: Cobra’s gotten dark since they got bought up by Amway. – Elias Rosner
“Flavor” #2: They don’t call him Knife Hands McStabby Nips for nothing. – Elias Rosner
“Gen13” #1: This is just a security guard. Not even a recurring character. Was it necessary to arm him to the teeth this much? – Robbie Pleasant
“Gen13” #2: Not only is that gun impractically huge, it has a second cartridge taped to the first. It doesn’t even connect to anything, it’s just taped there. – Robbie Pleasant
“Magdalena (2017)” #3: Well, this panel aged… awkwardly. (For reference, the only showing of Kylo Ben at the time was in
The Force Awakens.) – Greg Ellner
“Quarantine Comix” #4: In case you haven’t noticed, he’s weird. He’s a weirdo. He doesn’t fit in. And he doesn’t want to fit in. Have you ever seen him without this stupid ring on? That’s weird. – Elias Rosner (Half of all proceeds for these comics go to BINC to support your local bookstore. Get your copies
here.)
“Royal City” #1: Get ready to cry. – Elias Rosner
“Royal City” #14: There are so many beautiful moments throughout this final issue, but this one had to be my favorite. (And perhaps the hardest advice to follow!) —Kate Kosturski
“The Walking Dead” #66: The silence of the entire sequence of pages during this moment makes it utterly horrifying. The massacre of the Hunters is by far the worst thing that Rick and his group ever did. – Greg Ellner
“The Walking Dead” #103: The fact that the television show is on AMC, rather than HBO, means that we don’t get the full measure of Negan and his colorful dialogue, which leads to a whole host of other problems that come as a result (I could go on for quite a while on those). However, without that Walker Jenga, moments like this are completely hilarious from how little self-awareness Negan has in the source material. – Greg Ellner
“Wytches: Bad Egg Halloween Special”: And I thought the bathtub gin in my family was bad. – Kate Kosturski
