![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever sense of misogynistic glee might be implied by the cheesecake nature of the title is somewhat offset first by a female creator and secondly by the fact that every impressive, intimidating character in the book is female, with the sole male character in the story-Laurie's boyfriend-essentially serving as good-natured background noise for the main story. The story also dives headlong into the complex blend of sexuality and violence that informed so much of Silk Spectre's character in the first book, with a fight sequence that takes place literally while the scantily-glad vigilante is in her pajamas. The issue probably owes more to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' original even than Darwyn Cooke's first issue of Minutemen did last week it not only retains the nine-panel grid but also repeats specific images and lines of dialogue from Watchmen. With some big, hotly-anticipated #1 issues coming from every corner of comics, it seemed as good a time as any to do a review roundup focusing exclusively on first issues-and some good ones, at that! Check it out below.īefore Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 (DC Comics) - ***1/2Īmanda Conner's art is, as always, unassailably beautiful in this, the second issue of DC's controversial Before Watchmen event. It was another big week for major comics releases from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image last week, and frankly not a bad one at that. ![]()
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