Last Week’s Best Comics- 3/5

Descriptions later:

Echo #1 (Terry Moore)

Having missed out on Strangers in Paradise I finally get to experience some Terry Moore. I knew nothing about this book going in and was pleasantly surprised to find it’s a sci-fi tale. Mostly set up, but off to an interesting start. Combined with last week’s RASL from Jeff Smith we have the two biggest “indie” writers starting new series; definatly a good thing.

BtVS Season 8 #12: Wolves at the Gate (Drew Goddard and Georges Jeanty)

My man crush on geek general Xander Harris wins out here. Spouting awesomely ridiculous one-liners (“My Beautiful Burning Eye!” “Merciful Zeus!”) good ‘ol Xander reminds me why he’s my favorite character in the Buffyverse. Also, Buffy mostly naked with other chick mostly naked. Situational comedy does work well in comics.

Logan #1 (of 3) (Brian K Vaughn and Eduardo Risso)

Another week, another Wolverine comic. I wanted to hate it but couldn’t. It seems we’re going to get a chance to see Wolvie vs. an atomic bomb. Pick up the black and white variant if you can.

24 Hour Comics- Ryan Ottley’s Death Grub

This one goes out to Larry.

Ryan Ottley, best known for his work with Robert Kirkman on Image’s Invincible, will be publishing his 24 hour comic from last year.  About the comic Ottley had the following to say:

Well, 24 Hour Comics Day only comes once a year and I wanted to try my hand at doing my own little story. So I got together with a bunch of other artists at a local comic shop here in Salt Lake City and we all worked on our own book. The only thing I wanted to write about was a big giant grub that ate people. Thought it sounded cool.

And my ideas went from there. It was a good experience as I don’t write at all so this was new to me. Really enjoyable stuff but man, it really was draining to be forcing your mind to come up with something that quick and then drawing it all.

The full interview can be found over at Newsarama and the comic is slated for release, from Image, in May.