Week of 1/6/10 – Green Monk
January 8th, 2010
Yeah so Marvel did drop some event called Siege this week but it was underwhelming. I couldn’t help but pick up this tiny little book called Green Monk just minding its own on the second shelf at Midtown. What a surprise that I should pick up an entire book made of friggin splash panels. This is Oxbreaker. He’s antisocial.
Creator Brandon Dayton writes and draws a wonderfully sparse tale. It reads like a fable as it is just the short story of a monk’s meeting with a large and violent ogre. Below are a series of individual pages (not panels on pages but full 3″x5″ pages) that detail some of the action. No sound effects. No narration. Just great line work.
(And yes it looks like this did officially ship last week, 12/30/09, the week of no comics. So this is a bit late.)
Honorable Mentions
Sometimes I’m such a sheep. I keep buying Haunt thinking that it’s going to get better but it doesn’t. In issue #4 we do get some of that delicious violence McFarlane delivers so well. Got your nose!
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man is maybe a little too much teen drama for my liking but Lafuente’s art keeps me coming back for more. In issue #6 we finally learn that The Shroud is actually Kitty Pryde of former X-Men fame.
Oh, and some event called Siege kicked off at Marvel. Seven years in the making is a very long time to get ready for me to poop on. And the floating city of Asgard is in Latveria now. Isn’t it? I guess we’re ignoring that. Or it moved back to Oklahoma. Either way Normy and company are here to bring it down.
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