I love this little joke from Gotham Central #10! I was looking to see if I could get the second installment of Friday (it's out at my brother's library, but not on Hoopla at my library), and when I searched for Ed Brubaker I found this book and read the first eleven issues yesterday. It's really good - Batman sometimes makes a brief appearance, but usually you'll see only his foot or his silhouette as he's making an exit. I really enjoyed the second story arc with the Firebug and the unsolved murder (which also has a great joke): Another thing that I liked about Gotham Central is that it focuses on the Major Crimes Unit (abbreviated as MCU, which my brain always reads now as Marvel Comics Universe, oops), and so when cops from other departments fail to solve a robbery they just say it was Catwoman and then the case gets pushed to the MCU (who knows it wasn't Catwoman). It's a good time, for a police procedural. The art is great, also - when you read a lot of superhero comics, there are a lot of comic book artists who basically draw the same features on everyone and it's up to the colorist for the reader to tell them apart. Michael Lark, however, does a terrific job - different faces, different body types, I really like how he draws Sergeant Davies. Sometimes he's a little heavy with the brush in some panels, though, and the reader loses clarity from expression, but it's better than flipping back and forth wondering which character is which because they all look alike.
Speaking of clarity of expression, I'm still reading Love and Rockets, just bouncing around from issue to issue at the moment because I'm looking at the way Jaime Hernandez draws expressions. As a kid I read a lot of Archie comics and that influence is apparent in the expressions (Archie makes a cameo backstage at a wrestling match in one issue, iirc), so I've been reading a lot of those, too, just to look at the expressions - the older Archie stories are more expressively drawn, but luckily the digests have a range of stories from different time periods. Have a happy Friday!
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