Monday, May 25, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics PANDEMICA "Chapter One: Get Down with the Sickness" Conclusion

There's a conspiracy to use biological warfare to target specific genetic types...non-whites!
Dr Moses Katz has deduced the key to the plot, but needs help to gather evidence!
After a botched assassination attempt against him, the medical researcher begins recruiting a team of experts with extremely-special skills...
So the cover depicts where the issue ends, not a scene within the issue itself!
Combine speculation about Covid-19 with the X-Files and Mission: Impossible and you get this (prophetic?) series produced last year!
Where does it go from here?
This tale from IDW's almost-prescient Pandemica #1 (2019), by novelist Jonathan Mayberry and illustrator Alex Sanchez begins the set-up the rest of that first issue (of five) completes!
Luckily, they're publishing the entire mini in one trade paperback with kool extras...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

It's Memorial Day Weekend, and If You CAN'T Go Out...

...relax, stay in and read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) Mon-Fri here on this blog...
...and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...Medical Comics...
...plus...
...Heroines!...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...the aptly-named
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Hero Histories...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
...War: Past, Present and Future...
...Western Comics Adventures...
...Crime & Punishment...
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!s Memorial Day

Thursday, May 21, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics: LOCKDOWN HEROES! The Portfolio Created Against Covid-19

Italian comics (or "Fumetti") artist Milo Manara is noted for his beautiful (often nude) women...
...though not in his work for America's PG-13 Marvel Comics!
But these last few months, living in an Italy under total lockdown, Manara has started taking a very different approach to portraying women...

Rather than the usual coquettishly-posed, minimally-clad examples of male lust, he's discovered a different appreciation of the female form.
Posting on Facebook, he expressed his gratitude to doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and techs, policewomen, delivery workers and others who perform essential services during the pandemic.
In terms of style, it's still recognizably his work, but now has a far different focus.
Check out his FaceBook gallery HERE.
BONUS: There's a "motion comics" version of this superb illustration...
...HERE!

And now a word for charity...
...is a work of art and, at the same time, a result of civil commitment and a testimony of a historical moment.

Lockdown Heroes is a portfolio that collects all the illustrations mentioned above, as high-quality prints on fine paper, with Manara's signature on a dry stamp, inside a folder contained, in turn, in a case.
Plus: a dossier written by Italian pop culture expert Vincenzo Mollica, plus an interview with Milo Manara.

A charitable donation from the sale of each copy of Lockdown Heroes will support the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan, the University Hospital of Padua and the Domenico Cotugno Hospital in Naples.
Click HERE to Order!