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taylor russell, hair by evanie frausto

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Please Please Please Music Video (BTS)

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Valentine photographed by Joaquin Castillo for DNA magazine, hair by Evanie Frausto

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Taylor’s hair styled to perfection by Evanie Frausto

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Groo the Wanderer #34: The Amulet

by Mark Evanier; Sergio Aragones; Phil DeWalt and Stan Sakai

Marvel/Epic

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alex consani by arnaud lajeunie for pop magazine fw '23 styling by kyle luu, makeup by sam visser, hair by evanie frausto, nails by mei kawajiri

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October 1982 to November 1984. Among the segments of DC's voluminous archives that they ought to properly reprint but probably never will is this early 1980s revival of aviator hero Blackhawk by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle. Created by Will Eisner and Chuck Cuidera for Quality Comics back in 1941, the Blackhawks were a multinational paramilitary squadron, with vaguely kinky black leather uniforms and special aircraft they operated from their own secret private island. They fought the Nazis during WW2 and later branched out into anticommunism and international supervillains. The original series was for years defined by excellent artwork (in particular by Reed Crandall), broad characterization, exaggerated ethnic accents, and some egregious racism (much of it directed at the Blackhawks' Chinese cook/mascot, "Chop-Chop"). In the late '60s, there was a brief, ludicrous attempt to turn the characters into superheroes, which hastened the demise of the original book, but the Blackhawks still had their fans — including Steven Spielberg, whose interest in developing a BLACKHAWK feature film occasioned this revival.

Probably the best word for this 23-issue run is "solid." It returns the characters to their original WW2 milieu, dials down the racism (the Chinese character eventually even gets a proper uniform), and offers some very competent storytelling from Evanier and Spiegle. The individual plots are seldom outstanding, but there are only a few real duds, and it's significantly more consistent than most monthly books of its era. Evanier and Spiegle were a good team, as further evidenced by their charming creator-owned CROSSFIRE series, launched through Eclipse toward the end of this run, although it wasn't enough to keep the BLACKHAWK book alive after Spielberg's interest lapsed.

The 1987–1988 Howard Chaykin miniseries (later collected as BLACKHAWK: BLOOD & IRON) is flashier and more fun, although it remains controversial. Chaykin made Blackhawk (whom Chaykin named Janos Prohaska, after a real-world Hollywood stuntman best known today as the guy who played the Horta on the STAR TREK TOS episode "The Devil in the Dark") an abrasive dick, and sidelined most of the rest of the group in favor of a new Lady Blackhawk, a brassy American Communist named Natalie Reed. (Chaykin did at least give "Chop-Chop" a real name — Weng Chan.) The Evanier/Spiegle series was not intended to reinvent the characters so much as to present a palatable median version that could provide the foundation for a feature film, so while it's not as dynamic or as stylish, it's also much less confrontational. For some, that makes it the definitive modern treatment of this venerable franchise.

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Space Circus #1-4, July-October 2000 + TPB, by Sergio Aragonés with Mark Evanier

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Dark Horse will collect the 2000 miniseries ‘Space Circus’ this December

The hardcover will feature some of the final art colored by Tom Luth, who passed away last month.

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(1995)

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hair by evanie frausto for sandy liang fw23 rtw

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Sabrina Carpenter & Barry Keoghan

for Please Please Please Music Video (BTS)

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LING photographed by Joaquin Castillo for DNA magazine, hair by Evanie Frausto and styled by Christian Olarte

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Marvel Age #85 (February 1990) by Marvel Comics

Cover by Sergio Aragones.

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"She loves me. I can tell!"

Groo the Wanderer #7: Chakaal

by Mark Evanier; Sergio Aragones; Tom Luth and Stan Sakai

Pacific