#Jared K. Fletcher

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Birds of Prey #86: A Wakeful Time Part 2

by Gail Simone; Bruce Timm; HI-FI and Jared K. Fletcher

DC

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“Deleted Scene, #2” by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso and Jared K. Fletcher preview art from The Devil's Cut anthology (DSTLRY, August 2023)

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Paper Girls Gets an Official Trailer

Paper Girls Gets an Official Trailer #papergirls #primevideo

Paper Girls is coming to Prime Video and we have the first official trailer for the series. Based on the comic by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Dee Cunniffe, and published by Image Comics, it follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls. Set in a fictional Cleveland, Ohio suburb the town is invaded by a mysterious force from the future. It’s the day after…

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Strong on the vibes. Gotta admire a GN that uses a fifth of its page space to adapt a Twilight Zone episode.

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DAME FROM THE DARK: Fast Times at Magic Manor (Pilkington, Mills, Maher) TKO Studios

Now available from @tkopresents is the one-shot DAME FROM THE DARK by @robpilk, @mitkills, @CommentAiry, @SGirner, Mariam Fayez, @jaredkfletcher, & @jeffcpowell. In his review @DarrenShulman calls the self contained story fun. #ComicBookReviews

Writers: Rob PilkingtonArtist: Kit MillsLetterer: Ariana MaherEditor: Sebastian GirnerEditorial Assistant: Mariam FayezTitle and Cover Design: Jared K. FletcherBook Design: Jeff Powell Thanks to Don’t Hide PR for the review copy! DAME FROM THE DARK is a quirky detective mystery that puts a new spin on an oft used magic schtick. What makes this title original is the fact that the detective’s…

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Why is new frontier so great?

Another one I’ve let sit in my inbox for awhile while I try to come up with something to say. The fundamental answer is that Darwyn Cooke was one of the most singularly talented storytellers in his medium, who devised a project that proved the best possible way of expressing his sensibilities regarding superheroes as a genre across the largest available canvas - I’d say its only real contemporary in terms of capturing the power and possibilities of DC Comics as a collective entity would be Final Crisis, which is a different animal altogether. As far as my personal inclinations go, I’d say because it’s probably the most successful extrapolation of one of the sadly smaller strains of the subgenre.

Superhero stories tend to stick to one end of the dial or another - they either delve hard into the real muck and mundanity and darkness of life, or they soar far above it outside of allegorical villainy to triumph over. It’s rare past Silver Age Marvel (which still tended to hedge its bets in that regard - its mortal lows were only so low, its superheroic heights only so bold outside occasionally the likes of FF or Thor) to get a story that really tries to truly thread the needle between those approaches without diminishing either. It’s not infrequently an aim of Grant Morrison’s work in the likes of his Batman and Flex Mentallo, but never a central one. Mark Millar often aims for it himself but either rarely or never succeeds depending on your generosity. Wildstorm had some successes in that arena back in the day, with Planetary delivering tender tributes to the wonders of our pop cultural imagination while also the main character stabs a guy in the eyes, while Top 10 squares the circle by focusing on the mundane day-to-day of a setting that is fantastical top to bottom. Zot! and Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers manage it in very different ways, though divided into the front and back chunks of the run and two separate books respectively. Tom King’s Batman is as grim and down-to-Earth as it gets at turns, while also having montages where he fights Film Freak and the Mad Monk or saves Gotham from a couple dragons. And Al Ewing’s novel Gods of Manhattan is a brutal look at an alternative New York City still plagued by the likes of hate crimes, pedophiles, and terrorists, that nevertheless is home to a superpowered champion in Doc Thunder who adventures across the world and meaningfully inspires the best in his fellow citizens.

I’m not surprised it’s a rare take on the material. How far into crime and horror can you go before framing the folks in capes as distant figures functionally irrelevant to the proceedings, or fools, or stripped of their magic? Or obscuring or defanging those dangers so as to maintain the image of a world that our heroes have by and large saved? And New Frontier isn’t trying to frame a single character or team as working in this mode, but an entire shared universe. The challenge of the book is that it has a man get lynched by the Klan, and then has to make you believe in it when Superman rallies a group of people who hate each other towards a greater good in the name of what America as a nation is supposed to be.

That Cooke is a guy who can pull that off isn’t just a matter of skill, but as I said above, sensibility. ‘Retro’ is a term that’s been thrown around far too much regarding his aesthetic, and even ‘classic’ while 100% accurate carries connotations in that regard, but what I do think would be fair to say is there’s a very old-school sense of class to his work - an inherent weight and dignity and boldness, at the intersection of Eisner, Kubert, Kirby, and Toth. His visual world is one where Slam Bradley trawling Gotham’s back alleys fits exactly as well as Flash outsmarting Captain Cold, and Green Lantern cutting his way through the night sky. His writing plays into that just the same: the likes of Hal Jordan and Barry Allen and even Clark Kent aren’t impossible exemplars, but just decent men getting by in an indecent world, sometimes falling down in the process. But in them, in J’onn and Diana and Bruce and the Losers and the Challengers and Ted Grant and King Faraday and John Henry, there’s a fire, an overwhelming sense of grand purpose that drives them to keep trying for something more. A belief that even in a world as buttoned up and broken as they inhabit they can save people, a world, a nation’s soul and their own. And it’s because there are no illusions here about what people are capable of at their worst and weakest that it matters when in spite of themselves and all that’s arrayed against them, they find that if they try hard enough, they can touch the stars.

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DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1 # 2 Page 06 was Written, Penciled, and Inked by the late, great Darwyn Cooke, with Colors by Dave Stewart, and Letters by Jared K. Fletcher.

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Advance Review Of Sea Of Stars #5: Wrapping Up The First Magnificent Story-Arc Of One Of My Comics Of The Year

Advance Review Of Sea Of Stars #5: Wrapping Up The First Magnificent Story-Arc Of One Of My Comics Of The Year

Sea of Stars #5 marks the end of the first volume of a comic I’ve already called one of my favourites of 2019. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that issue #5 has absolutely nothing that’s changing my mind about that. It’s still a fabulous delight of a comic.

Like I say, there’s nothing here that contradicts anything I’ve said before (and if you want to check –  issues one, two, three, and four).

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Paper Girls Gets its First Teaser Trailer

Paper Girls Gets its First Teaser Trailer #comics #comicbooks #primevideo

Paper Girls is coming to Prime Video and we have a look at the first teaser trailer for the series. Based on the comic by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Dee Cunniffe, and published by Image Comics, it follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls. Set in a fictional Cleveland, Ohio suburb the town is invaded by a mysterious force from the future. It’s the…

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This is what every time travel story would be if cowardice didn’t exist.

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Review: Batman Damned Book One

Review: Batman Damned Book One

The much touted Black Label from DC is finally here, with this the first book featuring the company’s go to big play maker, Batman.  Who else would DC use to kick of their more mature, superheroes with a touch of Vertigo, imprint?  True there are a couple of guest stars, some more obvious than others, but at the end of the day this a Batman that is far removed from the heart-broken character…

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Paper Girls #6 by Brian K. Vaughan Cliff Chiang Matthew Wilson & Jared K. Fletcher        

released by Image on June 2016.

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Comic Review: DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke

Comic Review: DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke

In today’s volatile, if not uncomfortably awkward political climate where the distinct divergence of ideals has decided to rear its ugly head, it’s sometimes easier to just go back in time to our comfort zone where super heroes made everything better. This is not meant to be a symbolic shrinking into a corner all curled up in the fetal position kind of escapism, this is simply a reflection on one…

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Sea Of Stars #4: Taking It To The Next Level And Still Superb

Sea Of Stars #4: Taking It To The Next Level And Still Superb

A father, a son, and a whole lot of space between them. That’s the set-up for Sea of Stars. Basically a spacefaring Finding Nemo, but oh, there’s so much more to love about it. A perfect all-ages book.

Four issues into Sea of Stars and, since the first three reviews were pretty much super-positive, you can pretty much guess where this one’s going as well.

We’ve had the set-up, the whole dad and…

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PAPER GIRLS

Brian K. Vaughan - Writer

Cliff Chiang - Art

Matt Wilson - Colors

Jared K. Fletcher - Letters + Desing

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