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[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

We've already seen some preview scans from First Death#1, co-authored by LKH and former fanboy Jon.  I thought a few more scans wouldn't be out of order, especially since they include the infamous first meeting of Anita and Jean-Claude:

This was back in the days when Anita was a delicate flower who barfed on crime scenes.





So ... whenever JC calls Anita "Ma Petite," does anyone else have a Looney Tunes flashback?



I guess what I'm trying to say is that JC really isn't very credible as a French character, and giving him one hackneyed French phrase doesn't help.  And it particulary doesn't help that he trots it out at every occasion and - how do you say?- slathers it on Anita like like a bunch of fat kids slathering butter on corn at a Fourth of July picnic.



See what she did there?  She jinxed herself!  Next issue they're promising a Famous First with Edward, so I'll bring over more scans when it rolls off the presses.

Comments

[kitsu.livejournal.com]

What the hell is up with the lack of facial expressions?

[recovered-dream.livejournal.com]

I freaking LOVE the Looney Tunes reference!!!

This comic will suck worse than the books. AB does WAY too much internal dialogue and they're putting little boxes everywhere to show it.

The way they drew JC is not at all how I pictured him either. He looks like HER! Well, at least now we know why AB and JC got together...

[recovered-dream.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

But hey, hack writer gets hack artiste to draw for her... what do you expect? *chuckle*

[vmisery.livejournal.com]

The bad thing is, I actually got the comic, and the art is significantly better than the Guilty Pleasures comic.

The interview in the back with Jon made my gorge rise, though. And the fact that he and LKH apparently read some of the same comics I do made me twitch like a roach on a griddle.

[lastshotringing.livejournal.com]

That cross scar is making me LOL a little too hard.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about why every woman had a dollar clutched in her fist the exact same way. And why they're all midgets.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I'm just having Buffy S1 flashbacks.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

My Complaints:

If there's a picture of a bar saying 'GUILTY PLEASURES', you don't need to have captions going 'And this is the bar, GUILTY PLEASURES'

If dialogue infers JC is the owner or head honcho of said bar then you don't need a caption saying he's the manager.

If the PICTURES show a CROSS shaped mark on his chest. You don't need the dialogue to say it's cross shaped. Just establish that it is a scar and not a tattoo.

And that thing where JC suddenly shows fangs? It so had me hearing every bad black and white and some color movie vampires doing that fake cat hiss when they try to be scary.

The Anita Blake Comics make me want to smack everyone involved and go PICTURES, it's about PICTURES dumbasses. PICTURES mixed with WORDS.

You don't have to -write- out all the fucking text, you absolute losers! Are you asleep when you approve this shit?!

There was a previous scan, with the boy and the blood and the cops milling around the crime site and it totally pissed me off how half the things said in captions could have been random dialogue from those on the scene naturally discussing it while filling the reader in at the same time.

Good Effing Monkey Krist! If she ever got a movie deal, you mean to tell me on fucking screan we'd see someone pointing and going 'Where'd you get that cross shaped scar on your chest' as if the make up people couldn't do their effing jobs?


Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. HATE HATE HATE HATE. I know some folk find it funny and hilarious and horribly bad to parody. But on first viewing of each scan I just keep wanting to say 'Get the hell out of my fandom LKH'.

*breathes*

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

Anyone else in favor of renaming Jean-Claude "Captain Overbite"?

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

Omg those stone faces are just too perfect. I really love that holy item check girl has a cross tattoo; now doesn't that just seem like a bad accident waiting to happen?

The best part is how Anita comes off as really naive over a strip club when the stripper seems to be wearing full Roman Centurious a la Astrix strip gear - not exactly looking like the most provocative guy in the world. Yet Jean-Claude is refering to her work as though she isn't fairly new and unkown to the paranormal world.

[kitsu.livejournal.com]

That looks more like an imprint then a scar.

[killnotic.livejournal.com]

What gets me is how good Dolph looks. The whole time I'm looking at the scans all I can wonder is am I supposed to think JC is the sexiest guy in the scene? The art's pretty clean though, nary an abnormally large thigh to be seen.

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've seen of the comics, but the single random wisp of hair in Anita's & Jean Claude's faces is making me nuts.

[reticentric.livejournal.com]

I read this before I saw the scan and now I can't stop laughing lol.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

And also why there's a massive frothing line to get in, but the inside of the club is damned near dead.

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

What gets me is how in every panel where Anita isn't in the foreground, she looks Asian or something.

And JC in profile is reminding me of someone, but I can't figure out who...

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. Hell. The Centurian stripper looks fine, even the security guy. JC just looks like... Anita. :s Maybe it's the hair but I am missing where he's uber sexy.

I imagine LKH and Jon are driving the artist crazy over getting JC and Anita 'just so'. Maybe they are fighting back by making the background characters look sexier than the supposedly sexy Anita and JC.

[sister-ananke.livejournal.com]

The 'no nicknames' panel has both of them staring at the reader, like they know we're twitching at the concept of calling someone 'my little' and what will eventuate.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

You reminded me of a girl I knew who was doing a diploma in graphic design and advertising media. Watching television was hilarious as she kept exclaiming, "If you SHOW it, you don't need to SAY it!!!"

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Uh, am I the only one that remembers that JC once talked about when he first "fell in lust" with Anita? It was in one of the books (one of the later ones, I think). She asks him, "When did you first fall in love with me?" and his answer was something like, "When I heard you on the phone". If this is their first face-to-face meeting, then they should have talked on the phone once. At least, if that post-it note hadn't commited suicide behind the computer.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

I really love that holy item check girl has a cross tattoo; now doesn't that just seem like a bad accident waiting to happen?

Ooooh, that would be funny. Would her skin glow, or just go up in flames? Is she safe because the cross appears to be upside down? Or does it matter?

[onyx-noir.livejournal.com]

You too?

[subtle-shades.livejournal.com]

I've never picked up an AB comic (or what's passing for them at any rate) but based on the scans I've got to say....
1. - Show don't tell. It's why people LIKE comics. (And movies...and books...But this way lies digression.) It's like killing the 'visual' in 'visual media'.
2. - This reads almost EXACTLY like a fanfic I read several years ago....just not as amusing.
3. - Amamelina is right....there's a phone call missing. (Although I didn't remember it until it was pointed out above.)
4. - I want to brush Anita and JC's hair and maybe apply hair care products b/c their hair is annoying me....and it's not even in my face. (And Dolph is by far the better looking man in those frames he shares with JC.)
5. - Is it just me or does that hissing JC scene scream "manga" to anyone else?

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

Didn't JC have shorter hair too? He grew it out for Anita because she likes long hair. And, apparently, so they could have matching crazy curls dangling in their faces.

[requiella]

we must have had the same friend; mine was a screen/play writing major and would yell "SHOW me don't TELL me!"