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My Favourite Page From Today's Batgirl #35 Doesn't Have A Single Yellow Doc Marten in It

Published Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:30:01 -0500

Last updated Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:28:43 -0500

Batgirl #35 launches from DC Comics today. We've already run a preview and I did rather enjoy the scene where Barbara Gordon walks around the flat remembering how it was the previous night – and who was there. A very interesting use of comics that would be hard to replicate in other media.

But my favourite page occurs later in, in mid detective scene. With Barbara talking to two potential leads as to where her laptop may have gone walkabout. And it does it like this

Slivers of conversation, jumping back and forth, half in, half out, with one line smashing straight into another, with a colour scheme to delineate between the two scenes blinking back and forth like a metronome.

Okay, Austin Powers did it. But Batgirl does it so much better.

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Who have a new exhibition starting on Monday based on the theme of Pre-Code Horror. Using the classic EC, Harvey & ACG comics as inspiration, a variety of today's artists present their own take on the classic pre-code style, including: Alison Sampson, Andy Belanger, Colin Lorimer, Hamish Steele, Jason Atomic, Jessica Martin, Owen Michael Johnson, Ryan Jenkyns, Shaky Kane & more!