DC SILENT TALES #1 Will Leave You Speechless

THIS WEEK: We check out a really distinctive comedian, in Gustavo Duarte’s DC Silent Tales #1.

Note: the overview under comprise spoilers. If you need a fast, spoiler-free purchase/cross advice on the comics in query, try the underside of the article for our remaining verdicts.

DC Silent Tales #1

Writer: Gustavo Duarte
Artist: Gustavo Duarte
Cover: Gustavo Duarte

Silent comics might be remarkably highly effective if executed accurately. GI Joe #21 by Larry Hama and Hawkeye #19 by Matt Fraction and David Aja are generally held up as two of the very best problems with these respective collection. Silent comics may also simply be actually enjoyable and a option to actually seize comedic timing, like each installment of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs Spy. The latter is what DC Silent Tales #1 brings to the desk, with tales that actually would really feel at residence in DC’s humor journal.

Cartoonist Gustavo Duarte is on the prime of his recreation with this comedian, and actually captures feelings and pacing extraordinarily effectively in every particular person story. Right from the beginning, the facial appearing of the poor little shopkeeper tasked with promoting Harley Quinn a mallet is simply top-notch. You can really feel his worry as she reaches for her pockets, and his reduction when she leaves with out incident.

While all of the tales had been enjoyable, and used this wordless medium to their benefit,I believe my two favorites “Bugs” that includes Superman (surprising, I do know) and “Mr. Crowley” that includes Zatanna. The thought of an apple worm consuming radioactive waste from Superman’s cape to develop to immense sizes, is simply an extremely humorous thought to me, and Duarte illustrated the short motion sequences of the comedian with excellent dynamism.

In “Mr. Crowley” I liked the sluggish escalation of Zee’s makes an attempt to feed her cute new pet rabbit. Ripping holes in actuality to collect carrots from completely different sources, just for him to study that that’s simply the place carrots come from and following her by a portal to hell? Extremely intelligent. The purple hell carrot was additionally a improbable contact.

The weakest story of the bunch for me was the Lobo story, “Suckers!” Lobo’s by no means been a favourite character of mine, and actually this quick kinda epitomized what I don’t discover alluring concerning the character. It lacked humor and was oversaturated with hyper-violence. The solely actual redeeming half is it was hyper-violence towards Nazi vampires.

There’s probably not much more to say a few wordless comedian like this, aside from that I had enjoyable studying it, and would like to see Duarte to get to do extra of those on occassion.

Verdict: BUY

Round-Up

Superman #3 continues the new tempo that the brand new title began. It stays a improbable first dip into the character, with sufficient to hook new followers and preserve current followers smiling all day lengthy. I actually sit up for the following concern with Silver Banshee.
I didn’t count on Blaze to point out up in Nightwing this week. Being a Triangle Era Superman stan, it’s at all times good to see forgotten characters from that period pop up each every now and then.
I actually just like the premise behind Superboy: Man of Tomorrow. It is sensible to have a guide that’s about Kon looking for his place in a world that moved on with out him.

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