Showing posts with label Section Zero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Section Zero. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Today in Comics History, August 9, 2000: A Tale of Two Cities Editions

Good morning! It's early in the day (well, earlier than I get up, at least) in Manhattan on August 9!


from Section Zero (2000 series) #3 (Image/Gorilla, September 2000), script and inks by Karl Kesel, pencils by Tom Grummett, colors by Benedict Dimagmaliw, letters by Richard Starkings and Jason Levine

But wait! (you're no doubt saying) How do we even know it's August 9 in these panels? Well, that's very simply explained: it's August 9 in these panels when the series is revised and expanded in its 2019 edition!


from Section Zero (2019 series) #3 (Image, June 2019), script and inks by Karl Kesel, pencils by Tom Grummett, colors by Benedict Dimagmaliw and Grace Allison, letters by Richard Starkings

Section Zero was originally published in 2000 under the short-lived Gorilla Comics imprint, but sadly stopped after its cliffhanger third issue. In 2019 the series returned to tweak and revise the first three issues and finally finish off the series with three brand-new issues. I enjoyed it a lot; check it out! And you don't even have to read it on August 9!

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Today in Comics History, June 18, 2000: Lovely cows killed; Johnny Cash is blamed


from Section Zero (2019 series) #1 (Image/Shadowline, April 2019), script and inks by Karl Kesel, pencils by Tom Grummett, colors by Benedict Dimagmaliw, letters by Richard Starkings

Friday, January 07, 2022

Today in Comics History, January 7: Happy birthday, Karl Kesel!

I'm here to wish Karl Kesel a very happy birthday, even though I can never get through on the line to Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! and I would really love the chance to have my answering machine message read...oh. I've made another one of my silly mistakes. That's Carl Kasell, the radio show host. Today's the birthday of Karl Kesel, the comic book writer and inker on such books as Superman, Action Comics, The Adventures of Superman, Superboy, and Superboy and the Ravers. Plus lots more! Boy! Is my face beet red. (I've just been eating beets.)

Karl was one of the earliest artists featured in Marvel Age's "New Talent Department" spotlight, and gets some constructive criticism in technique by veteran inker Joe Rubinstein:




from Marvel Age #9 (Marvel, December 1983)