#brandon graham

[neutron669]

Art by Brandon Graham

#Brandon Graham #ooh wow #pin up model #art #design #sketch #samurai #japan

[brandi-the-fine-girl]

Still thinking about how Quinta Brunson is so powerful that she got Jalen Hurts for a whole ass guest actor arc and cameos from Jason Kelce and Brandon Graham. Like her mind??? Her power???? Unmatched.

#the fact that NO ONE is talking about Jalen’s fine ass popping up on the season premiere is a crime #quinta brunson #jalen hurts #brandon graham #jason kelce #abbott elementary

[swdefcult]

by brandon graham

#brandon graham #multiple warheads #comics art #image comics #cyberpunk #scifi

[artverso]

Brandon Graham - Lovesick

#brandon graham #lovesick

[jermainethedog]

This image of Jermaine is KILLING me

#jermaine the dog #adventure time #brandon graham #<- the artist

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 69 – Prophet, Volume 2: Brothers by Brandon Graham (et al)

I’m at this point reading these as quick palate-cleansers between longer books. Which is probably a terrible idea, both because I’m sure forgetting all manner of plot-critical details between volumes, and also because this series is so goddamn weird it’s the literary equivalent of having a spoonful of cinnamon between courses. But eh, reading the volumes in a row would both rapidly exceed my patience and also feel far too much like cheating to get my reading challenge counter up higher.

The story continues on from Volume 1, mostly but not entirely following ‘Old Man’ Prophet, a truly ancient superhuman soldier as he goes around the galaxy collecting a ragtag band of misfit allies and trying to organize a resistance to the reborn Terran Empire and its legions of other non-defective Prophets preparing to restore it to its ancient glory. The individual stories within that are pretty episodic, contained within each individual issue – all fairly minimalist and simple to fit within that constraint.

The style of story-telling is honestly the most striking thing about this whole series to me. Everything is very...zoomed out? Mostly, it’s an omniscient voice narrating the events occurring and how the protagonists feel about and react to them, with only comparatively few snapshots of actual dialogue or character beats occurring ‘on screen’. The result feels like a whole book of ‘previously on’ segments, as much as anything – it might be entirely normal in comics, but the few (very strange) ones I’ve really gotten into before this don’t do anything similar.

The art remains wonderfully bizarre – though it often gets to the point where I have difficulty actually parsing the action and whose doing what, which is a real issue in such an incredibly visual series. Still, by far the biggest selling point here is all the weird and wild aliens and gonzo worldbuilding that’s just thrown into the background and namedropped like it belongs there with zero exposition about how anything works beyond what’s absolutely necessary for the plot.

Speaking of visuals, I would like to take a moment to properly appreciate the fact that the Old Man’s dead love who he reminiscences about constantly was a lizard alien and they did not give her breasts (or make her particularly humanlike at all, really). Female alien character design in comic books is a low, low bar but crossing it with flying colors here.

Compared to volume one the story here’s much more conventional – more or less following one protagonist on a mission that’s either archetypal or generic depending on how nice you’re feeling, collecting a quirky and sympathetic supporting cast as he goes. My perspective is probably biased by the fact that the friend who lent me these also said that they technically take place in the far future of one established superhero universe or another, but you can kind of see the trappings of the genre starting to peak through here and there? Not necessarily a bad thing, but this definitely read like what you imagine a comic book to be than the last one.

#book review #comics #sff #prophet #brandon graham

[royalboiler]

#brandon graham #comic podcast #comics #multiple warheads #Youtube

[bizarrobrain]

#Simon Roy #Brandon Graham #Image Comics #Prophet #Comics #Science Fiction

[the-gershomite]

Dark Horse Presents 2008

Conan the Cimmerian: Trophy

written by Timothy & Ben Truman

art by Marian Churchland

letters by Brandon Graham

#dark horse comics #conan the cimmerian #conan #timothy truman #ben truman #marian churchland #brandon graham #comics

[cccovers]

Milk! #9 (January 1999) cover by Brandon Graham.

#milk! #comic covers #90s #brandon graham

[xurxogpenalta]

Cover for issue one of moonray whale hunter character.

Story by Brandon Graham for @Moonray game

@royalboiler

#moonray #brandon graham #xurxogpenalta #comics

[dawnofprismatica]

"Thought y'all would want the high-res versions of these"

#philadelphia eagles #kelly green #kelly green is back #jalen hurts #brandon graham #avonte maddox #josh sweat #let's gooooooo

[jcamilov06]

Philadelphia Eagles' kelly green merch photoshoot behind-the-scenes

#the chemistry on this team 👌 #philadelphia eagles #nfl #james bradberry #reed blankenship #brandon graham #d'andre swift #dallas goedert

[iconuk01]

This is rather lovely! the New Mutants from the Asgard Saga (Judging by the collar Doug is wearing) by Brandon Graham

#new mutants #brandon graham #e-bay auction

[the-football-chick]

Eagles - No excuses

#respect #nfl #eagles #chiefs #super bowl lvii #jason kelce #james bradberry #nick sirianni #jalen hurts #brandon graham #dallas goedert #jordan mailata #philadelphia eagles #super bowl 57

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 71 – Prophet, Volume 3: Empire by Brandon Graham (et al)

I’m continuing to read volumes of this as natural breaks between each large book which, besides being a way to juice my reading stats for the year, does do a great job of testing how good my memory is. In general this feels like a pretty consistent continuation of volume 2, with sharper characterization and an utterly overstuffed plot.

The comic continues the saga of a revived Earth Empire, entirely populated by the revived (and no also being once again mass-produced) effectively-posthuman clones of one John Prophet. Specifically, the story is mostly split between following the ‘Old Man’ Prophet who defected and led the rebellion which toppled the first empire, and the newest Father, the prophet who was the star of the frst volume and is responsible for resurrecting the empire to begin with. Beyond continuing on the story from previous volumes, these issues introduce a new threat invading from the edge of known space which is the ostensible new driver of the plot and what both leads are left scrambling to try and find a solution to.

Now, it might just be that I’m failing to adapt and meet the medium where it is, but my overall feeling really is that there’s far too much plot (and just, stuff) stuffed into far too little space. This volume did do a lot more touching on and sketching out real character dynamics and fun little beats for the cast, which really only kind of drove home the fact that there just isn’t the page count to do more than touch on them. In terms of plot my feeling is that this whole psychic pain nebula or whatever is a needless distracton from a story that already had plenty going on, especially since as of the end of the volume it’s stll no where close to being resolved. Will see where volume 4 goes with it, I suppose.

One thing the book did set aside a bit of time for was giving a sense of what the society of a bunch of wildly distinct posthumn clones of some guy from thousands of years ago now engineered into a brutal imperialist engine of militarism with genetically defined castes actually looks like. Which was absolutely great fun, and I dearly wish there’d been whole issues devoted to the question. Especially since the book actually commits to it being weird. Also, as far as world-building tropes goes, I absolutely adore the whole conceit of a society of engineered soldier/slaves/automata upholding an empire long after the creators their theoretically imperializing for are long gone. Gets into fun themes of inheritance and legacy, if nothing else.

Also, points for having a sleazy sci fi brothel scene and having zero conventionally-attractive-human-woman-with-blue-skin to be seen. I think the feature most vocally sexualized was gills? Truly a breath of fresh air compared to most sci fi. Really there’s probably something to be said about how resolutely unsexualized and un-Male-Gaze-ey the art is compared to most big comic books, but I really don’t have the background to make it.

Less pleasing uses of the pagecount where the points where you could really feel it become obvious that this is part of some wider superhero comic universe – the improbable number of characters who are ‘ancient beyond reckoning’ or similar who are clearly introduced and given instant narrative significance as fanservice gets old incredibly quickly. (Also, superhero names are dumb in a way that’s noticeably distinct from the way space opera names are dumb, and they don’t necessarily go together well. Suprema?)

#book review #sff #space opera #comics #brandon graham