Panels of the Week – Week of 01/11/2012


This week was full of great comics, both new and old. Sometimes it’s hard to condense what makes a comic terrific into a panel, but every week, we manage to scrape up more than enough panels to share. Here are the top 10 panels of the week:

10. Frankenstein: Agent of Shade #5

Frankenstein #5

Even with a severed arm, he's still got it.

Frankenstein is more suave then I’ll ever be. I’m okay with that.

9. Magneto: Not A Hero #3

Magneto Not A Hero #3

So darn pretty.

Sometimes I want to laugh. Sometimes I want to be scared. Sometimes I just want to ooh and aah over some pretty art.

8. Green Lantern #5

Green Lantern #5

You mess with a lantern, you get...that.

This is one of those things I never knew I wanted to see until I saw it.

7. Wolverine and the X-Men #4

Wolverine and the X-Men #4

So that's what they're calling them these days.

This comic is teaching me more about Wolverine than I ever wanted to know.

6. The Shade #4

The Shade #4

I want Darwyn Cooke to draw all the comics.

When a comic is as perfect as this one, it’s hard to pick a single panel. Cooke‘s visual storytelling here is fantastic.

5. Secret Avengers #21

Secret Avengers #21

A question we all have to ask ourselves sometimes.

I can assure you that comic characters have consumed grosser things.

4. X-Factor #230

X-Factor #230

Why is this not said more often?

Still looking like Jakita Wagner, Monet.

3. Whisper #1

Whisper #1

At least it'd get you on Wikipedia's Unusual Deaths list.

I have my moments like this. All the time.

2. Amazing Spider-Man #677

Amazing Spider-Man #677

I'm not Daredevil jokes will never get old.

Mark Waid and Daredevil are two things that will get me to read any comic.

1. Batwoman #5

Batwoman #5

I can't stop looking at this panel.

Every time I look at this, I keep thinking that the colors or changing, or that the panel is literally moving. J.H. Williams III is an incredible talent, and I’m so glad to have his art on Batwoman.


In a fight to the death; which of the following do you think would emerge victorious?