Agent Carter Operation SIN by Kathryn Immonen, Richard Ellis, Ramón Pérez

Rating: WARTY!

So I read through this entire comic book and I couldn't find a story anywhere! Weird. The image on the cover was of Hayley Atwell from the TV series Peggy Carter, but she bore no resemblance whatsoever to the blond in the story, who has no class, no presence, and no appeal. The story was lost in the wilderness of Russia in the fifties. It rambled and meandered and wandered, and went quite literally nowhere. It was nonsensical.

There was an interaction with Vanko père who is mentioned in Iron Man 2 movie, but it went nowhere, either. On top of that there was this weird bearded guy who behaved like a wild bear, and who was essentially a dick, and this pencil dick of a kid who transformed into a bear, which was a huge Whisky Tango Foxtrot moment for me. The art by Richard Ellis for the main story and Ramón Pérez for the nonsensical Captain America story at the end was only so-so. That last little story was a captastrophe and made the titular figure look like an overbearing jerk.

Kathryn Immonen's writing was sub-par. I cannot recommend this series at all. The TV series is far more realistic and entertaining, has action, humor, and smarts. None of that was evident in this comic. In my opinion, you should go watch the TV series and forget about this juvenile effort.

Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen

Rating: WORTHY!

This is an odd little graphic novel that caught my eye at the local library. It's drawn in what I like to think of as film noir style - white with heavy black inks, appropriate to the subject matter. We're in France at the outbreak of World War 2, and the Germans are assaying the French art collections. Two Canadian women have been working to package and catalogue the collections, but now one of them has gone, and only Ila Gardner remains. It would appear that a small work of art has gone missing and the German interrogator is questioning her about its absence. This creates the frame which houses the landscape of this tale - an exploration of art, of displacement, of people going missing along with the art, of ownership, loss, and regret.

I'm not sure I understood the ending, but the journey there was worth it regardless. I really liked this story and I recommend it.