EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1/14!!

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ALL-NEW ULTIMATES #12

(W) Michel Fiffe (A) Amilcar Pinna

THE SHOCKING CONCLUSION!
• The climactic, life changing conclusion for the rawest, grittiest new team on the block. Their fate hangs in the balance!
• Can THE ULTIMATES save the city from catastrophe yet again and survive the process?
• Monsters, mayhem, and super powered fisticuffs! If this isn't the MARVEL COMIC TO END ALL MARVEL COMICS, we don't know what is!

I've gotta throw some serious love behind this critically acclaimed, fan loved, but not enough to keep it from being cancelled, super amazing book that is All-New Ultimates. Michel Fiffe, powerhouse creator of COPRA, has for the last 12 months, reminded me why I like super-hero comics, especially teen super-hero comics, by writing down to earth, believable kids who have problems all their own, but still resonate with me even if my teenage years are long past. No crossovers. No shiny covers. Just teenage kids gettin' their kicks from beating on street punks. I love it. Thanks, Fiffe!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST...

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COPRA #18

(W/A) Michel Fiffe

Copra #18 has arrived you mother fulffers!!! it’s the Xenia issue, the magic issue, the losing your grip on reality which is inconvenient for everybody because of your godlike powers issue.

It’s also the issue that brings this arc to a close. I’ve been focusing on key members of Copra issue by issue, and this Xenia story winds it all down while also setting up the next arc. -FIFFE

DOIN IT THE KIRBY WAY!!

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COPRA #16

(W/A) Michel Fiffe

"I’ll admit that this was one of the most difficult issues to produce. I basically knew what the story was, what the dialogue lines and general staging would be, but… I didn’t really know until I started to actually work on it. It was very odd. The process probably didn’t help: I wanted to invoke a little bit of Jack Kirby in this chapter (being that Guthie is based on one of his creations). I’ve been running on a Kirby influence in a spontaneous, gut level, get-it-done kind of way, but this time I wanted to try it a little differently.

I’ve  heard of Jack drawing a page by starting at the top left hand corner and continuing down to the lower right hand corner until the page was complete. The drawing sounded like it was more stream of consciousness and less obviously calculated. The planning was all in Jack’s head.

So in the spirit of that anecdote, I decided to forego any layouts whatsoever. I also didn’t break up the stages into workload batches the way I usually do. This meant that I woke up with two blank pages staring at me, equipped with only a vague notion of what I wanted to do. By the end of the day, my aim was to have two complete pages, fully colored and ready to scan.

Wake up, coffee, write, lay out, podcast, pencil, lunch, ink, coffee, walk dog, more ink, more podcasts, dinner, question life choices, stretch legs, more ink, color, pass out, repeat next day.

Sometimes I nailed it, sometimes I was too wiped out to even erase a page. This issue kicked my ass, but I’m really happy with the results. You’ll like it.

And of course, it’s about Guthie, whom last we saw crashing and falling through a window in some far off world. Looks like she survived and when you read the issue, you’ll know how."
--FIFFE!

IT RHYMES WITH 'OPRAH' AND I'M FEE-FAY!! COPRA #14 IS HERE!!

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COPRA #14

(W/A) Michel Fiffe

One of the great mysteries of the universe has been solved--we now have the true pronunciation of both "Copra" and its creator "Fiffe." Now if we can just find out how to pronounce his first name... Ah well, you don't actually need to know any of these things to enjoy what may be the most offbeat issue of the series--featuring the man in the machine, WIR!