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Hey, everyone, Alvaro "Lance Danger" Cortes Jr here! I just wanted to post this live stream I did a few weeks back on my FaceBook and YouTube. I talked about the differences I've seen between confidence and arrogance amongst creators. I hope you enjoy, and if you have any thoughts yourself, leave a comment, or even better, if you make a video response, put up those links! Lets all grow and get better together :-) -Alvaro
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Here's what are my thoughts of Giga #1?
This book is decompressed storytelling at is finest. There's a lot of exposition and character setup, which I can understand being the first issue; but it was a bit too slow for my taste. Granted, it did introduced us to a few character that I'm sure we'll be seeing in the next few issues, it sets up the religious and social structure in this new age and still managed to leave us with many questions yet to be answered; which is what a first issue should do. Honestly, if this book didn't look as great as it does I probably wouldn't want to pick up issue #2, but the art team and the letterer outdid themselves and gave such a particular visual language to this book that, on the strength of their work alone I'll be picking the next issue and probably the next one after that. The art looks stylized, the ranges from somewhat "simple" to absolute brilliance in a matter of a few panels, the color palette feel like Mexican culture; when I saw the Gigas it reminded me of those amazing Mayan temples and Mayan culture, their architecture and their colorful clothing. The art portrays the scope and magnitude of these giant robots in such a cool manner that you can't help but love it! The main character is a Black young man with no legs who moves around in a wheelchair that is literally falling apart. This is great for many reasons, first we have a Black leading character who's extremely intelligent and is a survivor, he's also a great representation of a person with disabilities; that's a beautiful thing. There's also an interesting supporting cast and his sidekick is someone people will like as soon as they meet him/her. ;) Like I said, the story is slow; there's a lot of prep work for what's certain to come so if you're expecting to see Mazinger fighting Voltron in the first issue you're going to be disappointed; but I'm sure it's coming. All in all, on a scale from 1 - 10 I give this book a 7; I'm sure once those Gigas start beating the crap out of each other this book will become a favorite of mine. As always... keep it Truthful! Written by Manuel A. Carmona
Lucy was a hero, a legend who saved an entire town from an unspeakable evil; but at a very high cost to her. Many believe she's dead, but recent events become the catalyst for her return from the dead... so to speak. The artwork on this book is absolutely stunning! Every character is so unique in their designs, the colors are so beautifully rendered that you can't help but get sucked into this World. The main character is a beautiful woman, but has a very distinct look that you don't see in comics often; which I also enjoyed. All around this book has been one of the best that I've read in a while, not necessarily because of the story, but because of the whole package. I'll definitely be looking for the rest of the series.
As always... keep it Truthful! Written by Manuel A. Carmona  For this #FridayFlashback I'm going back to the time I got the first look at my inked pages for Phazer #6 featuring Captain Action. I remember vividly how excited I was at the chance to work on a character like Captain Action and so many public domain characters like El Gato Negro, Black Terror and many others. What should've been the beginning of my career in comics quickly evaporated and I realized the grim reality for many creators in the comic book industry, and also that many people are in this business to take advantage of the people who actually do the work. A long time ago I was approached by someone and offered to work on a comic book project featuring Captain Action. For those of you who don't know who Captain Action is, he was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, The Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet. Captain Action was the Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbro's G.I. Joe—although the protagonist dolls of both toy lines were created and designed by the same toy-and-idea man, Stan Weston. National Periodical (DC Comics) licensed the character from Ideal and published five issues of Captain Action in 1968, illustrated at first by Wally Wood, then by Gil Kane. The scripts were by a teenage Jim Shooter and Gil Kane. In 2008 Moonstone Books began a new series and created a new back-story for the character. Captain Action was now Miles Drake, a former Marine who discovers a cache of alien weaponry during the Vietnam War. Moonstone Books published a new Captain Action comic book from 2008 to 2010, with the initial six-issue arc written by Fabian Nicieza. A Captain Action Special was also released in 2010 as well as a two-issue miniseries teaming up Captain Action with the Phantom, written by Mike Bullock. In July 2010, Captain Action Season 2, an ongoing series written by Steven Grant, debuted that lasted 3 issues. Moonstone planned on releasing Captain Action: Classified, which would tell stories of Captain Action's earliest adventures in the 1960s, but this did not happen. In 2013 Dynamite Entertainment put out a mini-series with Captain Action called Codename: Action that included several pulp and comic book characters in an origin story for Captain Action.
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