X-Force 19 Review

The road to Necrosha continues in this week’s X-force 19. Agent Morales is now confronted with what X-23 really is and who it is she’s really working for. The issue is mostly dialogue, with action sprinkled in; however (unlike some X-books *cough*) the dialogue is full of character development and progresses the story. Domino holds a gun to a Stepford Cuckoo’s head, Rahne battles the Frost Giants, and a new member of Selene’s inner circle is resurrected (wink). As most fan girls know there has been a long drawn out pseudo-courtship occurring between Julian Keller (Hellion) and Laura Kinney(X-23), which is finally partially addressed from Julian’s point of view. Choi’s brilliant artwork combined with C&C’s characterization make me give this book an 4 out of 5. The only reason it’s not 5 out of 5 is because there needs to be more action and more blood splattered across the pages of the book. But well worth the read, and well worth the money spent.

Capt. LIGHTS motion comic series

The “inter-galactic” electro-pop sensation LIGHTS has begun a new project with MTV and Tom Coker from Marvel Comics. The project is a series of 10 semi-animated, 2-minute shorts recanting the adventures of Captain Lights herself. The project, entitled AUDIO QUEST: A Captain Lights adventure is done in the increasingly popular Motion Comic medium. The first episode appeared on Monday, September 28, and new episodes will be added every Monday on both MTV and MTV.com





The first episode begins the adventure with Captain Lights crashing on an apparently music-deprived planet. It is revealed that she only has a few sound-bites (her ship and weapons main source of power) left. As she goes off in search of music to repower her ship she encounters a mysterious red-eyed creature in the shadows. While the dialogue can be blatantly expository at times, Coker’s art-work and animation are breathtaking and the LIGHTS’s voice work is amazing.

The First episode can be viewed HERE

Tom Coker, the animator for Audio Quest, has worked with several major comic book companies, including the biggies: Marvel and DC. His most recent work with Marvel was the Daredevil Noir series which begun earlier this year.

LIGHTS began to gain stardom in 2008 after four of her songs were chosen to be part of an Old Navy ad Campaign. But the primary source of her stardom has come from the young pop-stars nerd nature. Her passion for online-based fantasy games has given her a nigh unlimited source of fans.

"There's an entire world of people out there that play WoW and are talking about science fiction and they feel a little bit outcast, so if you can reach those people that's sweet! Even my look is inspired by video game characters – it's a cross between Laura Croft and Wonder Woman."

Quoted from iamlights.com

Her full length album will be released in the US on October 6, so be sure to keep a weather eye out for that and tune into MTV and MTV.com on Mondays for the next episode.

The Goal of the Project.

I'm a girl and I like comics, any comic I can get my hands on. I started reading comics out of the long boxes in my garage when I was seven years old. My dad used to collect all the old X-Force comics and I loved them. One of my first memories I have as a child is watching the Old X-men cartoons with my dad. So needless to say the X-men and all related parties are my all time favorites. But Comics in general and the comic book culture are absolutely ingrained into my being. There is one thing I will go fangirl over and Comic books are it. I've always loved to write things, even though the things I write are usually slam poetry and short stories. I'm now a sophomore in college and I recently started working as a writer for my school's newspaper (primarily arts and entertainment), and I love it. So I decided that it would be a good thing to combine the two things I love, writing and Comics books, so I am now trying to launch my own comic book review site. So start small go big. There is no better time to start then now.

Why Good Girl Comics?
Because bad girl comics try too hard. Plus one can never go wrong with alliteration.

-Shay'l Rose Hansen