Category Shelby Peterson

Shelby Peterson, Editor, Designer
shelby@retcon-punch.com

Location: Chicago

History With Comics: While the X-Men will always hold a special place in her heart, Shelby’s first love was Batman. Between Michael Keaton and Kevin Conroy, she fell hard. Like many, her first graphic novel was The Watchmen in college, followed by a handful of the Batman must-reads. Fast forward to last year: Shelby discovered the awesomeness of the DC universe through Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern Rebirth and Blackest Night. She once again fell in love with a comic book character, but this time it was Neil Gaiman’s Morpheus from his Sandman series, and now all her thoughts are translated into 8 or 9 panels per page with the occasional 2-page spread.

New 52 Favorites: Batgirl, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Batman

Other Favorite Comics:

Feb 5 2012

Chat Cave: Before Watchmen

This summer, DC Comics is going to offer seven mini-series featuring characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen.  The announcement has the comic book community up-in-arms.  As part of that community, the Retcon Punch staff has weighed in with their opinions. Welcome to the Chat Cave.

Patrick: I understand that the prospect of “More Watchmen” is getting everyone’s ire up. Don’t we all wish we had a machine that let was travel back in time to get the Simpsons cancelled in 1999? Don’t we wish George Lucas stopped producing movies after Last Crusade? Legacies tarnish so easily, why subject the idealized form of graphic novel to that same treatment?

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Feb 3 2012

Aquaman 5

Today, Peter and Shelby are discussing Aquaman 5, originally released January 25th, 2012.

Peter: As someone who read all 52 issues of The New 52, I had high hopes for some characters that I felt, in my opinion had been neglected in the past. Aquaman was one of these. From his recent revival in Blackest Night, and Brightest Day, also penned by author Geoff Johns and drawn by Ivan Reis, from his portrayal as a Black Lantern zombie, to the Water Elemental guardian as chosen by the The Entity, Arthur has gone through some fairly drastic changes in both physical appearance and mental status in the recent past. Coming into the New 52, I was especially excited because Johns wasn’t doing a full remake of Aquaman, like many other characters in the New 52. Johns instead decided to use the character momentum that he had started to develop in previous storylines, and continue on with it, and that is what Johns, Reis, and company are doing here. Continue reading →