CSBG Archive
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 265
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far!
Here we meet Johnny Hiro!!!
In Fred Chao’s Johnny Hiro #1, we basically get to see the creation of a hero, all in the instinctual response Johnny has when his girlfriend is kidnapped by Gozadilla, a revenge-seeking monster from Japan (his girlfriend’s mother used to be part of a science action team that fought Gozadilla in the late 1970s)….
“The” moment is that last double-page spread (you can enlarge all the double-page spreads by clicking on them) when Johnny just instinctively leaps from the building to attack the monster with his bare hands, knowing in his heart that he can’t really hurt the monster but he’ll be damned if he is going to let the monster get away with his girlfriend!
Fred Chao rocks!
17 Comments
T.
September 23, 2009 at 10:13 am
As much as I loved the superhero stuff you’ve done, these indie ones are even better because they give me new books to sample.
Mea
September 23, 2009 at 10:20 am
Bunny slippers for the win.
And you’re right, that two page spread is great. I must find this.
Diggity
September 23, 2009 at 10:31 am
Great looking book. Thanks for the look at it!
Neal K
September 23, 2009 at 10:32 am
There is so much good indie stuff out there. I’m glad Brian is giving it a bit of a spotlight.
dr matt
September 23, 2009 at 10:43 am
I think my favourite is the “Even though it is impossible” panel. But, yeah, the bunny slippers may just edge it..
Brian Cronin
September 23, 2009 at 10:49 am
I didn’t have enough space for it, but his girlfriend acknowledges the bunny slippers in the next page – she’s concerned that he will stretch them out.
Furious George
September 23, 2009 at 11:57 am
I love the expression on Hiro’s face when he realizes he’s jumping onto a giant lizard. Is this available in a trade? I need to know what happens!
Eliot Johnson
September 23, 2009 at 12:10 pm
AdHouse put out a trade of the entire series with several neat bonus features/extra strips etc. Well worth a purchase. Absolutely one of the best books to come out in the last five years or so.
Eldric IV
September 23, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Two thoughts:
1. All this emphasis on instinct and action without thought yet he not only puts on pants, he finds *both* bunny slippers?
2. No one sleeps with his head next to the window in Brooklyn.
Dean
September 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm
That was awesome.
Julian
September 23, 2009 at 3:07 pm
So this is Johnny Hiro? Now I see what all the fuss is about!
chad
September 23, 2009 at 9:19 pm
that moment is cool for proves how powerfull love it and it indeed makes someone do crazy thing like hiro is doing to rescue his girlfriend espically from godzilla
wwk5d
September 23, 2009 at 9:30 pm
So his plan is what, exactly? Slow down the monster till the JLA can show up and take it down?
Brian Cronin
September 23, 2009 at 9:33 pm
That’s how I would have written it.
stealthwise
September 23, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Righteous! Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Andre
September 23, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I like the title’s homage to “The Dead Milkmen” Call me stuck in the eighties but I still love that band.
BDaly
September 24, 2009 at 5:27 am
I didn’t quite laugh, wwk5d, but I certainly smirked. Good one.
This looks very cool Brian. It’s always appreciated (except by my bank balance) when cool new stuff is brought to my attention.