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An old sketch for a "Cats" themed art jam - seemed like a good excuse to draw the Wattersons!

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James Brouwer

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The Deep #1 by  Tom Taylor and James Brouwer

Boom

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The Deep: Plastic Ocean SOS

With state-of-the-art technology and an unquenchable thirst for discovery, the Nektons explore the mysterious depths of the ocean.

The series follows the Nekton family, a family of adventurous underwater explorers who live aboard a state-of-the-art submarine, the Aronnax, and explore unknown areas of the Earth's oceans to unravel the mysteries of the depths. The ancestors of the Nekton family died trying to solve the riddle of how to get to the lost city of Lemuria and refused to abandon it. Now, thanks to family friend Nereus, the Nektons know why they are so attracted to solving underwater riddles because they are the descendants of Lemurians.

The Deep is an Australian/Canadian co-produced animated television series based on the comic book created by Tom Taylor and James Brouwer and published by Gestalt Comics. The series was optioned by Technicolor and produced by A Stark Production and the Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment, a subsidiary of DHX Media. Commissed by ABC, it premiered on 7TWO on December 1, 2015 and began broadcasting in Canada the following month on Family Chrgd. Netflix acquired the U.S. SVOD rights to The Deep, and it began streaming in America on June 1, 2016. It also aired on Ici Radio-Canada Télé in Canada, and Universal Kids in the US.

It is set to be broadcast on CBBC (UK), RTS Deux (Switzerland), La Trois (Belgium), Ketnet (Belgium), NRK (Norway), DR (Denmark), SVT (Sweden) and YLE (Finland), Okto (Singapore) and Super RTL (Germany).

On February 8, 2018, DHX Media announced that the series has been renewed for a third season.

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James Brouwer

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Gamma Yojimbo, part 2

Dan Panosian

Dave Johnson

Eric Powell

George Evangelista

Godfrey Escota

Gray Shuko

Guy Davis

James Brouwer

Jonathan Marks

PART ONE

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THE DEEP #6 (of 6)

Retail Price: $3.99 Writer: Tom Taylor Artist: James Brouwer Cover Artist: James Brouwer Now a hit animated series on Netflix! Still trapped, the Nekton siblings must work together to get back to their family.

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Cover: Cover detail from Rise of the Black Flame #5. Art by Laurence Campbell with colours from Dave Stewart.

The Lazy Sunday Reader Vol. 2, No. 1 - January 15, 2017

1. Preamble 2. Panel of the Week 3. issues - The Deep #1 4. Cover of the Week 5. Housekeeping

Now would be an excellent time to go out and pick up the three volumes that constitute John Lewis’ March written in conjunction with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell.

Green Valley #4 Words by Max Landis | Pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli | Inks by Cliff Rathburn | Colours by Jean-Francois Beaulieu 

The Deep #1

Writer: Tom Taylor Artist: James Brouwer | January 2017 | Published by Boom Entertainment/kaboom!

The Deep was originally published as a graphic novel in 2011 as The Deep: Here Be Dragons by Gestalt Publishing. It’s being serialized now by kaboom!, likely on the back of the popularity of the animated series of the same name, that was picked up by Netflix. The series follows the adventures of the Nektons, a family of undersea explorers. 

The first issue introduces us to the family and has them set out looking for prehistoric monsters in the deep off the coast of Greenland. 

Tom Taylor does a good job of establishing the feel of the Nektons family dynamic, presenting them in an almost similar way to Sue and Reed Richards, with the patriarch, Will, almost being an absent-minded scientist lost in his research, while the mother, Kaiko, seems to spend more time with the kids.

The children, Ant and Fontaine, get the main focus, spotlighting their sibling rivalry between Ant trying to train a fish to fetch and later a bit of jealousy when he gets to pilot the search vessel when they discover the half-eaten remains of a blue whale.

Taylor delivers a fair amount of humour and ribbing between family members that should appeal to kids.

James Brouwer’s artwork is bright and colourful. He uses an exaggerated animated style to begin with, so it’s no surprise that it was made into an animated series.

Also, like many animated series, backgrounds are a little sparse and instead rendered as a few variations on blue, but it doesn’t really detract from either the art or the story.

Overall, I liked this first issue. It’s definitely aimed at younger readers, but it still has an appeal to readers of all ages. The characters definitely feel like a family, the overarching plot of discovering what could be an ancient sea creature is interesting, and the artwork is beautifully rendered.

Although I do recommend the first issue, in looking into the series previous publishing, it may serve people better to either wait for it to be collected again by Boom--since the younger kids this is aimed at would probably get more out of reading the entire thing at once--or pick up the individual issues digitally that were published by Gestalt, which are all available up on Comixology and Amazon for far less than this series. I’d recommend it to kids who like oceanography, marine biology, and the like, but their parents are likely to enjoy it as well.

Invisible Republic #14 Art by Gabriel Hardman | Colours by Jordan Boyd

This Week’s Soundtrack: NIN - Not the Actual Events

The Week in Comics: Archie #16. Black Hammer Giant-Sized Annual #1. Curse Words and The Few debut from Image. Demonic concludes. Descender #18. Divinity III: Stalinverse: Aric: Son of the Revolution will bury you in colons. Drifter #16. Generation Zero #6. The Goddamned, Horizon, and Kill or be Killed see their first collections. Harbinger Renegade #3. Horizon #7, Kill or be Killed #5, and Manifest Destiny #25 kick off a new arcs. James Bond: Hammerhead #3. Last Sons of America and Snow Blind get collections from BOOM! Mayday #3. Motor Girl #3. Peepland #3. Revolutionaries #1. Rockstars #2. They’re Not Like Us returns. TMNT Universe #6.

Next: If the world doesn’t kick off World War III on the 20th, I hope to take a gander at another American Monster.

d. emerson eddy wonders why if they were the Care Bears, their magical power symbol thing was always on their stomach and not more localized over the heart.

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