It's Genetic

December 1, 2014 6:56 PM

It's Genetic was a short series of one-panels comics by Kyle Baker (more) that ran in Marvel Age. via.
posted by the man of twists and turns (15 comments total)

These are great. I love the utterly unstatuesque Wolverine, the way he ought to be.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:23 PM on December 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Number 9 ("Come back next week") is rather spot on.
posted by Nerd of the North at 7:25 PM on December 1, 2014 [3 favorites]

A new comic book history blog to read at work! With voluminous archives!

Awwwwwwwesooooome....

(Uh, who is that supposed to be walking out of the shower in the first panel?)
posted by themanwho at 7:31 PM on December 1, 2014

Bobby, of course.
posted by truex at 7:33 PM on December 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Bah, of course it is.

Kyle Baker is awesome.
posted by themanwho at 7:46 PM on December 1, 2014

These are fantastic!

Kyle Baker is just the best. I always held out a little hope that somebody would make an animated version of Dick Tracy in his style.
posted by MrBadExample at 8:17 PM on December 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Kyle had that Marvel internship already while we were at (NYC's nerdiest) high school together, and he used to pass around Xeroxed one-page superhero comics that he drew in his spare time, with the same ironic what-if sensibility. Wish I'd kept some!
posted by nicwolff at 8:22 PM on December 1, 2014

Number 9 ("Come back next week") is rather spot on.

The weird thing is that, in continuity, it isn't. Jean Gray wouldn't die until 2003.
posted by Sangermaine at 7:11 AM on December 2, 2014

Baker is kind of a genius. I still remember with great fondness his totally insane _The Shadow_ run.
posted by tavella at 8:01 AM on December 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

Agreed. I would lpay cash money for Baker's. Shadow to be made into a series. Flying car, materialistic sons, resentfully aged sidekicks, there is nothing funnier than his take on pulp heroes in the modern age.
posted by djrock3k at 8:44 AM on December 2, 2014

Why I Hate Saturn is like the best thing ever.
posted by newdaddy at 9:09 AM on December 2, 2014 [2 favorites]

Oh, that's Kyle Baker's website.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:25 AM on December 2, 2014

Did Baker come on to that Shadow run after Bill Sinkevitchsicanneverspellthis or was BS just doing the covers? I remember really loving the way he used his style to seem like Bill's but not the same as. Jeebus that was a long time ago.

I also loved Why I Hate Saturn.
posted by phearlez at 9:31 AM on December 2, 2014

I find it hard to decide if Why I Hate Saturn or The Cowboy Wally Show is the funniest thing ever written. Maybe it's both.
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 2:28 PM on December 2, 2014

I'd have to give the edge to Cowboy Wally, if only for "Welcome to the Foreign Legion. Here's your balloon."
posted by MrBadExample at 8:38 PM on December 2, 2014 [1 favorite]