by Tim Leong
08/09/21 - Pages 134-135 - Amazonian Prime: 70 Years of Wonder Woman’s Legs
This chart fills the two pages allotted and it is a colorful fashion. I don’t mind seeing a woman’s legs, especially if they are drawn shapely, as they usually are in comic books. I also feel as if outfits that show off lots of leg are frequently impractical. I also am a fan of the Black Canary in a jump suit.
08/10/21 - Page 136 - Recurring Character: Chris Evans
Chris Evans had appeared in 7 movies based on comic books at the time this book was published, more than anyone else. I’m not sure if he is still the record holder in 2021. This chart could easily have been stretched to two pages but it fits quite well on a single page.
08/11/21 - Page 137 - How to Spot a Vigilante
This chart has the names of ten vigilantes listed alphabetically, starting with Batman, on the horizontal axis. There eleven characteristics on the vertical axis. Batman has 10 of the 11 characteristics. The only one he is missing is “named Vigilante“. The one who scores the highest after Batman is Moon Knight. He has 8 of the 11 characteristics.
This chart commits the sin of using a very light color on a very light background for one of the characteristics. When I first looked at the chart I thought wondered why they would include a characteristic if no one had it.
This chart beautifully illustrates how many crossover issues 24 crossover events had. It only explains crossover events and their tie-ins in a general sense. The earliest event is Marvel Super-Hero Secret Wars (1984) and the most recent one is Flashpoint (2011). There are 15 events from DC and 9 from Marvel. There is just one event (from Marvel) that had less than 10 tie-in issues and three (1 from DC and 2 from Marvel) that had over 100 tie-in issues. Seven events (1 from Marvel and 6 from DC) had 51 to 99 crossover issues.
08/13/21 - Pages 140-141 - Tintin’s Travels
This is a map of the world with different colored lines showing where Tintin traveled in each story. This gets confusing because there are so many lines. There should have been an inset showing his travels in Europe because there are too many lines too close together in that part of the map. Some of the colors used are very faint and hard to see. Arrows might have also been helpful to indicate the direction of travel.
08/14/21 - Pages 142-143 - Tintin’s Publication History
This is a heavily annotated timeline. I’m not sure what makes it chart-worthy other than the fact that this is a book of charts. I like the information that’s presented but it just seems an odd way to present it.
08/15/21 - Pages 144-145 - Revisionist History: 30 Years of Changing History
This chart details 9 major changes made to 7 different Tintin stories.
08/16/21 - Page 146 - Boom Report: The Library of Congress Comic Collection
This chart shows what sort of things are in the collection, how thorough their collection is, and how the comics in the collection were acquired. It is a little confusing because there are so many lines crisscrossing over one another.
08/17/21 - Page 147 - Art, Work: The Schedule of a Manga Artist
This is an hour-by-hour schedule for one week (Mon-Sun) of one manga artist. Each 1-hour block of time is identified as falling into one of 7 categories including sleep time and meal time. The work week begins, from the looks of it, on Saturday. There is no source given for the information provided but I found a chart that looks identical. A simple google search produced the similar looking chart, which is attributed to Eichiro Oda creator of One Piece.
08/18/21 - Pages 148-149 - Cover to Cover: Marvel and DC’s Price History
This chart is a graph which shows how and when prices have gone up over time. There is very little information other than that on these two pages. This chart is a little underwhelming even though it seems like it could be considerably more interesting.
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