I feel the same way but I lacked the nerve to admit it. I don't feel like it's the pace that I have problems with, even though in the past that's usually been my main criticism of GM; instead, I never felt like the Batson story had any consequence or substance to it, which I guess comes to pacing.
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Kaare, your art is great, but, um, no?
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
It's been too slow for mine - the second issue could just be a panel saying "BTW you have a kid" and have more wacky Perfect Strangers scenes.
instead, I never felt like the Batson story had any consequence or substance to it, which I guess comes to pacing.
All more Batman stories need to have no consequence!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
In Other Rumored News: seems like JMS is going to be leaving the friend neighborhood confines of Amazing Spider-Man (about 2 years too late, IMO), & one of two possible dudes is slated to follow: Brian Reed (Friend of Bendis, co-conspirator on the Illuminati mini, currently doing a bang-up job on Ms. Marvel) or Ed Brubaker (needs no intro).
Either of those guys would be a boon, I think, even w/ the crap that's been done to Spidey of late (cf. everything JMS has perpetrated, from the Totemic BS to the Gwen Stacy crap to THE OTHER). Both of them have soldiered through editorially-mandated nonsense (cf. CIVIL WAR) & escaped with their dignity, so I'm sure they'd do fine wading through this morass.
I imagine BR has the less strenuous schedule (tho he's slated to help out with that perpetually promised Spider-Woman series), tho Eddie B getting his mitts on the Spidey clan seems like a dream come true (even though I'm of a mind that EB could write just about anything - spandexy or otherwise - & make it work). If Cam Stewart could somehow be roped into slumming it on a Big Two supertitle w/ Mr. Brubaker, that could possibly be the best thing ever.
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't really read a lot of comicx, but i started reading the trade paperback of Kingdom Come.
It's really great!
The artwork is different...I guess Alex Ross is Big Deal in comix, according to the guys I work with.
His stuff reminds me of Norman Rockwell in a wierd way. It doesn't look like any other comic art I've ever seen.
Seems great so far : )
― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
If you like Kingdom Come, you might also enjoy:JUSTICE, a current 12-issue series by Alex Ross (I think he is writing it, too?) about the Justice League of America destroying the world, or something.ALL STAR SUPERMAN, because it's really, really good.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, the fourth issue wrap-up was pretty ropey, but up until then I thought it was kind of great. It's campy and weightless, but not self-parodying. It reminds me a lot of the Alan Grant run on Detective Comics. And good jokes, too -- there should be more jokes in comics. Nice to have a Batman story that's well-written AND disposable -- we usually get one or the other.
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this some Elsewords-style crap, or are they really killing MJ? Or does he have another wife on the side he reserves his dangerous spunk for?
― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I just wanna say that when I read it didn't sound so stupid (to me).
The Grant / Breyfogle run on Detective is one of my (if not my) favourite Batman run!. So many good jokes, Breyfogle in state of grace and some of the longest running "new" villains created from the 80's onward.
And about Cameron Stewart: read "The Other Side" last week and it's another "war is hell" story, but told in such way that it resembles more a mix between an old E.C. horror story and an old E.C. war story. Great, great, stuff.
― Amadeo (Amadeo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I recently read Black Hole for the first time, and I liked the athmosphere in the comic a lot, but the whole thing felt a bit too vague. I mean, what was the "disease" supposed to be a metaphor for? Youthful alienation? If so, why was it so closely connected to (fear of) sex? I guess AIDS is the easiest answer (the people who get the disease are treated kinda like HIV positive), but it seems a bit too obvious.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Chuck_Tatum (pj.isaac...), February 13th, 2007.
hey chuck fuck off.
um...yeah so thx for the tips huk. i'll leave now, promise. :)
― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
If you like the writer, Mark Waid, though, you should really check out his new Legion stuff. It's much more fun, and just as "epic."
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
If you like Dark Knight Returns, I'd highly recommend looking into BATMAN: YEAR ONE, which is also by Frank Miller but with David Mazzuchelli (very elegant, with an extraordinary sense of design) on art. Some people (one of whom happens to be me) consider it a better story.
― Richie Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
And me.
― Chap (chap), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Mazzuchelli is an odd one - his late superhero comics are much more interesting than his subsequent 'art comix' series Rubber Blanket, which seemed a gratuitous pointless denial of the artist's phenom drawing/craft skillz
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
GAWD the WonderCon programming schedule is UP but real ILC IS NOT for me to GEEK OUT!! T__T
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
(Only vaguely comics related, but not really worth a thread in its own right)
― Chap (chap), Thursday, 15 February 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
And I doubt MATT wants to pay AT LEAST THIRTY BUCKS A MONTH to FIND OUT.
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
- World War 3 promo image has Robin in Red Robin getup.- collagetasm as a shock final page in er, I forget what.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― scampering alpaca (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― scampering alpaca (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richie Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Almost as lovely, LOEG: Black Dossier is going to be surprisingly affordable! Hopefully, that is the fancypants edition.
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Will prob. be rebuying the Los Bros strips, too
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
* "Superman For All Seasons" trade* "Batman: Year 100" trade* "Showcase Presents: Shazam!" (like Huk, I am starting to think that all this showcasing might be filling up my shelves too much - but Matthew's description of this really made me curious)* "Popeye" (lol collection is hueg)
Am I about to have fun? YES I AM!
I also saw this thing there called "Scooter Girl", which I was torn about - on the one hand, I just can't stand manga, but on the other, I am a total sucker for tweeness, soap opera and Swingin' London bullshit. Anyone know anything about this?
― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
CIVIL WAR #7: Manages to make IDENTITY CRISIS look like Grant Morrison. Just awful, although Reed's letter to Susan at the end is hilarious.
― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I almost want the ending spoiled, but I'm not sure I give a shit. Tho I'd have to wait until next week to find out what actually happened. Does another minority / C-list hero die?
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
The Spider-Man / Mr. Fantastic exchange…oh you will cringe.
― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Honestly, I think my estimation of CW would've increased 100 fold if a monkey with Tourette's and no frontal lobe wrote the dialogue instead of MM. Hope he's putting more effort into his JPEG fumetti!
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I finally picked up the first issue of Dark Tower, and ... geez. The art is just distracting.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link