― 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
And I second the Eric Powell hubbaing - even GJ @ his most corny headpunchiest couldn't screw this up (& don't prove me wrong, duder).
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
SO WRONG
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i STILL haven't been to the comic book store in weeks. i should go today. maybe i will go RIGHT NOW. hrmr. i bet i've already missed a lot of titles fer goods. i hate it when this happens. no comic shop close to my house means i don't want to make a stop in the wet & cold between work/home.
also of possible interest, peter bagge drew this ad for the store i work at:http://a960.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_e618959c5b46d2b82997bfbdc806f23f.jpg
― ian (orion), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurah (laurah), Saturday, 17 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, Showcase Aquaman is Aqua-Awesome. VERY kid-oriented. Sorta like the Flintstones, where the most fun is in seeing prehistoric animals playing records, washing dishes, etc, only the underwater animals that do the same in Aquaman never make wisecracks. So far my favourite story is "Aquaman's Sea Animal Hospital", which is a very gentle and non-violent story about Aquaman opening a Sea Animal Hospital (duh) and helping his finny friends (many of which don't actually have fins--there seems to be a rather loose definition of "fish" in these stories). And then, quite suddenly and abruptly, SEA PIRATES SHOOT AQUAMAN DEAD! I won't spoil the story for you, but, um, I'm so happy I got this volume. I'm still not sure if I'll continue buying the Showcase series unabated, but, whatev.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 February 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link
AQUAMAN EVEN HAS THE POWER TO MAKE A STORY WITH THE SILVER AGE GREEN ARROW IN IT GOOD. That's saying something.
― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Sunday, 18 February 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Also wonderful is the very first panel in the Aquaman origin story, where you see this frazzled old sailor type shouting incentive at a young kid locked in a tank with two sharks.
― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 18 February 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway:COUNTDOWN 51-48Written by Paul Dini and othersBreakdowns by Keith Giffen51 written by Paul Dini; art by Jesus Saiz50 written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray; art by Jim Calafiore49 written by Tony Bedard; art by Carlos Magno48 written by Adam Beechen; art by David LopezCovers by Andy Kubert & Tim TownshendThe event of the year is here! This brand-new, year-long weekly series features a cast of hundreds where anything goes! With head writer Paul Dini and a rotating team of some of the industry’s best writers and artists, COUNTDOWN will serve as the backbone of the DCU in 2007.When a character dies in COUNTDOWN 51, it sets off an unexpected ripple that will touch virtually every character in the DC Universe. The COUNTDOWN is on…so begins the end! COUNTDOWN 51 on sale May 9COUNTDOWN 50 on sale May 16 COUNTDOWN 49 on sale May 23COUNTDOWN 48 on sale May 3032 pg, FC, $2.99 US
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
also, RIP Bob Oksnerhttp://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_18.html#012954
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
It's a good spot though. There's a story to be told as well of the sadness he seems to feel stumbling across the purple-eyed mutant offspring of Atlantis (which may well be why you see it most in the Aqualad stories). He probably needs more EMO STARING ACROSS THE SEA FROM ROCKY OUTCROPS.
Other things remembered about why the rest of you should buy this - Aquaman being able to control a water buffalo because it has... er... water in its name. And the one where Lois Lane gets turned into a mermaid because her legs hurt, only for Superman to memorise the whole history of medicine and turn them back into legs again.
Anyway, Countdown. I'm not sure what the linkage is, but one of the Teen Titans dies in the book shipping a week before the first Countdown. Or perhaps doesn't, but is dead by the time the next issue of Titans comes out.
What's the "major spoiler" mentioned in the comments field on 52 PickUp that's in the latest GLC?
Did Showcase HoM Vol 2 ship when it was supposed to, or has it been delayed?
― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
BTW, finally caught up on 52. That fight = BALLS. Read like GJ all the way (cf. the speechifying about being a hero GOD SHUT UP) w/ the other folks adding dialogue flourishes. Also, smart me didn't realize the other woman in NP was Ms. Prince until I finished reading & looked @ the cover. Brains!
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Smart money's on Starfire to bite it (and then come back whenever Johns returns to TT).
GLC spoiler maybe "Great Darkness Saga" fakeout?
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
What be "Great Darkness Saga"?
― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Can anyone w00t or pfft on the P&G Uncle Sam stuff? I think Douglas (!!!) & Aldo were reading it...?
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Superman (Huk-L), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:46 (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