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Post by The MRP! on Aug 24, 2014 14:46:24 GMT -5
Ok, inspired by a query in another thread by Ed (hawksmoor) and response by Chris, I am launching a thread for talking about actual comics-upcoming, current or classic, whatever your preference is.
I was asked specifically about my thoughts about the new wave of Dark titles from DC especially Gotham by Midnight...
I'll start first by saying I hadn't read a new52 book in about a year. I had been dropping books left and write as I came to realize the current DC zeitgeist was not one that interested me much at all and that in a crowded market there were literally dozens of books I wanted to read and support more than the best of what I felt DC was offering in the new52 line. Villains month was the last straw for me, and it knocked the last DC book standing off my pull list, which was Lemire and Sorrentino's Green Arrow.
The only books I read from DC the past year were the Batman: Black and White mini series and some Vertigo stuff (the fist of the CMYK anthologies, Trillium, Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Gaiman and William's sporadically released issues of Sandman Overture being the only regular purchases, though I did give FBP, Hinterkind and Coffin Hill a try).
I will cop to buying a few others-blank cover variants I get for having sketches done at cons, and I kind of dug the bombshell variants-big fan of that retro propaganda/pin-up style art mash up, so I ended up buying those as art pieces not books to read.
So my interest in new DC stuff is at an all-time low right now. I've lost all patience with Scott Snyder and his inability to write a decent ending for anything he does-so I will not invest in anything he does because no matter how good the start and build up, it will never pay off in the end and I will be left feeling disappointed. Johns has been in a creative rut for a while for me and seems to have lost the magic touch he displayed on some of his earlier work like JSA, Hawkman and the first part of his GL run. Lemire's mainstream stuff feels flat and soulless compared to his creator owned work, which is gorgeous, inspired, and so filled with charm and wit that it is a joy to read, which makes his mainstream stuff, which is solid, seem poorer in comparison, like he is not investing fully in it and saving the good stuff for his own creations. So there had been little to draw my interest back to the new52 in a while. And I don't even want to start with the weeklies...
But within the last month or so there has been a few inklings of hope-a few things that have piqued my interest and given me pause to reconsider my DC drought. It all started with a book no one else seems to have bought-Star Spangled War Stories featuring G.I. Zombie. Start with a Darwyn Cooke cover and then give me interior art by Hampton, and you have my attention. It would look gorgeous, so I would at least check it out for the art. But would it be worth reading? Palmiotti and Gray have done some stuff I really like, and they have done some absolute drek. Hit and miss only begins to describe my relationship with their work-but I grabbed the first issue I was pleasantly surprised. Not a big fan of zombies, but their twisted take on it was a fun read with lots of interesting little bits, and it was gorgeous. I am positive the series will be cancelled within 8 issue because of sales, but I think I am on boards for the short ride. I want to see more of this type of stuff from DC, books I can choose to read on their own and not one title in a jigsaw of 51 others that I have to read all of to get 1 story, so I am going to support it.
Then some announcements/solicits hit. The new direction for Batgirl. Becky Cloonan doing Gotham Academy, an interesting buy somewhat iffy take on Catwoman as the head of a crime family. Not sure I was interested enough to buy these, but they were all steps in new direction for DC it seemed and one I applauded.
Then Gotham at Midnight hit. A Horror/Crime book with Templesmith art had my attention-something that maybe takes the gauntlet form Gotham Central and fills that void had my attention-Fawkes writing it gave me pause. A ttitle that evokes latenight Showtime or Skinemax instead of a noir comic is laughable though and needs to be rethought. And finally Corrignan's presence and the new52 Spectre had me conflicted. Corrigan's Spectre is in my list of top 5 comic characters of all time. But Corrigan's story is done. Ostrander wrote one of the most beautiful endings to a character's story arc in the final issue of the 90s Spectre series ever. Bringing him back as the Spectre, undoing that story-it doesn't sit well with me. I have little interest in reading it. DC tried using the Spectre with other hosts and I was fine with that-they didn't work well because I think they made poor choices for those hosts, but Corrigan's story was done. It'd be like saying you know, we never were quite able to get stories about newspapermen to work after we revealed the secret of Rosebud, so we're going to redo Charles Kane so we can tell more stories about him and just leave Rosebud out of it this time because we can't figure something new to do... and while I normally like DeMatteis stuff and Brent Anderson's art, even their presence couldn't make the turd of a story by Didio that brought the Corrigan/Spectre into the new52 DCU in the Phantom Stranger book palatable.
So I am conflicted here. It's a premise I like, an artist I like (though my gut tells me Templesmith is only there to launch the book and will move on to other things after the first arc), characters I traditionally like but just felt there was no need to redo. The mantle of the Spectre offered so many possibilities to DC-especially in an era where they are trying to redo a lot of characters to bring more diversity to the DCU. They could have created an all new host for the Spectre that accomplished just that and let the Corrigan character go stay resting in the rewards he deserved after his toils and was given by Ostrander and Mandrake. SO I am not sure what I am going to do with Gotham at Midnight. I'll probably check out the first issue, I am intrigued enough by the premise for that. I may even stick around as long as Templesmith does. But if by issue 4 or 5 it's Fawkes and a rotating bunch of cheap South American artists rotating through the book to meet deadlines with uninspired art and unrelenting new52 grim and grittiness for the sake of we can't write anything else like most of the new52 line has been, I won't be around for long.
-M
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 24, 2014 16:21:31 GMT -5
So speaking of new comics....
Shopping list for the week of 8/27-ugh kind of a big week, may need to make some cuts.
Dark Horse
Conan the Avengers #5
Dream Thief: Escape #3
Groo vs. Conan #2
DC
Star Spangled War Stories #2
Dynamite
Flash Gordon #5
Image
Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #3
Marvel
Savage Hulk #3
Silver Surfer #5
depending on budget might check out the 2 Robinson books FF & Invaders, or may wait or just no get them.
-M
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Post by hawksmoor on Aug 24, 2014 17:51:10 GMT -5
Well, since you've kicked it off.
I never really collected a huge amount of comics from the Pre-52 DC. Not to say that they aren't good (the majority of my Pre-52 DC comics were the 52 series itself, Blue Beetle, Shadowpact, Animal Man from 1988, Shade, The Changing Man and Swamp Thing.)
See, the way i see it, Nu52 is a new universe. So, Ostranders good work on Manhunter, or Spectre, hasn't been undone. It's just in a different universe. For me, that element holds true, and while, yeah, some people (not necessarily saying you are) are a bit bent out of shape and annoyed that we've lost 70 years worth of continuity for a "Sales Gimmick" you have to say...DC have committed to it admirably considering it's just a Gimmick.
I mean, sure, for every disaster, like Firestorm, you have something wonderful like...Swamp Thing. For every Detective Comics, you have something new like Men of War, or Allstar Western. Sure, they're not surviving, but DC gave them a chance.
As far as Gotham After Midnight goes...Yeah, not a lot is going to replace Gotham Central in my heart. Gotham Central...ah, so lovely. So Good.
I am kind of happy (not hugely because I would have liked the Question to be the Rick Vietch Question, rather than this version we have now...but there we are.) that Pandora, Phantom Stranger and Question are being absorbed into a single series. Also, that we're getting Klarion with Trevor McCarthy (not so much set on Nocenti as a writer...) and Gotham by Midnight. Might also try out the Lobo series but...who knows.
What I'd really like DC to do is a Martian Manhunter series, Shazam and a Cyborg series. Three characters who really deserve a series considering their profile in the JLA currently. I'd buy them in a second. Especially a Cyborg series.
But, I'm always willing to be a bit flexible in my comic reading habits.
Since we're here - Multiversity...Whats the thinking on this? My personal feeling is that it's going to be another solid Morrison win. It's already shaping up to be brilliant and we're only an issue in. Sure, people are having issues with the Captain Carrot taken in the first issue, but it's better than the one we saw in Threshold, and again...New Universe, new rules.
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 24, 2014 19:12:43 GMT -5
I bought the first issue of Multiversity but haven't read it yet. I've gone on record as saying I haven' truly enjoyed anything Morrison has done since halfway through Invisibles which coincides with his drug induced self-actualization realization he is an avatar of the the gods of meta-fiction conducting experiments and reshaping the universe rather than telling stories. Around about that time he stopped telling stories with fully realized characters and started using plot puppets in the service of big ideas and his work lost its soul and charm and became mere exercises in idea manipulation rather than using the classic idea of a story that changes characters through their encounters and resolutions with the conflicts of the plot. Since he seems solely concerned about the plot and the ideas, the character she uses seem an afterthought and unless he is drawing on years of other people's storytelling ideas to flesh them out, he hasn't written a fully realized character since King Mod and the gang. His Buddy Baker, Crazy Jane, Danny the Street, etc. etc. were all amazing characters who interacted with these amazing ideas, but it was about them. After that, it stopped being about the characters and was about the ideas, and his work has been much poorer for it. Ideas are a dime a dozen, they appear, burn brightly, burn out, and are forgotten. Character sand their stories are what stand the test of time and what make a lasting impression on the human consciousness and the human condition. By focusing on the ideas and not the characters who evoke and interact with those ideas, I really think Grant has gone off the rails and missed the forest for the trees in his mad quest for enlightenment through fiction.
-M
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 24, 2014 19:16:58 GMT -5
As for being curmudgeonly about the new52-if they were serious abotu a new start and a re-envisioning of the characters, then they should have done so-Tangent, Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating, etc. those are re-envisioning of those classic properties. The new52 was soaking the properties in turpentine to get the old coats of paint off and then using tracing paper to find out what was left to put a "fresh" and far inferior coat of paint on the same thing. It wasn't a gimmick and it's not that 70 yeas of continuity was lost, it was that they kept costumes, powers and names, but jettisoned the heart and soul of what made these enduring iconic characters for what was "edgy and cool" and which will be dated and passe in 5 years time. The fact that every title except for the top 10% of the DC line is selling worse than the re-52 line was shows that people got tired of it and left in droves after they saw what all the fuss was about. The only thing the new52 launch did sales wise was consolidate DCs profitable books into a top heavy line where middle and bottom tier books are not sustainable saleswise for the long term, meaning it has cut out the viability of diversity of the line, and resulted in several failed attempts while the only thing that sustains is those handful of same top tier titles. There's about 70% of the DC line that I could order pulls only for and not miss a sold copy on, and aside from 4 titles, no DC book has double digit pulls in our shop.
-M
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Post by hawksmoor on Aug 25, 2014 4:21:09 GMT -5
I guess I really like the plot puppet elements. I think I've mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Morrison and of Hickman, who's primary criticism it seems is that he is very much a concept driven writer.
I'd go so far as to say that so is Ellis and Milligan when he's "on". Granted, sometimes Morrison can miss the character development, but to my eye, and we're working on opinions here, he works with Jungian archetypes of characters. His All-Star Superman was based on that, his JLA was (and he introduced my much enjoyed sub-romance between Aquaman and Wonder Woman which I wish was developed more. Sorry Mera.)
Multiversity is the big high concept crossover event that I wish we got more often. Morrison has said that the best bit of playing with Alternate reality characters is that you can see your favourite characters through a different lens.
I guess different strokes for different folks? Don't get me wrong, there are elements that I see recycled over and over. The Intelligent Monkey thing, from Animal man, from Filth, from Multiversity. There are missteps in his career, Dinosaurs vs. Aliens, perhaps?
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 25, 2014 16:54:09 GMT -5
I like Morrison. MRP and I have argued about this time and time again, but I agree with you Hawksmoor. He's not writing character pieces, he's writing modern mythology. It's not that people are going to end up worshiping Superman or what not, but he's writing them from the idea that these are gods.
And at the end of the day, regardless of whether or not he's successful, he's the only one who writes a story like Morrison. Comics are better for the variation he offers.
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 25, 2014 17:25:52 GMT -5
I like Morrison. MRP and I have argued about this time and time again, but I agree with you Hawksmoor. He's not writing character pieces, he's writing modern mythology. It's not that people are going to end up worshiping Superman or what not, but he's writing them from the idea that these are gods. And at the end of the day, regardless of whether or not he's successful, he's the only one who writes a story like Morrison. Comics are better for the variation he offers. If I had the time I could break down most of his stories and show you whose ideas he's using...most aren't really his own or at best he's putting a new coat of paint on something someone else already did. Reading Morrison is like a potluck supper, you get bits and pieces of lots of to her people's stuff, so yeah, no one writes like Morrison, but Morrison writes like lots of other people (jumbled together, sometimes coherently, often times not). He can sometimes be an innovative synthesizer of other people's ideas, but too often he tries to put himself forward as this mad genius who came up with all this stuff or some mad avatar that is the chosen one of greater multi-dimensional beings, it's a farce. -M |
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 26, 2014 3:15:01 GMT -5
Just finished a nice leisurely read through of The Fade Out #1, the new Brubaker/Phillips series form Image. Classic noir in 40's Hollywood, no horror elements this time, unlike Fatale (which I also loved). Splurged and got the magazine-sized variant so I could savor the art in larger sized. Great stuff, looks like it will be a great series.
-M
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 26, 2014 6:54:26 GMT -5
The Fade-Out. I may have to grab that. The last trade of Fatale comes out in October, I believe it is. I'm planning on getting all of them when the last one comes out and reading it at once. I enjoyed the first Fatale trade when I read it, but I feel like it would serve better to read as one fully story rather than broken up. I could be wrong, but they're all out, so I might as well.
What are some other books I've been reading... I just read Ghosted and Manifest Destiny. They were both okay. I'm going to give Ghosted one more try. The twist at the end seemed gratuitous. Twists are good when they go against something you believe to be true within the story. This one was something that the story didn't even set up at all. So I think most of my dislike for the book comes from that, so I'm willing to give it another try.
I didn't really like Manifest Destiny at all. I think part of the reason was because I loved the book conceptually and I don't really think the execution lived up to the concept. It was just too gory. I was hoping for a little bit of unseen terror. For that reason it kind of felt "common." Unless I see a really good deal, I'm probably not reading the second one.
Letter 44 though... that's ace.
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 26, 2014 14:42:44 GMT -5
Let's see tired Ghosted, liked the first arc, but not enough to read the second. Tied the first few Manifest Destiny, again liked it but not enough to keep reading, ended up selling my #1 for $15 to another guy looking for a first print, though it was going for more on ebay.
I read the first 7 or 8 Letter 44's but aside from the one fill in issue by Joelle Jones I couldn't stand the art, so ended up dropping it, as the story wasn't strong enough to compensate for the visceral reaction I had to the art within, not just ugly but after the first issue the actual visual storytelling went downhill and characters were indistinct form one another and the narrative flow was choppy visually instead of flowing with the eye.
My current pull list looks something like this...
getting in trade as they come out-
Thief of Thieves
Five Ghosts
Saga (I read the first 3 volumes as floppies, sold my first prints and switched to trades)
also thinking of finally digging in and getting the Mignolaverse stuff in trade.
Getting monthly
Archie
Afterlife with Archie
Sabrina
Dark Horse
Conan the Avenger
Groo vs. Conan (mini)
Dream Thief Escape (mini)
Usagi Yojimbo: Senso (mini)
any Black Beetle minis by Francavilla as they come out)
was getting Star Wars but it ended
DC/Vertigo
Astro City
Star Spangled War Stories
Sandman Overture (mini)
Dynamite
Flash Gordon
Red Sonja
Shadow Midnight in Moscow (mini)
Devilers (on trial basis, liked #1)
IDW
Frankenstein Alive, Alive (Wrightson does like 1 or 2 issues a year)
Star Mage (mini)
Image
The Fade Out
Velvet
Lazarus
Trees (mini)
Age of Bronze (when it comes out)
A Distant Soil (when it comes out)
Supreme Blue Rose (mini)
Marvel
Daredevil
Elektra
Iron Fist: The Living Weapon
Ms. Marvel
Silver Surfer
United States of Murder Inc.
Original Sin (mini)
Moon Knight (was getting Ellis Shalvey run, like Smallwood's art so giving Wood/Smallwood a chance but not sure I Will keep it)
Oni
Bride of Helheim (mini)
Stumptown (Rucka)
Hermes Press
The Phantom
I'm probably forgetting something, and I sample things here and there too, and constantly revise my list as things catch my eye and I need to cut things to fit them on my list. One of the books I am undecided on currently is Outcast by Kirkman and Azaceta. Not usually a fan of Kirkman, but the first 2 issue shave been good. I also like to check out anthologies so I picked up the first issue of the new Dark Horse Presents and the first of the CMYK Vertigo anthologies-(didn't get the second as we got shorted on it).
-M
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Post by buck on Aug 26, 2014 20:57:18 GMT -5
Image
Manifest Destiny
Outcast
Walking Dead
Thief of Thieves
Saga
The Fade Out
Sex Criminals
Southern Bastards
Marvel
Daredevil
Hawkeye
Amazing Spider-Man
Avengers
New Avengers
Punisher
Black Widow
Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Thor, God of Thunder
DC
Batman
Detective Comics
Batman Eternal
Future's End
Wonder Woman
Red Lanterns
Justice League
Justice League United
Superman
Batman and Robin
Superman Wonder Woman
Swamp Thing
So entirely too much on my pull list, but six of them are slated to end this year and I don't plan on adding any new books unless they clock in at the $2.99 price point. Comics are just getting to expensive when everything is running 4 bucks an issue. Might eventually retreat into waiting on trades, but I know I will lose patience with that since DC's pace for releasing collected material is laughable.
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 27, 2014 6:50:57 GMT -5
On my monthly pull:
Marvel:
Hawkeye
Daredevil
New Avengers
Silver Surfer
Moon Knight
Fantastic Four
DC:
Batman
Detective Comics
Justice League United
In Trade as they come out:
Saga
Revival
Manhattan Projects
East of West
Five Ghosts
Any other thoughts on Image books? I've given Ghosted, Manifest Destiny, and Fatale a try. Fatale I will continue with.
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Post by hawksmoor on Aug 28, 2014 13:40:10 GMT -5
My Monthly Pull:
Justice Leagues Unlimited and Dark
Phantom Stranger
Pandora
Wonder Woman (Dropping once Finch arrives)
Aquaman
Aquaman & The Others
Swamp Thing
Earth-2
(Will get Earth-2 End of the World, or whatever, when it comes out)
Constantine
Superman-Wonder Woman
Also,
New Avengers
Avengers World
Avengers
I tend to just randomly grab stuff as well, for comic book stuff from other publishers. I used to be a Hellboy/BPRD devotee, in trade form, but have lost my way a bit collecting random Warren Ellis trades. I am somewhat obsessed with Elephantmen at the moment, and I'm trying to get hold of as many translated copies of euro comics as possible, while working my way through some 2000AD stuff i found in a charry shop and some Heavy Metal I got off a mate.
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 30, 2014 22:35:14 GMT -5
So Swamp Thing almost had to have pants on like the Hulk.... from Bernie Wrightson's panel at Fan Expo Canada see the coverage of the panel here at CBR-M |
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Post by The MRP! on Aug 31, 2014 5:42:39 GMT -5
Shopping list for week of Sept 3
Dark Horse
Grendel vs. The Shadow #1 (Matt Wagner baby)
Usagi Yojimbo: Senso #2
Dynamite
Dresden Files War Cry #4
Red Sonja: Black Tower #1
IDW
Rocketeer Jet Powered Adventures (prose stories)-if the shop ordered it, not sure
Star Mage #6 (final issue of a rather disappointing mini)
Marvel
Iron Fist: Living Weapon #6
Moon Knight #7 (Wood/Smallwood get a 1 issue trial after Ellis)
Original Sin #8 (final issue)
and for my wife
Rocket Raccoon #3
-M
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Post by buck on Aug 31, 2014 10:03:12 GMT -5
DC
Batman Eternal #22
Detective Comics Future's End #1
Future's End #18
Green Arrow Future's End #1
Justice League 33
Swamp Thing Future's End #1
Image
Southerns Bastards #4
Marvel
Black Widow #10
Punisher #10
Superior Foes #15
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Post by The MRP! on Sept 2, 2014 22:36:37 GMT -5
And DC loses another one...Charles Soule has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. His run on Supermnan/Wonder Woman ends next month and supposedly he will wrap up Swamp Thing and Red Lanterns runs in March. Letter 44 remains unaffected.
-M
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Post by buck on Sept 2, 2014 22:59:21 GMT -5
Yeah that's a real shame. His DC work has been better then his Marvel work for me anyway, but only time will tell rather his future Marvel work ends up hooking me.
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Post by C_Miller on Sept 3, 2014 6:49:03 GMT -5
And DC loses another one...Charles Soule has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. His run on Supermnan/Wonder Woman ends next month and supposedly he will wrap up Swamp Thing and Red Lanterns runs in March. Letter 44 remains unaffected. -M It seems that generally speaking these exclusive contracts don't apply to creator owned work. I believe they just bar other work for hire type gigs and are probably more designed to take something away from the other major source of competition (I.E. DC or Marvel). I liked Letter 44 and am looking forward to seeing how it develops. Does DC do exclusive contracts anymore? It would seem like Soule would be someone they'd be interested in tying up since he's probably the biggest name writing for both companies. I believe both Kindt and Fialkov do work for both, but I'm not sure either of them are doing anything major right now for either company. Soule was a major writer, writing a Lantern Book, a book featuring 2 members of the trinity and a run following DC"s current golden boy. It'd be interesting to see why this happened. |
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Post by The MRP! on Sept 3, 2014 14:40:50 GMT -5
Soule will be announcing 2 books at NYCC. Rumor has it that it's the Avengers and New Avengers and he will be taking them on after Hickman's Time Runs Out story. DC was not about to offer him a flagship title. DC tried to keep him/lock him up, but he went Marvel-likely because he will have a higher profile and get to play with bigger toys there.
It's not about money-he is a full time IP lawyer with is own very profitable practice. Comics are a sideline for him, more hobby than career, so he's going to go where he can have the most enjoyable experience. I find the comments that he was disloyal to DC because they gave him his first break in comics to be laughable, he has 2 Eisner nominated minis at Image before DC even noticed him, and he did more to give them some cred with hiring indy writers at a time when their image/pr spin with creator relations was hideously bad than they did for him by offering him "mainstream" work. My guess is that he wanted to pare down from 7-8 books a month and still be able to have the kind of profile in the industry he currently has, 1 to give him time to develop more creator-owned projects to follow Letter 44, and 2 by working on titles that have more resonance with a wider audience. He was already off Superman/Wonder Woman when this came about and Swamp Thing's sales were dying despite it being regarded critically as one of the best books of the new52-DC did nothing to push the book, no marketing, no hype, no drawing attention to the fact it was a critical darling, nothing.
We can speculate about work environment. Soule said all the right things about DC, but then he is a professional who understands the ins and outs of IP management. We don't know what story approval, editorial mandates, etc. were like on the books he worked on, and probably never will. I think Soule has said everything he will on the matter. It was a business decision and he whys and wherefores are his business and no one else's. Why in this internet age, we feel entitled to know the behind the scenes stuff despite people's desire to maintain their privacy and feel cheated when it is denied to us but then ironically have our collective head's explode with outrage when someone's "privacy" is violated is a cognitive dissonance that drives me nuts.
Soule made a choice. He had his reasons. He chooses not to share those reasons. End of story.
-M
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Post by hawksmoor on Sept 5, 2014 16:01:25 GMT -5
I think, fair enough, the chaps following his career, and so far it's been a stonker. His work on Swamp Thing, despite the sales crashing and burning, has been a stellar. Totally blew Synder away, and I am loving every single issue - not a one has been a disappointment. Frankly, its been the best series of the Nu52.
I'll be excited to see his work on something other than Inhumans - Although, She-Hulk, thus far, has been fantastic. I look forward to his Avengers, if this is the case, because he brings a wonderful character to each character he writes - Red Lanterns, although a little choppy in places, introduced some great characters. To be fair, he did feel a little like he was going through the motions with the most recent storyline but...you know.
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Post by C_Miller on Sept 6, 2014 7:47:37 GMT -5
I definitely have to go back and read his Swamp Thing. I actually haven't really read any of his mainstream work. I've read Letter 44 and 27, but I find that I'm less willing to try mainstream stuff than indie stuff. If he's the one who's taking over Avengers, I may have to stay on and even pick up the main Avengers book. Right now I'm just reading New Avengers.
I will say Marvel is doing a pretty decent job picking people to follow up on big time writers. He's no Warren Ellis, but Brian Wood is great and picking him to follow Ellis on Moon Knight made me not want to immediately drop the book.
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Post by hawksmoor on Sept 6, 2014 8:11:57 GMT -5
Wood has been following Ellis for most of his career, by the looks of it. When Ellis revamped the X-Line (and created possibly the greatest X-Men book ever in X-Man) Wood took over on Gen-X, as Scripter and then sole writer. He's done the same on Moon Knight, which, despite my love of Ellis, I found to be aimless and choppy. I wasn't looking for big stories, but, the abrupt ending of a few of the stories, and the recycling of story ideas from Ellis' other work (Post human robot person - Check, Mushroom Delirium - Check) really sucked the soul from the fun revamp of a character who's been revamped more than a Manchester Houseing estate.
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Post by The MRP! on Sept 7, 2014 17:20:16 GMT -5
Shopping List for week of 9/10
DC
Astro City 15
Image
Lazarus 11
Velvet 7
Marvel
Ms. Marvel 8
United States of Murder Inc. #5
Oni
Stumptown #1 (Rucka crime book baby!)
-M
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