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Post by hawksmoor on Feb 22, 2015 5:57:32 GMT -5
I just bought, and read, the relaunch of Glory from Image?
It was pretty good to start off with but...really faltered about halfway through. I do not feel satisfied by it at all. It's almost as though it just rushed through everything to get to the ending because of low sales or something to that effect. I might post a more thorough review of it somewhere else, but, yeah. It left me a bit cold considering.
Now I am moving onto some old DC comics - Hourman, Time Masters (Wow. Rip Hunter is a massive dick.), and Booster Gold. Very Time Travel.
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Post by The MRP! on Feb 26, 2015 2:00:57 GMT -5
The latest batch of stuff ordered with credit from Lonestar arrived today....characterized by lots of shirtless men from Marvel for some reason... Conan in Savage Tales #2...  all the issues of Skull the Slayer I needed to complete the run...  all but one issues of the Bronze Age Ka-Zar series I needed including #1-8  and #13-19 ( I still need #10 to finish the run)  then we move to DC where we get a jungle beauty to balance all the shirtless Marvel men... Rima the Jungle Girl #3, 5 and 6 leaving me needing only #7  add some Kirby Krackle with a pair of Demon issue s(#11 and 12)  and staying with DC but moving out of the Bronze Age and into the 90s Weirdoverse, Scare Tactics #4-12 to finish off the series for me...  and that's it for the order. It might be it for back issues for a while with the exception of the pair of Heavy Metal issues and the Druillet GN I ordered when I subscribed to the mag, unless I find some other stuff to trade off for credit. -M |
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Post by hawksmoor on Feb 27, 2015 7:56:59 GMT -5
Scare Tactics?! Yes! I love that series. Along with Jared Steven's "Fate" and "The Book Of Fate". Really cool stuff, and, pretty good fun in places as well.
Ah, 90's, you gave us complete crap like the Bloodlines Crossover, but some fun stuff like Fate and Scare Tactics.
Also, the second (third?) Volume of Challengers of the Unknown.
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Post by The MRP! on Feb 27, 2015 11:06:32 GMT -5
I pretty much liked that whole Wierdoverse line, but I don't have much of it anymore. Slowly putting it all back together.
-M
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Post by The MRP! on Mar 17, 2015 23:42:51 GMT -5
This little beauty arrived in my mail box today....  Heavy Metal #1 from 1977-Corben, Druillet, Mobius and more... along with it were 4 more form the DC Weirdoverse-I was reaidng the Scare Tactics run and realized the story split off into 4 team up issues I didn't have so grabbed them t finish off the story-bonus-the 4 issues had gorgeous covers by Dan Bereton  -M |
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Post by The MRP! on Mar 23, 2015 15:15:37 GMT -5
Well it was coupon week at Half Price Books and yesterday was the 50% off highest item coupon, so Amy and took a day trip to Columbus to go out to eat, hit some ethnic food bakeries and do a little book shopping.
I took the pile of trades wanted to get rid of and sold the to HPB for almost $30 which gave me a little operating capital for the back issue hunt. We went to 2 HPB, the one near the OSU campus has lots of 50 cent and dollar bins, and the other has quarter and dollar bins.
Before diving in to those I looked of rmy higher ticket items to use the coupons on-was looking for some trades but ended up getting a few artbooks instead.
Amy picked out the Dynamite Art of Alex Ross oversive book as she is a big fan of Ross' art-$40 cover $10 after coupon.
I got the Drawing from Life by Joe Kubert hardcover and Magnetic Storm-The art of Roger Dean for about $10 combined after coupons.
The rest of the hunt went as follows...
from the quarter bins:
Crossfire (Eclipse) #7
Hall of Fame Comics featuring the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (JC Comics) #3
Jon Sable, Freelance (First) #7-9, 17
The Metabarons (Humanoids) #14
The New DNAgents (Eclipse) #2
New Wave (Eclipse) #3
Nexus (First) #53-55
Sabre (Eclipse) #3, 6
The Spirit (2007 series; DC) #15
Sun Runners (Pacific) #1
Whisper (First Comics) #13
Silverblade (DC) #12
from the 50 cent bins
Amazing Heroes Preview #5 Summer 1987
Grimjack (First) #6
Incredible Hulk #181 (Marvel Legends reprint)
New Wave (Eclipse) #2
Nexus (First) #24, 25, 27-29, 31, 36-48, 50
from the $1 bins
Airboy (Eclipse) #11, 21
Airboy Meets the Prowler (Eclipse) #1
Avengers (Busiek run, Marvel) #7, 32
Conan (Dark Horse) #0
Fate (DC) #17
Hawkman (2003 series, DC) #46
Occult Files of Doctor Spektor (Gold Key) #11
Omega Men Annual #1 (DC)
Shaman's Tears (Image; Grell) #4
Tarzan (Marvel) #23
Valkyrie (an Air Fighters mini; Eclipse) #1, 3
so not a bad day of hunting.
-M
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Post by The MRP! on Mar 23, 2015 15:20:07 GMT -5
And I am down to needing only 1 issue to complete my run of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian. #5 and #22 arrived today, one form Lonestar, one via a trade with someone I know from another comics forum, leaving me only issue #24 (the first full appearance of Red Sonja) to finish off the run. I do have it collected in the nice hc Barry Windsor Smith Archives, but still want to get the individual issue to complete the run.
-M
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Post by C_Miller on Mar 24, 2015 17:28:30 GMT -5
Since I've started doing some work at a Comic Book Store, I've been getting some comics that I probably never would have thought about getting in the past. Stuff for pure collecting purposes rather than reading. I've always been more of a content guy than a collecting guy. In my collector-based collection, I just added: Shazam (1973) #1 DC Comics Presents #87 Superman #317 (Really gorgeous Neal Adams cover in near mint condition) Green Arrow v1 #1 Marvel Comics Presents #57 (First American Comic Book Appearance of Doctor Who) And my favorite is a relatively beat up copy of Flash #163. One of my favorite covers of all time.  |
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Post by The MRP! on Apr 2, 2015 2:23:41 GMT -5
Just got and read Nightworld: Midnight Sonata  my god that rocked. It is the sheer beauty of exquisite madness. Just look....    Kirby meets Colan meets Morrison when he was good channeling Dante and Milton distilled into a comic...just glorious! -M |
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Post by The MRP! on Apr 2, 2015 2:39:04 GMT -5
Traded in a bunch of RPG books at Half Price Books and sci-fi/fantasy/horror paperbacks cluttering my shelves at Bookery on Sunday and picked up a bunch of stuff with eh cash and credit I received. Someone had just sold HPB a bunch of Heavy Metal issues, so I loaded up on those...    Over at Bookery I picked up the following from their discount warehouse-magazines $3 each and comics $1 each, they had 40K in stock... a 6 pack of issues of Cheval Noir, Dark Horse's answer to Heavy Metal in the early 90s  a bunch of Conan the King issues and one Conan the Adventurer...  Hawkman with Kubert cover from Showcase #101 and a mid 60s Tomahawk issue with a gorilla cover (love me some gorilla covers if you forgot)  A Kubert era Tarzan from DC and a Dell Tarzan from 1953-I'll take Golden Age/Atomic Age books for a buck all day long...  an issue of Warlord post 100 I needed and another copy of First Issue SPecial #9 (the Simonson Dr. Fate story with Kubert cover-mine is framed in with my Alex Ross Fate poster so I needed an accessible copy to read...) a trio of Marvel GNs (in the $3 each boxes with the mags)  a trio of random mags including Eisner's Spirit  and a quartet of early issues of Savage Sword of Conan (and yes another gorilla cover)  I also picked up the first 4 issues of Atari Force from DC out of the quarter boxes at HPB while I was there and the Wildsotrm/Dynamite Red Sonja/Claw mini series form a decade ago as a set for $3. No pics for them, but I stopped by the antique mall run by some friends here in town and found a bunch of Marvel Mags for $3 each as well, another handful of Savage Sword of Conans, a bunch of Epic Illustrateds and Marvel Previews and a few more of the Warren Spirit Magazine. I really prefer that magazine size for comic art as it really showcases the art better since it is not shrunk down as much. -M |
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Post by hawksmoor on May 4, 2015 13:59:20 GMT -5
Anyone reading any Convergence stuff? The only thing of worth i've seen thus far is the Shazam issue, and the Question issue - because Rucka and Hamner...is awesome beyond words.
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Post by The MRP! on May 4, 2015 14:21:55 GMT -5
Anyone reading any Convergence stuff? The only thing of worth i've seen thus far is the Shazam issue, and the Question issue - because Rucka and Hamner...is awesome beyond words. I've skipped Convergence and the way they are collecting it will lead me to skip it in trade as well unless my local library gets it. I'll skip Secret Wars too. I'm mildly interested in some post-Convergence stuff, but Gerry Conway's recent blog about how DC is once again screwing creators out of royalties and playing the corporate bully will likely lead me to skip DC altogether as I am still not fond of their business practices and don't really want to support what they are doing. -M |
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Post by hitmonkey on May 18, 2015 9:16:50 GMT -5
So Hello everyone, so obviously I'm new here and what better way to start my time here than talking about comics. it was only a short time ago that i wrote up which comics I was currently picking up so I'll just repost that here.
From DC I'm reading Batgirl and Gotham Academy which are both much lighter than most of DC's current output. I'm also technically reading Secret Six but with how long it's taken to get three issues out I'd be surprised if that's not cancelled by July.
I'm reading a bunch of Valiant who possibly have the best shared universe in comics currently. I got most of X-O Manowar from a comixology sale, and have picked up the first couple issues to Ivar, Timewalker, Ninjak, and will be picking up Bloodshot Reborn when I go the comic shop next.
I'm not picking up as much from Image as I probably should be but what I am picking up is Bitch Planet, Rat Queens, Saga, Sex Criminals, and Wic Div all of which are some of the best series I've ever seen.
From IDW I'm picking up TMNT which is one of the best interpretations of the franchise, Transformers More Than Meets The Eyes and Robots in Disguise which have made me care about Transformers for the first time.
From Boom it's just Lumberjanes which everybody who likes fun should be reading.
Marvel is where most of my comics come from, and that's going to get worse with Secret Wars. Not counting the stuff from Secret wars I'm reading Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Angela, Spider-Gwen, Squirrel Girl, Moon Knight, Deadpool, Ant Man, and Howard the Duck.
I'm also picking up a couple mini series Conan/Red Sonja, The Kitchen, and Operation S.I.N all of which I really hope are good because I won't be reading them until they are finished.
As for back issues I am currently making my way through Frank Miller's Daredevil, and have in fact just started Born Again, now I shouldn't need to tell you it's awesome, but it really is and if you like Daredevil and haven't read it you should.
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Post by C_Miller on May 18, 2015 19:33:54 GMT -5
Hey, hitmonkey, welcome to the the fold.
I'm pretty far outside of the comic book realm, all of my stuff coming from Marvel, DC and Image. I'm reading New Avengers, Ms. Marvel, Gotham By Midnight, Batman, Silver Surfer, Moon Knight, Detective Comics and Ant-Man in monthlies. And then Manhattan Projects, Saga, Revival, East of West, Black Science, The Fade Out and The Wicked and the Divine in trade.
A lot of Marvel and DC books are ending with the new events coming out and I really don't see myself replacing them. I'll probably check out the new Doctor Fate book, but that's because I'm a massive fan. I wish someone with a newer voice than Levitz would be doing this. I love Levitz' 80s work just as I love the work of Byrne, Claremont, ect. A lot of it still holds up, but it feels stunted on new stories.
I've been reading a lot of back stuff. I just decided it's been too long and I'm reading Johns/Goyer/Robinson's JSA again. My God, does it hold up.
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Post by The MRP! on May 18, 2015 20:00:12 GMT -5
Hey, hitmonkey, welcome to the the fold. I'm pretty far outside of the comic book realm, all of my stuff coming from Marvel, DC and Image. I'm reading New Avengers, Ms. Marvel, Gotham By Midnight, Batman, Silver Surfer, Moon Knight, Detective Comics and Ant-Man in monthlies. And then Manhattan Projects, Saga, Revival, East of West, Black Science, The Fade Out and The Wicked and the Divine in trade. A lot of Marvel and DC books are ending with the new events coming out and I really don't see myself replacing them. I'll probably check out the new Doctor Fate book, but that's because I'm a massive fan. I wish someone with a newer voice than Levitz would be doing this. I love Levitz' 80s work just as I love the work of Byrne, Claremont, ect. A lot of it still holds up, but it feels stunted on new stories. I've been reading a lot of back stuff. I just decided it's been too long and I'm reading Johns/Goyer/Robinson's JSA again. My God, does it hold up. I actually liked what I saw from Levitz in the 8 page Doctor Fate preview, but I think a lot of it is coming from Liew as it feels very much like his voice dominating the book. The only "new" comic I am getting right now is Heavy Metal, as I have a subscription-$8 cover price but $4 per issue through subscription, and a new issue shows up in my mail box every other month with 100+ pages of content. The economics of new comics finally got me. I am just not getting enough value to plunk down $3 or $4 a month for 20 pages of content. No matter how good the content, it's not enough value for the money. I don't have the same qualm about vintage comics, but the bulk of them I get are for $1 or less or via trade credit for money I spent long ago, so that factors in. I do trade wait a few series, and read some current stuff via the local library. I have a Thrillbent subscription ($4 a month for as much content as I want to read, with access to the whole library and new content posted every week. I am currently trying the free month of Marvel Unlimited they offer, but so far I am less than impressed withthe selection and the ease of reading, so I will likely cancel before I get charged. I am picking up the following series via trade-Thief Of Thieves, Five Ghosts, The Fade Out, Velvet, Lazarus, Usagi Yojimbo and the Sixth Gun-though I am well behind on the latter 2. I also pick up various trades of classic material and sample some new stuff. I am currently picking up the Mignolaverse stuff in trade, but am years behind the current content, and getting the Fear Agent stuff in trade as well. I've found I much prefer the larger art format of magazine size issues from reading the Marvel mags, Heavy Metal, etc. and the album sized collections most European comics offer, so I am starting to lean towards those as well. There is some newer stuff coming out that I am interested in. The aforementioned Dr. Fate series, Alisa Kwitney's Mystic U, whatever Marvel decides to do with a Dr. Strange series as the movie approaches, Matt Wagner writing the Spirit, Ieneco's Mechanism coming from Heavy Metal Comics, anything Warren Ellis does, and I am still interested in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Afterlife with Archie if they ever get their act together wit getting them out (same with Francavilla's follow up to Black Beetle for Dark Horse). But none of it interests me enough to go get a pull list, pay the price, and go pick them up on a regular basis. I can trade wait on them or find them in bargain bins a year form now at cons. I used to think I needed to support the industry, but I've come to realize they need to do something I am willing to support or they are not worth supporting. I already own enough comics to spend a lifetime reading and not run out, and there are literally thousands of comics already produced that I want to read I haven't gotten to yet, so anything new produced has to compete with all that and still be worth me spending the money on, or it's just not worth it to me. I long outgrew character, title or company loyalty as a reason to spend money on comics. Give me quality worth spending money on at a price that makes it worth its value, or I am not giving you my money anymore. -M |
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Post by C_Miller on May 19, 2015 20:37:46 GMT -5
Yeah. The price point is starting to get to me. I don't really see myself adding titles to replace the ones that are getting canceled. So it looks like I'm going to be a trade waiter on a lot of things. There's a certain joy to reading single issues, but the single issues that so many comic book companies are pumping out right now are quickly losing the joy and nuances of how they were yesteryear. They're more like chapters of a book rather than an experience in their self now.
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Post by hitmonkey on May 24, 2015 7:40:06 GMT -5
I finished reading Frank Miller's run on Daredevil recently, I started it after the awesome Netflix series, I probably don't need to tell anyone that it's awesome but it really is. It lives up to the hype and my only real problem with it is that because of when it was coming out it has to go over the origin story in every damn issue and when reading it all at once, which it feels like your supposed to do, it gets old really fast. Apart from that though it 100% worth reading if you haven't already done so.
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Post by The MRP! on May 24, 2015 14:10:27 GMT -5
I finished reading Frank Miller's run on Daredevil recently, I started it after the awesome Netflix series, I probably don't need to tell anyone that it's awesome but it really is. It lives up to the hype and my only real problem with it is that because of when it was coming out it has to go over the origin story in every damn issue and when reading it all at once, which it feels like your supposed to do, it gets old really fast. Apart from that though it 100% worth reading if you haven't already done so. It's a thing for Marvel Comics pre-2000s though (not o much DC as they told fewer continued stories and more done in one's but it was still there to a lesser degree with DC). Stan Lee' s philosophy is every issue could be someone's first, so the basics od character and premise need to be made known-that's why character names are always used in dialogue (though people don't really talk that way) and origin, power recaps fill captions. It was a time of newsstand distribution where every outlet might not get every issue, especially on the bi-monthly fringe books, and some issues might be received but not put out if the vendor had space issues and chose to use rack space for a better selling comic, more popular character or even a more profitable (i.e. higher cover price) magazine of some other sort. There was no internet to go find out about characters you were unfamiliar with, or to find out what happened in issues you missed, no trade collections to wait for if you missed something. If you were going to tell ongoing stories instead of done in one's, you absolutely had to have that kind of stuff. Even hardcore fans missed issues and there are all kinds of anecdotes of kids riding all over a town or city going to every news vendor, drug store, convenience store, etc. looking for the latest issue of a particular title and some having to go to several different ones to get every comic they collected. I think as a kid 6 issues in a row (Avengers 171-176) was the longest run of a book I ever managed to get without a subscription, even though Avengers was a must get book for me I did have Iron Man 108-119, but that was because I had bought a subscription as part of my school's magazine drive and they were delivered to my mailbox each month). No thought was given to how they would read as a whole, because there was no though they would ever be available again after their initial release. It was a different world and different reality for comic storytelling, and the style was based on an entirely different set of circumstances of need than modern comics. Often I find people who criticize the old school storytelling styles in comics think things were the same as now with comic shops, trade collections, pirated copies and wikipedia to fill in the gaps, making recap and intro unnecessary and clunky. They also don't realize there were far more casual readers then (what Batman sells now on average as the top seller in the industry was what X-Men was selling pre-All New Al Different X-Men in Giant-Size 1 that made it a candidate for being cancelled and only survived as a bi-monthly reprint book for several years before they launched GS 1, and Power Man and Iron Fist was selling more as a bi-monthly book in the early/mid-80s when it got cancelled for low sales than Avengers and X-Men do now on a regular basis). That style of storytelling developed as a necessity to be able to tell multi-part stories with an ongoing continuity in the marketplace in which comics were distributed and sold. When the marketplace changed (and not necessarily for the better long term if you use sales as a measure), storytelling techniques changed to fit the new circumstances. -M |
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Post by hitmonkey on May 24, 2015 19:18:12 GMT -5
Oh I know why it's done but that doesn't change the fact that it does break the flow of the story every 22 pages. it doesn't help that current Marvel comics have a way to go over the origin story each issue without having someone talk/think about it in great detail.
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Post by The MRP! on May 24, 2015 19:53:10 GMT -5
The thing is the story was never meant to have flow when read in one large chunk-you can't break something that isn't there, and the current books are geared towards a regular well-informed audience familiar with the properties, not towards a new or casual audience who are not regular readers, which limits the growth potential of the potential readership and why for the most part all those eyes on the properties in other media have not translated into new eyes on the properties in the comics themselves who can become new regular readers.
If they want to transcend those limitations they have to radically revise the way comic stories are told, but the regular readers are far too rabidly anti-change for the format to change enough to transcend the comic shop ghetto of the direct market. They are trapped by their former success into a pattern of diminishing returns for the actual comics while the properties themselves are bigger than they ever work and reaching a larger audience than they have at any time since Superman and Captain Marvel were regularly selling millions of copies each issue in the Golden Age.
The problem isn't that the methods of the old comics is outdated or that things have changed, it's that the techniques have not changed enough.A 20 page floppy telling 1/6 of a story sold monthly for $2-3 is not going to sell to anyone who hasn't been brought up on that format, and the storytelling techniques needed to maintain that format and also be translatable into trade collections down the road hamper the ability of comics to evolve into something that resonates with a modern audience that loves the material, just not the format. European comics have long evolved past the monthly floppy format into albums produced yearly or bi-annually that sell far better than American floppies do in their respective format, and let's not talk about the sales of manga in the Japanese market. The problem is the entire monthly system is dependent on the monthly sales format and the entire infrastructure is built around that even though the larger mass audience doesn't want anything to do with that format.
Reading old comics collected with all the foibles of recap and repetitive captions is no different than watching classic movie serials which do the same thing, or watching the previously on x television show and next on X every time you binge watch a show on DVD or streaming. It's a vestige of the previous manner of distribution. Unfortunately you can't fast-forward through the comic, but you can skip panels or pages that add nothing new and only recap and achieve the same effect.
-M
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Post by The MRP! on Jun 6, 2015 0:13:20 GMT -5
So filled up most of a short box while at Origins yesterday...no pics yet. Not a lot comic wise in the dealer room at Origins, but the convention center has a comic shop in its food court and I picked up a lot there. There was one dealer in the show who had tons of tpbs, most $5 each or 5/20. He also had some "damaged" books for cheap, most had a bent corner, or a magic marker line in the bottom of the pages to mark overstock or what not. Spent forty some odd bucks with him and got the following (a mix od damaged books and a 5/$20 batch... the damages... Kirkman and Azaceta's Outcast Vol. 1 $3 Saga Vol. 4 $1 Lazarus Vol. 2 $3 47 Ronin hc w/frayed corners $3 Fear Agent Vol. 5 $3 Super Villains Unite (i.e. the collected Super-Villain Team-Up, with a factory crease down the center of the front cover, $34.99 msrp, for $5 Hellboy in Hell Vol. 1 The Descent $3 Hellboy Vol. 12 The Storm and the Fury $3 the 5/$20 books Brubaker's Velvet Vol. 1 Hellboy Vol. 6 Strange Places Hellboy vol. 9 The Wild Hunt BPRD Hell on Earth Vol. 7 A Cold Day in Hell Bat Lash Guns and Roses (collecting 2008 mini series written by Sergio Aragones and Peter Brandvold, with art by John Severin) then at the shop, they had long boxes of $1 $3 and $5 books ranging from Silver to modern stuff, and a few boxes that were 50% off the sticker price. from the 50% off boxes... Superman #300 (net price $2.50) I had a t-shirt of that cover but never the actual issue Rima the Jungle Girl 7 (net cost $2.50, last issue I needed of the run) from the $5 boxes I grabbed... Marvel Feature 5 (Red Sonja) the last of the Sonja series in feature I needed Kull 7 (one of 3 issues I needed to complete the Kull run) Marvel Graphic Novel-Conan and the Witch Queen of Archeron from the $3 boxes Scorpion #1 & 2 (Chaykin's Atlas series) Invaders #2 Creatures on the Loose #25, 28 (Thongor) Kull #2 (the second of 3 issues I needed, sadly they didn't have a #1 so I still need 1) Untold Legend of Batman 2 and 3 (I had #1 but not the other 2 issues) Supernatural Thrillers #3 (adapting Robert Howard's The Valley of the Worm) King Conan #1 (I had in trade but not in floppy) from the $1 boxes Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar digest sized trade of the Russ Manning adaptation from Dark Horse Cosmic Odyssey #3 Crossroads (First Comics x-over event mini) #1 and 3 (completing the series) Amazing Heroes #86, 87, 88, 92, 93, 94 Demon Hunter #1 (Atlas) Warlord 105, 106, 110, 113, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131 ( I had 1-104 but had a lot of holes between 104 and end of series, I filled most of those holes here) Ka-Zar the Savage #22 Moorcock's Hawkmoon: The Mad God's Amulet #1 Hawkman ('86 series) 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 16 (almost finishes run for me) Hawkgirl 58 Green Arrow ('83 mini) 2 Hawkworld 6, 7, 9, 20 (fills in first 20 issues of series for me, still need a bunch form later on) and the one somewhat splurge purchase Marvel Super Special #2 (the full color Savage Sword of Conan issue in NM 9.0-he was asking $20 but because I bought so much other stuff offered it to me at half off, so $10 for it, which is not bad based on what I saw it selling for in that grade online. Also met Timothy Zahn for like the fifth time, but this time I remembered to bring an issue of his Star Lord mini form the 90s for him to sign, o got #1 signed by him. Not a bad haul for a gaming convention where The DC Deck Building game and Hero Clix tourneys were the main comic book attractions for most attendees  -M |
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Post by The MRP! on Jun 7, 2015 13:37:00 GMT -5
Got a chance to take some pics of the Origins haul....  The Timothy Zahn signed Star Lord #1....  The first batch of trades...  The Hellboy trades... more to come.... -M |
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Post by The MRP! on Jun 7, 2015 13:39:59 GMT -5
Superman, Batman and other heroes of legend...  Hawkman variety pack...  some later Warlord issues...  more sword and sorcery stuff...  and a miscellaneous batch of books, prestige format, Amazing Heroes-a mag about comics, and an Atlas horror hero title  -M |
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Post by hitmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 4:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by hawksmoor on Jun 21, 2015 8:39:02 GMT -5
So, we've had a lot of the new #1s come out from DC this month. What do people think?
Dr. Fate - Not sure about this, I realise that with the success of Batgirl/Hawkeye, DC are going to hit out at trying to replicate that. Not a bad thing by any stretch, and I look forward to seeing more, but, I'm not sure of this at the moment. Slow burn if there ever was one.
Martian Manhunter - Interesting idea, and Manhunter's personality is *closer* to the original, but still not sitting right.
Omega Men - This was a fun mystery. I am looking forward to seeing more from this.
Earth 2: Society - After the horrid, horrid example of Weekly Comics that was World's End, I'm interested to see how they manage to completely destroy the Earth-2 characters again. For the most part it isn't that bad, and I do really enjoy the work of Jorge Jimenez.
Midnighter - Yes. This is what I am talking about. Finally a character comic based on a Wildstorm property that doesn't feel watered down. This is the Midnighter we deserve, and although we have no Apollo Midnighter based romance, that is OK. This is a new world after all. We can do what we want with it. Right?
What do you guys think?
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