Oh, there are some comics and things out there!
Ultimates 2 #13- I wasn't really sure it came out, but it did. I hope that delay was not as a result of their uber-folding panel shot. What was that like 12 pages long? It was decent shot, and the placement of Quicksilver in it was cool, but it wasn't anything to blow the doors off of really. Something seemed off in the perspective, and it was visually confusing I thought. Overall the book wasn't bad, some good Ultimates Thor action going on, and some interesting emotional character elements, but you really see the lack of focus and cohesion with the last few issues. The series had 9 solid issues which had me and most everyone who reads comics that I know getting all squirrelly for the next issue, but I don't think there was a solid ending in place, because we're right at the start of New Avengers now. Tony owns the team, yatta, yatta, yatta.
#1 rule to remember next Ultimates, wow them at the end. Bring it Loeb!
nullMighty Avengers #3 and New Avengers #30- I like the two books, it's got a good dichotomy which is really important I think. Usually you run multiple titles and its just a saturation ( X X X X X X X books), but the split is good here, and I like the unique make up of the teams. They feel a lot better, a far cry from Avengers West Coast, and the almost was Avengers Tex-Mex.
Still not sure how I feel about knowing what everyone is saying and thinking at all times in Mighty though. I'm not really feeling it BMB, and I think you better get on this. Maybe I missed something in issue 1 where they have some weird sprites or something running around stealing their thoughts or something and this is somehow going to develop into a crazy cool storyline involving some folk from a Martin Millar book, otherwise, lets get back to the basics of cartooning! Fuck, seriously guy, you are supposed to be the one of the best writers in comicdom in like years, and you can't just sit back and rely on the artist to draw a facial expression capable of expressing emotion, or revealing the interior? If Ares is looking at Black Widow, I know what he's thinking, because it's Black Widow, and that's what any guy is thinking. Enough, the story is good, just let me out of their fucking heads.
World War Hulk - #105, was really good, great even. I thought it was a spectacularly written book, but I just don't see WWH pulling me in. We just spent a year in full-on event mode, on both sides of the store, and I could use some good ol fashioned character writing here, not another shake up.
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser: This just looks awesome. I wanted to buy it, and didn't have the money, so I decided to wait, then the Daily Cross Hatch posted about it and I wanted to go back and get it even morer. So now I'm all kinds of backwards about how to go get it. Ok, enough ranting about comics, time to write some, so that one day at least 3 or 4 of you can rant about them too.
Here's to being a weenie comic book geek/writer/creator (secretly I'm 6'4" and I know lots of ways to bend things that you probably don't want me to bend).
Ultimates 2 #13- I wasn't really sure it came out, but it did. I hope that delay was not as a result of their uber-folding panel shot. What was that like 12 pages long? It was decent shot, and the placement of Quicksilver in it was cool, but it wasn't anything to blow the doors off of really. Something seemed off in the perspective, and it was visually confusing I thought. Overall the book wasn't bad, some good Ultimates Thor action going on, and some interesting emotional character elements, but you really see the lack of focus and cohesion with the last few issues. The series had 9 solid issues which had me and most everyone who reads comics that I know getting all squirrelly for the next issue, but I don't think there was a solid ending in place, because we're right at the start of New Avengers now. Tony owns the team, yatta, yatta, yatta.
#1 rule to remember next Ultimates, wow them at the end. Bring it Loeb!
nullMighty Avengers #3 and New Avengers #30- I like the two books, it's got a good dichotomy which is really important I think. Usually you run multiple titles and its just a saturation ( X X X X X X X books), but the split is good here, and I like the unique make up of the teams. They feel a lot better, a far cry from Avengers West Coast, and the almost was Avengers Tex-Mex.
Still not sure how I feel about knowing what everyone is saying and thinking at all times in Mighty though. I'm not really feeling it BMB, and I think you better get on this. Maybe I missed something in issue 1 where they have some weird sprites or something running around stealing their thoughts or something and this is somehow going to develop into a crazy cool storyline involving some folk from a Martin Millar book, otherwise, lets get back to the basics of cartooning! Fuck, seriously guy, you are supposed to be the one of the best writers in comicdom in like years, and you can't just sit back and rely on the artist to draw a facial expression capable of expressing emotion, or revealing the interior? If Ares is looking at Black Widow, I know what he's thinking, because it's Black Widow, and that's what any guy is thinking. Enough, the story is good, just let me out of their fucking heads.
World War Hulk - #105, was really good, great even. I thought it was a spectacularly written book, but I just don't see WWH pulling me in. We just spent a year in full-on event mode, on both sides of the store, and I could use some good ol fashioned character writing here, not another shake up.
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser: This just looks awesome. I wanted to buy it, and didn't have the money, so I decided to wait, then the Daily Cross Hatch posted about it and I wanted to go back and get it even morer. So now I'm all kinds of backwards about how to go get it. Ok, enough ranting about comics, time to write some, so that one day at least 3 or 4 of you can rant about them too.
Here's to being a weenie comic book geek/writer/creator (secretly I'm 6'4" and I know lots of ways to bend things that you probably don't want me to bend).
and as if you weren't tempted enough already: