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Post by comichunter on Feb 20, 2007 13:21:23 GMT -4
There are a group of use planning on reading the entire Sandman run in the coming weeks. I will probably be on to rant about what a genius Gaiman is.
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Post by Remi LeClair on Feb 20, 2007 13:52:30 GMT -4
I'm in the process of reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time. Until now, I have to say, it's pretty good!
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Post by sensei on Feb 20, 2007 16:28:47 GMT -4
I cant wait til March Break I'll head down to the shop clean out most of me file and then do sweet fuck all except relax and read comics all week
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Post by outsider on Feb 20, 2007 18:24:07 GMT -4
| Wanted (Top Cow) Writer: Mark Millar Pencils and Inks: J.G. Jones Colors: Paul Mounts
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Just read Wanted again. I dug this out last night after reading a bit about the Wanted movie they started filming. It's a 6 issue mini series, also available in TPB. It's about a loser named Wesley Gibson. He has a crummy job, a crummy girlfriend, crummy friends... his life just sucks, and he doesn't have the guts to do anything about it. What he doesn't know is that his real dad is a super-villain named The Killer... who has been recently assassinated. Wesley inherits everything... as long as he is willing to be trained to take his father's place as the new Killer. Those weren't really spoilers as all this happens at the beginning of issue #1! Although the book is published by Top Cow, most (if not all) the characters featured in the series appear to be based off of well known villains... mostly from DC. It also contains a lot of nods to comic book movies, and tv series... to tell you how would spoil a few great moments in the book. Also long time comic book readers should enjoy recognizing who the characters really represent, and other things like the significance of the year 1986. Jones' artwork fits the series perfectly also. He's able to draw Wesley's "normal life" and switch over to some of the more fantasy elements of the series without making you feel like you've suddenly switched over to a different comic book. It should also be noted that this is a MATURE READERS book. For anyone that has never read a mature book by Millar be warned... he is a completly different beast when writing under these conditions... you can read his run on Authority and his mini series The Unfunnies and The Chosen for further proof of this. No subject matter is too taboo for Millar. In fact this series contains one of the most disgusting death scenes I have ever seen in a comic book... and it's not because of the gore. The only downfall I thought was the ending. It didn't seem to live up to everything that came before it. I think that everything that happens in issue #1 to #5 greatly outweighs the mediocre ending of issue #6. If you like stories about really bad people, doing really bad things... while using really bad language... pick this up... or wait for the movie. ;D (I was actually only planing on writing a couple of lines lol)
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Post by Remi LeClair on Feb 20, 2007 20:14:20 GMT -4
I really enjoyed this series, and while what you say about "nothing being taboo" is true, it's almost too true.
I found this book to occasionally be guilty of the same thing many Garth Ennis books are guilty of, shock for the sake of shock instead of shock for the sake of the story. For the most part, a very well told story, with great characters, and great dialogue, with only the odd foray into the "bad shock tactics" that can generally be overlooked.
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Post by outsider on Feb 20, 2007 21:06:36 GMT -4
I wonder how their going to handle this for the movie? I think it'll be toned down quite a bit... but I expect them to change the main character as well. Hollywood would probably be kinda nervous in putting money into a movie about someone with no morals at all. Marv from Sin City at least had some sort of code of conduct... well... kinda. lol
You're right about the shock for the sake of shock... kinda. My own twisted sense of humour actually finds this stuff funny. Don't tell my girlfriend... she might have second thoughts about moving in with me now LOL.
Seriously though... I didn't want to make this sound like it was on the same level as The Watchmen (what is though?) or anything like that, but these kinds of books are very much my guilty pleasure from time to time.
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Post by Remi LeClair on Feb 20, 2007 21:27:20 GMT -4
Speaking of Garth Ennis and shock for the sake of shock... Wildstorm put out two books with similar concepts, but one worked ( and wasnt read much) and the other didn't really (and was dropped).
The Boys and Stormwatch PHD both deal with "normal" humans going after super powered people... but the boys decided to take the shock route, and make every single super powered being out there an egotistical sex pervert, drug addicted nutbag, good or bad.
Stormwatch pushes a few buttons, but nothing major, and while I think Garth Ennis has a knack for great dialogue, and interesting concepts, he tends to layer with so much crap shock that it takes away from the story... so for simply being a good story with good characters, with shock thrown in at times for the sake of pushing the story on (one of the characters has a knack for fighting weak points in any situation or person, which comes from the fact that his drug dealing father would have him fight other kids, and then animals, like some sort of twisted cock fighting).
So yeah, stormwatch phd, great book that hopefully a few more people will stray to.
Actually, another thing I like about it is the fact that they keep the history of stormwatch, and all the wildstorm/image characters in canon, and look back at the early 90s stories not with shame, or even trying to make fun of them in any way, but simply seemingly blaming it on the impetuousness of youth!
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Post by outsider on Feb 20, 2007 21:32:56 GMT -4
Those are actually two books that I've been reading about... and was thinking about picking up. I read that The Boys is actually being dropped more because of content then sales... and that it's actually going continue at another publisher... Dynamite maybe? I'd have to check. Edit: Found it... it is going to Dynamite Entertainment... read it here.
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Post by Remi LeClair on Feb 20, 2007 22:16:14 GMT -4
yeah, dynamite picked it up... I guess Wildstorm let it go, rights and all, without much fuss. It was acutally the best selling book on their roster (maybe second... i know midnighter was doing very well).
But yeah... it was just completely retarded.
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Post by comichunter on Feb 21, 2007 23:17:41 GMT -4
I just got caught up with Daredevil. Holy crap, what a good read! Issues 87 - 93 are incredible. Brubaker has managed to write Daredevil out of the proverbial no-win scenario.
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Post by outsider on Feb 22, 2007 8:34:46 GMT -4
Daredevil is one of those rare books that you can count on being good every month.
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Post by comichunter on Feb 23, 2007 18:34:57 GMT -4
52 is a great read too, I look forward to each issue. The one where Elongated man confronts the helmet of "Fate" was terrific. I thought there was something fishy about the way he was just going along with all that nonsense.
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Post by sensei on Mar 2, 2007 8:47:50 GMT -4
Read War Crimes#1 last night I have to say it wasnt bad I liked the narrative of it and it subtly showed a grittier side of Cap The only thing I hope is that we get to have darker themes in later issues
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Post by comichunter on Mar 3, 2007 11:45:19 GMT -4
The Winter Soldier one shot for Cap was great. Cap's whole mythos is becoming cool and considering how lame he used to be, that is a real achievement.
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Post by Remi LeClair on Mar 9, 2007 12:20:26 GMT -4
I read the 7 pt. Eternals mini, which was pretty great!! I just hope whoever follows the story stays true enough to Gaiman's direction.
In a perfect world, he's do his own "sequel".
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