Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 29, 2015 7:49:23 GMT -5
I was a big Psylocke fan before they turned her into a ninja. I even liked the purple chainmail. The ninja version is nonsense to me.
I think X-Men went drastically downhill after Mutant Massacre and the subsequent departure of half the team to Excalibur. A bunch of cool characters were replaced by chumps, but Excalibur wasn't very interesting to me either, so it was lose-lose.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 29, 2015 8:44:51 GMT -5
At least I got Excalibur out of it (though it only got really good when Alan Davis got to do everything on it by himself.. and the Warren Ellis run later on).
Ninja Psylocke was interesting during Joe Kelly's run and I liked her in Remender's X-Force (though the Otherworld arc was very weak there). I'm reading Wood's X-Men and Psylocke does not get a lot of play there, but Rachel does and I don't think I've liked Rachel ever before (apart from some single issues here and there), so it does have that going for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 9:41:45 GMT -5
Betsy is currently on the all-female cast X-Men, and shares the team with 2 other telepaths (Rachel and Monet), so she does not get a lot of moments. I think she's also in the X-Force book, but the art is so horrible I can't bear to read it |
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 29, 2015 10:18:34 GMT -5
At least I got Excalibur out of it (though it only got really good when Alan Davis got to do everything on it by himself.. and the Warren Ellis run later on). Ninja Psylocke was interesting during Joe Kelly's run and I liked her in Remender's X-Force (though the Otherworld arc was very weak there). I'm reading Wood's X-Men and Psylocke does not get a lot of play there, but Rachel does and I don't think I've liked Rachel ever before (apart from some single issues here and there), so it does have that going for it. Wood's X-Men was full of "it happens because Wood needs it to happen, stop asking if it makes sense" moments, especially towards the end. That run is the reason why I still have not read my boyfriend's copies of Wood's Moon Knight. I just don't trust the man anymore. |
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 29, 2015 10:18:46 GMT -5
Wood, that is. Not my boyfriend.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 29, 2015 11:10:53 GMT -5
I like Wood's Moon Knight, just not as much as Warren Ellis run. Ellis had some great done-in-one's, which I'm really missing in today's comics.
I like the idea behind his X-Men series, though the execution has been lacking. Reading in trade, so it may have gotten better/worse.. (just checked. Oh, it's already done... that was short?). The artwork was a big draw for me on that series though. I like Jubilee as a single mother though.
I have dropped the Massive as its execution never seemed to live up to its premise.
So all-in-all I'm 50/50 on Wood as a writer.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 29, 2015 11:29:00 GMT -5
Probably the only time I liked Psylocke was in the Uncanny XForce run, and though I want to like X-Men by Wood I cant get past the awful Tolibao art, and the ugly Storm. I really wanted to like the X-Fem but other than loving Monet and also Jubilee as a mommy, its left me cold.
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Post by berkley on Jan 29, 2015 11:49:49 GMT -5
I like Wood's Moon Knight, just not as much as Warren Ellis run. Ellis had some great done-in-one's, which I'm really missing in today's comics. I like the idea behind his X-Men series, though the execution has been lacking. Reading in trade, so it may have gotten better/worse.. (just checked. Oh, it's already done... that was short?). The artwork was a big draw for me on that series though. I like Jubilee as a single mother though. I have dropped the Massive as its execution never seemed to live up to its premise. So all-in-all I'm 50/50 on Wood as a writer. I read the Ellis Moon Knight just the other night and found it excellent for the most part. Reading it as a trade collection, that is. I think I would have been a bit disappointed with some of the issues if I had read them as individual issues when they came out because they suffer from the finished-in-5-minutes syndrome that so many modern comics fall prey to. The artwork was very good, apart from a few odd things - the colouring on MK's glider costume, for example. But Ellis wrote Moon Knight much as I see the character myself, so that was fun. Except for the Khonsu stuff, which I've never really thought worked that well in any of the different takes I've seen, right from when it was first introduced by Moench. I wonder if Ellis is satisfied with his version or if he'd like another crack at it some day. Not sure if I want to chance the following run or not. Haven't read anything by Brian Wood before. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 12:20:37 GMT -5
The only things by Brian Wood that I would highly recommend are Couscous Express (an early indy work by him), Northlanders from Vertigo and his recently completed run on Star Wars from Dark Horse. I despised his take on Conan in the 25 issue run of Conan the Barbarian trying to adapt and fill in the gaps of Queen of the Black Coast and found most of his mainstream Marvel stuff meh at best. Demo and DMZ )both form Vertigo) look interesting but I haven't read either. Wood is another writer who I find does better indy/creator-owned stuff than mainstream stuff.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 29, 2015 12:51:28 GMT -5
The only things by Brian Wood that I would highly recommend are Couscous Express (an early indy work by him), Northlanders from Vertigo and his recently completed run on Star Wars from Dark Horse. I despised his take on Conan in the 25 issue run of Conan the Barbarian trying to adapt and fill in the gaps of Queen of the Black Coast and found most of his mainstream Marvel stuff meh at best. Demo and DMZ )both form Vertigo) look interesting but I haven't read either. Wood is another writer who I find does better indy/creator-owned stuff than mainstream stuff. -M I haven't read a lot of his work, but he's hit and miss for me. I loved Northlanders. However, DMZ didn't work for me in any way. I simply could not buy into the concept. He simply didn't sell me that this could realistically happen. I read the first trade of The Massive...and it was...okay...but not anywhere near good enough to go out of my way to read more. I almost wonder at this point if I loved Northlanders so much because there wasn't anything else like it being published. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 29, 2015 20:49:14 GMT -5
I picked up the King/Dynamite Phantom and Flash Gordon issues today and to mixed results. Both issues start out with a recap page that describes a war with Ming a hundred years in the past that resulted in Earth having reverted to older technology, I have no idea if this is a reference to something Dynamite did or not, but in regards to the Phantom it was easy enough to take in stride; this is the future and this is a new Phantom and the story progresses just fine from there. The art was great and it's interesting to see a new Phantom. On the other hand the recap didn't help too much with Flash Gordon, so there was a war with Ming a hundred years in the past but yet we still see Flash, Dale and Zarkov in the comic, are these the same people we know, or decedents? Have they been zapped to the future? It raised a lot of questions and offered no answers, and although the art was decent I didn't enjoy the juvenile interpretation of Flash at all so I don't think I'll be picking this up anymore.
The new Phantom was great though, and I totally suggest picking it up.
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Post by Action Ace on Jan 29, 2015 22:08:08 GMT -5
I picked up the King/Dynamite Phantom and Flash Gordon issues today and to mixed results. Both issues start out with a recap page that describes a war with Ming a hundred years in the past that resulted in Earth having reverted to older technology, I have no idea if this is a reference to something Dynamite did or not, but in regards to the Phantom it was easy enough to take in stride; this is the future and this is a new Phantom and the story progresses just fine from there. The art was great and it's interesting to see a new Phantom. On the other hand the recap didn't help too much with Flash Gordon, so there was a war with Ming a hundred years in the past but yet we still see Flash, Dale and Zarkov in the comic, are these the same people we know, or decedents? Have they been zapped to the future? It raised a lot of questions and offered no answers, and although the art was decent I didn't enjoy the juvenile interpretation of Flash at all so I don't think I'll be picking this up anymore. The new Phantom was great though, and I totally suggest picking it up. The technological changes to Earth was a result of the King's Watch mini series from last year. That was written by Jeff Parker before he did the 8 issue Flash Gordon series, which very good. The interpretation of Flash in the Jeff Parker series was also a bit juvenile, but that got completely balanced out by the excellent issue #8 this week. In lesser hands, you get what was in King: Flash Gordon #1. Lee Ferguson's art was ok, but it's a big step down from what Evan "Doc" Shaner had been delivering. I'm also going to recommend the new Phantom mini series. Brain Clevenger and Brent Schoonover both delivered solid jobs. The interaction between Lothar and his assistant Guran was great. I'm not in too much of a hurry to see him locate Phantom #23. Each of the five mini series is four issues long and I'll be getting them all. Jungle Jim was the one I was most iffy about and that one comes out next week. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 29, 2015 22:28:04 GMT -5
I picked up the King/Dynamite Phantom and Flash Gordon issues today and to mixed results. Both issues start out with a recap page that describes a war with Ming a hundred years in the past that resulted in Earth having reverted to older technology, I have no idea if this is a reference to something Dynamite did or not, but in regards to the Phantom it was easy enough to take in stride; this is the future and this is a new Phantom and the story progresses just fine from there. The art was great and it's interesting to see a new Phantom. On the other hand the recap didn't help too much with Flash Gordon, so there was a war with Ming a hundred years in the past but yet we still see Flash, Dale and Zarkov in the comic, are these the same people we know, or decedents? Have they been zapped to the future? It raised a lot of questions and offered no answers, and although the art was decent I didn't enjoy the juvenile interpretation of Flash at all so I don't think I'll be picking this up anymore. The new Phantom was great though, and I totally suggest picking it up. The technological changes to Earth was a result of the King's Watch mini series from last year. That was written by Jeff Parker before he did the 8 issue Flash Gordon series, which very good. The interpretation of Flash in the Jeff Parker series was also a bit juvenile, but that got completely balanced out by the excellent issue #8 this week. In lesser hands, you get what was in King: Flash Gordon #1. Lee Ferguson's art was ok, but it's a big step down from what Evan "Doc" Shaner had been delivering. I'm also going to recommend the new Phantom mini series. Brain Clevenger and Brent Schoonover both delivered solid jobs. The interaction between Lothar and his assistant Guran was great. I'm not in too much of a hurry to see him locate Phantom #23. Each of the five mini series is four issues long and I'll be getting them all. Jungle Jim was the one I was most iffy about and that one comes out next week. Yeah, I'm pretty content with Lothar as the Phantom as well so I hope he sticks with it. Not only is he an interesting character but I've always found that black guys look cooler in purple than white guys and an actual African as the Phantom just makes sense. About my only complaint was that the Mandrake cameo was tiny, after having it advertized on the cover I thought he would have had a larger role or even a back up but he was just in a blink and you miss it single panel cameo that would have meant nothing if you'd never heard of him before. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2015 5:28:06 GMT -5
I was a big Psylocke fan before they turned her into a ninja. I even liked the purple chainmail. The ninja version is nonsense to me. I think X-Men went drastically downhill after Mutant Massacre and the subsequent departure of half the team to Excalibur. A bunch of cool characters were replaced by chumps, but Excalibur wasn't very interesting to me either, so it was lose-lose. I like that era of X-Men. I know it isn't all that renown, but I like the sister titles too. I liked Excalibur and New Mutants and X-Factor at the time. Mohawk Storm and the huge cast of C list mutants like Banshee and Havoc. I didn't know who any of those characters on the cover were, which is what made me want to buy it. Of course I liked when the cover was nothing but Wolverine flexing as well though. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 30, 2015 12:39:09 GMT -5
I couldn't put DMZ down. Loved it.
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