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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 27, 2015 22:14:09 GMT -5
And people actually LOVE this stuff. It's, like, continuing to encourage Marvel and DC to be stupid. "Go ahead, keep on being stupid. WE LOVE IT." I don't know, with the successes of Gotham at Midnight and Gotham Academy DC seems to have realized that there is a market for books that are well written and embrace a wide spectrum of tones and are rolling out some really interesting and diverse titles this summer. Who knows if they'll all be good but its an interesting move. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 27, 2015 22:37:03 GMT -5
I think I'd like the Gotham books better if they weren't 'Gotham' something... neither really has anything to do with Batman, and I don't want to see them get sucked into any crossovers. Still, both are pretty decent, and it IS nice to see diversity.
I also got my Feb. box! My 'must read right aways'
Fables 149: I continue to like the backups better than the Snow Vs. Red thing... apparently Bigby is Guinevere in this story... it's still not clear who's Arthur and who's Mordred, and it seems there ALOT of things to do in the last issue... I'm concerned.
Wolves Among Us 2: Not bad.. I could get behind a 'legends of Bigby Wolf'.. nice to see Bufkin, and man, talk about a humdinger of a fairy tale!
Star Wars 2, Darth Vader 1-2: So far, I like the art and the writing, but I'm not sure about striding so very close to the movies. This time is worked, but I can see it going badly in the future. Strangely, they did a great job of make Tagge a compelling character.. who would have thought?
Astro City 20: This has been the best story since the Winged Victory arc.. my only concern is why did Quarrel and Cracker Jack get old, but no one else did?
Ms. Marvel 11-12: If you're not reading this book, what's wrong with you? Nice ending to the first major arc, then we get a one shot story (yes, a one shot story!), with a fun Loki appearance.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 27, 2015 23:03:25 GMT -5
I think I'd like the Gotham books better if they weren't 'Gotham' something... neither really has anything to do with Batman, and I don't want to see them get sucked into any crossovers. Still, both are pretty decent, and it IS nice to see diversity. I also got my Feb. box! My 'must read right aways' Fables 149: I continue to like the backups better than the Snow Vs. Red thing... apparently Bigby is Guinevere in this story... it's still not clear who's Arthur and who's Mordred, and it seems there ALOT of things to do in the last issue... I'm concerned. Wolves Among Us 2: Not bad.. I could get behind a 'legends of Bigby Wolf'.. nice to see Bufkin, and man, talk about a humdinger of a fairy tale! Star Wars 2, Darth Vader 1-2: So far, I like the art and the writing, but I'm not sure about striding so very close to the movies. This time is worked, but I can see it going badly in the future. Strangely, they did a great job of make Tagge a compelling character.. who would have thought? Astro City 20: This has been the best story since the Winged Victory arc.. my only concern is why did Quarrel and Cracker Jack get old, but no one else did? Ms. Marvel 11-12: If you're not reading this book, what's wrong with you? Nice ending to the first major arc, then we get a one shot story (yes, a one shot story!), with a fun Loki appearance. Gotham's just a cool setting, and I don't see either book becoming tied into the main bat books though Batman did briefly appear in the last issue of Gotham Academy and he was in Gotham at Midnight in I think the first or second issue. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 23:04:30 GMT -5
I still used to buy the odd issue of Heavy Metal up to a few years ago, but they started wrapping them in plastic so you can't have a look at the contents any more without asking someone at the counter to open it for you. I never feel like going through the trouble of doing that, so those casual purchases where I'd take a chance on an issue because the art looks good or whatever don't happen now. I might buy HM#272 now that I see there's a lengthy Bilal story inside; then again, I might look for the BD or wait until the thing's collected. The installment by Bilal is only 10 pages, just as an fyi, but is part of a longer serialized narrative. -M |
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Post by berkley on Feb 28, 2015 1:24:15 GMT -5
I still used to buy the odd issue of Heavy Metal up to a few years ago, but they started wrapping them in plastic so you can't have a look at the contents any more without asking someone at the counter to open it for you. I never feel like going through the trouble of doing that, so those casual purchases where I'd take a chance on an issue because the art looks good or whatever don't happen now. I might buy HM#272 now that I see there's a lengthy Bilal story inside; then again, I might look for the BD or wait until the thing's collected. The installment by Bilal is only 10 pages, just as an fyi, but is part of a longer serialized narrative. -M If I could skim the contents casually I might buy the issue anyway if there were a few other things I liked the look of, but as it is I'll probably wait until the Bilal story is finished and collected. What's it called? I'll keep an eye out for it. |
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Post by the4thpip on Feb 28, 2015 2:47:31 GMT -5
And people actually LOVE this stuff. It's, like, continuing to encourage Marvel and DC to be stupid. "Go ahead, keep on being stupid. WE LOVE IT." Hickman pretty much lost me with the most recent issue of New Avengers:  I guess I could figure out what was going on there, if I went back to reading every book Hickman wrote for Marvel, ever. And took notes. And drew up some charts. Jonathan Hickman is turning into the Edgar Rice Burroughs of our times: Getting lost in his own universe of ideas, throwing a multitude of races, creatures and concepts at us while lacking the stylistic clarity to keep the average reader from getting lost. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 3:26:07 GMT -5
The installment by Bilal is only 10 pages, just as an fyi, but is part of a longer serialized narrative. -M If I could skim the contents casually I might buy the issue anyway if there were a few other things I liked the look of, but as it is I'll probably wait until the Bilal story is finished and collected. What's it called? I'll keep an eye out for it. The Bilal piece is called Julia and Roem. They do offer previews of issues plus some free content at the Heavy Metal websiteSpecifically here's a preview of the next issue #273 that gives a glimpse at the next Bilal installment plus the other stories in the issue. here's a page from the Bilal story (actually this one is from the chapter in 272)....  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 8:10:34 GMT -5
And people actually LOVE this stuff. It's, like, continuing to encourage Marvel and DC to be stupid. "Go ahead, keep on being stupid. WE LOVE IT." Hickman pretty much lost me with the most recent issue of New Avengers: I guess I could figure out what was going on there, if I went back to reading every book Hickman wrote for Marvel, ever. And took notes. And drew up some charts. Jonathan Hickman is turning into the Edgar Rice Burroughs of our times: Getting lost in his own universe of ideas, throwing a multitude of races, creatures and concepts at us while lacking the stylistic clarity to keep the average reader from getting lost. Yes! I always end up feeling completely STUPID after attempting to read a Hickman written issue. I can NEVER follow wtf he is writing about. Same with Remender. I just stopped bothering. And even if I understood what was going on, it is still sooooo dark and dooming that it does absolutely nothing for my happiness. If I want to have to really THINK when I read something, there are a ton of books I can pick up that are not comics. I read comics because it is what I like to do on what downtime I have from, you know, living life (which can be complicated in and of itself). Why would I want to read something dark and dooming that requires that much thinking? |
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Post by the4thpip on Feb 28, 2015 8:33:38 GMT -5
Hickman pretty much lost me with the most recent issue of New Avengers: I guess I could figure out what was going on there, if I went back to reading every book Hickman wrote for Marvel, ever. And took notes. And drew up some charts. Jonathan Hickman is turning into the Edgar Rice Burroughs of our times: Getting lost in his own universe of ideas, throwing a multitude of races, creatures and concepts at us while lacking the stylistic clarity to keep the average reader from getting lost. Yes! I always end up feeling completely STUPID after attempting to read a Hickman written issue. I can NEVER follow wtf he is writing about. Same with Remender. I just stopped bothering. And even if I understood what was going on, it is still sooooo dark and dooming that it does absolutely nothing for my happiness. If I want to have to really THINK when I read something, there are a ton of books I can pick up that are not comics. I read comics because it is what I like to do on what downtime I have from, you know, living life (which can be complicated in and of itself). Why would I want to read something dark and dooming that requires that much thinking? I like books that make me think - but not by taking the shortcut via too many concepts thrown at me. "A Contract with God" made me think. Or "Stuck Rubber Baby." Or Love and Rockets. I could go on and on. None of those books needed 11 different alien races to make me think. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 8:40:00 GMT -5
Hahahahaha. That is SO TRUE. I just realized how simple my last reply made me sound. Obviously I think when I read, but if I want to really get the brain gears going, I do not want to pick up a comic to do so. I have bookcases after bookcases stacked FULL of books that can make me think. My picture books don't need to do that for me.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 28, 2015 8:43:38 GMT -5
Hickman lost me like 3 years ago... the whole Incursion thing is just utter nonsense. So, first we have Ex Nilho as a bad guy, and he easily mopped the floor with the whole Avengers team... now he's a race? Why even bother with the team, then? Wait, he doesn't, that's right.
I REALLY hate Hickman, I can't way until he crawls back into his Image hole so his fans can gaze at their navels together and we can have a real Avengers book again.
Remember I like.. though you definitely have to start at the beginning to get it... he's not a guy you can pick up a random issue of and have it make much sense. He gets carried away with his own ideas, too, though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 8:52:28 GMT -5
Hickman lost me like 3 years ago... the whole Incursion thing is just utter nonsense. So, first we have Ex Nilho as a bad guy, and he easily mopped the floor with the whole Avengers team... now he's a race? Why even bother with the team, then? Wait, he doesn't, that's right. I REALLY hate Hickman, I can't way until he crawls back into his Image hole so his fans can gaze at their navels together and we can have a real Avengers book again. Remember I like.. though you definitely have to start at the beginning to get it... he's not a guy you can pick up a random issue of and have it make much sense. He gets carried away with his own ideas, too, though. You and I should start an Anti-Hickman Appreciation thread. hahaha. I'm just kidding. He's infected the entire side of the Avengers books. All the team-like books, that is. The one I posted a link to isn't written by him, but from that preview, it might as well have been. It's like, we all know there is the gloom of "Okay, guys! Readers, this is FINAL! This is gonna actually be IT. It's ALL GOING TO BE DONE. There won't even be dust left by the time we're finished!", but it's taken FOREVER. And I don't like it. And I do not like how they have ruined just about every character. Everyone is making some ultimate sacrifice. And it's all in shadow. And it's all in Hell. We get it already. Just stop torturing us, end it, and maybe Marvel will eventually understand that a good chunk of their audience does not want these kinds of team books. If they want to continue on with these kinds of books, fine. But give those of us who do not like them our own team books that aren't so torturous. |
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Post by the4thpip on Feb 28, 2015 10:45:27 GMT -5
Thing is, though, unlike other writers that shall not be named, Hickman manages the occasional enjoyable issue. That small-scale story with Thor and Hyperion gay-parenting a bunch of Zebra-striped kids in the Savage Land was very touching. And funny. And relatable. So almost the opposite of the majority of his Avengers run.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 12:18:29 GMT -5
First issue of Orphan Black didn't instill much confidence. I feared it would just be a straight adaptation of the series, but it's even less than that. It's like an adaptation of a preview. I'd never heard of OB, so didn't realise it was a TV adaptation. I had a flick through based on the positive comments here and I wasn't impressed - couldn't really get past the art, which I thought was really poor, especially on character faces |
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Post by berkley on Feb 28, 2015 16:03:28 GMT -5
First issue of Orphan Black didn't instill much confidence. I feared it would just be a straight adaptation of the series, but it's even less than that. It's like an adaptation of a preview. I'd never heard of OB, so didn't realise it was a TV adaptation. I had a flick through based on the positive comments here and I wasn't impressed - couldn't really get past the art, which I thought was really poor, especially on character faces I find that happens sometimes with tv or movie adaptations, when the artist is concentrating too hard on getting the characters on the comic book page to look like the actors playing them on the screen. Orphan Black the tv show is well worth a look, though. I've only seen the first season, but I thought it was quite fun. |
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