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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2018 22:46:12 GMT -5
What were those themes, would you say (in Aaron's Thor, that is)? I think themes might have been the wrong word. Both God Country and Aaron's Thor feature a mortal who is suffering from a fatal and debilitating disease. Both are chosen by a divine weapon that gives them power and temporarily negates the effects of the disease on their mortal body, but the weapon can not cure them and brings with it its own dangers. Both deal with gods who take umbrage with the divine weapon chosing a mortal over a god. What do do you think that scenario means to him, since he keeps going back to it? I'm just curious because so many people seem to rate his Thor run so highly. |
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 22, 2018 3:30:32 GMT -5
Earlier tonight I read these alot to catch up on
Spectacular Spider Man 297 to 299
Eternal Empire # 5
Venom # 156-161
Uncanny X Men # 199
Power Pack # 15
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 22, 2018 9:33:27 GMT -5
I think themes might have been the wrong word. Both God Country and Aaron's Thor feature a mortal who is suffering from a fatal and debilitating disease. Both are chosen by a divine weapon that gives them power and temporarily negates the effects of the disease on their mortal body, but the weapon can not cure them and brings with it its own dangers. Both deal with gods who take umbrage with the divine weapon choosing a mortal over a god. What do do you think that scenario means to him, since he keeps going back to it? I'm just curious because so many people seem to rate his Thor run so highly. God Country is not by Aaron, I just mentioned Aaron's Thor because the similarities between both stories. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2018 10:31:59 GMT -5
Rock Candy Mountain: Two hobo's search for the legendary Rock Candy Mountain. Cartoonish art, but the story was not doing a lot for me. Shirtless Bear Fighter: This on the other hand, might be the worst comic I ever read. Don't know why I hated it so much, but bad comedy is worse to me than bad drama or superhero fiction and the whole comic feels like the creative team had 1 joke (and not a good joke at that). Artwork is not bad, but it does nothing to save this trainwreck of a title. I'm coming to the conclusion that our tastes are diametrically opposed. I liked Rock Candy Mountain a fair amount. It didn't quite go where I'd have taken the story, but it wasn't my story to tell. But I liked it and the art a lot. And it was nice to have something different...we haven't seen that setting in comics in eons. I loved Shirtless Bear Fighter. I found it hilarious and the art was great. The entire concept was like great bizarro lit brought to comic books. On the other hand you highly recommended God Country which I found to be just kind of meh. I didn't find the characters engaging enough for a story that I've read before in many forms. I may have to dub thee the Anti-Slam. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 23, 2018 4:23:59 GMT -5
But I am already the Anti-Cheeks.
More seriously, maybe if I reread Rock Candy Mountains I find it more interesting this time. It was also only the first issue, maybe if read in trade it would appeal more. Shirtless Bear Fighter will remain terrible though.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 23, 2018 19:35:50 GMT -5
Shirtless Bear Fighter is a classic for the ages! Royal City was boring and needed more explosions! Pop Gun War is brilliant and has some of my favorite comic covers ever! The wildly unlikeable protagonist of Snotgirl made the book nigh-unreadable! Also I Kill Giants is bad... for... some... reason and not because I really, really liked it but refuse to agree with Dizzy on anything!
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 24, 2018 12:53:10 GMT -5
Shirtless Bear Fighter is a classic for the ages! Royal City was boring and needed more explosions! Pop Gun War is brilliant and has some of my favorite comic covers ever! The wildly unlikeable protagonist of Snotgirl made the book nigh-unreadable! Also I Kill Giants is bad... for... some... reason and not because I really, really liked it but refuse to agree with Dizzy on anything! Ha, I said that Pop Gun War had brilliant art and you liked the covers, so I can't be the Anti-Cheeks anymore. I'll be now Bizarro_Bradley. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 22:10:36 GMT -5
Hope #1 by Dirk Manning and K. Lynn Smith...  This is the new super-hero comic from Dirk Manning (Nightmare World, Tales of Mr. Rhee) and K. Lynn Smith (Plume). It's self published, so far. I picked it up at Gem City today, and just finished reading it. Simply, I love this book. Smith's art is clean and stylistic, but her layouts and page designs are excellent and propel the narrative along, her style is reminiscent of say Mike Oeming in Powers, but distinctly her own. Dirk has a unique voice and always finds a human perspective to tell his stories from and it works here amazingly well. I don't want to spoil too much, by the story revolves around a superheroine (called ultras here) who is a wife and a mother, but has kept her identity a secret so far and what happens when a crisis (no not the DC kind) outs her identity to the world and the repercussions of her dual life take an unexpected turn (one that is often overlooked in all the what if super-powered heroes existed in the real world projects out there). It's a first issue, there's a lot of set up (which given both Dirk and K. Lynn's track record will all pay off at some point in the story) but the characters and story grab you and leave you wanting more. Not sure when issue #2 will hit (this just debuted last month and like many self-published books there is not a set schedule), but I'll be there when #2 hits. If you run across Dirk or K. Lynne at any shows this year, I highly recommend checking it out, and I know both would work out some kind of mail order if you are not a show attending sort or won't see them at any shows. I know Dirk is doing C2E2 in a couple of weeks and his full con schedule is up on his website. -M PS here's the Bleeding Cool article previewing Hope (and outlining some other stuff Dirk has in the works for 2018). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2018 19:36:47 GMT -5
Just read The Trouble with Love by Victor Dandridge and Harold Edge form Vantage Inhouse Productions, produced in 2012. I picked up the scriptbook edition form Vic at Gem City this weekend (i.e. it has Vic's full script as well as the artist's character design sketches int he back matter).  The quick premise tag-Apex Prime (a Superman analogue), one of the greatest heroes on Earth, had a wife and a family, but then he fell in love...with someone else. Now he must explain how truly human his to the one person who should know it best-his own son who is angry and feels abandoned. This is a very real feeling and powerful story of love and its consequences and unpredictability, and about the hard choices made when one finds oneself in an impossible situation. It's gotten some well deserved buzz (a 2013 SPACE finalist, a rave review from Brian Cronin in Comics Should Be Good (at our old home) and oher psotive reviews. The art is crip and the narrative flows, and it tells a very human story despite its main character being from the cape set. here's a sample of Edge's artwork (colored by Ryan Carter)  You can check out Vantage Inhouse Productions here-M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 0:32:55 GMT -5
Haunted High-Ons #1 by Twizted, Dirk Manning, Marianna Pentacosta & Alessandro de Fornasari  A light-hearted horror story featuring the boys from the band Twizted as goofball pretend ghost hunters who take ona client who has a real haunted house and it turns out the boys can actually see real ghosts. Adventure and hijinks ensure, making for a fun read. This is a one-shot but its success and postive reception has lead to a follow up mini-series being in the works. I really dig Marianna's art, which I had only encountered once before, but her story telling and style are unique and effective, and fit this story so well. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 15:25:55 GMT -5
I read Dark-Knights:Metal #6. Now, picking up only the last issue of some major complex series isn't likely to be the best move, and it wasn't. But even with that caveat, I thought it was just about incomprehensible with really muddy and hard to read artwork
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 30, 2018 8:34:28 GMT -5
Shadowman #1
Can probably be best surmised by the following
So damn good to finally see a return to Justin Jordan's 2012 vision of the character before Peter Milligan led him astray. Ever since Jack disappeared those five years ago, New Orleans is in ruins and Alysia has taken up being a proper Mambo unlike a certain english Mohawk sporting punker who was more or less just a flat out "swamp witch".
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Post by berkley on Mar 30, 2018 21:39:39 GMT -5
What do do you think that scenario means to him, since he keeps going back to it? I'm just curious because so many people seem to rate his Thor run so highly. God Country is not by Aaron, I just mentioned Aaron's Thor because the similarities between both stories. My fault, misread your original comment. I suppose the question then becomes, what is it about this scenario that attracted both Aarons and the other writer, since they each based a series or miniseries on it. Presumably readers like it too, since the Aaron thor was well-received, from what I understand. |
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 31, 2018 14:21:36 GMT -5
Red are titles I'm dropping, black are new additions that didn't convince me: - Astonishing X-Men #8
- Ben Reilly - Scarlet Spider #14
- Black Panther - Long Live The King #5
- Black Panther #170
- Cable #154
- Captain America #698
- Daredevil #598 & 599
- Deadpool vs. Old Man Logan #5
- Defenders #10
- Doctor Strange #385 & 386
- Incredible Hulk #713
- Invincible Iron Man #597
- Iron Fist #77
- Jessica Jones #17
- Legion #1
- Luke Cage #170
- Mighty Thor #704
- Old Man Logan #35
- Punisher #221
- Punisher - The Platoon #6
- Spider-Man #237
- Tales of Suspense #102
- Thanos #16
- X-Men - Red #1
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Post by The Captain on Apr 5, 2018 15:29:22 GMT -5
I read the first six issues of I Hate Fairyland, as I picked up the TPB for $3 last weekend. It's a kids' cartoon on crack, and it's awesome.
Also read the only six issues of World of Wakanda, the TPB of which I borrowed from my local library. I was not the target audience for that book, and I didn't enjoy a single page of it in the least.
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