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Post by berkley on Jul 18, 2018 22:31:56 GMT -5
Bought the first Redlands collection today - mainly because I like the artist, Vanesa del Rey, and have been wanting to try something of hers for a while now. I'm not familiar with the writer at all, Jordi Bellaire.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2018 23:21:16 GMT -5
Bought the first Redlands collection today - mainly because I like the artist, Vanesa del Rey, and have been wanting to try something of hers for a while now. I'm not familiar with the writer at all, Jordi Bellaire. Bellaire has made a name for herself in comics as one of the premiere colorists and has a collection of Eisners, Harveys, etc. to show for it, but this may be her first project as the writer. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jul 19, 2018 0:23:24 GMT -5
Bought the first Redlands collection today - mainly because I like the artist, Vanesa del Rey, and have been wanting to try something of hers for a while now. I'm not familiar with the writer at all, Jordi Bellaire. Bellaire has made a name for herself in comics as one of the premiere colorists and has a collection of Eisners, Harveys, etc. to show for it, but this may be her first project as the writer. -M Ah, I see. Interesting - have there been any other examples of colourists who turned to writing? The set-up sounds like something I might like - a small town with a coven of witches, some sort of supernatural thing - so I was happy to choose Redlands as my first book to try from this artist.
The only other thing I can find from del Rey is a crime series called Hit that also looks really good - again, can't speak to the writing, but at least I know it's a genre that I like. And from what I can see online I think she's done a few things for Marvel - a Black Widow and a Scarlet Witch, not sure if they were just single issues or a full run on a series.
Wait, scratch that, I just checked amazon and they do list a Scarlet Witch collection under her name but not a Black Widow. Also a series called Zero written by Ales Kot, whom I've heard of but haven't read, and one called The Empty Man, written by Cullen Bunn, another writer whose name I've seen around but haven't read.
So there's more Del Rey stuff out there than I thought, I'll have to see which ones appeal to me in terms of story premise or genre, since I can't judge by the writers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 0:46:28 GMT -5
Bellaire has made a name for herself in comics as one of the premiere colorists and has a collection of Eisners, Harveys, etc. to show for it, but this may be her first project as the writer. -M Ah, I see. Interesting - have there been any other examples of colourists who turned to writing? The set-up sounds like something I might like - a small town with a coven of witches, some sort of supernatural thing - so I was happy to choose Redlands as my first book to try from this artist.
The only other thing I can find from del Rey is a crime series called Hit that also looks really good - again, can't speak to the writing, but at least I know it's a genre that I like. And from what I can see online I think she's done a few things for Marvel - a Black Widow and a Scarlet Witch, not sure if they were just single issues or a full run on a series. Wait, scratch that, I just checked amazon and they do list a Scarlet Witch collection under her name but not a Black Widow. Also a series called Zero written by Ales Kot, whom I've heard of but haven't read, and one called The Empty Man, written by Cullen Bunn, another writer whose name I've seen around but haven't read.
So there's more Del Rey stuff out there than I thought, I'll have to see which ones appeal to me in terms of story premise or genre, since I can't judge by the writers.
There are two Hit minis/trades. I read the first one and liked it quite a bit. I read a couple issues of Zero by Kot (he had rotating artists on a lot of the issues) and it never clicked with me. He was hyped as the next new hot big idea guy a la Morrison or Hickman and I thought his stuff just fell flat and didn't impress or intrigue me at all, but there were plenty who did like his stuff, so to each their own. I really like Cullen Bunn's creator-owned stuff that I have read (The Sixth Gun is amazing, Hellheim is fantastic, Harrow County has been very good of what I have read-1st 2 volumes of the trade). A lot of his Marvel and DC stuff though left me underwhelmed and I was just meh on his Conan run (I felt I had seen a lot of the ideas before in Sixth Gun and Helheim so it fell kind of flat for me). Haven;t read Empty Man but I remember being intrigued by the solicits/pre-release hype, I just haven;t gotten around to checking it out yet. I just picked up Hit again in trade (it was $5 at a con) as the single issues are packed away somewhere, and I have the big oversized pen and ink art edition o fit too, as I really liked Del Rey's work on that...  so if I were to recommend just one, it would be that first Hit mini (called Hit 1955 in trade I believe as the second series was Hit 1957 iirc). -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 0:53:23 GMT -5
Hmm just found a trailer for Redlands that Image produced...
-M
and PS yes this is Bellaire's debut as a writer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 1:00:23 GMT -5
As for colorists who became writers, I am not sure which he did first, but there was Gregory Wright with Marvel who did colors, scripting and worked as an assistant editor. I think I should know at least a few more but the names are escaping me at the moment.
-M
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Post by berkley on Jul 19, 2018 1:03:31 GMT -5
yeah, I think I've seen the second Hit volume, the 1957 one, at one of the local comics shops but was holding out for that first one. Might have to order it online.
I just looked through my stack and see that I actually have the first volume of Kot's Zero, so I'll try that before deciding if I go on to the second. I'm pretty sceptical of the hype around some of these writers, having been shocked by how feeble and hollow I found Hickman's stuff after giving it a fair trial, in spite of the initially favourable impression I had of his work from online previews. But I'm keeping an open mind about Kot, since I know that a lot of readers feel the same way about Morrison as I do about Hickman, son all judgement shall be withheld until the actual reading!
The blurb I read about Bunn's Empty Man didn't really appeal to me - not a fan of plague stories in general, but of course it's all in the execution so that's not to say he hasn't made something worthwhile out of it.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 19, 2018 7:28:54 GMT -5
I too had heard good things about Kot and Zero.
YMMV, but it was a huge disappointment.
Huge
He also did Dead Drop for Valiant, which was one of the few Valiant things I haven’t cared for.
He’s poison to me. I won’t buy his stuff.
The term slap dash comes to mind.
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Post by cee on Jul 19, 2018 11:41:01 GMT -5
I like his recent series with Zezelj at Image well enough, it's quite good. Don't think I've read anything else from him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 18:23:40 GMT -5
Not a purchase, but as a belated birthday gift I just got the 2 volumes of the IDW Micronauts series...   I had been reading it as it came out before I had my surgery last year and due to being laid up and not having interest in the line-wide x-over IDW was doing (Revolution) I had lost track of the series and never picked up the rest. I read the first 4 issues (of 6) in the first trade this morning and had forgotten how much I had liked the series before all the x-over nonsense started. We'll see how the rest of the series holds up. -M |
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Post by cee on Jul 21, 2018 20:38:53 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Interesting - have there been any other examples of colourists who turned to writing? Brian Buccellato has witten many comics for DC (Detetctive, Flash, etc) and now also does stufff for Image. Lovern Kindzierski has written some comics and graphic novels. I believe Richard Isanove has also writen a few comics for Marvel, and so did Christina Strain. John Higgins who colored Watchmen also did some books. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 20:41:09 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Interesting - have there been any other examples of colourists who turned to writing? Brian Buccellato has witten many comics for DC (Detetctive, Flash, etc) and now also does stufff for Image. Lovern Kindzierski has written some comics and graphic novels. I believe Richard Isanove has also writen a few comics for Marvel, and so did Christina Strain. John Higgins who colored Watchmen also did some books. Brian Buccallato was the one I was trying to think of when I said there were more I should know. Been bugging me since I posted but I was coming up empty until i saw your post and was like, um duh, I just read an issue of Flash by him in the Wal*Mart 100 page giants. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 22, 2018 10:51:38 GMT -5
Not a purchase, but as a belated birthday gift I just got the 2 volumes of the IDW Micronauts series... I had been reading it as it came out before I had my surgery last year and due to being laid up and not having interest in the line-wide x-over IDW was doing (Revolution) I had lost track of the series and never picked up the rest. I read the first 4 issues (of 6) in the first trade this morning and had forgotten how much I had liked the series before all the x-over nonsense started. We'll see how the rest of the series holds up. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2018 12:35:19 GMT -5
Future Quest Presents Trade Paperback Series: Future Quest Presents Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: DC Comics (May 8, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1401278302 ISBN-13: 978-1401278304 Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.2 x 10.2 inches Got it though Amazon and got it for $11.00 plus tax and shipping.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 29, 2018 10:22:10 GMT -5
Still loving Hawkman and The Terrifics. Doomsday Clock will make more sense when I go back and re-read the whole thing once it's completed.
Interesting to see the differences between the Watchmen and DCU characters.
Looking forward to the Fantastic Four and Shazam.
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