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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 13, 2018 16:03:02 GMT -5
 The Lone Ranger Vol III #3. Written by Mark Russell. Art by Bob Q. It looks like the Lone Ranger and Tonto have slowed the evil ranchers' stealing of land. However the ranchers turn to the deadliest and most expensive bounty hunter... a cannibal named Connor. Dynamite's first 2 volumes of the Lone Ranger were 25 issues each. This one isn't selling very well so it will end with only 5 issues. For me I am not enjoying it as much as the first 2 volumes. The story just hasn't pulled me in like I had hoped especially with Russell writing it. But I still feel the biggest factor was the art style. Bob Q's art style is cartoony. And while it is good I think a western book needs a grittier style. 5/10.I liked this one a bit better than you did. But it is easily the weakest thing that I've read written by Russell. I do really like the way that he's fleshed out Tonto and used him. Bob Q's art doesn't bug me. But I interact with him on Twitter so that might color how I look at it. My understanding from Russell (again on Twitter) is that he only signed on for the one storyline. I have no idea what the book is doing sales-wise, but Dynamite seems to be doing a lot series' with a number of the properties rather than longer ones (James Bond, for example). |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 13, 2018 16:30:44 GMT -5
William Gibson's Alien 3 #2Story by William Gibson Adapted by Johnnie Christmas Summary: Political intrigue between the United Americas and the U.P.P. grows thicker as both assume the other is doing biological experiments.
Plot: Not a single alien is seen in this entry but that doesn't stop this second chapter of the un-produced script by William Gibson is far from lacking in tension. I really love the political angle here between these agents of two opposing governments seperated by millions of miles from their home nations; it's just a perfect stage for political theatre and with the mix of science fiction with the aliens being used in a covert arms race it's just amped up to eleven. I don't know where things will go from here, I've only read about a few elements from Gibson's script, but I'm really looking forward to the slow build that is being laid down here.
Art: About the only downfall of this book is that Christmas' art in terms of the characters is a little bland so that it can occasionally be difficult to tell the cast apart and as the cast grows that's going to be more and more of an issue.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 13, 2018 19:55:47 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Doug Mahnke Summary: Batman starts his night investigating the murder of a young couple that looks suspiciously like his parents, only to have to defend his second mother, Leslie Tompkins, from a lumbering beast.
Plot: Other than the Super Heavy story a few years back, that didn't actually feature Bruce as Batman, I really haven't enjoyed a mainline Batman book since Grant Morrison left that neck of the woods but with the coming of Peter Tomasi who I enjoyed on Batman and Robin and loved on Superman I thought it was safe to take a look. While I'm generally not a fan of replaying the death of the Wayne's, and Tomasi's villain seems intent on aping all of Bruce's greatest hits, which could be a bit of a bore I feel like Tomasi really nailed Bruce's interior monologues and the csi scene at the start with Jim Gordon makes me think we could get some honest to goodness detective stories so I'm hoping for good things.
Art: Doug Manhke is the guy I think of when someone says DC has a house look to their art as he just has the inoffensive, clean, muscly look that seems reflected in most of DC's merchandise. There's nothing flashy to his style, but it's easy to follow and it tels the story so it gets the job done.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 20:24:32 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Doug Mahnke Summary: Batman starts his night investigating the murder of a young couple that looks suspiciously like his parents, only to have to defend his second mother, Leslie Tompkins, from a lumbering beast.
Plot: Other than the Super Heavy story a few years back, that didn't actually feature Bruce as Batman, I really haven't enjoyed a mainline Batman book since Grant Morrison left that neck of the woods but with the coming of Peter Tomasi who I enjoyed on Batman and Robin and loved on Superman I thought it was safe to take a look. While I'm generally not a fan of replaying the death of the Wayne's, and Tomasi's villain seems intent on aping all of Bruce's greatest hits, which could be a bit of a bore I feel like Tomasi really nailed Bruce's interior monologues and the csi scene at the start with Jim Gordon makes me think we could get some honest to goodness detective stories so I'm hoping for good things.
Art: Doug Manhke is the guy I think of when someone says DC has a house look to their art as he just has the inoffensive, clean, muscly look that seems reflected in most of DC's merchandise. There's nothing flashy to his style, but it's easy to follow and it tels the story so it gets the job done.
Grade:7/10 I forgot to add this to my pull list. I like the creative team. Good to know it is a decent read. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 13, 2018 20:25:46 GMT -5
Avengers #11Written by Jason Aaron Art by Ed McGuinness Summary: In the wake of Namor's war on the surface the Black Panther convenes a United Nations of Superheroes at Avengers Mountain.
Plot: This issue is a bit of a mixed bag in my mind, there were some elements I absolutely loved like Ghost Rider and Captain Marvel talking about what it means to be an Avenger, Thor and Jenn's date in the Savage Land and I liked the group of heroes assembled to form a UN...but the bits with Coulson just left me bored. To start with, good guy turned bad by near death experience is too over used to be interesting, and then on top of that there weren't enough hints as to who the "spy" he was interrogating was which made his death and his eventual identity reveal in the next issue totally meaningless. To do that kind of scene right, you have to really care about the characters involved...and since we don't it fell flat on it's face and just seemed like a needlessly over the top way to say that the Squadron Supreme was edgy.
Art: As always, I love McGuinness' look. His big cartoony style just makes me smile, and coupled with dinosaurs? That's just plain awesome.
Grade:7/10 |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 13, 2018 20:28:21 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Doug Mahnke Summary: Batman starts his night investigating the murder of a young couple that looks suspiciously like his parents, only to have to defend his second mother, Leslie Tompkins, from a lumbering beast.
Plot: Other than the Super Heavy story a few years back, that didn't actually feature Bruce as Batman, I really haven't enjoyed a mainline Batman book since Grant Morrison left that neck of the woods but with the coming of Peter Tomasi who I enjoyed on Batman and Robin and loved on Superman I thought it was safe to take a look. While I'm generally not a fan of replaying the death of the Wayne's, and Tomasi's villain seems intent on aping all of Bruce's greatest hits, which could be a bit of a bore I feel like Tomasi really nailed Bruce's interior monologues and the csi scene at the start with Jim Gordon makes me think we could get some honest to goodness detective stories so I'm hoping for good things.
Art: Doug Manhke is the guy I think of when someone says DC has a house look to their art as he just has the inoffensive, clean, muscly look that seems reflected in most of DC's merchandise. There's nothing flashy to his style, but it's easy to follow and it tels the story so it gets the job done.
Grade:7/10 I forgot to add this to my pull list. I like the creative team. Good to know it is a decent read. Definitely worth picking up, like I said leaning on Bruce's origin as a method of crime is a bit clunky but the characterization is good and I'm hoping he continues to use Leslie Thompkins in the future. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 21:17:44 GMT -5
I liked this one a bit better than you did. But it is easily the weakest thing that I've read written by Russell. I do really like the way that he's fleshed out Tonto and used him. Bob Q's art doesn't bug me. But I interact with him on Twitter so that might color how I look at it. My understanding from Russell (again on Twitter) is that he only signed on for the one storyline. I have no idea what the book is doing sales-wise, but Dynamite seems to be doing a lot series' with a number of the properties rather than longer ones (James Bond, for example). You are right about Dynamite. Instead of focusing on a few properties and doing 12-25 issue volumes they seem to be focusing on shorter 5-6 issue volumes utilizing a greater number of properties. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 8:58:45 GMT -5
Superman #6: Not quite what I was expecting. For all the hype about Rogol Zar and how "Superman will NEVER be the same again", I came away from this issue kind of blah....except for the final page. I did like Superman's inner monologue for the first pages and how he kept going back and forth with what to do. Thanks to Atom and Adam Strange, Superman will never know. I was sincerely hoping to see Zod beat the stuffings out of Rogol Zar, however it seems Rogol will be left to languish until someone decides to use him again. At the conclusion of all this, still not sure what the new villain was, what his beef with Krypton is, etc. All of this may have been explained and I just found it forgettable. The art is absolutely gorgeous (other than Superboy's new look--I agree way to busy). I hope they keep Ivan Reis on Superman long term. Hope this is the end of all things Rogal Zar and on to a new good story!
story: 6/10
art: 10/10
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 14, 2018 12:04:28 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Doug Mahnke Summary: Batman starts his night investigating the murder of a young couple that looks suspiciously like his parents, only to have to defend his second mother, Leslie Tompkins, from a lumbering beast.
Plot: Other than the Super Heavy story a few years back, that didn't actually feature Bruce as Batman, I really haven't enjoyed a mainline Batman book since Grant Morrison left that neck of the woods but with the coming of Peter Tomasi who I enjoyed on Batman and Robin and loved on Superman I thought it was safe to take a look. While I'm generally not a fan of replaying the death of the Wayne's, and Tomasi's villain seems intent on aping all of Bruce's greatest hits, which could be a bit of a bore I feel like Tomasi really nailed Bruce's interior monologues and the csi scene at the start with Jim Gordon makes me think we could get some honest to goodness detective stories so I'm hoping for good things.
Art: Doug Manhke is the guy I think of when someone says DC has a house look to their art as he just has the inoffensive, clean, muscly look that seems reflected in most of DC's merchandise. There's nothing flashy to his style, but it's easy to follow and it tels the story so it gets the job done.
Grade:7/10 You liked this a lot more than I did. I was rolling my eyes that they are re-hashing the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. I also don't like the way they tied Gordon to the murder because he was the first patrolman on the scene when the Waynes were killed. Ugh. Some new Gordon continuity to get used to as I think this must mean that he started out in Gotham and was never a policeman in Chicago. It's really annoying that so many genre writers have some kind of "go-to" directive to tie up as many characters as possible to the hero's origin. Norman Osborne MUST have been the owner of the facility where Peter Parker was bitten by the radio-active spider. Dr. Doom MUST have been involved in the accident that gave the FF their powers. (This was in one of the movies. I don't know if they ever used it in the comics.) The Joker MUST have killed the Wayne's parents. And now, Gordon MUST have been present at the crime scene when the Waynes were killed. I thought a lot of the dialogue was cringe-worthy as well. Not nearly as bad as James Robinson on a spree, but not very good either. As the comic was labeled "Countdown to 100," I'm guessing this storyline will be lasting all the way to #1000. Ugh. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 14, 2018 15:21:05 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Doug Mahnke Summary: Batman starts his night investigating the murder of a young couple that looks suspiciously like his parents, only to have to defend his second mother, Leslie Tompkins, from a lumbering beast.
Plot: Other than the Super Heavy story a few years back, that didn't actually feature Bruce as Batman, I really haven't enjoyed a mainline Batman book since Grant Morrison left that neck of the woods but with the coming of Peter Tomasi who I enjoyed on Batman and Robin and loved on Superman I thought it was safe to take a look. While I'm generally not a fan of replaying the death of the Wayne's, and Tomasi's villain seems intent on aping all of Bruce's greatest hits, which could be a bit of a bore I feel like Tomasi really nailed Bruce's interior monologues and the csi scene at the start with Jim Gordon makes me think we could get some honest to goodness detective stories so I'm hoping for good things.
Art: Doug Manhke is the guy I think of when someone says DC has a house look to their art as he just has the inoffensive, clean, muscly look that seems reflected in most of DC's merchandise. There's nothing flashy to his style, but it's easy to follow and it tels the story so it gets the job done.
Grade:7/10 You liked this a lot more than I did. I was rolling my eyes that they are re-hashing the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. I also don't like the way they tied Gordon to the murder because he was the first patrolman on the scene when the Waynes were killed. Ugh. Some new Gordon continuity to get used to as I think this must mean that he started out in Gotham and was never a policeman in Chicago. It's really annoying that so many genre writers have some kind of "go-to" directive to tie up as many characters as possible to the hero's origin. Norman Osborne MUST have been the owner of the facility where Peter Parker was bitten by the radio-active spider. Dr. Doom MUST have been involved in the accident that gave the FF their powers. (This was in one of the movies. I don't know if they ever used it in the comics.) The Joker MUST have killed the Wayne's parents. And now, Gordon MUST have been present at the crime scene when the Waynes were killed. I thought a lot of the dialogue was cringe-worthy as well. Not nearly as bad as James Robinson on a spree, but not very good either. As the comic was labeled "Countdown to 100," I'm guessing this storyline will be lasting all the way to #1000. Ugh. I'm no fan of the rehashing myself, but I liked the relationship between Gordon and Batman here and the way he reacted to Leslie in trouble so I'm hoping for more of that and just bearing with the monster plot. As for Gordon being there at the death of the Waynes, it didn't really bother me as I loved the scene where Gordon gave Bruce his jacket in Batman Begins so if that's in continuity now (and it is in my mind)I'm all for it. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 15, 2018 22:11:44 GMT -5
Wrong thread!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 11:54:57 GMT -5
Supergirl #25: There are three stories in this anniversary issue.
Story one continues the story of Supergirl in space trying to figure out Rogol Zarr and his connection to Krypton's destruction. She finds out there is a some connection between her father and Rogol Zarr. She also encounters a creature apparently charged with protecting Krypton's remains and the story is pretty much one big fight scene, but is well done and executed. It was eerie seeing remnants of Krypton floating in orbit. Not sure if Kevin Maguire is off the book, but the art in this issue was ok. Z'ndr is an interesting supporting character and hearkens back to the Brainiac 5/Supergirl relationship. Krypto is in the story as well.
Story 2 focuses on Z'ndr and we learn just a bit about him--he reminded me of Star Lord from Marvel in this story.
Story 3 is a Christmas tale as Supergirl learns that the best gift is giving. Ice Maiden, Ice, or whatever her name is these days makes a cameo. I thought she was long dead, but I guess not!
7/10
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 13:35:48 GMT -5
Detective Comics #994Written by Peter Tomasi. Art by Doug Mahnke. Got this a week late but loved it. I didn't mind the retelling of the murders of Thomas & Martha Wayne. Or the additional details as revealed by Commissioner Gordon. What I liked: Batman doing detective work. The interaction between Batman & Gordon. Batman's reaction to Leslie being in danger. Mahnke's art. The pages exploded with action. Tomasi & Mahnke make a great creative team. Finally happy to be enjoying a Batman title again. Thanks to thwhtguardian for his review or I would not have thought to add this to my pull list! 8/10.
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