Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on May 18, 2014 14:00:21 GMT -5
Anyone have any thoughts on Tailgunner Jo?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 18, 2014 14:40:11 GMT -5
Icc and fanboy thank you for the heads up. Are these series and stories just as good to read by release date or is there a special order? Fanboy, did Nova carry on to the end as well as it started? I have through issue 19 and I was thinking about greeting the rest of it. Wasn't there a Darkhawk tie in with Nova? I don't remember if it was a series if it's own or just him in Nova's book. I would just go straight from GotG to The Thanos Imperative, unless you're a completist. The return of Thanos occurs in GotG. As for Darkhawk, you may be thinking of the crossover event War of Kings: Darkhawk and Nova were both involved (as well as a few Guardians). I didn't get that series, but didn't miss it either. It looked all right, but isn't required reading to understand the ending of GotG. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 18, 2014 15:23:34 GMT -5
Anyone have any thoughts on Tailgunner Jo? I haven't read it since it came out. I remember liking it then. I know that the artist, Tom Artis, had an Ernie Colon feel to his work which I really liked. |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 18, 2014 21:40:26 GMT -5
Icc and fanboy thank you for the heads up. Are these series and stories just as good to read by release date or is there a special order? Fanboy, did Nova carry on to the end as well as it started? I have through issue 19 and I was thinking about greeting the rest of it. Wasn't there a Darkhawk tie in with Nova? I don't remember if it was a series if it's own or just him in Nova's book. The first two years of Nova were great. In fact, I'd say the Nova Corps and Ego plotline in the second year was a lot better than the first year. After that, it's a little hit or miss. I love the Monark Starstalker arc, but mostly because I'm a huge Chaykin and Dr Strange fan. The final arc with The Sphinx is decent, but very much tying up loose ends and setting up Thanos Imperative. Essential if you like Namorita or Darkhawk, although I think those plotlines were dropped when DnA walked. |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 18, 2014 21:44:37 GMT -5
Anyone have any thoughts on Tailgunner Jo? Very interested in people's thoughts about this. I'm a big Peter Gillis fan. I'm wondering if this is a case of a mostly adequate writer making a step forward with his craft like Gerry Conway with Cinder and Ashe, or a guy basically squandering his chance with doing something different. (I would actually rate Gillis a lot higher than most of the writers of his era. Slightly ahead of Roger Stern, whose work I mostly love.) |
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Post by Jesse on May 19, 2014 3:02:07 GMT -5
I'm just realizing now that there was a Lucifer series than ran 75 issues. Has anyone read it?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 3:10:15 GMT -5
I'm just realizing now that there was a Lucifer series than ran 75 issues. Has anyone read it? Yes. It's quite good and was mentioned already in a few posts mentioning Sandman spin-offs. Carey worked closely with Gaiman, who served as a consultant early on in this series, so it feels compatible with the Lucifer we were introduced to in Sandman, but Carey develops his own voice and story, which were quite good. -M PS as an aside, if anyone liked this series, they should check out Carey's Felix Castor novels.They are not connected in anyway, but the voice Carey develops on this book shines through in the prose of the Castopr books. |
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Post by Jesse on May 19, 2014 3:16:18 GMT -5
Yes. It's quite good and was mentioned already in a few posts mentioning Sandman spin-offs. Carey worked closely with Gaiman, who served as a consultant early on in this series, so it feels compatible with the Lucifer we were introduced to in Sandman, but Carey develops his own voice and story, which were quite good. Ah I had asked about the Sandman Presents Lucifer miniseries but hadn't realized any feedback was about the ongoing series as well. I will have to check it out. |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 19, 2014 10:17:38 GMT -5
Yes. It's quite good and was mentioned already in a few posts mentioning Sandman spin-offs. Carey worked closely with Gaiman, who served as a consultant early on in this series, so it feels compatible with the Lucifer we were introduced to in Sandman, but Carey develops his own voice and story, which were quite good. Ah I had asked about the Sandman Presents Lucifer miniseries but hadn't realized any feedback was about the ongoing series as well. I will have to check it out. The ongoing is actually better than the pilot mini. The first arc with Chris Weston art is a little weak-- I don't think Chris, who is a fantastic artist, was sold on the book-- but then Peter Gross comes on and the book becomes glorious. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 10:27:34 GMT -5
I never read any Cross Gen books. I was wondering which ones were the best.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2014 10:35:11 GMT -5
Ah I had asked about the Sandman Presents Lucifer miniseries but hadn't realized any feedback was about the ongoing series as well. I will have to check it out. The ongoing is actually better than the pilot mini. The first arc with Chris Weston art is a little weak-- I don't think Chris, who is a fantastic artist, was sold on the book-- but then Peter Gross comes on and the book becomes glorious. Much much better. The mini left me a little cold. So I didn't buy the ongoing when it started. I ended up having to do them in trades. |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 19, 2014 10:40:01 GMT -5
I never read any Cross Gen books. I was wondering which ones were the best. My favorite was El Cazador, Chuck Dixon and Steve Epting's pirate comic. It's one of the best books Dixon has produced, in my opinion.
Ruse and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang were good, too. A lot of people loved Tony Bedard's Negation, but I could never get into it.
The rest of the books were all solid, but didn't really hold my attention.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 10:48:36 GMT -5
I never read any Cross Gen books. I was wondering which ones were the best. My favorite was El Cazador, Chuck Dixon and Steve Epting's pirate comic. It's one of the best books Dixon has produced, in my opinion.
Ruse and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang were good, too. A lot of people loved Tony Bedard's Negation, but I could never get into it.
The rest of the books were all solid, but didn't really hold my attention.
Ruse was the Sherlock Holmes style book?
Negation - sci fi?
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Post by fanboystranger on May 19, 2014 11:55:19 GMT -5
My favorite was El Cazador, Chuck Dixon and Steve Epting's pirate comic. It's one of the best books Dixon has produced, in my opinion.
Ruse and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang were good, too. A lot of people loved Tony Bedard's Negation, but I could never get into it.
The rest of the books were all solid, but didn't really hold my attention.
Ruse was the Sherlock Holmes style book?
Negation - sci fi?
Yes, Ruse was the Sherlock Holmes book. The Mark Waid issues are worth tracking down.
Negation, from what I can remember, was about a bunch of time- and dimension-lost prisoners starting an interstellar revolution. Can't remember much about it. I know it had quite a cult reputation.
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Post by Dizzy D on May 19, 2014 11:57:07 GMT -5
Ruse was basically Sherlock Holmes mixed with a bit character clashes between the Sherlock-like main character and his female assistant.
I liked Negation, it's basically a sci-fi version of the Great Escape, but it ties strongly into the whole Crossgen main story. It's the best thing Tony Bedard has ever written (damning with faint praise? Yep), it works pretty well with a large cast of diverse personalities.
Dixon's Way of the Rat reads like a Jackie Chan movie, quite liked it. The Path by Ron Marz was a more serious Samurai book (and I really liked Bart Sears artwork in this, while I don't like his usual artstyle.
I also liked Waid and Eptings Crux which is a bit like Kirby's Eternals, but not really.
All series suffer greatly from Crossgen crashing before the plotline could resolve.
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