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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 30, 2014 20:08:52 GMT -5
I've been reading the Waid version of The Shadow. Decent enough but I agree with MRP,not worth $3.99
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Post by Action Ace on May 30, 2014 20:44:51 GMT -5
So, here are two that i've been thinking about: Vertigo's Sweet Tooth and Image's Invincible.....I know Invincible has it's own universe, and some spin-offs...I'm cool with that, so, any thoughts on that series would be great..I like comic universes.... Sweet Tooth just looks really interesting, but was curious what others have thought..... Invincible is one of the best series I've read in the last decade. Anything can happen and it usually does, violently, I must add. Kirkman just loves to kick the card table over every now and then and it makes for a wild ride. You should read them in order, so anything outside the main book should wait until later. I haven't read Sweet Tooth so I can't help you there. |
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Post by Action Ace on May 30, 2014 20:57:21 GMT -5
Over in Dynamite pulp hero land... I've picked up Waid's first six issues of Green Hornet at a steeply discounted price and found them pleasant enough, but nothing I'd rate as can't miss. I'm not a big Green Hornet fan, but I'll brave Kevin Smith's writing to see him paired up with Adam West's Batman again. I also read Masks which was a little bit better. It was sort of a pulp hero JLA vs a Fascist New York government.  |
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2014 23:14:10 GMT -5
I've been reading the Waid version of The Shadow. Decent enough but I agree with MRP,not worth $3.99 I hate to say it, but there's hardly anything I pay full retail for. $ 3 or $ 4 means it has to be fantastic.
BTW, FWIW, a lot of people online are saying how DC's latest series, Future's End, is so horrible and depressing. Well, yes it is, but that future won't happen because of this series. I'm buying the weekly and really liking it, esp this week's issue with Frankenstein, S.H.A.D.E., Father Time, Amethyst, and Ray Palmer.
I liked O.M.A.C., but really, really loved that Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. series. That's a movie DC should have made. Crazy good.
A lot of stuff I like, but very little I'm willing to support at full price like the old days, but Frankenstein, Shazam, Doom Patrol, maybe Freedom Fighters. I love DC's B and C listers.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 31, 2014 19:35:56 GMT -5
Hawkman....always liked the look of the character and every silver age cover I see with him on it is awesome, or so it seems. In terms of reading, what is the best whether it is classic stuff or more recent
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 19:44:34 GMT -5
Hawkman....always liked the look of the character and every silver age cover I see with him on it is awesome, or so it seems. In terms of reading, what is the best whether it is classic stuff or more recent The classic Gardner Fox Joe Kubert stuff from Brave & the Bold is a fun Silver Age read. The Hawkworld mini by Tim Truman, and the following ongoing by Ostrander is good. I also liked the Johns run on Hawkman, I am not a fan of Johns in any way, shape or form, but his Hawkman was good. The Simonson Chaykin Hawkgirl stuff later in that series also had some charm to it as well. I also have a soft spot for the Shadow War of Hawkman mini, it was my intro to the characters solo adventures when I was exploring DC more in high school. The art is a bit meh, but I enjoyed it. |
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Post by Action Ace on May 31, 2014 21:16:23 GMT -5
Hawkman....always liked the look of the character and every silver age cover I see with him on it is awesome, or so it seems. In terms of reading, what is the best whether it is classic stuff or more recent I like the Silver Age Hawkman, but it's not near the top of my favorites from the era. The Hawkworld mini by Tim Truman and the following series by John Ostrander has a lot of fans. I'm the opposite of mrp. I'm a big Geoff Johns fan, but I found his Hawkman to be disappointing. I've enjoyed him most when he appears in a team title like JLA, JSA or All-Star Squadron. |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 31, 2014 22:21:13 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. Any of the ones written by Matt Wagner are quite good. (I'd throw his Zorro series in there, too, although that's not really a pulp property.) He tends to have better artists on his books that most of Dynamite's stable. (Aaron Campbell, Francavilla, etc.) He's also working on a Grendel/Shadow (Hunter Rose) crossover that he'll be writing and illustrating.
I'm really looking forward to Chaykin's Midnight in Moscow, but I haven't picked it up yet.
Lots of people seem to love The Spider. Or, at least, lots of people within the small group that picked it up in the first place.
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Post by fanboystranger on May 31, 2014 22:24:56 GMT -5
The Simonson Chaykin Hawkgirl stuff later in that series also had some charm to it as well. That's actually one of my biggest disappointments in the past decade, probably because I had such ridiculously high expectations. I think I would have liked it more if Chaykin had been the writer and Simonson the artist.
Kyle Baker's Hawkman strip in Wednesday Comics was great. Not as great as Paul Pope's Adam Strange or Dave Gibbons/Ryan Sook's Kamandi, but a lot of fun.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 22:47:45 GMT -5
The Simonson Chaykin Hawkgirl stuff later in that series also had some charm to it as well. That's actually one of my biggest disappointments in the past decade, probably because I had such ridiculously high expectations. I think I would have liked it more if Chaykin had been the writer and Simonson the artist.
Kyle Baker's Hawkman strip in Wednesday Comics was great. Not as great as Paul Pope's Adam Strange or Dave Gibbons/Ryan Sook's Kamandi, but a lot of fun.
I wasn't reading when it came out, so came to it after I returned form my hiatus, when reactions made my expectations lower. I found it charming but not spectacular, but my expectations were low, so it was better than expected for me. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2014 12:10:43 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. Any of the ones written by Matt Wagner are quite good. (I'd throw his Zorro series in there, too, although that's not really a pulp property.) He tends to have better artists on his books that most of Dynamite's stable. (Aaron Campbell, Francavilla, etc.) He's also working on a Grendel/Shadow (Hunter Rose) crossover that he'll be writing and illustrating.
I'm really looking forward to Chaykin's Midnight in Moscow, but I haven't picked it up yet.
Lots of people seem to love The Spider. Or, at least, lots of people within the small group that picked it up in the first place.
I'll be the pedant and point out that Zorro was very much a pulp property appearing in pulp magazines and create by a long-time pulp writer. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 1, 2014 16:19:53 GMT -5
Any of the ones written by Matt Wagner are quite good. (I'd throw his Zorro series in there, too, although that's not really a pulp property.) He tends to have better artists on his books that most of Dynamite's stable. (Aaron Campbell, Francavilla, etc.) He's also working on a Grendel/Shadow (Hunter Rose) crossover that he'll be writing and illustrating.
I'm really looking forward to Chaykin's Midnight in Moscow, but I haven't picked it up yet.
Lots of people seem to love The Spider. Or, at least, lots of people within the small group that picked it up in the first place.
I'll be the pedant and point out that Zorro was very much a pulp property appearing in pulp magazines and create by a long-time pulp writer. See, I thought Zorro was a pulp property, but someone yelled at me once saying it wasn't. I never actually bothered to check it out for myself.
In any event, Wagner's Zorro was excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 18:07:52 GMT -5
I knew Zorro had been in pulps, but didn't know if those predated the movies or not.
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Post by antoine on Jun 1, 2014 18:51:07 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. I read a couple scattered ones.. they were decent, but not good enough for me to want to pay full price for them. There was something a bit off about them to me that I couldn't put my finger on. So I guess I'll be alone in my team, but I bought a The Goon TPB (Volume 4 or5??) a few years ago, read it, and REALLY didn't like it.. The art is top notch, but I really couldn't get into the story at all... |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2014 18:57:33 GMT -5
I'll be the pedant and point out that Zorro was very much a pulp property appearing in pulp magazines and create by a long-time pulp writer. See, I thought Zorro was a pulp property, but someone yelled at me once saying it wasn't. I never actually bothered to check it out for myself.
In any event, Wagner's Zorro was excellent.
Part of the problem may be that when people think pulp they tend to default to Hero Pulp and only think of Doc Savage, The Spider, etc., forgetting that pulps covered pretty much every genre. Sam Spade is a pulp character. So is The Mule from Asimov's Foundation books. |
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