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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 18, 2020 19:45:49 GMT -5
 Detective Comics #1027.Written by Brian Michael Bendis, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction, Peter J. Tomasi, James Tynion IV, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Marv Wolfman, Grant Morrison, Tom King, Scott Snyder, Dan Jurgens, and Mariko Tamaki. Art by David Marquez, Jamal Campbell, Eduardo Risso, Chip Zdarsky, Brad Walker, Riley Rossmo, John Romita Jr., Emanuela Lupacchino, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Burnham, Walter Simonson, Ivan Reis, Dan Jurgens, and Dan Mora. An oversized 144 page issue with 12 stories celebrating Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics #27! I am a sucker for these anthology styled anniversary issues. As usual it's a mixed bag. Some stories are outstanding. Some are OK. Some are a nod to past classic stories. And some are a hint to upcoming stories. IMO this was one of the better anniversary issues DC has done in the last 2 years. All the stories showed how great the character of Batman is and why he has endured for 80 years. 8/10. Got myself a copy today and I loved it, definitely the best anthology put out in a while. I loved Fraction's, Wolfman and Rucka's stories and although the art wasn't my cup of tea I really liked the focus on Bruce Wayne in Kelly Sue's story. I think I'm most excited for what the story Generations: Future State by Jurgens; I don't know where it will lead but I love golden age Batman being used. It may surprise some but the only story I didn't really care for was Grant Morrison's, I usually love his work but this story of a caped crusader who turns in his cape after getting beat to the punch by the debut of Batman just felt flat. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 14:06:33 GMT -5
Happy that you liked it. I really thought it was a great deal. 120 pgs of story for $10. Normally that would only get you half that amount of pages.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 19, 2020 18:51:47 GMT -5
Happy that you liked it. I really thought it was a great deal. 120 pgs of story for $10. Normally that would only get you half that amount of pages. Yeah, you can't really beat the price and the pin ups were great too |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 19, 2020 19:24:03 GMT -5
Agree with both thwhtguardian and md62 on the new Iron Man book. I haven't been a regular reader of IM for the past 5-7 years or so, but this caught my eye in the previews a few months back, and with me just dropping X-Men due to it being incomprehensible, I figured picking up something new would be OK. Yeah, we've seen Tony go "low tech" before, and yeah, we've seen Tony go "non-corporate" before. We've seen lots of things in comics before, yet with the right writer and artist, they can still be interesting. Love the addition of Hellcat to the book, as she and Tony played well off one another. Art was just fantastic. It wasn't perfect, but it was close enough. 9/10, will be picking up Issue #2. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 19, 2020 20:04:21 GMT -5
Agree with both thwhtguardian and md62 on the new Iron Man book. I haven't been a regular reader of IM for the past 5-7 years or so, but this caught my eye in the previews a few months back, and with me just dropping X-Men due to it being incomprehensible, I figured picking up something new would be OK. Yeah, we've seen Tony go "low tech" before, and yeah, we've seen Tony go "non-corporate" before. We've seen lots of things in comics before, yet with the right writer and artist, they can still be interesting. Love the addition of Hellcat to the book, as she and Tony played well off one another. Art was just fantastic. It wasn't perfect, but it was close enough. 9/10, will be picking up Issue #2. Hellcat was definitely one of my favorite elements, I might have to go back and read her solo from a few years back. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 20:20:48 GMT -5
Happy that you liked it. I really thought it was a great deal. 120 pgs of story for $10. Normally that would only get you half that amount of pages. Yeah, you can't really beat the price and the pin ups were great too Yes! I really liked seeing art from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez again! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 20:25:03 GMT -5
Agree with both thwhtguardian and md62 on the new Iron Man book. I haven't been a regular reader of IM for the past 5-7 years or so, but this caught my eye in the previews a few months back, and with me just dropping X-Men due to it being incomprehensible, I figured picking up something new would be OK. Yeah, we've seen Tony go "low tech" before, and yeah, we've seen Tony go "non-corporate" before. We've seen lots of things in comics before, yet with the right writer and artist, they can still be interesting. Love the addition of Hellcat to the book, as she and Tony played well off one another. Art was just fantastic. It wasn't perfect, but it was close enough. 9/10, will be picking up Issue #2. Hellcat was definitely one of my favorite elements, I might have to go back and read her solo from a few years back. The 2008 series was more action oriented than the light hearted 2016 series. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 20, 2020 6:31:01 GMT -5
Hellcat was definitely one of my favorite elements, I might have to go back and read her solo from a few years back. The 2008 series was more action oriented than the light hearted 2016 series. I was thinking of the 2016 series, but I may revisit both now that you mention the former. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 20, 2020 21:13:43 GMT -5
I was enjoying the Tony - Janet relationship.. is that still going in the new book? (might be they ended in the 2020 crossover)
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 21, 2020 15:33:33 GMT -5
I was enjoying the Tony - Janet relationship.. is that still going in the new book? (might be they ended in the 2020 crossover) Yeah that ended, I wasn't even aware it was a thing until the one page break up in this issue. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 0:26:48 GMT -5
Seven Secrets #2 (BOOM!)  BOOM!'s output recently has been top notch. I think I am reading more BOOM! books than any other publisher except Image at this point and many of those Image series are ending, so BOOM! may be #1 soon. I took a chance on Seven Secrets based on the recent track record of BOOM! books and the premise, even though the little of Taylor's stuff I had tried (Earth 2 and Injustice) I didn't like much. I really liked the first issue, so added the book to my pull. #1 set up the premise-there are seven secrets which can change the world, and a secret society protects them to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. Each secret has a pair of guardians, a keeper and a protector of sorts. One such pair fell and love and had a child-Caspar, an act forbidden by their secret society. The first issue introduced the child as a young adult as he gets embroiled in the secret keepers activities and an attempt by someone to capture one of more of those secrets. All well and good, hit the ground running. This second issue takes a step back and gives us some of Caspar's back story, how he grew up and was trained by the order after being taken form his parents, and such bringing us up to speed and caught up on everything to where the first issue started. So a bit of a flashback/origin issue. I liked it, but not as much as the first issue as it slowed down some of the narrative momentum built up in the first issue. We'll have to see how #3 fares before I decide if I am in on this for the long hall. This may have read better as part of a trade where you could jump right bac in to the main story after the flashback/origin sequence, but alas, I am reading in single issues and have to wait a month-ish before trying to regain that momentum. -M |
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 24, 2021 11:53:14 GMT -5
Immortal Hulk #0Written by Bill Mantlo, Peter David and Al Ewing Art by Mike Mignola, Adam Kubert and Mattia De Iulis Summary: Stringing together the plots of Incredible Hulk #312 and Incredible Hulk #-1 we see how the Leader attacked.
Plot: I'm not usually ones for zero issues, they seldom bring anything new to the table other than to explain some minor plot point that never really needed explaining but with throw backs to Bill Mantlo, Peter David and Kubert and Mignola I just couldn't say no. While I loved re-reading these classic Hulk stories, and I think it's a great way to get new readers to go back and check out the classic runs that inspired Ewing's Immortal Hulk the actual framing story of the Leader being involved behind the scenes that Ewing put here did fall into that issue I usually have with zero issues in that it wasn't really all that necessary. That said, despite feeling that the framing story didn't bring anything needed to the table I did really enjoy how it tied together the stories by Mantlo and David which while related as both dealt with Bruce's father really found a kind of osmosis into one story thanks to Ewing. So while not needed to enjoy Immortal Hulk it definitely gets high marks for repackaging some old favorites.
Art: Seeing Mignola's Hulk here made me remember how much I loved how monstrous his take was, I mean you all know how much I love Mignola but seeing him so early in his career here is a treat. On top of that, for the actual Immortal Hulk portions I usually moan about not getting Bennett on art but not today as I actually really loved Mattia De Iulis creepy, yet slick style.
Grade:7/10 I liked Mantlo's run, but even as a teen, he wore me out with his exiled story-line. Likewise, PAD had exhausted all his ideas by the time he teamed up with Adam (for me, Kubert was his father).
The new pages are probably a must, but I'm not paying $5 for 8 pages (or whatever they ask for it on eBay). The art is lavishing, but I don't appreciate Marvel trying to shove the rest down my throat.
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