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Post by rich on Sept 14, 2024 9:43:49 GMT -5
For Byrne, I couldn't finish Spider-Man: Chapter One. Also, I was really anticipating X-Men: The Hidden Years, but I ended up being underwhelmed. I couldn't finish either... I bought a few issues of each and then realised it was nostalgia I was buying for, not the product. Still, I preferred his writing to Claremont at the time.  |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 14, 2024 10:16:58 GMT -5
With Spider-Man: Chapter One, I thought I’d be getting the web-slinging equivalent of Man of Steel. Instead we got a series that, well, I don’t even have the words for it.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 14, 2024 17:31:42 GMT -5
I've never read that one... Untold tales was so good I didn't feel the need for another retro-Spidey title
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 14, 2024 17:42:08 GMT -5
Shazam!: The New Beginning by Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake. Grim 'n' gritty Captain Marvel. What a great idea. Not. I choked down the first issue but, although I bought them (having ordered them in advance through my LCS), couldn't bring myself to read the other three. Epically bad.
Cei-U!
I summon a swig of Listerine to get that bad taste out of my mouth!
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 14, 2024 17:50:48 GMT -5
Shazam!: The New Beginning by Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake. Grim 'n' gritty Captain Marvel. What a great idea. Not. I choked down the first issue but, although I bought them (having ordered them in advance through my LCS), couldn't bring myself to read the other three. Epically bad. Cei-U! I summon a swig of Listerine to get that bad taste out of my mouth! I did get to the end of the fourth and final issue, but I didn’t really enjoy it. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 16, 2024 11:28:24 GMT -5
Spider Jerusalem struck me as a wan Hunter S Thompson clone, designed to impress people who didn't know Hunter S Thompson. They also ripped off ideas from Paul Krassner, designed to impress people who didn't know Paul Krassner. Jerusalem being a Thompson homage was the point. There was no hiding the ball at all. Transmet was all about transposing "New Journalism" in to a near future setting. Again, no real hiding the ball as to any influence of Thompson, Kesey or any others. If people didn't know where the influences were coming from that's hardly Ellis' fault. Maybe it was the point, but it put me off. I'm not blaming other people for not having read The Realist, but it felt like plagiarism to me (notably, The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book). JMS wrote that Superman book, right? I didn't get what all the fuss was about. Babylon 5 was boring so I didn't watch much of it, but comics fans raved about Rising Stars and Midnight Nation, but they were really boring, especially the latter. I tried the first few issues of his Spidey run, but again, boring. Credit where it's due, Sense8 was entertaining, if odd. Did he ever write any genuinely good comics? WHA....(sputter).........dja.........(wheeze...wheeze).......faa........... Babylon 5 was awesome!  If you could hang on until the middle of the first season, ignore the next few episodes and keep hanging for the season finale, then it just chugged on, building momentum in season 4. Season 5 was more than a bit of a mess, but they stuck the landing pretty well. JMS, I find, starts well, then seems to lose his way and the finish, if it ever comes, isn't usually worth the wait. Thought that about Rising Stars, though I hated the art, until Brent Anderson was doing it. Never read Midnight Nation, as it wasn't my cup of tea. Supreme Power started well (though a lot felt like a rehash of Rising Sons) then starts wobbling, then he abandoned it and Marvel just made it worse trying to fix it, until they gave up. I'm reviewing The Twelve it's kind of all over the place...not helped by the long gap, but the pacing of it is not good and a lot of it reads like a Watchmen pastiche. Haven't read his Thor stuff, but I have never been much of a fan of the character, apart from Walt Simonson's stuff and when Roy Thomas inserted the Eternals (before he pushed them out of their own storyline). I run hot and cold on JMS. I loved Babylon 5 and Sens8. I wanted to like Rising Stars, but they started off with sub-Image style art which was so not my thing, I couldn't bother with it. Midnight Nation wasn't bad, though not my genre particularly. I loved the first 'book' of Supreme Power (in trade format), liked the second book, and thought the third book was alright ... so chose to quit after that (for various other reasons too, not like the direction he was going with the Squadron), and I appear to have made the right choice. I've glanced at his Spider-Man and it felt 'off' to me, so never bothered with his Thor. I've made my thoughts on The Twelve clear on the Invaders thread. He frequently frustrates me, when I read his stories that I don't feel are up to snuff, as I think he's smart and talented enough to know better. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 16, 2024 18:13:30 GMT -5
I liked Babylon 5 but haven't read any comics written by JMS. Nothing I heard of ever attracted me much. I remember thinking his idea of bringing Asgard down to earth was not a good direction to take that concept and the characters involved with it.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 16, 2024 20:12:51 GMT -5
I hated this well before I got to the final page:  You couldn't put a gun to my head and make me pick that POS up. Insane ramblings from a demented jerk, with enough steroids in his body to choke a horse and the brain to match. The man needed serious professional help and that thing was a dirty window into his madness. Won't lie, part of me feels I'd get a kick out this comic for those very reasons. Though as with Batman: Odyssey, I imagine it'd also wear out its welcome before long. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 16, 2024 20:55:02 GMT -5
You couldn't put a gun to my head and make me pick that POS up. Insane ramblings from a demented jerk, with enough steroids in his body to choke a horse and the brain to match. The man needed serious professional help and that thing was a dirty window into his madness. Won't lie, part of me feels I'd get a kick out this comic for those very reasons. Though as with Batman: Odyssey, I imagine it'd also wear out its welcome before long. No way, for me,; not even in a Chuck Barris-claimed-to be a CIA-hitman gonzo fantasy. He was kind of a precursor to the weirdness of the last 8 years. |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 16, 2024 21:09:40 GMT -5
Superior Iron Man. I got through the first four issues and hated that the entire premise was “how can we turn Tony Stark into the biggest d-bag in the world?”
It was like the writer of the series wanted to mimic Superior Spider-Man (which was a fun series), but he had no idea WHY that series was enjoyable. Otto Octavius is supposed to be an arrogant jerk, but he actually TRIED to be better, whereas this version of Tony Stark was just cruel and lacked any charm whatsoever.
One of the few series I ever started and didn’t get at least six issues into before giving up.
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