Comments on: Wednesday Number Ones 5/23/07

By: garzo frazelli

garzo frazelli — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:42:43 +0000

This is a prime example of why people shouldn’t drink and blog.

I’m all over you on Storm Shadow. You hit it right on the head. These guys are unfolding these chqaracters so well…right franchise in the right hands.

Final Girl I differ with you. I think it’s going to be an awesome disturbed series and an even more messed up creepy graphic novel…Huchison is in fact a disturbed genius. Give this one a shot to gro. Hack and Slash is a dark comedy…this is a…It’s a book about Nazi experimentation gone wild.

Lawless is classic eye candy. I loved everything about that book. Instant classic.

By: Andres

Andres — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:33:16 +0000

Guess I’ll skip it then. Thanks guys. That’s a shame though. Ah well.

By: fil

fil — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:35:17 +0000

The Other Side started out strong but kind of kept at the pace. Nothing really was a surprise which, after a million ‘Nam stories, makes a bit of sense. It lacked anything to make it too relevant to today, even considering the war we are currently involved with right now. It might have been bolder to do a similar concept but actually use today’s combatants. They did this in one of the 411 comics, I think, where an author (in a shorter format, mind you) took a look at how both sides of the Israeli/Palstine conflict might see a situation. It is a decent read and good art but nothing to write home about…or buy, for that matter.

By: Dan Grendell

Dan Grendell — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:16:44 +0000

“The Other Side” came out in TPB this week too didn’t it? I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but do you guys recommend it? I read a lot of raves about the earlier issues, but did it maintain its goodness all the way through? I expected to see it on someone’s “Top Five of the Moment” list.

I liked the first two issues of Other Side, but it soon became apparent that it wasn’t going anywhere and was just going to continue making the same point in the same way every issue. I lost interest.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:42:55 +0000

While I really dig Aaron’s Scalped, The Other Side struck me as little more than Doug Murray’s The ‘NAM… with GHOSTS!

By: Andres

Andres — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:07:05 +0000

“The Other Side” came out in TPB this week too didn’t it? I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but do you guys recommend it? I read a lot of raves about the earlier issues, but did it maintain its goodness all the way through? I expected to see it on someone’s “Top Five of the Moment” list.

By: Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:03:07 +0000

Yeah, the “C” in his infamous equation E=MC^2 actually stands for cool … squared. And referred to ninjas.

Characters like Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes are really really cool — when I was an impressionable 12-year-old who watched way too much crappy tv shows/30-minute toy commercials like G.I. Joe and Transformers. I had the G.I. Joe command center and about 4 dozen or so action figures (2 Snake Eyes, one for display, one for playing).

And I’m another one of those people for whom the G.I. Joe comics of the 80s served as a gateway to other comic books.

That is my sad, lonely story.

By: fil

fil — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:45:25 +0000

Call me insane, then, but I have never heard of Storm Shadow. This doesn’t mean I won’t pick it up because even fogies like me know that Ninja=Cool (didn’t Einstein prove that at some point?). But to me, the whole “GI Joe” phenom of the 80’s missed me by about 5 years or so. To me, GI Joe was a 12″ figure with a bristly beard that wooed neighbor’s sister’s Barbie Dolls with his kung-fu grip and accurate-to-the-time M16 rifle. Or shot them. Or both, because, boys will be boys. OOooh…and he stole Steve Austin’s space capsule because he had more points of articulation! Take that, $6 million dollar man!