Comments on: Down the Line: January Releases

By: Adam Walsh

Adam Walsh — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:31:56 +0000

This is my favourite comic related feature online…so thanks!
A couple of titles you didn’t mention but interest me this month are the JLA Classified issues by Roger Stern and John Byrne, the first Ron Marz Witchblade trade (basically because of the price point of $4.99 for 6 issues!), and the latest Gamekeeper mini from Virgin. I thought the first series by Andy Diggle was good, and this new one features scripting by Jeff Parker, who seems to do little wrong.

By: B. Clay Moore

B. Clay Moore — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:20:26 +0000

Thanks for the ‘76 shout-out, guys.

If anyone’s interested, please, please encourage your retailer to give it a shot. We’re really jazzed about the book, and think when people see it (if they can find it), they’ll feel the same.

By: Dan Grendell

Dan Grendell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:23:58 +0000

Re: The JLA fill-in: on his MB Mr. McDuffie said they’re doing shorter stories for about 3-4 issues so he and Ed Benes can get caught up.

Excellent. I have no problem with that, I was just concerned that he was already off the book.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:48:07 +0000

Re: The JLA fill-in: on his MB Mr. McDuffie said they’re doing shorter stories for about 3-4 issues so he and Ed Benes can get caught up.

By: Justin Boatwright

Justin Boatwright — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:36:32 +0000

The Killing Joke HC is a little overpriced but the cool part is that Bolland is re-coloring the whole thing. In The Art of Brian Bolland HC (gorgeous book, btw) he wrote about how much he hates the coloring in the original version and how it basically turned him off of sequential work for hire. By the time he saw the pages in color it was too late to change anything.

Bolland: “Since then I haven’t wanted to draw comics that anyone else has had a hand in. I’d rather not work on a story that I haven’t written myself or one that will ultimately be colored by someone else. I have to earn a living though. Covers are a safe place for me. If someone else’s colors swamp my work then, who cares. It was only one page. I can move on to the next one.”

I am a huge Bolland fan so even if the Killing Joke HC is a little over-priced it is worth it to me to see what Bolland’s original vision was for this great piece of work.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:30:29 +0000

Getting the Astrix book for sure.
Might get the Athiest.
I may be one in America (And surely the only one on the internet it seems) with no love for ethier JLI or killing joke.
As for turning Hulk Red gotta see “why,how,What? But I dont blame Marvel for wanting a huge change. World War Hulk was not exactly a mind blowing epic. Hulk beats up some heroes who shout “you just wait till Sentry gets here young man” BUgged the hell out of me to see both Spider-man and Sue Storm saying how bad they need Sentry When Sentry gets there Hulk better at least get sunburned!

By: c. towns

c. towns — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:37:38 +0000

i will plop down 25 bucks for the JLI hardcover. and i already have the trade. looking forward to some of the teen titans stuff. the old school teen titans has the only versions of donna troy and roy harper that i like.

By: GrayPumpkin

GrayPumpkin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:42:13 +0000

I seem to keep thinking of things to comment on, on the Young Blood front, I’m 100% with Randy in that Moore’s was doing some pretty interesting stuff with Youngblood and I’d love to see some that promise and potential his short run had explored.
Unfortunately I wasn’t as keen on Casey’s Wildcats run myself. I kept up with it in trades, decent reads I thought, but not nearly as cool as what Moore was doing with the Wildcats before him, (though I did love seeing Travis Charest come into his own) and I think that what Moore was doing with Youngbloods and that whole Judgement day thing was a lot cooler than what he did on his Wildcats run.

By: GrayPumpkin

GrayPumpkin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:37:44 +0000

Oh and of course Teen Titans: The Lost Annual (DC), which I somehow forgot to mention, even though it was the one I was most hyped about when I was reading.

By: GrayPumpkin

GrayPumpkin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:54:33 +0000

Well thanks to the link I’ve been nosing around that 76 Blog and I gotta say I’m now hyped to see this project.
Also catching my interest; The Atheist Incarnate, always up for a good supernatural tale, Afterburn, cause a post apocalyptic Indiana Jones riff just sounds cool and Diana Prince Wonderwoman, I read a few of these as kid and remember liking them, curious to see how they’ve held up. I-Ching indeed.

By: Unimaginative Lad

Unimaginative Lad — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:18:39 +0000

hey, just want to say its cool you linked to that ‘thexaxis’ review of Loeb’s Wolverine! I love Paul O’Brien’s reviews, and the way he unflinchingly follows all the x-books through whatever muck they put out! I mean, he reviews ANYTHING even remotely x-related, and must have to read a hell of a lot of bad comics to do so! But that Wolverine review was my favourite all time review of his, just ahead of his ones on Liefeld’s X-Force and Shatterstar mini-series a while back!!!

Anyway, good work on the previews again. Found a couple of nice things there that laziness would have prevented me from ever finding otherwise, as usual!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:26:59 +0000

Really looking forward to 76. I don’t have a huge problem with the black and white. I expect it to look great but that cover does look gorgeous. B. Clay Moore also has a Superman story in Superman Confidential with Phil Hester and Ande Parks which I’m looking forward to. I just hope this doesn’t mean delays for Hawaiian Dick.

I haven’t been keeping up with BPRD of late but this story sounds like one I can’t afford to miss. I’ve always wanted to see more of Bruttenholm and the early days.

Also part one of the Star Wars Vector story and Spider-Man:With Great Power I’m also looking forward to.