Wednesday Number Ones 11/14/07
Wednesday Number Ones is a weekly feature here at Comic Pants. We take the books that are premiering a first issue from that week and give a quick opinion on them. From time to time we may also include more than issue number ones in this feature. If a noteworthy one-shot or the first issue of a new story arc is released, we may talk about it in this feature.
This week we will cover Badger Bull One Shot, Batman And The Outsiders #1, Captain Marvel #1 of 5, Circle #1, Groo Hell On Earth #1, House Of M Avengers #1 of 3, Iron Man Power Pack #1, Salvation Run #1, Teen Titans East Special #1, Wonder Woman #14, and World Of Warcraft #1
Nick Budd Read and Thought:
Titans East Special
Writer: Judd Winick
Artist: Ian Churchill
Company: DC Comics
Well, this one was less than exciting. I’ve been an on again off again fan of the Teen Titans book, as have I been an on again off again fan of Judd Winick. What I’ve always known though is that the Titans have generally always been about fun action stories tinged with a nice mixture of darkness and comedy. With this book, a one shot that reintroduces the idea of a Titans East team, that traditional blending that you need is completely absent, and what is left is a book that tries to be something its not and who’s main focus falls mainly on the notion of death, something that DC seems to be harping on at this point. Whose death do I speak of? Well, that would be spoiling but it’s safe to say that Winick’s story feels dry and blah, something that doesn’t do the Titan’s name any justice. Ian Churchill’s art, while fine for the most part, is at times a little distracting and overdone, especially his hairy-legged Robin (I’m not making that up, by the way) which just looks disturbing. All in all, one that can easily be passed up.
Badger Bull One Shot
Writer: Mike Baron
Artist: Kevin Caron
Company: IDW Comics
I’m a little unfamiliar with Mike Baron’s work. The few Nexus stories that I read were good but with Badger Bull, something seems to be missing. What that is, I can’t really pin down but the overall story, one that stars an insane guy who thinks he’s a superhero and is helping protect a prize cow from being killed, feels a little weak. The jokes interspersed throughout, some good, some cheesy, and some just bad, feel a little forced at times and Caron’s art, while solid in its depiction of the character’s emotions and their movements, just isn’t enough to make up for the odd, screwball comedy meets violent action story that the story seems to be trying to be. Might be for the dedicated Mike Baron fans out there, but beyond that, this one might be one you can miss.
Dave Farabee Read and Thought:
Batman and the Outsiders #1
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Artist: Julian Lopez
Company: DC Comics
My understanding is that Chuck Dixon was an 11th hour replacement for Tony Bedard, planned as the original writer for Outsiders. Sounds like a recipe for a hurried first issue, but however fast Dixon and artist Julian Lopez had to move, there’s not a trace of slipshod effort here. This first issue is based around an infiltration scenario, with Batman directing the op and everyone else getting some fine action and character moments as they’re introduced (action and character - woo!). The team is: Catwoman, Katana, Metamorpho, Thunder (sorta), Grace, and a particularly cool Martian Manhunter. This is a book I can see myself getting into and the kind of book Dixon’s had a fine track record with in the past: superheroes lensed through a military/espionage approach. The only beef I really have is with some of the banter (struck me as a bit hokey), but it’s a minor league problem. Dixon’s rock-solid here and Lopez’s art is downright terrific - a little reminiscent, even, of the sterling work of Epting and Perkins on Ed Brubaker’s Captain America run. Oh yeah, and I kinda disliked the secret weapon revealed at the end based on its role in stories I’ve disliked, but I’ve always believed the “no bad characters, only bad writers” axiom, and have every reason to believe Dixon will find a way to make it interesting. One of DC’s strongest debuts in many months.
Groo: Hell on Earth #1 of 4
Writer: Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier
Artist: Sergio Aragones
Company: Dark Horse Comics
Groo has always been an entertaining formula of vaudevillian fantasy and moral pontifications, but I have to confess, it seems like the moralizing has been getting more heavy-handed over the years. This time out Mark and Sergio spin an allegory of the relationship between industry and war with a specific sidebar on global warming and opportunists on both sides of the debate. And Groo does his stabby-stab thing, the Sage offers up clever aphorisms, and Sergio serves up his typically great cartooning (those splash page cityscapes always turn me into a kid again, wanting to peek into every corner). It just feels a bit too heavy-handed for my tastes this time (couldn’t the methane/cow-emission connection be spun more cleverly than the literal use of belching cows?), especially since the storyline is going to stretch over four parts.
Dan Grendell Read and Thought:
The Circle #1
Writer: Brian Reed
Artist: Ian Hosfeld
Company: Image Comics
Brian Reed has an interesting mercenary/spy story starting here, but there’s just one problem- I don’t buy it. The basic idea is that there’s a mercenary group called the Circle born of a civil war in Eastern Europe but since grown global. It’s led by a man and a woman who are portrayed as hard, kill you as soon as look at you types. They are in hiding when a British stringer hears of a big crime supposedly committed by them, and since he knows where they are, he goes to warn them. The Circle leaders heed his warning, find out they are hunted, and take him on the run with them. Wait, what? Supposedly savvy mercenaries in hiding buddy up to a confessed British spy they don’t even know because he says he’s cool? They don’t just kill him in an alley and leave the country or something? I’m just not buying it. I did dig Hosfeld’s art, though. Both in action panels and while the characters are still, he is able to convey a sense of danger and intrigue. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to save the book for me.
Salvation Run #1
Writer: Bill Willingham
Artists: Sean Chen and Walden Wong
Company: DC Comics
This looks like it’s going to be fun. Checkmate, tired of all the recent crap super-villains have pulled in the DCU, has decided to start getting rid of them via boom tube to what they believe is a safe, empty planet, where they can make their own society away from normal humans. Of course, things aren’t always what they seem, and the planet isn’t so much safe as it is a crazy deathtrap. The first villains through the boom tube, some of the Rogues, start to learn the lay of the land, and by the time more arrive they have a proposition- follow us and we’ll show you how to survive, or don’t and die. Can a group of villains actually survive on a hellworld? Chen and Wong deliver some solid action and cool aliens, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this develops.
Randy Lander Read and Thought:
Captain Marvel #1 of 5
Writer: Brian Reed
Artists: Lee Weeks & Stefano Gaudiano
Company: Marvel Comics
Was anyone clamoring for the return of Captain Marvel, a character whose best story was probably also his last one, wherein he faced a quiet death with dignity? Someone at Marvel clearly believes it, because they’re following up the critically reviled Civil War: The Return with a new Captain Marvel miniseries, and this issue really tries to convince us that the Avengers and Spider-Man would be shocked and astounded to see this hero return. It’s not a terribly convincing argument, and Reed doesn’t really sell the character’s importance to the universe by having him stand around the Louvre, except for the two-page fight where he fights D-list loser villain Cyclone and casually lets him die before going back to his moping. The rest of the issue is actually even less interesting, as a new SHIELD agent destined to be just as memorable as Bendis’s Maria Hill has a psychic conversation with Tony Stark that feels like a third-rate Matrix ripoff and there’s some nonsense about a Kree cult that is inspired by the Captain’s return. Captain Marvel fans (all three of them) will probably be outraged by the poor showing of their favorite character, and the rest of us will be too bored to care. Weeks and Gaudiano, delivering stunning artwork equal to that of Mike Perkins or Steve Epting on Captain America, deserve something a whole lot more imaginative and exciting to draw than this.
House of M: Avengers #1 of 3
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Mike Perkins
Company: Marvel Comics
Given that House of M was finished two years ago, and that it wasn’t so much an alternate timeline as an alternate (and since erased) reality, it seems beyond pointless to go back and tell stories of that period. There are no possible consequences to the story. Here’s the shocker, though: This is actually really good. It’s basically an alternate Avengers story framed with a ’70s look and feel, as Luke Cage, crimelord of first Harlem and then Hell’s Kitchen, finds that in a fascist society, the criminals can often become the rebels, and by extension the heroes. Cage battles great ’70s themed bad guys like “Piranha Jones” and “Cockroach Hamilton” before joining up with House of M twists on Moon Knight, Iron Fist and Hawkeye and finding himself inspired by Tigra to fight for a larger cause. Gage is doing old school superheroics here, but he really does give the whole thing a ’70s crime sheen and puts some thought into how the House of M status quo alters these characters. And of course Perkins does a phenomenal job of capturing the period with his detailed backdrops and character designs. Better than it has any right to be, thanks to an excellent creative team, and miles better than anything House of M produced.
David Martindale Read and Thought:
World of Warcraft #1
Writer: Walter Simonson
Artist: Ludo Lullabi
Publisher: Wildstorm
The Warcraft name, and especially the World of Warcraft name, essentially prints money for anybody that uses it. Even a substandard product, if it used the name, would most likely be at least moderately successful, but eventually the mediocre products would lead to a drop in the name’s prestige and popularity. That lesson seems to have sunk in well for the legal department at Blizzard. The video games, the collectible card game, and now the comic, have all manged to do more than just use the name; they’ve been quality products. This first issue is quite solid and above average across the board. Where Simonson’s writing voice could easily be found to be over the top and melodramatic, those very qualities are what make him a great fit for this property since it depends so much on fantastical settings and stories. His narration and dialogue are grandiose, and his story is a classic hero’s journey done in an inspired way. The pencils from Lullabi are fun and energetic, lending themselves very well to an action oriented book. The storytelling is a bit confusing and hard to follow at times, but Simonson’s expository style manages to help the reader overcome the hurdle. Definitely solid. To fans of WoW and epic fantasy alike: go buy it.
Wonder Woman #14
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Terry Dodson
Publisher: DC Comics
It’s just the first issue of a new arc and new writer on Wonder Woman, but if this issue indicates what’s on the horizon, it could also be the start of Wonder Woman’s return to prominence as one of DC’s “big three.” What Gail Simone does over and over again that so many other writers just don’t get, is making her characters both believably human and awesomely heroic at the same time. Simone doesn’t write women well because she is a female herself. She writes women well because she doesn’t write believable female heroes. Rather she writes believable heroes. Her Wonder Woman is the one I’ve been waiting to read; she’s a crusader for the betterment of the entire earth and a protector of life, but she’s isn’t grimly serious about it. She is heroically passionate. Not only is it exceptionally fun and heroic, Simone’s ability to throw in an interesting hook also pays off well in the reveal on the last page about the villain. Dodson’s art continues to look great and tell a good story all at the same time. It manages visual appeal without feeling overly posed and static. If you like superheroes, you’ll dig it.
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Looks like a good week. Excited.
14 Nov 2007 at 4:08 pm
QuoteI wouldn’t care what Gage & Perkins were working on, I’d buy it regardless. Their Union Jack mini was all kinds of awesome.
Winick killing off characters? I’m shocked.
14 Nov 2007 at 4:17 pm
QuoteNever even heard of Dixon replacing Bedard on Outsiders…but damn, now I want to check out the book. No offense to Bedard, but that’s definitely a trade-up from where I’m standing.
14 Nov 2007 at 4:31 pm
QuoteIt seems like a foregone conclusion that Gail Simone on Wonder Woman would be good, but still it’s a relief to hear that it is, in fact, good.
I also picked up Batman and the Outsiders, I wasn’t all that interested to begin with but I just decided on a whim to check it out, glad to hear it doesn’t suck.
And seriously, when is Christos Gage going to get an ongoing series, I’d love to see what he does with more than 3 or 4 issues.
14 Nov 2007 at 4:37 pm
QuoteI know it’s not a #1 or a “new” storyline, But I’d love to know what you guys thought of World War Hulk #5.
14 Nov 2007 at 4:48 pm
QuoteI will be picking up new titles like Batman and the Outsiders #1 and House of M: Avengers #1 for this week. Both Christos Gage and Mike Perkins should work together more often in the future. I liked their Union Jack mini.
I’m glad WW is a good read again. Look back at Heinberg’s run, it wasn’t that bad but I can understand why people were frustrated with the delays. It was the writers that came after Heinberg that put off me reading WW. But with Simone on board, it looks like I’m going to start reading it again.
14 Nov 2007 at 5:21 pm
QuoteI have a feeling that Dixon was brought it at the last possible moment, and did what he does best: scripts, characters, and meeting the deadline. I doubt this is his plot, or his ideas. Which bodes very well indeed, given how promising this was. I didn’t love all of it, but that art was awesome, and the heroes were actually working well together.
14 Nov 2007 at 7:01 pm
Quotewonder woman and batman & the outsiders were both good.
14 Nov 2007 at 7:26 pm
QuoteHow about this one?
DIVISION 18 UNION OF COSTUMED PERFORMERS #1
Also, you missed some two weeks ago:
BIFF BAM POW #1
DEADWORLD FROZEN OVER #1
And last week:
COUNTDOWN SEARCH FOR RAY PALMER RED RAIN #1
Come on, I need you guys! With so much unneccesary crap being put out nowadays, I never buy into a new title until I hear from you. I read too much, as it is.
14 Nov 2007 at 10:06 pm
QuoteCovered it last week.
Also covered the week it came out, last week or week before. If you’re going to call us out, you should make sure we haven’t already reviewed the books.
Didn’t get it at the shop, and have previously reviewed a Deadworld #1.
We covered the first Countdown Search for Ray Palmer. Just because DC is releasing them all as #1s in some kind of new gimmickry doesn’t make them #1s.
Listen, I know you’re maybe trying to be helpful, but this really isn’t helping us out. We cover as many as we can, and we don’t (and can’t) hit everything *everyone* considers a new first issue.
14 Nov 2007 at 10:27 pm
QuoteI was a little disappointed, to be honest. Not really an ending so much as a lead-up to the next chapter, kind of like Planet Hulk. But there was something greatly satisfying about seeing Sentry smashed in the face repeatedly, and overall I enjoyed World War Hulk tons more than I expected to.
I just thought that Incredible Hulk (and next week’s #111 is no exception) was miles better than the WWH event.
14 Nov 2007 at 10:28 pm
QuoteThanks Randy.
I fully agree that Sentry taking a couple of smacks definitely was the highlight. I couldn’t help but still get that same “non-ending BS” that I got from Civil War. Banners in jail, Herc is a place-holder in the regular book and Rick Jones Hulk is probably “Red” Hulk. And Skaar is coming. OK. It’s different, yes. But is it better? Or even all that interesting?
Man… Secret Invasion Better be good.
Or else sales be damned DC is kicking their ass quality wise. I mean Busiek and Johns on Supes, Morrison on Bats, and Simone on WW?
DC’s doing a damn good job of distracting me from today’s world while Marvel usually seems kind of late in reminding me of it.
15 Nov 2007 at 12:53 am
Quotei only wish that the creative team they’ve decided to assemble for wonder woman #14 (what the hell?!) were saved for all-star wonder woman. gail simone could have really let loose on an out of continuity book with no crapola preceeding it and we may have had something deserving to sit alongside ASS (gotta love that acronym!)
15 Nov 2007 at 3:17 am
QuoteI’m gonna give Wonder Woman a shot again - I’ve tried with the book so many times but never really clicked but I’m always willing to give her another chance!
15 Nov 2007 at 5:49 am
QuoteI was a little disappointed, to be honest. Not really an ending so much as a lead-up to the next chapter, kind of like Planet Hulk. But there was something greatly satisfying about seeing Sentry smashed in the face repeatedly, and overall I enjoyed World War Hulk tons more than I expected to.
I wasn’t going to pick this up, but if The Sentry gets his ass kicked by the Hulk I’ve got to check it out. Jesus F-cking Christ I hate that character.
15 Nov 2007 at 7:19 am
QuoteI wish the Hulk had killed the Sentry. I really do.
15 Nov 2007 at 7:50 am
QuoteDoes The Hulk actually defeat The Sentry or what? Go ahead and spoil it for me. I’ll read the whole story in a collection, but more for the cathartic fun of Beat Down City drawn by JR Jr, not for nuance of plot or intricate twists and turns.
I, also, would love for The Sentry to die, but as long as Bendis has so much clout at Marvel then that idiotic, derivative, completely ineffectual lame duck deus ex machina character will still be around.
15 Nov 2007 at 10:44 am
QuoteCount me as one of the three Captain Marvel fans. That being said, I have no intention of picking the new book up. He had the best death in comics, why ruin it? The whole situation mystifies me. If even I won’t bother spending money on this series, who exactly is their target audience?
I probably would have been on board for a new Captain Marvel (or even just giving Peter David his old series back), but I can’t imagine being less interested this.
15 Nov 2007 at 11:26 am
QuoteIt pleases me to no end to see Chuck Dixon not only on a mainstream DC book again (Rush City? Nightmare on Elm Street? Are you kidding?), but a Batman book to boot. That guy’s been out in the cold for way too long. You go to work at CrossGen for a couple years and all of a sudden people forget how great your Batman was!
Absolutely nothing, not even the potential death of Power Boy, will get me to read that Titans East Special.
And count me as one of the ones who liked WWH #5. There’s no way three Hulk spinoff books are going to last, but that’s probably for a different discussion…
15 Nov 2007 at 11:53 am
QuoteI guess I’m the 4th Captain Mar-Vell fan, and I agree that he should’ve remained dead. Jim Starlin gave the character a great send off, and Marvel should’ve left well enough alone. I’m not going to be buying this series, either.
If there’s such an urgent need for Marvel Comics to have a Captain Marvel character running around their universe, I think they should’ve made Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel the new Captain and given her crappy series a new direction and status quo. Oh well.
15 Nov 2007 at 12:41 pm
QuoteNot sure why there’s such hatred for the Sentry. I rather like him (his first mini was great). Nothing since then has reached that level, but then again, nothing has lead me to call for his head.
I’m not happy about the death of his wife though…that served no purpose at all.
15 Nov 2007 at 1:24 pm
QuoteActually, with its continuing, character-killing spree (especially “Death of the New Gods” … ugh!), it’s DC that has gotten too “real-world” for me. Not that I have any love for what Bendis is doing over at Marvel. But at least that company has “Immortal Iron Fist,” which makes me giddy because it’s so fun.
Also, I haven’t enjoyed much of Busiek’s “Superman” at all. Though I’ll admit that the Johns-Frank team on “Action Comics” has me intrigued …
15 Nov 2007 at 3:23 pm
QuoteAnd ironically, now Starlin is killing off someone else’s creations in the crap-tacular “Death of the New Gods.” Sad.
15 Nov 2007 at 3:25 pm
QuoteI know….sorry.
It’s just that my LCS’s shipping schedule is obviously different from yours, and it’s sometimes a bit unwieldy to sift through the old reviews looking for uncovered books.
Perhaps a note in future installments as to why the #1’s that aren’t mentioned, aren’t mentioned? Just something short, like a link to those you’ve already done, and a reason why you’re not doing others.
I hate bugging you like this. I really do. Which is why I don’t comment that much.
Your column REALLY helps me out. I’m always looking for new things to read (as if I don’t read enough as it is), and you really help me out.
So although I may not speak up every week to say so, thanks a million.
16 Nov 2007 at 12:45 am
QuoteNot a *great* ending, but not as weak as Civil War, in my opinion. I’m also very interested in Skaar, if only because Pak has done a phenomenal job on Incredible Hulk. I’ve liked a fair amount of World War Hulk, but I’m loving what he’s doing with the Incredible Hulk book.
Oh, I think it’ll be at *least* as good as House of M.
Yeah, that means I think it’s gonna suck.
Honestly? I’m almost totally disconnected from DC these days. All of the books you mention *should* grab me, but they don’t, in part because of their tie-ins to an increasingly deep and mean-spirited continuity and in part because, well, I’m finding them kinda boring. Too soon to judge with Gail’s Wonder Woman, of course, but it’s basically stuck with a status quo formed from a dozen issues of mildly interesting to outright awful (mostly the latter) stories by Jodi Picoult and Allan Heinberg, and I just can’t really care about the current incarnation of the character.
But Marvel, despite the Bendis/JMS corner of it, has Immortal Iron Fist, The Order, New Warriors, Thunderbolts, Captain America, Daredevil, Nova, Annihilation Conquest, Incredible Hulk and X-Men First Class to name only a few. They’ve definitely got a lot more of my attention right now.
Even though my favorite publishers and imprints are probably Archaia, Dark Horse, Oni Press and Vertigo.
Well, the main reason I hate The Sentry is that he’s a character who doesn’t fit at Marvel, and the whole point of his story was sort of a meta comics tale. He’s a lame character who was the focus of a great story, but trying to take him out of that story and fit him into the modern Marvel Universe just heightens what a lame character he is.
Marvel doesn’t need a Superman. They have Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, the X-Men, etc. instead. Giving Superman some psychological problems and an ugly costume, then trying to tell us that he’s the most powerful and important hero even though we hadn’t heard of him before a few years ago, doesn’t interest me.
It doesn’t help that he’s one of Bendis’s pet characters. I’m growing to hate most of those, even the ones I used to like such as Power Man or Spider-Woman.
Um… you want us to link to the reviews we’ve already done in every column?
You can see why that might be untenable, right?
If you’re looking for a particular book, you can type the name into the search function and it’ll come up if we’ve already talked about it. That’s probably the best solution on that front. I think the odds of us adding more to do (and thus potentially making this feature go up even later) are pretty slim, honestly, although we’ll always keep it in mind.
Thanks for the kind words on the column!
16 Nov 2007 at 1:16 am
QuoteJust a quick thought on the Sentry.
Years back when Bendis first said he was going to use him on New Avengers, I was a little excited. I thought the Sentry brought back could fill an interesting role; he would be the grizzled old veteran, who could share experiences of all the adventures he went through in the Silver Age, reminding everyone about the way old school heroism should be done. The fact that he’d also be the most powerful member of the team makes for an interesting character complex.
Instead, we had Bendis using him as a phobiac doof who doesn’t even feel like the “Superman” equivalent he should be. What makes Sentry most annoying is the fact that everyone’s saying “he’s the best hero” and we’ve had absolutely no signs of that. Instead, we’re seeing him as the dumb rookie who doesn’t know how to use his power. What’s up with that? It’s not even consistent with the original Sentry mini-series.
16 Nov 2007 at 6:10 am
QuoteI suppose I can see why people don’t like him in his current role - but I’m glad he’s around. I loved the “deconstructive” nature of his introduction (though the “meta” part of his mini was the least interesting to me). He’s the hero with the power of “a million exploding suns” - a quintessential silver age description - but he’s more at war with himself than with any villain. I just think he has a great, tragic tale (I love the relationships Jenkins developed between the Sentry and the other heroes in that mini) - and is one of the few striking characters to be introduced in the last decade (unless he was introduced prior to 97? - I can’t remember).
I do think some of the subsequent Sentry stories (namely mini-II and Bendis’ Sentry arc) have done little to help the character - and I’ll admit he may not be a good fit for the Avengers (though his introduction in New Avengers was pretty cool) - but I certainly don’t find him lame. He’s an interesting character who hasn’t been written particularly well recently - but one can always hope…
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addendum - an example of a Bendis Sentry story I *did* like was the “New Avengers Disassembled” on the moon.
addendum - Martin - I sort of see what you’re saying, and I think that’s the danger of playing Sentry “straight”. However, you’re really overstating the case for being annoyed - nowhere (that I’ve read) has any character described the Sentry as “the best” (except for in the past). And I’ve never seen him be the “dumb rookie” either. Yeah, the writers have made him make some mistakes, but then again, every Marvel character has been making lots of mistakes these days.
16 Nov 2007 at 8:26 am
QuoteYeah, okay, that’s a good idea.
Have you read the Legion One-Shot?
16 Nov 2007 at 12:36 pm
QuoteWorld war Hulk was such a nothing I felt like they were kidding
16 Nov 2007 at 8:48 pm
QuoteHaven’t had the chance. It falls into that weird borderland between single issue (easily read on a given Wednesday) and graphic novel (probably going on the shelf to be read later). Looks nice from what I can see.
16 Nov 2007 at 9:54 pm
QuoteHadn’t heard about Dixon being put on B&tO. I might check it out. Does this mean he’s not going to be on Robin?
17 Nov 2007 at 8:08 am
QuoteWith regards to Dan Grendell’s Circle review:-
The MI6 agent has approached these two leaders of the Circle with Information that they have been “set up” in the theft of a russian Missile train. The Circle seems to be a mercenary team in the vein of the A-Team, a “kill if it’s needed”, not a “kill everybody for the heck of it” team . So it would be easily plausible that they would not want the death of the British agent.
Personally I thought it was an excellent set-up to a globe spanning espionage romp. A nice introduction to some of the Circle’s core membership. A fertive glimpse of a major protagonist for the Circle. All that and plenty of action intermingled throughout…. I couldn’t ask for more in a first issue
17 Nov 2007 at 8:47 am
Quote[spoiler
I dont think Rick is red-hulk I think Red HULK is plain old Bruce mutated. I saw nothing me think “Banner’s dead”
17 Nov 2007 at 3:14 pm
QuoteActually, he’s on both. The Outsiders gig was a last-minute thing, but taking over Robin has been the plan for a while.
And Peter Tomasi (along with Rags Morales) is taking over Nightwing in January. Seems like a good time to be a Bat-family fan.
17 Nov 2007 at 4:06 pm
QuoteI’m iffy about Tomasi, but Morales on Nightwing is a great idea.
17 Nov 2007 at 4:22 pm
Quoteacespot said:
“It’s just that my LCS’s shipping schedule is obviously different from yours, and it’s sometimes a bit unwieldy to sift through the old reviews looking for uncovered books.”
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Each week, save this page to your desktop. That way you won’t have to search for it, you can just open it whenever you want. After about 4 weeks or so, you can just delete it.
17 Nov 2007 at 9:58 pm
QuoteI’m glad you enjoyed it. According to the book, the Circle leaders are hiding from an assassin when the British agent approaches them. Why, then, would they be so dumb as to let someone they don’t even know start chatting one of them up and later meet the other? Because he says he’s a British agent? So what? If you’re hiding from an assassin, you don’t start hanging out with someone you don’t know. It makes no sense. This is what I didn’t understand. Either the Circle leaders are dumb, which I don’t think was the intention, or the book is just written poorly. My take was the second one.
18 Nov 2007 at 12:00 am
QuoteJust got back from reading the Legion one-shot. Here’s what I can tell you: don’t waste your time, unless it’s to look at the pretty pictures. Or to be scared. Because otherwise, the story has little merit in the way of emotions or narrative.
And, in fact, it seems that the lesson in this story is that art will destroy the world. Unless I’m misreading it. Except for the fact that that’s EXACTLY what it says!
So, take that message along with comics as a medium which incorporates two artforms - prose and pictures - and it seems to imply that comics will destroy the world. Which is either the bleakest fucking thing I’ve ever read in a comic book, or the most pretentious.
Either way, this book aspires to much, yet achieves little.
19 Nov 2007 at 12:43 am
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