Comments on: Wednesday Number Ones 1/16/08

By: rob

rob — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:40:58 +0000

read exiles Clearmot seems to be Banking on readers liking a version of Sabertooth being in love with a woman main-earth Tooth beat the crap of. Workable but if you want to play that you have to show Sabertooth has a real soft spot for her. So far he’s fumbled that ball

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:37:23 +0000

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Intelligence Gathering was well worth it. The previous TNG and TOS stories were not quite what I was hoping for but this builts on some of the things I enjoyed about TNG. Data’s confliction with sentience and add in Riker’s conflication about what he would have to do makes for some great memories I had about the show and still do. 2008 is suppoused to be a big Trek year for IDW and hopefully this promising start is a sign of things to come.

By: Hellhound

Hellhound — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:09:18 +0000

My issue with House of M is that Bill Mantlo could have told the exact same story in 38 pages 25 years ago.

And he could’ve worked ROM into the story.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:20:29 +0000

My issue with House of M is that Bill Mantlo could have told the exact same story in 38 pages 25 years ago.

By: mrpeepants

mrpeepants — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:03:53 +0000

thanks for the reply. probably just casually grab it sometime. i guess mega crossover events usually don’t turn out to be must reads.

By: darthson

darthson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:41 +0000

House of M is definitely collected, along with all the tie-ins, good and bad, you could ever want.

Personally, I found it a descent read. Not great, but not dreck, either. If you’ve got the extra cash, go for it. If you need to wait and save up, don’t bother. My personal opinion.

Although, if you do get any tie-ins: Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four I found both surpassed the “Core story” in quality and sheer enjoyment factor.

By: mrpeepants

mrpeepants — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:36:59 +0000

hello all. kinda week wednesday # 1s. side question, i recently picked up house of m avengers #1 and enjoyed it. i didn’t read house of m - is it worth going back to read house of m, is it collected? thanks all

By: BigTomCasual

BigTomCasual — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:24:15 +0000

Have you guys considered doing a Wednesday feature covering more than #1s?

By: rob

rob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:22:06 +0000

defalco has done good stuff read his Marvel two in ones.
Cleamont? I kind of like him even today. i’ve never minded his wordiness

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:23:32 +0000

It almost seems as though books like ‘Spider-Girl’ and ‘Exiles’ exist just to give legacy creators an outlet.

As if to say, “We respect what you’ve done in the past, but your sensibilties don’t fit with the Marvel U any more, so we’ll throw you an OOC bone.”

I’m not sure I’d lump Defalco in with Claremont.

I was never a big fan of either, but Defalco’s gotten me interested in the Spider-verse (which I never really liked) while Claremont continues to dissuade my interest in the X-verse.

Further, in Defalco’s case… he is certainly delivering something that isn’t really offered elsewhere (or at least wasn’t when he started with Spider-Girl… the Marvel Adventures line could be said to overlap now) while Claremont is sorta/kinda trying to fit on the periphery of the known Marvel U.

By: Tim Agen

Tim Agen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:10:14 +0000

Too bad about “The Stranded”. I didn’t read my copy yet, I picked it up because of Carey. Also picked up the other cover cause Greg Horn makes me feel icky. I think a review of Virigin Comics may make a good podcast. I think they have the “first arcs” out of most of their launch titles.. and they’ve had those one shots. Are they doing well? How’s their line-wide quality? Art? Scheduling? I tried many of their series and thot they’d be better collected so I stopped buying singles. So now that I have some distance, I don’t know that I’m missing it. Well, sorta missing Michael Gaydos’ art.

Comments about non #1s should be saved for “Top Five Fridays” or? Cause WoW makes me nuts and Angel #3 = The Wow!

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:52:11 +0000

It’s hard to deny that there isn’t much special about Dixon’s return to Robin, but after (IMHO) the borefest that was Nightwing and after so much angst for the Tim over the past three years, I was very glad to read a good old-fashioned Robin story. It’s perhaps a bit sad that this feels so much livelier than most of DC’s output when 10 years ago it would have been middle of the pack, but I really enjoyed this and look forward to more of it.

By: Murphy

Murphy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:51:51 +0000

It almost seems as though books like ‘Spider-Girl’ and ‘Exiles’ exist just to give legacy creators an outlet. As if to say, “We respect what you’ve done in the past, but your sensibilties don’t fit with the Marvel U any more, so we’ll throw you an OOC bone.”

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:06:09 +0000

Oh, just found the review of Birds of Prey #113 a couple of weeks ago. My bad.

Still, was #114 any better?

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:37:47 +0000

Was that Sean McKeever’s first issue of Birds of Prey out this week? Did anyone read it? Thoughts?

By: acespot

acespot — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:52:11 +0000

LOL!
I’d read that story!

By: rob

rob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:56:42 +0000

oh it’s too easy! plese please tell me male mystuie will meet female so the can be in a story called “Go f*CK yourself

By: Stan Darsh

Stan Darsh — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:24:26 +0000

This week’s Wednesday Number One aren’t as impressive as last week. Other than the usual comics I get for this week like DMZ, Fell, etc. I’ll pickup ‘76 #1.