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Post by sabongero on Apr 1, 2016 15:51:13 GMT -5
Hi. I'm mostly familiar with the Big2 publications of Marvel and DC. I just wanted to branch out to other publishers. I was wondering can anyone share their opinions of any of the WildStorm publications from 1992 until when they went defunct in 2010. Thanks.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 2, 2016 10:18:27 GMT -5
I think the only in-universe Wildstorm I've read is Ms. Majestic, which I liked.. I mean, there's only so much you can do with a Superman analog, but it was a good one. I tried Stormwatch, but honestly I liked it better in the bad only Image days that later on, but then I didn't real much of it, so maybe it would read better as a whole than the odd issue. Good thread, though... I'm happy to see what people say  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 2, 2016 10:26:50 GMT -5
Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughn was a Wildstorm title I believe
Anything by Vaughn is well worth reading
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 10:30:38 GMT -5
Warren Ellis' Planetary, and Ed Brubaker's Sleeper (and the prologue setting it up in Pint Blank)are my favorite reads under the Wildstorm label. I also have a fondness for the Bay City Jive mini by John Layman, but I would only recommend it to someone who enjoys the Blacksploitation genre, Shaft, or 70s crime drama television or shows martial arts movies.  Also some of Kurt Busiek's Astro City was done under the Wildstorm banner, and any Astro City is worth checking out. Arrowsmith by Busiek is another Wildstorm banner book worth reading. I also quite liked Global Frequency by Warren Ellis, produced under the Wildstorm banner. But a lot of the Wildstorm stuff I liked wasn't in the "Wildstoprm universe" shared sandbox per se. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 10:56:36 GMT -5
I liked Mr Majestic. The Authority #1-12. Arrowsmith.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 2, 2016 11:59:26 GMT -5
Beyond the previously wild cats and Stormwatch/Authority runs (and ABC comics), all of those had some real value :
A God Somewhere (2010)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City (1995)
The Authority: Revolution (2004)
Automatic Kafka (2002)
Coup D'Etat (2004)
Ex Machina (2004)
Four Women (2001)
Global Frequency (2002)
The Intimates (2005)
Leave It To Chance (1996)
A Man Called Kev (2006)
The Maxx (1993)
Planetary (1999)
Point Blank (2002)
The Programme (2007)
Red (2003)
Sleeper (2003)
Sleeper: Season Two (2004)
Stormwatch: Team Achilles (2002)
Wild Girl (2005)
The Winter Men (2005)
Zero Girl (2001)
And probably a bunch I'm forgetting, but all in all, Wildstorm/Homage is responsible for many quality books.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 13:19:49 GMT -5
Oh I forgot Leave it to Chance (which also did issues at Image I beleive) , also well worth checking out, good call AGS.
-M
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 2, 2016 14:20:19 GMT -5
Beyond the previously wild cats and Stormwatch/Authority runs (and ABC comics), all of those had some real value : A God Somewhere (2010) Kurt Busiek's Astro City (1995) The Authority: Revolution (2004) Automatic Kafka (2002) Coup D'Etat (2004) Ex Machina (2004) Four Women (2001) Global Frequency (2002) The Intimates (2005) Leave It To Chance (1996) A Man Called Kev (2006) The Maxx (1993) Planetary (1999) Point Blank (2002) The Programme (2007) Red (2003) Sleeper (2003) Sleeper: Season Two (2004) Stormwatch: Team Achilles (2002) Wild Girl (2005) The Winter Men (2005) Zero Girl (2001) And probably a bunch I'm forgetting, but all in all, Wildstorm/Homage is responsible for many quality books. I'd second most of this (except for the ones I haven't read yet). I'd add: Team 7 (the original mini by Chuck Dixon and Aron Wiesenfeld, but not the two sequels (Objective Hell and Dead Reckoning). It's a straight forward story that will it explains the foundation of the Wildstorm Universe can be read with no knowledge of it: A group of soldiers are exposed to an experimental weapon that gives them superpowers. Not all members of the team get a focus, but the ones who do all react differently to the incident. The two sequels lack that straightforward storytelling and become more mired in Wildstorm continuity issues). Team Zero: also by Chuck Dixon with art by Doug Mankhe, this one was a WWII comic which (except for the appearance of 1 character that has a connection to the later WS universe) could have been published by any publisher, because it just is a war comic with no supernatural/suphero elements. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 2, 2016 15:54:02 GMT -5
Beyond the previously wild cats and Stormwatch/Authority runs (and ABC comics), all of those had some real value : A God Somewhere (2010) Kurt Busiek's Astro City (1995) The Authority: Revolution (2004) Automatic Kafka (2002) Coup D'Etat (2004) Ex Machina (2004) Four Women (2001) Global Frequency (2002) The Intimates (2005) Leave It To Chance (1996) A Man Called Kev (2006) The Maxx (1993) Planetary (1999) Point Blank (2002) The Programme (2007) Red (2003) Sleeper (2003) Sleeper: Season Two (2004) Stormwatch: Team Achilles (2002) Wild Girl (2005) The Winter Men (2005) Zero Girl (2001) And probably a bunch I'm forgetting, but all in all, Wildstorm/Homage is responsible for many quality books. I'd second most of this (except for the ones I haven't read yet). I'd add: Team 7 (the original mini by Chuck Dixon and Aron Wiesenfeld, but not the two sequels (Objective Hell and Dead Reckoning). It's a straight forward story that will it explains the foundation of the Wildstorm Universe can be read with no knowledge of it: A group of soldiers are exposed to an experimental weapon that gives them superpowers. Not all members of the team get a focus, but the ones who do all react differently to the incident. The two sequels lack that straightforward storytelling and become more mired in Wildstorm continuity issues). Team Zero: also by Chuck Dixon with art by Doug Mankhe, this one was a WWII comic which (except for the appearance of 1 character that has a connection to the later WS universe) could have been published by any publisher, because it just is a war comic with no supernatural/suphero elements. I almost included those two, because of the art. Team 7 had Aaron Wiesenfield breaking out. You could still see the usual mistakes of a Jim Lee wannabe, but there also was highly interesting clues of what a great artist he'd become. Some pages were actually sensational. Team Zero had the merit of giving Doug Mahnke something else but superheroes to draw, but the Sandra Hope inking should have been looser and kept it a little too "edgy". |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 2, 2016 20:00:41 GMT -5
Alot of that stuff was great, but not really 'Wildstorm Universe'.. Astro City, obviously, Arrowsmith (Man, I wish Busiek stuck with that longer!), Leave it to Chance... Desparadoes might have been Wildstorm too. Heck, I think even Star Trek was under license through Wildstorm for a while.
I forgot about Ex-Machina.. think I have the first trade of that.. I remember thinking it was a cool concept, but don't remember a thing about the actual book. Is it actually the Wildstorm universe?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 22:02:26 GMT -5
It was part of their creator owned WildStorm Signature Series "imprint".
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 3, 2016 4:56:18 GMT -5
The intimates is one of those underlooked books that was actually great, a teen superhero book with a mixture of early social media and 1984 approach, good art from Guiseppe Cammuncoli and clever scripts from Joe Casey.
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Post by DubipR on Apr 3, 2016 9:24:36 GMT -5
Arthur Gordon Scratch's list is pretty solid from top to bottom. I'd make a few other recommendations:
- Mr. Majestic (1999)- Joe Casey and Ed McGuiness channeling Silver Age Superman with modern science.
- Majestic (2004)- Danny Abnett & Andy Lanning with Karl Kerschel & Neil Googe. For a brief time, Majestic steps into the DCU replacing Superman for about 5 months and then returns back to his universe and has to fix it.
- Stormwatch PHD (2007)- Christos Gage & Dough Mahnke. Think Stormwatch scaled down to field agents.
- Savant Guard (1997)-
- Captain Atom: Armageddon (2005)- DC's hero stuck in the Wildstorm Universe.
- Wildcats vol 2 and 3: already mentioned but damn good reading.
- Ninja Boy (2002)- Ale Garza
- Eve Protomecha (2000)
- Desperadoes (1999)- Western meets X-Files. John Cassaday artwork.
- Yeah! (2000)- Gilbert Hernandez & Peter Bagge doing an all ages comic
- All of the ABC titles by Alan Moore
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Post by bdk91939 on Apr 3, 2016 13:19:20 GMT -5
Warren Ellis's Planetary. All 26 issues were fantastic.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 3, 2016 13:22:37 GMT -5
- Mr. Majestic (1999)- Joe Casey and Ed McGuiness channeling Silver Age Superman with modern science. Loved, loved, loved that book. Love! Still don't understand you Planetary fans. I'm a big 'ol Ellis fan and Planetary is exactly the kind of thing I like in theory, but the execution just put me to sleep. |
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