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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 10, 2015 22:03:18 GMT -5
I would also like Steve Gerber to finish Omega the Unknown proper. You do know he was just transcribing what the dog was telling him, right?   |
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Post by berkley on Feb 10, 2015 22:55:19 GMT -5
I would also like Steve Gerber to finish Omega the Unknown proper. I often wonder if Omega co-writer Mary Skrenes would be interested in doing it on her own. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 11, 2015 10:22:07 GMT -5
I would also like Steve Gerber to finish Omega the Unknown proper. You do know he was just transcribing what the dog was telling him, right? Is the dog still around? Maybe he can tell us how the bloody thing was supposed to end? |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on Feb 11, 2015 14:08:27 GMT -5
-Alan Moore's Top 10 Season 2 (with Gene Ha & Zander Cannon), Big Numbers #3-12 (with Bill Sienkiewicz), Limbo (with Shane Oakley), Pearl Of The Deep (with Jon Totelben), War Child (with whoever)
-JLA: Crisis Times Nine, by Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch
-Barry Windsor-Smith's An Evening With Superman
-Ed Brubaker's Catwoman #34-50 (as originally intended; no War Games blather this time); also his Detective Comics with Ryan Sook & Mick Gray
-Garth Ennis's Sgt. Rock & Easy Company
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Post by Confessor on Feb 11, 2015 19:56:10 GMT -5
The closest thing I can think of was an old paperback of Marvel's Empire Strikes Back novelisation. That was a really great read on its own. Even if you had never seen the movie (and this was before the days of video so maybe you hadn't). It was a deep, rich story, well told, with great art, in a cheap little edition. Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson writing and drawing. Yep, comics -- especially Star Wars comics -- don't get much better than that! That version of The Empire Strikes Back is my #1 choice for best comic book adaptation of a movie or a book ever. Ever! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 21:30:25 GMT -5
A JSA/Invaders crossover written by Roy Thomas.
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2015 0:24:28 GMT -5
Speaking of Al Williamson, it always makes me feel depressed whenever I remember that he might have been hired as the artist on Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise newspaper strip if only O'Donnell had seen the sample he sent. Williamson's style would have been perfect for Blaise.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 2:11:56 GMT -5
Dark Horse said they won't be reprinting the first Jeremiah omnibus. I hope they go back on that, it kind of kills the demand for the later volumes. I'd buy all three right now if the first was available
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Post by fanboystranger on Feb 14, 2015 2:47:12 GMT -5
Speaking of Al Williamson, it always makes me feel depressed whenever I remember that he might have been hired as the artist on Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise newspaper strip if only O'Donnell had seen the sample he sent. Williamson's style would have been perfect for Blaise. Yeah, but it's not like Blaise was lacking for great artists. I go nuts for Al Williamson, but give me some John Burns, perhaps the greatest underrated illustrator of all time. ( Nikolai Dante is the greatest action/adventure strip of the past 30 years.) |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 14, 2015 12:01:19 GMT -5
Dark Horse said they won't be reprinting the first Jeremiah omnibus. I hope they go back on that, it kind of kills the demand for the later volumes. I'd buy all three right now if the first was available I just looked this up to see what you were talking about and yeah that is weird. One page I read said they only printed 500 copies. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2015 12:16:26 GMT -5
Speaking of Al Williamson, it always makes me feel depressed whenever I remember that he might have been hired as the artist on Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise newspaper strip if only O'Donnell had seen the sample he sent. Williamson's style would have been perfect for Blaise. Yeah, but it's not like Blaise was lacking for great artists. I go nuts for Al Williamson, but give me some John Burns, perhaps the greatest underrated illustrator of all time. ( Nikolai Dante is the greatest action/adventure strip of the past 30 years.) I've read only the first volume of Nikolai Dante and the first few Modesty Blaise collections, so I haven't yet got to the John Burns stories in either series, but your point is correct - MB never lacked for excellent artwork, that's for sure. What else can I think of ... of course there's always my two personal bête noirs, the Eternals and the New Gods, or rather the way both concepts have been written since Kirby's originals were cancelled. But I can't think of a single writer I'd have any confidence in for either one. Some of the biggest names in the business - e.g. Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman - have had their shot and failed miserably. As long as those properties are owned by Marvel and DC, there's very little chance anything worthwhile will be done with either of them. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2015 12:18:15 GMT -5
I would also like Steve Gerber to finish Omega the Unknown proper. You do know he was just transcribing what the dog was telling him, right? If you remember the series, there's a reason why this could actually make sense, within the internal logic of the story! |
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 14, 2015 12:20:57 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Feb 17, 2015 1:52:02 GMT -5
Steve Rude does a great Kirby but for some reason his Barda has always seemed a little lackluster to me.
More importantly, I have no idea who I'd want to write a Barda/Furies series. I can't think of anyone, even among my favourite writers.
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