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Post by tingramretro on Apr 15, 2016 2:29:33 GMT -5
Sweet Tooth is great. It's not a DC book, it's just a book that happens to be published by DC. I don't really think of Vertigo as DC. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 15, 2016 3:46:12 GMT -5
Yeah, Vertigo is in a bit of a grey area. Most of them I think of as independent in the same way I would see something from Image or whoever; but if it's a continuing character that has different writers succeeding one another, then I don't see much difference from the usual DCU stuff. So I would count Trillium or Sweet Tooth as independent books
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 15, 2016 8:01:28 GMT -5
As far as Image goes, they are the most diverse American publisher in the comic book business right now, bar none
Vertigo is pretty much on life support at this point and Gerald Way's new "Young Animal" imprint probably isn't going to help things either, but it could be a spiritual successor to the gold standard Vertigo, and Marvel's Epic and National Lampoon's Heavy Metal before it, set for more "mature, thought provoking" comics in the late 80's/early 90's
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 15, 2016 17:41:57 GMT -5
As far as Image goes, they are the most diverse American publisher in the comic book business right now, bar none Well, no. They publish fantasy based, factory system produced plot driven "high concept" comics, and very, very little else. Fantagraphics publishes Michael Deforge (non-narrative surrealism) Hip-Hop-Family Tree (Cultural History) Peanuts (you know what that is), comics creator biographies, criticism, Gay Manga, Porn, and little Enid Dolls. I think Image is going through a really good period right now, but there very much building a brand and publishing a specific type of comic for a specific type of audience. Fanta just publishes everything they think is good. They're not even close in terms of diversity. |
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Post by String on Apr 15, 2016 17:56:29 GMT -5
Moon Knight has long been one of those characters that I'd want to delve into. I'd heard good things about Ellis' run, may check it out. But I did read Lemire's first issue, not bad. Interesting set-up and the reveal at the end holds promise (if Marc can get out/escape the asylum that is).
So far, I've enjoyed Lemire's work. I haven't sampled all of his indie work but I've enjoyed his Valiant work (Bloodshot Reborn was very good). So far, I'm enjoying his work on Extraordinary X-Men. IMO, he's done more with plot and characterization in 7 issues than Bendis did in a year writing UXM. As for his DC work, I read part of his Justice League United run where they teamed up with Legion. According to some interviews, he wasn't too concerned over canon issues of which version of the Legion he used, he just wanted to put together a good team for a fun cosmic story.
And it worked splendidly. I'd love to read a LSH series by him.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 15, 2016 18:13:49 GMT -5
Bloodshot Reborn has to be one of my favorite current ongoings and the is probably the best turn around of a character that, initially, nobody knew what to do with in a good long while
I really hope we can see Shadowman at the same level in a year or two, because god help me, Jack did not deserve the fate that Milligan bestowed upon him at all
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 11:47:45 GMT -5
I liked Moon Knight #1. I have absolutely no experience with the character, but Lemire was enough to get me to pick it up.
I'll second seeing him work on an ongoing Legion series. He wrote a great Superboy series that finished up right before the New 52 launched.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 15:47:37 GMT -5
Opened up my mailbox to find my subscription copy of Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehishi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze had arrived. Ripped open the polybag and got to reading. Good stuff. I am a little behind on Marvel so to speak, so wasn't familiar with all the events that had befallen Wakanda in recent years to set up the story but got enough recap to grasp bad stuff happened and people aren't happy to get on with the story. A lot of set up, but Coates showed a grasp of the characters and concepts to make it work and make me interested in what is coming (the textbook purpose of a first issue imo) and made it feel like a satisfying first chapter in a longer work (unlike a lot of decompressed stories that feel like unsatisfying fragments of an unnecessarily larger story).
Stelfreeze's art looked amazing. I liked his design work and his storytelling was magnificent.
All in all, quite pleased with the first issue, and glad I subscribed.
-M
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Post by String on Apr 18, 2016 20:24:29 GMT -5
Opened up my mailbox to find my subscription copy of Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehishi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze had arrived. Ripped open the polybag and got to reading. Good stuff. I am a little behind on Marvel so to speak, so wasn't familiar with all the events that had befallen Wakanda in recent years to set up the story but got enough recap to grasp bad stuff happened and people aren't happy to get on with the story. A lot of set up, but Coates showed a grasp of the characters and concepts to make it work and make me interested in what is coming (the textbook purpose of a first issue imo) and made it feel like a satisfying first chapter in a longer work (unlike a lot of decompressed stories that feel like unsatisfying fragments of an unnecessarily larger story). Stelfreeze's art looked amazing. I liked his design work and his storytelling was magnificent. All in all, quite pleased with the first issue, and glad I subscribed. -M Yeah, this was a good first issue. Coates has set up some interesting conflicts and Stelfreeze's art and design contributions are terrific. I haven't read all that many of Panther's titles over the years but given his rise to prominence of late, I'm glad to have checked this out and interested to see where Coates (who is still learning the craft of comic writing and shows promise) is going with these conflicts. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 19, 2016 1:21:06 GMT -5
The latest Love and Rockets New Stories.
Jaime's stuff was fantastic, up there with his very best, IMO. Both the SF story and the nostalgic (on at least two levels) Maggie section were outstanding.
I'm going to withhold judgement on Gilbert's stuff this issue until I can re-read the whole story from start to finish once it's done, but I have to admit that my first impression was that it wasn't up to his normally very high standards. I'm thinking specifically of the part dealing with the multiple 2nd-generation Fritz imitators, none of which succeeded in capturing my interest. The continuation of the Aladdin's Lamp movie was fun, but it shouldn't have been the highlight of the story.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 19, 2016 9:33:13 GMT -5
Last weekend I was at the FBDFQ -the comics festival in Quebec city. Among the great things I discovered was Jocelyn Bonnier's L'idiot, an adaptation/transposition of Dostoievsky's novel set in modern times. It's brilliant, Taniguchi-level stuff. (And remember... learning a foreign language like French is never easier than when reading comics!)  |
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Post by berkley on Apr 21, 2016 0:50:42 GMT -5
Last weekend I was at the FBDFQ -the comics festival in Quebec city. Among the great things I discovered was Jocelyn Bonnier's L'idiot, an adaptation/transposition of Dostoievsky's novel set in modern times. It's brilliant, Taniguchi-level stuff. (And remember... learning a foreign language like French is never easier than when reading comics!) I'm always a bit leery of adaptations from one medium to another of masterpieces like The Idiot, and that feeling is especially strong in this case because I just read Dostoevsky's novel for the first time a year or two ago and its impact still resonates. All the same, reading the first page of Bonnier's BD has me interested - you can't help wondering how he dealt with certain scenes, characters, relationships, etc. Anything else catch your eye from the festival? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 21, 2016 5:45:13 GMT -5
Last weekend I was at the FBDFQ -the comics festival in Quebec city. Among the great things I discovered was Jocelyn Bonnier's L'idiot, an adaptation/transposition of Dostoievsky's novel set in modern times. It's brilliant, Taniguchi-level stuff. (And remember... learning a foreign language like French is never easier than when reading comics!) I'm always a bit leery of adaptations from one medium to another of masterpieces like The Idiot, and that feeling is especially strong in this case because I just read Dostoevsky's novel for the first time a year or two ago and its impact still resonates. All the same, reading the first page of Bonnier's BD has me interested - you can't help wondering how he dealt with certain scenes, characters, relationships, etc. Anything else catch your eye from the festival? Oh, sure, and I was surprised by how many high quality books are produced but not widely distributed. There's one intriguing series in particular that was first conceived as a TV series but developed as a comic when the concept art turned out to look great : it's titled La Bulle, a 13-part hardover series already at #6. It's published in hardcover form, full color, and I am surprised I had never heard of it considering its high production value. The story does have the pacing of a TV series (which in this case is a good thing). It's about the events that will eventually lead to a zombie apocalypse, but is not about the zombie apocalypse itself; it's not a tale of survival, but one of science gone wrong and societal change. Plenty of other stuff, too; some great, some downright bad, but the general quality was pretty high. It's clear that there is a lot of good stuff we never get to see for lack of good distribution. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2016 6:20:31 GMT -5
Last night I read ( via Marvel Unlimited) Uncanny Avengers #1( 2015) and New Avengers#1 (2015). Both the issues are taking place after the Latest Secret Wars mini and they were both jam filled with Characters that I don't really care about.
The Uncanny book follows old Steve Rogers as he has put together a team that includes the hated Deadpool. Within the first 5 pages Spider-man quits in protest and most of the rest of the issue is forgettable.
In New Avengers, we are following Robert Decosta's AIM inspired team. Lots of D listers and the only one I remember as being relevant is Songbird. Lots of Young Avengers and Squirrel Girl to round out the cast and Shield ( or whatever they are calling themselves) places Hawkeye (Clint Barton) on the team to keep an eye on them. I'm not sure but Dumm Dumm Dugan is a cyborg. Huh ?
I could never see myself paying 3.99 for these bad books, but I'm subscribed to MU so I'll glance at them. Wow. What happened to Marvel that they have to stick the Avengers name on every book.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 24, 2016 6:48:00 GMT -5
Last night I read ( via Marvel Unlimited) Uncanny Avengers #1( 2015) and New Avengers#1 (2015). Both the issues are taking place after the Latest Secret Wars mini and they were both jam filled with Characters that I don't really care about. The Uncanny book follows old Steve Rogers as he has put together a team that includes the hated Deadpool. Within the first 5 pages Spider-man quits in protest and most of the rest of the issue is forgettable. In New Avengers, we are following Robert Decosta's AIM inspired team. Lots of D listers and the only one I remember as being relevant is Songbird. Lots of Young Avengers and Squirrel Girl to round out the cast and Shield ( or whatever they are calling themselves) places Hawkeye (Clint Barton) on the team to keep an eye on them. I'm not sure but Dumm Dumm Dugan is a cyborg. Huh ? I could never see myself paying 3.99 for these bad books, but I'm subscribed to MU so I'll glance at them. Wow. What happened to Marvel that they have to stick the Avengers name on every book. With you on this 100%. Even though I'm an avowed Wolverine hater, having him as an Avenger at least made a little sense. When I saw they were making Deadpool an Avenger, it officially killed my interest in the concept. What's next, Harley Quinn as a member of the JL? I read Moon Knight #1 last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm a long-time fan of the character and Lemire did some nice work to set up the concept for the series. Knowing the buying public's lack of taste, this series will last shorter than a middle school romance, but I'll be with it until the end. Darth Vader continues to be strong, but I'm wondering how long it is going to take them to catch up to the point in canon that is ESB. It's a fixed point, much like certain events in Doctor Who, so I'm curious how they are going to arrive there and then deal with the next steps on the path to ROTJ. |
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