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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2016 17:25:27 GMT -5
- Mr. Majestic (1999)- Joe Casey and Ed McGuiness channeling Silver Age Superman with modern science. Loved, loved, loved that book. Love! Ironically my favorite "Superman" books in the 90's were Alan Moore's Supreme & Mr Majestic. They were written the way I wish DC would write Superman. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 3, 2016 17:44:32 GMT -5
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. I've never liked Planetary, Stormwatch, or The Authority, but to be fair, I'm kind of picky when it comes to team books Personally I have a bit of a soft spot for Backlash and Deathblow |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 5, 2016 8:15:17 GMT -5
I have those first 12 issues of Deathblow, Jim Lee channeling his inner Miller (and his best art ever!) and great Tim Sale, so I anderstand your soft spot for those  But let's be honnest, the story is terrible! And Backlash, seriously? What was interesting in this? |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 5, 2016 8:24:28 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 I bought those first issues of Mr Majestic by McGuiness, probably his best art ever. I liked the concept, Jack B. Quick meets superman, but I always thought the execution was a tad poor, or more to the point a little boring. But those are far from terrible 90ies Image comics, for granted! I didn't included those good comics for various explained reasons : - Yeah! was indeed great and published by Homage but also had the DC logo on it, and was edited by two DC/Vertigo editor - Desperadoes main quality was the art, Cassaday's breakout comic, but the script was quite generic. Eve Promethea, Ninja Boy, Savant Guard, Majestic vol. 2 all seemed to be fairly generic and solely relying on the art (with the possible exception of the later) but I've never read any of those. Stormwatch PHD seemed mildly intriguing back then, and I seem to remember it getting good reviews. I think this also was Christos Gage break into comics. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 5, 2016 8:26:21 GMT -5
All in all, one could say that close to half of all the Wildstorm/Homage comics published were decent to great, not a bad feature for a posterboy of all that went wrong in the 90ies!
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 5, 2016 10:55:16 GMT -5
I have those first 12 issues of Deathblow, Jim Lee channeling his inner Miller (and his best art ever!) and great Tim Sale, so I anderstand your soft spot for those But let's be honnest, the story is terrible! And Backlash, seriously? What was interesting in this? He has a psychokinetic whip, he's virtually immortal, and was born in Atlantis 3,000 years ago So he's Connor McCloud meets Namor meets Gambit |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 5, 2016 11:20:05 GMT -5
I have those first 12 issues of Deathblow, Jim Lee channeling his inner Miller (and his best art ever!) and great Tim Sale, so I anderstand your soft spot for those But let's be honnest, the story is terrible! And Backlash, seriously? What was interesting in this? He has a psychokinetic whip, he's virtually immortal, and was born in Atlantis 3,000 years ago So he's Connor McCloud meets Namor meets Gambit Hahaha, good way to show your passion  But the stories seemed run of the mill at best and the art was just some Jim Lee cloning, wasn't it? |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Apr 5, 2016 11:25:19 GMT -5
I will recommend The Resisistance (2002), not to be confused with the other Wildstorm series Resistance (2008) based on the video game. This is an 8-issue science fiction story set in a future dystopian world where the government hunts and kills the "Strayz", basically anyone born unauthorized. A young unauthorized hacker named Brian Strum has been spotted by authorities and must join a band of resistance fighters to survive. His adventures will take him into encounters with the Version Mary, androids, government smart drugs, radioactive lunatics, and rescue missions on a desperate attempt to escape certain death. Nice art by Juan Santacruz, and the story introduces some neat concepts along the way.  |
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 5, 2016 11:28:34 GMT -5
But the stories seemed run of the mill at best and the art was just some Jim Lee cloning, wasn't it? That was pretty much the problem with all early Image books, they were handled by artists who thought that they could write, when they more often than not couldn't |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Apr 5, 2016 11:29:05 GMT -5
I almost tried that one. Didn't it have some Kevin Nowlan art every now and then? DId it have a nice structure and satisfying ending?
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 5, 2016 13:35:48 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 I bought those first issues of Mr Majestic by McGuiness, probably his best art ever. I liked the concept, Jack B. Quick meets superman, but I always thought the execution was a tad poor, or more to the point a little boring. But those are far from terrible 90ies Image comics, for granted! I didn't included those good comics for various explained reasons : - Yeah! was indeed great and published by Homage but also had the DC logo on it, and was edited by two DC/Vertigo editor - Desperadoes main quality was the art, Cassaday's breakout comic, but the script was quite generic. Eve Promethea, Ninja Boy, Savant Guard, Majestic vol. 2 all seemed to be fairly generic and solely relying on the art (with the possible exception of the later) but I've never read any of those. Stormwatch PHD seemed mildly intriguing back then, and I seem to remember it getting good reviews. I think this also was Christos Gage break into comics. The second Majestic was a generic, but excellently executed superhero comic by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, mostly because the title was cancelled early, but they managed to wrap the story up in a way that seemed like they had planned it from the start, doing callbacks to the first story arc. Savant Garde was disappointing in execution and I really wish they gave Savant a better title, because I really love the character. Stormwatch PhD was pretty entertaining, though sadled with some continuity stuff (not that it had bad continuity but that editorial was clearly expecting Gage to address some previous WS continuity that the series absolutely didn't need). I like the idea of a series focused on a support team instead of the superheroes themselves. Oh, a forgotten one: Brian Wood's DV8, where the team lands on a doomed planet and the more egotistic members set themselves up as gods. |
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Post by sabongero on Apr 5, 2016 23:14:07 GMT -5
I very much appreciate the posts and opinions on this subject everyone. I've actually picked up some based on the thoughts posted here and I am looking forward to reading them. I picked up the two volumes of Mr. Majestic. Hopefully I enjoy the story. I also picked up some of the Gen and Planetary. I am also thinking of picking up Ex-Machina.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Apr 5, 2016 23:38:24 GMT -5
I almost tried that one. Didn't it have some Kevin Nowlan art every now and then? DId it have a nice structure and satisfying ending? Kevin Nowlan only contributed to the cover of issue #2 as far as I know. Santacruz did the interior artwork for all eight issues. Nice structure for the most part, although the ending is a bit abrupt. This was probably a book that had a sudden cancellation, because in the last few pages the Resistance members break the fourth wall to thank the readers in a touching manner. These are bargain bin comics well worth checking out though. |
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Post by sabongero on Apr 19, 2016 17:30:05 GMT -5
I recently got a hold of a few Gen13 in the early run which was written by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. I just wanted to ask, was this team inspired by X-Men? I mean I know they're not mutants, but Jim Lee just started writing this with Choi and Jim Lee just departed the X-Men franchise recently, back then.
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But let's be honnest, the story is terrible!
But the stories seemed run of the mill at best and the art was just some Jim Lee cloning, wasn't it?
