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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 9, 2014 16:23:27 GMT -5
It's a pretty big step up, we're still sort of getting settled in but things are starting to get back to normal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 22:33:20 GMT -5
It's a pretty big step up, we're still sort of getting settled in but things are starting to get back to normal. Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends... Good to see you back, I was beginning to wonder where you had wandered off to, you were definitely missed. Glad to have you back. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 9, 2014 22:38:54 GMT -5
Good to be missed.
I had a full day off of reading today so I've caught up a lot, both on my current comics and some older trades that I've picked up like The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright(which was awesome) and Will Eisner's Signal from Space(also awesome).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 22:57:08 GMT -5
Unless things get really crazy I'm going to hit 1000 comics this year. I may even double last years total, which I believe was around 650 or so.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 9, 2014 23:14:47 GMT -5
Good for you man.
I saw you read Whiteout a while back, how was that? I remember thinking the movie was alright but I never picked up the comic.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 23:19:21 GMT -5
Good for you man. I saw you read Whiteout a while back, how was that? I remember thinking the movie was alright but I never picked up the comic. I read the first trade before the movie came out and quite liked it. It's hard to go wrong with Rucka and Lieber, and Rucks writes strong female leads so well. When I saw the movie, I was quite disappointed, it does not really capture the feel of the comics very well at all... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 21:52:40 GMT -5
Whiteout was an awesome series. Probably the most gritty mystery comic with a female lead I've ever read. From what I've read of the movie it's probably quite different. Less traditional action and less traditional sexy female lead. The story could have been made into a movie starring circa 1980's Nick Nolte as the lead with nearly no change in dialogue. It's a true mystery thriller.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 11, 2014 21:02:35 GMT -5
I like a good mystery so I'll have to check it out. I know the movie gets panned alot but I've always felt it was a pretty fun suspense flick even if it was a little paint by the numbers at times. I don't know how different the movie is than the book, but if there even a little similar in how they end, how do they do a sequel? The film seemed pretty much over and done, so how do you continue from there?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 11, 2014 21:40:04 GMT -5
Whiteout is a great read. Book that absolutely had to be in black & white. Great story and art.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 12, 2014 19:56:39 GMT -5
It's officially on my "to buy list" now I have a couple of GN's and trades ahead of it on my amazon list but it'll be read this year to be sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 1:48:31 GMT -5
A little behind on new stuff still, but I just read through Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #7, and much to my surprise there was a new Conan story then drawn by Kevin Maguire. He's not someone I would have thought of as a potential Conan artist, but the 8 pager was quite well done and really felt like a Conan story-I like Maguire's stuff a lot and his Justice League run is a fave or mine, but I usually associate his style wit lighter fare, not sword and sorcery stuff, but it worked well here.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 19:17:54 GMT -5
Batman by Azzarello & Risso
Kamandi by Gibbons & Sook
Superman by Arcudi and Bermejo
Hawkman by Kyle Baker
Deadman by Bullock & Heuck
Green Lantern by Busiek & Quinones
Metamorpho by Gaiman and Allred
Teen Titans by Berganza & Galloway
Strange Adventures featuring Adam Strange by Paul Pope
Supergirl by Palmiotti and Connor
Metal Men by Didio, Garcia-Lopez & Nowlan
Wonder Woman by Ben Caldwell
Sgt. Rock by Adam and Joe Kubert
The Flash by Kerschl & Fletcher
The Demon & Catwoman by W. Simonson & Stelfreeze
on newsprint...glorious so far. I am reading through Wednesday Comics for the first time. Some top notch stuff here, and a few that are disappointing. So far the two not really doing anything for me are Berganza & Galloway's Teen Titans and Caldwell's Wonder Woman, but for very different reasons. The Titans strip is just blah and the colors are washed out making the art difficult to see because it all blends together. I think whoever colored it did not take into consideration the way colors work on newsprint rather than the glossier paper of modern comics.
Caldwell's Wonder Woman is an interesting take on the character, but the art is the let down here too. Not the style, but the fact he uses lots of tiny panels filled with lots of lettering balloons covering up significant chunks of the art and on top of it all, the panel to panel storytelling in the art is weak. Add to it the similar coloring issues as Teen Titans, except instead of being washed out, the coloring here is too dark and gets muddied up on the newsprint instead of washed out. Both fill every possible centimeter of every panel with color and coloring effects leaving no white space or empty space to contrast with the line art to allow it to stand out on a newsprint page. The result on Wonder Woman is tiny muddled panels nearly filled with lettering balloons obscuring what looks to be interesting line art and killing the storytelling and making it difficult to read of find the flow of the panels. It's a shame because the story premise is very interesting. Teen Titans would be better with stronger visuals, but the story here is still a let down. Metal Men is much the same with Didio writing, but the Garcia-Lopez/Nowlan art is sheer beauty to behold, making the strip enjoyable in spite of Didio's poor writing. Not sure how the coloring on those two strips was affected when the oversized hardcover edition was assembled and whether it read better color-wise in that format, but those two suffer from modern coloring effects on newsprint badly.
I think my favorite, it a strip by creators I had never checked out before, and that is the Deadman strip by Bullock & Heuck, though Paul Pope's Strange Adventures is a very close second.
I still have a bunch more to read through, so am going to go engross myself in those now.
-M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 14, 2014 18:11:30 GMT -5
Wednesday Comics was an amazing book, I really have no idea why DC doesn't do this every summer. That was seriously my favorite title to come out in 20 years.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 17, 2014 19:24:01 GMT -5
Damn, I'm loving the Goon. It's very different than I thought it would be after having read the crossover with Hellboy but incredibly fun none the less.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 17, 2014 19:43:07 GMT -5
What little I've read of The Goon I really enjoyed especially Eric Powell's artwork.
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