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I liked his Deadpool! But I won't defend it as strongly as BP; it was an inconsistent run with brilliant moments.
On Priest's blog, re: the new Black Panther, the man sez:
Meanwhile, about (House Party, Boomerang, Great White Hype and Serving Sarah film director) Reggie Hudlin on BP: I'm totally jazzed about it! Reggie is an old friend I met through Denys Cowan more than a decade ago. We've lost touch due to my hermit's tendencies, but I still court him a personal (i.e. I have his home phone number) friend. I've known, for years, that Reggie's wanted to write comics, so this is great news for Reggie and great news for Panther.
Will this be great news for Marvel? Maybe. With JR Jr. on the book, that ought to guarantee a certain amount of look-see. And, yes, I will, for now, avoid the obvious observation that, had Marvel ever put a fan-fave "name" artist on BP while I was writing it, the book would probably still be going.
At any rate, I'm thrilled and will now be forced to actually return Reggie's phone calls.
My take: I was already going to check the book out, but if this guy is actually friends with Priest, he gets more benefit of the doubt (i.e. it doesn't have to win me over with the first two issues). Not that friends always write the same or anything, not at all, but you figure he's more likely to respect Priest's run -- even if he has a different direction he wants to go in, it will hopefully grow out of the old.
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Okay, the issue I've read of
Captain America and the Falcon is really great (especially when read alongside the latest
Captain America, which while not terrible is the second Marvel comic I have read today to devote a large chunk of the issue to "a third party explains to the protagonist everything that has happened"). Is the deal that Sam has reverted back to being Snap Wilson, and Cap doesn't realize it?
JJJ is handled so subtly and well in this issue that I don't know if I can explain why I like it so much -- he's in like three or four panels, but he comes across so perfectly.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
one month passes...
Black Panther #1 (full issue preview).
So far, seems fine, but it's such a first issue that it's hard to tell. (My one complaint: the bigwigs in the room don't seem to be aware of the Huge Earth-Shattering Events Wakanda was involved with in the last series, or of Ross's role in them.)
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
two months pass...
nine months pass...
But…the classic Priest story for me is one that I didn't even realise was written by him until years later. It's an Amazing Spider-Man annual, which was serialised in the back-up pages of Transformers UK. Iron Man of 2020 comes back in time to get the DNA from a kid who grows up to be a terrorist. Priest nails Spidey completely, and that final panel stil sends shivers down my spine…came to this thread after reading owsley/priest's website, but yes, i loved this story. one of my absolute favourites...
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link
ten years pass...