Moore would turn it down, surely. (but that then raises the question of whether he'd say publically he'd turned it down, which is bad form iirc.)
― woof, Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
I've read it twice now, very slowly and carefully the second time, and I think Nameless is up there with his best stuff. Which is nice, given I thought he wouldn't produce anything that good again. A fair bit of the credit definitely goes to Chris Burnham, though.
― albvivertine, Monday, 5 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
ok lolhttp://i.imgur.com/cmzDlhV.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
Wow! Is Morrison writing GL now, or is that just a one-off gig?
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
No, GM is writing one of the GL books. IMO it's not really lived up to the hype, some neat ideas but really doesn't hold together - it's more like a handful of 2000ad ideas in search of a character.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 7 June 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
It's pretty silly but I like it! It's like Batman Incorporated In Space (although not quite as good as that sounds). It's the first thing he's done since Batman that I've enjoyed. although Liam Sharp doesn't really do anything for me - it's a bit sub-Gene Ha.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
This cover sums it up really
https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1237/w400/1237279.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 June 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Great cover, eh?
Or, er:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/cmx-images-prod/Item/737712/737712._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg
ASTOUNDING Sci-Fi style Green Lantern as dopey police procedural sums it up pretty well; I'm having a great time with it! The art is maybe overly florid in a Bart Sears way but it gets the job done.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
would it be possible to execute the good and funny idea for a superhero cover any worse than they have done there?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
(like, there are many ways that you could make it just as bad. but from art to trade dress to layout to lettering, every element collaborates to render the dynamism and joke utterly inert
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
not sure what the "'joke" is exactly but the covers seem like (occasionally witless) stabs at pulp homage more than anything. computer coloring certainly doesn't help.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
the junkie cover is clearly a terrible defenestration of something that could have been much funnier
the god one tickles me, ugly fonts and all
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 June 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
It's Liam Sharp, guys, govern yr expectations.
― Fiat Earther (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 June 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
Not that we saw this contextless cover itt with any expectations, but a) Sharp isn’t responsible for the rigid trade dress, right-to-left layout, bad balloon, awkward speech lettering, mixed fonts or font choices, and b) why do DC keep lumbering Morrison with primary artists who draw lumbering steroid cases & have no sense of humour or wit?Case was a good match on Doom Patrol and Burnham was a gift from the heavens, perhaps the most “gets it” artist Morrison has ever had on any ongoing project, but apart from that the chasm between artists he brings himself and ones that DC assign to him is yawping.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 8 June 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
See also: Quitely (obvs), Cameron Stewart
― Fiat Earther (Old Lunch), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
Quitely he brought himself; Stewart campaigned to get his Invisibles fill-in.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 8 June 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link
Just checked, and Morrison invited Burnham to do his first 7-page fill-in after seeing Officer Downe; DC signed Burnham to a 2-year contract after his first full issue. Shoulda figured.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 8 June 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link