― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
A dagger in mine heart! I'm pulling rank and excommunicating you, Huck.
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― eeeLastica (Leee), Saturday, 29 May 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 30 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 31 May 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
The Authority, much as I loved it during the initial Ellis/Hitch and Millar/Quitely runs, is a standard superhero comic. With more violence, brasher ideas, widescreen imagery, sex and a good energy to it all....I always got the feeling that Ellis had said everything he really wanted to say about superheroes on Stormwatch and was basically just repeating himself with the Authority. But it was still better than 99% of superhero stuff being done at the time.
― David Nolan (David N.), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
The coloring-the-woman image is striking. I'm picturing him sticking his tongue out as he does it, you know, like to the corner of his mouth, the way comic strip characters do when they're concentrating -- and beads of sweat on his forehead as he hunches over the drawing table, squinting through his Coke bottles.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, today I got Justice League: A New Beginning, some animated Batman thing and something else that's totally slipped my mind. Damn.Anyway, I followed that JL series from issue #3 to not quite #50. So I had never read the first two issues in the collection, so that was extremely cool for me. But I'm most impressed at how well those issues hold up. When I read the FKNATJL mini last year, I kept thinking it was so 80s, esp. with Kevin Maguire's slightly Schnabel-esque style. BUt the original stuff (aside from a few of the women's hair-do's, I still can't believe they ever thought taking Black Canary out of fishnets was a good idea) still reads good, it's still funny now that I'm a grown up and I'm pretty sure that a lot of my current sense of humour finds its secret origin in those comics.
― Huk-L, Friday, 4 June 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Hmm, maybe I'll do that, check on Ebay. I picked up the first two TNF, and they're wonderful, but I'm really trying to curb my spending, esp. on comics, lately.
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
LOEB: "So there's this new Supergirl, and, like, Superman's all on her because she's from Krypton SUPPOSEDLY, and Batman's all jealous like 'Hell no she's a freak!' so he contacts Wonder Woman to whisk her away to Amazonia or whatever, but then Darkseid wants some of that too, yeah? So he raids the place, kills that blue-helmet chick from Crisis, and takes her away."
ED: "OK, so what happens in the next issue?"
LOEB: "Next? Dude, that's the plot for the first THREE issues!"
Why I made Jeph Loeb sound like a Yale Repetory reject auditioning for the O.C., I dunno.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Nolan (David N.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 7 June 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway.
Went to the library last night and scored some Greg Rucka NOVELS. Turns out there's this huge section behind the Graphic Novel shelf that has books without pictures.
I also got:Batman: As the Crow Flies - Wow. Dustin Nguyen is awesome. Now I have a much better idea of how much he brings to the Mahnke awesomeness (a lot).Avengers: Supreme Power - I haven't had much luck getting into the Avengers, but what the fuck. It's free.Scene of the Crime - Brubaker & Lark! Together again for the first time! Or something.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Borrowed Perez's "Gods & Monsters" Wonder Woman book, the latest Y trade (with THE EXPLANATION), Rucka's Superman "Unconventional Warfare" (which looked great, skimming it - seemed like they've done a good job modernizing the characters), a Way of the Rat trade (also looks great), the two Green Lantern & Green Arrow trades (the pointing, the pointing!), and a pile of others. All freeeeeeeeeeeee.
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
The Nguyen that inks Doug Mahnke is the one whose first name is "Tom", I believe.
Is "As the crow flies" good? It's like 20 bucks down here in argentina, and I wasn't planning to get it, but I've been interested in the few stuff I've seen from Dustin Nguyen, and I happen to have that money, which would sure be much more useful if spent in other, more important and truly needed stuff, but now I'm starting to feel this irrepressible urge to waste it in some generic Batman comic that will make me feel very guilty after I have bought it (i get this feeling, like, once or twice a year)
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
You are correct, sir, and I am a giant asshole.It's okay. The art is great, the story is so-so. I'm not sure where I stand on Winnick. I've read some really great stuff by him (the "Red Hood" business) and a lot of mediocre stuff (Green Arrow).
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Btw, there's nothing like the guilt after you have bought an extremely expensive comic.
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Ya know, the last time that I went to the library and got a stack of comic book books out, the librarian was all chatty with me about her experiences with "graphic novels" and how much she loved The Sandman! I never would have expected it from her, since she looked about 55. She was more impressed with my taste in reading material than I was, since I was mostly just checking out a bunch of kiddie comics stuff like Fushigi Yuugi and Astro Boy and shit! "Graphic novels"? WTF?!?
― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 27 August 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 September 2005 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
And I mean I'm trying to look past the racism.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
A Contract With God, To The Heart Of The Storm, and that's about it really. Luckily for you, both are being published in one volume along with Dropsie Avenue (I think) as the launch title under his new 'real publisher' deal.
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Gaz I thought of something else you should get from Kino the other day! but then I forgot it again. stay tuned!
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link