he's in that category of people I see on twitter (I don't follow him) but don't really know what their ~deal~ is
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
His Stan Lee biography is really good (if, like me, you're firmly in the Stan = old fraud camp)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
I believe he was involved in some online harassment a while back, that put him firmly on my “fuck this guy” list, but I may be misremembering
Otherwise I just hate the way he writes, he seems part of that AV Club influenced-turn in alt-weekly style culture writing to overinflated word counts and boring personal anecdote
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Is the new movie any good? y/n
― u swear (morrisp), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
(Or maybe that’s a pitchfork thing but I don’t read pitchfork.)
Anyway: Adam west really hits that both-funny-and-scary sweet spot with this. Should have had him on all-star Batman too
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
morrisp, there’s a thread Robert Pattinson IS The Batman
I would say it’s fine, Adam West reading the script might be better
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
I ended up with this huge hardcover of a thing called Gotham Central Omnibus (a guy was cleaning out his office, and gave it to my wife). Is it good / worth getting into? Looks like Batman isn’t in it very much!
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
it's decent pulp - Rucka and Brubaker writing different shifts of weary regular cops but! in a supervillain world
― beepy fridges (sic), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
very fond memories of it
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link
The first arc is a little stiff, but after that it gets better and better.
Greg Rucka is a good influence on Ed Brubaker but an inferior writer in almost every way. One Brubaker leaves, it gets less interesting, but it's still worth finishing.
It exists in an interesting space where crime writers still wanted to riff on Homicide: Life on the Streets (a huge influence, even down to the colouring) but no one was really watching The Wire yet.
Allen and Montoya were two fun characters that DC lost sight of because of racism and editorial carelessness
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
*Once not One
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
Really nice Michael Lark art on the early issues.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
Montoya hasn't been completely forgotten at least, she later became The Question II and has showed up in various films and TV series. Crispus Allen for sure though
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link