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Post by Mighty Jack on Jun 2, 2010 6:21:16 GMT -5
I've been checking out Marvel's "Heroic Age" stuff.
"Atlas" was good (I'll have to look up some of the old trades on this one too) I also enjoyed "Avengers #1", but the best of the bunch was "Secret Avengers", written by Ed Brubaker.
This week it's "Avengers Prime" and the new Hawkeye monthly.
As much as I like the heady stuff (like Gaiman's Sandman), at heart I'm an old school Marvel Comics superhero geek. I hope the heroic age really does takes us back to Marvel's classic era of colorful adventure.
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Post by Joker on Jun 4, 2010 22:38:39 GMT -5
Read Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths by Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, and Bryan Talbot. Alan Moore writes a few comics based on the Kray brothers, an aborted comic about a female sorceror's quest for revenge, a satirical look at the Book of Leviticus from the Bible where pretty much any sexual experience will get you killed, and an insane and almost pornongraphic story about the origin of H.P. Lovecraft. Then there's another Lovecraft inspired comic by another author that makes up the second half of the book and is one of the bleakest and most detailed Lovecraft comics I've ever seen.
But in Moore's first half there are some extensive interviews with him about the comics here, his career, and magic. Moore had a life-changing experience while taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1994 and converted from being an atheist to being a magician. As you can tell, he is very open about his life and magic, which he thinks shouldn't be an "elitist" thing kept secret as he talks about you having your own experience with magic by doing things that would probably make you hallucinate (fasting, meditaion, hallucinogens, etc.) He also believes that Northampton, England, where he lives is the center of the universe. These are all long explanations becuase Moore doesn't speak in complete sentences, he speaks in complete essays. He also writes an angry piece on the Iraq War from 2003 where he basically talks about all the things that led up to it in British and U.S. history in exhaustive detail. A very trippy and powerful collection.
Reading The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mickey Spillane, Dashell Hammett, and various others
Reading Swamp Thing, Vol. 6: Reunion by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Stephen Bissette, and Alfredo Alcala
Reading Hell House by Richard Matheson, graphic adaptation by Ian Edgington and Simon Fraser
Reading Roots of the Swamp Thing by Len Wein, Berni Wrightson, and Nestor P. Redondo
Reading Die Hard: Year One, Vol. 1 by Howard Chaykin and Stephen Thompson
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Post by Joker on Jun 12, 2010 0:32:04 GMT -5
Read Die Hard: Year One, Vol. 1 by Howard Chaykin and Stephen Thompson. On a hot day in New York City in 1976 the nation's bicentennial celebration is about to kick into high gear when a young rookie officer in the NYPD named John McClane crosses paths with a beautiful young woman who witnessed a murder committed by a pair of cops. But he doesn't know that until he takes an off-duty job working security on a rich man's yacht. That's when the murder witness story comes out just in time for this conspiracy comes to head with the boat taken hostage by a bunch of thieves who've wired the boat with enough dynamite to kill everone on board. It takes a while to get to that point and for the action to amp up. McClane has the same smart mouth attitude and is drawn like a young Bruce Willis with 70's mod rakish hair, but without non-stop explosive action it just doesn't feel much like something with the name Die Hard.
Read DC Comics Classics Library: Roots of the Swamp Thing by Len Wein, Berni Wrightson, and Nestor P. Redondo. This is a collection of the first 13 issues of ST from the 70's that expands on the previous collection Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis. An attempt by a criminal organization to persuade Drs. Alec and Linda Holland to sell them their new super plant-generating bio-restorative formula ends in Linda dead and Alec doused in the chemical, immolated, and supposedly dead in the surrounding swamp. Then Alec emerges from the muck a hulking mossy monster bent on vengeance, then having a bunch of creepy adventures and face-offs with various monsters. Meanwhile he's being pursued by government security agent Matt Cable and Abigail Arcane, the niece of Dr. Anton Arcane who is even worse the second time ST faces him.
This is a pre-Alan Moore comic so there is way too much redundant narration. If someone's ankle is grabbed by something they make sure to explain it right above a picture of it (in case anyone who reads it is blind or too slow to understand images illustrated on a page I guess). The descriptive narration does make it interesting otherwise and the monsters are cool, including a slimy Lovecraftian beast in a mine. A neat collection that was a great achievement in horror comics.
Reading Swamp Thing, Vol. 6: Reunion by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Stephen Bissette, and Alfredo Alcala
Reading Hell House by Richard Matheson, graphic adaptation by Ian Edgington and Simon Fraser
Reading The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mickey Spillane, Dashell Hammett, and various others
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Post by Joker on Jun 17, 2010 19:26:56 GMT -5
Read Swamp Thing, Vol. 6: Reunion by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Stephen Bissette, and Alfredo Alcala. Abby Cable lives a hopeless day-to-day existence without her lover, Swamp Thing, until hearing about a spotting of a monster in the swamp. Her hope is dashed when it turns out to actually be her father, the Patchwork Man, a pathetic creature made into a now rotting and unraveling Frankenstein-type monster by the damned Anton Arcane when he stepped on a landmine. Meanwhile, ST has been expelled from Earth and travels from planet to planet, his powers now those of a god, meeting Adam Strange on the nuclear war-ravaged Rann, the plant being-populated J586 where a seemingly washed up Green Lantern there must find a way to help the wayward elemental, and a very strange encounter with a huge spacebound bio-mechanical H.R. Giger-esque organism where ST manifesting himself inside of it is an accidental violation, then it counter-violates him for his essence imprinted DNA.
If ST can find a way back to Earth there will be hell to pay for the men who forced him from the woman he loves...
Moore brings this powerful series to a close here (even though there are more books after this) with ST coming to a monumental decision about what his responsibilities are and what ours are to our planet. A very touching and thought-provoking denouement to a horror series.
Reading The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mickey Spillane, Dashell Hammett, and various others. An okay collection of crime stories and Moore contributes a comic based on the lyrics to a song he wrote and "I Keep Coming Back" from Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths. Gaiman's story about a guy working for a wealthy gay man who seeks out beautiful young men for his own is a good mystical story. The rest are too pulpy, depressing, or convoluted to enjoy really.
Next up:
Batman: International by Alan Grant, Mark Waid, Frank Quitely, Diego Olmos, and Arthur Ranson
Hatter M., Vol. 1: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, and Ben Templesmith
Hell House by Richard Matheson, graphic adaptation by Ian Edgington and Simon Fraser
Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Lansdale and Andres Guinaldo
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Post by Joker on Jun 19, 2010 21:55:23 GMT -5
Read Hatter M., Vol. 1: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, and Ben Templesmith. Apparently Lewis Carroll lied and Wonderland is actually another world on the other side of the looking glass where the Queen of Hearts was overthrown and the Princess Alyss escapes with her protector, Hatter Madigan into the Pool of Tears. Unfortunately, the two are separated and Hatter winds up in Paris in 1859 on a desparate search to find her. He has to foolow the glow of White Imagination and takes on his many enemies with his fighting skill, his arsenal of blades, and his deadly bladed hat. Many people have this glow, like a certain author and a young Russian violin prodigy, so Hatter has his work cut out for him. And all the while corrupt Black Imagination is finding it's way into our world...
Some of the art is so amaturish by Templesmith (30 Days of Night) that I though that even with my lack of drawing anything better than a stick figure that I'm pretty sure I could still draw a bit better, especailly when Hatter flings his hat at enemies and it becomes a KRULL-like glade weapon. Still a neat story though, although I could have done without all of the explanations of the story at the end. Next time just say, "Use your imagination," to anyone who asks about the logic of fantasy.
Read Night of the Living Dead, Vol. 1 by John Russo, Mike Wolfer, Sebastian Fiumara, and Edison George. What happened before and after the gruesome night of terror when the dead came back as flesh-hungry zombies? Well, if you read this collection of comics, "Who the hell cares?" will be your answer. All the people here are either unlikable, underwritten, or dumb as dirt. Only Ben from the film stands out as a good character as he has a deadly encounter at the doomed Beekman's Diner.
Then this book goes the extra mile into repulsive country by cheapening the powerful and devestating ending of the 1968 original film. Actually, the whole book is pretty sleazy and mean-spirited. It all far too hardcore horror to be worth reading. I guess if you're into lots of pictures of extreme gore as people with flesh with apparently the same consistency of soggy oatmeal are easily pulled apart and slaughtered then this is the book for you. Just read Garth Ennis' Crossed instead.
Next up:
Batman: International by Alan Grant, Mark Waid, Frank Quitely, Diego Olmos, and Arthur Ranson
Hell House by Richard Matheson, graphic adaptation by Ian Edgington and Simon Fraser
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson and adapted by Matthew Smith
Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Lansdale and Andres Guinaldo
Neil Young's Greendale by Josh Dysart and Cliff Chiang
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Post by Joker on Jun 24, 2010 19:16:23 GMT -5
Read:
Batman: International by Alan Grant, Mark Waid, Frank Quitely, Diego Olmos, and Arthur Ranson. Bruce Wayne goes to Scotland to attend the interring of one of his ancestor's remains in an ancient crypt that's been recently vandalized. A puzzle that leads to a treasure hidden in a cathedral leads to a face off with a psycho in a golden plague mask bent on revenge against a clan based on an old grudge. Then Killer Croc escapes from Arkham Asylum and resurfaces in Barcelona around the time of a celebration of St. George's slaying of a dragon and Bats has to travel there to stop him. Then a vendetta from Bruce's training in China as a young man comes back as a string of killings in Gotham City's Chinatown leads to a deadly showdown with an equally skilled opponent. It all good detective stories here with various crazed villains and lots of action.
Hell House by Richard Matheson, graphic adaptation by Ian Edgington and Simon Fraser. There's a mansion in a rural part of Maine where a sadistic and evil man named Belasco turned his house into a debauched place where all of his perversions ended in death. Now the place is haunted beyond all reason and a team being paid to investigate the place: a physicist out to prove this is all just random energy, his wife with secret feelings she tells no one, a psychic who survived a previous tragically ended investigation, and a spiritualist who is the most vulnerable of all of them. What happens is a psychosexual nightmare as the ghosts of the place indulge themselves in increasingly terrifying ways against the team until a final showdown with the evil at the heart of Hell House. An excellent adaptation (although I haven't read the book) with a very dark atmosphere of oppressive evil (the windows of the damned house have all been bricked up).
Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Lansdale, Christopher Golden, and Andres Guinaldo. On a Friday night in Texas a huge drive-in called The Orbit is suddenly separated from reality by a low flying comet and is cut off from everything, a dissolving void surrounding it. As time wears on the horror movies that continue to play on all of the screens becomes background noise as people have to live off of whatever they brought with them or whatever's at the concession stand. As hypoglycemia and malnutrition take their toll on these people physically and mentally most people begin to devolve into savagery. Violence and cannibalism become commonplace and things only get worse as the tentacled electrical storms roiling above them manage to create a gruesome Popcorn King. There could be a way out if a couple of guys can keep it together much longer...A bizarre as hell and original story by Lansdale that tackles faith, savagery, and the human condition.
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson and adapted by Matthew Smith. After a brief forward my Wilson where he talks a lot about his disappointment with director Michael Mann's (Manhunter, Collateral, Public Enemies) film version of his book we get into the story. A team of German soldiers in Transylvania seize control of an ancient keep during WWII when they accidentally unleash something sealed away in it for centuries. It seems to be a vampire and a Romanian university professor and his daughter are brought in to translate a cryptic message and unravel what is killing German soldiers, even as a bunch of SS troopers plan to send them to a death camp. The thing in the keep makes itself known as a stranger shows up in the nearby village to face off against the evil that could be unleashed on the world. Much more satisfying to the movie with a clearer idea of what the evil is and what these characters are motivated by.
The Dead: Kingdom of Flies by Alan Grant, Simon Bisley, and Glenn Fabry. The U.K. is becoming a different kind of kingdom now as the living dead wander the streets looking for people to eat and a team of firefighters holed up in their station begin to succumb to the stress of the situation. A supply run becomes a rescue mission as two soldiers are picked up from an overrun church where the congregation is dead and hungry as hell and the graveyard erupts in a horde of even more zombies. Are these people the last living beings in Britain? Probably as this is a cheesy b-movie gorefest that doesn't take this seriously at all. A bunch of English TV personalities get eaten on the air and there's a gratuitous shower scene. Glenn Fabry's photorealistic zombie covers are excellent and this is a much better comic that Night of the Living Dead, Vol. 1.
Next up:
Neil Young's Greendale by Josh Dysart and Cliff Chiang
Ex Machina, Vol. 8: Dirty Tricks by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
The Saga of Solomon Kane by various authors (but mostly by Donald F. Glut)
The Chronicles of Solomon Kane by Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Steve Carr, and various others.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jun 30, 2010 3:03:37 GMT -5
I loved the novel of "The Keep", didn't know they turned it into a comic. I've been reading the new Atlas monthly and picked up the mini series trade. This title was included in the age of heroes line and fortunately I saw who the characters were, because I might have passed it by due to that ugly, non descript cover design. I remember these folks from an old issue of “What If” and since I dig long forgotten golden age heroes (M-11 the Killer Robot, Venus, Gorilla Man, Bob (The Uranian aka Marvel Boy) Namora and agent Jimmy Woo) I decided to give it a look --- and enjoyed what I read so much that I went back and ordered the original trade paperbacks. I just received the first one, the mini series. It was pricey, but Deep Discount had a 25% off sale so I picked it up there. It’s about the reunion of this briefly formed team from the 50s, who reunite to take on their old foe, the Yellow Claw. This was a whole lot of fun and writer Jeff Parker really did his homework on these people and their histories. Where there were inconsistencies, he offers explanations (ala Marvel Boy’s strange tirade in an old F4 tale). He gives us layers to characters who had few (the ending bit with M-11 was inspired to my mind) and in regards to the Yellow (er, Golden) Claw, he offers a back story that is surprising and makes him more than the yellow peril stereotype. I found it refreshing, familiar but different. It packs a lot into its 6 issues, maybe too much. At times sequences seem rushed or forced. Still, I’ll take that over padding the story over a 2-year period (which probably would have happened were this an Avengers title). I love that 50s vibe. Thankfully they get rid of the garish Marvel Boy costume with the silly bare legs and make him something straight out of a 50s sci-fi flick. Complete with a bubble over his head and a cool flying saucer with invisible controls. The art by Leonard Kirk is solid. I got a kick out of how Venus walks around naked through half the story. It fit her; she was such a sweet personality (or was she?). Though I’ve never been a fan of the talking gorilla thing, Gorilla Man is funny and well defined figure. And Jimmy Woo is a nice guy and a natural born leader. Only Namora is given the short shrift, though her loyalty to M-11 is a nice touch, she isn’t as well developed (she doesn’t wonder what has happened to her daughter?) There are small cameos, Jann of the Jungle is seen briefly, and if you look close, there’s just the hint of Miss Fury in a stack of photos (cool), which will make fans of this bygone era happy. The trade is also loaded with material about the making of the book and reprints of the characters 1st appearances as well as that issue of “What If?”. All together a great read and I’m looking forward to the others. I don’t know if the new monthly stands a ghost of a chance. As stated before, the cover design is not eye catching (the art isn’t bad, but the black border and title logo look weak) and the characters might not hold much interest to younger readers. That’s too bad, because they are missing out on a smart, well told adventure that is filled with action, humor and twisting plot lines.
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Post by Joker on Jun 30, 2010 17:10:58 GMT -5
Read:
Neil Young's Greendale by Josh Dysart and Cliff Chiang. A teen girl realizes that her ancestors weren't crazy and just disappeared and that she in fact has some sort of power over nature. But this realization comes with a dark stranger who walks into town to ruin her life around her. The story is based off of Neil Young's album Greendale, which he later directed a musical movie version of, but this whole book feels like an early Stephen King story with a young character with mysterious positive powers and a dark man who becomes a dangerous enemy. It's a neat read.
Ex Machina, Vol. 8: Dirty Tricks by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris. Mitchell Hundred used to be a superhero called The Great Machine with power over any machine. After he saved one of the Twin Towers on 9/11 he successfully ran for mayor of New York City. Now he has to give a speech at the Republican National Convention, but has to contend with a crazy woman who he saved in the past and now has a crush on him and stalks him while making huge obscene statements against Bush. Meanwhile, his former allies conspire against him to bring him down politically. Another cool entry in a mature series.
Next up:
Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash by James Kuhoric and James Craig
The Complete Clive Barker's Great and Secret Show by Barker, adapted by Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez
The Saga of Solomon Kane by various authors (but mostly by Donald F. Glut)
The Chronicles of Solomon Kane by Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Steve Carr, and various others.
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Post by Joker on Jul 3, 2010 23:38:54 GMT -5
Read:
Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash by Jeff Katz, James Anthony Kuhoric, and Jason Craig. The people of Crystal Lake try to rename it to erase the bad history of the place after the events of Freddy Vs. Jason. But Jason isn't dead of course, and takes out the last two survivors of that film. Meanwhile, he keeps Freddy's head next to his mother's in his shack and Freddy manipulates him into getting the book that his mom read to him from when he was a little boy that made him into the hulking zombie he is now from the cellar of his old house, The Necronomicon. Meanwhile, a new S-Mart Megastore is opening in the community and the housewares department needs work, so the management calls in an expert from Detroit, Ash Williams. Now all three characters collide as Ash has to keep the book from Jason so Freddy won't become a powerful demon and finally destroy the damned book once and for all.
When two deranged undead killers fight it's like a Godzilla movie, but when an action hero is thrown into the mix things get more interesting. Ash is not as goofy here as he is in the movies and seems like a competent protagonist. Freddy is naturally a mean and obscene dream demon and makes some insults about Jason's mental retardation that seem a bit much even for him. Jason is just a juggernaut really. It's actually a cool story that could never be made this good on screen because of it's scope. Lots of action and nightmares make it a better horror comic than you think it will be.
The Complete Clive Barker's Great and Secret Show by Barker, adapted by Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez. The spirits of two men who transcended the flesh to become like gods are sealed away beneath a lagoon in the small town of Paloma, CA. After four teen girls get violated by this small body of water and become nymphomaniacs the two spirits have offspring to continue their war to protect or invade a mythical world called Quiddity with their powers. A comedian falls into a fissure made when the water dries up and his fears allow the evil spirit to escape and build an army of abominations from the terrors of the townsfolk. Things just get more complicated as the evil one learns the Art, a way of entering Quiddity and the children of these two beings' war fall in love.
If you can understand complicated fantasy like I can than you're in for a treat with this very strange story from Clive Barker. Although I was a bit perplexed at people's open sexuality here as it seems like they'll have relations at the drop of a hat and some of the indifferent emotional responses in the face of catastrophe are pretty weird here, too.
President Evil: I Have a Scream by David Hutchison. It seems that the bird flu has turned people into flesh eating zombies and only one man has to face them. President Obama manages to land Air Force One in Arlington National Cemetery and has to save the nation from the spread of this disease. Luckily he has help from a bipartisan team of politicians trying to save their nation. The names have been changed into puns for satirical purposes, i.e. the gun-toting Sarah Paladin. "You betcha!" It's all actually very stupid really as the war against the undead in Washington D.C. leads Obama to the final confrontation with the evil force behind this entire mess.
Next up:
The Saga of Solomon Kane by various authors (but mostly by Donald F. Glut)
The Chronicles of Solomon Kane by Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Steve Carr, and various others.
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Post by Joker on Jul 8, 2010 19:07:42 GMT -5
Read:
The Saga of Solomon Kane by various authors (but mostly by Donald F. Glut). Solomon Kane is a forgotten character created by Robert E. Howard of Conan the Cimmerian fame. Kane is a puritan who may have fled from his native England to escape persecution by the Tudor rulers there in the 16th century. SK sails the seas and stalks evil in the world with his trademark rapier and flintlock guns, crossing paths with demons, monsters, pirates, and even Dracula himself (twice!)
One thing that becomes apparent after a while: Solomon Kane is probably a bit psychotic in his fanatical devotion to God and believing he is God's right hand of vengeance. I blame it on his unwillingness to accept any kind of affection from women due to his puritan faith. Anyway, he becomes a holy demon in battle, relentlessly pursuing his prey of wicked and evil people and things. He goes off to avenge a woman he has found raped and dying at the hands of a French killer thief without ever even knowing her name!
The face off with Dracula ends in a silly stalemate after Kane uses some silver coins to his advantage, but that the reason for the stalemate is really bad. Then he has to go after Drac again in the awesomely-titled "Retribution in Blood." At one point a cover of sorts advertising this face-off has a picture of Sir Christopher Lee as the Count obviously taken from a Hammer still. Drac and SK look very much alike and the two are almost evenly matched.
Other stories and poems here show SK's other exploits, some original, but most based on Howard's stories (some of those were unfinished so it was up to the writers to complete them). The early comics a cool time-capsule of 70's comic book ideas and structure. Later I was amazed that these Comic Code Authority approved issues began to have nudity and gore. Then the few from the 80's and 90's are just excellent including one that has SK joining forces through a time warp with Conan.
The Chronicles of Solomon Kane by Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Steve Carr, and various others. This collection is actually all in color and is a little better because there is less redundant comic narration in the stories. Basically it's the same stories from the first book here redone better as Solomon faces off against the French killer thief Le Loup - twice (same story remade). A face-off with flying demons, a werewolf, and a confrontation with SK's Muslim counterpart. A solid book with a relentless hero that delivers the adventure you expect.
Next up:
KISS Kompendium by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (and probably a bunch of other writers and artists since this book weighs about 20 lbs.!)
DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Wood and Ricardo Burchielli
Jonah Hex: Origins by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray
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Post by Don Quixote on Jul 12, 2010 16:35:38 GMT -5
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Post by angilasman on Jul 12, 2010 16:52:26 GMT -5
I've accepted Hellboy as my personal savior. I wonder what he would do about Westboro Baptist protesters? I'm thinking it would have something to do with punches directed at faces.
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Post by ElectricPeterTork on Jul 15, 2010 1:22:52 GMT -5
I hold Galactus as my deity.
He doesn't care what I do, or even if I exist. I pray to him, and he does nothing, so I have to get up and attempt to get done what I wanted done. And I know that one day, he will come down and eat the planet.
And maybe, just maybe, we deserve it.
Anyway, Tony? Pepper? MJ? I hope you aren't too fond of Atlas. It's canceled with issue #5.
And, I have become a bitter old fanboy... one who thinks that the good old days were better, and most everything now is derivative, crap, or derivative crap.
I didn't even see it coming. It just happened. One morning, I woke up, and all of a sudden, the fact that a mid-1980s issue of Avengers that contained a whole story in one issue, and took 15 minutes to read, and was thoroughly entertaining was more important than a modern "Chapter one of the graphic novel".
It was then that I bought a blue t-shirt and red shorts...
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 15, 2010 1:40:19 GMT -5
^Yes, I was very "too fond" of Atlas. That's disappointing news but not really unexpected.
I just finished up with the Agents of Atlas: Dark Reign trade - It was enjoyable - but damn modern comics and their damn events. It makes it tough on a writer to do a cohesive story when he is forced to tie in to an event. Therefor this is one doesn't flow as nicely as the mini-series trade.
I've got one more trade and 3 issues of the monthly to read, and that'll be it for that series.
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Post by ElectricPeterTork on Jul 15, 2010 1:53:07 GMT -5
The Atlas vs. Avengers, Atlas vs. X-Men HC came out today.
I picked it up, and I'll get around to it sometime.
The mini-series and first Atlas HC were good, but the second... I didn't make it too far into the second. I'll give it another try eventually.
Oh, and speaking of "events"... the writer of Atlas, Jeff Parker, was the one who decided to let the book go. He didn't want to drag the book into more of those "damn events" to try to get it to sell, so he took Ol' Yeller out back and put 'er down.
However, there was also a Gorilla Man mini-series that started today.
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