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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
I have been reading ultimate avengers and Hulk, I like the art and the stories, also sometimes X-Men, lately I dont like much of dc titles but sometimes I pick one from Batman.
Currently reading Showcase books: Teen Titans is what you'd expect (starts to get interesting right at the end of the volume), and Green Arrow is more Golden-Age-style fun than I'd anticipated.
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I just wasn't aware of his continuity: that he'd stayed in print between the Golden and Silver Ages, and had this whole brighter-Batman thing going on in the '50s. It's a long way from O'Neil-Adams and everything since.
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Took a break yesterday from Green Arrow reprints and read Captain America Vol. 2 (big pictures, didn't take long). Heroes Return was the last creative peak I can remember at Marvel, with great artists or writers or both on Captain America, Avengers, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and the FF; Heroes Reborn is the monstrosity which led to it, with the hot Image creators re-inventing the Marvel heroes for a year. I didn't buy these ugly comics new, and having read some now, I still wouldn't.
The first six issues of CA are written poorly by Jeph Loeb (whose work with Tim Sale has been okay, but this isn't) and sort of drawn by Rob Liefeld. This is probably the worst comics art I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a bit. It's not a style, it's terrible drawing.
After #6, James Robinson writes a harmless arc which could have appeared in the unReborn title, with variable but sometimes-nice, slightly-cartoony art by Joe Bennett, and he fixes some of the rubbish established in the first six issues. Then there's the incoherent issue leading into Heroes Return and the end of the whole stupid experiment.
If it was planned as a self-contained year-long event, Reborn could have been done well. If it was genuinely an experiment to see what the Image creators could do with these iconic characters, I can't imagine what they were thinking. And if I were James Robinson, I'd be pissed off that my okay Captain America story is associated with this rubbish, which no sensible person will go out of his way to look at.
I'm not even in a bad mood. These comics are just a waste of everything.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
Yeah ... I never picked up anything. I did look at a couple of issues to flip through them but mostly it was a waste of time. Liefeld is such a waste of space. He always has been but he did have a certain dynamic approach that worked for some action scenes in the early days. He then started reading more of his own press.
Louise Simonson was his editor for a bit on something and she said something about him, when asked. She said that he is really nice but rose up too far, too fast and never really had a chance to learn, and when he did have a chance he didn't think he needed to. That is a paraphase of stuff but the basic gist works.
Finally picked up the first three issues of the new Green Lantern (I'm not made of money). Beautiful Pacheco art, a stirring script, a breathtaking act of heroism... Even the colour was gorgeous.
Makes me think superhero comics have still got a future.
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Next three issues are okay, but issue 6's art, by someone called Simone Bianchi, is INCREDIBLE. From photos, I'd say, but very precise, wonderfully finished, and interesting for us 3D idiots, because this is what our stuff could look like.
Can't read any more. 'Night.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
Yeah .. I liked the artwork in those and the storey wasn't bad either. I am not sure if they continue being good because there is a bit of a slip (in my eyes) with the year one stuff. It could pick up though.
Just read a few more, and yes, OYL is confusing. But still excellent artists - Ivan Reis is a good Neal Adams imitator - and I forgot to mention at the end of #3 a nice homage to the stunning Adams splash from GL76.
I'm pleased to have found a current comic I like this much.
Started reading Showcase Presents Jonah Hex: outstanding Tony DeZuniga art and, for those here who aren't so keen on superheroes, it's a Western!
Interesting, in fact, how movie Westerns of the time - the comic is early 1970s - clearly influenced Western comics. We seem to be in Peckinpah/Eastwood territory, not that that's a bad thing...
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
I just finished reading the trade paperback version of "Superman: Birthright" by Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu and it was a very cool retelling or ultimate version of the original story. It also was still in the spirit of the original so I don't think too many purists would balk at it but it definately is a "What If?" kind of thing.
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