Fallen Angel #3 came out last week (we missed putting up SW since we were on the road to Dragon*Con) so there’s that plus whatever’s out this week. Knock yourselves out.
PAD
Fallen Angel #3 came out last week (we missed putting up SW since we were on the road to Dragon*Con) so there’s that plus whatever’s out this week. Knock yourselves out.
PAD
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I’m enjoying the Fallen Angel storyline a lot, and even though I’m not a fan of J.K. Woodard’s art, I thought it looked better than usual this issue. Well done!
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I’m reading the “Blackest Night” storyline in Blackest Night, Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps, and I’m wondering if DC is going to use this as a way to resurrect characters like Bruce Wayne and Martian Manhunter. If so, it’s a fairly telegraphed way to do it. I’m curious as to how this story will be resolved, and how much the Indigo and Blue Lanterns will have to do with it. I’m a bit skeptical of the story’s length, also. The BN miniseries is eight-issues long, so after issue 3 this month, there’s five more months of this. I’ve been generally enjoying Geoff Johns work on the Lanterns, but I’m wondering if it will seem like it’s dragging on by the time it’s over. As it is, there’s been two years of buildup leading to this.
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Loving Mark Millar’s return to the Ultimates with Ultimate Avengers, and since Carlos Pacheco’s dynamic art (in terms of his figure work and overall) is one of my all-time faves, Bryan Hitch’s absence is not a sore point.
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Got a giveaway bag from the Midtown Comics booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday. I’m thinking of giving the Spider-Girl #1, Free Comic Book Day Wolverine #1, Spider-Man & The Human Torch In…Bahia De Los Muertos! and Archie #600 (in which he proposes to Veronica) to my little cousins when they have their birthday part in November, but I might just read through the first issue of Marvel’s Last of the Mohicans adaptation myself.
Morrison already put the mechanics for Bruce’s return in play in Final Crisis #7. He’ll be handling that on his own next year.
Ack. Only the word “Loving” was supposed to be emboldened above.
Errr…
I don’t know if this is an error or not but in the process of ordering stuff from the latest Previews I noticed no soliciation for X-factor.
You haven’t been cancelled have you?
Wow, where were you a few weeks ago when there was a bit of a hullabaloo about that?
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No, it’s not canceled; we’re off for a month or so and then starting up with a double sized #200.
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PAD
I gots me some X-Factor #48, which was fabulous, and I LOVES the cover preview for next issue. We can has Jamie and Layla back in present time?
Hey x-factor #48 was awesome!!! Best issue of the story arc. And what do I have to do to get PAD to reply to any of my posts! jk. Loved it, and I will always follow X-factor. Cant wait for the double sized issue 50. Yes I was scared by cancellation but judging from this issue, cancellation is far from happening thanks PAD! Until nest time…MAKE MINE MADROX!
Well, you won’t have to wait much longer. Since it’s double sized, you can read it a couple times over the next months to make up for the month we’re not coming out.
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PAD
My thoughts exactly. Keep up the awesome work!
Let’s see…I got the Batman Cacaphony hardcover, X-Factor, Dominic Fortune, an unintentional copy of Ultimate Comics Armor Wars, Batman and Robin #4, Brave and the Bold #27, and two weeks worth of Wednesday Comics.
I’ve only had a chance to crack the Armor Wars, and Warren Ellis’ writing seems as nicely twisty as usual.
Oh, right…I read Batman and Robin, too. Writing is up to Morrison’s standard, but I miss Frank Quitely. Still, I’m not surprised that he didn’t stick to a monthly schedule, given the duo’s delivery performance on All Star Superman. Since the previous issue had a pretty satisfying ending, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that his absence this time around was built into the publishing schedule (if I cared enough to find out, there’s probably a site or two online that would be happy to spill the beans).
Looking forward to JMS on Brave and Bold.
Enjoyed last issue’s Dominic Fortune, don’t expect this one to be any different.
Wednesday Comics are a neat experiment. I’m really enjoying the larger artwork. I wonder if we’re seeing it at the original size, or if artists are drawing HUGE to preserve a sense of detail? Or is that even a factor in these days of computerized art?
I’ll probably save X-Factor for dessert.
I wouldn’t dream of telling PAD how to write his comic, or to try to figure out what comes next…I don’t want to spoil a GREAT ride!
Quitely’s absence is built into the publishing schedule.
I picked up “Showcase Presents Warlord Volume One”, and am a few issues into it…not loving the whole ‘hollow earth’ motif, since 1975 is a bit too late for that to be plausible, but there’s a lot of fun action and Travis Morgan is a great character, and of course Mike Grell’s work looks every bit as good in black-and-white as I thought it would. (IE, amazing!)
Skimmed ‘Blackest Night’…honestly, the whole issue felt like in a better-paced story, it would have been shown as a one-page montage with the caption, “And the Black Lanterns’ assault continues…” Geoff Johns really needs to learn that graphic death sequences are not actually a substitute for plot. You can’t just fill an issue with them and have it be your story.
Last week came out The Unwritten #5 (Carey/Gross) and it was really a blast.
Except for the Jungle Books, I didn’t knew Kipling’s work and I was somewhat surprised by his earlier books. The story explained why he changed from “nationalism” literature to fables and it’s related to the mystery of this ongoing.
In this issue, we also come across Twain and Wilde and it’s really interesting and fun. And we have the most horrible scene since X-Factor #39.
Again, do you a favor and read The Unwritten, it may seems like a geeky literature series but it is much more than that.
Batman & Robin was really meh. Not nearly enough of the title characters at a time when everything should be focusing on them, and a number of somewhat disjointed scenes with the newest Red Hood and his sidekick. There is also a portrayal of one of the Bat-villains that is completely not in line with how he’s being used in other Bat-books. Overall, despite some really good art, a disappointment, though Morrison hasn’t gone two arcs in row on Batman without veering to mediocre.
Streets of Gotham is a still a little scattershot, but the main story was a very clever tale that explained a little about Gotham and its real estate, and gave us a very interesting character. Again, not a lot of Batman, but that’s okay in this book. The Manhunter story was good, but the pacing in this (and most other Second Features) is off.
Fables was great. I have no idea what’s coming next, and can’t wait to find out.
X-Factor continues to be good and keeps me wondering how things are going to shake out.
I have to say I wasn’t expecting the villain, but it makes perfect sense in the context of the story and it will (I suspect) tie up another long-running plot thread.
I really liked X-Factor, except for one line: the reference to Siryn resurrecting Banshee. Please don’t have this happen. Banshee was a truly awful character, and really deserved to be killed off. He represented all the worst Irish stereotypes, from the leprechauns to the drunkenness to the bad accent.
Here’s a strip from an Irish webcomic from just after his death that get’s across Irish people’s feelings on the character fairly well: http://www.drasticcomics.com/index.php?id=77
Please don’t do it. It might cause another group of people on the internet to hate you. 🙂
I think that was a line that Cortex!Jamie pulled out of his ášš just to mess with Terry’s head, rather than saying anything about what’ll actually happen.
Though I loved Banshee and wish he hadn’t been killed. Admittedly I may have found it easier to like him because I’m not Irish and therefore not haunted by dumbassed stereotypes about Irish people.
But as I was saying, I don’t think Cortex!Jamie is a very reliable witness.
Boy, that angry Irish guy sure blows away those stereotypes with his rant, eh? Just how drunk was he when he wrote that? 😛
I assume you say that facetiously, but still–stereotypical anger tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This is not strictly a stash Wednesday item, as its not a comic, though it did arrive in my mailbox Wednesday.
I ordered a copy of “Beam Me Up, Scotty” from Amazon. I had a question about a small bit of it.
In the book (co written by PAD for those of you who do not know) Mt Doohan reaches out to some child hood friends to get in touch with him.(the scneider family) I am curious if he ever reuntied with them before he passed away. Do you happen to know PAD?
I really dug Jamie’s “sensing a great disturbance in the Force” bit in X-Factor, however I kind of wish he had flat out said “millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.” that would have ruled.
I enjoyed the latest X-Factor wonderfully. From the villain’s fears of how Layla Miller will screw his plans up to the intelligent storytelling where instead of keeping with standard MO of the bad guy monologuing on how he explains it all, he messes with Siryn’s head. Plus I had tears in my eyes laughing so hard from the exchange between Layla/Summers/Doom and the subsequent FWZAAK, and Doom’s answer to How and Why. I probably would have pìššëd myself laughing if Summers had landed similar to one of the Family Guy characters when they get knocked out but thats a guilty pleasure. Keep up the good work PAD.