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Also, I love little Red Hood.
See the original page HERE.
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The reason for that presumably being that "our quota of very average pencillers is filled solely by guys who bought us a few beers one time" because I've definitely seen work as bad or worse than the original from Marvel and DC.
It's one thing if they didn't think he was good enough to hire then and there
But to say he'll never get professional work?
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Ha ha, yesss. I love it, I like the idea of a guy who can instantly copy fighting styles. I've seen some of his other stuff earlier in this thread, but it's always nice to see more.
He and Deadpool seem much more entertaining than most Rogues gallery. They may be immoral, but they're also charming, occasionally do some good work, and don't have a stupid motivation i.e. Poison Ivy or badly written Magneto. They strike me as more punch clock villains which I find rather endearing.
I think the implication was that he'd never get pro work, with that page as a sample. Which I think is fair. I mean, I've seen worse in pro comics, but when you're putting together a portfolio, you're supposed to be leading with your best foot forward, not something that's just good enough.
And like Coover says, the page does have very clear story-telling, if nothing else.
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Agent X was actually a pretty good book, though. Most of it was written by Gail Simone, at a time when she was firing on all cylinders, and two fill-in issues were done by Evan Dorkin, with art by Juan Bobillo.
The Dorkin issues make no sense within the rest of the series, but they're pretty good, when taken by themselves.
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and then it was "jokingly hinted" in the letters page of deadpool that he'd get a new ongoing
that just seems too mean spirited to me
yeah
That reminds me... we never saw what was going on with Maverick in Jason Aaron's Wolverine after that first arc. I hope that comes back up in Wolverine and the X-Men at some point.
But really, with Deadpool back, a book starring him would be rather superfluous.
Though, he is in the Deadpool book of my dreams, acting as a more well-adjusted, successful foil for Wade.
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I don't care how downhill the series supposedly goes after volume 11 I'm sticking with this series and most of the spinoff books minus Jack of Fables. Well if I can find some JoFs trades discounted at conventions then maybe I'll pick it up.
however after it completed the initial megastoryline that it presented over its first 75-100ish issues, it took a while to find its footing
Steaaaaaaam
Be prepared for a big investment then with 16 volumes of the main series out so far with 17 coming out in July, about 4 other spin off volumes with another hardcover coming out later this year, and the Jack of Fables spin off which lasted for 50 issues but I heard it ended terribly so I'm not bothering with it.
The Cinderella spinoff was apparently pretty good.
But man, the good prince was great.
Polars bears with assault rifles, folks.
If you don't mind spoiling it for me, what does he say?
But to give you some more context Phobos:
Gepetto and his group of elites, including the Ice Queen, spend a whole issue telling how they will destroy our world because we host the Fables who fled and live in Fabletown. They'll send pestilence on the world, have the ice queen freeze London and kill people frozen, just the usual doom and gloom stuff that makes you scared.
Then the next issue, Pinnochio, who has lived here for centuries, tells his father (who he can't lie to) that the plan is full of shit. The second the Fables realize what is happening, they will tell the US Government what is going on, let them know Fables live among them, and then the whole world will be united against the adversary. We don't have magic, but we have technology (Gepetto outlawed most science to keep the people stupid), and snipers for instance would kill Wizards before they can conjure up spells, and our armies would destroy anything in our way in the other worlds. And then when we win, the captured Fables worlds would be divided up among the countries, and it would create peace here because every country gets their own worlds to colonize and use for resources. Armies would have no problem getting recruits because the promise of land in say, Snow White's world, would be too good to pass up.
To keep on topic...
Reign got a lot of hate when it first came out, and not undeservedly so. It's a pretty naked homage to Dark Knight Returns, which I think rubbed some people the wrong way. Andrews uses a lot of CGI backgrounds, which look incredibly crummy. Then there was the whole radioactive spider-semen thing, that a lot of people got really hung up on. But, all the Mary Jane and Peter stuff is brilliant.
If you've ever only heard the negative stuff, go read Brothers' entire write-up, and consider buying the book. I got mine during a nick-and-dent sale, but you can probably find the four-issue run in your comic shop's back-issue boxes, for a couple bucks.
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There are some standard ones that just bug me
Any time someone starts up on oh man Sue Storm and Reed Richards are so estranged oh man because she's not smart but he is it's like for fuck's sake she is the leading field researcher of her era maybe she's married to this dude on account of them both being brilliant scientists who constantly explore awesome things?
It is possible to write functional relationships that are engaging and fun to read, you don't need them to mope about their feelings.
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I really do need to read that, it sounds tons of fun.
@durandal4532 My current defining moment for Sue is #601 where she just blasts a bunch of Kree out of Johnny's ship after they vaguely threaten Reed. A lot of writers don't get the sleeping giant aspect of her character as a superheroine - by definition, she's not flashy or quick to act, but out of the entire FF, she is easily the most dangerous and the one you have to fear the most.
then I opened up the trade at my library a while back, saw it was basically Dark Knight Returns, shook my head, and reshelved it