MOTW 3/26/14: To beat back the night....and conquer death
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
New Avengers #16, not everything has to be so dour in the world of superheroes these days:
The Rider is Batman and his name is Wayne, that's pretty in your eye, even for mimicking heroes.
Other planet is blown up, and that's the black priest mask, which makes me wonder if the Great Society is the originator of those dudes or if Norn (Dr. Fate) gets corrupted by them.
Avengers #27, kind of the mirror image of NA #16, but at the same time doing in six pages what it took six issues in Forever Evil:
The Rider is Batman and his name is Wayne, that's pretty in your eye, even for mimicking heroes.
Other planet is blown up, and that's the black priest mask, which makes me wonder if the Great Society is the originator of those dudes or if Norn (Dr. Fate) gets corrupted by them.
Avengers #27, kind of the mirror image of NA #16, but at the same time doing in six pages what it took six issues in Forever Evil:
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Oh my god, Superior Spider-Man 30. Superior Spider-Man 30, you guys.
Re. New Avengers 16
I hope it's that, and not something depressing like 'our Justice League expys are secretly evil!' like is so often the case. Also hope they don't die horribly either, which is another thing that happens often.
I guess the big development with Jean from the past was cool, but my favorite moment was Star-Lord
I think the Slott-Allred Silver Surfer is promising. The silver surfer helps an unknown world. On earth there's a seemingly-unremarkable bed and breakfast.
I thought it was three!
I had never considered it before, but now I am definitely
OTP
It's not exactly some kind of secret that JH Williams III goes all out a lot of the time, in terms of making unconventional and over the top page work-even if he wasn't actually drawing the work, just planning these layouts, it would still be startling and noteworthy. Just a lot of really good stuff, watching standard rectangular frames transition into globular stuff with negative spacing becoming other frames and then rolling back into standard framing, all in a single page. There is a spectacular cutaway of an abandoned asylum that is rife with surreal anatomy that also services the sequential art of the characters walking through this same location.
Granted, this sort of stuff doesn't work on everybody, and I'm not saying it's mindblowing, amazing stuff. But I am saying it's really, really well done, and you can tell a serious amount of work was put into this book in a way that manages to do a good job of justifying the delays.
The story itself? Well. There is some. Things happen. Symbols appear in panels that are likely to become more plot-centric as this thing moves forward. Dream has a discussion with an entity based off some Hebraic apocrypha, a metaphor is unrolled to describe the event underpinning this story, and there seems to be some of Neil Gaiman's prior Dream stuff at play here
Hell let's be honest......for us old timers it's still pretty mind blowing no matter our age.
You got to admit.........that's asking a lot to forgive for. Especially when he's had no issue blowing you apart before.
Why not?
The collective popular opinion dosen't give two shits about what happens in Transformer's comics.
Hell, the only reason why I know about them is because Anti is the John the Baptist of Transformer comics. I honestly don't see how it CAN'T since it's been critically recieved so well.
Besideds, "sealing the breech" means transitioning from a World War 2 period of open hostility, to more of a "War on Terror/Cold War" period for the Transformers, which opens up a whole slew of storytelling possibilities.
You can have Autobot's as villians, Decepticons as hero's, factions, hell, you can even have an Autobot/Decepticon colilition that work together in order to start the war again. And you can do so without having to write characters massivley out of character.
Starscream inevitably fucking up his Presidency, trying to start the war again, and then both sides going, "Nah, you did something good here, no thanks".
Half the fun is watching him being miserable about it.
Iron Patriot #1: Rhodey gives his mission statement.
That whole situation seemed weird.
Boiling down like a 10 year arc to "John Jameson was briefly a wolf-man space-god before renting an apartment in New York."
oh, the war has been over for a couple years now
megatron tried to restart it but failed
then shockwave tried starting shit and dark cybertron happened
"His family killed by mob crossfire, Vietnam veteran Frank Castle is executed by the state, resurrected as Heaven's agent, then sliced into pieces by Wolverine's illegitimate son only to be revived as a Frankenstein's monster, all while waging a one man war on crime!"
"The lone product of a 1940s super-soldier experiment, Steve Rogers vanished into the frozen waters of the Arctic while on a mission against the Axis. Found, thawed, and revived decades later, Rogers went on to become...a werewolf."
Batman/Captain America later wound up presumed dead, but in fact was lost in time. Batman's/Captain America's former sidekick went on to take up the mantle while he was gone, and for sometime afterwards.