The book itself felt a little uneven to me somehow. Not quite sure what.
I enjoyed the character moments, and the explodo moments too, but I feel like a lot of cool stuff was talked about, or happened "off-camera" instead of shown. Perhaps a limitation of the issue count, I don't know. The ladies going from hating each other to working as a team again was a bit too quick and neat. (maybe a limitation of the issue count again)
Ryp's thing with nipples-printing through clothes felt a little silly too, especially on Kathryn and Angel, who are wearing at the very least motorcycle leathers. I guess it kind of works for Zoe, but a runner would probably want a sports bra, even if she burned her other ones or whatever.
Tom coming back to take out John and Frank with Laura's gun was cool, and his frustration with how things turned out felt pretty real. I would have liked to see some of him.
This book probably has the most human post-humans out of any book.
I guess I decided the internet wasn't giving me enough sexually messed up mental scars, and thusly went out and bought 'Crooked Little Vein'. Every other paragraph is basically a new description about something I could have lived without knowing, but feel i'm better off since I can now avoid accidently walking into any NULL meetings.
So far, if you strip away the fetish/oddities of the book, it ain't that great....but I guess thats like saying if you take the sex out of porn your left with a pretty bad plot. It's worth a quick read regardless though and I recommend it.
you could say it doesn't matter, because the main plot has been resolved. warren is saying he is not doing anything else with the characters, but he also said Tom was dead on his message board.
John Horus has the best costume, the floating eyes are amazingly orwellian in appearance.
Tom makes a rather excellant point on
The best response Horus could come up with in dealing with the inadequetcies of the presidency was to kill him, his top cabinet and wreck havoc across the entire country? All those powers and all that knowledge and all he could think of was VOTE FOR SOMEONE NEW OR DIE?
I liked it. The preview in the back suggested that there's also going to be a one-shot about the Starbrand (I think) from the time period of that ancient city with electricity, and I'm going to be all over that.
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yeah Newuniversal is the best thing Ellis is doing over at Marvel imo
the 1959 one shot was fantastic, and if you guys have never heard of Kieron Gillen before you should check out Phonogram.
"Ask them if GI JOE and Barbie can have a really disturbing sex scene where they get naked and then realise they don’t have any genitalia," said my girlfriend.
GI Joe pretty much was my childhood from ages 4 to 11, and I still think the latest comic series were pretty bad. The original marvel comic was good until somewhere around 100. (my collection has some pretty big holes). The weird thing about gi joe was the comic was definitely written (until some vague area around issue 100, when it pretty much became a really obvious commercial for the newest action figure) for a different age group than the cartoons, which leads to two very different visions of the same property.
Warren's take has Snake Eyes killing the shit out of a squad of COBRAs, and no lasers to be seen, so count me in.
DESOLATION JONES is a collision between TRANSMET, GLOBAL FREQUENCY, PLANETARY and HELLBLAZER; standing the detective/spy genres on their head, with supermodern content and social commentary in the Raymond Chandler style.
I bought The Big Sleep yesterday, and within half an hour of starting it I was starting to wonder whether you could really call Desolation Jones "influenced" by Chandler or maybe more of a scene-by-scene homage.
Spoilers for those who haven't read either Desolation Jones or The Big Sleep:
DJ: Jones is summoned to a mansion to speak to his client - an old, dying man confined to a wheelchair. He is greeted at the door by a know-it-all butler.
BS: Marlowe is summoned to a mansion to speak to his client - an old, dying man confined to a wheelchair. He is greeted at the door by a know-it-all butler.
DJ: Jones is told that the old man has been robbed of a rare reel of Hitler's home-made porn, and is now being blackmailed for it.
BS: Marlowe is told that the old man once loaned a young family friend some money, and is now being blackmailed for increasing amounts.
DJ: On the way out, Jones meets the man's eldest daughter. She demands to know why Jones has been hired, and wrongly assumes that his job is to track down and retrieve her father's youngest daughter, now many years missing.
BS: On the way out, Marlowe meets the man's eldest daughter. She demands to know why Jones has been hired, and wrongly assumes that his job is to track down and find her father's much loved son-in-law, now many years missing.
DJ: Jones's first stop is Filthy Sanchez, a pornographer who has her own filthy store.
BS: Marlowe's first stop is a bookshop where the girl behind the desk seems to know nothing of books. He follows a customer home and steals his book, thus discovering that the bookstore is a front for a pornography ring.
DJ: By the end of book 1, Jones has discovered that the old man's youngest daughter works in porn.
BS: By the end of chapter 8, Marlowe knows that the old man's youngest daughter works in porn.
I loved DJ to bits, but the more I read of The Big Sleep, the more DJ just feels like Big Sleep 2000.
So, has anyone seen any preview art for Aetheric Mechanics? This sounds like an Ellis book that I'd enjoy (as opposed to the Ellis books that I enjoy but need to spend several hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol to try purging from my brain).
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really good little story, reminded me of Ellis's more grounded stuff
which I love
god I wish he'd stop doing Marvel stuff and write more Desolation Jones and Fell
thinking about black summer a little more:
The book itself felt a little uneven to me somehow. Not quite sure what.
I enjoyed the character moments, and the explodo moments too, but I feel like a lot of cool stuff was talked about, or happened "off-camera" instead of shown. Perhaps a limitation of the issue count, I don't know. The ladies going from hating each other to working as a team again was a bit too quick and neat. (maybe a limitation of the issue count again)
Ryp's thing with nipples-printing through clothes felt a little silly too, especially on Kathryn and Angel, who are wearing at the very least motorcycle leathers. I guess it kind of works for Zoe, but a runner would probably want a sports bra, even if she burned her other ones or whatever.
So far, if you strip away the fetish/oddities of the book, it ain't that great....but I guess thats like saying if you take the sex out of porn your left with a pretty bad plot. It's worth a quick read regardless though and I recommend it.
They just
Tom makes a rather excellant point on
Kind of interesting. Tony Stark as one of the first generation of superhumans was a bit of a "WHAT." moment.
How come there wasn't a Star Brand the first time round, though?
EDIT: Never mind, I looked up the spoilers. It sounds like it was a good one shot.
the 1959 one shot was fantastic, and if you guys have never heard of Kieron Gillen before you should check out Phonogram.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/08/gi_joe_resolute_comic_conventi.php
So about his Castlevania animated movie
"I can't make them make it, man. I've written the script, I'm all done, Up to them now."
NOW
YOU
KNOW
for those that may have missed it
it is apparently a movie broken into chapters, or something:
i'm really glad snake eyes is not wearing his stupid knight's visor thing.
Warren's take has Snake Eyes killing the shit out of a squad of COBRAs, and no lasers to be seen, so count me in.
YOU
KNOW!
I love that so much.
I bought The Big Sleep yesterday, and within half an hour of starting it I was starting to wonder whether you could really call Desolation Jones "influenced" by Chandler or maybe more of a scene-by-scene homage.
Spoilers for those who haven't read either Desolation Jones or The Big Sleep:
BS: Marlowe is summoned to a mansion to speak to his client - an old, dying man confined to a wheelchair. He is greeted at the door by a know-it-all butler.
DJ: Jones is told that the old man has been robbed of a rare reel of Hitler's home-made porn, and is now being blackmailed for it.
BS: Marlowe is told that the old man once loaned a young family friend some money, and is now being blackmailed for increasing amounts.
DJ: On the way out, Jones meets the man's eldest daughter. She demands to know why Jones has been hired, and wrongly assumes that his job is to track down and retrieve her father's youngest daughter, now many years missing.
BS: On the way out, Marlowe meets the man's eldest daughter. She demands to know why Jones has been hired, and wrongly assumes that his job is to track down and find her father's much loved son-in-law, now many years missing.
DJ: Jones's first stop is Filthy Sanchez, a pornographer who has her own filthy store.
BS: Marlowe's first stop is a bookshop where the girl behind the desk seems to know nothing of books. He follows a customer home and steals his book, thus discovering that the bookstore is a front for a pornography ring.
DJ: By the end of book 1, Jones has discovered that the old man's youngest daughter works in porn.
BS: By the end of chapter 8, Marlowe knows that the old man's youngest daughter works in porn.
I loved DJ to bits, but the more I read of The Big Sleep, the more DJ just feels like Big Sleep 2000.
Hooray!
god damn
a year since the last issue?
And now it's nearly 2009 and I just don't care anymore. Or remember, for that matter.
because Planetary is awesome
he made some other comic books whoops