Moment of the Week 2/6/2008 - Bill Willingham wins!

jkylefulton

Fables #69 was my MotW. Thank you, Bill!

Mai-Kero

Fables 69 was pretty awesome.

Please please please tell me there are more issues, though.

Garlic Bread

i'll crosspost since it applies to this week's issue

Keith wrote: »

okay, so two issues in to Peter Tomasi's Nightwing and I'd say it's already better than the book's ever been

I'm not a big fan of Rags Morale's art, but Tomasi's writing is friggin perfect for the book. I love that he's setting Nightwing up to be big time instead of "just there". He's embracing everything Dick learned from Batman while keeping him in line with Dick's character. He's not becoming an a-hole recluse like Bruce did. The scene with Wally was excellent. It seemed like so much stuff happened in the book and there wasn't even any action.

The only thing I thought was weird was his

hang-glider. I think a powered suit would've been cooler

but dang if Tomasi isn't bringing Nightwing back to being one of my favorite characters.

although i'm not sure if it's morales' pencils that bug me or the terrible inking

probably both

Calamity Jane

Is Tomasi's arc his first on the series? I may pick it up. Good lord I loved Black Adam.

Garlic Bread

yeah, this was his second issue

i was on the fence about Nightwing because the book hasn't been anything special since Chuck Dixon left

but man, this is even better

jkylefulton

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Fables 69 was pretty awesome.

Please please please tell me there are more issues, though.

Yeah, it was just the end of the arc. FABLES is going until Willingham dies.

Fencingsax

Or the Emperor does.

Garlic Bread

i haven't read fables since volume 8

I keep meaning to read 9, but i'll just wait until 10 comes out and get them both

10 sure is taking its sweet time, though (although it does go up to this current issue)

Crimsondude

Uncanny X-Men

Scott imagining himself fighting two dueling dinosaurs in the Savage Land.

Cosmic Sombrero

jkylefulton wrote: »

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Fables 69 was pretty awesome.

Please please please tell me there are more issues, though.

Yeah, it was just the end of the arc. FABLES is going until Willingham dies.

oh thank god

Although, that would have been a really great ending.

jkylefulton

Cosmic Sombrero wrote: »

jkylefulton wrote: »

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Fables 69 was pretty awesome.

Please please please tell me there are more issues, though.

Yeah, it was just the end of the arc. FABLES is going until Willingham dies.

oh thank god

Although, that would have been a really great ending.

I was just relieved that Fly got a happy ending - I was expecting the worst, but then someone pointed out to me that, way back in #24 or 25, Willingham had Fly playing with Pinnochio's Wooden Soldiers, so I sort of knew that he'd maybe be OK. Maybe. But I'm glad he's with RRH, and really everything else about the book.

Anyhow, I hope Willingham/Buckingham stay on the book until I'm dead, and I hope James Jean always does the covers.

Lux

If James Jean stays, no one else will ever get to win an Eisner for cover artist ever again.

Bad Karma

Lux wrote: »

If James Jean stays, no one else will ever get to win an Eisner for cover artist ever again.

Though we all know who should have won, but let's not get into that argument again.


Teen Titans Year One #2 was great as usual, especially the bits with Aqualad.

Damnit Karl why can't you draw faster without sacrificing quality? Tis the way I guess. Tis the way.

SatanIsMyMotor

Crimsondude wrote: »

Uncanny X-Men

Scott imagining himself fighting two dueling dinosaurs in the Savage Land.

Yes! That was mine too and I wasn't sure if I was just crazy thinking Cyclops was having a cool moment outside of Astonishing.

tehfalconer

SatanIsMyMotor wrote: »

Crimsondude wrote: »

Uncanny X-Men

Scott imagining himself fighting two dueling dinosaurs in the Savage Land.

Yes! That was mine too and I wasn't sure if I was just crazy thinking Cyclops was having a cool moment outside of Astonishing.

I gotta say, I've always been a fan of Cyclops and I'm really enjoying how well he's been written lately.

SageinaRage

I really need to get caught up on fables. I've only got the first 3 trades, and the 1001 nights hardcover thing.

Crimsondude

Having read Messiah CompleX, I'd have to say Joss Whedon's version is maybe 4 or 5 on my list of best writers of Scott.

Garlic Bread

dang it gail simone, why do you have to leave The Atom

this was your best issue

Cosmic Sombrero

jkylefulton wrote: »

Cosmic Sombrero wrote: »

jkylefulton wrote: »

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Fables 69 was pretty awesome.

Please please please tell me there are more issues, though.

Yeah, it was just the end of the arc. FABLES is going until Willingham dies.

oh thank god

Although, that would have been a really great ending.

I was just relieved that Fly got a happy ending - I was expecting the worst, but then someone pointed out to me that, way back in #24 or 25, Willingham had Fly playing with Pinnochio's Wooden Soldiers, so I sort of knew that he'd maybe be OK. Maybe. But I'm glad he's with RRH, and really everything else about the book.

Anyhow, I hope Willingham/Buckingham stay on the book until I'm dead, and I hope James Jean always does the covers.

I would have been disappointed, but

If Fly had elected to become the New Emperor, with a wooden army of freckle-faced soldiers, I would have accepted it. I mean, yeah, it would have been an awful ending, but you have to admit it looked really cool.

Monkeydrye

Keith wrote: »

dang it gail simone, why do you have to leave The Atom

this was your best issue

She is leaving?! Dammit! So, she dropped BoP, Tranquilty and now Atom for Wonder Woman? I am digging her WW, but not at the expense of so many great books. The New Atom was one of the few DC characters I gave a crap about.

Garlic Bread

Monkeydrye wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

dang it gail simone, why do you have to leave The Atom

this was your best issue

She is leaving?! Dammit! So, she dropped BoP, Tranquilty and now Atom for Wonder Woman? I am digging her WW, but not at the expense of so many great books. The New Atom was one of the few DC characters I gave a crap about.

this was her last issue.

rick remender takes over next month

she also has an unannounced project, i believe

smokmnky

So I've only read TT:Y1, JSA and Uncanny but I have to say just about everything in TT:Y1 was awesome. Sight gags with Aqua Lad...yes please.

I also really enjoyed Uncanny, making Scott more of a bad ass is always good in my book and I've really come to enjoy the Scott/Emma relationship.

Oh I also forgot did anyone else see the "3rd times a charm...Mike Choi naked!" headline on the magazine? I laughed pretty hard at that.

Fencingsax

smokmnky wrote: »

So I've only read TT:Y1, JSA and Uncanny but I have to say just about everything in TT:Y1 was awesome. Sight gags with Aqua Lad...yes please.

I also really enjoyed Uncanny, making Scott more of a bad ass is always good in my book and I've really come to enjoy the Scott/Emma relationship.

I do find it amusing that they've made aqualad even more useless than the common perception of aquaman.

SalmonOfDoubt

Moon Knight

SatanIsMyMotor

W
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Crimsondude

hahaha

That was my MotW runner-up.

I am loving Moon Knight. I don't know which I like better; that they portray MK as such an insane psychopath, or that Huston and the new guy do it so well.

Me Too!

Well, he is an insane psychopath. I think the only thing that's changed from his old books is the degree/way he's insane.
Sure, he may not change names like he used to, but he makes up for it by beating the shit out of everyone.

So far, my Line of the Week is the end of Ultimate Human

"I don't like him when he's angry."

The last Punisher MAX was damn good, too.

EDIT: It's been a few weeks since I went, so I'm only halfway through my stack.
But goddamn I like the way Moon Knight is digging up the past. I need to read both of the Essentials again.

Crimsondude

Yeah. It's the level of insanity. There's no way this MK would be allowed to be an Avenger.

Me Too!

His registration interview was the first time I really went "Wow, this dude's batshit nuts."
But the last few pages of the new issue? Blew that out of the water.

Other than Moon Knight, my moment has to be The Twelve.
There's nothing specific about it, it's just really good.

Look Out it's Sabs!

Yea the Twelve I enjoy.

"Where's the rocket packs and jet cars?"
"Maybe they are not zoned for this part of town"

Also I have been going back and getting all the Cable & Deadpool comics slowly, so good. :P

Me Too!

Oh man
Sorta moment of the week?
Finding out there's a new Black Belt Hamsters series.
I still wish I knew what happened to my old issues.
EDIT: Also, finding out that I didn't miss the beginning of that new Millar/Romita, Jr series yet.

Crimsondude

Lol! wrote: »

EDIT: Also, finding out that I didn't miss the beginning of that new Millar/Romita, Jr series yet.

If you did, would you have had to Kick Ass?

ZombieAsuma

.....I can't decide if I want to laugh at that joke or not. You've befuddled me.

Crimsondude

I am a dangerous man like that.

DarkPrimus

Man, that's not even the most fucked-up part of the latest issue of Moon Knight.

I'm glad some of you guys are reading it, though.

Me Too!

How is

Marc wearing Bushman's face in the bathroom

not the most fucked up part?

Crimsondude

Because

Then Bushman puts it on. Which is either magic, or Marc is stupendously insane to the point of humor.

Ruins

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Man, that's not even the most fucked-up part of the latest issue of Moon Knight.

I'm glad some of you guys are reading it, though.

Yes, I love this book, but it really seems like one of the books that could just get cut at any moment. And that would suck because it's always the awesome out of nowhere book I get in my stack.

Crimsondude

Then you can move onto Charlie Huston's novels.

Or just read them now anyway.

DarkPrimus

Lol! wrote: »

How is

Marc wearing Bushman's face in the bathroom

not the most fucked up part?

Because that's not the scanned part on the previous page.

Me Too!

I didn't get that, so it was only fucked up in the typical sense.
I looked at the last panel as Khonshu fucking with him some more.