The best solution was no Hitch at all, give it to Butch Guice. Or find other artists in the stable who have proven to be monthly, and use them for this event (the event is big enough that even a lesser known artist isn't a hindrance to the book, it's Steve coming back written by Brubaker, it will sell well.)
And I was expecting Steve to be reborn as somehow being the accelerated child inside Sharon who busts out of the womb to punch Red Skull in Steve's old body ala Captain America #1. Thanks for nothing Marvel.
You basically just described the Mrs. Marvel / Scarlet Centurion storyline from AVENGERS #200.
He was quoting Santos who, earlier in the story, says, "Magneto's a good guy now. We can totally trust him. Totally."
You win again this time, context!
Thor was pretty good this month. Pity I'd read most of it in the 'finale's' preview and here. Gotta start paying attention to spoiler tags. So I go for Fall of the Hulks: Alpha. No specific moment, but it was a overall a good read (IMO) and hopefully proof that Jeph Loeb isn't all bad not in the face! Please!
I didn't enjoy Deadpool as much this time, but for a much stupider reason than Scott's treatment of Wade: the X-Men's treatment of Kincaid. He's an idiot for going along with Osborn's schemes; but then again he's a worried dad whose daughter's run off with what amounts to a secular cult, suddenly confronted by one of the most powerful and manipulative men in America.
But at the end, when he's all repentant and confessing to journalists, they still treat him like a piece of dog crap to scrape off their boots. After all the fearful misunderstanding (and genuine intolerance, and sociopathic supervillains) they've seen. Even perennial genodical maniac Magneto gets cut more slack.
So, yeah, stupid reason, and I've only read the last two parts so no doubt context will kick me in the ass again; but there you are.
Invincible Iron Man 21 was quite good.
And consider me a Batgirl convert, that's a really fun book.
oh shit. Nation X was awesome. a lot of fun little vignettes.
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I think I need to pick up the DC Holiday Special next week, because this was a good scene:
I grabbed quite a few promising things last night. Deadpool's ongoing struggle for acceptance by established heroes was cute; Nation X had the excellent nightcrawler/wolverine roadtrip (I would so, so read a miniseries of those two driving around if it were done by Asmus and Allred); the Leonardo Manco / C. Fidler section of Necrosha X was good and makes me wish marvel would grab people like this to do a title like New Mutants in a throwback to the classic effed-up Sienkiewicz art in a capes book days.
All of which are moment fodder to be sure. But! I also got three trades which I haven't even really dug into yet. A week without a MOTW is no week at all, and when you walk into a shop with low expectations and come out with unexpected gems, that's always a plus.
I picked up One Model Nation, which I had read mention of before but then forgotten about. Published by Image and covering 1977-1978 in Germany, it involves the titular band, Baader-Meinhof, the RAF, and so on. Porter's lanky, scratchy art looks to suit the atmosphere very well and Taylor's dialogue is very casual and lifelike.
I grabbed David Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp which looks like one nonstop designgasm from start to finish. Just skimming it, the writing looks just as good. I can see this one lounging around on the coffeetable to be shown off for a while. I didn't know anything about this before picking it up off the shelf, but it looks like one of those careful micro-examinations of someone interacting with life that might appeal for fans of Chris Ware and the like.
And last but not least, I'm giving the Moment of the Week Trophy to Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of Richard Stark's "The Hunter," done in a smaller format hardcover which looks great without the sleeve -- a bold orange with a black spine and a simple, blocky image of the main character made out of a few chunky shapes. Having just read Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," I am now on the hunt for more crime/noir and this is the definition of hard-boiled being delivered to you with an eyeball massage courtesy Cooke. Everything about this is tailor-made to send me into fanboy overdrive.
I grabbed David Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp which looks like one nonstop designgasm from start to finish. Just skimming it, the writing looks just as good. I can see this one lounging around on the coffeetable to be shown off for a while. I didn't know anything about this before picking it up off the shelf, but it looks like one of those careful micro-examinations of someone interacting with life that might appeal for fans of Chris Ware and the like.
I have to say, I hate Chris Ware's stuff because it tends to be so full of navel-gazing, misery, and misanthropy, but I loved Asterios Polyp. I feel like it succeeds at being an amazingly well told story, which utilizes a huge number of tricks and techniques that could only be used in comics, while also being warm and without pretension.
I feel like so many comics that are recognized as brilliant or intellectual are also things that I have virtually no interest in ever reading; Blankets, Maus, Ghost World, Jimmy Corrigan, and the like bored me to tears. Asterios Polyp succeeds at being a very smart book, which is also a lot of fun to read. There's a lot of subtextual stuff which is really interesting, and fun to read and dissect, but it can also be read purely at a surface level, and still be really enjoyable.
It's a comic I really can't recommend enough.
And yeah, Parker the Hunter's badass too. I read the first three Parker novels to get a feel for what the comic would be like, and now I can't wait for Cooke to finish the next one. Apparently he's going to combine the next two novels into one comic, which is pretty cool. I always think it's more interesting when an adaptation of a work takes a few liberties with it, rather than being slavishly obedient to the original.
And yeah, Parker the Hunter's badass too. I read the first three Parker novels to get a feel for what the comic would be like, and now I can't wait for Cooke to finish the next one. Apparently he's going to combine the next two novels into one comic, which is pretty cool. I always think it's more interesting when an adaptation of a work takes a few liberties with it, rather than being slavishly obedient to the original.
there's a really interesting interview in the back of one of the issues of criminal where ed brubaker interviewed darwyn cooke about the hunter. one of the things i remember was cooke talking about how the cartoonist's instinct is to change things around a little, to soften parker up for the audience a little bit, and he really had to struggle to put down just exactly what happened in some scenes. particularly, apparently,
the scene where parker dumps his wife's body in the park and cuts up her face with a knife so she'll be harder to identify.
he decided he couldn't change that kind of thing, because that's who parker is in the novels.
anyway, i love the parker novels. the later ones are great too. i'm curious to see how many of these cooke ends up doing.
also, desc if you're looking for more noir/crime books, try Pop 1280 or The Getaway by jim thompson. also, the actual parker novels are fantastic.
ALSO i totally think you could compress the second and third parker novels into one book, easily. there's some great stuff in it (the scenes where parker comes back to the surgeon's house always stick with me) but, the second novel is basically just "parker gets plastic surgery". the payoff's all in the third book.
And last but not least, I'm giving the Moment of the Week Trophy to Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of Richard Stark's "The Hunter," done in a smaller format hardcover which looks great without the sleeve -- a bold orange with a black spine and a simple, blocky image of the main character made out of a few chunky shapes. Having just read Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," I am now on the hunt for more crime/noir and this is the definition of hard-boiled being delivered to you with an eyeball massage courtesy Cooke. Everything about this is tailor-made to send me into fanboy overdrive.
Too much good stuff this week!
Added that to my wish list... Where were you weeks ago with these good ideas?!
From what I recall, Cooke said he's basically just cutting all the heist stuff out of The Man With the Getaway Face, and really only using the plastic surgery stuff. Which I think is for the best, as The Outfit is really the continuation of the story that began in The Hunter anyhow.
I hope Cooke leaves in, or devotes enough page space to, all the mini-heists pulled by Parker's "friends" in The Outfit, as those were some of my favorite bits of that book.
Deadpool's 'Clash' shout-out was my MOTW in a book that had at least five others. And really? Batgirl is good? Damn it all. I really don't need another title on my pull list.
I grabbed David Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp which looks like one nonstop designgasm from start to finish. Just skimming it, the writing looks just as good. I can see this one lounging around on the coffeetable to be shown off for a while. I didn't know anything about this before picking it up off the shelf, but it looks like one of those careful micro-examinations of someone interacting with life that might appeal for fans of Chris Ware and the like.
I have to say, I hate Chris Ware's stuff because it tends to be so full of navel-gazing, misery, and misanthropy, but I loved Asterios Polyp. I feel like it succeeds at being an amazingly well told story, which utilizes a huge number of tricks and techniques that could only be used in comics, while also being warm and without pretension.
I feel like so many comics that are recognized as brilliant or intellectual are also things that I have virtually no interest in ever reading; Blankets, Maus, Ghost World, Jimmy Corrigan, and the like bored me to tears. Asterios Polyp succeeds at being a very smart book, which is also a lot of fun to read. There's a lot of subtextual stuff which is really interesting, and fun to read and dissect, but it can also be read purely at a surface level, and still be really enjoyable.
It's a comic I really can't recommend enough.
Despite being a fan of a lot of the stuff you mentioned, I went out and ordered Asterios Polyp based on these two posts alone. Hooray!
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First story: Alright
Second story: Kinda silly
So Mediocre on a whole
I honestly wouldn't have any problem with having two Cpt Americas. Let Bucky stay on the book proper and have Steve in the Avengers - or vice versa.
You basically just described the Mrs. Marvel / Scarlet Centurion storyline from AVENGERS #200.
Or Steve Epting. Cause you know. Epting.
You win again this time, context!
Thor was pretty good this month. Pity I'd read most of it in the 'finale's' preview and here. Gotta start paying attention to spoiler tags. So I go for Fall of the Hulks: Alpha. No specific moment, but it was a overall a good read (IMO) and hopefully proof that Jeph Loeb isn't all bad not in the face! Please!
I didn't enjoy Deadpool as much this time, but for a much stupider reason than Scott's treatment of Wade: the X-Men's treatment of Kincaid. He's an idiot for going along with Osborn's schemes; but then again he's a worried dad whose daughter's run off with what amounts to a secular cult, suddenly confronted by one of the most powerful and manipulative men in America.
But at the end, when he's all repentant and confessing to journalists, they still treat him like a piece of dog crap to scrape off their boots. After all the fearful misunderstanding (and genuine intolerance, and sociopathic supervillains) they've seen. Even perennial genodical maniac Magneto gets cut more slack.
So, yeah, stupid reason, and I've only read the last two parts so no doubt context will kick me in the ass again; but there you are.
Okay, so he is all bad.
And consider me a Batgirl convert, that's a really fun book.
oh shit. Nation X was awesome. a lot of fun little vignettes.
Love how Raven's gift changes in a split second from sexy undies to a spellbook. There's a useful power indeed!
All of which are moment fodder to be sure. But! I also got three trades which I haven't even really dug into yet. A week without a MOTW is no week at all, and when you walk into a shop with low expectations and come out with unexpected gems, that's always a plus.
I picked up One Model Nation, which I had read mention of before but then forgotten about. Published by Image and covering 1977-1978 in Germany, it involves the titular band, Baader-Meinhof, the RAF, and so on. Porter's lanky, scratchy art looks to suit the atmosphere very well and Taylor's dialogue is very casual and lifelike.
I grabbed David Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp which looks like one nonstop designgasm from start to finish. Just skimming it, the writing looks just as good. I can see this one lounging around on the coffeetable to be shown off for a while. I didn't know anything about this before picking it up off the shelf, but it looks like one of those careful micro-examinations of someone interacting with life that might appeal for fans of Chris Ware and the like.
And last but not least, I'm giving the Moment of the Week Trophy to Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of Richard Stark's "The Hunter," done in a smaller format hardcover which looks great without the sleeve -- a bold orange with a black spine and a simple, blocky image of the main character made out of a few chunky shapes. Having just read Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," I am now on the hunt for more crime/noir and this is the definition of hard-boiled being delivered to you with an eyeball massage courtesy Cooke. Everything about this is tailor-made to send me into fanboy overdrive.
Too much good stuff this week!
I have to say, I hate Chris Ware's stuff because it tends to be so full of navel-gazing, misery, and misanthropy, but I loved Asterios Polyp. I feel like it succeeds at being an amazingly well told story, which utilizes a huge number of tricks and techniques that could only be used in comics, while also being warm and without pretension.
I feel like so many comics that are recognized as brilliant or intellectual are also things that I have virtually no interest in ever reading; Blankets, Maus, Ghost World, Jimmy Corrigan, and the like bored me to tears. Asterios Polyp succeeds at being a very smart book, which is also a lot of fun to read. There's a lot of subtextual stuff which is really interesting, and fun to read and dissect, but it can also be read purely at a surface level, and still be really enjoyable.
It's a comic I really can't recommend enough.
And yeah, Parker the Hunter's badass too. I read the first three Parker novels to get a feel for what the comic would be like, and now I can't wait for Cooke to finish the next one. Apparently he's going to combine the next two novels into one comic, which is pretty cool. I always think it's more interesting when an adaptation of a work takes a few liberties with it, rather than being slavishly obedient to the original.
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there's a really interesting interview in the back of one of the issues of criminal where ed brubaker interviewed darwyn cooke about the hunter. one of the things i remember was cooke talking about how the cartoonist's instinct is to change things around a little, to soften parker up for the audience a little bit, and he really had to struggle to put down just exactly what happened in some scenes. particularly, apparently,
he decided he couldn't change that kind of thing, because that's who parker is in the novels.
anyway, i love the parker novels. the later ones are great too. i'm curious to see how many of these cooke ends up doing.
also, desc if you're looking for more noir/crime books, try Pop 1280 or The Getaway by jim thompson. also, the actual parker novels are fantastic.
Added that to my wish list... Where were you weeks ago with these good ideas?!
I hope Cooke leaves in, or devotes enough page space to, all the mini-heists pulled by Parker's "friends" in The Outfit, as those were some of my favorite bits of that book.
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yes, Scalped is awesome. read Scalped.
Despite being a fan of a lot of the stuff you mentioned, I went out and ordered Asterios Polyp based on these two posts alone. Hooray!