UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
DeConnick and Rios is basically the next Fraction and Aja in terms of creative chemistry - the book is absolutely gorgeous and while it was only the first issue and had a ton of setup/exposition to do, it did so in a really creative and interesting manner.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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It has an a very grimey folklorish feel too. Which with Emma Rios on the art, it's got the rough-hewn look for it too. It's an absurdly good-looking book.
Maybe Troll has been on the tune. Do you guys feel like this was meant to be a spread and was chopped down? It was wedged in between ads which made me think they lost a page to advertisements.
Even though I already loved Jason Aaron's work, if you had told me pre-Wolverine and the X-Men that he would somehow make me not even just not hate Quentin Quire anymore, but actually turn him into one of the best characters in this current generation of X-Men, I would have laughed at you.
Maybe Troll has been on the tune. Do you guys feel like this was meant to be a spread and was chopped down? It was wedged in between ads which made me think they lost a page to advertisements.
All in all this YA issue was GREAT.
Gillen said that's the case and there'll be more characters popping up in the next few issues that weren't shown there
Maybe Troll has been on the tune. Do you guys feel like this was meant to be a spread and was chopped down? It was wedged in between ads which made me think they lost a page to advertisements.
All in all this YA issue was GREAT.
Gillen said that's the case and there'll be more characters popping up in the next few issues that weren't shown there
Well it wasn't that they lost a page to advertisements, they just chose not to make it a double page spread because they wanted the space to keep the somber tone of the issue.
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I can post this moment from Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 though, as Spock gives his latest plan a field test.
Uh. Norman Osbourne is Sandman now? That is what I'm seeing?
They have always had the same hair. You are talking about the hair, da?
Somehow I assumed there could only be one with that distinctive getup. I mean. Two Spider-Man villains with the same hairstyle? What are the odds? And, I mean, couldn't Sandman have any hair he wanted, and he chose that?
I can post this moment from Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 though, as Spock gives his latest plan a field test.
Uh. Norman Osbourne is Sandman now? That is what I'm seeing?
They have always had the same hair. You are talking about the hair, da?
Somehow I assumed there could only be one with that distinctive getup. I mean. Two Spider-Man villains with the same hairstyle? What are the odds? And, I mean, couldn't Sandman have any hair he wanted, and he chose that?
I think that was the go-to short/curly hairstyle design back in the day. Add old school limited colour palette to the mix, and you get a few characters that look the same.*
Also, Byrne retconned it to make Osborn and Sandman related. Not sure if that got re-retconned, or just ignored.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
I really liked Velvet #1, if only the new Moneypenny could even be close to that cool (I really hated the new Moneypenny in Skyfall). It's one of Brubaker's most evenly paced issues I've read in a long time.
Pretty Deadly #1, very very pretty, but the story hopped around a bit too much trying to have that stilted structure with an outside narrator while the story still goes on, and I kind of missed something at the end that wasn't really clear:
Sissy and blind dude are on their own, they shoot that guy who shot at them, and then when he realizes Big Alice is after that book they're now all riding together? Like, what? If they were all traveling together the panels don't really show that, as Sissy and blindman are kind of by themselves around the campfire and then you see the other three pop up.
Probably trade wait PD, definitely sticking with Velvet.
Pretty Deadly sounds awesome, but as is my way, I'll have to wait/hope for a trade paperback. Yes yes, single issue this, digitals are awesome that. That's just how I roll.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Pretty Deadly #1, very very pretty, but the story hopped around a bit too much trying to have that stilted structure with an outside narrator while the story still goes on, and I kind of missed something at the end that wasn't really clear:
Sissy and blind dude are on their own, they shoot that guy who shot at them, and then when he realizes Big Alice is after that book they're now all riding together? Like, what? If they were all traveling together the panels don't really show that, as Sissy and blindman are kind of by themselves around the campfire and then you see the other three pop up.
Probably trade wait PD, definitely sticking with Velvet.
My read on Pretty Deadly:
Fox is well-known around there as an eccentric old blind guy with mysterious abilities, and the young gunman, who was camped out separately from Fox and Sissy, was just fucking with him, testing to see if the legends about him were true.
Fox gathers them all up because he knows them, and knows they don't deserve to die just for being jackasses.
I dunno, I quite liked the weird flow of Pretty Deadly. It leaves some questions for the reader to figure out, but I think that's a good thing. It introduces the characters through their actions, rather than a bunch of exposition.
Finally got to open up Velvet. Damn if it didn't have me hooked by that last page. I love a good spy novel and this looks like it has potential to be great.
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Pretty Deadly was also really good.
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Loki and Leah have a nice phone chat!
They go back to the ship and there is a lot of angsty sadness! Everybody is pretty sure they're going to die, but Prodigy reveals a secret power...
The power of SOCIAL MEDIA!
That last page you had there makes me think that Prodigy is Marvel's Nightwing.
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All in all this YA issue was GREAT.
WHat you should be asking is "Wait, Troll can use a phone?"
Also where the fuck is Cho? GAWD!
Unfortunately the MOTW worthy bits from my favorite issue of this week, Sex Criminals #2 are NSFW and I can't post them.
I can post this moment from Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 though, as Spock gives his latest plan a field test.
Uncanny Avengers #13
Cap, Havok, and Wasp manage to take down Banshee, but it leaves Cap a little worse for wear.
Things are looking dire for certain other members of the Unity Squad though.
I love Steve Epting.
I loved Velvet #1
And yet.
Wolverine and the X-Men #37
like great costume, great attitude, just fuckin yeah
Gillen said that's the case and there'll be more characters popping up in the next few issues that weren't shown there
Well it wasn't that they lost a page to advertisements, they just chose not to make it a double page spread because they wanted the space to keep the somber tone of the issue.
Uh. Norman Osbourne is Sandman now? That is what I'm seeing?
They have always had the same hair. You are talking about the hair, da?
Somehow I assumed there could only be one with that distinctive getup. I mean. Two Spider-Man villains with the same hairstyle? What are the odds? And, I mean, couldn't Sandman have any hair he wanted, and he chose that?
I think that was the go-to short/curly hairstyle design back in the day. Add old school limited colour palette to the mix, and you get a few characters that look the same.*
*Pulled from my butt
EDIT: Also, isn't
Pretty Deadly #1, very very pretty, but the story hopped around a bit too much trying to have that stilted structure with an outside narrator while the story still goes on, and I kind of missed something at the end that wasn't really clear:
Probably trade wait PD, definitely sticking with Velvet.
You had me at Emma Rios
That's the Chameleon? I thought the Red Hood had escaped from DC Comics.
My read on Pretty Deadly:
Fox gathers them all up because he knows them, and knows they don't deserve to die just for being jackasses.
I dunno, I quite liked the weird flow of Pretty Deadly. It leaves some questions for the reader to figure out, but I think that's a good thing. It introduces the characters through their actions, rather than a bunch of exposition.
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