cp_journalcomic (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cp_journalcomic) wrote,@ 2008-04-22 19:41:00 |
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put it in a box
...so here's the thing. I hate this comic. Didn't come out good. Still... even though I didn't like it, I was bored enough at a staff meeting to ink it, which means that I knew inevitably I was going to unleash its' badness on the world at large. Unfortunately, today is that day.
Glamourpuss #1
Dave Sim's new comic. I went through a period when I was in middle/high school where I faithfully bought every issue of Cerebus that hit the stands, even though I never understood word one of what was going on in the story. It seemed like a year's worth of issues where Cerebus was floating around on an asteroid and nothing much was happening. I didn't get much out of those comics, but I have enjoyed Sim's work in the past. I always loved Jaka's Story, for example.
Helen Killer #1
The premise for this sounds so stupid that I'm sure the creators are going to be able to sell it to Hollywood for a million dollars and never have to work again. Helen Keller is reimagined as a high-tech government assassin. Amazing.
I don't know how interested I am in this book, for which the premise is some kind of prose-style fashion magazine, but Sim returning to monthly comics is a big deal.
Countdown to Final Crisis #1
I can't say as I give a crap about Countdown. Where as I followed DC's last weekly comic event, 52 had a reasonably structured story with characters that were if not well-defined, then at least easy to follow in their individual story arcs. Countdown flailed around so badly that I'm not even entirely sure what the point of the comic was... if it was indeed, intended to have a point in the same way that 52 did.
That being said, Countdown hasn't dampened my interest in these types of books. Even if DC is only 1 for 2 when it comes to its weekly experiment, I am very interested in their next whack at this type of comic, especially considering its pedigree.
Batman 675
...and here begins the big "Batman: R.I.P" storyarc that DC has been quietly hyping up for the past six months. The title implies that Batman's going to be pushing up daisies by its conclusion. I think we all know is a steamin' load of crap. Even the Internet has been going apeshit, sayin' that Batman is going to croak and become one of the New Gods which sounds like a load of retarded crap.
Considering how much I loved Grant Morrison's take on Batman during his JLA run, I've been oddly uninterested in his run on the Dark Knight's solo title. The delays in the first handful of issues... the all-text Joker issue... by the time Batman started coming out on a regular basis, I had moved on.
Daredevil: Hell to Pay, Vol. 2 TPB
While Ed Brubaker's Captain America seems to get all the ink these days, I've enjoying his take on Daredevil for the past few years. I didn't expect to like Brubaker on DD as much as I do; I was a gigantic fan of what Bendis and Maleev did with the character on their lengthy run and although the team of Brubaker and Lark produced one of my favorite Vertigo series ever (Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight), I didn't expect to make the transition so easily. I don't read Daredevil month-to-month, but I do pick up the trades reliably. With my tiny hobby budget being what it is, that's quite a compliment.
Modern Masters: Mike Allred
I've extolled the virtues of the TwoMorrows excellent ongoing series before- lengthy, in-depth interviews with comic book artists as to their perspective on the major events of their careers. I pick these up whenever I can and whenever the subject interests me. I find that the Modern Masters books that are the best are the books which feature writer/artists rather than artists that stay completely behind the drawing table, and Mike Allred fits that bill entirely. I was a huge fan of Madman Comics back in the day and his run on X-Force was surprisingly intone with the X-books of the early '00's. If I see this at my LCS, I'm scoopin' it up... and if I don't, I'm ordering it.
...so here's the thing. I hate this comic. Didn't come out good. Still... even though I didn't like it, I was bored enough at a staff meeting to ink it, which means that I knew inevitably I was going to unleash its' badness on the world at large. Unfortunately, today is that day.
Glamourpuss #1
Dave Sim's new comic. I went through a period when I was in middle/high school where I faithfully bought every issue of Cerebus that hit the stands, even though I never understood word one of what was going on in the story. It seemed like a year's worth of issues where Cerebus was floating around on an asteroid and nothing much was happening. I didn't get much out of those comics, but I have enjoyed Sim's work in the past. I always loved Jaka's Story, for example.
Helen Killer #1
The premise for this sounds so stupid that I'm sure the creators are going to be able to sell it to Hollywood for a million dollars and never have to work again. Helen Keller is reimagined as a high-tech government assassin. Amazing.
I don't know how interested I am in this book, for which the premise is some kind of prose-style fashion magazine, but Sim returning to monthly comics is a big deal.
Countdown to Final Crisis #1
I can't say as I give a crap about Countdown. Where as I followed DC's last weekly comic event, 52 had a reasonably structured story with characters that were if not well-defined, then at least easy to follow in their individual story arcs. Countdown flailed around so badly that I'm not even entirely sure what the point of the comic was... if it was indeed, intended to have a point in the same way that 52 did.
That being said, Countdown hasn't dampened my interest in these types of books. Even if DC is only 1 for 2 when it comes to its weekly experiment, I am very interested in their next whack at this type of comic, especially considering its pedigree.
Batman 675
...and here begins the big "Batman: R.I.P" storyarc that DC has been quietly hyping up for the past six months. The title implies that Batman's going to be pushing up daisies by its conclusion. I think we all know is a steamin' load of crap. Even the Internet has been going apeshit, sayin' that Batman is going to croak and become one of the New Gods which sounds like a load of retarded crap.
Considering how much I loved Grant Morrison's take on Batman during his JLA run, I've been oddly uninterested in his run on the Dark Knight's solo title. The delays in the first handful of issues... the all-text Joker issue... by the time Batman started coming out on a regular basis, I had moved on.
Daredevil: Hell to Pay, Vol. 2 TPB
While Ed Brubaker's Captain America seems to get all the ink these days, I've enjoying his take on Daredevil for the past few years. I didn't expect to like Brubaker on DD as much as I do; I was a gigantic fan of what Bendis and Maleev did with the character on their lengthy run and although the team of Brubaker and Lark produced one of my favorite Vertigo series ever (Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight), I didn't expect to make the transition so easily. I don't read Daredevil month-to-month, but I do pick up the trades reliably. With my tiny hobby budget being what it is, that's quite a compliment.
Modern Masters: Mike Allred
I've extolled the virtues of the TwoMorrows excellent ongoing series before- lengthy, in-depth interviews with comic book artists as to their perspective on the major events of their careers. I pick these up whenever I can and whenever the subject interests me. I find that the Modern Masters books that are the best are the books which feature writer/artists rather than artists that stay completely behind the drawing table, and Mike Allred fits that bill entirely. I was a huge fan of Madman Comics back in the day and his run on X-Force was surprisingly intone with the X-books of the early '00's. If I see this at my LCS, I'm scoopin' it up... and if I don't, I'm ordering it.
