Cliff Hanger Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I think Killjoys suffers from having been initially created as a setting for a rock opera media project which had a lot of flash but was only a narrative in a very loose sense. Then Way comes back a couple years later to make the comic and flesh it out/finish the story, but he couldn't IMO turn it into a world that I could accept on it's own terms. It was great for getting teenagers to wear silly outfits to concerts, but even by the end of the comic it never felt like a real world to me. It was a way to tie some songs together and shoot some cool videos. (And I say that as someone who LIKED the album, which is more than I can say for the other MCR stuff.) Umbrella Academy, meanwhile, was a story designed as a story, with a world that had more thought put into it, and it shows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 So... Sabrina The Teenage Witch is marry Cthulhu? I got nothing... James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I've been meaning to check out that new Sabrina book, but I haven't yet. I also need to read all of Life of Archie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 The marriage of Sabrina to Cthulhu happens in Afterlife with Archie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 The marriage of Sabrina to Cthulhu happens in Afterlife with Archie That was a crazy issue. Tons of metatext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I like the premise, in that Fight Club was about these failed, messed up products from fathers who didn't give a crap and now Tyler is a father himself. That premise works just fine, but you can't call something a sequel and just act like the thing it's following up on didn't happen in the way you made it happen, both in the book and the movie. You also can't give the main fucking character super powers when they had none before.Sadly, that kinda happens all the time. Remember Ian Malcolm dying in Jurassic Park? Apparently, Michael Crichton did not. "Uh... he was only mostly dead!" And it's not quite the same thing, but John Rambo died via a Colonel Trautman-administered shotgun blast to the head at the end of First Blood. (The fact that David Morrell wrote the novelizations of the movie sequels, though, and repeated backstory that was only in the novel, makes it kinda count.) Chuck's track record with sequels leaves me pretty leery of this project. Damned is my favorite book from him, one of my favorite books period, but its followup Doomed left a lot to be desired. Especially since he did quite a bit of retconning of the "but here's some extra backstory to the events of book #1 which you didn't know about!" type, which is rarely a good thing when it's the same author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Attn Fowler and other Oni is now selling a Ramona Flowers backpack/bag oni-press.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases/products/ramona-flowers-bag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 29, 2014 Author Share Posted August 29, 2014 Morrison was on the Nerdist pod today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Everyone here needs to get the Andre The Giant: Life & Legend comic http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/22/andre-the-giant-life-and-legend-graphic-novel-review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Everyone here needs to get the Andre The Giant: Life & Legend comic http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/22/andre-the-giant-life-and-legend-graphic-novel-review Totally recommend it as well. Box Brown is a great guy as well. Met him at Heroes Con in Charlotte. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 So got around to reading the first volume of Deadly Class and have to say it's probably my favorite read in a while. I have to say the "assassin high school" idea tends to feel overused because it usually goes in the direction of all the characters being ninjas but Deadly Class goes in the opposite directoin and makes it extremly grounded. Rick Remender does a pretty amazing job writing an interesting story with characters that actually come across like teenagers and Wesley Craig and Lee Loughride present a perfect visual. Plus how can you not love a book where the longterm goal of the main character is to kill Ronald Reagan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assfax Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Alan Moore coming back to comics... writing Crossed. One of the dumbest comics I ever read. Then again Supreme was garbage and he turned that into the best shit ever. Crossed is pretty Liefeldian. Maybe they know what they're doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 I have been amazed how many good writers have done that Crossed stuff? Well actually almost any Avatar book. How well must they pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 ...I'd buy an Alan Moore-penned Crossed comic, Just out of sheer curiosity to see what the grandmaster does with Garth Ennis's single most nihilistic thing he's ever written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Valiant Humble Bundle is up. First eight issues of all their main series but Rai (4 issues), has Shooter/Layton era reprints at the $15 tier, more stuff to come next week at the halfway point. And a free #1 each day as per usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Trailer for the upcoming documentary about 2000AD that is coming out soon: (NWS language!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 Dynamite announced a bunch of new King Features books today, including Brian Clevinger on The Phantom and Roger Langridge on Mandrake, among others. All debut with Daryn Cooke covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Clevinger on the Phantom is so fucking sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 zander cannon's new book? Kaijumax, a prison for giant monsters! comicsalliance.com/zander-cannon-kaijumax-oni-press-nycc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Q2 is finally out this Wednesday. I'm revisiting the first year of G1 Quantum and Woody in preparation, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 First issue of Q2 is good, but the pacing is a little slow for my taste when we are only getting 4 issues. Of course, a Priest story was ALWAYS going to be slow paced, his character work and complex narratives are what made me such a fan. But with such a short timeline, I want to get to the meat of Eric and Woody interacting a lot sooner than it does. (Part of me also wants to know whatever happened to Eric's mother's marriage to Toyo Harada, one of the weirder elements of the original series after its cancellation and relaunch, but there is definitely no room for a detail that minor here.) Hope it sells well enough for more to happen. My mom would have been pretty happy (Q&W was the only comic she ever bought for herself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Man, Saga never fails to the cliffhanger WTF page, especially the end of an arc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Seconds just shipped. So damn excited. I finally got a chance to read Seconds; I love the library. I did not like the main character, which is weird since I'm usually cool with unlikable protagonists. Scott Pilgrim is pretty much an inconsiderate loser, but there is a certain aloof charm to him. Katie has way more sense as a character yet keeps sabotaging her world(s) by ignoring warning signs from her own head. I also wish the secondary characters were more interesting and developed too. The secondary characters are what made Scott Pilgrim fun. I did like that the narration of the story came from Katie's own thoughts. It was a cute move to have her verbally interact with her own thoughts/narration. Not a bad message about regrets, second chances, and acceptance too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 If we havent discussed it already, the new sabrina book is great and creepy. Same, oddly, for jason aarons men of wrath, issue 2 out tomorroe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 6, 2014 Author Share Posted November 6, 2014 Between Men of Wrath, Velvet and Chew, what a week for violent but great comics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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