The Unholy Dragon Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 No idea why but I've been on a Mark Millar Hoopla binge. Finally read Kick Ass 3 and it was probably my favourite after the original. Kick Ass remains a concept I should hate but have really enjoyed all said. Then I read Huck and boy howdy that is probably the best thing Millar has written. Certainly my favourite take of Superman that he's done since leaving DC. Well, outside some talk about Huck being 'slow' which aside from the disabled savant trope being weird as hell, he's never really actually written as having any sort of impairment so much as just being kind of average intelligence and quiet. It's a real weird choice. But everything else about the book is just great. As far from a typical Mark Millar book as you can get yet still having his voice and Rafael Albuquerque's art is perfect. Must read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 Love the plot twist in new Black Hammer. This has been one of my favorite books of last few years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I am reading both the eighties revival of AirBoy by Chuck Dixon and the public domain Air Fighters comics from the golden age. AirBoy is really how you revive an old property. You show reverence to the old series, but can go in new directions. It captured the flavor of the old Air Fighter comics but feels contemporary. I know Todd Macfarlane bought the Eclipse library and ended up using the Heap and tried to use Miracle Man. Have any of the other Eclipse properties like DNAgents or the New Wave been used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 9 hours ago, Victator said: I know Todd Macfarlane bought the Eclipse library and ended up using the Heap and tried to use Miracle Man. Have any of the other Eclipse properties like DNAgents or the New Wave been used? James Robinson did a weird meta "revival" of Airboy that was really about how his career had fallen off since the 90s and he was sick of people asking him to update Golden Age characters, with Airboy following the writer character around to bitch at him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 That Airboy thing JDR did was great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Err... what? I was a huge JDR fan back in the day and I had no idea this existed. Guess I'll visiting the LCS after work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 It was... not great. https://www.themarysue.com/airboy-2-transmisogynist-jokes/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Between really hating the art in those few panels and the Marysue article, yeah, I'm less interested. I'll probably pick it up soonish since i still dig JDR, but won't be tonight or tomorrow. It can wait awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I actually soured on him during his Marvel run (like Geoff Johns!). The final straw was when he did the exact story during his FF run that the writer before him did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I heard enough about that to know it was not good. Airboy as a character deserved a lot better than to be fodder for that. Chuck Dixon did an Airboy series for Antarctic Press since Airboy is public domain. I can't imagine it being less than good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Even with his apology, it still seems like a Steven T. Seagle/It's A Bird... situation where they take a series, can't find a hook with the character, and make it about themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I don't see why he had a hard time finding something. Those old Airboy comics are top notch both in art and writing. Plus he would be able to use the Eclipse series. I don't know how you could not produce something good. Not to mention he could also use things from Spawn. It sounds like he was masturbating into his typewriter. Bordering on stealing money. But its Image, so whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 My guess is that he was using it to get out his frustrations over people thinking Golden Age revivals were the only thing he can do. I mean, dude wrote Starman so it's not like I can ever hate him completely, but that stuff in the link is bad. Antarctic Press is supposed to be launching a Public Domain superhero anthology next year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 IDW keeps losing money. Maybe the Marvel line will fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 They need to trim lines badly. I know some sell but their propensity to turn a single success into a four to six book line has really started to turn readers off of them. Make one book and make it good. MAYBE do one spinoff at a time. Not everything is the Transformers universe in terms of comics audience. Also the fact they pretty much only seem to do licensed work now which has lower margins generally can't be helping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 On 8/17/2018 at 2:59 AM, Brian Fowler said: Dark Horse is losing the Buffy license after Season 12. Fox is pulling it like they did Firefly (possibly going to end up at BOOM like Firefly did?) ahead of the Marvel sale. Fox has a minority stake BOOM which Disney will aquire in the sale. If they keep losing Fox properties, DH is gonna be looking at basically only having the Mignola stuff left that has any proven track record. And, like Firefly, it's BOOM. I find it interesting Fox is pulling the licenses and moving them to Boom (who they are part owners of) now, with the Disney merger looming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Related question: Is Disney getting Fox's shares in Boom! or are they staying with Sports Fox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Nobody cares about comics in a grander sense, so yes Disney gets them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Yeah, there's a real question what Disney will do with majority ownership of another comic company. Not one anyone is asking, but it's there. Especially because Disney also has a working relationship with IDW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 I mean, they only have minority ownership of BOOM! but if this is any kind of indication, it'll be where they cluster their adult tv/film tie-ins I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brian Fowler Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 So BOOM is going full reboot on Buffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 i backed the Kickstarter for Karl Kessel & Tom Grummet's book Section Zero last summer. the story is like a mix of superheroes and the x-files. the book came in the mail last week, and i sat down to read it yesterday. i really enjoyed it. i liked this short-lived series when it came out in 2000 and am glad that it finally got completed and released. i don't know if it was worth waiting 18 years for, but i you get a chance i would suggest checking it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 17 minutes ago, twiztor said: i backed the Kickstarter for Karl Kessel & Tom Grummet's book Section Zero last summer. the story is like a mix of superheroes and the x-files. the book came in the mail last week, and i sat down to read it yesterday. i really enjoyed it. i liked this short-lived series when it came out in 2000 and am glad that it finally got completed and released. i don't know if it was worth waiting 18 years for, but i you get a chance i would suggest checking it out. Can I plug Karl will be on the pod soon to discuss it and his new Kickstarter with David Hahn? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 9 hours ago, twiztor said: i backed the Kickstarter for Karl Kessel & Tom Grummet's book Section Zero last summer. the story is like a mix of superheroes and the x-files. the book came in the mail last week, and i sat down to read it yesterday. Kessel and Grummet had it 2 weekks ago at Baltimore. I had thought it came out earlier. I didn't pick one up mainly because I was bargain hunting in the various TPB bins. I wish DC would do an Omnibus edition of their Superboy series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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