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Not sure if I will get the Mage single issues, I did for the Image series (but then found a Giant trade that collected them all).  I like Mage the same way I like Grendel in big chunks of Omnibus sized stories.

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3 hours ago, Justin877 said:

Not sure if I will get the Mage single issues, I did for the Image series (but then found a Giant trade that collected them all).  I like Mage the same way I like Grendel in big chunks of Omnibus sized stories.

Same.  I kinda want to buy the single issues (to help sales, I guess), but I don't have a lot of interest in reading it until they put out a tpb or hc collection.

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On 2/19/2017 at 0:36 PM, Brian Fowler said:

Karen Berger is launching a creator owned imprint, Berger Books, under Dark Horse

And now it's a trend. Shelly Bond is launching a creator owned imprint at IDW, called Black Crown. No creators or titles announced yet.

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5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Well, never too late. But you should read Xamies part of L&R for the context of Whoa Nellie.

And read my article about LUCHA in L&R and interview with Xamie. :)

Which collection builds the most context part in?  Is your interview online?

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4 minutes ago, Justin877 said:

Which collection builds the most context part in?  Is your interview online?

It's in the last issue of the magazine. DM you email and I'll shoot you a copy.

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Picked up Millar & Jones' Wanted yesterday from the library.  I read quite a bit but I very rarely check out comics or books from the library.  Generally, my thinking is "If I want to read it, I'll pay for it." 

Glad I made an exception.  I've read a fair bit of Millar and, even though he's hit and miss with me, there's a fair bit of his output I realty like.  I figured I'd end up liking Wanted more than I expected and think that it'd been unfairly crapped on over the years. 

Yeah, no.... I was really wrong about that.  Wanted surely isn't the worst comic I've read, but at no point did it suck me in and I generally thought it was abhorrent and over the top.

The casual violence (rape, murder, etc.) and every character's endorsement of that mindset was repellant.  But, it's a work of fiction.  I can read it even if I don't empathize.  But, other than that, what else is there?  There's very little characterization in the book.  Wesley gets fleshed out a bit, but literally every other character is a cipher.  Fox doesn't really get developed.  The dad is a cardboard character.  The Professor barely gets lines.  Rest of the cast are just random supervillains there to kill and drive the plot forward.

The plot doesn't even do much for me.  I kinda like the idea of the villains taking over the world and rewriting reality to keep superheroes down, but nothing really reaches a satisfying conclusion.  Millar warps through Wesley's training with ridiculous speed (and, even in the comics, I don't believe someone who has never fired a gun can shoot the wings off flies simply because of "genetics") and never really does anything with the world he's established because, by the midway point, he's tearing it all down with the supervillain coup.  Except that's not that interesting because Fox and Wesley manage to kill them all pretty easily despite being heavily outnumbered, out-planned, and out-powered by a lot of the villains.  Fortunately, they have guns which is Millar's mind seems to make them a match for Superman and everyone else.  But even that plot doesn't go anywhere because Millar tosses it aside one issue from the end so he can devote an issue to an absurd twist.  I was ok with the fakeout but The Killer's motivations for faking his death and what he asks from Wesley after 5 min of father-son bonding are really poorly built.  And, of course, Wes doesn't learn anything from any of this except that the key to happiness is to be an even larger sociopath.

Ugh.  I know people loathe Geoff Johns' for the violence in his books, but I've never read a Johns book and had the words "violence porn" pop into my head,

I'm also amused by how little the movie resembles the comic.  Granted, the comic is probably unfilmable without substantial thematic changes even after Suicide Squad made huge amounts of money,  But the movie bears so little resemblance to anything in the comic that it scarcely seems worth the trouble to license it.  Millar should thank his agent profusely for that one.  The man - or woman - is apparently some sort of genius. 

 

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18 hours ago, odessasteps said:

Wanted was probably going to a Secret Society book at DC but thankfully wasnt.

That sounds horrible.  Wasn't The Boys supposed to be a Wildstorm title originally?

Man, MIllar's written a number of books I enjoyed a lot, but the more of his output I read, the more I think those books are happy accidents.  For me, there's no middle ground with Millar books.  Either like them a lot or want to burn them with fire.  I really hate Kick-Ass - especially the sequels - and Wanted is probably worse than Kick-Ass (which at least bothered a little with characterization and a plot).

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1 hour ago, Cliff Hanger said:

Boys actually was Wildstorm, but DC brass kept meddling so Ennis bought it out and took it to Dynamite IIRC

Yeah. It got cancelled after #6 at Wildstorm leading Ennis to do whatever he did to get it to Dynamite.

1 hour ago, Brian Fowler said:

I unashamedly love Kick-Ass despite a myriad of reasons I shouldn't. Own all four hardcovers.

I really like the first Kick Ass as a committed deconstruction of a superhero origin story. Was less into 2 or the Hit Girl mini so I haven't picked up 3 yet.

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5 hours ago, Horton Hears a Wooo!!! said:

That sounds horrible.  Wasn't The Boys supposed to be a Wildstorm title originally?

Man, MIllar's written a number of books I enjoyed a lot, but the more of his output I read, the more I think those books are happy accidents.  For me, there's no middle ground with Millar books.  Either like them a lot or want to burn them with fire.  I really hate Kick-Ass - especially the sequels - and Wanted is probably worse than Kick-Ass (which at least bothered a little with characterization and a plot).

I still like Millar's Swamp Thing, Red Son, and of course his Superman Adventures. And Aztek but not sure who did what on that book. Young, college age me loved Saviour, but not sure how it has aged. 

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On 5/20/2017 at 3:33 PM, Horton Hears a Wooo!!! said:

Picked up Millar & Jones' Wanted yesterday from the library.

i thought Wanted was just barely "good enough". it wasn't really that great, but i thought the concept was pretty cool so it worked for me.

Kick-Ass was decent. Only read the first series, but i didn't hate it.

I really dug Millar's "Nemesis" mini tho. most people hate it, but i quite enjoyed it.

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