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  • Fresh Tendrils
    Strike Hard and Fade Away
    • Jul 2002
    • 36131

    #211
    Re: Comic Book Fans....

    Hush was my first TPB and I loved it. Then I picked up Batman: Year One by FM and was blown away. The man is talented as hell and Sin City is a testament to that fact.



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    • SPTO
      binging
      • Feb 2003
      • 68046

      #212
      Re: Comic Book Fans....

      Originally posted by aukevin
      SPTO, have you read Donner/John's Action #845 yet? That was a heck of a good issue IMO. The end was awesome.
      Yep, very good issue again tho the art detracts from the story. Kubert is singlehandedly trying to ruin a great story arc. The ending has me pumped up for the next issue. It'll be interesting to see how those characters are portrayed in the comic books.

      Were they created solely for the Superman Movies or were they originally in the comic books? I'm not too sure which is why i'm very interested to see how they're portrayed.

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      The Grotesk storyline that's just started in BATMAN looks very interesting. I really like the art but sheesh the end of the issue really aggravated me. Just when it was getting good the issue was over.
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      • aukevin
        War Eagle, Go Braves!
        • Dec 2002
        • 14700

        #213
        Re: Comic Book Fans....

        Originally posted by SPTO
        Yep, very good issue again tho the art detracts from the story. Kubert is singlehandedly trying to ruin a great story arc. The ending has me pumped up for the next issue. It'll be interesting to see how those characters are portrayed in the comic books.

        Were they created solely for the Superman Movies or were they originally in the comic books? I'm not too sure which is why i'm very interested to see how they're portrayed.

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        The Grotesk storyline that's just started in BATMAN looks very interesting. I really like the art but sheesh the end of the issue really aggravated me. Just when it was getting good the issue was over.
        Zod has been in the Superman comics a long time, this past issue was the first time ever to see Ursa and Non outside of the movies, that's why I loved it so much. Zod's character has changed forms a few times over the years, I'm happy to see the movie one show up and I hope it sticks around. The art is messy that's for sure, I've seen way worse in a comic before. Actually I don't think it's real bad, but it definitely isn't doing the story any favors.

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        • SPTO
          binging
          • Feb 2003
          • 68046

          #214
          Re: Comic Book Fans....

          Originally posted by aukevin
          Zod has been in the Superman comics a long time, this past issue was the first time ever to see Ursa and Non outside of the movies, that's why I loved it so much. Zod's character has changed forms a few times over the years, I'm happy to see the movie one show up and I hope it sticks around. The art is messy that's for sure, I've seen way worse in a comic before. Actually I don't think it's real bad, but it definitely isn't doing the story any favors.
          Thanks for the info. I'll have to research the character on wiki.

          So you've seen worse art in comic books? I hope I never pick up those issues then because I had a real hard time understanding what the heck was happening when Bizarro showed up.
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          • aukevin
            War Eagle, Go Braves!
            • Dec 2002
            • 14700

            #215
            Re: Comic Book Fans....

            Originally posted by SPTO
            So you've seen worse art in comic books? I hope I never pick up those issues then because I had a real hard time understanding what the heck was happening when Bizarro showed up.
            Trevor McCarthey, hands down. He did Nightwing a few years ago and I wanted to rip out my eyes.

            I really like how the writers are handling Lex lately, he's much more the evil scientist again. I also liked how in this issue he has trained Bizarro to be a villian. I never cared for the more recent version of Bizarro with all the stupid opposite talk. This one was much better.

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            • aukevin
              War Eagle, Go Braves!
              • Dec 2002
              • 14700

              #216
              Re: Comic Book Fans....

              Originally posted by SPTO
              The Grotesk storyline that's just started in BATMAN looks very interesting. I really like the art but sheesh the end of the issue really aggravated me. Just when it was getting good the issue was over.
              I haven't read that issue yet but I did read Detective #826. What a nice little Joker holiday issue :y4: That was one of the best Joker comics I've ever read.

              Batman Confidential #1 started out real well. If it keeps it up and on time, that title and the Superman Confidential comic (which has been great through 2 issues so far) could really be great, something that the All-star titles were suppose to be but delays have killed them. Also, these Confidential titles are cool because they are in continuity as they are telling some new stories from different times in the heroes lives. The Superman one is right after he's been on the job for a few months and is about his first interaction with Kryptonite. The Batman one takes place about a year after he started and the first issue had Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor competing for weapon contracts. Very cool.

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              • SPTO
                binging
                • Feb 2003
                • 68046

                #217
                Re: Comic Book Fans....

                Originally posted by aukevin
                The Batman one takes place about a year after he started and the first issue had Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor competing for weapon contracts. Very cool.
                NIIIICE....

                I think i'll wait a while and pick up a bundle of these confidential issues on ebay if the quality is that good.

                Let me know in a couple months time will you?
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                • Laettner32
                  Banned
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 2873

                  #218
                  Re: Comic Book Fans....

                  Just picked up Pride of Baghdad. A ficticious story based on the true events of a pride of lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo shortly after the Americans....err...Coalition bombed the hell out of it. Looks real interesting.

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                  • aukevin
                    War Eagle, Go Braves!
                    • Dec 2002
                    • 14700

                    #219
                    Re: Comic Book Fans....

                    Originally posted by Laettner32
                    Just picked up Pride of Baghdad. A ficticious story based on the true events of a pride of lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo shortly after the Americans....err...Coalition bombed the hell out of it. Looks real interesting.
                    I love Brian K. Vaughan's work on the Marvel title Runaways so I think I'll check this out. Thanks.

                    I just got done reading Red Menace #1 co-written by Adam Brody (The OC), Danny Bilson (Rachel Bilson's, also from The OC, father), and Paul Demeo. Bilson and Demeo are doing the Flash comics right now and wrote the old Flash TV show. The comic is a six issue mini series and is set in the 50's and takes inspiration from Joseph McCarthy's investigation in the middle of last century trying to uncover commie spies in America. This comic is about a superhero that is forced to unmask and then is accuse of being a communist because he has an old war-time buddy, when the US and Russia were allies, that is a superhero in Russia. It started out good, hopefully it stays good.

                    Preview of it
                    Last edited by aukevin; 12-13-2006, 01:55 PM.

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                    • SPTO
                      binging
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 68046

                      #220
                      Re: Comic Book Fans....

                      Is the interior art also B&W?
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                      • aukevin
                        War Eagle, Go Braves!
                        • Dec 2002
                        • 14700

                        #221
                        Re: Comic Book Fans....

                        Originally posted by SPTO
                        Is the interior art also B&W?
                        nope. that would have been pretty cool though. But the art is done by Jerry Ordway who did Superman stuff around the Doomsday times.

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                        • SPTO
                          binging
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 68046

                          #222
                          Re: Comic Book Fans....

                          Wow...Ordway is still in the biz?!

                          I think i'll have to pick this up. I would like to see how his art has translated to the more modern era.
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                          • aukevin
                            War Eagle, Go Braves!
                            • Dec 2002
                            • 14700

                            #223
                            Re: Comic Book Fans....

                            Originally posted by SPTO
                            Wow...Ordway is still in the biz?!

                            I think i'll have to pick this up. I would like to see how his art has translated to the more modern era.
                            It's the first I've seen from Ordway in a while that I can remember. Check the preview link under that image and you can see 6 or so pages from the first issue. I think the art's good.

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                            • aukevin
                              War Eagle, Go Braves!
                              • Dec 2002
                              • 14700

                              #224
                              Re: Comic Book Fans....

                              I've gotten a bit behind in comics over the past few weeks due to the holidays and reading older stuff that I got for Christmas.

                              I got a few Superman mini-series for Christmas that I've been wanting for a while and already read Superman: Red Son and Superman: The Dark Side. Both are Elseworlds comics, set outside of normal Superman continuity, and both deal with what would happen if Superman didn't crash as a baby in Smallville. The Red Son one had him land in communist Russia and he was raised as Stalin's protege. The Dark Side had Superman's flight to Smallville intercepted by the universe traveling Metron and the baby Superman is given to Darkseid on Apokolips to become his pawn in universal domination. Both stories were great IMO and I'd recommend them. The Red Son issue had other heroes in it from time to time like Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Arrow. Both have Lex Luthor, because of course, you can't have Superman without Luthor.

                              I read another story similar to these where Superman is actually rocketed from a doomed Earth to Krypton where Superman grows up. Here, since he doesn't have the great powers but still the tremendous since of duty and honor, he is named the Green Lantern for that sector and things go on from there. That book is called Superman: Last Son of Earth and it had a sequel a few years later called Superman: Last Stand on Krypton. Those two stories are great too.

                              Now I've got to get caught back up on the new stuff. I've got the 52's to read, the next Red Menace, and the variety of new Superman comics on the top of my list.

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                              • aukevin
                                War Eagle, Go Braves!
                                • Dec 2002
                                • 14700

                                #225
                                Re: Comic Book Fans....

                                Originally posted by Money99
                                I couldn't answer your last question. But I know that the suit has powers like Iron Man. So he's technically not even Spiderman anymore. More like Iron-Spiderman.
                                I've been seeing all these fliers and ads around the comic books shop about Spidey going back to his black costume next month. Not sure why, but I bet is both a marketing tool for the new movie as well as some kind of impact from his difference of opinion these days with Iron Man.

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