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Jason Powell has taken on the yeoman's job of doing an issue by issue analysis of Chris Claremont's 17 year Uncanny X-Men run in an effort to make me feel bad for saying Morrison invented all kinds of things he did not in his New X-Men run, and for spelling Claremont "Clairmont" in my superhero book.
Scott McDarmont (Scott91777) is an Instructor Of English at Radford University, Radford VA, an avid reader of books by guys named Chuck, he usually “waits for the trade” on comics unless Frank Miller is somehow involved. He owns more Def Leppard CDs than Bob Dylan CDs and he is ‘Ok’ with this and, while he may answer different publicly, he secretly feels that The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever made. He also feels that there are two kinds of people in the world: Indiana Jones people and John McClane people. He considers himself an Indiana Jones person
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Scott McDarmont (Scott91777) is an Instructor Of English at Radford University, Radford VA, an avid reader of books by guys named Chuck, he usually “waits for the trade” on comics unless Frank Miller is somehow involved. He owns more Def Leppard CDs than Bob Dylan CDs and he is ‘Ok’ with this and, while he may answer different publicly, he secretly feels that The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever made. He also feels that there are two kinds of people in the world: Indiana Jones people and John McClane people. He considers himself an Indiana Jones person
Jill Duffy, girl reporter, is a professional writer and editor in New York. She spent five years covering video game development in both San Francisco and London, examining the art, science, and business of the industry, and in 2006 was named one of the top 100 most influential women in the game industry. Her work has appeared in The Examiner newspaper in San Francisco, where she was the food section editor, as well as Game Developer, Gamasutra.com, Intelligent Enterprise, DigitalTrends.com, and several other publications. She holds a BA in English from the University at Buffalo. Indeed, she is on the Twitter and also keeps a blog about food.
Andy Bentley is a graphic designer in upstate New York. The first series of Batman movies got him in a comic book store and the DC animated series made him a life long fan. His senior thesis was a short film on the culture of comic books. Animal Man, Starman, and Preacher are among his favorite comic runs. He is an avid toy collector and enjoys playing basketball, mash-ups, karaoke and dark beers. He will be sequestered most of September with The Beatles: Rock Band.
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This week, I'll be picking up Uncanny X-Men #475, which is the start of Ed Brubaker's run following his Deadly Genisis. I actually found DG to be a pretty bold little X-Men story, so I'll follow him. Uncanny X-Men has been in dire condition for some time.
Also, 52 #9. This title is still holding together well and is just plain fun to read. As Greg Rucka said in a Word Balloon interview, everyone is reading 52 for the same way they watch NASCAR... waiting for the inevitable crash. Not me. I just love it.
Also, Detective Comics #821, the start of Paul Dini's run. Dini's animated Batman brought a lot of vitality and pizzazz back to Batman. Let's see if he can do it again...
PS: Geoff, there's an interview with Morrison and Dini in this months Wizard regarding what they have planned for their runs. I have just two words for you in regards to Morrison's run:
"Bat-Hombre"
What's even more surprising is that I still read Wizard....
Screw Dini... JH WILLIAMS III is drawing that book. That alone makes it worthwile.
I love Dini's Batman.
But I think Williams III and Tony Harris are the only artists I would literally follow to the ends of the earth. If Williams announced he was doing a Care Bears/Strawberry Shortcake crossover I would buy it.
My "impulse" buy this week was the final issue of Dan Slott's The Thing. Which, despite his Herculean efforts of promotion, still floundered and was canceled. I love Slott's She-Hulk very much, and I am currently working on an article called "Boston Legal" v. "She-Hulk": Heritage and Metafiction on Trial; but Slott's work on Thing just hasn't done it for me. (more news as it develops on my article)
Uncanny X-Men was solid, though unremarkable.
52 actually let me down for the first time this month. I wasn't really into the artwork this week, so maybe that was it.
Dini's Detective was the real gem this week. A wonderful, done-in-one with an interesting new villain and even some commentary on the Bruce Wayne persona.
D'oh... JH WILLIAMS's art was brilliant, too!
Thanks for the recommendations. I just read the Dini/Williams Batman. The story was fine, but the art was stunning. Old school and modern at the same time, like the animated series, actually.
WIlliams is brilliant.
His work on Promethea not only out-shined Alan Moore's wonderful script, it set a new high-water mark in the history of comic art.
I know this sounds like insane hyperbole but I think in the end he will be mentioned in the same breath as Eisner, Kirby and Steranko.
The way the Titles in the splash of 'tec 821 represent the train... and the Cave is the gutter... he's a Day-Glow Eisner, and this is only getting started.
Another book I'm digging is Manifest Eternity which is the ultimate High Concept: Sci-Fi Universe Vs Fantasy Universe. It's like Star Trek Vs Middle Earth or Star Wars vs King Arthur... Issue 2 just came out. I liked issue 1, it was clunky and hard to follow at times, but it had a earth-shaking action sequence and that combined with the premise was enough to get me to stick it out... #2 is a perfect book. 1 and done but setting up an entire universe and setting character plots going too... really good stuff with top notch art.
I agree with you that Williams is a serious force. I cannot wait for Seven Soldiers 1. In the mean time I will have to check out Manifest Eternity. You were right about All Star Batman, you might be right about this as well, is my thinking.
I'll check out Manifest Eternity on the strength of that recommendation too. I was already tempted; even though he wrote for the X-books during one of their most maligned periods, I still absolutely love some of Lobdell's work, especially the first 6 Generation Xs (the Lobdell-Bachalo tag-team was cruelly interrupted by the Age of Apocalypse, which took up nearly half their opening run).
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