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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
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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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.
Would you like to write for this blog?
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3 comments:
Boy, everybody's quiet 'round these parts this week.
Well, I have to say that I bought both of the titles above. Still enjoying both. The Lex in All Star Superman is everything I wish Kevin Spacey was in the movie. I did get the feeling that this issue was setting up a later encounter with Lex.
OH! But that two page spread of Lex, Clark and the guards going down the stairs is another Quietly masterpiece.
Mitch: for myself I have been less active here because I am in the middle of moving from Oxford to New York. I wrote these Harold posts awhile ago so I would not have to put the blog on hiatus. Everyone else may be on labor day stuff. (In the future I am going to push back blogging if it is a holiday).
I don't give a damn about X-Men; I have not even read it yet, but I have looked at all the great pictures. Bachalo is hands down my favorite comic book artist.
All Star Superman 5 was everything I wanted and nothing I didn't. Perfect Lex Luthor: overactive, crazy, audacious, powerful, confident, weird. The two pages you mention are amazing, as is the bit where the Parasite falls through the floor which is also the gutter of the image. And again, Jamie Grant did an amazing job, with the reds at the end and the stone surfaces throughout.
I liked ASS5, still getting that Lex as the Evil Grant Morrison vibe from it. My only real problem is that after months (and months) of waiting for it to be released it sometimes just seems like its over too fast. I mean, I read this issue while standing in Old Street Tube station waiting for a friend, that was just it... it was over. I wish they had had these books done before releasing them, I see no reason not to do so when it comes to limited series.
Ultimate Fantastic Four was weird... I LOVED the art... LOVED IT but thought that the writing was a waste of space without even one new clever spin on things which to me has been the hallmark of this series no matter who writes it.
Even stranger is how GREAT Busiek's Superman is and how awful his Action Comics is... I guess it's better than two mediocre books.
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