I did not pick up any comics this week, but this is still an important post: POST #1000. Many thanks to the guest bloggers who got us there.
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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.
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9 comments:
They're lions, Geoff, not tigers... see... now it should make sense....
Thor's going back to its original numbering for #600, even though Journey into Mystery #1-82 didn't feature Thor blah blah - the important thing is that the anniversary issue will include a story written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Iron Fist's David Aja.
Who are the Dark Avengers? (I do. I care.)
I've yet to read anything this week, but I picked up Uncanny X-Men #504 because the Dodsons are way better than Greg Land, and even though I'm pretty sure the previous arc was all Fraction, he's the only writer credited this issue. Will Brubaker not script any issues after all?
*Spoiler Alert*
Captain America in an Iron Man Suit, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Venom (too bulky to be spidey)Ms. Marvel. They're not doing a good job of making it hard to figure out.
Here's some news that's at least new to me... apparently Miller's 'Holy Terror, Batman' (the Batman Vs Al Quaeda story) is no longer going to be published by DC and is no longer going to feature Batman. Miller said that, as he worked on it, it became something else and is going to be the start of something else that he's working on...
WTF? I mean, I saw some of the pages he had done when he was halfway through... and they definitely had Batman in them... and he looked frickin' awesome...
Also, there is currently no solicitation date for ASBARTBW 11... it has been postponed indefinitely....
Gah! I guess I'll have to go see the Spirit to see what Miller has been up to...
Scott, my guess is Miller's Batman story was conceived when the war in Iraq was a popular notion and Bush had a relatively high approval rating.
Times, they are a-changing.
James, speaking of David Aja - I think it was solicited that he is teaming up with Brubaker as the regular Daredevil artist (in Feb. I believe).
I wonder if Geoff will find this title worthy of a pickup?
vcaramela - Yes! I was going to mention that, but evidently forgot. I've long since dropped Brubaker's Daredevil (≈Bendis + plodding - good dialogue = bye), but Aja's last Daredevil was a hoot, so I'll get it for sure.
scott - Venom's a no-brainer, but I've got very different picks for the rest. I think I've said before, these guessing games are by far the funnest part of these events.
Brubaker's Daredevil is good now. Lady Bullseye has reivigorated the series and it FEELS a lot like the early Iron Fist issues, even without Aja.
Maybe a little off-topic - I watched Smallville for the first time in a while this week and Doomsday was on it... ? Really? We've gotten to Doomsday on Smallville? The best was seeing him in the stock CW pop-music montage at the end of the episode.
That SUCKS about Holy Terror. 10 dollars says it stars The Spirit now.
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