Seven Soldiers of Victory series discussion (spoilers)

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Got Volume 1 yesterday and I'm really loving it. So far I'm most enjoying Shining Knight since it's the only book that deals directly with the Sheeda, but they're all great. I'm very excited about reading the rest.
 
moonmaster said:
Got Volume 1 yesterday and I'm really loving it. So far I'm most enjoying Shining Knight since it's the only book that deals directly with the Sheeda, but they're all great. I'm very excited about reading the rest.
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That will change. It probably is the most directly involved though.

Shining Knight was one of my least favorite until I re-read the whole thing a couple weeks ago - now it's probably my favorite.
 
E said:
That will change. It probably is the most directly involved though.

Shining Knight was one of my least favorite until I re-read the whole thing a couple weeks ago - now it's probably my favorite.
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Plus, Simone Bianchi's art is ridiculously good. I'd only ever seen his covers.

I checked out the Barbelith annotations. They're very, very addictive. They add so much more depth to the book. And so far I've only checked out the notes for #0, and Shining Knight #1.
 
moonmaster said:
Plus, Simone Bianchi's art is ridiculously good. I'd only ever seen his covers.

I checked out the Barbelith annotations. They're very, very addictive. They add so much more depth to the book. And so far I've only checked out the notes for #0, and Shining Knight #1.
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Awesome. Keep posting as you go along...I love discussing this. If there was more interest I'd dump the Ultimate theme and make this a 7 Soldiers board.
 
I thought Bulleteer being the "spear that was never thrown" was thinly-veiled joke about Auracles' ...um...genetic line, which was brilliant in and of itself, but I recently read this on Barbelith (which I wish I was intelligent enough to post on, but oh well)...

I think the "spear not thrown" might be relating to a grounded arrested development. Agressiveness towards vilified "not-self" blockades (bad mothers motif, for instance), not taking responsability for yourself, your doings, your lackings etc.

It's all very recurrent, no? That bad-evil parents figures complex, those freudians undercurrents, the wife and mistress fighting each other (Sally Sonic, just another ***** stealing Elektra's daddy), the dozens I can't remember properly, the imature agressiveness towards these vilifed figures, the fear in taking their place, it's responsability (the symbolic, and true, killing) etc.

It's a fail-safe magic of sorts no? Guaranting that even if IT doesn't strikes (as in, DO strike by not growing, by not taking flight. By throwing the lance and not the Lance), it comes through in the end afterall. It does strikes. "Somehow we beat them".

Well that's just what I like to read in that.
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:shock: Freakin' brilliant.
 
So it looks like Mister Miracle has escaped from death.

FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN #33
Written by Dwayne McDuffie
Art by Dan Jurgens & Ken Lashley
Cover by Pete Woods
The superstar creative team of Dwayne McDuffie (JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, STATIC), Dan Jurgens (Superman, Captain America) and Ken Lashley (The Flash) bring Firestorm to bold new heights! Jason Rusch and Prof. Martin Stein just want to get their lives back to normal, but the New Gods have other plans! When Orion comes looking for Prof. Stein, you can bet a throwdown's not far behind! Guest-starring the Seven Soldiers' Mister Miracle!
On sale February 28 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
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Oh, and you might want to read THIS

Grant Morrison said:
I'm sure. I'd like to have them all released as a boxed set of issues that you can shuffle around and also as individual miniseries plus bookends in a sumptuous Absolute collection printed using the finest intelligent inks from Mars and Venus on paper so smooth and so sexy that one touch is like fortnight's worth of non-stop latex sex.
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...I'd be down with that.
 
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Great Interview... I wish Morrison talked about his work more often, he always gives things new light.
 
It is a good interview...I wish he had gotten into some of the more hard to understand bits, but I guess sometimes some things are better left unsaid.
 
The comment he leaves about how other writers are going to absolutely waste the characters he created its awesome.

Everyone other than Grant Morrison in the comic book world just got owned.
 
I've been reading Volume 2. I can't believe how sweet this is.

First of all, it's so brilliant how everything is coming together. I keep on finding all these connections. My biggest question is "What the hell is up with the dice?". It's obviously pretty important.

Shining Knight is still my favorite, and the finale was just incredible. I didn't think Bianchi's art could get any better but it miraculously has. That moment at the end was just heartbreaking. "He will never know how I loved him."

The big twist in Zatanna was perfect. It took me about two seconds to realize that Misty was supposed to be killed by her evil stepmother but is now being guarded by seven people. She's ****in' Snow White! That's just brilliant.
 
moonmaster said:
It took me about two seconds to realize that Misty was supposed to be killed by her evil stepmother but is now being guarded by seven people. She's ****in' Snow White! That's just brilliant.
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That was one of the most brilliant things I've ever read in comics.
 
Re: Comics for the week of Jan 31st!

Victor Von Doom said:
Bingo. It's also kinda hard to care about something that doesn't seem to really have an effect on the main titles every is reading.

I mean look at all the tie-ins everyone has been reading because of Civil War. How many of us would give some of these titles and one-shots the time of day if we didn't think that it was gonna play into the main CW title or fallout events.


But Annihilation? So something big happens to some cosmic guy in a galaxy far far away---how does this affect the character on Tony's side that I'm interested? Or something to that nature......


The galaxy side of Marvel has been pushed to the sidelines for so long that it's kinda gotten that "outta sight...outta mind" feel to it.
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The parallels to Seven Soldiers are interesting...a few people called it a rip off in concept anyway, but I think it also missed out on a lot of attention to whatever the last Crisis story was. Having not read it (but skimmed through a few of the books), I think it's safe to say that Annihilation isn't nearly as good as Seven Soldiers, but some of the similarities are interesting.

I'm counting down the minutes to get to the comic store to get Seven Soldiers Vol. 4...
 
Re: Comics for the week of Jan 31st!

E said:
I think it's safe to say that Annihilation isn't nearly as good as Seven Soldiers, but some of the similarities are interesting.
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But then again....what is?

The similarities are astonishing. DC took a few characters that no one really cared about a wove a masterful story. Marvel looked to do the same.
 
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