The All About Comics Thread 5: Comic Books Ate My Paycheck

Zombipanda said:
Hm. So what you're saying is, Vertigo books should be more about theme than character? I don't know. If we were talking about the first batch of books to be pushed to the Vertigo line (Sandman, Animal Man, Swamp Thing) then that might be the case, but using that logic, half of Vertigo hasn't really been "Vertigo books" for a couple of decades now. I'd say as early as Hellblazer, we were seeing books that were primarily character driven being published by the imprint.
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What I'm saying is that the books you mentioned as not necessarily fitting either designation sort of skirt the fence, in that they're more character driven. That's not to say that Vertigo can't accommodate them--just that "Air" reminds me of a Vertigo title in the traditional sense of the term more than most other things being published with the imprint today.
 
Did anyone else read "Captain America: Who Won't Wield The Shield?"
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Basically Forebrush Man kills half of the writers at Marvel. Oh and there's also two short stories: one where Fraction crosses Captain America with Dr. Strange in the 70's with appropriately trippy art to boot. The other story is about Golden Age Deadpool, whose basically just Woodrow Wilson's nephew in a gas mask and very badly burned. The Forebrush Man and Dr. America stories were good and the Deadpool was so-so. Also, Ed Brubaker telling Jason Aaron to get him more coffee, and Bendis tweeting with Fraction was hilarious.

ProjectX2 said:
It was great. JMS's best issue so far. Don't let it get spoiled.
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I read it, it was really good.
 
Iceshadow said:
Did anyone else read "Captain America: Who Won't Wield The Shield?"
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Basically Forebrush Man kills half of the writers at Marvel. Oh and there's also two short stories: one where Fraction crosses Captain America with Dr. Strange in the 70's with appropriately trippy art to boot. The other story is about Golden Age Deadpool, whose basically just Woodrow Wilson's nephew in a gas mask and very badly burned. The Forebrush Man and Dr. America stories were good and the Deadpool was so-so. Also, Ed Brubaker telling Jason Aaron to get him more coffee, and Bendis tweeting with Fraction was hilarious.



I read it, it was really good.
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I feel as if I've read this post before
 
I am going to read it just for the Fraction/McCarthy DOCTOR AMERICA story.
 
robje said:
I'm really liking American Vampire. A western featuring Sawyer from Lost as a vampire? Count me in!
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I really liked the first issue.
Gideon Stargrave said:
Is anyone else reading "Air"? It's really good, and unlike almost everything published by Vertigo right now (sans The Unwritten, maybe), it actually fits the line.
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I bought the first trade and enjoyed it, but I'd have to say that right now Fables, DMZ, Scalped, The Unwritten, Northlanders, and Madame Xanadu are all more interesting to me personally and, as I said above, I really dug the first issue of America Vampire.

In other Vertigo news, I bought the first volume of Greek Street and I intend to read it as soon as the NFL draft stops consuming my every waking hour.

I may be reading too much Vertigo...
 
I haven't read Fables since the crossover. My interest has sort of waned. Maybe someone can explain the appeal of Scalped to me? I read the first trade and it just seemed like nihilistic, hyper-violent torture **** with a layer of grit superimposed for healthy measure.

Similarly, I thought Greek Street was pretty terrible, even though I'm a sucker for Classical mythology. The copious references to antiquity failed to make the lackluster story and characters interesting, even for me. I really wish they'd have bothered to do more than hang onto Fables' coat tails with that one.
 
I almost bought a used copy of Greek Street the other day. I ended up getting some paperback novels instead though.

I kind of lost interest in Fables too. It's not that the book did anything wrong (although the Great Fables Crossover certainly wasn't particularly good), or even that the book isn't any good anymore. It's just become forgettable in my conscious mind for some reason.

But yeah. DMZ may be the very best book on stands right now.
 
Fables has become pretty forgettable... but I hope the current arc will change that.

I couldn't get into Scalped until after the first 13 or so issues. It's now one of my favourite titles.

I was disappointed in Greek Street and dropped it after the second issue.
 
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Ed Brubaker is one badass mother****er.
 
read the one shot for Cloak and Dagger: The Broken Church, the storyline was okay but what really got me was the coloring. so kudos and props to.......(looks it up).....Emily Warren. Just something about her choice of colors made the issue for me. Especially when they showcased Cloaks powers, with the inside of his cloak being the layout of the universe, the white to dark contrast was just about right.
 
I just read Muppets Peter Pan last night and it was great. I thought it was weird to use Janice as Wendy but the whole hippy band thing worked. I need to get caught up on the Muppet Show comic - I really liked it.
 
Another series I finally read that's been on my "to read" list - Black Widow: Deadly Origin. I read the mini from a few years ago that was drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz and enjoyed it so I wanted to check this out.

It was pretty good except for one thing - Ivan becoming a sort of traitor to Widow. Actually, becoming a traitor wasn't so bad. It was becoming that Imperial Dynamo thing. That was stupid.

I also started this not realizing it was drawn by one of my favorite artists (John Paul Leon) and one of my least favorites (Tom Raney). So that was interesting. Not often you get to see a story jump back and forth between 2 opposites like that.

I really did like the idea of the nanites having infected people over the years and it's too bad they didn't spend more time on her disabling them or tracking them down.

I also started to read Black Widow & The Marvel Girls or whatever it was called but quit after the first issue. Too boring and the art wasn't that good.
 
That mini should have been drawn entirely by John Paul Leon. Tom Raney is awful and didn't fit the tone of the series at all.
 
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