Some Comics You Might Wish To Try
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sdelmonteJust came back from my weekly run to the comic shop, with four really good comics. That doesn't happen often enough...
Nightwing 83 - Still a fairly conventional comic about Dick Grayson, the man once known as Robin the Boy Wonder, but a very good example of how the genre can still work. This issue ushers in a major change in Dick's life, even as he tries to solve a mystery. Writer Devin Grayson favors strong characterization over action-adventure, and as a result, what action there is works better.
Fantastic Four 500 - The conclusion of the big showdown with Dr. Doom delivers pretty much what the hype promised. Once again, we ask how Marvel could fire Mark Waid when he was just getting warmed up. No one has ever written Reed Richards better. Odds are the entire "Unthinkable" story arc will be reprinted soon. If you like super-heroics writ large and heroes facing the worst battles undaunted, you will want to buy it.
Fables 15 - Part two of "Storybook Romance" is the best issue of this series since the first five-parter. Great art from Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha adds to a wonderful, complex and unpredictable script form Bill Willingham. There are couple of moments that are just about perfect. While this series is being turned into trade paperbacks almost overnight, you might want to rush out for this story. It's that good.
Fallen Angel 1 - Peter David has a new comic, and it's not what you'd expect. It's not that funny, on purpose. It's dark and strange. It's technically part of the DC Universe, but it's a new group of characters and a new setting. And it's quite good. Not as good as PAD is capalbe of, but it builds slowly over the course of the debut issue, introduces a very intriguing cast - including a mysterious protagonist who is no super-hero - and ends with a marvelous twist. If PAD's previous work for Marvel and DC was Buffy, this is his Angel, darker and more adult. It's, by his own admission, an attempt to try something new, something more adult than typical DC fare but less R-rated than Fables. I don't know what audience that would reach, but I have a feeling that it may include a lot of people I know.
So, now that I've made those recommendations, why aren't you running out to the comic shop so you can buy these and dicuss them with me?
Nightwing 83 - Still a fairly conventional comic about Dick Grayson, the man once known as Robin the Boy Wonder, but a very good example of how the genre can still work. This issue ushers in a major change in Dick's life, even as he tries to solve a mystery. Writer Devin Grayson favors strong characterization over action-adventure, and as a result, what action there is works better.
Fantastic Four 500 - The conclusion of the big showdown with Dr. Doom delivers pretty much what the hype promised. Once again, we ask how Marvel could fire Mark Waid when he was just getting warmed up. No one has ever written Reed Richards better. Odds are the entire "Unthinkable" story arc will be reprinted soon. If you like super-heroics writ large and heroes facing the worst battles undaunted, you will want to buy it.
Fables 15 - Part two of "Storybook Romance" is the best issue of this series since the first five-parter. Great art from Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha adds to a wonderful, complex and unpredictable script form Bill Willingham. There are couple of moments that are just about perfect. While this series is being turned into trade paperbacks almost overnight, you might want to rush out for this story. It's that good.
Fallen Angel 1 - Peter David has a new comic, and it's not what you'd expect. It's not that funny, on purpose. It's dark and strange. It's technically part of the DC Universe, but it's a new group of characters and a new setting. And it's quite good. Not as good as PAD is capalbe of, but it builds slowly over the course of the debut issue, introduces a very intriguing cast - including a mysterious protagonist who is no super-hero - and ends with a marvelous twist. If PAD's previous work for Marvel and DC was Buffy, this is his Angel, darker and more adult. It's, by his own admission, an attempt to try something new, something more adult than typical DC fare but less R-rated than Fables. I don't know what audience that would reach, but I have a feeling that it may include a lot of people I know.
So, now that I've made those recommendations, why aren't you running out to the comic shop so you can buy these and dicuss them with me?
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Date: Jul. 9th, 2003 04:53 pm (UTC)Peter David was signing at a nearby comic store today, so Nomi and I went to say hello, get a few things autographed, and buy Fallen Angel.
The real big thing I bought though was the second Alan Moore trade paper collection of his SUPREME stories...why dincha get that?
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Date: Jul. 10th, 2003 06:07 am (UTC)