Clever.
Jim Lee’s artwork is so damn loud. It kind of helps Hush, since Loeb’s writing is loud, but for me, the positive effects wore off after scene one. The rest of it was just a chore to get through. I can only take my eyeballs getting overstimulated by crosshatching and male characters who are all drawn exactly the same for more than a few minutes.
What can I say? I’m a wordsmith extraordinaire, a linguistical ass assassin, a veritable language GENIUS.
I read Superman & Batman Vs. Aliens & Predator. It was not good. Well, the art was pretty cool looking - Ariel Olivetti. But the story was uninspired and the dialogue and general tone was just whack. How many times must we encounter the overzealous military who tries to nuke the threat while our good-natured heroes attempt to save the day with minimal collateral damage?
And for a comic that was supposed to have a darker and harder edge because of the subject matter (Aliens and Predators, dammit), there was a lot of Superman saying, “Rao grant me strength!” and “Rao help me!” and “Merciful Rao” and “Rao this!”
That just doesn’t work when your main guys are supposed to be fighting Aliens and Predators.
Also, the writer used Prep-Time Batman as a cheap plot device, so even when Batman ended up saving the world, it just seemed cliche rather than impressive.
The one thing that really jumped out at me when I was flipping through Hush was the artwork, which was just amazing.
I gotta say seeing as how most of us all have similar tastes, its nice to see that we can still agree to disagree.:wgrin:
BTW how is Batman & Son?
Batman & Son is worth reading. It’s Grant Morrison on compressed gas duster. You can never go wrong with Morrison as long as he’s on something.
Cool. Has he ever not been on something? I was very impressed with All-Star Superman so I’d love to see more of his work.
Any good Batman stories that have Tim Drake Robin? After what I read about him on wiki, I don’t think there’s ever been a better Robin. Kid is the only person who deduced that Batman was Bruce Wayne and that the original Robin was Dick Grayson. Of course he was there when Dick lost his parents so I guess that helps. Heck, even Bats said Tim would surpass him as the world’s greatest detective.
I think the only time Morrison was sober was when he worked on 52, and the work suffered greatly for it. We all did.
Right now, I can’t think of any Batman/Tim Drake stories that particularly stand out other than the current runs on Detective and Batman.
hard for me to remember any good Batman and Robin stories.
there are a few good Standalone Tim Stories, and SEVERAL good stories involving Tim and Young Justice, or Tim and the Titans.
but I can’t think of any “Batman and Robin” stories offhand, which is odd, but not surprising, since Tim is the most independant Robin ever.
52 wasn’t TERRIBLE, it was just kinda ‘meh’.
they took what could’ve been an AWESOME 12-Issue Maxi-Series, and stretched it into a mediocre 52-issue weekly series.
I’ve read more than 12 good issues of 52 so far so that logic fails (in what way is taichi a dc fan again?)
good batman and robin story = city of crime
batman and son was reviewed by moi a few pages back
I picked these up at my comic shop and got 25% off all four books:
Batman: Detective
Batman: Ego and other Tails
The Sentry (Marvel Knights 2000 ver.)
Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil
Batman: Detective was worth buying for the artwork alone. Love how Batman looks in these strories and the way Robin’s cap looks like bird feathers at the end. Very nice touch.
With Darwyn Cooke’s stories for Batman: Ego, this baby was a no-brainer. The cover alone for Batman: Ego is dope. Since I haven’t bought DC: New Frontier yet, I figured getting Batman: Ego would be a nice appetiser of Cooke’s work.
The Sentry was a book I asked about a few pages back. My shop ha done copy and the various artwork looks amazing. And Paul Jenkins is one of my fav writers and I’ve been itching for a Sentry story since I first read a story about in in New Avengers 7-10. Seeing how the creator writers The Sentry should be quite a treat.
If I’m not mistaken, I think it was Zeph that recommend Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil as a good Captain Marvel read. My shop only got one copy in and I tought $30 was cheap for a HC comic of this size. This will be my first time ever reading Jeff Smith’s work. If I dig The Monster Society of Evil enough, I just make check out his Bone series.
no, that logic doesn’t fail.
12 good issues of 52 does not equal a good 12-issue series.
compress that shit down!
As for me being a DC fan, I don’t even think that’s in question, since I don’t read much Marvel at all (and NOTHING on a regular basis).
Batman: Detective is dope. I just finished reading the story with Riddler. Man, Dini knows how to write Batman.
Anyone gonna pick up the Captain America: Fallen Son TPB? It’s actually a HC, which Marvel rarely seems to do with limited series. I haven’t read it but a friend told me its good.
I don’t think Fallen Son is anything good. I read it and it’s just your average Jeph Loeb story. Some of the issues have really nice art - John Cassaday and JRjr’s issues were pretty good looking. But no way is the Premier Edition HC worth 20 bucks.
Seems like Batman has all the good trades. Every time I go looking for TPBs, I spend more time looking through Bat’s stuff than anything else, and as much as I love the guy, he isn’t my fav super hero, Spide-Man is. Only 3 Spider-Man TPBs I want. The number of Batman trades? Insane. Everytime I turn around I’m adding another one to the list.
Oh, I finished reading Batman: Detective. God bless Paul Dini for doing awesome single issue stories. Nice to read a comic where you don’t have to wait 6 months for a story to end. I think my fav story was the last one called “Slayride.” Robin got into a car with The Joker and he goes around killing people, making Robin watch. Great stuff. And Robin going “Batman” on Joker in the end was great.
Anyone read any of the Astro City stories? Madman also looks like it might be worth checking out.
Astro City is great. Top tier superhero comics for sure. That whole series is Kurt Busiek’s best stuff next to Secret Identity. You don’t even have to read the Astro City TPBs in order. My two favorites are The Tarnished Angel and Confession. They do a great job of creating a world that you can really envision in your mind as you read. It just feels right.
And Image has started putting out Madman trades in order, so check those out as well.
Woohoo! More good trades to pick up! Aw, my poor wallet…:sad:
I read the first chapter of Batman: The Long Halloween. Sale’s artwork is perfect for this type of Batman story. Feels like one of those old-school tales with some of Batman’s best villians. Loeb’s writing is on point, too. After Superman For All Seasons, I was a bit weary about a Loeb/Sale work but The Long Halloween has renewed my faith.
I think I may have found another good Spidey trade in Spider-Man: Breakout. I never did pick up the comics when they came out a few years back. This reminds me, I also need to get Paul Jenkins trades of Spectacular Spider-Man: Countdown and the one where we find out Eddie Brock has cancer.
I don’t know about the Spider-Man: Breakout TPB, man. That’s one of those things that falls under the “Read It at Borders and Then Accidentally Drop It on Some Unsuspecting, Manga-reading Kid’s Head” category. It was just an overly long miniseries that seemed to exist to cash in on the New Avengers series launch because the breakout was tied in to what happened in NA. There was nothing interesting about the plot or art. The whole comic existed just to make some money.
Now that I think about it, I don’t even think it qualifies in the “Read It at Borders and Then Accidentally Drop It on Some Unsuspecting, Manga-reading Kid’s Head” category. Probably it just belongs in the “Drop It on Some Kid’s Head on Purpose” category because I can’t think of any good reason for Spider-Man: Breakout to exist.
weekend reading:
Friday the 13th tpb - fucking awful. Worst book I have read in years. I dont know if Im supposed to be kinder or harsher to it as an F13 fan but this book just fails on so many levels. It shows not even the remotest understand of the F13 mythos or even of the writers have watched a single one of the movie. It feels more like they were aware of the pop culture references to F13 so just wrote a big pile of crap based on that. Ugly, juvenile, homophobic, racist, mysoginist (not in a good way)…gray and palmiotti really just took a paycheck on this one. This book is deplorable.
Justice Society vol. 1 - not bad. Strange that they only collected four issues. I havent memorized Kingdom Come so some of the references escape me. Not sure about this book.
Ion vol. 2 - good stuff, ending was a little weak in that almost nothing was concluded. Captain Atom dressed as Monarch was a big wtf, as were the random appearence of all these monitors. This is one of the problems of delaying the 52 tpb’s so much…it takes everything else out of sync
I bought a copy of the “Death of Superman” TPB at Half Price Books the other day.
for $2
all the more I’d pay for it really, especially considering the fact that it’s “The Greatest selling Graphic Novel of all time.”
I plucked this off the shelf at the bookstore today, and before I knew it, I was almost halfway through. This is a really good book, basically an Ultimate-style retelling of the Captain Marvel origin.
finally read ultimate clone saga…got too fed up with waiting for the OHC.
Some crazy stuff went on there…not sure I like all of it, especially mj being injected with oz and turning into that monster.