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#13246
This would be horrid as we'd see a world of Mark Millar comics (I know, I know cheap shot). Comics created to be good movies, not... you know... good comics.

While I've no problem with comics becoming movies, I really wish fans and the industry would be less beholden to the movie industry (whatever that is?). Comics are their own art form and should lavish in their own creative potential not panda to movie industry.

#13247
Books & Comics / Re: Fantastic Four - Big Town
04 August, 2014, 10:19:03 AM
Yeah I'd echo that. For the type of comic it is, produced at the time it was, i.e. mainstream superheroes in 1985, it is seriously fantastic, brave series. Another example of the Jim Shooter era (whatever you think of the man) pressing boundaries and in doing so producing some compelling comics.
#13248
General / Re: 2000AD Original Art Thread
03 August, 2014, 11:07:27 AM
That's bloomin' terrible. Fair enough if they have a policy, however curious it is, to destroy damaged goods, but to do so without contacting both parties is really out of order. They are charged and paid to deliver an item by destroying it they know they aren't going to complete their job and so it boggles that they don't inform people that this is the case.

That's before you discuss the fact that it should be up to the person receiving the good what to do. Particularly when it comes down to picture in a frame which doesn't take a genius to realise its the picture, which by the statement made was okay, that is the primary concern?

Anyway all that wittering is blindingly obvious and does nothing to compensate Greg (or the seller for that matter).

Bad look and hopefully others will take note.

#13249
Prog / Re: Prog 1893 - The Deep End
02 August, 2014, 08:36:15 PM
Well two Progs in two days and ... well what a difference a day makes. I adored last weeks Prog, this weeks, not so much. Which is not to say its a bad Prog, its not, but not quite up to last weeks (yesterdays for me). As ever with these things its all in the detail.

I feel largely the same this time about Black Shuck and Aquila like the first a lot, not massively fussed (why, oh why) about the latter. No difference there then.

Dredd finishes absolutely fine, but wrapped up easily enough leaving it feeling a little slight after last weeks great opener. So this week a smidge behind already.

Then we get to the bigger changes. Now this next one I suspect gets me run out of town... or in my case chased out dancin'... Jaegir replaces Sinister Dexter and while I quite like Jaegir it doesn't engage me the way S&D did and the change is a real down turn in gear.

Last we have Brass Sun, now there's nowt wrong with this weeks episode, far from it great solid episode and loved the moment between our two questing youngsters, just wonderful... but it wasn't last week was it... if we're honest it was never going to be.

So there you have. It much in it but every little counts.
#13250
Off Topic / Re: Pets corner
02 August, 2014, 09:26:05 AM
Sorry to hear that. Sounds like it was for the best.
#13251
Books & Comics / Re: New Comic Book Day Megathread
02 August, 2014, 08:30:59 AM
Rasl is very different to Bone. That's not to say its not great, it is, but very different.
#13252
Books & Comics / Re: New Comic Book Day Megathread
02 August, 2014, 07:59:36 AM
So also picked up Tuki saves the humans 1 online as I forgot to order it from my LCS and they's sold out.

Jeff Smith is a genius and this is by Jeff Smith. That is all.
#13253
General / Re: 2000AD: Project Sketchbook
02 August, 2014, 07:11:45 AM
Does anyone draw Mega City One as well as Dave Taylor?
#13254
Books & Comics / Re: Whats everyone reading?
01 August, 2014, 10:03:03 PM
Well colour me intrigued as Incal is right at the top of my too read list and will be read in the next month I hope... will I get it, will I be prepared to work with it... the need to lose a desire for coherent narrative makes me nervous... ever way can't wait...
#13255
Prog / Re: Prog 1892 : BLOCK PARTY!
01 August, 2014, 10:00:36 PM
Just read the Prog after getting back from me jollies and by George Brass Sun is certainly working us isn't it. I had no doubt that its was Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut , had no idea who the middle fella was but Oppenheimer certainly fits the bill. I figured it was a reference to religious beliefs, Twain was certainly no fan of organised religion and Vonnegut an Atheist, though more accurately could be described as a humanist (he did himself). Oppenheimer's views on religion, with a quick bit of research seem poorly recorded aside from an interest in Easter philosophy ... so my attempts to find a connection to the blind watchmaker reference ran up against some rocks... maybe its all in the timing... if you want someone to tell a story have the greatest story tellers ever do so. Start with Twain, end with Vonnegut just as we dismiss God, and introduce the machines of madness makes perfect sense. Bring Oppenheimer in just as you talk of destruction. Seems to work, but suspect that's more to be had there.

Still got us talkin' and loving Brass Sun again!

Just hope we're not having things thrown at us to help wrap things up quicker... though the lingering absence of Arthur gives me hope we have much to come...

Elsewhere Dredd is a gem and another example of what I mean (as I've wittered about in a few posts) about the difference between old school, had the vibe and tired, which this one certainly wasn't. Absolutely loved this and Brass Sun has no right topping it as thrill of the week.

It has ever right to top Aquila, which for reasons that escape me is leaving me cold. Big monster comes along and gets smacked to death by a hammer... it was all a bit... crunching... I think I should love this and don't... I feel a re-read callin'

Black Shuck is fun and looks great. I too was a little tripped up by the flashback. The colouring made me think it was, the slightly obscure placing and lack of strong connection for me just tripped me a bit. Shame otherwise great.

Sinister Dexter in many progs would be the winner. For me Jack Lynch's work really comes together here (I still miss Antony Williams on this strip mind) with a sharper more refined line on his figures and faces feels more in tune with his tight, sharp, backgrounds. Another example of how Dan Abnett balance deftly re-capping for the whiners, while moving things on for the devoted. Superb work and I can't wait for its return.

Smackin' Prog and with any luck only a day to wait for my next hit.
#13256
Books & Comics / Re: Whats everyone reading?
31 July, 2014, 10:32:17 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 31 July, 2014, 09:44:21 PM
Breakfast of Champions

Sublime stuff as usual. Always delivers an interesting perspective than I can't help but agree with, such as how many of the world's jobs are effectively paid suicide, as they are direct contributors to the planet's demise and the planet's demise means the individual's demise. "I'm not really paid to drive this truck, I'm paid to commit suicide."

Cat's Cradle probably next up.

Kurt Vonnegut is probably my favourite author. My favourite book of his is one of his less heralded numbers 'Deadeye Dick', if you've not read it I can recommend it highly. Mind that's fair to say about just about all his  work. The man was a stone cold genius and dealt with such heavy, dark themes with such a deft lightness of touch in his writing that reading even the bleakest tales was the most delightful thing.

A wonderfully complex man by the sounds I keep meaning to track down a biography or some such. 
#13257
General / Re: MC1 Time Magazine
31 July, 2014, 04:48:33 PM
Surely Otto Stump would have got it one year.

Then Dave the Orangutan... and Mayor  Ambrose ya gotta think?
#13258
Nice touch that its in Black and White too.
#13259
Books & Comics / Re: 'Concrete'
29 July, 2014, 09:58:23 PM
You'd think I have the good grace to at least finish the final 3 volumes of the Concrete collections before wading in on here again wouldn't you, however I've just finished 'Strange Armour' (I added the 'u' though I had no right to!) and I'm fair bursting with opinion and thoughts and have nowhere else to splurge them out, except as a well intended, but mis-aimed (no doubt) poorly executed (even less doubt) missive to you lot... or at least the tiny subset of you lot who intersect the two subsets of you lot

a) you lot who can be arsed to wade through my typos to get to my meaning
b) you lot who read Concrete.

Ya niche, but I loves ya.

Anyway I've whittered on enough already so to my point.

I really enjoyed 'Strange Armour' which retells the 'Crete's (I feel we know each other well enough by now) origin but... well its my least favourite of the stories to date. Now I promise you this is not about the fact that it changes stuff. This is not some continuity whine about 'well if this still happened, did this still happen?'. I don't care if 'Moosehead' still happened. I love the 'Moosehead' story and I still have that so whenever I read it, it still happened. Also please note when I say its my least favourite Concrete story, that still makes it better than 98.76% of all comics out there (using the oft quoted 'Colin Taylor havin' read random number scale') it has moments of complete genius. I like that Michael [spoiler]gets kills[/spoiler] (do I really need to spoiler tag... well okay then... ) that makes sense. As much as possible its clear that Paul Chadwick wants to box off and put away the whole alien origin thing and so as far as he can he does just that and [spoiler]killing[/spoiler] Michael and thus removing that part of the story, or perceived potential stories, makes perfect sense. I love the epiphany Concrete has in the way to his ex-wife's - its done really well... except did it really have to be something as cliche as seeing the bloke in the wheelchair... the club-fisted [spoiler]someone one worse off than me makes me see sense...[/spoiler]

and that is at the root of my whole problem with the story. I'm not sure its as effective as the original origin... or maybe it loses as much as it adds and thus becomes to me at least pointless. It becomes heavy handed at times. More importantly it becomes like some Hollywood 'credible' movie. All action is justified feels 'realist'... well as realistic as anything that involved a giant stone man, and makes sense but it feels like its playing to the crowd a little and the whole thing is conclusion, all explanation and fitting things together so that we leave the cinema with a complete picture.

I loved the questions that the first 'origin' left me. The things I had to work out to make sense of how Ron become Concrete. What ticked in his head, how it all worked. I didn't get it feed to me. I sat, read and worked out a conclusion that made sense to me. With the pieces I had.

The worst of this is the action set piece too. I mean really. The last couple of chapters are not the mundane Concrete I know and love. It was like this high tempo set piece. It was NOT mundane. As has been said here before Concrete is at its best when its mundane, or at least appears to be. 'Think like a Mountain' is a perfect example. The conclusion to that is incredibly dramatic, its heart wrenching but it works as it feels so real and grounded. The big punch isn't the gun shot but the statement made by the shootist in reaction. That Chadwick makes us empathise with that very reaction too is testament to his incredible human writing. The heart rending action that leads to that feels almost incidental, we skip over it to get to what it means.

So yeah in 'Strange Armour' we have this big flash bang set piece - fine. In that though we have Maureen [spoiler]become a killer[/spoiler] and thus we have a reason for her to be so bonded to Concrete... did we need that... can this be wiped away with 'We've never talked about it since, maybe we should'. It was too convenient and felt too unnecessary. I never doubted her relationship with our led, it worked. It didn't need re-enforcing.

So yeah 'Strange Armour' is very much the strange beast. I almost love that its there. I mean if 'Concrete' at its worst is this good and makes me think and appreciate the whole piece all the more and examine why I have quibbled with it - it simply underlines how fuckin' great this series is.

(some of) the best comics ever.
#13260
Books & Comics / Re: New Comic Book Day Megathread
29 July, 2014, 09:11:16 PM
Yeah think it was always planned as bi-monthly?

Anyway here's the quote (or maybe misquote?)

QuoteEven though Ragnarok will only be a six-issue series, there are a ton of ideas for future storylines. Simonson is also combing through some ideas from his Marvel Thor run although he's confident that the Ragnarok Thor will act very differently in his general behavior, powers and dialogue.

From this 'article' over at Bleeding Cool.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/07/26/simonson-revisits-norse-mythology-in-ragnarok-and-winsor-mccays-slumberland-returns-at-idw-summer-blockbuster-panel/