Grant Morrisons 7 Soldiers starts this week and I doubt theres anyone on the board more excited than I am.
example - When talking to a mate about it I commented that the impending Supreme Ruler (my wifes due to drop on 12/3/05) will be 1year and 6months old by the time its finished. Now thats a sad fanboy!
Soooo, anyone else looking forward to this?
Ooooooh! Yes, yes, yes.
Want it NOW!
- Fish-based Morrison fan with a Finbar Saunders "bent"
Yes. How much will this first issue cost though?
Its listed as $2.95 so it depends how loose your shop is with its price conversions. I reckon it'll be about ?2.20 going with FP's other titles.
I'm expecting a cheque soon made out in American dollars. Can anyonen tell me the name of the bank or foreign exchange facility that FP use to get such a generous dollar to sterling exchange rate?
$2.95 is only ?2 in London.
Another reason why we should all "Back the Bid"
I've decided NOT to get any of these. No Doubt i'll regret it. For now I'll await the trade.
Looking forward to Klarion and the Pascal Ferry one in particular.
Krustabi,Is that the one drawn by R-Ving. If so I agree it looks gooooooooooood!
I'm frothing with excitement for this. Can't wait for it to come down the wires!
Klarion is indeed the Irving one.
Try Titan.
Their exchange rate is 1:1 !
just bought this today..very impressed with the opening episode..love the idea of flawed Z-list JLA wannabees .. the Morrison craziness levels are down to acceptable and the Art is lovely..my favourite character so far?..got to be Dan the living reactor..the 'Fan' who bottles it when faced with the spider..he looks just like my local comic shop guy..
I'm with ukdane on this one. I haven't been that impressed with Grant Morrison's recent efforts, and Seven Soldiers seems like a major commitment to buying. I'll wait.
me too. very impressed with the throwaway heroes. and JHW's art reminds me more here of Chase than Promethea, don't know why, it just seems looser somehow.
Bought this (#0) on the Morrison/Williams III ticket, enjoyed it as a standalone yarn, but get the feeling that with a DC Superhero background limited to the Moore and Miller opus I'm missing a great deal. Given the obviously huge outlay in following the verious titles, I think I need more info before I commit.
So, for the wiser heads, a few questions (treat these as Spoilerific):
(1). 'Seven Soldiers' in the title: why only six Supers in the comic?
(2). How do the enjoyable C-list folks in this tale fit into the overall saga? Are we likely to see them again, or are they dead in a real sense? (I particularly liked the Gimmick - where has she appeared before?).
(3). Is the Spyder at the beginning of the book the same 'version' of the character as in the rest - is this part of his backstory (he refers to the 7 Unknown Men giving him his powers?).
Anything else I should know? You can see this one has me interested...
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(1) The seventh soldier "got cold feet at the last minute"that might be why they die horribly...
(2) My guess would be that they are horribly dead forever. Theres references to a Plan B and seven new conscripts...
(3)I think so
Heh, HoU: I sold out, after being won over by the hype generated on this site, and decided to get the individual issues- I'll probably regret this later on- when a lavish tpb is released, but figure at least this way, I can stay in touch with the comments on ths site, and not have to worry about spoilers ;-)
Heh liked the reference to slaughter swamp and cyrus gold anyway as for the six soldiers (my bet is Deadman was the seventh)
1 The whip: granddaughter of an obscure golden age character of the same name
2 Gimmix: obviously related to Merry the girl of a thousand gimmics and Sylvestor pemberton (star spangled kid/sky man) new character made up for this
3 boy blue: not much is mentioned but he is obviously a new version of an even obscurer golden age team called little boy blue and the blue boys.
4 I spyder: The brother of the villian who appeared in Starman hope he comes back and isn't dead.
5 dinomite Dan: new character but he uses the rings of obscure golden age heroes (see a pattern here) TNT and Dan the dynomite
6 Vigilante: Greg saunders the only hero who is an established dc universe character. He was a member of the original seven soldiers and appears to die rather horribly in this story.
Cheers for the info, chaps. I'm actually none the wiser after all that, knowing naught of the DC Universe bar what Moore, Miller, Gaiman and Irish-dubbed versions of the current JLA cartoon have shown me, but at least I know that this is SUPPOSED to be obscure to the point of vanishing, and I'm not the straight man in some in-joke.