Commentary Track for the Buy Pile from 12/04/09
One more time like Daft Punk was playing ...
I think these need to be quicker. I do like the discipline -- a blog a week -- and it doesn't feel like too much extra work after the column.
What's extra weird? Stayed up late into Thursday morning to get this week's reviews done, only to find out CBR doesn't publish the last Thursday of November due to some archaic tradition. Weird.
Enough meta blather, on with the business!
I can't even talk about how excited I am about Dingo as a comic book. I did notice that it only has four issues to jam in all of the brilliance that's there, but issue #1 hit a lot of points and the actual novelist is writing the adaptation, so I'm completely on board. If it lets me down, well, that'll be a tragedy, but let's consider it a good start and move on.
I've been talking with a casual comics fan about how excited he is about the rise of Norman Osborn. This is a mostly DC-related guy who for a variety of personal reasons doesn't go to a comics shop every week. However, just from what he's seen in the brilliant Invincible Iron Man (brought to you from the mind of Matt Fraction) and the very scant Dark Avengers books I've grabbed, he's hooked. Sure, all the way back to Jemas, I've said some negative things about the Mouse House of Ideas, but as crossovers go, ones that inspire great storytelling and can win people over, "Norman Osborn as America's top cop" is doing the job in a major way.
Honestly? I really want Supergod to stand up and blow my socks off. Seriously. It feels like it could be big, but it just keeps yammering on and on and doesn't make the events mean anything to anybody. The academic-sounding narrator doesn't have a lick of character, and therefore there's no way to connect to the story. Super disappointing.
I've been friends with David Gallaher for a number of years now, and I did my best to like his "big two" debut. Sadly, the comic didn't give him enough room to shine, even with the great stuff he jammed in there. However, how the heck did the Red Guardian go from being "an engineer" to now being one of "the world's foremost experts in engineering."
The Sentry. Seriously? He makes me sad.
I guess I don't have much more to add, but those are the high points. Super sleepy because the oncoming baby is preceded by sleeplessness and lethargy. Excelsior, all.
Playing (Music): "In-A-Gadda-Da-Blue-Monday" mash-up with Orgy vs. Iron Butterfly (by DJ Schmolli)
I think these need to be quicker. I do like the discipline -- a blog a week -- and it doesn't feel like too much extra work after the column.
What's extra weird? Stayed up late into Thursday morning to get this week's reviews done, only to find out CBR doesn't publish the last Thursday of November due to some archaic tradition. Weird.
Enough meta blather, on with the business!
I can't even talk about how excited I am about Dingo as a comic book. I did notice that it only has four issues to jam in all of the brilliance that's there, but issue #1 hit a lot of points and the actual novelist is writing the adaptation, so I'm completely on board. If it lets me down, well, that'll be a tragedy, but let's consider it a good start and move on.
I've been talking with a casual comics fan about how excited he is about the rise of Norman Osborn. This is a mostly DC-related guy who for a variety of personal reasons doesn't go to a comics shop every week. However, just from what he's seen in the brilliant Invincible Iron Man (brought to you from the mind of Matt Fraction) and the very scant Dark Avengers books I've grabbed, he's hooked. Sure, all the way back to Jemas, I've said some negative things about the Mouse House of Ideas, but as crossovers go, ones that inspire great storytelling and can win people over, "Norman Osborn as America's top cop" is doing the job in a major way.
Honestly? I really want Supergod to stand up and blow my socks off. Seriously. It feels like it could be big, but it just keeps yammering on and on and doesn't make the events mean anything to anybody. The academic-sounding narrator doesn't have a lick of character, and therefore there's no way to connect to the story. Super disappointing.
I've been friends with David Gallaher for a number of years now, and I did my best to like his "big two" debut. Sadly, the comic didn't give him enough room to shine, even with the great stuff he jammed in there. However, how the heck did the Red Guardian go from being "an engineer" to now being one of "the world's foremost experts in engineering."
The Sentry. Seriously? He makes me sad.
I guess I don't have much more to add, but those are the high points. Super sleepy because the oncoming baby is preceded by sleeplessness and lethargy. Excelsior, all.
Playing (Music): "In-A-Gadda-Da-Blue-Monday" mash-up with Orgy vs. Iron Butterfly (by DJ Schmolli)
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