Any One Want To Talk About Comicbooks?

[Felon]

My personal grab bag:
Ultimate Galactus

I've missed this title on the shelves. What's it all about?

As for Fables, I'm really glad to see Willingham have a successful book on his hands, and it's not a particularly violence-and-vulgarity-oriented book. Back in the eighties and early nineties, he was about as mean-spirited any of the guys we're discussing in this thread. Anyone else remember his famous "I am not your art n*gger" tirade? Or him sharing his fantasy of stumbling across the bodies of teenagers who committed mass-suicide and slipping copies of his comic into their lifeless hands? It looks like he's got most of it out of his system, and it's a big improvement.

Now if only we can now get Ellis to drop "wanker" from his vocabulary...

 

[The Human Target]

This thread has made me both smile and cry. But its good comics are getting talked about!

My Monthlies ...

Hellblazer
Y the Last Man
Fables
100 Bullets
Daredevil
Runaways
Young Avengers
New Avengers
All the 7 Soldiers miniseries
Powers
The Human Target
Astonishing X-Men
Knights of the Dinner Table
The Walking Dead

 

[Cthulhudrew]

but eventually I grew tired of Warren Ellis, who openly professes that he hates superheroes,

Ellis doesn't hate superheroes, he hates the tired and cliched genre that superhero comics have largely been for the past several decades. He dislikes the overused conventions, the stranglehold the "big two" have on the industry, and other things about the genre. It's why his superhero comics are constantly (though not always successfully) doing something different, bucking the trends. It's an underlying theme in a lot of his superhero work (such as Planetary and the Authority). He has made comments that have been taken out of context (and some not, but that he didn't explain well) in regards to his feelings about superhero comics, but he's clarified them in many cases as well. He has been frustrated many times by the industry, and has claimed he is going to quit writing spandex books, but has changed his mind many times as well (as is anyone's right to do).

 

[Viking Bastard]

I've missed this title on the shelves. What's it all about?

It's a trilogy of miniseries by Warren Ellis about the coming of Ultimate Galactus.

The first series, Ultimate Nightmare, is already out in a trade and the first issue of the
second one, Ultimate Secret, came out last week. The third one, that comes out next
fall will be called Ultimate Extinction.

It's good so far, but definately better read in trades.

 

[TwistedBishop]

This thread has made me both smile and cry. But its good comics are getting talked about!

My Monthlies ...

Y the Last Man
The Walking Dead

I'll second the Walking Dead love. Great little comic that it seems most people gloss over. I've always been a sucker for Zombie Apocalypse fiction (as I think most gamers are), and Kirkman is quite adept at writing it.

Y:tLM is a title I've kept hearing about without really trying. Good concept, but every time I go to buy it I think of the line "he's the last surviving man in the world, along with his pet monkey" and it just kills my enthusiasm.

 

[Welverin]

Yeah midnight nation is good, and while I love the artwork in it I don't think the art was that big of an issue with Rising Star... I think that the fact that the artists used were never consistent was. (Of course all issues were minor compared to the delay in getting it done.)

Not only were they inconsistent, I never liked any of them, with the possible exception of the first artist.

Anyhow Rising Stars has been finished for a month or so... I think the ending lived up to the hype. Which to be honest was a shock but also wasn’t… Straczynski always knows how he will end the story… He doesn’t deviate from it either.

Just I just gave away the fact I haven't picked my books up in a while.

Good to know it ended well though, also a bit surprise that it ended positively, not what I'd exect from JMS, he tends to go negative from what I recall.

It's a trilogy of miniseries by Warren Ellis about the coming of Ultimate Galactus.

Arg! I didn't know that's what it was about, I need to be more careful when I'm reading behind on my reading.

At least I know I haven't missed a new series.

 

[Staffan]

Good to know it ended well though, also a bit surprise that it ended positively, not what I'd exect from JMS, he tends to go negative from what I recall.

Oh? The two JMS works with which I'm familiar, Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, both ended on a somewhat, but not undividedly, positive note.
Spoiler for B5 ending:

Spoiler

We get a glimpse of Sheridan's last days, gathering his remaining friends one last time, before he first goes to visit Babylon 5 which is in the process of decommissioning, and then proceeding to Coriana 6, where the Shadow War ended. There, he meets Lorien again, who turns him into some sort of spiritual/energy thing, and takes him along beyond the Rim.

Spoiler for Jeremiah ending:

Spoiler

"Daniel" being an invented being is revealed to Daniel's forces. Fighting stops, and there's a definite note of optimism about rebuilding in the air.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Arg! I didn't know that's what it was about, I need to be more careful when I'm reading behind on my reading.

Well, it's not like they've been trying to keep it as a secret.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'll second the Walking Dead love.

I'll give it a third. It's a wonderful book.

 

[WayneLigon]

... Back in the eighties and early nineties, he was about as mean-spirited any of the guys we're discussing in this thread. Anyone else remember his famous "I am not your art n*gger" tirade? Or him sharing his fantasy of stumbling across the bodies of teenagers who committed mass-suicide and slipping copies of his comic into their lifeless hands? ...

Oh, yes, I still remember it. I think he's just learned to shut the hell up and draw since he has regular work from a company that will pay on time. Still he was, as I seem to recall, being screwed by Comico at the time so he might have been feeling more than a little put out when he said some of the things he said. I may have that wrong; that was quite some time ago. At least he's not as crazy as Dave Sim.

His Day of Vengence series idea sounds good: a group of the tertiary magical characters get drunk and decide to go off The Spectre.