March 9, 2011 4:33 pm So, I heard rumors of the First Wave books being cancelled, but was it ever officially announced? Will J.G. Jones upcoming storyline get completed? I laugh, cause I was waiting on all of those books for the eventual collections...and all of the series are being cancelled before the collections hit this year. Terrible timing.
One of the few books I regret not pre-ordering from DCBS. Hope I can find one at the shop in a few weeks.
On a side note, if anyone is looking for a terrific choose your own adventure comic, Jason Shiga's "Meanwhile" from earlier this year is the best comic I've read all year. Terrific fun!
September 9, 2010 7:30 pm I picked up the first 3 issues recently based on the raves on the podcast and was very very pleased with it. Well worth the time and money, and I look forward to issue # 4.
I have to agree with the last few comments from j206. I can't understand why anyone anywhere cares how any film does money wise. It means nothing except there was a succesful advertising campaign to get folks into that theater on opening weekend. To make Scott Pilgrim's "failure" about anything more than that is a gross misunderstanding of what a successful movie means.
When I watch a film that I think is worthwhile I recommended it to friends and family. Whether it made 9 million on opening weekend (which seems to me to be a lot of money for a poorly marketed comic book based movie) or whether it made 9 cents, it's not going to matter to the film that I watched.
And I guess it's unrelated, but I can't understand the desire to see a comic on the big screen anyway. That desire left me 10 years ago, and I've thankfully missed so many supposed dreadful adaptations because of it. Maybe only two or three comic films I've ever seen were superior to the source material, so why bother? I've had to learn through wasting my own hard earned money on crap films that comics work best as comics, not movies.
Also, sorry to Jim that you had to go all the way out to the West Olive 16, but be glad it was still an AMC theater and not a Wehrenberg. Wehrenberg barely manages to play their films in focus out here.
@ halik - I'm pretty sure Johns comments were about doing a modern take on Batman, hence the reason an early version of Batman making mistakes and learning was more appealing to Johns and Frank.
July 20, 2010 9:38 am I'm just glad to hear some folks liked Volume 6. I couldn't imagine the finale would live up to the hype, they never do. I'm just hoping for an entertaining read once my DCB package arrives the first week of August. Until then I'll have to avoid any spoilers, which for such a major book could be tricky.
July 17, 2010 11:08 am I'm glad to see this being printed, but from what I remember of reading the scans online so many years ago, it's an incredibly weak and poorly thought out story. That's not a reason to refuse to publish it, but it barely had any objectionable material in it that I recall. I think this was about that point where I realized Ellis had pretty much mined his strongest material, and was running out of things to say. I hope it reads better now. Any idea what the Azzarello and Morrison stories are yet?
This issue wasn't worth the 5 bucks. The middle story is a Robin story, and the opening is just an endnote to the James Robinson Superman issues (so if you haven't been reading those, you may want to stay away). The reason I was interested in this was the JMS setup for his Superman run...and it wasn't very good. Superheroes trying to fix real world problems ("My husband died, why didn't you help us?") is just filled with so many narrative problems, I'm getting a very bad feeling about what the rest of the JMS Superman will turn out to be. Isn't this the guy that wrote Doom crying in that Marvel book? This feels weirdly sanctimonious. I almost regret I pre-ordered the first two issues. Hope I'm wrong.
I liked this issue quite a lot, although I'm fan of the Legion. There are enough details here to provide hints that all is not what it seems (the movement of the time machine, the pink fuzzy, the worst day ever for the professor), so I'm really glad I've added this series to my montly list. It's so much more engaging and entertaining than the Mark Waid run earlier, and this has quickly become my must read first title each month.
But, did that gobbledeguk science make ANY sense to ANYONE? I couldn't follow that, and I've read it twice. I just chock it up to Comic-Book-Physics and move on.
I've only in the last few years found out how much fun the Legion is, and it's become the only book I look for in back issues. The ability of the writers to combine characters you can't stand with ones you love is one of it's best features. I'd never realized it till now.
Terrific article. Best line of the whole thing: "Yes, they all count. If someone reads them, they count". Words for comic readers to live by.
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One of the few books I regret not pre-ordering from DCBS. Hope I can find one at the shop in a few weeks.
On a side note, if anyone is looking for a terrific choose your own adventure comic, Jason Shiga's "Meanwhile" from earlier this year is the best comic I've read all year. Terrific fun!
I have to agree with the last few comments from j206. I can't understand why anyone anywhere cares how any film does money wise. It means nothing except there was a succesful advertising campaign to get folks into that theater on opening weekend. To make Scott Pilgrim's "failure" about anything more than that is a gross misunderstanding of what a successful movie means.
When I watch a film that I think is worthwhile I recommended it to friends and family. Whether it made 9 million on opening weekend (which seems to me to be a lot of money for a poorly marketed comic book based movie) or whether it made 9 cents, it's not going to matter to the film that I watched.
And I guess it's unrelated, but I can't understand the desire to see a comic on the big screen anyway. That desire left me 10 years ago, and I've thankfully missed so many supposed dreadful adaptations because of it. Maybe only two or three comic films I've ever seen were superior to the source material, so why bother? I've had to learn through wasting my own hard earned money on crap films that comics work best as comics, not movies.
Also, sorry to Jim that you had to go all the way out to the West Olive 16, but be glad it was still an AMC theater and not a Wehrenberg. Wehrenberg barely manages to play their films in focus out here.
@ halik - I'm pretty sure Johns comments were about doing a modern take on Batman, hence the reason an early version of Batman making mistakes and learning was more appealing to Johns and Frank.
This issue wasn't worth the 5 bucks. The middle story is a Robin story, and the opening is just an endnote to the James Robinson Superman issues (so if you haven't been reading those, you may want to stay away). The reason I was interested in this was the JMS setup for his Superman run...and it wasn't very good. Superheroes trying to fix real world problems ("My husband died, why didn't you help us?") is just filled with so many narrative problems, I'm getting a very bad feeling about what the rest of the JMS Superman will turn out to be. Isn't this the guy that wrote Doom crying in that Marvel book? This feels weirdly sanctimonious. I almost regret I pre-ordered the first two issues. Hope I'm wrong.
I liked this issue quite a lot, although I'm fan of the Legion. There are enough details here to provide hints that all is not what it seems (the movement of the time machine, the pink fuzzy, the worst day ever for the professor), so I'm really glad I've added this series to my montly list. It's so much more engaging and entertaining than the Mark Waid run earlier, and this has quickly become my must read first title each month.
But, did that gobbledeguk science make ANY sense to ANYONE? I couldn't follow that, and I've read it twice. I just chock it up to Comic-Book-Physics and move on.
I've only in the last few years found out how much fun the Legion is, and it's become the only book I look for in back issues. The ability of the writers to combine characters you can't stand with ones you love is one of it's best features. I'd never realized it till now.
Terrific article. Best line of the whole thing: "Yes, they all count. If someone reads them, they count". Words for comic readers to live by.