TemporalBeef

January 12, 2009 4:19 pm When did Larocca stop trying to draw like Carlos Pacheco, and start trying to draw like Josh Middleton?

December 25, 2008 8:55 pm I really think that Loeb doing this stuff (Hulk punching the Watcher, Wendihulk)  just to piss off his critics even more, and it's all one big joke.  At least I hope it is anyways.  "Now I've seen everything" indeed...

December 3, 2008 2:07 am

Captain Marvel v3 #11 by Peter David and Jim Starlin

Genis meets the Mar-Vell from a parallel universe after exploring a spacial rift.  After a short time of bonding, and even after Mar-Vell tells his "son" how proud of him he is, they both realize that they have to shut down the rift by focusing their photonic energy from both sides of it... meaning they'll never see each other again.

After a sad, heartfelt goodbye, we learn that Mar-Vell is the sole survivor of the Milky Way galaxy in his universe... and he dies of cancer, all alone.  The only thing that comforts him is knowing that somewhere, a part of him still lives on.

December 1, 2008 10:13 pm

Cleveland reprezentin'...

You think the only good comics talent to come out of C-town is Bendis and Vaughan?  Derf blows them both away!!

December 1, 2008 1:38 am

Nice article, Ron.

I was around 12 years old around the time Liefeld was drawing New Mutants, and it's that title (and Liefeld) that got me into comics.  As a 14 year old kid, Liefeld's over-the-top, highly kinetic artwork totally got me off.  I mean, how could it not at 14?  Big guns, girls with big boobs, and tons of glowing eyes and shit.  As soon as one of my friends showed me an issue of NM, I was immediately hooked on comics.

I'll totally agree that Liefeld's stuff isn't as "good" as it used to be.  Just looking at those pages that you posted show the amount of energy Liefeld injected into his comics.  Sadly, he just doesn't inject that same energy into his pages as he used to.

But again, nice article.  You've definitely put me in a mood of reminiscence, almost longing for those magical days of the 90's...  the formation of Image, the "grim n' gritty" scene, and gimmick covers abound.

 

October 5, 2008 12:30 am

I agree with Edward.  I can't remember the last time I've picked up a Vertigo book that was THIS bad... the dialogue is laughable ("He's been shot!" exclaims the rather portly Indian lady when Fletch is in fact shot...), the art is HORRIBLE.  Horrible.  The whole package is just an amateurish mess, and I give the series 16 issues at best before it's axed (which is a conservative number, this is Vertigo, and they tend to let their books find their audience before doing anything drastic).

The first issue was bad.  This one's worse.

September 11, 2008 9:14 pm

Great pick Josh.  Mine too.  Loved it when Oliver just kind of shrugged off the fact that he killed them by saying "I didn't mean to, it was an accident"...

 ...also loved the scene where Cecil approaches Oli, much to Invincibles dismay. 

September 3, 2008 12:00 pm Ah reckon that's a mighty fine idea there, RobAbsten.  I'ma dosey-do just after taking a look at this cover.

September 3, 2008 11:53 am Hey, at least this book contains no ads... if only because no one wants to advertise in this joke of a book...

August 13, 2008 8:27 pm This is the best issue of the series so far.  Things actually happened this issue to move the story foward, and we're finally getting out of the Savage Land.  The last page was amazing, and I'm excited about SI again.