Zetomenon

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December 5, 2011 8:27 pm Yeah, there were a few good points to that... remember when Cable lost half his face just after the T2 movie came out.. and Peter David, bless his cotton socks, was (is) known for ripping one liners from tv (and he was a big target of criticism from Larsen and McFarlane back in the day). But now we read this with history.... And History tells us that the original Image books were limited in vision, repeatitve, using the 'punch in the nose' as the key plot device, and generally derivative... Savage Dragon was always referencing Hulk, Wildcats and Cyberforce were redressed Xmen , youngblood was just ink on a page and Spawn only ever got interesting when other people wrote it. Wetworks... between when it got up and running and when it got absorbed into Wildstorm was ahead of the curve with Vampires vs Werewolves but that was all... Shadowhawk, the lowest profile of the books, was a Batman analogue but at least it was interesting with the HIV aspect, which would neer had been done in the mainstream otherwise. Come to think about it, analogues is all Image used to trade in for most of the 90s. Everything was a version of existing ideas. So what does that say about the claim that the artist/writer is the only source of new ideas? Byrne, Miller and Mignola could lay a claim... but they werent at Image, preferring Darkhorse. the best Image stuff until recent years was written by writers writers - Ellis, Moore, Robinson etc. Actually, when you look at Waling dead and a few other projects the best stuff is still with the writer artist collaboration - Kirkman, Marz, etc.
August 17, 2011 10:08 pm Yeah... I see what you're trying to say... but how many science minded people read comics expecting it to be a physics thesis? People who are unwilling to suspend belief for a bit rarely pick them up. As far as I'm concerned when you pick up any literature you ar entering into a suspension... the only actual reality of a book is the paper and ink (and cost) so when people demand reality in storys or only read 'realistic' books/comics they are confusing reality for verisimilitude and hence in a delusion, as opposed to the willing, deliberate illusion that the rest of us dive into. All the key points that have been noted here are the fundementals of superhero/adventure comics because they are all based on the premis of what if and why not... the reader knows they aren't reality, thats why they are reading them.
August 16, 2011 12:02 pm What does Mindwarp do? Telepath? Hes the new guy... but Shade normally handles the psychic warefare stuff, and Zatana does the mindwiping. Is the team too psi+mage heavy? theres actually no-one to do any real hitting or other hands on elbows deep in blood stuff
August 16, 2011 11:59 am oopp, wrote this in reply to someone instead of putting it here, and theres no edit/erase. so here we go again. It looks good, but… Constantine could do with a revamp, not as severe as Warren Ellis suggested with his Planetary analogue but more in fitting with how men from his background would dress today (without diminishing the working class rake aspect). I like the new Zatanna look (Tho I hope she still gets the fishnet tux on for shows…) but I don’t see biker, more emo/goth. I don’t see why a woman wearing leather pants always gets called ‘biker’. No biker chicks I know look like that… they’re more denim and tshirt, less frilly corset and fishnet sleeves. But hey… I prefer the Deadman with the pointed collar for some reason, so who am I to judge. What does Mindwarp do? Telepath? Hes the new guy... but Shade normally handles the psychic warefare stuff, and Zatana does the mindwiping. Is the team too psi+mage heavy? theres actually no-one to do any real hitting or other hands on elbows deep in blood stuff