jkilbane

May 19, 2012 5:02 pm @Paul sounds good. So is it out yet? or do you just have a lucky preview copy? @Conor I see your point about genre. It's a complex topic covered in some comic text somewhere no doubt. But, I was just getting at the types of limits you inherently place on yourself by choosing a superhero character type. Say you tell a love story, detective story etc but you happen to make the lead a superhero. Now compare that story with attempting to write without the lead as a superhero and i think you'll understand where I was going. It would certainly seem that a superhero character type alters whichever genre your story falls into (i.e. it's a love story with superheroes, sci-fi with superheroes). But it seems like we're getting into semantics and that tends to be unproductive

May 19, 2012 4:04 pm Cool. I was just going based on the preview paragraphs. I think Prophet is the best thing at Image right now so I'll definitely check it out. They do seem to have a similar aesthetic. (not in a bad way) @Conor Superhero books are a different genre entirely where similarities are so common it's almost silly to talk about them. With creator-owned stuff, I think it's slightly a different story...er a different set of criteria. Well I guess I'm trying to say that without the strictures of having superhero conventions to work within, a creator owned piece of work has potentially more options when it comes to characters, plotting, and all the stuff that goes into making a story good. There's more choice and fewer conventions limiting one to seeming like another comic. Hence my initial hasty judgement of Planetoid as a Prophet 'rip-off'. But if great minds do think alike then when I read this book next week I'll be so sucked in i won't even think about Prophet until I get to the back page solicitations reminding me to buy Prophet.

May 19, 2012 3:09 pm Looks and sounds like it's trying to be Prophet, but with robots instead of gross, fleshy alien creatures. I find it really weird that Image let this through with all of the similarity. Maybe it'll turn out to be different, but it sure seems oddly similar.

February 14, 2011 4:12 pm ***Nick Spencer

December 13, 2010 8:40 pm people are missing out on this.

May 13, 2010 11:17 am Great article, but proofread it

February 19, 2010 7:57 pm where's issue 3 of this??

August 31, 2009 11:50 pm I'll be getting all four issues. it's about time, I suppose.

August 17, 2009 5:58 pm Would this be a good time to start reading doctor sleepless?

August 13, 2009 6:50 pm I'm going to drop this title at #4 unless that issue persuades me otherwise. The time changes are starting to get to me too.