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Vidman

Name: Clinton Beasley

Bio: I am a College Teacher at a small Community College in Oregon. I will not ever be caught using or buying digital comics, I am a traditionalist.


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First of all, I have to admit, I am a little biased, Hawk and Dove are my favorite superheros of…

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I loved this issue. I thought the whole three issue arc did a great job conveying the feeling of fear….

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I loved this issue. I thought the whole three issue arc did a great job conveying the feeling of fear….

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Vidman's Recent Comments
August 12, 2012 8:48 pm Thanks Richard. I guess you are right though, It was just an honest mistake, but it was a mistake that didn't have to be made, simply google, "how bullets work," then read for three minutes. Boom, you are no longer ignorant. However, if a person chooses to stay ignorant, that's fine too. It was simply a mistake that pulled me out of the story, and made me very aware that I was reading a fictional story. Like when you are watching a movie, and they make an error that is so obvious that you just have a hard time getting back into the story they are trying to tell. That's all I am trying to say. Plus, I find it sad that this was the post that Wood saw, and he jumped on it the way he did. The same as the comment below by north72. If you haven't had an issue with a movie or book that has made a mistake that pulls you out of the story, I would suggest that you read more, or watch more movies. If you do watch a lot of movies, and read a lot, and you have never had this happen, that's just sad. Also, thanks again Richard, I got that you were being sympathetic from the first post!! :) That's another problem with message boards. Everything reads as an attack, even when you don't mean it to be. I didn't mean mine to be, I just meant to express my feelings about the book.
August 11, 2012 12:34 pm The more I look at it, the more likely it seems. Huh, that sucks... I was going to write an email, I guess that's unnecessary now.
August 11, 2012 12:06 pm Could be, I posted that comment before he posted that on twitter. But I doubt it, I posted this exactly one minute before he posted his comment.
August 10, 2012 2:23 pm Politics aside, this issue killed the series for me. The first two were pretty good, and I usually let myself go three to five issues before I decide on whether I continue a comic, or stop, barring a single issue that is either brilliant, or horrible. As far as story goes, it was entertaining in the first two issues. However, in this issue, it turned on itself. The three of the main characters arguing 2v1 that they don't need weapons in a post apocalyptic, pirate infested ocean, finally to have one of the two arguing against it say, we don't need weapons, but we will get a small arsenal. What? Jumping around like this seemed arbitrary. There were other points in the story that seemed like they were taking liberties, but they are spoilers, and I won't go into it. All that though, I can accept. There was one specific thing that absolutely killed it for me. The art, what can I say. In the first two books, great, and I can't say that the art is any different in the third, except for one thing. Ultimately, this is what killed it for me. Page 5, third panel down, on the left side, the picture of the bullet traveling through the air. The bullet, shell casing and all flying through the air, as if it all just jumps out the end of the barrel of a gun, still connected. In this day and age, this type of ignorance is unacceptable. This tore me out of the book, and actually made me a little angry. I had to stop reading and go to another comic I had yet to read, finish that one, and come back to this one. Really, the artist had such potential, and yet he drew this. A child knows this is not how a gun works, however the artist drew it that way, it got by any kind of editing they had for this book. How many people have to be stupid for something like this to make it to the stands? I count no less than eight people that had to look at this and let it by, with their names on the book. This is exactly what did it for me, If it were a much stronger comic, I may have been able to get by this, a MUCH, MUCH stronger comic. But I couldn't have let it pass, I still would have written a carefully worded letter to dark horse explaining the basic mechanics of a bullet in a gun, as a child would understand it. But since this is a middling, at best, quality book, they can't get away with it.
July 17, 2012 11:20 am Brilliant, this would be the best show on television if they did it right. This could be the best non-animated comic book television show ever. Better than Smallville, and I have high hopes for "Arrow," but this could be so much better. The only problem is, it would be so easy to screw it up, they would have to do it exactly like the early comics.
June 19, 2012 8:35 pm I loved and still to this day do love Hawk and Dove. My absolute favorites. I prefer the Dawn Granger Dove. I have every Hawk and Dove titled comic, I missed most of their adventures after they canceled their 89 comic, but I got back in after Blackest Night. I was excited that they got their own title recently, but they put title killer Liefeld on the book. I don't mind Liefeld, except that any comic he does the art for will soon perish, due to the vast majority of people being sheep and following certain websites out there. I hope they get more attention, and that DC hasn't looked at the recent short run of their book and thought, wow, we can't sell a Hawk and Dove book. I hope the other books with Liefeld sell badly, so that they can justify starting Hawk and Dove up again soon with different artists and writers. (sorry guys that love hawkman and deathstroke, sux to be you, just like it sucked to be me a few months ago)
May 25, 2012 12:22 pm Where do you meet these women? I like living in a small town but it totally precludes the possibility of meeting anyone truly interesting.
May 14, 2012 11:37 am @ Chris Arrant But there is really nothing about Nick Fury that says he needs to be one ethnicity or another, A HUGE part of Luke Cage is his ethnicity. Exactly what RoiVampie said. Also, the fans would have the same problem with this that they had with Michael Clarke Duncan playing Kingpin. His ethnicity is such a huge part of the character taking it away is like dismissing half the character. Seriously, Will Smith could have played Daredevil (and would have done a better job of it, in my opinion, best actor ever). Now, I think The Rock could pull it off. Being half African American is enough in my book. But I also like the idea of letting Isaiah Mustafa have his big break with this one.
May 10, 2012 11:48 am Really man, that's where you go, the English are so crude... (lol, j/k)
May 8, 2012 2:23 pm Sure they can do Thanos as the villian. Think about the possibility of the infinity gauntlet. That might be a great storyline. But I do prefer your idea of an Ultron storyline. That gets my vote.