June 24th, 2008 Randal
So, on the verge of Final Crisis issue 2, I’ve decided it’s time to help you guys out. I’m pretty sure most of you out there have been a bit confused by what’s going on with the New Gods as of late (actually, I’m pretty sure most of you don’t care about the New Gods, but are none the less confused). So I’ve decided to go ahead and shoulder the burden of trying to explain to you what exactly has been going on in the 4th world as of late, what it all means, and bits of where it’s going.
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June 22nd, 2008 Stin
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And it’s Episode 18.
We’re talking League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this time out and covering volumes 1, 2, and the Black Dossier. Written by Alan Moore with art by Kevin O’Neill.
It’s one of my picks that I’ve read time and again, and Charles and Randal have finished once we decided to talk about it. So we go over their respective reactions to the series, which parts are their favorites, why we hated the parts that we hated (and there were quite a few of them), and whether or not the concept of a superteam in the fictional Victorian Setting has a right to be called a “Superhero” team.
Then we do favorite characters (and all agree, surprisingly) and Graphic Detail Favorite Moments ™, after which we tail off and talk about the movie and Sherlock Holmes a little bit before kicking it over to Weekly Picks:
ANGEL#9: Randal’s pick, Angel should be better than this. It is not good. We all tried, we did, but this pretty much takes the cake for everything you shouldn’t do with a licensed property. Randal and I are now dropping the series completely.
FEAR AGENT #21: My pick, The last issue of the Hatchet Job arc and my favorite pulp science fiction comic on the market right now elicits a ridiculous debate between Charles and I about what should be expected if you chuck your main character into a black hole.
X-FACTOR #32: Charles’ pick, Out of the ashes of Messiah Complex and Divided We Stand, the X-Factor book is finally able to go in a non-event direction. We’re hoping that it will get back to its noir roots, have more team moments, and maybe finally tell us what’s going on with Layla Miller.
and finally (FINALLY!) our group pick, INVINCIBLE #50: New Direction for Mark but what does it mean? We’re pretty sure this is starting up Mark’s “Nightwing” era, and while we think it could have been done slightly better especially with respect to Cecil, we still loved it.
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June 21st, 2008 admin
We discuss the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Moore & O'Neill); also, weeklies Angel #9, Fear Agent #21, X-Factor #32, and Invincible #50.
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June 9th, 2008 Stin
Our Main Discussion is EMPIRE, with weeklies being KICK ASS #3, JSA #16, and DETECTIVE COMICS #845, and Charles and Stin talk about Wizard World Philly
Fresh and clean after our weekend in Philidelphia, Charles and I rejoin Randal this week to discuss his pick: Mark Waid and Barry Kitson’s EMPIRE.
We talk about it’s pedigree starting at Gorilla comics and ending up at DC, the character of Golgoth and his various motivations and machiavellian overtones, I complain about random things I didn’t quite get (aliens and issue 0), our various interpretations of the ending, spend a few minutes talking about our favorite characters and then kick it over to Favorite Moments.
Then we talk about WIZWORLD PHILLY: and say many thank yous to many friends before going into WEEKLY PICKS:
KICK ASS #3: Charles’ Pick, which he very much liked after some concern over where the story was going after issue 1. Generally, we all like it, and find it cool that the main character is so beautifully average. Also, that is a lottttta blood right there on the last page. What the fuck is that sword made of?
JSA #16: Randal’s pick, uh…well Gog shows up. And uh…he kinda stares at some birds. And. Um. Oh! Black Adam! Everyone likes Black Adam right? He’s in this (for a couple pages) and then…
Um.
DETECTIVE COMICS #845: My pick, and all you really need to know is that Batman hits an internet chatroom for advice on a serial killer. Less FAIL than you’d imagine and way more ROFL than I expected.
also detective chimp.
And that’s it.
I’ll leave it to you, gentle listener, to figure out why we may have referenced Blossom.
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June 7th, 2008 admin
Our Main Discussion is EMPIRE, with weeklies being KICK ASS #3, JSA #16, and DETECTIVE COMICS #845, and Charles and Stin talk about Wizard World Philly
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June 5th, 2008 Stin
What the fuck Vertigo?
I mean it, seriously, what the fuck. And don’t even attempt to distract me by waving the long dick of Neil Gaiman in my face because that trick? Only works the first seventeen times.
And there are no more fingers on that monkey paw, not a one.
I mean I was actually looking forward to that panel, “Vertigo” I thought to myself, and a silver lining appeared in an otherwise cloudy panel filled sky full of motherfucking fanboys complaining about the STORY of motherfucking Final Crisis ISSUE 1 to the motherfucking ARTIST and then all scoffing and wearing their ridiculous red hats askew when the senior editor of fuck-knows-what tells them “Trust me, Grant knows what he’s doing and issue two and three are better.”
Scoff, Hat, Backpack, Fat Jamie Madrox Cosplay, Scoff.
Again and again. Like a terrible ice dancing competition with neither ice nor dancing.
So again I say what the fucking fuck. Your news is that you’re going to continue to put out the books you’re currently putting out?
No…new…projects then? Or even better, your new projects are full of people that most of us have never heard of making GRAPHIC fucking NOVELS about A) Second Life - way to be socially relevant, B) an airline stewardess falling in love with a man who may or may not be a terrorist - see my comment about A, C) some bullshit about a british team looking exactly like the beatles hur hur hur and see my comment about A yet again, or D) Madame Xanadu - that age old classic.
And then you have the fucking balls to get pissy with the half dozen people at your panel when they begin to question your publishing practices and methods, to the point where you actually ask the people at the goddamn panel if they have any questions about your publishing content?
No. We don’t. Because you barely have any fucking content to speak of.
I mean I love me some DMZ and I’m ecstatic about your continued work with Brian Wood (and thank you ever so much for answering my question about the next volume of DEMO with an “It’s in development”), and I read nearly your entire line of books but seriously…what are you doing to keep everyone excited?
100 Bullets is wrapping up, Ex Machina is wrapping up, Y already wrapped up, and you’re running out of Absolute Sandmen to pump out so what are you doing to stay relevant?
AND WHY NO FUCKING ABSOLUTE PREACHERS? You were actually suprised that all the people at the panel wanted to see that happen? Did you fucking forget? And how could you have possibly had a meeting in your absinthe drenched opium den offices where that wasn’t a good idea?
I want answers motherfuckers, because the other panel I went to? The Avatar panel? Had two Garth Ennis projects, an Alan Moore project, and about a billion Warren Ellis projects FOR NEXT YEAR!
Actually,
You know what?
Nevermind. Let Avatar take the reigns. Let them take your fanbase, because nothing stung quite the way this little nugget of hipster cred did: Garth Ennis, you remember he wrote Preacher? Yeah he said he gets 90% control on the Marvel MAX line and 50% control from Vertigo.
Oh, oh yes internet, gasp in horror because that shocked me too. Fucking Ennis can get away with more at MARVEL than he can at VERTIGO.
And then over at Avatar the publisher told him there’s never anything he won’t be able to say or write, ever.
That’s 100% for you keeping count.
So keep falling asleep and looking tired and getting the munchies and cutting your panels a half hour short, tick tock tick tock.
Also, I never went to a Marvel panel, not because I was trying to make a statement, I just wasn’t interested.
I walked out of 3 panels; two where the fanboys were full of righteous indignation and one where the creators were full of righteous indignation.
And Marvel’s booth could not have been more boring.
The only things that were actually cool at the con itself were the Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide panel (Avatar, again…) which was actually hilarious and almost worth the whole trip by itself, the aforementioned Avatar panel, and The Garth Ennis panel.
And the fact that Flash t-shirts outnumbered any other t-shirt 2-1.
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