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Comic Run 04-15-10

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I’m burnt out. Just a little. And I need to take a break from all of the stress, projects I’m working on, various other things that are causing me to slowly go a little insane and just do other things. Like read comics.

Daytripper #5
Bras as a kid was pretty damn adorable. Also, I’m thinking that this death at the end of every issue is more of a gimmick than anything else because I’m liking how the whole story of his life is winding together at this point that the death aspect of the book really isn’t playing any part in the overall story.

Kill Shakespeare #1
Well, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. I couldn’t resist, honestly. It’s a book about Hamlet out to kill Shakespeare! I need to reread Hamlet and every play I’ve ever encountered by Shakespeare because this look like it’s going to be a fun public domain crossover chock full of references to obscure bits catering to literary geeks.

The Light #1
As near as I can figure, this is a book about people who look at light and proceed to blow up. I don’t know why, I don’t know what’s causing any of this, I don’t know why that guy accepted it so easily or anything. It’s just people looking at light and blowing up for no reason.

Song of Saya #2
I’m actually rather enjoying this one. It’s weird and Saya’s a huge mystery, despite her explanation and other explanations of what she is. It doesn’t make sense yet, but we’re only in issue two and soon Josh isn’t going to be the only one going insane.

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Comic Run 03-26-10

Friday, March 26th, 2010

The Guild #1
Well, that was fun. I’ve seen the web series, but that’s not in the least necessary to understand the comic. It’s essentially about Cyd, the girl with some interesting problems who finds her escape in an MMO and learns to play while dealing with life. And it’s fun! Thuogh I greatly prefer the in game art as opposed to the out of game stuff.

Supergod #1
And the history lesson continues, folks. Have to admit, I don’t much like this storytelling style. It’s telling and trying to show as much as they can while telling everything, but dammit if the incessant telling and wandering off topic to things that aren’t important to the story keep happening. Also, these covers are having less and less to do with the actual story, aren’t they?

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Comic Run 03-18-10

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

American Vampire #1
There are three comics in here! THREE! Well, two and a preview for Area 10, but still! It’s all pretty nicely done too, though I admit I like the first one better than the second. But damn, that’s a lot of story in one comic compared to usual. Also, the vampires are confusing me as current, though it’s not sparklepires so they’ll get a second look from me.

One thing that series did, it’s made me give every other vampire series a second shot.

Choker #2
Well, it looks like they’re at least going to try and tie everything in from the first issue and this whole thing is reading like a pretty fun little horror title so far. There’s a lot of little un answered questions and some intriguing plot elements being introduced. Also, I can’t get over that name.

Devil #2
It’s still very Japanese. That’s just not going to change about the series, but this dilemma is actually pretty fun. The faux-science in it is annoying as hell, yes, and the medium is making me analyze it more than if it were printed in manga form, but as a story it’s still pretty entertaining.

Joe the Barbarian #3
Ah, the Area 10 thing is in all the Vertigo books this week.

Anotehr wonderful issue and, now that I know that it’s only 8 issues long and that Joe may actually be in mortal peril, this issue was fabulous. Well, it would have been before, but it’s great knowing these things. More than that, it’s nice to see that this trek to the kitchen is positively epic.

X23
First: shut up, I like her. So long as she isn’t doing an angsty monologue, anyway, and that was essentially all this was. There is no action and, while I did like to see the meet up with the Nyx characters, t all sort of boiled down to Laura being angsty for an entire issue and ending on a more upbeat note of her having people to fall back on. Character exposition and nothing else. Ah well.

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Comic Run 03-11-10

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The A-Team #1
It’s the freaking A-Team! I had to at least give it a look. The cover has NOTHING to do with the book and they don’t really operate as a team at all during it, there’s no character set up and no reason to care about any of them as you go through. I guess I might have liked it better if I’d ever actually watched the original show.

Daytripper #4
Oh the pieces and how they’re coming together. I still don’t understand why Bras dies at the end of every issue, but the slowly filled holes that are forming in his life are a lot of fun and it’s nice that this one did quite a bit of fleshing of the earlier issues. Although I have to admit, I’m pretty much not counting the last page as continuity anymore.

Ghost Projekt #1
I am just confused about this one. The front half is a quick read since most of it is people speaking in Russian and there’s no explanation about what they’re doing robbing what looks like an abandoned nursery with a mad scientist lab attached. And then there’s a murder, a kid that is probably important, and exposition heavy Russian lady that doesn’t actually explain anything. I have no idea what it’s about, though I am annoyed that “Projekt” is spelled wrong.

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Comic Run 03-03-10

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Dingo #1
So… was this a tie in to something? I really hope so. The ending was fun, but it pulled so much never before mentioned stuff out of absolutely nowhere in the denouement portion of the story that I don’t know what happened anymore. There was nothing leading up to that talk with his mother. There was very little about his marriage to Darby. There was… not enough. It either needed a couple more issues to flesh out the back story or to cut out those extra dangling strands.

Then again, apparently the guy also wrote Hexed, which is another story that feels like it was just a small section of a larger story that no one was putting out, so I suppose this is normal for him.

Girl Comics #1
It’s a nice idea. An all female art, writing and editing team making a bunch of short comics about the Marvel universe. The trouble is that some of the art doesn’t feel very Marvel, nor do the stories a lot of the time. I would have probably preferred original stories instead, but I suppose when you’re working under the Marvel banner…

God Complex #4
That was cute. In the end, the street comes together and helps each other, Apollo gets to stay Paul after defeating the Medusa, Sophia was of absolutely no consequence at all during the whole issue and it all wrapped up rather nicely. I think I’m done with the series now, though. Something about it tells me that this is a good time to let it end.

Sweet Tooth #7
This is kind of going downhill. The focus is too far split. Glimpses of what’s happening to Gus here, Tom and what he’s doing over there and parts about Tom and his wife while she was still alive overlapping in there too. It’s just too much happening and not enough focus anywhere for the story to bring me in anymore.

Underground #5
So… the guy wanted to open up the cave to tourism. The protagonist didn’t want that and thought the cave was more important than the people in the town. The bad guy is caught and they make it out and whatnot and in the end… they open the cave up to tourism. Okay, fine, whatever.

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Comic Run 02-25-10

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

And now without videos. Because I made that new section and all that. And whee!

Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Usland #1
Long enough title? This story just feels like something Ellis has already written somehow. Mostly because as I was reading it, I kept envisioning Captain Swing as the scientist from Ignition City. I think this might be another one of those fun projects for him.

Devil #1
It’s very Japanese, which makes sense given there’s a Japanese sounding name on it. We’ll see how this plays out and I do hope it’s not pandering the the manga demographic to get them reading comics.

Song of Saya #1
The art is gorgeous and the story is pretty interesting too. The doctor has brain surgery and is seeing all the crazy stuff his patients reported seeing, including the mysterious Saya and the nightmare fuel induced hallucinations. It’s fun!

Weekly World News #2
You know, the American stereotype in the lead is starting to be a little grating. And there was very little development about the plot, too. Just a bit of a mention at the end and most of it was “OMG FREAKS ARE EVERYWHERE!”

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Comic Run 02-18-10

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Joe the Barbarian #2
Have I mentioned how much I’m loving this book? Because with the second issue it’s starting to make some form of sense. He’s hallucinating and thinks it’s due to having low glucose levels. And his rat who is also now his protector is convinced that Joe getting downstairs is a bad thing and Joe is trying very hard to figure out what’s going on. It’s fabulously fun.

And now the minute:

I’m thinking next week I might start working on a videos section. Still working on the specs for it.

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Spoileriffic! Boy Blue Spotlight (Fables)

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Happy Valentines everyone!

And my god, this one was not an easy one. 12 volumes of Fables. 12! And he’s a minor character for several of those! But it’s done and I still love this series so much.

The Great Fables Crossover was probably the best book to come after that last one too. Depressing to awesomeness. Probably the most fun I’ve had reading a book in a long while.

And now, I’m going to try and get my editing done. It’s the Olympics, Chinese New Year and Valentines outside and the combination of all of those today is mildly terrifying. I’m just going to hide here until cheap candy day tomorrow.

Tags: comic, fables, video
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Comic Run 02-11-10

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Fewer comics from now on for me. I haven’t found more work yet, so I’m getting long running comics in trade.

Choker #1
Run down city, guy down on his luck working in investigation, seems kind of typical. Still, there’s enough screwed up everything floating around in the stew there that’s going to keep me coming back. A promise for his old life back in exchange for someone’s head? Drugs that turn you temmporarily into vampires? And written by a guy called McCool? Yeah, I’m going to have to see more.

Daytripper #3
Three issues and a picture is starting to form. I don’t quite get the picture yet, but there’s one there. There’s a few definites now. Bras. Jorge. And that he will be dead by the end. But all events that happen are in continuity. His death is not, but everything else is. Watching the rest of this unravel should be fun.

And the minute:

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Comic Run 02-04-10

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Between job hunting and working on my anthology/book//novel-in-story thing, I still have the comicses.

Dingo #3
First: “Douche nozzle” remains the funniest insult ever and I still have to use it some day to make someone seem threatening. Even if using it will make me burst out laughing. I SHALL DO THIS. And second, I think I get it now. Brother’s soul kept in scary little teddy bear. Part of it got out. Dingo has a demon dog following him around everywhere. I think I get this.

God Complex #3
I don’t honestly remember what happened last time anymore, but this time was a fight. I’m sort of finding myself detatched from the characters and interested in the way everything plays out, though. I mean, they brought in the Gorgon for an issue, but it seems to be a comic done via events rather than characters. And an abundance of double page panelling.

Sweet Tooth #6
Honestly, I don’t really care too much for Jeppard’s back story when there’s Gus in containment to unravel in an arc called “Captivity.” I was more interested in that than his old hockey days and how he got to be a fighter. Returning his wife to their old house, that part was great, though.

The Secrets of Sarah Winchester #1
The most surprising things about this is that Ben Templesmith’s name appears nowhere on this title. It reads like one of his books, the art is like his art and yet, no name. I am confused.