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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 02-04-10

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.

And the minute:

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Comic Run 01-07-10

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

First comic run of the year!

Dingo #2
It’s actually getting to be a pretty fun series, honestly. We meet family that he gets along with, see him be nice as well as a badass and watch him get beaten up by his ex wife’s posse. With the censor bar shades. Seriously, what is up with that?

Greek Street #7
Interesting developments. It;s always interesting when a character announces the start of act two and one of the chorus decides to abandon her post to become a part of the story. Some of the subplots I’m just not caring about, but the chorus woman and Cassie/Eddie, I’m starting to get into them.

God Complex #2
Oh Hercules. Anyway, the issue seems to be free of the typographical issues that plauged the first one and the story moves well enough. I’m just having a little trouble staying interested. There’s characters thrown in and pushed aside as well as the fight scene seeming to have not left the impact it should have. Sigh.

Sweet Tooth #5
Still a wonderful read. He’s finally made it to the preserve only to have it be not such a nice place. It would have been nice if a bit more had actually happened in the issue, since the shootout seemed to be kind of thrown in there as a plot device that really wasn’t necessary. The dream sequence could have been done anyway. But meh. Still fun.

Also, a comic minute:

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Comic Run 12-11-09

Friday, December 11th, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, eh? Well, time to get right back into it.

Daytripper #1
Um. I don’t really know how to digest this one. With a title like “Daytripper” and all of this build up about how he’s a writer and references to all sorts of things all over the place and whatnot, that ending has me incredibly confused. The build up was, I thought, to something vaguely supernatural starting to happen. Was that a one shot?

Echo #17
You know, for an issue that was essentially an information dump it wasn’t that bad. I understand none of the science explained save for the bits that were teh “action movie version” but I now know the history of Annie. The whole thing is just guys sitting around and talking and, while I’m sure it was important, I’m a little anxious for the story and action to start picking up again.

God Complex #1
It was a good bit of fun first issue to the series, which is good considering how much of it I’d seen from Oeming pimping it. The two page spreads with dark boarders kept throwing me off and I wasn’t sure where my eyes were supposed to go from panel to panel as the whole bloody thing is kind of dark and it’s hard to tell, but the story of a modern day pantheon of Greek gods is always fun and one who quits to the ire of everyone else just makes it better.

Although, I do have to note one rather annoying thing. Whoever was doing the lettering wasn’t paying attention. Typos. Obvious typos and an error with setting the characters in a line of dialogue. These errors should not happen, people.

Unwritten #8
It took me entirely too long to figure out where in the series this was taking place and if I’d grabbed an old issue. It’s a nice look into the other side and other people involved in the Tom in jail arc, but while I did enjoy it, I’m not sure it was worthwhile if the kids or the warden just disappear in the next arc. They all really do seem like fleeting characters in the overall scheme of things, though the kids joining the main arc might make for some interesting developments. Especially is Tom isn’t so good with kids.

Comic Minute: Sweet Tooth #1

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Comic Run 10-10-09

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Greek Street #4
This was a setup issue. It covered bits and pieces of the last one and set up the next, but nothing really happens. Eddie is not killed, as if anyone really believed that was going to happen, and Cassandra is still spouting nonsense. The women who I think might be the Fates do nothing of note and Deadelus has a monster hidden away in a labyrinth, which I think is an allegory and foreshadowing to future events. Now with Eddie and Cassandra almost under the same roof, though, something might actually happen.

Let’s hope it’s not more Eddie screwing old ladies. Let’s hope plot.

Incarnate #2
It’s such a weird mix of Japanese and Western storytelling and it doesn’t really fit. It’s actually like a guy from here trying to tell an anime, but missing some of the finesse of it. Instead, they have Hellsing demon fighting and the random school girl and the random demon in school scene that lasts only a single scene and lack of character motivation because they want demon fights. Still, they are very pretty demon fights.

Sweet Tooth #2
Gus is so freaking adorable. A nine or ten year old half deer boy that people are after because they think the half kids might be a cure to a disease that he’s too sheltered to know about. I’m loving this story, but I have to wonder if everyone who seeks to help him is going to only survive for one issue. His dad dies in the first, the big man has quite possibly died in issue 2. Someone’s gotta live.

And finally, the Comic Minute.

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