Bought/Thought 05/12/07

[PhotoJones]

Weird comparison aside, he digs a dig-worthy book.

 

[GNR]

I know I just didn't read someone make a vague Fear Agent/Planetary comparison.

Similar concepts,but different execution.Obviously Planetary in all its awesomeness dealt with more than space aliens and monsters.

 

[GNR]

It just occurred to me this is the same guy writing End League.Nice.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Remender's great. Doll and Creature is another good read from him, if you get a chance to check it out.

 

[Darthphere]

Similar concepts,but different execution.Obviously Planetary in all its awesomeness dealt with more than space aliens and monsters.

Similar like TMNT and Godzilla right?

 

[PhotoJones]

Remender's great. Doll and Creature is another good read from him, if you get a chance to check it out.

Strange Girl is even better.

 

[RockSP]

House of M: Avengers #2

Justice Society of America #11

The "Thy Kingdom Come" story continues, with some more character interaction, but so far there’s still not much in the way of a plot. The Justice League arrived last issue to meet with this new supposed Superman, and Wonder Woman’s lasso and Hal and John’s rings both say he’s the real deal, so the question turns to how to send him home, before KC-Supes tells them that his world has been destroyed, so there’s nothing for him to go home to. This could just be his perception from the bomb going off, or a metaphor for the destruction of superhumanity, or he’s possibly just lying because he’d rather stay here than go back. I have to say that this story just feels too crowded, and honestly better suited to a JLA book, since most of the characters I’d most like to see him interact with are on that team. Re: overcrowding, that’s only looking to get worse, as another recruiting drive is underway, starting with the new Judomaster. She was originally introduced in Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey, but she’s nothing like how Simone depicted her (for starters, here we’re told she barely speaks English, when communication wasn’t a problem). It may just be high expectations, but I think this story could be a lot better.

Yeah that part had me scratching my head. Johns basically pulled a Bendis. Ignoring every one else's stories.

 

[RockSP]

I've been rereading my Morrison/Waid JLA books for the last few days and man, the JLA just ain't as awesome as it used to be. I mean come on, Luthor and a buncha villains? pftt, wheres the huge, "Oh my freaking God we're all gonna die!!" threats? Where's Meggedon? Where's insane 5th Dimensional Godlings? Wheres the abstract concepts like Truth and Luck rebelling against the cosmos? This is....well....kinda lame.

If McDuffie did those stories people would complain he's biting Morrison.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think people would mostly just appreciate that someone's telling good JLA stories again, actually.

 

[PhotoJones]

I would.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Me, too.

Granted, if he had white Martians invade, then hosts of angels attack, etc., one could make a good case that he's just copying Morrison. But all I want is for JLA to just get back up to the colossal scope of the Morrison/Waid/Kelly era. Battling Lex Luthor for the millionth time (or billionth if you're Superman) is not really that interesting. He didn't even have an interesting plan this time like when Morrison had him find the Philosopher's Stone.

 

[PhotoJones]

How about just creating some new universal threats to mix in with some of the old ones?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, that'd be good. Morrison created a bunch of them.

 

[PhotoJones]

Morrison is one big ocean of ideas. Some of them are great and some of them are not. He's always thinking, though.

 

[CaptainCanada]

He didn't even have an interesting plan this time like when Morrison had him find the Philosopher's Stone.

Speaking of that, could somebody, anybody, please explain why the destruction of the Stone resulted in a hellish alternate future? Because I've never come across any explanation for that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Morrison is one big ocean of ideas. Some of them are great and some of them are not. He's always thinking, though.

The fact that he's crazy and on drugs probably helps.

 

[PhotoJones]

I doubt he does much drugs anymore.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His comics haven't been as good lately, so you're probably right.

 

[Anubis]

ASS seems to be what he puts most of his effort into.

 

[PhotoJones]

His comics haven't been as good lately, so you're probably right.

We3 was pretty awesome. I think that was the last Morrison thing I read.

ASS seems to be what he puts most of his effort into.

I need to be reading that, don't I?

 

[Anubis]

I'd say so.

 

[PhotoJones]

I keep hearing that I need to be reading that.

 

[Doc Destruction]

I would agree. That book is wild, but truly good stuff.

 

[Anubis]

And Queitly is awesome on that book.

 

[RockSP]

Battling Lex Luthor for the millionth time (or billionth if you're Superman) is not really that interesting. He didn't even have an interesting plan this time like when Morrison had him find the Philosopher's Stone.

Actually we still don't know what his plan was/is.