Bought/Thought 2/13/08

[MaskedManJRK]

I mean, when was the last time any male hero was called out on being a "****"?

I take it you've never read any GA threads here on the Hype.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Incidentally, does anyone other than myself read Wolverine?

I started with this week's issue. Ron Garney is a god among men. Aaron's story looks like it'll be fun, too.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

I started with this week's issue. Ron Garney is a god among men. Aaron's story looks like it'll be fun, too.

Garney is freakin' amazing. I loved his art in Wolverine #62 and look forward to the next 3 issues. I'd love if he'd stick around for a while.

The thing I like about the Wolverine mag is that it never is taking itself too seriously. A little mystery, a little drama, and a whole lot of SNIKT! I'm not saying it can't tell a layer story that means something...but it's not of of those books that gets too caught up in itself. It's nice to have a book like it to fall back on where you always know A)Wolverine is gonna get someone B)Someone is gonna die C)There's always a bad guy and of course D)Wolvie's always gonna have a beer.

It's nice to have constants.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I started with this week's issue. Ron Garney is a god among men. Aaron's story looks like it'll be fun, too.

I got it, loved it. almost enough to start buying it

 

[Darthphere]

Garney is freakin' amazing. I loved his art in Wolverine #62 and look forward to the next 3 issues. I'd love if he'd stick around for a while.

He's not, Millar and McNiven are doing some stupid Mad Max arc or some ****.

 

[Dread]

But Hawkeye is a **** and Iron Man is a b!!ch. They both make perfect sense to me.

Also, just because something's in the dictionary, doesn't mean it's a real word. Dictionaries have been taking a more descriptive rather than prescriptive take on language for a while now. They'll list slang or informal words, but they'll put a note in the definition that the words are slang or informal or whatever. It's understood that they're not suitable for formal writing or anything.

Yeah, the dictionary notes that.

I'm just saying that some terms for "those types" of women have no male equalivent types of words, no matter how many slang words are thrown around.

People keep telling me "worser" isn't a word. It's in the dictionary, buddy, it's a word to me.

I definitely see where both people were wrong in that scene. But the whole debacle really isn't as deep or as nuanced as Bendis seems to think it is. It's just two people trying to one-up each other in the race to become the worser humongous idiot in the room, with Jessica coming out on top. Meanwhile, of course, all the fans go "Omigods! This is such great and revolutionary dialogue between two people, I mean, there's just so much of it!"

I'll give him one thing, though; as for as the 2000s go, Bendis truly did define the concept of two people yattering at each other for twenty pages and calling it an issue. See re: progenitor unit Ultimate Spider-Man.

Oh, yeah, Bendis and to some degree Millar and Ultimate can be squarely blamed about the 21st century's addiction to decompression. And the next time one of them brings up manga to justify it, someone needs to remind them that manga is publish at either 40-50 pages a pop in anthologies or 200-500 pages a pop in trades, not 22 page "pamphlets" as some in the U.K. call them. You do need to write for the serial format to some degree. More people read it that way. Just as a TV show has to have episodes that work unto themselves, even if they do carry subplots, as most viewers won't just watch via marathon on DVD, but weekly on TV.

Just because I actually liked this week's issue of NA doesn't mean I'd call it a comic goldmine. I mean you yourself gave it a grade of 6 out of 10. That's above average, slightly. For a book I usually loath, that is welcome.

I take it you've never read any GA threads here on the Hype.

But does anyone REALLY look down on Green Lantern like some people "look down" on She-Hulk or Tigra? C'mon...

 

[BoredGuy]

Did anybody pick up the new Wolverine this week??
I haven't touched a wolvie comic in years, and I gotta say...
This one was pretty f***in' good, I was pleasantly surprised!
A lot of setup for the Logan/Raven backstory, but it seems to be heading in a cool direction for sure....

 

[BrianWilly]

6 as a score for me means "tolerable." It might be worth a read, but it's starting to have some glaring problems. Anything below a 6 to me -- 5 means "average" -- starts being stuff you can skip with no regrets. Which is why I hardly ever review books below a 6; I never read them!

Follow this guideline with your lives, everyone.

But does anyone REALLY look down on Green Lantern like some people "look down" on She-Hulk or Tigra? C'mon...

You mean Green Arrow, but it's a good point. There's a huge difference between "GA's such a ****! " vs "Tigra's such a ****! "

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, I hate Green Arrow a lot too, so I guess that would make me a minority. Not really because he's a ****, though. Mostly because he's not as interesting as his son, who's always ****ed over in daddy's comic.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

^Agreed!

 

[Themanofbat]

Am I the only guy that got Marvel's "Dead of Night"???

 

[gildea]

...haven't heard of dead of night...what is it?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I don't even know what that is.

 

[yenaled]

Hal Jordan is such a ****

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, I don't even know what that is.

Pretty sure he is talking about the new Man-Thing mini

 

[BrianWilly]

A mini-sized man-thing?

 

[Not Jake]

Yeah, it just came out last oh you're talking about penis, it was a penis joke guys.

 

[Themanofbat]

...haven't heard of dead of night...what is it?

Yeah, I don't even know what that is.

Pretty sure he is talking about the new Man-Thing mini

Yes...

DEAD OF NIGHT FEATURING MAN-THING #1

COVER BY: KAARE ANDREWS
WRITER: ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
PENCILS: JOSE ANGEL CANO LOPEZ

Biochemist Ted Sallis and his team are on a mission: To recreate the serum that spawned the world's first super-soldier. But like the swamp itself, there are dangers lurking beneath the surface...Ted's partner Eric, his girlfriend Ellen, the government, terrorists...everyone wants what Ted has, but what Ted doesn't realize is...the swamp itself may want him! A radical re-imagining of the Man-Thing's origin begins here, in a horror-tinged tale narrated by Digger, keeper of the Tower of Shadows!
Cardstock Cover/Explicit Content…$3.99

http://www.makeminemarvel.com/2008/02/dead-of-night-featuring-man-thing-1.html

http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=8212

 

[Not Jake]

good?

 

[Themanofbat]

good?

That's an unfair question to ask me, because I have always been very biased towards muck monsters, and the Man-Thing has always been my favorite.

The art could have been better, but the initial story was decent... I like the EC Comics feel that Sacosa put into it.

 

[Not Jake]

Well of course you're biased towards muck monsters, that's what the females up in Canada all look like.

 

[Manic]

Well of course you're biased towards muck monsters, that's what the females up in Canada all look like.

As a fan of Lexa Doig, Grace Park, and Victoria Pratt, I object.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Well of course you're biased towards muck monsters, that's what the females up in Canada all look like.

Ooooooooohhhhhhhh! Snaaaaaaaaaap!

 

[fifthfiend]

Well of course you're biased towards muck monsters, that's what the females up in Canada all look like.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yes...

DEAD OF NIGHT FEATURING MAN-THING #1

COVER BY: KAARE ANDREWS
WRITER: ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
PENCILS: JOSE ANGEL CANO LOPEZ

Biochemist Ted Sallis and his team are on a mission: To recreate the serum that spawned the world's first super-soldier. But like the swamp itself, there are dangers lurking beneath the surface...Ted's partner Eric, his girlfriend Ellen, the government, terrorists...everyone wants what Ted has, but what Ted doesn't realize is...the swamp itself may want him! A radical re-imagining of the Man-Thing's origin begins here, in a horror-tinged tale narrated by Digger, keeper of the Tower of Shadows!
Cardstock Cover/Explicit Content…$3.99

http://www.makeminemarvel.com/2008/02/dead-of-night-featuring-man-thing-1.html

http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=8212

Eh, if I'd known about it, I would've passed anyway.