Bought/Thought for 1/23/08

[PhotoJones]

The art was great, but the writing could've been funnier. Hopefully it'll pick up.

 

[Varient]

WWH Aftersmash: Damage Control #1
Damage Control is back! McDuffie proves that he can still write well, too. This is pretty much exactly what anyone who's read Damage Control should expect of it. It's got the old cast of characters coming back, Mrs. Hoag being as matriarchally awesome as ever, and new stuff like Tom Foster, whose journey up to this point has honestly kind of sucked. But who cares if he managed to knock the gigantic chip off his shoulder over the course of like 3 pages? He's now a perfect fit for Damage Control, which is all that matters to me. It's not like anyone else was gonna use him for anything good. This volume of Damage Control also sweeps that ******ed MGH nonsense away nicely with Mrs. Hoag telling Robin that she was wrong to replace her with Walter Declun. Oh, and Salvin Espa's art with modern coloring techniques makes this probably the best-looking Damage Control ever. I'd recommend this to pretty much anyone who liked the office stuff in She-Hulk or just solid comedy books that live and breathe really organically within the Marvel universe.

I'll check this out too.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Excellent.

 

[Varient]

Excellent.

I'm just finding fewere and fewer good reads,... which reminds me, I've gone back and pulled the last ten issues of Daredevil to get a clue on what PJ2 is talking about,.. I'll be reading them over the weekend to see if I can go back to reading DD.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I started reading DD under Brubaker. And I hate DD.

 

[PhotoJones]

How can you manage to keep up your hate in spite of Brubaker's awesome scripts?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Fine, I hated DD. Happy?

 

[PhotoJones]

Fine, I hated DD. Happy?

I'm going to put that comment in a lockbox.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Go right ahead, Mr. Gore.

 

[PhotoJones]

Corp likes DD. The world just got a little bit brighter.

 

[Dread]

WWH Aftersmash: Damage Control #1
Damage Control is back! McDuffie proves that he can still write well, too. This is pretty much exactly what anyone who's read Damage Control should expect of it. It's got the old cast of characters coming back, Mrs. Hoag being as matriarchally awesome as ever, and new stuff like Tom Foster, whose journey up to this point has honestly kind of sucked. But who cares if he managed to knock the gigantic chip off his shoulder over the course of like 3 pages? He's now a perfect fit for Damage Control, which is all that matters to me. It's not like anyone else was gonna use him for anything good. This volume of Damage Control also sweeps that ******ed MGH nonsense away nicely with Mrs. Hoag telling Robin that she was wrong to replace her with Walter Declun. Oh, and Salvin Espa's art with modern coloring techniques makes this probably the best-looking Damage Control ever. I'd recommend this to pretty much anyone who liked the office stuff in She-Hulk or just solid comedy books that live and breathe really organically within the Marvel universe.

I liked this title, too. I wasn't planning to buy it but I saw it there, grabbed it on a whim and as my review earlier in the topic stated, enjoyed the hell out of it. Marvel needs more books like this sometimes. Glad you liked it, too. I know that DAMAGE CONTROL/WOLVERINE arc disturbed you a bit, but this mini acknowledges all that and the stuff Kirkman did in ANT-MAN and works it into a whole, and makes it fun again. Way to go, McDuffie & Co.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yep, good stuff. Did that Frank guy come in from Ant-Man? The one who's handling the superhuman volunteers while Lenny acts as foreman?

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, that's Monstro. He originally came from Amazing Fantasty.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Aw, I just read the Wiki article on him. Poor Monstro's wife and daughter.

 

[Dread]

Yeah, Monstro's been through some rough stuff.

 

[PhotoJones]

Aw, I just read the Wiki article on him. Poor Monstro's wife and daughter.

Yeah, it's sad. He's managed to pull through, though. He was awesome in Kirkman's IAM.

 

[Dread]

Indeed he was.

 

[Darthphere]

Probably the only awesome thing in Kirkman's Ant-Man.

HIYO!!!!!!

 

[PhotoJones]

Probably the only awesome thing in Kirkman's Ant-Man.

HIYO!!!!!!

You suck, dude.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Not as much as IAM's sales did, though.

 

[Darthphere]

Not as much as IAM's sales did, though.

SHAZAM!!!!!

 

[PhotoJones]

Crushing.

 

[Darthphere]

Speaking of Shazam, did that Trials mini ever end?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No, and it never will. Winick wins!

 

[PhotoJones]

Was that the one Howard Porter is doing?