Bought/Thought for 9/12/07; SPOILERS

[PhotoJones]

Howard Porter's the best I can come up with. His darker, painted style on Trials of Shazam strikes a similar chord to Yu's NA art, for me at least.

Porter's a bit bright isn't he?

 

[Tropico]

I'm going to be contrarian and say that until Yu cleans up his art, I prefer he was gone. Give the book to one of the DD artists if people still want a dark style for the book.

By the way, I totally predict Dread getting all defensive about the stuff people have posted about him and Bendis. He will use his patented "Well, I know I'm biased and have flaws, I'm only human and not perfect. At least I'm about the only person in the Hype that can admit I'm wrong.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Porter's a bit bright isn't he?

That's why I specified his darker, painted style from Trials of Shazam:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=89816388870&snumber=1

 

[PhotoJones]

That's why I specified his darker, painted style from Trials of Shazam:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=89816388870&snumber=1

I've seen the interiors, and they're pretty bright and colorful. It works well for a Shazam book. I could see it. He's not really a "hip or edgy" artist though. Marvel seems to gravitate towards that on it's bigger tier books.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, Shazam is itself a bright and colorful property. But he likes shadows a lot, and it wouldn't be too hard for him to include more in his pencil art (since his painted stuff takes way too long to be useful). I may just be thinking of him because he happened to draw the JLA, and the Avengers are Marvel's counterpart to them.

Doug Mahnke would be cool for a more visceral feel. Leo Manco, too.

 

[PhotoJones]

Well, Shazam is itself a bright and colorful property. But he likes shadows a lot, and it wouldn't be too hard for him to include more in his pencil art (since his painted stuff takes way too long to be useful). I may just be thinking of him because he happened to draw the JLA, and the Avengers are Marvel's counterpart to them.

Doug Mahnke would be cool for a more visceral feel. Leo Manco, too.

Damn. Leo Manco would be perfect for this Deathlok storyline.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He'd probably knock some symbiotes out of the park, too.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, Manco's good. I wish he'd do some Marvel work again.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is he doing anything right now?

 

[PhotoJones]

I think he's doing Hellblazer.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Bah, waste. He should be drawing better.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

Thor was great! Loved the smackdown he laid on Tony. "You just fried my suit Thor, how will I get home?" "WALK" Nice.
I do have one very small, very nit-picky complaint: When Thor is not holding Mjolnir in his hands, doesn't he have a strap or a hook or some latch so he can clip it on his hip? It seems like Coipel just has him tuck it in the folds of his cape behind his head and I think it looks kind of silly. Maybe it's me, but he's got to have a better place to store it besides the middle of his back with the handle knocking the back of his head evry time he looks up?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He's got a strap going over his shoulder that presumably is connected to some form of support for Mjolnir on his back. It doesn't strike me as particularly practical for him to keep it there, but I think it looks pretty cool and is probably a little more sensible than hanging it from his belt so that it smacks his leg every time he moves. Ideally, he could probably put it on that strap hanging down from the right side of his belt with the head facing up--that'd be stable enough that it wouldn't move around and closer to reach for if he needs it in a hurry. But, again, it's just a stylistic thing on Coipel's part and he apparently likes having Thor keep it on his back.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

issue 3 was so delightful, so satisfying seeing tony get his ass handed to him, one thing i didn't like about this issue was the slow pace, thats pretty bother some.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That seems to be the consensus--Thor's good, but it'd be nice if more stuff happened each issue. Hopefully, with this arc nearing its 6-limit max for handy-dandy tradeification, we'll see a few new Asgardians show up each issue instead of just one and things'll finally start moving. Granted, JMS is the same guy who's managed to write ASM for almost a year with maybe one or two important things happening since May got shot, so if anyone could defy my expectations, it's him.

 

[PhotoJones]

To be fair, it's only the third issue, in which a lot happened. JMS seems to be taking his time, but it also seems, so far, to be worth it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I just keep wishing the first issue were double-sized. I get what JMS is doing--each issue is built around its own major event--but that's leaving the issues feeling kind of thin. I really wouldn't mind seeing more than one major event per issue from here on out, since the major events are basically going to be the discovery of more Asgardians. Like, in the next issue, I hope Thor finds all three of the Warriors Three rather than just one of them. That'd be decompressing things a bit too much.

 

[PhotoJones]

I just keep wishing the first issue were double-sized. I get what JMS is doing--each issue is built around its own major event--but that's leaving the issues feeling kind of thin. I really wouldn't mind seeing more than one major event per issue from here on out, since the major events are basically going to be the discovery of more Asgardians. Like, in the next issue, I hope Thor finds all three of the Warriors Three rather than just one of them. That'd be decompressing things a bit too much.

We has the Thor/Iron man fight, and the retrun of an Asgardian. That's not bad for 22 pages. I agree though, the first issue being double sized would have been good.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Right, that's why I said the pace may pick up from here on out. First issue was the return of Thor, second was the return of Asgard, third was the return of an Asgardian and Thor dealing with the post-CW status quo of Marvel's US. 2 for the price of 1.

 

[PhotoJones]

Hopefully the cover for #4 is literal, and we'll get 3 for the price of 1.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That'd be super-keen. Hopefully Volstagg and Fandral can bring some humor back to Asgard, too. Everyone's too grim.

 

[PhotoJones]

Everyone was dead. You'd be grim for a minute, too.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, for a minute. Thor's had, like, a whole freakin' day.

Seriously, though, he's resurrecting his race one by one, he's no longer alone, and he'll have three of his closest friends back once the Warriors Three return. That's gotta at least warrant a smile. The only way it'll be okay if he remains grim through the Warriors Three's return is if JMS is saving all his smiles and happiness for the outpouring of emotion Thor must feel when Sif returns. I say "must" because, given the history between the two, it's a ****ing necessity to Thor's character that he be deeply, deeply emotionally affected when she returns. She is the love of his immortal life, after all.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, for a minute. Thor's had, like, a whole freakin' day.

Seriously, though, he's resurrecting his race one by one, he's no longer alone, and he'll have three of his closest friends back once the Warriors Three return. That's gotta at least warrant a smile. The only way it'll be okay if he remains grim through the Warriors Three's return is if JMS is saving all his smiles and happiness for the outpouring of emotion Thor must feel when Sif returns. I say "must" because, given the history between the two, it's a ****ing necessity to Thor's character that he be deeply, deeply emotionally affected when she returns. She is the love of his immortal life, after all.

Well, Heimdall's return got a slight smile out of him. But I'd be willing to bet anything there's at least one dining hall full of meat and mead in the new Asgard that needs breaking in.

And Sif's return better illicit more then a smile or hugs from Thor. I wanna see a river of tears and a drop to the knees.

EDIT: That last part was not meant to be sexual at all.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Seriously. The guy even remembers The Reigning, which had one of the most poignant moments between the two of them ever, so he's gotta be looking forward to seeing her again now that he's experienced firsthand (again) how fragile life can be.