Dc August 2006 Solicitations

[yenaled]

That's not Deadman :/

Stop being stupid Vertigo.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

On the one hand, it's basically standard fare for Vertigo. Gaiman's Sandman was a reinvention of the established Sandman concept, after all. On the other hand, it's by Jones, who's got nothing on Gaiman, and I like Boston Brand.

 

[Assassin]

best cover

 

[warren_sparta27]

that cover is fantasic
i'm not too sure about Wonderwoman though, by the sounds of it, it isn't Diana seeing Zatara in TT will be kool though.
and i can't wait for Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters.

 

[Harlekin]

On the one hand, it's basically standard fare for Vertigo. Gaiman's Sandman was a reinvention of the established Sandman concept, after all. On the other hand, it's by Jones, who's got nothing on Gaiman, and I like Boston Brand.

It may be standard fare, but I'm sure as hell not gonna pick it up. If it were by Gaiman, sure, but by Bruce Jones? Hell no. The only thing I'm really pissed about when it comes to this Deadman thing is because it prohibits the actual Deadman from interacting with DCU.

That's not Deadman :/

Stop being stupid Vertigo.

Exactly.

Boston Brand rocks!

 

[HuyLantern]

How the f**k does Bruce Jones get to write so many books: Man-Bat, Nightwing, OMAC, Warlord, and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. He's like Bendis, except unlike Bendis, Jones sucks ass.

Bruce Jones is exclusive to DC, I guess he's trying to make as much money as he can. His run on Hulk was pretty good. I'm really digging his Man-Bat series. Also if Geoff Johns wants to do Nightwing then give him Nightwing.

 

[yenaled]

Let me get this straight. Paul Dini said the reason that out of hundreds of batman episodes, they only did 3 Riddler episodes because he was too complicated to write.... yet the very first thing he does on this run is tell a story about The Riddler? No wonder the guy sucks so much these days.

He actually said he was too complicated to write for a 20 min cartoon, when a story has to begin and end satisfactory. Without writing the Riddler like the 60s Batman TV show.

 

[deathshead2]

He actually said he was too complicated to write for a 20 min cartoon, when a story has to begin and end satisfactory. Without writing the Riddler like the 60s Batman TV show.

That and its been a few years sense he wrote for B:tas so over that peirod of time he can come up with a new story for him.

 

[yenaled]

It may be standard fare, but I'm sure as hell not gonna pick it up. If it were by Gaiman, sure, but by Bruce Jones? Hell no. The only thing I'm really pissed about when it comes to this Deadman thing is because it prohibits the actual Deadman from interacting with DCU.


Exactly.

Boston Brand rocks!

The thing I find strange is Boston is such a great character who, lends himself so easily to a Vertigo title. Hell, it could write itself it is that easy. But they choose to do this and thus making it unable for Boston to be used anywhere. It stinks of failure.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Nice. Lots of cool stuff in August. I really liked the Creeper cover.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The thing I find strange is Boston is such a great character who, lends himself so easily to a Vertigo title. Hell, it could write itself it is that easy. But they choose to do this and thus making it unable for Boston to be used anywhere. It stinks of failure.

Teddy Kristiansen had a short Deadman story in his Solo issue. It was basically just Boston talking to a dead girl who didn't realize she was dead. It was awesome, of course.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I have that Solo issue. Indeed, it was good.

 

[yenaled]

Teddy Kristiansen had a short Deadman story in his Solo issue. It was basically just Boston talking to a dead girl who didn't realize she was dead. It was awesome, of course.

It was also written by Neil Gaiman

I'm going to miss Solo actually.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought it was. I knew Gaiman wrote one of the stories but I couldn't remember if that was it.

I'm gonna miss Solo, too. Kristiansen's issue was phenomenal. I want to check out It's a Bird now because of it.

 

[yenaled]

Yeah, I actually bought It's a Bird the week after I read that Solo. I'd never even heard of it before.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd heard of it, and I was already interested because I hear Lobdell's non-mainstream work is really good. Kristiansen's Solo just pushed me over the top.

 

[Ben Urich]

Running commentary:

• I had no idea that Batman and the Monster Men had done so well. I might have to pick up the trade and the sequel. Hooray for Matt Wagner!
• Grant Morrison writing Batman gives me a throbbing erection.
• As much as I soured on Superman/Batman, Ethan Van Sciver is too good of a penciller for me to pass this next arc up.
• So a certain dead person returns in te pages of 52. So soon?
• The return of the Justice League of America is just fantastic. I'm thrilled.
• It's great that J'onn J'onzz gets his own series, but it's a shame that it jsut had to be written by AJ Lieberman, who has the atrocious Hush Returns story to his credit.
• Solo got cancelled? ****!
• New Wonder Woman series has me excited. Here's hoping that Allan Heinberg writes the Amazing Amazon as well as Greg Rucka did.

 

[Harlekin]

The thing I find strange is Boston is such a great character who, lends himself so easily to a Vertigo title. Hell, it could write itself it is that easy. But they choose to do this and thus making it unable for Boston to be used anywhere. It stinks of failure.

And I mean, c'mon, he had a midget as a partner for the longest time. This Vertigo material, people. Some people at DC are just blind.

 

[ToddIsDead]

They should collect all of the Solo issues in one volume. I only have two or three issues and I want the rest, but I hate tracking down back issues.

 

[Ben Urich]

They should collect all of the Solo issues in one volume. I only have two or three issues and I want the rest, but I hate tracking down back issues.

I'm all over that like white on Will Smith.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd buy that. I guess I could see how Solo's an easy book to go down in flames. The artist is the sole determining factor on whether someone buys the comic. I bought the ones for Kristiansen and Allred (I hadn't heard of it before Allred's issue), but I skipped stuff like Damion Scott's. Maybe if they'd marketed it under Vertigo it would've had a better shot at succeeding.

 

[yenaled]

For me Solo always came out on a bad week, a week when I'd be buying a lot of books. With it being an expensive book I always ended up skipping it, then forgetting about it when I'd go in next.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You should've gotten your shop to hold it for you. It's all your fault that Solo's getting canceled, yen!

 

[nite-owl]

The only Solo issues I want are the Tim Sale and Darwyn Cooke ones.

 

[yenaled]

You should've gotten your shop to hold it for you. It's all your fault that Solo's getting canceled, yen!

I know

But asking my shop to hold or order things is the hardest of tasks.