# Strascynzki's: Rising Stars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736 "2006-01-26T19:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/1 "2006-01-26T19:22:24Z")
Has anyone read this comic? In my opinion it’s one of the best comic books I’ve ever read. I love the premise of a single generation of really high power super heroes and the affect that they have on the world, and how they change it. I bought the Trade Paperback for $ 110 and when I got home I read it straight through it took about 6 hours. It was totally worth everything in time and money that I spent on it, I absolutely loved it and was touched very deeply by it? Who else read it and loved it? Erek ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/2 "2006-01-26T20:21:25Z")
Did you mean $10? Either way, I enjoyed the first volume. After that, I thought it was pretty decent, but not as good as the first volume… ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/3 "2006-01-26T21:19:23Z")
I enjoyed it. Hated the delay near the end, but I enjoyed the book. That said, it did feel like the last third of the book was just a get it over with kind of story. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/4 "2006-01-26T21:34:37Z")
Haven’t read the comic, but I have read the first two novelizations of the series. Does this mean there is an ending to the story now (after liberating Chicago)? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/5 "2006-01-26T22:18:33Z")
I didn’t realize it eventually ended! I own and love the first book, and I’ve read the second book and that short volume that had flashback stories, but last I remember was some ridiculous delay. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/6 "2006-01-28T02:32:30Z")
Yeah it ends, it’s really good. I liked it all the way through. It left me with a really intense feeling about it. Sean Factotum: Yes it goes further than that. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/7 "2006-01-28T05:24:44Z")
Man, I remember how excited I was when the third trade finally came out. But could the ending live up to my expectations and ~2 years of anxious waiting? Eh, not really. The ending was ok, but I don’t think that it did the earlier murder mystery story arc justice. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/8 "2006-01-28T05:27:29Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > Man, I remember how excited I was when the third trade finally came out. But could the ending live up to my expectations and ~2 years of anxious waiting? > Eh, not really. > > The ending was ok, but I don’t think that it did the earlier murder mystery story arc justice. I liked the treatment of the superheroes as a seriously Earth shaking event, rather than “Superheroes appear and it’s just the same old world as it always was.” ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/9 "2006-01-28T05:53:08Z")
Psst! If you like _Rising Stars_, maybe you would also like Straczynski’s _Supreme Power_? Signed, Shameless SP fangirl ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/10 "2006-01-28T07:03:14Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Psst! If you like _Rising Stars_, maybe you would also like Straczynski’s _Supreme Power_? > > Signed, > Shameless SP fangirl And if you like that, I hear there’s some TV show he did that’s worth checking out. Something about some folks living on a space station. Sounds like a DS9 ripoff to me 😃 _flees_ Seriously though, if you watch B5, check out Crusade as well (this goes doubly for any Browncoats who weren’t around to take part in the Crusade For Crusade). I think he also did some other TV shows, including an older one and a couple of newer ones. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/11 "2006-01-30T04:00:41Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I liked the treatment of the superheroes as a seriously Earth shaking event, rather than “Superheroes appear and it’s just the same old world as it always was.” I liked that too, but I just thought that the whole ‘change the world’ montage was not as fleshed out as the murder mystery of the first trade. Of course, it may not be fair to expect the whole thing to be that good, because, damn, that first one was fantastic. I, too, like Supreme Power. Have they come out with the third trade yet? ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/12 "2006-01-30T04:14:09Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > I liked that too, but I just thought that the whole ‘change the world’ montage was not as fleshed out as the murder mystery of the first trade. Of course, it may not be fair to expect the whole thing to be that good, because, damn, that first one was fantastic. > > I, too, like Supreme Power. Have they come out with the third trade yet? Yeah, came out a few months ago. A friend of mine is borrowing it, so I can’t remember the title. However, Hyperion in this book is the way I wish Superman was written. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/13 "2006-01-30T13:52:35Z")
Though Iadvise avoiding Supreme Power like theplague (pretty art, zero substance), let me recommend Midnight Nation. JMS and the same artist from SP (Gary something…) do a 12 issue mini series about a man on a journey looking for his soul. ---
**Author:** ![booklyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@booklyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklyn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strascynzkis-rising-stars/341736/14 "2006-01-31T09:08:18Z")
Y’all might like this: [http://www.scifi.com/cityofdreams/](http://www.scifi.com/cityofdreams/)