Here 'tis. Back later.
Ult. Fantastic Four #16: Really good. Really very good. Maybe one of the better issues of the title so far. Is this guy from the real FF history?
Vimanarama #2: Fantastic. Ali’s little confessional while there’s a giant walking house behind him was hilarious in a bizarrely absurd way - which is what this title is all about.
twitch You… don’t know Annihilus?
The answer is yes. I even happen to have a HeroClix figure for him.
I agree this was a very good issue.
Nope. 'Course, Ult. FF is the first FF title I’ve ever read.
Thanks to Askia, I finally read Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze and Detonation Radio. What a fun little series. An organization of people who know their handlers but not each other, each of whom leads an ordinary life but can be called upon to save the world when a situation arises that the conventional authorities can’t handle. Each near-future science fiction story is 22 pages long and self-contained, so I’ll bet this was almost as much fun to read in singles as in trades. Although it’s all plot-driven action, and most certainly not a deep meditation on the human condition, your brain won’t rot after reading them either. Plety of fun all around. It’s a real shame the television pilot starring Michelle Forbes was never picked up, because this would have made an enjoyable little TV series.
Oh, and if there are any Stormwatch or Authority fans who would get a kick out of seeing Warren Ellis re-imagine Jack Hawksmoor as an Indian woman based in London who has no superpowers, grab the first TPB and enjoy.
Terra Obscura Volume 2 #6 (of 6): I won’t say I haven’t enjoyed these two miniseries, but I’ll admit I may be missing the point. I don’t know why Alan Moore felt compelled to tell this story using the Terra Obscura characters instead of using Tom Strong’s world instead. Here, he’s even given Tom Strange a strongly Dahlua-like girlfriend.
Fables: I see my surmise about the purpose of Jack’s endeavor was correct. Go me!
Vimanarama: Haven’t read it yet.
Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight: Haven’t read it yet.
Concrete: The Human Dilemma: Larry, you idiot! What the hell are you doing!
Shining Knight #1: It’s good. Commented on it in the SS thread.
Western Tales of Terror #3: Fun book. It’s a horror anthology with stories set in the old West, as one might gather from the title. Some good stories and nice artwork.
Does not compute.
Commented on Shining Knight elsewhere. Terra Obscura was very neat. Fables - I liked it, but I was very surprised by what we learn on the last page about Jack, though.
Okay, I got John Byrne’s Blood of the Demon #1. I know, I know. Actually, there’s no sign of a major continuity flub yet, but we may be in for some revisionist history. Looks like Byrne’s setting Jason Blood up to be a non-person - a manufactured container for the Demon.
Nightwing #105 - interesting retrospective continues. Superman #214 - All will kneel before Zod. Action #8Z5 - swear to God, it looks like a ‘Z’. Austen’s plot gets fast-forwarded this issue. We get one of those dealies where the bad guy wins, sees the future he has wrought, has a change of heart, yadda yadda yadda, and we’re pretty much back to where we were at the beginning of the story. High point : Talking Doomsday. I assume ‘Finn’ did the best he could with the crap Austen left him. Thunderbolts #6 - Whee! Rollicking good fun. Except… dagnabbit, Captain Marvel Junior (AKA Genis) is calling himself Photon all of a sudden. Which would be okay, if the nice black lady who was Captain Marvel II didn’t happen to choose the exact same name.
Majestic #3 - This is vintage Silver/Bronze Age Superman, but with a slight edge. There’s no other way to describe it. Adam Strange #6 - Still an awesome read, even though I now know it’s leading up to a crossover event. JSA #71 - GREAT moment with the two Terrifics. Really good moment with the Hourmen.
Isn’t Finn just a pseudonym of Austin’s? I stopped reading Action a while ago, but I swear I read that somewhere.
That’d be really bizarre, then, considering Austen’s name was plastered on the cover up until #823.
I found out where I heard the rumor: it was in Lying in the Gutters over at comicbookresources.com. I’ve seen people throwing it around message boards since then.
Fables: Why are all the short 1 and 2 issue stories in Fables so blah, when the major storylines are so good? And, in this particular case, why did he need 2 issues to tell the story?
Tales of the Thing Bem Grimm is such an incredibly versatile character, you’d think it would be difficult to screw up a Thing story. They mnaged. The art is pretty awful, but I could’ve live with it if they’d served up a decent story. They didn’t.
Steve Gerber is credited with the “plot,” which I’d bet the rent he had nothing to do with, beyond the fact that the first few pages swipe some elements from a 30-year-old Marvel Two-in-One story (Issue # 6 or 7) and then diverge into some totally other, less-interesting direction. Destiny, a teenaged girl who’s the personification of destiny, has a magic harmonica that gets lost and eventually found. That’s about it for Gerber’s contribution. Shit, they could’ve just reprinted the old story (a two-parter where Ben teams up with Dr. Strange and the Valkyrie, but this version skips the Valkyrie) and it would’ve been an improvement. Even the awful George Tuska/Vinnie Colletta art from the 70s would have been a step up from this Scott Hepburn/Michael O’Hare/Mustafa Moussa/Udon Studios mess. Brandon Thomas is credited as the writer. Bleh.
I’m at a loss as to why this unmade bed of a comic was produced, much less released. It’s pretty bad.