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Post by hector on Aug 30, 2005 21:16:32 GMT
Hmm..if all of them became monthlies I would buy either Zatanna or Shining Knight. News: Pascal Ferry isn't doing Mr. Miracle (except for the first issue), according to LitG the replacement is Bill Dallas Patton, whom I don't have any idea who he is. If I scan and send copies of 7S to everyone on the board, does this thread get to be longer than the Naruto one?
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 30, 2005 22:08:08 GMT
We have a Naruto thread? (Kidding, Phil! ;D)
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Post by philster on Aug 31, 2005 3:12:52 GMT
Sure Hec, go for it! There IS a reason NarutoForums now has 20,000 members. Though it's amateurishly translated in the early going, Naruto is everywhere online so people (especially young kids with nothing better to do) can chat about it all they want, and that goes for most other mangas. I didn't have to scan the first 38 chapters of Naruto; I only did it because I felt like Shonen Jump did a better job of translating it and I knew that would help Shan and others get into it better than the versions available on-line. The rest of the 275 chapters were online and up to them to download if they liked it. Anyway, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Seven Soldiers discussion... if you've ever seen or read it, that is.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 31, 2005 3:33:10 GMT
20,000 members! Wow! That's impressive!
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Post by hector on Aug 31, 2005 4:58:42 GMT
There IS a reason NarutoForums now has 20,000 members. Though it's amateurishly translated in the early going, Naruto is everywhere online so people (especially young kids with nothing better to do) can chat about it all they want, and that goes for most other mangas Quality doesn't have anything at all to do with popularity.
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Post by philster on Aug 31, 2005 9:47:37 GMT
I think the point I was trying to make is quaNtity... and especially at no cost.. are big factors :-P
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Post by philster on Aug 31, 2005 9:48:29 GMT
Besides, calling Morrison's stuff good quality is ridiculous
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 31, 2005 10:02:46 GMT
Hmmm... Someone isn't reading 7S, I can tell...
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Post by philster on Aug 31, 2005 10:30:02 GMT
And in a couple of years you will call it crap lol
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 31, 2005 10:56:32 GMT
It might happen, Phil, but I doubt it For me, GM is very hit & miss as a writer. When I like his stuff, I REALLY like it. When I don't, it's virtually unreadable to me. I really like 7S
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Post by brett on Aug 31, 2005 11:29:18 GMT
Besides, calling Morrison's stuff good quality is ridiculous Phil you're missing a wink icon there. ************* I'm a bit bummed about Ferry being off Mr Miracle now. The preview they showed of the first issue was gorgeous, especially Shiloh having his 'alien contact moment' with Metron. I hope Bill Dallas Patton is up to scratch. Not that it would derail my enjoyment of the book too much, given that it looks like the meta-textual themes from #0 will be explored way more overtly here, which is right up my alley, but all of the artists so far on 7S have been top knotch quality (Bianchi being the weakest, but only by comparision to the stellar work Stewart, Irving, Sook and Williams have done) and I hope he makes the grade.
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Post by brett on Aug 31, 2005 11:49:43 GMT
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 31, 2005 12:58:31 GMT
That DOES look cool! Thanks, Brett
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Post by Duncan on Aug 31, 2005 15:12:23 GMT
BDP, otoh, looks pretty sub-Larroca.
4 issues, Pascal. Jeez. Y'did 8 on Adam Strange and it went to bits, storywise, after about 3.
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Post by hector on Aug 31, 2005 20:16:09 GMT
Besides, calling Morrison's stuff good quality is ridiculous Ridiculous, some of the best comics ever written in the history of mankind. Semantics.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 5, 2005 17:03:39 GMT
Well... I can't say I was all that impressed with the end of Shining Knight. I think the mini as a whole started well, but kind of fizzled.
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Post by The Spider on Sept 5, 2005 19:06:38 GMT
I thought it was more setting up for what happened in ZATANNA #3, and then into SEVEN SOLDIERS #1.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 5, 2005 19:08:49 GMT
Basically, Spider, yeah. Taken as a self-contained mini-series story, it really did not work though, IMO. I think SK is the weakest of the minis so far.
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Post by Duncan on Sept 6, 2005 3:54:40 GMT
No? I thought SK #4 was ripper; the only problem was it served as preamble to Z#3 which everyone'd seen - ideally they'd've come out in opposite order, though this never was the plan. I love the Justine twist, and the Galahad fight/epilogue serves up a choker, emotionally. For me, this is easily second fave so far, vying with Zatanna for top spot (my faves of each phase have been Z#1, G# 2, SK# 3; guess I best expect Klarion to deliver in closing.) Yeah, Kid Scarface! 'S like the Pacino film only sweeter and, hence, sadder. Really into this Newsboy army story within the story. Please to examine: www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004150Interview linked in 1st post there also new and interesting. Worth a sketch.
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Post by jesse on Sept 6, 2005 3:57:50 GMT
I sort of agree with Eliot's feeling. I liked the twist, but other than that, the final issue didn't do much for me.
Oh well. We've got three more concluding issues coming up, and then the new books start up. A lot to look forward to, I'll say.
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