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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 12, 2005 12:59:06 GMT
Yeah, Mr Miracle is... OK, so far. Hard to say better than that.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 15, 2005 1:22:36 GMT
I've been thinking... The Sheeda are like a virus, aren't they? 'Sheeda strain' was created by the Time Tailor, and they feed off of the achievements and culture of others. They are attacking 'healthy' organisms/civilisations and tearing them down in order to propagate themselves... Just a thought
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Post by The Spider on Dec 15, 2005 4:00:46 GMT
BULLETEER #2 comes out next week, and I just skimmed through the issue. Without spoiling anything, I have to say that it has an obvious tie to SEVEN SOLDIERS #0 (moreso than just having Sheeda characters running around), and also SHINING KNIGHT.
So MISTER MIRACLE (so far) is the only title that doesn't seem like it has an apparent connection to the others yet (Aside from MANHATTAN GUARDIAN). Hopefully something comes up in the 3rd and 4th issues.
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Post by jesse on Dec 21, 2005 20:42:03 GMT
OK, so BULLETEER #2 is out, so I guess we can talk about it.
Very early, but this book is separating itself as the class of the second wave of books.
We find that what the Spider was mentioning, (references to SEVEN SOLDIERS #0 and SHINING KNIGHT), are as follows:
- The Bulleteer was the missing seventh soldier from #0 issue.
- The meta-human investigator from Shining Knight appears again, complaining about being bitten by a vampire.
- The characters from the #0 issue... Ummm, yeah, they're dead.
Other miscellaneous stuff:
- The Bulleteer character herself seems almost incidental this issue. Maybe a statement about female leads being unable to headline a comic by themselves?
- Brett might've hit the nail on the head earlier in the thread. From this issue, "Tell 'em 'Sky High' said the starry guy and the fairy folk are from the future."
- Yanick Paquette's Nuh-Buh-Loh is really cool looking. Also, continuity nerds, ASSEMBLE! Neh-Buh-Loh was referred to as Nebula Man, maybe an old super villain?
Yeah, good stuff. Can't wait for the next issue.
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Post by The Spider on Dec 21, 2005 21:16:49 GMT
- Yanick Paquette's Nuh-Buh-Loh is really cool looking. Also, continuity nerds, ASSEMBLE! Neh-Buh-Loh was referred to as Nebula Man, maybe an old super villain? Yes, I think Nebula Man from from one of those Pre-Crisis JLA/JSA team-ups. In fact, I think he was a foe of the original Seven Soldiers of Victory, too. EDIT: In fact, BULLETEER #2 actually has ties with some Post-Crisis version of the original JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #102.
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Post by jesse on Dec 25, 2005 8:09:18 GMT
Also, the Iron Hand mentions that he summoned Neh-Buh-Loh with a horn-looking thing...Is that the same horn Blue Boy from the #0 issue team used?
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Post by Duncan on Dec 25, 2005 13:10:29 GMT
Sure is.
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Post by richv1 on Dec 31, 2005 14:07:11 GMT
Mister Miracle needs to be Scott Free not this other guy. The current limited series is pretty bad. I ordered it because I like Scott Free. The series now is a really toned down version of the New Gods. Like a poor man's version. Richard Vasseur www.jazmaonline.com
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Post by hector on Jan 1, 2006 22:50:01 GMT
- Yanick Paquette's Nuh-Buh-Loh is really cool looking. Also, continuity nerds, ASSEMBLE! Neh-Buh-Loh was referred to as Nebula Man, maybe an old super villain? Yes, the one they fought in the 40's and killed Wing and sent the Soldiers (Crimson Avenger, Shining Knight, Vigilante, Stars, Stripes, Spider (Green Arrow) and Billy Gunn (Speedy) ) through the timestream. He was tought destroyed by Wing's sacrifice. I'd recommend the Crisis on Multiple Earth vol.3 for the whole story. Also the Geoff Johns' Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.S. short run which is the Post-Crisis retelling and seems to be Morrison's starting point.
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Post by brett on Jan 6, 2006 11:30:49 GMT
Frankenstein #2 rocks hard. I was a bit wary of Mahnke inking himself with that first page (just a bit too rough for my liking), but the double page title spread is magnificent. Fears allayed. So Melmoth was the King of the Sheeda and led the attack on Camelot, but was stranded there when Gloriana pulled a coup. He's on our side. He knows what's best. Shades of Anti-Dad from Seaguy. Probably best to re-read Klarion #3-4 before this, to get all the crossovery stuff. Nothing too overt, just details on how Frank got to Mars and who Melmoth is hanging with. Frankenstein and Klarion seem to be companion books, dealing with the absent father stuff.
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Post by Duncan on Jan 6, 2006 21:23:59 GMT
It was just lovely, the whole thing. 1,000,000 points for an Yves Tanguy ref.
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Post by jesse on Jan 8, 2006 1:57:59 GMT
Loved it also. Will the chick from the first issue of Frankenstein be his bride? That's be pretty weird.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jan 9, 2006 19:04:48 GMT
Loved Frankenstein & Bulleteer. Both really great, and I'm not sure which of the two I prefer at this point. Excellent stuff
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Post by jesse on Jan 19, 2006 18:08:09 GMT
Mister Miracle was pretty brutal this week. But good.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jan 23, 2006 13:53:11 GMT
Miracle is still the weakest, I think. I really can't see the point, yet.
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Post by Duncan on Jan 23, 2006 17:00:57 GMT
Not in the context of the greater narrative; I mean, there's the Deviants and Jakey-boy on that page, but other'n that I'm befuddled.
Which may turn out to be a good thing. Did like this ish for the unremittent grimness anyway.
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Post by jesse on Jan 24, 2006 16:43:19 GMT
Apparently Yanick Paquette will be taking a contract with Marvel comics pretty soon.
Please finish Bulleteer, please finish Bulleteer, please finish Bulleteer...
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Post by brett on Jan 25, 2006 1:25:44 GMT
I'm thinking there might be an understated connection between Mr Miracle and Zatanna and Klarion.
Misty's die seems to act an awful lot like a Motherbox, and the description Mr Melmoth gives of Croatoan as an artifical intelligence system in the form of a die matches up a bit with a Motherbox as well (if you're describing it without referencing the Source, as he would). A Motherbox would definitely be something the Sheeda would plunder you'd think.
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Post by hector on Jan 26, 2006 2:50:56 GMT
Not in the context of the greater narrative; I mean, there's the Deviants and Jakey-boy on that page, but other'n that I'm befuddled. Art thou doubting The Grant?
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Post by Duncan on Jan 26, 2006 22:13:59 GMT
Weeell, not really, he's still orbiting all other mainstream comic scribes but I have felt post-The Filth sliiightly less well-disposed to some of the stuff he's put out; there's been 3 or 4 dud issues out've 24 in 7S, Vimanarama was utterly fluffy and inconsequential and ASS#1 and WE3 were not, to my mind, perfect - which GM/FQ comics normally are.
It may be a) holding an unsustainable standard to be met in my mind b) a development of critical thinking c) both.
7S is still, indisputably, best.
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