Comic book review
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smibboOkay, when you are feeling down, there is nothing like spending more money than you made on your last job just to buy comic books.
V for Vendetta: this is the fourth gatdammed copy I've had to buy so DON'T ASK TO BORROW IT! - get your own damned copy and find out why this book is one the classics of graphic novels. Find out why the Warchowski brothers (The Matrix) bought the rights to make it a movie.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For: this was the first Sin City![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ptwarhol got me to read and damned him for adding to my addiction! At least all the Sin City's are in GN format already; I don't have to wait arduously for the next issue to come out.
Transmetropolitan: Spiders Thrash: Haven't even read it yet, mostly cuz I've already got nearly all the issues it compiles. Nearly, I said. Ohhhh this is gonna be good!
"Harley Quinn" - a little scattered and difficult to follow. THe dialogue seems a bit disjointed, and not in that conversational way. Rereading parts of it along the way helped a bit. THe end is good tho kinda weird. She's gonna date the cop? I still can't figure out if she knows he knows. Their scattershot conversation doesn't help any. In any case, Harley's back to chasing a man who is destined to have a face-off with her at some point. Unless he's got some ace up the sleeve, he'll lose, BIG TAHM. Could be interesting to see how long she strings him along though.
"100 Bullets: Wylie" - in the latest format of exploring different characters, this one is a bit of an odd choice. Thus far, Wylie has been just some dude who popped up and had key but bit parts in others' stories. The way 100 Bullet's winds everything together leads me to believe that Wylie is obviously an inactive minuteman that Graves wants to wake up. The showing of his "oppressor" to be Shepard was a bit of a shock though. I'm trying to figure out what the game between Graves and SHepard is at this point. Up until now, I gathered that SHepard and Graves were actually of a similar mindset: get rid of the Trust. One works inside, one works outside. The pretend to oppose each other but every step has been check and balance, rather than check and mate. I have decided that all the "new" minutemen Graves has uncovered are all really people who were in training (except for Cole, obviously) but perhaps not finished. That would explain why Shepard couldn't wake Wylie up with the phrase "Atlantic City". I have no doubt that Shepard and Graves are both fully aware of each and every minuteman, finished or not, so there's no doubt in my mind that Wylie is one; just not ready enough to be woken up? or perhaps his hypnosis didn't "take". I mean come on, dont' tell me the two men who work for the Trust don't have the 'password' correct??
The unveiling of WYlie's "oppressor" as Shepard does throw a monkeywrench in the works. Here's my theory: Since Shepard couldn't wake Wylie up, Graves is betting that trying to kill Shepard might do the trick and bring everything back to Wylie. Obviously, each minuteman choosing sides (Graves or SHepard) determines how well their loyalty is - even though none of the minutemen know that Graves and Shepard are really on the same side (except Cole, obviously). Now, why Graves game sometimes reveals a minuteman and other times does not is a mystery I'd like explored. Then again, that's the nature of the story!!
(and where's the counterfifth detective? What happened to him? I missed a couple of issues and I'm dying to know what part he still plays in all this. Yes yes, I know he's really there as literary device to catch everyone up on the story but damn he's GOT to be someone of import after all this!)
"Global Frequency": GF is a mini-series by Warren Ellis (tied with Peter David as my favorite comic writer). This is kind of a jump-off from The Authority/Stormwatch/Planetary. Ellis really seems to like the idea of a bunch of heroes (super-enhanced or just plain specialists) who decide to independantly save the world and universe occasionally. This fits right in with his nearly-paranoid conspiracy theories that uncover weird shit going on all over the place that normal folk like you and me would never find out about. I think of it as the X-Files theory. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're right but then again, I'd be mildly surprised to find out they're right and its been going on for a loooooong time without an enclosed society watching over it. I mean really, if this kinda shit was truly happening, we'd hear legends, urban myths and the like about it. Information always leaks; that's my personal belief.
Anyway, GF is pretty cool, in that although it has a serial background, each issue is stand-alone story, much like the beginnings of 100 Bullets. I assume that if Ellis chooses to keep it up (which he rarely does, would like to know if it's his ADD or just that his ideas keep getting comandeered by the publishers and made to shit like everything else in the big-pub world of comics) then the grand unification theory of comic serials ("everything must tie together in some fashion or else be nullified by a dream sequence") will come into play and the core setting behind GF will be revealed. Something along the lines of The Watchmen, I'd gather. Excepting Ellis doesn't play it like that: his vision is always more on the side of Phillip K. Dick, rather than Arthus C. Clarke. Being as GF has already designated as a mini-series (I'm up to issue 6 of 12) I highly doubt Ellis will bother explaining anything... he will tease though! Bless you Ellis, I wish I could kiss your genius!
That's all for now.
When I finally get my hands on Supergirl and Batgirl, I'll let you know what's up. Friggin Supes sold out two days after shelving and god forbidptwarhol, aka "the comic man" would hold one back for my broke little butt!
Never fear! I can scour backissues like nobody's business and I WILL be caught up!
Supes ending soon so there's that too. *sniff*
I can't believe it, I won't believe it..... not after the lovely talk I had with Mr. David about how much she means to me and a few other young girls I've introduced her to... oh well. Mourn later.
V for Vendetta: this is the fourth gatdammed copy I've had to buy so DON'T ASK TO BORROW IT! - get your own damned copy and find out why this book is one the classics of graphic novels. Find out why the Warchowski brothers (The Matrix) bought the rights to make it a movie.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For: this was the first Sin City
ptwarhol got me to read and damned him for adding to my addiction! At least all the Sin City's are in GN format already; I don't have to wait arduously for the next issue to come out.Transmetropolitan: Spiders Thrash: Haven't even read it yet, mostly cuz I've already got nearly all the issues it compiles. Nearly, I said. Ohhhh this is gonna be good!
"Harley Quinn" - a little scattered and difficult to follow. THe dialogue seems a bit disjointed, and not in that conversational way. Rereading parts of it along the way helped a bit. THe end is good tho kinda weird. She's gonna date the cop? I still can't figure out if she knows he knows. Their scattershot conversation doesn't help any. In any case, Harley's back to chasing a man who is destined to have a face-off with her at some point. Unless he's got some ace up the sleeve, he'll lose, BIG TAHM. Could be interesting to see how long she strings him along though.
"100 Bullets: Wylie" - in the latest format of exploring different characters, this one is a bit of an odd choice. Thus far, Wylie has been just some dude who popped up and had key but bit parts in others' stories. The way 100 Bullet's winds everything together leads me to believe that Wylie is obviously an inactive minuteman that Graves wants to wake up. The showing of his "oppressor" to be Shepard was a bit of a shock though. I'm trying to figure out what the game between Graves and SHepard is at this point. Up until now, I gathered that SHepard and Graves were actually of a similar mindset: get rid of the Trust. One works inside, one works outside. The pretend to oppose each other but every step has been check and balance, rather than check and mate. I have decided that all the "new" minutemen Graves has uncovered are all really people who were in training (except for Cole, obviously) but perhaps not finished. That would explain why Shepard couldn't wake Wylie up with the phrase "Atlantic City". I have no doubt that Shepard and Graves are both fully aware of each and every minuteman, finished or not, so there's no doubt in my mind that Wylie is one; just not ready enough to be woken up? or perhaps his hypnosis didn't "take". I mean come on, dont' tell me the two men who work for the Trust don't have the 'password' correct??
The unveiling of WYlie's "oppressor" as Shepard does throw a monkeywrench in the works. Here's my theory: Since Shepard couldn't wake Wylie up, Graves is betting that trying to kill Shepard might do the trick and bring everything back to Wylie. Obviously, each minuteman choosing sides (Graves or SHepard) determines how well their loyalty is - even though none of the minutemen know that Graves and Shepard are really on the same side (except Cole, obviously). Now, why Graves game sometimes reveals a minuteman and other times does not is a mystery I'd like explored. Then again, that's the nature of the story!!
(and where's the counterfifth detective? What happened to him? I missed a couple of issues and I'm dying to know what part he still plays in all this. Yes yes, I know he's really there as literary device to catch everyone up on the story but damn he's GOT to be someone of import after all this!)
"Global Frequency": GF is a mini-series by Warren Ellis (tied with Peter David as my favorite comic writer). This is kind of a jump-off from The Authority/Stormwatch/Planetary. Ellis really seems to like the idea of a bunch of heroes (super-enhanced or just plain specialists) who decide to independantly save the world and universe occasionally. This fits right in with his nearly-paranoid conspiracy theories that uncover weird shit going on all over the place that normal folk like you and me would never find out about. I think of it as the X-Files theory. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're right but then again, I'd be mildly surprised to find out they're right and its been going on for a loooooong time without an enclosed society watching over it. I mean really, if this kinda shit was truly happening, we'd hear legends, urban myths and the like about it. Information always leaks; that's my personal belief.
Anyway, GF is pretty cool, in that although it has a serial background, each issue is stand-alone story, much like the beginnings of 100 Bullets. I assume that if Ellis chooses to keep it up (which he rarely does, would like to know if it's his ADD or just that his ideas keep getting comandeered by the publishers and made to shit like everything else in the big-pub world of comics) then the grand unification theory of comic serials ("everything must tie together in some fashion or else be nullified by a dream sequence") will come into play and the core setting behind GF will be revealed. Something along the lines of The Watchmen, I'd gather. Excepting Ellis doesn't play it like that: his vision is always more on the side of Phillip K. Dick, rather than Arthus C. Clarke. Being as GF has already designated as a mini-series (I'm up to issue 6 of 12) I highly doubt Ellis will bother explaining anything... he will tease though! Bless you Ellis, I wish I could kiss your genius!
That's all for now.
When I finally get my hands on Supergirl and Batgirl, I'll let you know what's up. Friggin Supes sold out two days after shelving and god forbid
ptwarhol, aka "the comic man" would hold one back for my broke little butt!Never fear! I can scour backissues like nobody's business and I WILL be caught up!
Supes ending soon so there's that too. *sniff*
I can't believe it, I won't believe it..... not after the lovely talk I had with Mr. David about how much she means to me and a few other young girls I've introduced her to... oh well. Mourn later.
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Date: 2003-03-29 10:48 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-03-29 10:53 am (UTC)Too late, its yours.
Now that you've revealed yourself to the LJ world, YOU can be the one to loan it out over and over! I think I've done my time.
hahahahaha!! Soon, there'll be people banging down your door begging to borrow it and you'll be the one lying awake in bed wondering "who has it now?!?"
You'll look suspiciously at each friend and think "is it them? dare I ask?"
then you'll ask them and they'll get all huffy and say "no, I didn't borrow it! I ALWAYS return stuff!" and you'll feel that twinge of guilt for having even asked.
Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!
This is what you get for never answering my IMs butthead. So there.
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Date: 2003-03-29 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-03-29 12:46 pm (UTC)