Comments on: Into the back issue box #3 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Don Lapre http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10581 Don Lapre Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:16:54 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-10581 What I wonder is - could someone make a product out of this? I would be willing to sponsor it (including upfront costs) - just email me at my email address. I'm always looking for fresh ideas and a fresh take on things. Don What I wonder is – could someone make a product out of this? I would be willing to sponsor it (including upfront costs) – just email me at my email address. I’m always looking for fresh ideas and a fresh take on things.

Don

]]> By: Ben Herman http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9340 Ben Herman Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:04:41 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9340 I think the problem with the artwork is that it really doesn't suit a pulp-y jungle adventure tale. For a Tarzan story, you want to have someone like Tim Truman or Tom Mandrake or Mark Wheatley or Neil Vokes. Carlos Meglia's work seems more appropriate to a futuristic sci-fi type of setting, like a Green Lantern story set in outer space with lots of aliens. I think the problem with the artwork is that it really doesn’t suit a pulp-y jungle adventure tale. For a Tarzan story, you want to have someone like Tim Truman or Tom Mandrake or Mark Wheatley or Neil Vokes. Carlos Meglia’s work seems more appropriate to a futuristic sci-fi type of setting, like a Green Lantern story set in outer space with lots of aliens.

]]> By: acespot http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9146 acespot Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:16:48 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9146 The art is better than anything Bachalo has done. I can't even <i>read</i> Bachalo's work anymore...which really pisses me off, since I really want to read X-Men, but I just can't bring myself to suffer through it. That said, this is still quite ugly. <a href="http://acespot1.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Spot's World</a> The art is better than anything Bachalo has done. I can’t even read Bachalo’s work anymore…which really pisses me off, since I really want to read X-Men, but I just can’t bring myself to suffer through it.

That said, this is still quite ugly.
Spot’s World

]]> By: Apodaca http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9121 Apodaca Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:52:47 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9121 It's not that I prefer photo-realism, because I definitely don't. It's just that the art is soooo exaggerated that it gets incomprehensible in places. And every character looks like a characature. This stuff is definitely not on Quitely level. It’s not that I prefer photo-realism, because I definitely don’t. It’s just that the art is soooo exaggerated that it gets incomprehensible in places. And every character looks like a characature.

This stuff is definitely not on Quitely level.

]]> By: Greg Burgas http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9120 Greg Burgas Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:44:12 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9120 That's not Ramos, it's Meglia. That's perfectly fine if you like the art - I don't, but that's why this is America! (Unless, of course, you don't live in the United States. In which case, carry on.) That’s not Ramos, it’s Meglia. That’s perfectly fine if you like the art – I don’t, but that’s why this is America! (Unless, of course, you don’t live in the United States. In which case, carry on.)

]]> By: Chistopher http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9105 Chistopher Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:42:22 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9105 Whoah I'm gonna straight up disagree with people about the art issue. I like the kind of stylization that is done in this comic as I'm often not as interested in comics being realistic for example Alex Ross as I am in some good stylization think Quitley or Frank Miller. Ramos was the reason that I bought the entire miniseries. I do think that the ensuing issues were more interesting but the art was the hook. I also don't understand why people hate on the McFarlane and Larsen Spiderman for all I can remember, that was when I last remember being excited about Spiderman. Perhaps my perceptions are colored by the rose colored glasses of youth but I think I would still welcome either of those two back as a Spiderman artist not that it would ever happen. I do understand that a lot of people here on the interweb would like Spiderman to look like John Romita was still drawing it but that look is from a bygone era and one that I'm not interested in. Anyway that's my two cents and I'm waiting to hear dissenting opinions. Whoah
I’m gonna straight up disagree with people about the art issue. I like the kind of stylization that is done in this comic as I’m often not as interested in comics being realistic for example Alex Ross as I am in some good stylization think Quitley or Frank Miller. Ramos was the reason that I bought the entire miniseries. I do think that the ensuing issues were more interesting but the art was the hook. I also don’t understand why people hate on the McFarlane and Larsen Spiderman for all I can remember, that was when I last remember being excited about Spiderman. Perhaps my perceptions are colored by the rose colored glasses of youth but I think I would still welcome either of those two back as a Spiderman artist not that it would ever happen. I do understand that a lot of people here on the interweb would like Spiderman to look like John Romita was still drawing it but that look is from a bygone era and one that I’m not interested in. Anyway that’s my two cents and I’m waiting to hear dissenting opinions.

]]> By: yo go re http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9037 yo go re Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:04:30 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9037 Sounds like the Auperman-as-Tarzan Elseworlds Annual is a better read than this one... Sounds like the Auperman-as-Tarzan Elseworlds Annual is a better read than this one…

]]> By: jorge f. muñoz http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9033 jorge f. muñoz Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:50:52 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9033 Actually, Ramos copied Meglia, no the other way around, Meglia is a veteran of argentinian and european comics, I agree that the art is not his best but try to check out some of his older stuff like Cybersix or Irish Coffee Actually, Ramos copied Meglia, no the other way around, Meglia is a veteran of argentinian and european comics, I agree that the art is not his best but try to check out some of his older stuff like Cybersix or Irish Coffee

]]> By: Bill http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9020 Bill Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:48:26 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-9020 It's been a while since I've read this mini but let's see if I can remember how it turned out. As for the cliffhanger, note that Kal El says "People of Krypton", not "Residents of Krypton". He figures that the African tribe are refugees from Krypton's destruction. In the following issues, John Clayton becomes an explorer. He hears of the wildman and colaborates with financier Lex Luthor to set up an expedition to check it out. Intrepid reporters Lois Lane and Jane Whatever tag along for the story. Jane is attracted to John, but wishes he were less dreamy and more wild. Lois likes the civilized type but wants someone stronger. They find Kal El and get captured by a tribe of--I forget--either apes or africans rendered so distortedly that they looked like apes. Kal El sees them, figures these white folk must be real Kryptonians (the African tribe he was with eventually managed to clarify that they weren't) and swoops in to the rescue. Lois is taken with Kal El and vica versa. John is taken with Kal El's lifestyle and Jane is taken with the newly savagified John. After a series of adventures (involving kryptonite from the spaceship and Lex being a jerk), John and Jane decide to stay on in the jungle and Kal El goes back with Lois to Metropolis, the closest thing to Krypton he's going to find on Earth. The art either got better or I got sufficiently used to it that it became readable. I think the latter is more likely. It’s been a while since I’ve read this mini but let’s see if I can remember how it turned out.

As for the cliffhanger, note that Kal El says “People of Krypton”, not “Residents of Krypton”. He figures that the African tribe are refugees from Krypton’s destruction.

In the following issues, John Clayton becomes an explorer. He hears of the wildman and colaborates with financier Lex Luthor to set up an expedition to check it out. Intrepid reporters Lois Lane and Jane Whatever tag along for the story. Jane is attracted to John, but wishes he were less dreamy and more wild. Lois likes the civilized type but wants someone stronger.

They find Kal El and get captured by a tribe of–I forget–either apes or africans rendered so distortedly that they looked like apes. Kal El sees them, figures these white folk must be real Kryptonians (the African tribe he was with eventually managed to clarify that they weren’t) and swoops in to the rescue.

Lois is taken with Kal El and vica versa. John is taken with Kal El’s lifestyle and Jane is taken with the newly savagified John. After a series of adventures (involving kryptonite from the spaceship and Lex being a jerk), John and Jane decide to stay on in the jungle and Kal El goes back with Lois to Metropolis, the closest thing to Krypton he’s going to find on Earth.

The art either got better or I got sufficiently used to it that it became readable. I think the latter is more likely.

]]> By: Greg Burgas http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8989 Greg Burgas Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:12:15 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8989 JuJu - that WOULD be an excellent point, except that Jor-El tells him he is the sole survivor of his race. It would have made sense if Kal-El thinks they are fellow Kryptonians, but unless he wasn't paying attention to his father, it doesn't work. JuJu – that WOULD be an excellent point, except that Jor-El tells him he is the sole survivor of his race. It would have made sense if Kal-El thinks they are fellow Kryptonians, but unless he wasn’t paying attention to his father, it doesn’t work.

]]> By: Eqdoktor http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8979 Eqdoktor Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8979 The arts not so bad. IMHO, its more heavily influenced by Walt Simonson and I don't see anyone dissing on him (Walt). Exaggerated extremities and facial features, I also blame Manga somewhat - thats where the Ramos bit comes in I would say. The arts not so bad. IMHO, its more heavily influenced by Walt Simonson and I don’t see anyone dissing on him (Walt). Exaggerated extremities and facial features, I also blame Manga somewhat – thats where the Ramos bit comes in I would say.

]]> By: JuJu http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8966 JuJu Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:57:02 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8966 I probably shouldn't defend the writing, but I think Kal-El thinks that the African tribesmen are fellow survivors of Krypton, and "home" in this context meaning "amongst my own people". Although it seems that he'd seen 'furless apes' before so I could be way off. I probably shouldn’t defend the writing, but I think Kal-El thinks that the African tribesmen are fellow survivors of Krypton, and “home” in this context meaning “amongst my own people”. Although it seems that he’d seen ‘furless apes’ before so I could be way off.

]]> By: stephen cade http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8946 stephen cade Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:12:27 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8946 That art is way better than the art Erik Larsen did on Amazing Spider-Man when he took over from MacFarlane--although since that was some of the worst Spidey art I ever saw--I guess that's not saying too much... That art is way better than the art Erik Larsen did on Amazing Spider-Man when he took over from MacFarlane–although since that was some of the worst Spidey art I ever saw–I guess that’s not saying too much…

]]> By: David http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8943 David Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:45:18 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8943 my eyes! zeh goggles - zeh do NOTHING! my eyes! zeh goggles – zeh do NOTHING!

]]> By: Greg Burgas http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8940 Greg Burgas Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:06:33 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8940 Don't count on it, Rohan. If 90% of everything is crap, I'm in big trouble. Of course, I didn't HATE this. It wasn't horrible, it just didn't make me want to get the rest of the mini-series. Don’t count on it, Rohan. If 90% of everything is crap, I’m in big trouble. Of course, I didn’t HATE this. It wasn’t horrible, it just didn’t make me want to get the rest of the mini-series.

]]> By: Rohan Williams http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8937 Rohan Williams Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:38:50 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8937 I hope for your sake you land on something good next time. You deserve it! I hope for your sake you land on something good next time. You deserve it!

]]> By: Bill Reed http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8929 Bill Reed Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:41:44 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8929 ...I like the art... Meglia is no Skottie Young, but he's not bad. …I like the art… Meglia is no Skottie Young, but he’s not bad.

]]> By: Apodaca http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8928 Apodaca Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:40:42 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8928 Yeah, that art is really, really, REALLY bad. Yeah, that art is really, really, REALLY bad.

]]> By: SanctumSanctorumComix http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/comment-page-1/#comment-8916 SanctumSanctorumComix Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:46:20 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/30/into-the-back-issue-box-3/#comment-8916 That is the most shit-awful artwork I have ever wanted to gouge my eyes out for seeing. That kinda crap needs a disclaimer before it's shown: <b>*WARNING! VIEWING THE FOLLWING ARTWORK CAN CAUSE BLEEDING FROM THE EYES AND RECTUM! VIEW AT OWN RISK!</b> Something like that. I gotta go find an eyewash station..and someone to mind-rape me so I forget I ever saw it. ~P~ P-TOR That is the most shit-awful artwork I have ever wanted to gouge my eyes out for seeing.

That kinda crap needs a disclaimer before it’s shown:

*WARNING!
VIEWING THE FOLLWING ARTWORK CAN CAUSE BLEEDING FROM THE EYES AND RECTUM!

VIEW AT OWN RISK!

Something like that.

I gotta go find an eyewash station..and someone to mind-rape me so I forget I ever saw it.

~P~
P-TOR

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