Comments on: Dynamo 5 comes out on Wednesday, so check it out!

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:32:16 +0000

"For now, I blame him for pretty much permanently messing up both the Titans and the New Warriors franchises "

Can you actually mess up New Warriors?

I mean, did they ever work?

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:57:32 +0000

Yeah - Peyer was good on Hourman, The Atom special and The Authority, but on the other hand he wrote Totems which is one of the worst comics I've ever read.

I think he would have been on form if the proposed Morrison/Millar/Waid/Peyer Superman revamp had ever happened

By: Matt D

Matt D — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:51:33 +0000

I never heard the editorial stuff when it came to the Titans run. It does explain some things though.

And I love Peyer's Hourman, his LSH work, and Dr. Tomorrow, but man was his Titans run bad.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:37:03 +0000

Come on, Dan - for a lot of years, Claremont was a very entertaining writer. No, his dialogue wasnâ€™t any good, but what I meant was that Faerber has the ability to keep long-running storylines going and keep them interesting and not confuse the reader. And thatâ€™s a good thing!

I've read a fair amount of the Claremont stuff that's supposed to be good (Dark Phoenix, From the Ashes, God Loves Man Kills) and really I can't agree with the "keep them interesting" part

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:59:59 +0000

I saw the Dynamo 5 preview in Invincible. It does look like a neat concept.

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:41:36 +0000

Matt, I dunno what all went wrong with New Warriors, but Faerber cannot be blamed for the Titans fiasco. As he explained on his old website, that book was under tight editorial control, and the editor in question was not a fan of the team; he (or she?) wanted to introduce a "new generation" of characters, and so the DEOrphans--or whatever they were called--were foisted upon Faerber. He got so disenfranchised with the series--with the series that he'd always wanted to write--that he wound up quitting, if memory serves. Then, Tom Peyer came in to tell a tale or two and set the stage for Winick's Graduation Day. (Whatever happened to Peyer, by the way?) I was a big proponent of Noble Causes when it was a series of minis, but I couldn't get into Fran Bueno's art on the ongoing, so I gave up a couple issues in. I understand it's been pretty solid, though. Might have to get the trades. I'm definitely getting Dynamo 5 in singles, however. The concept is fantastic, one of those "why didn't anyone think of this before...?" ideas, and Asrar's art is stellar. Looking forward to it, for sure.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:45:37 +0000

Come on, Dan - for a lot of years, Claremont was a very entertaining writer. No, his dialogue wasn't any good, but what I meant was that Faerber has the ability to keep long-running storylines going and keep them interesting and not confuse the reader. And that's a good thing!

Let go of the anger, Matt! I read some of Faerber's Generation X and hated it. He's gotten a lot better.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:15:19 +0000

I'm unfair to Faerber.

I really am. And some day I'll get over it and read Noble Causes as a whole and probably enjoy it.

For now, I blame him for pretty much permanently messing up both the Titans and the New Warriors franchises (which is up there with PAD writing Rick Jones and Snapper Carr at the same time and other multi company feats).

I'm very good at not being petty when it comes to comics(well compared to when I was 14 at least), so let me keep this one.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:02:16 +0000

Any description of Jay Faerber that compares him to Chris Claremont would make me run a mile.

Luckily I've already read the first volume of Noble Causes and know it's great!