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Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:19:17 +0000

[...] 305. Deadman [...]

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:53:53 +0000

I loved the foul mouthed dickhead characterisation that Mark Millar gave Deadman in his run on Swamp Thing. Unfortunately (as far as I know) no-one’s written him like that before or since

By: MastaP

MastaP — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:43:42 +0000

Well, it turns out DC ALSO gave us an extra bit of Deadman on Halloween. Coincidence?

By: Scott MacIver

Scott MacIver — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:52:11 +0000

If you’re into Deadman, you gotta read Solo #8.

http://weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/2006/01/solo_8.html

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:36:41 +0000

I’d love to see that anthology book– I think it’d work much better than the shoehorn-the-mystics-into-superheroic-teamwork of Shadowpact. It seems like we’ve taken baby steps toward that model, with the Spectre/ Dr. 13 split-book miniseries now followed by a Dr. Fate/ Eclipso split-book miniseries.

After the end of his own title, Deadman was a recurring guest star in the Phantom Stranger’s book for a while.

By: Sluggo

Sluggo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:47:41 +0000

I think that DC should take all of its supernatural characters (Deadman, Dr. Fate, Zatanna, Dr. 13, Phantom Stranger, etc.) and put them all in a quarterly supersized anthology book. Have them rotate the main feature and have old-school covers and every now and then have the whole issue be one story that crosses into all the features. That would be fun.

Same thing with their war comics, crime comics, western comics, etc. I honestly think that’s the best way to keep these properties alive in this day and age. Keep the quality high and I’d be on board.

By: Ben Herman

Ben Herman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:24:24 +0000

A couple of issues of the Steve Vance-penned Deadman series had some absolutely beautiful artwork pencilled by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, with inks by Joe Rubinstein. I’ve never been a big Deadman fan, but I bought those two issues for the art, and I ended up enjoying the story, as well. One of these days I should hunt down the rest of the series.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:24:30 +0000

I think a Deadman series like the Human Target would be great. Have him plop down in a human for awhile, and experience America or life from that persons perspective. It could have interesting social commentary without feeling forced. I’ll write it if no one else is interested in the job!

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:03:35 +0000

Kirby’s version of Deadman left a plot thread dangling with him. Deadman was given a ‘body’ to host. It was some form of pseudolife created by the Forever People, but if I remember his Forever People appearance correctly, he still has the body at the end of it. I don’t know if they ever resolved that, or if it was quietly ignored like Alec Holland being cured in Swamp Thing…

Bob Haney had Deadman possessing Bruce Wayne’s brother for a while in World’s Finest. What can I say, it’s the Haneyverse…

Some of my favourite run of Deadman stories were the ones by Len Wein and JL Garcia-Lopez in Adventure Comics in the 1970s. Great stuff.

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:47:38 +0000

Maybe they drew a line between zombies and ghosts?
Walking dead bad, floating dead OK?

Basically that’s it. Zombies were verboten under the code, but ghosts could be used and were frequently used in the comics code bowlderized, er, approved horror comics DC put out (indeed they put out one in the ’70s callled “Ghosts”)

By: J to the AAP

J to the AAP — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:09:39 +0000

Câ€™mon, DC! Deadmanâ€™s useful for more than the occasional spooky or supernatural tale. Heâ€™s got a cool premise with nigh-infinite potential, and a nifty design (trust me, giant collars are coming back).

Hell yeah! Just ask Iron Fist!

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:38:51 +0000

RAB and fourthworlder– you have bested me with your knowledge of Kirbydom. I didn’t know that. I bow to you, good sirs!

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:32:05 +0000

Oh, sure. I click on the “Read more” link to find out about Jean Grey, and what do I get? Deadman.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:43:14 +0000

Agreed that the Vertigo series blew chunks. 4 issues of terrible quantum-physics wank. The parts that WEREN’T terrible quantum physics wankery were totally incomprehensible.

I have an extremely high tolerance for terrible quantum physics wank, but this exceeded even VOYAGER.

By: acespot

acespot — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:24:36 +0000

The recent vertigo series sucked. I mean, really, it blew chunks. And it had NPTHING to do with Deadman, not even the concept, really.

It was Deadman in name only, kind of like Hallie Barrie (sp?) was Catwoman in name only.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:29:08 +0000

That’s a good question, I never thought of that.

Maybe they drew a line between zombies and ghosts?
Walking dead bad, floating dead OK?

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:27:53 +0000

How did they get by with this character under the early CCA? Weren’t “walking dead” specifically forbidden?

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:23:02 +0000

Why did I take so long to compose that comment?
Curses to your keyboarding speed, RAB.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:19:05 +0000

In ‘Tales to Astonish’ Ronin Ro says that using Deadman in Forever People was definitely not Kirby’s idea, but was pushed on him by Carmine Infantino, who “expected Jack to deliver a successful Marvel-style take on Deadman and make it a hit.” He said that Kirby was less than impressed, feeling that “this death-obsessed hero didn’t belong with his life-affirming hippies.”
When the decision was was forced on him he did his best with it, but probably knew at that point that the writing was on the wall for the Fourth World (and that it wasn’t coming from a flaming hand).
Those two Forever People issues always felt really odd to me. I loved the Neal Adams Deadman, and am obviously a big Kirby fan, but putting the two together just really didn’t work for me.