Comments on: Northlanders #1 Review http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Corey http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-384272 Corey Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:29:33 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-384272 Thanks for posting, Brian Wood. Just to get the sucking up out of the way, LOCAL is amazing! Truly. My knowledge of Vikings is definitely limited and probably exclusively based on stereotypes. So, I'm sure that fed into my expectations of it being mainly sea-based. I didn't mind the dialogue quirks. I think if it were so faithful to how they actually spoke back then, it would either be indecipherable or too alien to connect with. Maybe there's a happy-medium but I felt it was fine and didn't really think an adjustment is needed. Thanks for posting, Brian Wood. Just to get the sucking up out of the way, LOCAL is amazing! Truly.

My knowledge of Vikings is definitely limited and probably exclusively based on stereotypes. So, I'm sure that fed into my expectations of it being mainly sea-based.

I didn't mind the dialogue quirks. I think if it were so faithful to how they actually spoke back then, it would either be indecipherable or too alien to connect with. Maybe there's a happy-medium but I felt it was fine and didn't really think an adjustment is needed.

]]> By: Brian Wood http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-383494 Brian Wood Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:25:41 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-383494 They had sewers in Constantinople, where he comes from. I think the Romans probably invented them at least a thousand years previous. -bri They had sewers in Constantinople, where he comes from. I think the Romans probably invented them at least a thousand years previous.

-bri

]]> By: Rick Rottman http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-383296 Rick Rottman Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:24:57 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-383296 Maybe it was just me, but I didn’t care for it. I thought some of the dialog was bad. Sven has a “girlfriend”? Does that make him her “boyfriend”? I also thought Sven thinking the Viking settlement smelled like a sewer to be odd since I don’t think they had sewers back then. At least he didn’t think it smelled like a restroom on a Greyhound bus. I also didn’t understand how Sven got his hands untied. I noticed they were tied up in front of him and then I noticed they were free. I didn’t see how that happened. I spent far too much time trying to place when that happened. It took me out of the story. Maybe it was just me, but I didn’t care for it. I thought some of the dialog was bad. Sven has a “girlfriend”? Does that make him her “boyfriend”? I also thought Sven thinking the Viking settlement smelled like a sewer to be odd since I don’t think they had sewers back then. At least he didn’t think it smelled like a restroom on a Greyhound bus. I also didn’t understand how Sven got his hands untied. I noticed they were tied up in front of him and then I noticed they were free. I didn’t see how that happened. I spent far too much time trying to place when that happened. It took me out of the story.

]]> By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Dec. 11, 2007: It’s beginning to look a lot like Dullsville http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-382907 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Dec. 11, 2007: It’s beginning to look a lot like Dullsville Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:10:27 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-382907 [...] [Review] Brian Cronin on the first issue of Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice’s Northlanders. [...] [...] [Review] Brian Cronin on the first issue of Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice’s Northlanders. [...]

]]> By: Brian Wood http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-381836 Brian Wood Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:49:44 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-381836 No doubt there will be more sea-scenes, in both this arc and beyond, but I just don't think that without them front and center this is any less of a Viking book. bri No doubt there will be more sea-scenes, in both this arc and beyond, but I just don't think that without them front and center this is any less of a Viking book.

bri

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-381806 Brian Cronin Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:35:19 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-381806 Fair point, Brian, especially as pointed out in the beginning of the first issue, where you demonstrate how open the seas were at this time. Fair point, Brian, especially as pointed out in the beginning of the first issue, where you demonstrate how open the seas were at this time.

]]> By: Brian Wood http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-381789 Brian Wood Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:26:46 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-381789 Funny, I don't really consider the sea to be a Vikings natural habitat. Not any more than land, anyway. Their ship-going was so practical... the used it like a tool, to get places, to move material around and to unload troops. They didn't live on them like pirates did (they were quite small, and they packed people into it, elbow to elbow). They spent virtually all their time on land, save for the few that were the explorers and charters, I guess. Acquiring more land was the whole point of it all. This really isn't a stereotypical Viking story, which should be obvious by now. Be warned! :) Even though it dispenses with the iconic images and ideas of Vikings that we're all used to, Northlanders is more accurate to history. bri Funny, I don't really consider the sea to be a Vikings natural habitat. Not any more than land, anyway. Their ship-going was so practical... the used it like a tool, to get places, to move material around and to unload troops. They didn't live on them like pirates did (they were quite small, and they packed people into it, elbow to elbow). They spent virtually all their time on land, save for the few that were the explorers and charters, I guess. Acquiring more land was the whole point of it all.

This really isn't a stereotypical Viking story, which should be obvious by now. Be warned! :) Even though it dispenses with the iconic images and ideas of Vikings that we're all used to, Northlanders is more accurate to history.

bri

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-381600 Brian Cronin Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:37:58 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-381600 <blockquote>My biggest problem with it was that as a Viking comic, we were removed from the classic Viking setting, the sea, after the first scene. I think that’s playing into my slight let down. It’s like a pirate comic starting with the main character leaving his ship and crew, and going back to his home village. Or a war comic starting with a soldier going home on leave. Where’s the viking-ing?</blockquote> I think that, too, ties into Wood apparently feeling that we, as readers, should know from his history that we should have faith that he has a plan, and all that sort of stuff will addressed. It's a risky choice by Wood, and I hope it is one that works.

My biggest problem with it was that as a Viking comic, we were removed from the classic Viking setting, the sea, after the first scene. I think that’s playing into my slight let down. It’s like a pirate comic starting with the main character leaving his ship and crew, and going back to his home village. Or a war comic starting with a soldier going home on leave. Where’s the viking-ing?

I think that, too, ties into Wood apparently feeling that we, as readers, should know from his history that we should have faith that he has a plan, and all that sort of stuff will addressed.

It's a risky choice by Wood, and I hope it is one that works.

]]> By: Corey http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/comment-page-1/#comment-381553 Corey Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:21:21 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/northlanders-1-review/#comment-381553 I liked it too. I think you're right in that it wasn't a killer of a first issue but it was intriguing enough to keep trying, I think. Sven definitely has lots of issues so it should be interesting to watch his journey. My biggest problem with it was that as a Viking comic, we were removed from the classic Viking setting, the sea, after the first scene. I think that's playing into my slight let down. It's like a pirate comic starting with the main character leaving his ship and crew, and going back to his home village. Or a war comic starting with a soldier going home on leave. Where's the viking-ing? I liked it too. I think you're right in that it wasn't a killer of a first issue but it was intriguing enough to keep trying, I think. Sven definitely has lots of issues so it should be interesting to watch his journey.

My biggest problem with it was that as a Viking comic, we were removed from the classic Viking setting, the sea, after the first scene. I think that's playing into my slight let down. It's like a pirate comic starting with the main character leaving his ship and crew, and going back to his home village. Or a war comic starting with a soldier going home on leave. Where's the viking-ing?

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