Comments on: Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby – Day Eight

By: comb & razor

comb & razor — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:01:04 +0000

i have to echo the sentiment that the miniseries was much better, but the ongoing was nothing to sniff at either… this is one series i keep praying makes a comeback (or becomes an HBO series).

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:32:08 +0000

I liked the ongoing, but yeah, the mini-series was a ton better. It was note perfect.

The mini was excellent, the OGN alright, but I tihnk the ongoing was as good as the mini, at times.
Some of the stories weren’t as good, but some of the shorter stories held their own – I think it’s amazing some of the stories Milligan got from the concept.

By: suedehead

suedehead — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:16:02 +0000

Milligan is the best writer, when he wants, when we want.

By: suedehead

suedehead — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:14:47 +0000

ops, Milligan, and, yay, great Milligan. This was a decent book. Especially issue 11, my fave issue.

Like Enigma, Shade the Changing Man, Animal Man, even X-Statix, recently The Programme, this great book is overrated.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:11:35 +0000

I liked the ongoing, but yeah, the mini-series was a ton better. It was note perfect.

By: Joe Gualtieri

Joe Gualtieri — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:53:01 +0000

Eh, I always thought Milligan’s Human Target on-going was overrated. Now the mini, that was a work of staggering genius. Lots of writers and artists try to create the equivilent of a John Woo flick on paper, Millligan and Biukovic succeeded in spades. On top of that was an ambigious story about the nature of identity that’s never cleany resolved. Final Cut exists, in part, as a bridge between the mini and on-going tying up and removing that beautiful, wonderful ambiguity from the mini because there was no way to continue the story without doing so.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:40:59 +0000

Human Target almost made the Top 158 – I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I think it was something like 40-ish points.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:07:50 +0000

I’ve been wanting to read this for a while.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:20:58 +0000

Ahh, yes. This was my favorite comic back when it was coming out; Milligan’s recurring theme of identity was at its strongest and utilized wonderfully in some great stories.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:24:03 +0000

Oops, Final Cut is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Target-Final-Peter-Milligan/dp/1563899043/

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:22:53 +0000

The original mini with Biukovic is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Target-Peter-Milligan/dp/1563896931

The stand-alone Final Cut is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Target-Peter-Milligan/dp/1563896931

The first five issues are collected here:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Target-Strike-Zones/dp/1401202098/

And issues six through ten are here:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Target-Living-Amerika/dp/1401204198/

The rest have yet to be collected, as far as I know.

Thanks for running mine, Brian!

By: choirsoftheeye

choirsoftheeye — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:25:30 +0000

Milligan is a great writer when he’s on…

How many points did this one get?

Still a great feature!

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:01:19 +0000

Excellent feature, Brian. As was said above, sometimes it’ll turn someone on to a title they’d never heard of before. Looking forward to hearing about some book, or books even, that I may have previously overlooked. Cheers.

I hadn’t thought about the omission of Human Target at the time, but, in retrospect, it’s really quite amazing that it didn’t figure in the Top 100. A great series and an even better prequel mini.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:48:47 +0000

Yes, the Top Comic Book Runs feature has been excellent and it has certainly made me think about reading some series’ I would never have considered before.
I have never heard much about Pete Milligan’s Human Target but I will definitely try to check it out. Is it out in trade?
I think Milligan can be a great writer but for every Skreemer (my favourite mini-series EVER) there is an Infinity Inc (yuk!). I am currently reading The Programme and so far it has been excellent, cant wait to see how it ends! Human Target does seem like the sort of thing he would do well.

By: ks

ks — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:23:20 +0000

This is what I love about this feature, hearing about a title that I never checked out. I am defintely interested in reading this now.

By: felgekarp

felgekarp — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:41:32 +0000

Managed to track down the remaining issues outside of the trades last weekend and I’m just on the last arc now, it’s definitely a great read.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:27:59 +0000

I remember reading the mini-series, but not the regular series.
Maybe I should.