Comments on: Dean Trippe’s The Good Stuff (9/19/08)

By: babydoctor

babydoctor — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:30:57 +0000

I would like to buy the comic but it is not ok in my country. so can u give me the comic book to my e mail

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:48:23 +0000

Joe’s on your spit list this week for smack talking Perez? Because 1) He does that all the time, so you’re kind of late to the party and 2) Does that mean you’re gonna spit at him? Because that’s pretty unpleasent, even if it is Joe.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:56:27 +0000

fanboy d – let’s be best friends.

ming doyle – awww

By: Ming Doyle

Ming Doyle — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:31:39 +0000

That header image is how I always imagine you, Dean; ceaselessly working for the good of comics in every avenue!

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:39:43 +0000

i already bought ‘superman birthright’, picked it up in singles as it was coming out actually. it was pretty damn good (another art masterclass from yu, and his lois lane falling of a building cover is, like, the best lois lane falling off a building cover), but i did prefer ‘for all seasons’ for my superman origin fix

i checked out butterfly cos of this, never heard of it before..awesome stuff

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:32:44 +0000

#1 on this week’s s(p)it list—Joe Rice.

Reason—speaking ill of George Perez.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:25:52 +0000

Eric – See the header banner? It’s called multi-tasking.

By: Codename assassin

Codename assassin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:37:19 +0000

@Fanboy_D:
I stopped reading it ‘I’m a Marvel zombie and i hate the DCU” , it screamed fucking brainless fanboy to me.

@Joe Rice:
You’re weird, and not in a good way.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:51:07 +0000

Am I the only one who was disappointed that this was Dean Trippe talking about comics instead of Dean Trippe making comics?

Butterfly > Secret Invasion.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:40:17 +0000

fanboy d – I’d recommend the Superman & the Legion of Superheroes arc from Action as well (which just hit stores as a hardcover), along with Waid and Yu’s Superman: Birthright, which is out in trade paperback. And yeah, jump on GL, dude. It’s really great.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:23:32 +0000

Scavenger, most scripts are panel-by-panel breakdowns. If a fight scene is written a certain way it’s not the fault of the artist. Perez is better, but Yu is very close. Comparing their splash pages is a better way to evaluate their comparative skill.

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:58:33 +0000

i’m a HUGE marvel zombie and, although i have a soft spot for dc when it is, as i perceive it, ‘at it’s best’ i tend to avoid most of their titles as i don’t enjoy the universe as a whole.

that said, i loved the johns/donner acion comics arc, ignored all the other stuff and have jumped on for this brainiac arc which seems pretty cool (mainly because i can hum the john williams score to it). i always liked the IDEA of green lantern but never actually read a green lantern comic and, after reading the masterpiece that is the new frontier , don’t want to read any green lantern that isn’t hal jordan.

knowing what i know of johns’ work and seeing it in a list with three other comics that i thoroughly enjoy makes me wanna give this green lantern thing a go whilst the origin story is being retold. just gotta find out what issue to start from. hope i’m not dissapointed…

p.s. all-star superman is, surely, the first superman comic to surpass the magnificence first donner movie since it’s release? if not i want to be pointed towards the great comics i’ve been missing!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:45:20 +0000

I don’t see why Nick Fury’s line is badass. A hammer isn’t that great a thing to have, anyway. Here’s an idea, show Thor using his hammer in a cool and original way, that’s a better way to embrace the awesome ridiculousness of the genre than making a corny joke about it.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:41:50 +0000

Scavenger – No worries, man. Thanks for the additional comment. I wrote this review before heading over to my local shop (Rick’s Comic City in Nashville!) for our weekly Wednesday Roundtable where we go over all the previous week’s books. I definitely am enjoying Secret Invasion, because I’m someone who forgives insane decompression in favor of pretty pretty drawings, but after talking it over with my local nerd pals, I definitely see a few more valid crits.

I missed the Galactus Skrull on my first read (which doesn’t make sense technologically or storywise, and I’m sure was just something Yu threw in for fun), but my main problem (as noted above) was the lack of a MOMENT for the reunion of that Avengers-founding trinity. Still, a fun read for me personally. Hoping for it to swing more towards awesome as we near the end of the story.

By: Ariel S.

Ariel S. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06:58 +0000

Nice reviews, but what I absolutely LOVE is the Headline Image!! Bookmarked.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:58:18 +0000

I liked Secret Invasion. It was what it needed to be . . .a fairly clever blockbuster. Not the smartest thing in the world, but it hit good points.

And CHRIST thank God Perez didn’t pencil it. Any joy or fluidity would have been sapped out in his over-rendered spaghetti style.

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:42:02 +0000

Quick note: I went a bit personal in my post above. I apologize for that. It was uncalled for. After reading reviews and reviews praising what I find to be badly written and drawn tripe (even when the reviews agree with the weaknesses, but still giving praise), I got a bit heated.

I apologize to Dean for being a jerk in my reply to his review.

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:36:36 +0000

“except that Yu is REALLY GOOD at those.”

No. He’s really not. He draws pages of random people fighting random people. But compare it to a similar page by Perez. If you look at the NEXT page, the fights continue. Because it’s not about drawing one page, it’s about telling a story thru art….sequential remember?

“My only crit on the writing would be the lack of investment in the â€œfascistâ€-crying youths wishing to â€œembrace change.”

What, like they’re attacked by the fire skrull and then 2 pages later, they’re bitching at Fury?

That’s not “lack of investment” that’s bad writing.

The big meeting between the reborn Thor, dick Tony, and the new Cap….and it gets a panel?

Bet you dug the Galactus Skrull, too! Thought it was all cool! I just thought it was stupid and over powering…a friend pointed out something i forgot:

“Wow, not tacky at all. Skrulls making a Galactus warrior would be like Jews coming up with a Captain Hitler supersoldier….”

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:32:05 +0000

Steven – Of course, a technologically superior invading force claiming to offer a better way of life while tactically eliminating resistance forces and killing any civilians who get in their way…sounds a lot more like Americans right now.

By: Steven E. McDonald

Steven E. McDonald — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:20:46 +0000

The “He loves you” and invading-for-your-own-good stuff that bendis is using reminds me more of (your choice of) Crusaders or Jihadis — bring The Word to the unwashed at the point of a sword if needs be. “He loves you” seems to be more on the order of “Allahu akbar!” than what you see with the Cylons — and in BSG the monotheist elements seems to play mainly between Six and Baltar.