Comments on: High Concept Graphic Novel Reviews- The Damned, Dynamo 5, Fear Agent, Hack/Slash, and Whiteout

By: ZEITGEIST / Quick hits

ZEITGEIST / Quick hits — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:02:38 +0000

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By: winterteeth

winterteeth — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:12:15 +0000

I have been consuming the Fear Agent trades this past month and have enjoyed them all (except the Tales of the Fear Agent collection, it doesn’t really add much despite a story from Remender in there). I really enjoy the series and feel like all the cliff hangers would work better if I read the monthlies. With all the time travel and deus ex machina saves it is hard to believe that any of the deaths have weight in the series but it is still fun to see how Remender writes his way into and out of corners. I am still looking forward to volume 5. It is funny you should mention the Brubaker Daredevil because I am also reading those in trades right now and they read well together. Casanova, not so much. I should read it with Godland, I think.

By: Tracer Bullet

Tracer Bullet — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:24:12 +0000

I don’t really have an opinion on any of these books, I just wanted to thank you for properly using the phrase “that said” instead of the moronic and repetitive bastardizations I see so often. If I ever develop the power to kill with my mind, halfwits who say “that being said” will the first to get the “Scanners” treatment.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:17:35 +0000

I also love Rucka’s work at Oni, but haven’t really clicked on any of his superhero stuff.
I liked Gotham Central, but found Montoya to be a really annoying character – too obviously the writers favourite – and so enjoyed the Brubaker arcs more.
It’s a shame he didn’t keep going with Q&C as comics, because not only do I have little interest in reading about them in a prose book – I prefer LeCarre or Greene books when it comes to spies, and I doubt he’s going to be at that level – but I’ve never seen a copy of the book anywhere.

Then again, if the book gets more people checking pout the comic so he can continue it regularly, then more power to him.

By: Jake Powell

Jake Powell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:40:05 +0000

Love Rucka’s Oni Press work

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:09:59 +0000

Iâ€™m scared to go back and read the Rucka stuff I enjoyed back in the day (Whiteout, Some Q&C, Gotham Central) I enjoyed back in the day because his work these days is sooooo bad.

I’m kind of the opposite. I didn’t enjoy anything by Rucka in the early days – and even went as far as selling my copy of Whiteout. Since then I’ve found myself enjoying Gotham Central, Queen and Country, Checkmate and just about everything else he writes and am considering rebuying Whiteout to see if I’d enjoy it now.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:14 +0000

“I have to say that I enjoyed this comic in a similar vein much more.”

Which comics? this link just takes me to a Word Press login page…

By: Eliot Johnson

Eliot Johnson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:11:50 +0000

I’m scared to go back and read the Rucka stuff I enjoyed back in the day (Whiteout, Some Q&C, Gotham Central) I enjoyed back in the day because his work these days is sooooo bad.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:34:30 +0000

>>Penciller Mahmud A. Asrar and Colorist Ron Riley provide some very slick art. I know Burgas is annoyed that Asrar<<

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