Comments on: What I bought – 19 November 2008

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:49:58 +0000

Peter should have said, â€œOh, okay, Scott. I guess Iâ€™ll just go off and marry someone who looks exactly like Kitty, have a child with her, and then abandon her when Kitty inevitably comes back! That sounds like a good plan!â€ That would have shut Cyclops up!

Would have made for a great scene as well – throw in a well timed ‘We were all thinking it’ and you’ve got comic book gold.

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:03:14 +0000

the most ironic thing about Jay Faeber is that he could probably land a gig writing for Marvel or DC and run with a team franchise like Bendis or Johns and make a killing in the fandom market. BUT his monthly creator-owned stuff is much more fresh and allows him to take the stories to a place he wants to go, and i that’s why i love reading Dynamo 5 every month.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:07:08 +0000

That’s sort of the Geoff Johns quandary, I think: he has decent basic ideas about character but he tends to go for the clunkingly literal or melodramatic when it comes to characterization, that is, to expressing his ideas about characters in the form of plot. I quite like what he thinks of for, say, Flash’s Rogues or with Hal Jordan’s personality, but the way he presents it tends to involve things like Captain Cold hanging out in the back of an ice cream truck or people getting so angry they vomit their angry, angry blood as a weapon. Character concepts are strong in his work; characterization and plot are miserably reductive.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:38:48 +0000

Dan: I can’t really speak for the commenter, but in the context of which it was originally posted, yes, it is satirical (and if I go into it any further, I’ll be validating something I don’t want to validate, so let’s just leave it at that!).

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:20:35 +0000

>>When I read one of Geoffâ€™s perfect stories about the love between men and their fathers and their partners and men flying with men and how the most powerful thing in the Universe is the beautiful rainbow of emotion, I feel like Iâ€™ve been given a glimpse of a magical sparkly Unicorn. Itâ€™s so perfect and wonderful that it shouldnâ€™t even exist, but there it is running free across the land and able to touch even me. I need to defend that Unicorn any way I know how Greg, <<

I’m hopinghopinghoping the entire post from which this is excerpted is satirical.

That, or someone lives in a world in which vomiting blood is somehow eqivalent to magical sparkly Unicorn-ness.

Please, god, NO.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:45:42 +0000

Well, since no one else has said it (although Cronin seems to know the answer), I’ll ID the lyrics – Ryan Adams, “New York, New York.” The song so nice, he named it twice! (Although I really dislike the saxophone bridge in the song.)

By: Suzene

Suzene — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:20:12 +0000

“Or, hey Scott, after my once-dead wife comes back, I could start psychically cheating with one of our oldest enemies. I mean, Emmaâ€™s only tried to kill us a dozen times â€” that would give anybody tight pants. Ya think Apocalypse has a sister? Maybe Lady Deathstrike is free tonight.”

Isn’t Sinister a woman now? Party on, Ruskie.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:14:11 +0000

Personally, I interpreted the whole scene with Didio in AMBUSH BUG as saying “it’s not really all his fault, but he’s willing to take the blame.” I’ll have to dig it out and I may be reading in more complexity than is actually there, but it’s interesting.

I still would like to know how anyone decided “they vomit blood!” was a great power for the Red Lanterns, though. I mean, I’m not a huge Geoff Johns fan, but he’s a smart guy, at some point he should have seen that this was not the best visual.

By: Tracer Bullet

Tracer Bullet — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:38:37 +0000

Or, hey Scott, after my once-dead wife comes back, I could start psychically cheating with one of our oldest enemies. I mean, Emma’s only tried to kill us a dozen times — that would give anybody tight pants. Ya think Apocalypse has a sister? Maybe Lady Deathstrike is free tonight.

And while I’m at it, Logan! Stay the hell away from the preteen girls. First there was Mariko, who looked like a 14-year-old girl. Then there was that weird ninja chick who looked like a 14-year-old boy. Then Kitty. Then Jubilee, where hell is Jubilee anyway? You think you might want to check on her since her since 99% of mutants have lost their powers, you selfish dick? And now you’re on to Armor. I guess it’s all about the underage Jews and Asians for you, huh? You elderly goddamn pervert.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:04:26 +0000

Good to know, Jay. Now I’ll have to find that graphic novel, you know!

By: Jay Faerber

Jay Faerber — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:35 +0000

“Iâ€™m not sure whatâ€™s up with the back-up story. Itâ€™s the tale of a private investigator who sets someone up, and itâ€™s a clever little story, but I donâ€™t know if Faerber is going to start a new series with the P. I. (who, interestingly enough, isnâ€™t named, although the title of the story is â€œDodgeâ€™s Bullets,â€ indicating that Dodge is either his first or last name). Either way, itâ€™s a fun short story.”

Gah!! How embarrassing! Characters who aren’t clearly identified for the reader is one of my big pet peeves, and I totally messed this one up. The private eye is Webster Dodge, star of his very own OGN which came out from Image a few years ago, called Dodge’s Bullets.

The point of that back-up story was just to have a little fun with the character and work with an artist I like. Future issues of D5 will have D5-related back-up stories.

By: T.

T. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:34:07 +0000

Giffen obviously sees the idiocy of DC – why doesnâ€™t DiDio?

Simple answer, he can’t see the idiocy of DC because he’s an idiot. Basically, if he was smart enough to see the idiocy of DC, he’d have been smart enough not to institute such idiocy in the first place.

By: ed2ward

ed2ward — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:28:30 +0000

Mr. Burgas, simply looking at the column written by Mr. Giffen that appears on the site you write for would show you that Mr. Giffen is not only fully aware of events in the DCU but also appears, tomfoolery in Ambush Bug aside, to be squarely in Mr. Didio’s corner. I have no idea if you have read any of the Green Lantern’s written by Geoff Johns or not. If you haven’t, I suggest you do. I give them my highest recommendation. It pains me when people are critical of something I care about as much as I care about the current run of Green Lantern. The way Geoff Johns writes Hal makes me feel… things.. I’m not used to feeling. Good feelings, but feelings I’m not ready to talk about yet. I’m saying that Geoff Johns run on Green Lantern makes me feel fragile Greg and I don’t like feeling that way. It’s dangerous and scary, but at the same time I’ve never felt more alive. When people are critical of something that makes me feel this way, I can’t help myself. I get angry. I need to defend Geoff and his beautifulbeautiful Green Lantern. When I read one of Geoff’s perfect stories about the love between men and their fathers and their partners and men flying with men and how the most powerful thing in the Universe is the beautiful rainbow of emotion, I feel like I’ve been given a glimpse of a magical sparkly Unicorn. It’s so perfect and wonderful that it shouldn’t even exist, but there it is running free across the land and able to touch even me. I need to defend that Unicorn any way I know how Greg, and all this horrible world has taught me is homophobic bullying. Call me a troll if you must, but please, I urge you, look deeply at Geoff’s work and see it for what it is before being so callous. So dismissive. So hurtful.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:15:18 +0000

Re: X-Factor….

“A pretty big discrepancy; were people abandoning it because of Stromanâ€™s art?”

I did. Bought the first issue with Stroman, dropped the book, and finally picked it up again this week.

By: Si

Si — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:42:45 +0000

” …(#2 and #3, March and September): 4,794 (#2; rank: 239) and 2,889 (#3; rank: 300). Who says delays in books donâ€™t hurt sales? ”
I can’t find issue 3 anywhere! (tried 3 stores)

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:23:11 +0000

I love that song!

Great album, period.