Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 27

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:39:00 +0000

If a white writer wrote that, he'd be a racist. When Priest does it, it's comedy. Another thing about America I could never quite figure out.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:14:52 +0000

I didn't actually think it was that funny.

I mean like, it wasn't UNfunny, just nothing that'd make me particularly want to keep reading.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:57:45 +0000

Granted, I've never read this book before, but come on, that dialogue/situation is pretty contrived. It screams out "it's the '90s! I just watched 'Clerks!' Here's a comic book!"

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:55:35 +0000

Where are they now? I loved Bright's run on Green Lantern (until Ron Marz ruined it) and Priest did a great Ray mini series...

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:37:40 +0000

Not a fan of the art, but that was a pretty cool "comic book moment".

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:50:06 +0000

THIS BOOK ROCKS!!! Every issue has at least 3-4 scenes just like this one. Funny as kaka yet Priest never forgot he was telling a STORY with CHARACTERS we were supposed to CARE about. I know it had to be hard to pick just one scene from this series. I'm surprised you didn't pick one with Woody's pet, HAEDUS (Heavily Armored Espionage Deadly Uber-Sheep). I still the Goat Immovable Action Figure - wih fully adjustable cape of course.

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:49:49 +0000

THIS BOOK ROCKS!!! Every issue has at least 3-4 scenes just like this one. Funny as kaka yet Priest never forgot he was telling a STORY with CHARACTERS we were supposed to CARE about. I know it had to be hard to pick just one scene from this series. I'm surprised you didn't pick one with Woody's pet, HAEDUS (Heavily Armored Espionage Deadly Uber-Sheep). I still have the Goat Immovable Action Figure - wih fully adjustable cape of course.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:38:07 +0000

I wasn't a big fan of Jim Shooter, but a huge Gold Key hero fan. I picked up Turok, Solar and Magnus but decided to stay away from the rest of the line. Best decision I ever made. After the comic bust, I picked up almost every other issue published by Valiant (and Acclaim) in quarter boxes. Archer & Armstrong, Quantum & Woody and most of the other titles were fresh and quality stuff. I spent the better part of a summer reading boxes of Valiants that cost me next to nothing. Same goes for the Milestone and Marvel's "new universe" stuff. Quality reads you could buy for a quarter. It will forever be my opinion that the junk Image put out at the time ruined the market for the quality start-ups.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:47:37 +0000

I believe the Quantum and Woody rights got all screwed up by the Acclaim-buying-Valiant thing, and then the Acclaim-declaring-bankruptcy thing.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:46:17 +0000

I had forgotten about that dog moment, whew, I have a soft spot for dogs, and reading about that would have bothered me.

What bothers me even more is that Priest and Bright STILL haven't filled in the missing issues #22-31, and 33-on.

What the hell is somebody waiting for? "An engraved invitation?"

By: T.

T. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:22:16 +0000

Those jokes were pretty funny. The chemistry is immediately apparent. And as usual, I love Mark Bright's art. I've loved it since his Iron Man days. I never tried this book.

The mention about flashbacks worries me though. Unlike how well Brubaker uses them without ever being confusing, Priest seems to use them just to use them because he feels nonsequential storytelling seems more complex and mature than linear, and he often just ends up being confusing. At least that was my Black Panther experience,

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:05:31 +0000

I never quite got this series. Bright's artwork had a lot to do with it; I really don't like it. And I guess the sense of humor doesn't match up with mine. I know a lot of people loved it . . .maybe seeing cool moments will make me want to check it out.

By: Cambert

Cambert — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:18:43 +0000

Quantum and Woody was a great great series! However I can not talk about it with out spoiling something, so I won't. What I will say is I think Christopher Priest had the misfortune of following Joe Kelly's run on Deadpool. I'm not sure if it was that his sense of humor classed with Kelly's too much or fans didn't like the new direction or what, but his run was far too short. His run on the funny book was the best it ever saw. To me it felt very akin to Gail Simone's later run on it. Not to mention his great take on Black Panther around this time too!

By: The Dude

The Dude — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:39:50 +0000

Uau! Why haven't I heard about this before?

Tell me more about this series