Comments on: The Best Comic Ever (This Week) (That I Bought)!

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:57:18 +0000

Secret Six came out this week and I don’t yet have it? What the Buddha is wrong with me…

By: Provolone

Provolone — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:40:08 +0000

I’d buy Uncanny X-Men by Jeff Parker… that would be sweet as sweet potato pie. Didn’t Parker do a few arcs on X-Men: First Class?

By: Tekende

Tekende — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:33:22 +0000

“whatever it is Chris Chua was drawing ”

Yeah, what the F was up with that? It looked like Jackson Pollock trying to draw a comic using his splatter technique. Was there even anything sequential going on there? I can’t believe Marvel accepted that thing.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:54 +0000

I’ve bought nothing but Marvels the last couple of years, but I haven’t got any of these. And not just because I haven’t been to the store this week. I haven’t bought any of these series. But I did buy one issue of Bendis-Cho Mighty Avengers– the first issue. (I also got some later ones without Cho.) I really miss thought balloons, too. I was so glad to see them. I also want third-person narrative captions back. (I don’t deny they were overdone in the old days, especially by the annoying writers who would always describe what the pictures obviously showed. But that was better than the writers who wrote character dialogue to describe what the pictures showed. ‘Help! A trapdoor just opened and I’m falling into this dark pit!’) A lot of books these days need captions. Sometimes the art isn’t clear enough about what is happening.

I’ve seen referrences to ‘widescreen comics’ several times on this website, but I still can’t figure out what it means.

By: Stefan Wenger

Stefan Wenger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:13 +0000

Wow, I read so many comics this week and I totally forgot two really important ones, Assault on New Olympus, and Doctor Voodoo. Back I go!

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:38 +0000

NOT SO RANDOM THOUGHT — “Best comic” sure doesn’t mean anything when you admit to flipping a coin.

Strange Tales #3 — I read the Stan Sakai story, and the Peter Bagge story liked both; the rest was crap.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:29:40 +0000

Boy, Apes vs. Zombies could have been a thing of beauty. I’m not sure if I was turned off more by the use of multiple artists, or the contrived time-travel device which I thought couldn’t work in Marvel comics.

By: Wraith

Wraith — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:54:17 +0000

WRT Ghost Rider… I’m still scratching my head over who was behind the decision to rename Dan Ketch “Danny.” Guys, seriously? That’s just asinine. That’s the version of the character which appears alongside Petey Parker and Stevie Rogers in “Mini Marvels” (or perhaps Superhero Squad… friggin’ Superhero Squad…). Not in a (relatively) grown-up horror title.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:38:53 +0000

Morrison never wrote Uncanny, though.

You think that was his secret?

Working on ‘X-Men’ and not Uncanny?

I remember Casey’s Uncanny got kind of good as he was leaving.

His widescreen annual with Ashley Wood was fantastic.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:37:39 +0000

And yeah, Thok, I really ought to get in on Secret Six/Suicide Squad some day. It’s on the list.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:36:46 +0000

I bet Chad will write about it some day. Generic banter about our feud.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:36:31 +0000

(And remember, Casey wasn’t hamstrung, he was strung out on coke!)

I remember Casey’s Uncanny got kind of good as he was leaving.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:43 +0000

Morrison never wrote Uncanny, though.

I have to say, Strange Tales #3 was by far the weakest issue of the series. Chua’s short was flat-out incoherent, but for me Lewis’s clocked in as the second worst if only because the writing was so aggressively awful that not even the art could save it. Cannon’s segment was running pretty closely with Lewis, though.

Brown was probably my favorite segment of this issue, but I did enjoy Cloonan’s as well. I actually liked Lee’s Punisher story. There wasn’t much to it, but the art was interesting enough and I’d take it as an asian-inspired elseworld oneshot over that piece of crap Mangaverse Punisher one-shot Peter David did a few years ago. Then again, I may just be being overly generous to it seeing as how it followed the 1-2 punch of Chua and Cannon.

By: Thok

Thok — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:21:28 +0000

You apparently didn’t buy Secret Six this week. You are a horrible, horrible person. (Seriously, it’s Ostrander writing Deadshot. You should go back and buy it immediately.)

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:57:32 +0000

he will probably wind up being as hamstrung by writing Uncanny X-Men as Fraction, Brubaker, and everyone else since… Claremont? The first time? And only like one really good half?

G-Mozz!

(And remember, Casey wasn’t hamstrung, he was strung out on coke!)