kevhines
04-12-2006, 07:12 PM
its one of those rare days where I post on every topic I can think of...
Perhapanauts was a blast. Even beyond the leader of the group having the last name Hines, this was fantastic. Dezago writes some of the most fun comics. I really hope they publish another series.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man continues to disappoint me. I am not sure if its just my disinterest in the pre-civil war iron suit wearing spider-man or if these stories are not good. Either way the writer (Peter David) gets a long leash in my book - so I will buy a few more issues.
Annihilation Prologue was good. It made me want to get every comic coming out of the prologue. But after skimming Super Skrull I decided not to get that. Silver Surfer I got. And Nova is a given. We will see on Ronan after I skim it. This is the sort of cross over I can get behind.
Hawkgirl was bad. I thought that creative team sounded great, but I found their first issue boring and visually confusing. I regret buying it.
I got Top 10 49ers. Its as good as everyone says.
Nextwave is so good. Ellis keeps writing stuff that I love. And this is just great great stuff. I don't really find it making fun of super-heroes. Its just fun super-hero stuff. Not unlike Livewires from a while back.
X-Factor is really good.
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane might be my current favorite Marvel comic.
Blue Beetle was ok. The art was great. But one of the problems with Crisis (and crossovers in general) is it makes origins confusing. He goes on big epic adventure as part of his origin? I just can't get behind the start of the book as much as I would like. It makes me think of Venom. A fun villain, but his origin is so confusing to non-comics readers that he loses a lot of appeal.
Warlord is kind of cliché, but I love the art on it. Sears should always work in this style (more like his work on Path, less like his work on everything else).
All Star Superman might be my current favorite DC comic.
I hope The Thing never gets cancelled. Or She-Hulk. Slott makes me happy.
Superboy is dead? Or so I heard. I find the concept of Superboy kind of dumb. But Conner was a great take on the concept that worked for me. (Mind you I didn't like the twist of him being part of Lex's genes). A clone story that works. This is an even bigger waste of a character then Blue Beetle was. When they killed Barry Allen they had a perfect replacement lined up - and honestly the best part of Barry was his powers and costume. Not Barry. At least to this 31 year old.
Bomb Queen is good.
Fallen Angel is great. So was the Keep. IDW might be pricey but its got some good books.
I love Mike Carey's Hellblazer so much I recently started getting Brian Azzraello's run. After that I might get Ellis's two volumes. I have never been a big fan of Ennis so I am not sure if I will get any of his collections.
Infinite Crisis continues to be of no interest to me.
Civil War seems just slightly less un-interesting to me.
I miss posting here!
Perhapanauts was a blast. Even beyond the leader of the group having the last name Hines, this was fantastic. Dezago writes some of the most fun comics. I really hope they publish another series.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man continues to disappoint me. I am not sure if its just my disinterest in the pre-civil war iron suit wearing spider-man or if these stories are not good. Either way the writer (Peter David) gets a long leash in my book - so I will buy a few more issues.
Annihilation Prologue was good. It made me want to get every comic coming out of the prologue. But after skimming Super Skrull I decided not to get that. Silver Surfer I got. And Nova is a given. We will see on Ronan after I skim it. This is the sort of cross over I can get behind.
Hawkgirl was bad. I thought that creative team sounded great, but I found their first issue boring and visually confusing. I regret buying it.
I got Top 10 49ers. Its as good as everyone says.
Nextwave is so good. Ellis keeps writing stuff that I love. And this is just great great stuff. I don't really find it making fun of super-heroes. Its just fun super-hero stuff. Not unlike Livewires from a while back.
X-Factor is really good.
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane might be my current favorite Marvel comic.
Blue Beetle was ok. The art was great. But one of the problems with Crisis (and crossovers in general) is it makes origins confusing. He goes on big epic adventure as part of his origin? I just can't get behind the start of the book as much as I would like. It makes me think of Venom. A fun villain, but his origin is so confusing to non-comics readers that he loses a lot of appeal.
Warlord is kind of cliché, but I love the art on it. Sears should always work in this style (more like his work on Path, less like his work on everything else).
All Star Superman might be my current favorite DC comic.
I hope The Thing never gets cancelled. Or She-Hulk. Slott makes me happy.
Superboy is dead? Or so I heard. I find the concept of Superboy kind of dumb. But Conner was a great take on the concept that worked for me. (Mind you I didn't like the twist of him being part of Lex's genes). A clone story that works. This is an even bigger waste of a character then Blue Beetle was. When they killed Barry Allen they had a perfect replacement lined up - and honestly the best part of Barry was his powers and costume. Not Barry. At least to this 31 year old.
Bomb Queen is good.
Fallen Angel is great. So was the Keep. IDW might be pricey but its got some good books.
I love Mike Carey's Hellblazer so much I recently started getting Brian Azzraello's run. After that I might get Ellis's two volumes. I have never been a big fan of Ennis so I am not sure if I will get any of his collections.
Infinite Crisis continues to be of no interest to me.
Civil War seems just slightly less un-interesting to me.
I miss posting here!