Pipeline #463 - April 25, 2006

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Reviews of:

* NEW AVENGERS Volume 3: SECRETS & LIES
* THE SAVAGE DRAGON #125

Plus, quick hits and links: updating previous stories, linking to what's in the news, etc.

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

I'll be interested in your take on The New Avengers.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

I liked the third book.

I'm thinking of putting together a special (extra) column with my reviews of all three volumes, now that they're written up. Maybe throw in the ILLUMINATI review, also. We'll see.

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

I liked the third book.

I'm thinking of putting together a special (extra) column with my reviews of all three volumes, now that they're written up. Maybe throw in the ILLUMINATI review, also. We'll see.

-Augie


That Illuminati special was just awful and exposed Iron Man and Reed Richards as frauds of freedom.

I'm glad Namor and Black Bolt told them to take an aeronautical intercourse.

[De Carabas]

Augie, thank you for mentioning the one thing that was pissing me off all through Avengers vol. 3 HC: the word balloons and art keep getting lost in the binding (aka "the gutters"). Marvel does such a good job with the oversized HCs that I'm baffled that they are still having this problem. This is a problem in all three volumes now, hence my promotion from "annoyed" to "ticked off".

EM

[dancj]

I find it to be quite a common problem in Brian Bendis books in general. That and double pages where you can't work out whether they are a double page spread or two seperate pages - even after reading the dialogue

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

The trick with double page spreads is to be sure to include a panel on the first tier that crosses over from one page to the next. That's the technique I first noticed Butch Guice using on RUSE. That's enough to clue the reader into the fact that it's a double page spread.

Michael Avon Oeming's problem on POWERS is that he doesn't do that, and it's easy to get lost on a POWERS page because of the repetitive layout across facing pages. It is annoying.

The other trick, then, is to make sure no word balloons fall between pages, but the letterers are usually very good about that.

-Augie

[sschroeder]

That Illuminati special was just awful and exposed Iron Man and Reed Richards as frauds of freedom.

I'm glad Namor and Black Bolt told them to take an aeronautical intercourse.

Trying to stir up a Civil War here in the Pipeline area, are you?

As inventors, Tony and Reed have doubtless used government protection of their interests in the past in form of patents. I don't see either of them releasing their inventions for free public use. So maybe they have been frauds of freedom all along in your eyes?

Namor and BB are not US citizens, so their input is completely irrelevant anyway. The fact that they are the rulers of their own, for lack of a better term, nations would naturally predispose them to disagree with the imposition of any standards they themselves did not initiate.


Augie, thank you for mentioning the one thing that was pissing me off all through Avengers vol. 3 HC: the word balloons and art keep getting lost in the binding (aka "the gutters").

I actually think it is too bad that this is a problem. And it seems like they could fix it easily with some oversight. But there is more to it if you think about it. Comics are "shot" or "cut" for the monthly. Just like movies are cut for the big screen. Do you want your movies cut for the Full Screen DVD version? Well, they are to some extent, I've noticed. When you go to the movies check out how even though it is on a big wide screen there is often enough dead area to painlessly cut out for TV framing.


Michael Avon Oeming's problem on POWERS is that he doesn't do that, and it's easy to get lost on a POWERS page because of the repetitive layout across facing pages. It is annoying.

Agreed.

Powers is running late but I saw some preview pages from Oeming in Incredible Hulk? That must mean Bendis is late with the scripts. Or just another case of artists doing side projects (like variant covers) while the regular interiors take a back seat.