Pipeline #466 - 16 May 2006

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Coming up this week, reviews of

* RUNAWAYS HC
* WOLVERINE: ENDINGS AND ORIGINS (or "ORIGINS AND ENDINGS," I forget) HC
* STAR WARS: GENERAL GRIEVOUS (Dixon and Leonardi)

And maybe something else. I think that's enough to fill the column, though.

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

hmmmm...now that sounds interesting.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Thanks. Every now and then, I have to throw in a title that's NOT from Marvel.

Seriously, I'll get over this Marvel kick eventually. I swear it. Even I'm getting annoyed by it, but it's what I'm reading and enjoying the most right now, so I go with it.

inertia is everything

-Augie

[De Carabas]

Besides, I'm just being selfish. I want to see more of Leonardi's art on a regular basis, and I can't believe we live in an industry that can't put stylistic art like his on the shelves every month.
Amen. It rips my heart out that he's not working on more.

EM

[roach04]

Amen. It rips my heart out that he's not working on more.

I'll third this motion. While I despised fill-in artists as a younger reader (and, honestly, still do!), it was always a real treat when Rick Leonardi was the guy of the month on X-Men or Daredevil, and I'm convinced the only reason anybody owns any issues of "Cloak and Dagger" are because of him! Although the regular series art teams now reads like a "who's who" of big name artists - Leonardi, Art Adams, Marc Silvestri, and Mike Mignola, none of them were big at that time and Rick's issues stole the show.

Another, related to this week's Pipeline note - that Runaways book sounds really good. I'm not saying I'm gonna buy it, but I am saying it'll make my short of list. Ex Machina is very close to being my favourite monthly book right now, but I've never read any other Brian Vaughan stuff. Good review Augie!

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Thanks, Murray. That was the review I struggled with the most, too. It's tough to review 18 issues of a comic without giving out too many spoilers. . . RUNAWAYS starts off a little slowly, but it reads quickly and the last 6 issues work very well as the culmination of everything that the series was building, not just an afterthought for the sake of a climax.

-Augie