CBR: Giffen Asks "What Would Magog Do?"

[CBR News]

Fan favorite comics creator Keith Giffen tells CBR News that his upcoming "Magog" solo title will feature a superhero that doesn't have an off switch when it comes to fighting the good fight in the name of justice.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21983).

[Karl O'Neill]

I like the character and I like giffen.

Giving the first issue a go.

[johnnyrocket]

I trust Giffen and like Porter for all the reasons Giffen likes Porter. I'll try this.. But, it's about the ram horns... If he's the 'military' hero everything needs to be about function. Lose the horns. They were originally intended as ironic commentary on '90s comic hero design anyway..

[ian33407]

I'm definetely for Giffen' self-confessed approach, about creating new foes and new threats without the DC encyclopedia..that's for sure.

About Magog specifically, I still don't understand :

why not OMAC ?
why not NEW GODS ?

Is that for the bad-ass attitude, that Magog is in fact a rough kinda Spirit of Vengeance..or worse ? Or is it the Irak veteran element ?

I'll be curious about what have to be told with Magog and that couldn't with the two titles I quoted...
With the same imaginative motivation and surrounded authors than upon Magog, OMAC and NEW GODS could provide wonderful titles I'll be personnally glad to 'discover', or see back in the DC catalogue...

[Joe Franklin]

I'm definetely for Giffen' self-confessed approach, about creating new foes and new threats without the DC encyclopedia..that's for sure.

About Magog specifically, I still don't understand :

why not OMAC ?
why not NEW GODS ?


OMAC sucks, that's why.:wink:

But New Gods is cool.

[Paul Nolan]

I like the fact that DC are trying something new, and Giffen's enthusiasm for the character has sold it to me. I've already added this to the pull list.

[The One and Only]

I really got a kick out reading the character in the KINGDOM special that featured him attempting to rescue his old unit. It'll be interesting to see Giffen and Porter take on a superhero who has come out of a post 9/11 world.

[Karl O'Neill]

I like the fact that we will get new villains, characters and concepts.

Not the joker cameoing every issue.

[americocaine]

Really like to see him have some interaction with Gog. That creation every reviewer/fan/whomever thought was "cliched". Oh that neverending storyline from Johns' run looks good now compared to what everyone has planned coming..

[hondobrode]

I'm pumped at Giffen trying something different.

Howard Porter's work grows on me as time goes by too.

The only part of the costume I don't like is the gun. I know Reid is a soldier, but being Magog why would he need a gun ?

BTW, OMAC and New Gods both rock hard. I'll buy either one instantly.

[GoodClone]

I like both Giffen and Porter's work, yet I have no interest in this Cable reject from the 90s.

[Paul Nolan]

I like both Giffen and Porter's work, yet I have no interest in this Cable reject from the 90s.

please clarify as to why you think this character is a "Cable reject from the 90's" rather than a chance for DC to infuse new energy into it's ageing universe.

[Libaax]

I'm definetely for Giffen' self-confessed approach, about creating new foes and new threats without the DC encyclopedia..that's for sure.

About Magog specifically, I still don't understand :

why not OMAC ?
why not NEW GODS ?

Is that for the bad-ass attitude, that Magog is in fact a rough kinda Spirit of Vengeance..or worse ? Or is it the Irak veteran element ?

I'll be curious about what have to be told with Magog and that couldn't with the two titles I quoted...
With the same imaginative motivation and surrounded authors than upon Magog, OMAC and NEW GODS could provide wonderful titles I'll be personnally glad to 'discover', or see back in the DC catalogue...

Cause OMAC,NEW GODS are so old tricks by now and Magog sounds like new and fresh ideas.

The fact you want more known characters is why this sounds so interesting to me.

What can Giffen do with a character with so wierd backround.

[Shellhead]

please clarify as to why you think this character is a "Cable reject from the 90's" rather than a chance for DC to infuse new energy into it's ageing universe.

Because Magog was designed to be a Cable reject:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/04/16/comic-book-legends-revealed-203/

"In an interview with Comic Book Resources’ Jonah Weiland back in 2006, Alex Ross had this to say about the creation of Magog:

Weiland: Now, wasn’t Magog a character created as a response to all those characters that were popping up in the early ’90s?

Ross: Yeah. That’s a character that Mark Waid invented that was really just put to me like come up with the most God awful, Rob Liefeld sort of design that you can. What I was stealing from was – really only two key designs of Rob’s – the design of Cable. I hated it. I felt like it looked like they just threw up everything on the character – the scars, the thing going on with his eye, the arm, and what’s with all the guns? But the thing is, when I put those elements together with the helmet of Shatterstar — I think that was his name — well, the ram horns and the gold, suddenly it held together as one of the designs that I felt happiest with in the entire series."

[Paul Nolan]

Because Magog was designed to be a Cable reject:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/04/16/comic-book-legends-revealed-203/

"In an interview with Comic Book Resources’ Jonah Weiland back in 2006, Alex Ross had this to say about the creation of Magog:

Weiland: Now, wasn’t Magog a character created as a response to all those characters that were popping up in the early ’90s?

Ross: Yeah. That’s a character that Mark Waid invented that was really just put to me like come up with the most God awful, Rob Liefeld sort of design that you can. What I was stealing from was – really only two key designs of Rob’s – the design of Cable. I hated it. I felt like it looked like they just threw up everything on the character – the scars, the thing going on with his eye, the arm, and what’s with all the guns? But the thing is, when I put those elements together with the helmet of Shatterstar — I think that was his name — well, the ram horns and the gold, suddenly it held together as one of the designs that I felt happiest with in the entire series."

so his design was based around some of Liefelds creations, but I have to say his 'in comic character' as developed since then certainly isn't "Cable reject"...