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JumpingJupiter
12-22-2010, 08:26 PM
http://www.comics.org/series/7105/covers/

Read it? Any good?
TonyStark1012
12-22-2010, 08:29 PM
I really enjoyed. Doctor Mid-Nite is an awesome character and if you like him or are trying to get a fix on what he's about.Please pick this up! It's his first appearance and show you his whole set up. Really cool series!
JumpingJupiter
12-22-2010, 08:32 PM
I really enjoyed. Doctor Mid-Nite is an awesome character and if you like him or are trying to get a fix on what he's about.Please pick this up! It's his first appearance and show you his whole set up. Really cool series!

Cool! I'll see if it's in the bin at the shop. I just like the character design so it got me interested.
Ex_
12-22-2010, 09:19 PM
Read it, it's great. Rule of thumb is: if Matt Wagner worked on it, it's worth your money.
Pól Rua
12-22-2010, 10:13 PM
It's spectacular. Really good modern-day pulp stuff. Works great as a pulp story, but is inextricably modern in its setting and story elements.
Great work on the setting and supporting cast, and the whole 'Midnight Doctor' thing is a striking character element.
Unfortunately, once the character joined the JSA, he lost a lot of that and just became 'the super-hero doctor guy'.
Dave Hackett
12-23-2010, 05:57 AM
Really, really liked this one and wish that Johns had kept this characterization for JSA rather than "blanding" him out like he did.

My only issue was with the over-the-top amount of gadgets he's able to afford at such short notice. Yes, he's a wealthy, world-renowned surgeon, but he's not Bruce Wayne!
Doug Strange
12-23-2010, 06:36 AM
Thirded what Pol and Dave said. This series is WAY better than anything that's been done with him subsequently.

That book was how you update a golden-age hero for the present day. I wish the whole of the JSA was done in that style. An association of dudes like the Mid-Nite in this series. How awesome would that be? Instead we get...what we have.
FanboyStranger
12-23-2010, 08:47 AM
Read it, it's great. Rule of thumb is: if Matt Wagner worked on it, it's worth your money.

Yeah. Wagner's pretty much a sure thing. JK Synder's painted art was quite nice, too, if a bit murky in spots. I don't know why Dr. K doesn't do more comics work. He has a cool, unique style. The last thing I can remember him working on was covers for Ostrander's last Suicide Squad mini. I wished he did interior art as well.
Cayman
12-23-2010, 10:10 AM
It was really good. Unfortunately, the character has never been as interesting since.
JumpingJupiter
12-23-2010, 10:29 AM
Thanks for the input folks. I hope I can find this series.
Dave Hackett
12-23-2010, 11:21 AM
It was collected, and the collection's been out for a while, so you may find it discounted somewhere.
Doug Strange
12-24-2010, 08:58 PM
This thread made me pull the books out for a reread...but then my son got a hold of them, so now I have to wait for him to be done with them first.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/teelfamily2003/FUTURENERD.jpg
CaptCleghorn
12-25-2010, 03:14 AM
I wouldn't worry. It looks like he's on the last page.



This thread made me pull the books out for a reread...but then my son got a hold of them, so now I have to wait for him to be done with them first.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/teelfamily2003/FUTURENERD.jpg