CBR: Commentary Track: Dynamite's "Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist"

[CBR News]

Writer Eric Trautmann pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of Dynamite's new "Flash Gordon" series for CBR News, revealing Easter Eggs, links to the original comic strip and insight into the initial scripting process.


Full article here.

[Lemurion]

I'm already looking forward to issue 2

[emb021]

Well, while I was open to seeing what they were going to do with this Flash Gordon comic, the fact that they are using so much nonsense from the movie is a big turn off.

I really would have preferred that they had stuck closer to the comic strip and left out all the changes and new garbage from the movie.

[mercuryeric]

I'm already looking forward to issue 2

Coincidentally: in stores today. :)

Thanks!

-E

[mercuryeric]

Well, while I was open to seeing what they were going to do with this Flash Gordon comic, the fact that they are using so much nonsense from the movie is a big turn off.

I really would have preferred that they had stuck closer to the comic strip and left out all the changes and new garbage from the movie.

The Alex Raymond strips are the primary inspiration—the big "lift" from the film is Klytus, who, over the course of the series, is rather substantially different than movie-Klytus.

Hope you give us a shot (particularly since you can read the whole issue here for free and make up your mind).

Best,

-E

[Schmakt]

sounds somewhat interesting... too bad they had to make nine thousand variant covers. *turn off*

[Simon Bowland]

sounds somewhat interesting... too bad they had to make nine thousand variant covers. *turn off*

You don't have to buy all "nine thousand" variant covers to enjoy the contents of the comic. Just buy the one copy... then read the story... then judge the book.

[Brendan Deneen]

Why pay for this when you can read FLASH GORDON: THE MERCY WARS #0 and #1 (34 pages of story!) for FREE at www.Ardden-Entertainment.com

We've been publishing Flash Gordon since 2008 (i.e. long before Dynamite) and have received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Ain't It Cool News and more. Come see why one reviewer said that our version is the "definitive modern take" on the character!

Thanks!

[Kara Zor El]

Wow. This looks fantastic. The art is beautiful and now Klytus has a life beyond the cage of 1980. I've been looking for a new comic to get into and this is it. It's a brilliant idea to fuse the movie and the original strips. And wasn't Hitler in the cartoon movie?

[Simon Bowland]

Classy, Brendan. As always.

[Brendan Deneen]

Classy, Brendan. As always.

Simon, I think you are an excellent letterer, but when a bigger publisher starts publishing a character while my much smaller company IS STILL PUBLISHING THAT SAME CHARACTER (truly the very definition of classy) then I will fight for my turf.

[mercuryeric]

Why pay for this...

...free thing you can read online right now in this very article?

Good question, Brendan.

Wow.

-E

[Brendan Deneen]

...free thing you can read online right now in this very article?

Good question, Brendan.

Wow.

-E

Ha. Good point.

[Schmakt]

You don't have to buy all "nine thousand" variant covers to enjoy the contents of the comic. Just buy the one copy... then read the story... then judge the book.

I could, but then I'd still be supporting the practice. Books with lots of covers = me not buying them. I'm sure Dynamite won't miss my $3 tho, so I figure it's always worth mentioning somewhere just why that 1 extra copy isn't getting purchased.

[Lord Prong]

I really enjoyed reading the first issue and added the title to my list the minute it was announced.

I'm on the opposite side of the fence to emb021 as I'm a big fan of the film from 1980. C'mon it has a QUEEN soundtrack!! How can you whinge about that (is it too geeky to admit the "boom, boo, boom, boom... Flash!!" from the title track was going through my head when I read this issue?

Art was pretty good and much better than some of the more recent efforts from Dynamite (I'm a big fan of Silver Star but the art..... ugh). I did buy/ read the first couple of issues of the Ardden Entertainment title when it came out, and while I enjoyed the writing, the art (particularly the multiple cutting and pasting and replicating art from one panel to the next left me cold. The minute a title does that I'm outta there (fair warning Dynamite 'cause I've seen it happen in one or two of your books as well.)

So... Dynamite has the Phantom, and now Flash Gordon. So when are you acquiring Mandrake the Magician and how soon can you make a fanboy's dream come true and give us Dynamite's "Defenders of the Earth?"