Lost_Johnny

You will be amazed and astounded by The Kejoxen and his magic of the right-click...

 

Good news this anyway (I hope), I've enjoyed all of Rankin's work which I've read and if this is an OGN then hopefully no worries about the monthly pacing etc. Might reach a slightly wider audience as well, in the process.

 

What with ITV bleating on about taking some risks and increasing the quality of their drama, maybe next year's line up might be Cracker, Rebus and Constantine?

You might as well give it to #3 which is supposed to be really funny according to Darick. And what's the deal about the art? Personally, I think it's great. Darick's inking it as well as pencilling, and I think his inking is WAY underrated. It's unique and captures a sort of gloomy essense to this book. However anyone feels about the first issue, I think it's only going to get better.

Just for you Spidey, I'll give it to #3.

I'm not saying the art is crap, it's just not my cup of tea. Just a personal thing really, for me it's too cartoony for the black humour, which I'm not finding that funny anyway, but I'll read it again when #2 comes out, maybe it'll be a grower.

I thought it was toss, unfunny and unimaginative. Not my style of art either, I'll give it one more issue.

All to play for next week. Curse your alphabetical standing.

Yeh and curse your superior quality squads and budgetary prowess!

Stoke will come good, we scored 2 goals this week... pretty much unheard of from a Pulis team.

 

I predict a riot.

Nah times are changing, I predict a shortage of prawn sandwiches.

I haven't seen Lady in the Water but my friend described it to me as the worst film he's seen this year and I'm guessing I won't be far off that opinion (sure enough not to spend the dosh anyway), and although I enjoyed Sixth Sense (I found it fairly predictable though), and Unbreakable I really did enjoy, Signs I thought was utter toss and The Village not much better, so what is really bugging me at the moment is that despite shite reviews across the board M Night's name means this is on both of the multiplexes in my area when they can't even fucking manage to put A Scanner Darkly on one out of eighteen fucking screens. Why? Because although it hails from the pen of one of the greatest ever SciFi writers and stars Keanu, Rob Downey Jr, Woody and Winona it's not fucking mainstream enough because they've drawn over the top of it and it's a bit confusing for us thick bastard Stokies.

 

I'm a bit pissed off about not being able to see A Scanner Darkly by the way, in case I don't mention it.

Think it suffered from trying to fit too much into a single issue. Re-introducing Map, trying to explain his sickness, tying it into a history of zealotry while portraying the frayed emotional state of a would be terrorist, then curing Map while giving him awareness of his/London's power across eternity, is going some in 20 odd pages (and then giving a fair amount of time to Ire as well).

 

The art didn't work for me either but I am so happy with Manco that I probably can't give it a fair ride (it may be the colouring, as others have said, that has coloured (sorry) my judgement. It's not so much the browns but the blue wash that got me (plus those garish splashes of background as someone else has said - terrorist with jagged red background: oooh he must be getting angry!).

 

Still the taxi drive was good - dialogue especially, as well as the best of the art for me. I'm presuming Map revived because he learnt how to tap the City's power throughout time (or the City gave it to him) but it was a bit rushed as with the last page. Anyone reckon that was some sort of artist portrait on the second last panel? Just something about the way the guy is clutching a load of loose leaf panelled pages and his rueful smile to the camera.

 

Ah well, like Mark I've enjoyed Mina's work up to now with some reservations about the last issue but I was on the disappointed wagon with this one.

Fell short here as well....

 

Should pick itself back up by next week hopefully.

...Corum is a fully-fledged necrophiliac...

Fully-fledged? How do you ease into necrophilia? Shagging the unwell?

What's that acronym that Charlie uses... well I've actually just spat tea all over my keyboard, thanks Jason - comic moment of the week... (everyone will probably tell me it's an old one now)

oops my head just fell off.

 

 

Zombie Letters from e-zombie.com

How could they possibly give it a happy ending?

 

oh wait, I can guess...

she escapes in the car at the end, goes round the corner to suddenly find Nicholas Cage, looking a bit scorched, trying to hitch a ride. She picks him up and as he gets in, dusting a few twigs off, he says "Never guess what happened to me, some crazy bastards actually tried to burn me alive, lucky I had my gun on me!"

 

I thankew.

Hellblazer #223

Fell #6 - it seems like a while since the last one? Not that it really matters with a title like this, in fact it suits its style to come along when it's ready.

 

 

Definitely have give Boys #1 a try (cue Sid James laugh)

and Phonogram #1 looks great.

Ade's belove Birmingham are off to a strong start in the Championship with two wins and a draw under their belts so far.

Yeh but put it in context - the draw was against Stoke, so they're going to need all your prayers folks!

 

 

Stoke have actually started quite well after the usual wobble against a team that no-one has given much hope to, although Southend do have someone called Eastwood shooting for them, so they might just feel lucky...

 

 

Anyway I'm in the fantasy league so c'mon the rest of you amateur pundits put your points where your ports are and get in there!

Have to agree with you on Shoot - not one of the best for me, but perhaps it would be interesting to hear others analysis of it.

 

 

 

I'm going to say it one more time in the hope they stay in there, #25 - Early Warning and #26 - How I Learned to Love the Bomb were all kinds of aces to me but a pain in the way of finishing The Family Man to others - discuss (I know they're not essential to the development of JC but they were right on the pulse of the time with the anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher feelings many of us harboured)

Wow just seen this - another fantastic piece of art, cheers Tim. Just wondering have there been any more noises on getting a book of prints out?

Between 3pm-5pm.

Roll call?

Only in spirit (Dalwhinnie) with a can of guinness, sat in a caravan in Wales.

 

 

 

Have fun and tell Mike to get his arse up to Liverpool for a signing of Vicious Circle in October.

I guess you Brits will never know the joy of seeing Jon Constantine cursing in your native tongue.

 

whadda ya mean, he's always cussing in good ol' Anglo Saxon..... [over-used word]bubble

 

 

 

ok, you've got a point.

Old codger gives labour what for... jolly good show sir.

 

People like this Wolfgang guy put me to bleeding shame, hats off to the old fella. I went on one of the peace marches but the rest of the time I've just spent bleatin on about it to (on the whole) like minded mates. Admittedly I'm guessing this guy is retired but he's doing something and yeh he'll be ignored by the bigwigs but what about the rest of us energetic youngsters (well 38 cough)??

 

Revolution it's the only answer, anyway motto for the week... Get off yer arse and do something.

 

 

Well that's enough self righteous bollox I'm off to get get packed for my hols

Nah two weeks of STRAIGHT TO HELL HOUSE and further debate.

 

But the general decision will be to start with #1

It's a good number to start with

 

 

 

I'll drop by to Hell House and see if they're any special guest slots when I get back, I expect the carnage will have started by then...

Weird, is there some reason this thread jumped back in time to last August or is Rod Serling messing with my mind once more?

 

Just wondering if there is a final decision on the six before I go off to Wales at the end of the week, as I'm sad enough to take them with me on holiday.

Fantastic news but if they'd have got his finger out (and his head, body, arms etc.) he'd have been born yesterday and had the same birthday as my monster!

 

 

 

Congratulations K Family, and I hope someone got Charlie suitably pissed.

I personally like:

 

#13 - On The Beach (Delano)

 

and

 

#25 - Early Warning

#26 - How I Learned to Love the Bomb (both Morrison)

 

but I know a lot of people don't rate them and they're not vital in the whole scheme of things, so I leave it up to you. I'm away next weekend so I'll probably miss the first show down anyway, still I could take them with me and be there in spirit. Maybe I could text a concise critique to someone

So did you touch cloth Charlie?

Noooo, didn't notice this, I found his books at just the right time for me. I think we had this coversation in the "things that are ace" thread or somfin like that, but Druss was an awesome character.

I would have given this a 9, but the GLARING, HORRIBLE CONTINUITY ERROR deducts two points for me.

I really like the way Mina writes, and the plot twist was cool. However, I have a hard time just erasing my previously read HB stories when reading this. It's different for series where continuity can be reinvented, but HB mostly hasn't done this, IMO. I agree with James that the editor is the one most to blame, but I can't help but lay some blame on Mina as well. Didn't she vehemently state how much she loved the series before starting the writing? ("I'd eat my own innards to write Hellblazer" or something like that...) The killing of the 2nd and 3rd is not a MINOR point. If it were, I wouldn't care one bit. (Straff's mum didn't bother me, to tell the truth...)

Red pretty much sums up my feelings on this, I have really enjoyed the story up to now, I didn't even mind the pacing (I loved the road trip, apart from the knife bit) but in retrospect with so many important plot devices thrown into the last two issues, then maybe the earlier issues could have been shoehorned into less episodes, allowing more room for exploring these rather big plot jumps. Maybe there is a reason for the reappearance of the 2nd and 3rd (they were always going to come back at some point and I quite like the idea that someone mooted earlier of them being almost lackeys to FotF) maybe it's going to be explained in the following issues, but chucked in at the end wasn't the best way for me. It can still come back around before the end of Mina's run though, she's a great writer.

 

 

 

Manco's art was sublime... that man is a true genius! And Bermejo's cover was fantastic, I think I read some arguments for his covers not being relevant enough to the story, if so I have to say I thought the sleeping with the dead theme perfectly apt.

I love comparing the current beat-up John with the well-groomed, double-breasted-suit wearing John from Swamp Thing.

He's had a hard life