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Pretty sure they will - maybe around Christmas, the first issue is very snowy. Im just impressed with how much they put into #1 - the characters, the premise with a nice twist, the way the story is told, jumping back and forth in time - and none of it feels forced, or like its written for a trade. It feels like someone telling you a kickass story and going on tangents, while sometimes flashbacks are like "ok FLASHBACK, we need to show some shit from the past". Here its much more personal. yeah, anyway.. i'm obviously in love. Also, i bought issue one when it came out - and just read it, then rushed to the store to get #2, but all they had was #3 - so dont feel too bad :)

Kill or be Killed - a perfect first issue of a comic book. Great pacing, narration, relevant, beautiful art.. get it if you're on the fence

*I know it came out like months ago, i just got around to reading it :)

And - Duh,its Brubaker and Phillips, of course its good - except this one- is just perfect and also surprising. They recapture that feeling you got reading Criminal for the first time.. this is good.. holy shit! This is goood!

You guys will be happy to know about All Star Future Shocks - it collects a bunch of Morrison, Milligan, Gaiman etc stories - its pretty great!

I feel quietly blessed to witness this show. Not only is the script tight, light and understanding of the character and actually building on the best ideas in the best Constantine stories, but Matt Ryan carries the shit out of it on his back. He has the small gestures and attitude down, makes everything exciting to watch, loaded with Constantine magic just right.. thank you to all people involved in making it. Holy Shit Hallelujah

Pretty goddamn perfect for me, really enjoyed it. Matt's performance is getting scary good, love the pace of it, the self contained stories, music.. cant be happier with it at this point. Usually i like my fav things to fly under the radar, but i will promote the shit out of it and talk friends into hopping on, because i want it to continue for a good while.

Not bad. It was the first one i watched and it didn't make me jump with excitement but it was decent and did not stray from the idea of who John is. Inclusion of several obscure Hellblazer artifacts was a pleasant hint that creators of the show actually look at the source material. I give it a 7 and expect to grow.

Couldn't resist buying that beautiful Critical Mass myself, such a great package of stories, great new cover and Sean Phillips' art very, very close to being the defining look for John, or at least the mood of Hellblazer. I love that wacky Delano story. Never read the Campbell stuff, and it turned out to be really enjouable (again, Sean Phillips never hurts). It seems like the death of the real John gave us the resurrection of Hellblazer in a sense, with all those trades available now.

Still here, thou not reading many new comics.. i guess i gotta chime in on Snyder. It seems to me that he grew up watching the 80s horror movies and uses similar cliches in his writing. It can be used to great effect when treated with fondness and a wink (Cabin in the woods), but with Snyder.. there is no joke. He pulls a gigantic cliche, but there is no wink. He wants you to take this seriously, and that applies to a lot of his stuff, but strangely, not all. His Detective was really good (though it doesnt hurt to have Jock and Francavilla killing it on the art), but the new 52 Batman he does.. just a tornado of cliches, i tried, many times, i just couldn't. "And then he falls out of the window. But guess what?!! He is still alive! And comes back! And you wont believe it - he is the mastermind! AND he is Bruce's long lost brother" I just can't, please no more. Then The Wake was good again. So what is it Scott? Isn't it about time for some Two Face story?

Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like my kind of thing.

Hope you like it, even if you have to download it to read it - i bought the first issue, then read the next 2 online, and went to the store to buy all of them, because i would feel like an asshole if i didn't. I even bought issue #3 twice, with different covers, which is something i've never done before.

Is anyone else reading Deadly Class? If not, do yourself a huge favor and do so. Rick Remender knocks it out of the park here. You thought Black Science was good? Me too. Deadly Class is on another level. I think it has to do with the face that RR is digging deep into his personal experiences from the 1980, there is just so much honesty, pain and real fun. It reads like hanging out with good buddies. I'm amazed it took so long for someone to come along and do something like that.It is also beautifully unique visually.

The first issue is not a bomb, so stay with it at least for another one or two. Very highly recoremendered!

It's so bizarre that DC is now reprinting those relatively obscure titles, with characters that aren't currently making them any money. Those books seem like the opposite of what DC are now publishing, with 40 Batman-centered books and crossovers put together by marketing Illuminati that stretch into one another with no end in sight. And yet we get The Spectre, Delano's Animal Man and The Martian Manhunter, who hasn't had a title of his own in forever and is being publicly mocked by one of their own writers (in a way, right? he did write that Superman story).

That Martian Manhunter was also written by Ostrander, the first 9 issues are now collected.

Ok, not really a recent thing, but i read the first 12 issues of John Ostrander's run on The Spectre. It was my first encounter with both the writer and the character (not counting The Spectre being used in countless comics over the years as an indicator of things being very serious and baaad). I was very impressed with the story and art. It has a distinct 90's feel (and i mean the good 90's stuff) where each issue delivers a story or a theme that is being dealt with over 24 pages, but also moves multiple plot points over a larger arc. It really should have had a Vertigo label on the cover, because there are some seriously messed-up visuals and stories there. It's like Batman meets The Punisher, with a bit of Hellblazer thrown in. Tom Mandrake does a consistently great job on art. Hope DC gets the rest of the run in print.

Catching up on Hawkeye and Prophet. Won't be saying anything new, they are both great, read them. Also found "The Lone Stranger", a trade reprinting Daredevil by Nocenti, Romita and the masterful Al Williamson on the inks. DD has been really lucky with the creative teams. One of the first artists working with Stan Lee was Wally Wood.

Hopefully if the show takes off and the character gets some fresh legs, someone will come up with a bright idea for a Vertigo series Constantine MAX :)

It is still tempting.. that face on the cover.. so familiar, so inviting.. :) i can't read DC though, everything except Wonder Woman, i stay away from.. thanks

After reading only issue #1, i forgot/lost interest/had to feed my cat/fell asleep.. Is it worth reading after?

The 2nd Moon Knight was a kick in the nuts indeed. After starting so well with no.1, we get an issue that must have taken whole 10 minutes to write, even if Declan Shalvey does his best to salvage it.. it's just not enough. i missed ellis visiting ny by one day, he was hanging out at some bar on the 9th, i read his blog on the 10th.

Thanks for sharing. This was more interesting to read than pretty much any DC comic in the last 2 years, and makes it pretty clear why DC sucks so much right now. Bravo Paul Jenkins

One page of Summer of Love, and I remember that comics can be good!

They are milking the concept as much as they can, while not bringing anything new or exciting to the table. Ever since the Hell oN Earth thing, it's been one big blur, and reading in trades doesnt help - i read Return Of The Master in one go - and all i got from it is soldiers going up a mountain and shooting monsters, hack'n'slash Diablo style, before getting on top of the mountain to fight even more monsters.. and then in the end a BIG monster comes out.. or something like that..

It all feels a bit stale, forcing myself to read BPRD, which i used to enjoy a lot.

Constantine #1 - that was not bad! I really like the characterization of John - a few steps ahead, good bullshit that can be mistaken for honest truth - and those things work really well with the supporting character of Chris. I like the pace and the art team does a really great job. It's pretty refreshing to see Constantine traveling - i got an X-Files vibe when the taxi got to the frozen hotel. Or a chapel. Whatever that was.

The tone isn't very serious, the premise simple, reminds me of Pirates of The Carribean - but i enjoyed that movie, so i have no problem with the simplicity here. It seems that some nasty stuff will still take place. I like that John was who he is in the end - it might be a cliche by now, but i was worried that they would try to turn him into Batman. I enjoyed it for what it was, much more than i expected to from the previews.

I had to think twice whether this was a part of the movie or you somebody fucking around with the image, Did you use some photo manipulation to do those explosions or is that custom brushes? Love Photoshop myself, some shit i did here http://wilkonrad.deviantart.com/

Well, so this is it. No more Hellblazer, no more John as we know him. Even though heroes die all the time and keep coming back, we know this one is not. Not the way he should anyway. Maybe because he was not a hero.There was a time and place for John Constantine when he could be what he is - an inconvenient truth, a mystery. There is no mystery in comics anymore. No place for unsettling ideas, because they don't sell. So this one, he may not be coming back. It's okay. Makes him even more real and unique.

The sendoff issue did nothing for me. No emotion whatsoever. It happened, that's about it.

Thanks for the ride, it will be weird not to look forward to Hellblazer in the future.

Milligan is writing a LoTDK arc. Was his last Bat-tale (from Batman Confidential) any good"?

 

 

I really enjoyed that story, it's called "The Bat and The Bear" or something like that. It has beautiful work by Andy Clarke, fun dialogue and the Bear, a Russian monster, working for the mob. There is actually some depth there, it has one of those weird characters Milligan used to come up with back in his Detective stories, where you feel sympathy for the weird creature/enemy. The Bear is very memorable to me to this day, and i read it a few years ago. Read through the first 10 pages if u can, if u like the tone, it's worth buying. And it has an awesome Jock cover.

Yup, that was fucking great. Makes me appreciate Miller's storytelling on a whole new level.. but the animation, the voices and music all come together beautifully. I liked it more than Rises also. Somehow Rises feels a bit pretentious compared to this. DKR is what the myths are made of.