So if you've been reading... hopefully someone has since I haven't been posting much, I've been catching up on the comics and I've pumped out quite a few including Batman and everything that could be considered a Bat-book, Superman and everything under that category and now I've started on Green Arrow. All in all I've read almost an entire box of comics which if you're a comic nerd/collector you know that those boxes can store a lot of comics!
So Superman... where the hell to begin with this mess? Well I've already covered Superman the series but as for Action Comics... well good luck figuring out any kind of time line. In-between the actually interesting Johns, Donner, Kubert run is a bunch of fill in stories that do 1 of 2 things. 1) prove my theory about Busiek only being as good as his artist or 2) bore the crap out of you and make you wonder what the hell's happening with the series. I'm actually very confused as to what's happening with the Kryptonian Invasion and I'm wondering... what the hell did I miss? Now he's on Bizzaro planet? Seriously what's going on? Otherwise it's a damn good book, not the best Superman I've ever read and Kubert's art is... not very fitting. I don't know if it's the colorist or if it's just him but the art is just not there.
Probably the best Superman book I've read so far was Superman: Confidential #1-5. I was disappointed that the storyline ended with issue 5. It's just a classic Superman with a hint of a modern twist, but was one of the most rewarding books I've read and I hope they finish the storyline. Cooke and Sale are a perfect team and I hope they do more work in the future.
As for Green Arrow, geesh, where to begin? I read like 15 issues of this book and still really think you could have trimmed it down into like... 5! I will continue with an open letter to Judd.
Dear Judd Winick,
I know that you were upset that you were taken off of Batman and that you probably could've milked the same storyline for at least 2 years much like you've done with GA. In fact you pretty much continued the storyline from Batman into GA which was pathetic, lazy and spiteful on your part. GA is now the poor man's Batman only he's a sucky character thanks to you. You were probably one of the only writers that spent the year after One Year Later explaining what had happened in that year... Let me tell you... it was boring to read about the mystery year. Back to the Batman thing since it's bothering me. I just find it so ridiculous that you continued your really bad Red Hood storyline into GA it was so half ass and not even worth it at the end. You taught Speedy a lesson? Great... to bad she's a hollow character because you write her one dimensional for the most part or she's just GA's Robin since all you do is try and make her look better than Robin instead of making her, her own character. Also I know you're friends with Brad Meltzer who did a great job with Deathstroke in Identity Crisis but you are not Brad and you're Deathstroke is not cool. He talks to much, he's not that scary and frankly I think anyone could take him in a fight if you weren't writing him. Also I'm pretty sure you're gay and know someone with HIV, which I have no problem with other than the fact that you shove it down peoples throats every time you write a comic. Lesbians in the Outsiders, Homosexual's getting beat up in Green Lantern, HIV in GA when do you stop shoving? This goes for everything, no one wants to hear your view constantly, whether it be religion, sexual preference, or cookies. We get it stop the shoving you're not doing anything about the issue by putting it into a comic. Also the fight scene between GL and BC was pointless and pathetic and seem so out of character for the both of them that I couldn't help but laugh... a skip a few pages forward. Upon receiving this I hope that you'll just start writing you're own characters that way you can see how hugely successful you are..n't.
As a note I'm not reading the new GA series as I find it to be a complete joke and waste of time. If they had relaunched it with a different writer then I might have checked it out but after reading his last GA I really don't see the point and have to say that it was a bad move on DC's part to leave him on the book. Maybe when they wise up and replace him I'll give it a shot.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Superman, Action Comics, Green Arrow and why Judd Winick should probably retire from comics
Thursday, October 11, 2007
MADE the cut - Catwoman and The Outsiders
Surprise, surprise, there's actually a few books that made my chopping block! I won't go all rant crazy on them but yeah I was actually surprised by these two books. I still have my gripes with them on a few things but sometimes I have to take into account that they aren't meant to be read back to back like I'm doing but rather month to month. Catwoman's book was probably the second best book to tackle the One Year Later fiasco and actually make it work. Lopez's art on the book is consistent and very fitting, not only with the writing but also with the character. It just goes to show that sometimes a book just needs a constant team to produce a good book rather than a thousand different artist and writers taking a stab at it one month to the next. I strongly believe that that's what's wrong with comics today is that they companies don't lock down these creative teams but rather throw there up and comers on struggling books or use them as fill-ins and say, "Prove yourself!" they also do the same with the superstars only this time they say, "Make it sell!" Myself I have given up on reading a book just do to the writer and definitely due to the artist. Yes I will give them an issue or two to see if it's worth reading but I know longer cling to the theory of well they were good once they're good always. Back to Catwoman though, I haven't read the newest issue yet and the next issue has her stealing from Bruce Wayne for some reason and her life as Selina is completly gone and that frankly has me really interested. What interests me more is her role on the Outsiders which I just got done reading and was like wow, two books that I like tying into each other... alright, good going DC. Even if the creative team changes I'll still give this book a chance since it didn't make me feel like I had wasted my money collecting it for a year and never reading it.
As for the Outsiders, they almost didn't make the cut. But then Judd (I have to make a least one character Gay in whatever book I'm writing) Winick got booted off the book and things really started to turn around. I like the concept of the Outsiders, I like the team and wish that some of the members were still on it. I like the fact that Batman's leading it. In fact I wish he weren't even on the Justice League and I don't like the fact that DC's going the way of Marvel and making all the heroes register and keeping tabs on them. The joy of DC has always been that it just seemed magical, all these made up cities with these characters that the people in the world loved and respected. DC isn't like the real world so don't make them like that. The Outsiders are going this way to, but at least its interesting and the team auditions were some of the best Outsider stories I had read in my year and a half of collecting and not reading any of the books.. spree I guess you could call it. I do hope that they add some other members that are more interesting, I liked the fact that it was always a couple of really well-known characters mixed with a bunch of B and C-listers.
Both books really caught my attention I just hope they keep it, but DC may have gotten me for another six months to a year and unlike Robin and Nightwing I feel these books have a point rather then just giving the fans of the character something to read and be disappointed with.