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so, at the ebginning of they year i thought this might be fun and i've actually kept up thanks to my local library. so far i've read (in order)
Week #1
New X-men Vol. 2
This title focuses mainly on the "new" students at the x-mansion and the occasional hunt down of a new student by one of the "real" x-men. wolverine is faced with bringing home a very ungrateful future student and cyclops is in space enrolling the help of xorn, the healer. meanwhile jean and beast continue to save the school fomr "U-men" who, inspired by the book, the third species"(or some name like that)literally take body parts from mutants they've captured to implant them in fellow U-men for their powers. not what I expected when i picked up a book called new x-men which is really just "x-men" renamed for a couple months meaning they were rebooting the series for new readers?!? anyways, charles xavier is out of the storyline due to his sister's (that he tried to kill in the womb)- (they were twins) evil actions taking control of him. apparently he knew she was evil even back then. so the plot was...different to say the least. the art was stylized to look a certain way, which looked alright until you would see the occasional panel where he would make jean or emma (frost, also a big part of the new x-men series) just look ugly. the writing was strange and i didn't really enjoy the overall path of the book. (charles can walk! gasp) if you're getting bored with normal x-men titles, read this, not because it's good, but because you'll love normal x-men titles after this.
i give it a 2 out of 5.
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Charles Xavier was able to walk before like back in the 80's. Stories go in circles I guess.
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Fantastic Firsts
This collects all origins from the Fantastic Four to Ant-Man to Namor to the Howling Commandos to the Silver Surfer! It has Nick Fury, Captain America, Spider-man, everyone's origins! Even the first issue of the wolverine: origin story. While it has the usual dialogue and art of the comics from the sixties, i was really surprised about a lot of the origins for characters. Basically every story by stan lee, it was a really informative read and i was astonished to see how all of the titles back then really strung together into the avengers forming. I also noticed the change from monsters being popular, to more capes, capes, and capes. Iron Man and the Silver Surfer's origins really shocked me and showed a whole different side of the marvel universe. Datredevil's origin was particularly sad too because you could read between the lines and see how tragic it was despite it's watered down for children appearence. I advise you take the time to read this huge beast of a book at some point, it's probably more informative than the marvel encyclopedia! what really made this collection special were the forewords to each issue by one of the men who wrote, inked, drew, or anything on that issue, or worked later on that character. they had some really interesting insights on the characters and the times (ahem, mosters to capes). especially the foreword to x-men #1 (i was surprised to see only 5 original x-men living in the school) where (whoever it was) compared the x-men's situation to discrimination against race.
so you can't judge it by it's art or broad storylines, but you have to respect how stan the man was whippin out all these titles at once from nothin' relyin on his artists to piece together his plots in times when stan and his fellow creators thought comics were about over for good. so i highly recommend to read this at some point to witness the turning point in comics forever that was the marvel age!
5 out of 5
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Sounds awesome!
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Week #3
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
this was just EERIE. it had that abstract type of art you see in some comics with the occasional scriblle a sort of messy painted look. batman goes into arkham asylum under the patients (who've taken over the asylum) request. sounds promising but it was dark, blurry (quite literally) and the intertwined backstory on arkham (the actual guy that made the asylum) was just dark and strange and not very entertaining. it would switch between the stories without warning so i had to go back a lot to find out if i was reading the batman part, or the arkham history part. overall, batman goes through a mental struggle to keep his sanity while inside and the villains hunt him. in the end everyone pretty much goes free. includinng the batman and very little is acomplished throughout the whole story. one thing interesting was harvey dents pyschiatrist explaining how they'd given him a deck of cards to give him more choices rather than the coin. this had shattered his will power and personality though so he was really insane now. it was pretty much one of those books that when you get done reading you go, what jsut happened?!? why did i waste my life on that?!? and you desperately yarn for a sunny day considering the whole thing took place in the deep, dark, arkham asylum. starngely enoguh this was written by the writer of the week #1 book, new x-men. except this was written back in the 80s. he's definitely got a wide range of stuff. another funny thing, this reminded me of neil gaiman's odd, abstract style and he was in the "special thanks to" section. he apparently also posed for one of the weirder scenes where batman stabs his hand to keep "mentally awake." so, it was a lame book overall, for me anyway.
i must really not take to morrison's stuff, 1 out of 5.
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I got some pretty decent Batman books I hadn't read yet in a 25 cent box at my local comic book shop. They were the Batman Knight Quest books when Batman had his back broke. I wouldn't have paid full price but for 25 cents a piece it's pretty decent reading.
That storyline must have went on forever. I think I got about 15 books and it's only part of the story.
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Week #4
Btamn: War Crimes
The return to noraml comics, yay! contains batman # 643-644, detective comics #809-810, and some stuff from batman allies secret files 2005, and batman villains secret files 2005. this recent short volume was consistent in the art are mostly and the story was good once it got going. once it got going... the beginning showed basically a review of events so far as the skull villain guy (can't remember his name)plotted out his plan to rule the underworld and ruin batman. batman's currently the center of hatred for gotham city due to the death of robin (stephanie brown, weird, i know). he claims to have delivered her to his secret doctor place in time forher to have lived, but with the skull going around dressed up as batman doing evil stuff, it ben hard to clear up his reputation. and a news TV show definitely isn't helping either. plus, where does the joker fit in?!? and why can't batman reach his secret doctor friend (that old lady who always helps batman in comics as a doctor)?!? so overall it was the usual batman story with good art depsite the random switch at one point (or atleast it looked like it) and then the switch back to the awesome art. also the first isue in it was odd because after the skull guy's overview of events, there were two quick stories thrown in randomly. one about a cop, and one about robin and batgirl finding out about the news release of stephanie brown's (oh, yeah, she was the spoiler before she was robin)death witch had totally different art thant he rest of the book?!?! so it ould've been better if it was so jumbled in the beginning and it was easier to discern between issues. the ending was interesting but a little disappointing as a long time bat assistant (i won't say any names) turns out to be evil, revealing the key to the story. joker's part was written in well thoguh.
it seemed great after reading the arkham asylum junk, but looking back i think it's only worth a 3 out of 5.
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and don't feel obligated to check out each review, it's as much as a journal for myself chrinicling my new year resolution as it is reviews for the site. so if you see an interesting review, go ahead and read it, but don't feel obligated.
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Cool, thanks for posting them. It's a great help for the site.
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| Posted: 20 Feb 2007 18:15 Last Edited By: SuperDude |
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Week #5
Thor Vol. 2: Lord of Asgard
This seemed promising after my reading of Thor's firast appearence and Origin in Fantastic Firsts. However, I've never really read Thor, and this somewhat recent volume was highly confusing. let's just say there's a reason marvel's taken thor out of the picture for awhile. most takes place in asgard where thor is seperated between living up to expectations on the throne(odin having died recently), and feeding his hunger for action and love for midgard (earth). jake olson, thor's alias has been seperated form him to live a normal life on earth and watch over thor's sister (replacement for thor on earth). he wants to be thor again (who wouldn't) and still has his old memories as thor. this was hard enough to swallow for someone who never even knew thor was to be king of asgard (me). the story was somewhat boring, the run of the mill story about one of marvel's less realistic chracters. jake finds a magic mirror that turns him into thor again, but him and the real thor have weaker abilities now, so the real thor must settle this issue on earth, further angering his citizens up in asgard. all the while, thor's sister has been turned into stone, and jake, trying to save her stumbled onto the magic mirror that turned him back into thor. so in the end, jake's thor-ness is ripped away returning the real thor's full strength and his sister is restored but he still must deal with angry citizens in asgard. at the very end he says he's gonna combine midgard and asgard to give the humans of earth (midgard) something to work towards. this ofcourse left me in confusion so i eagerly turned the page to find the back cover. yes, it was amazingly frustrating to be left in complete confusion having read the whole mediocre story.
ordinary but consistant art with a mostly flat story throughout and a "what the heck?!?" ending that gives it a disappointing 2 out of 5.
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yeah, i hate it when they stretch stories basically as filler's and don't just get ton then point of it. some batman stories seem to wind around a little too much, sort of like that thor story.
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Week #6
The Sandman: The Doll's House
After my extreme disappointment in Sandman: Endless Nights (see my review in SuperDude's Comic Book Reviews) I wasn't too eager to try another one of Gaiman's Sandman Yarns. However, seeing as he's SO critically acclaimed and endless nights was an epilogue to the series, i decided to read this one, being the second in the sandman series. i expected low and was pleased to see a stroyline that continued despite a twisted (twisted, not twist) ending and many unanswered questions. the art was typical of it's time (1990 i think) and the story was too weird to really explain. Sandman's the keeper of the dreamworld and rose (the heroine) is trying to track down her brother for her mom and grandma (who's dying) while staying at an apartment full of strange inhabitants and a landlord who dresses up as a woman named doll for his plays. (hence the name doll's house). it was very artsy in some spots with dialogue and full of abstract artsy covers to each issue but atleast it kept a storyline going, nomatter how weird of an ending. i guess when you expect really bad, you can be pleased more when it's OK. the reviving factor of the book was one issue that was totally irrelevent to the rest of the book where the sandman is in a bar in about the 1600s give or take a few hundred. he sees a man who says he won't die, "everyone just goes along with death." so the sandman says lets meet back here in 100 years then. they do again and again and it's entertaining to watch the man's fortune change from good to bad to great, etc. and the sandman's hairstyle and clothes change with the times. they even see william shakespeare at one point being ridiculed by some random playwright and taking it. the sandman makes "a deal" with him which gob (the man who never dies) notices a couple meetings later. (all meetings are 100 years apart incase you forgot). it goes until about 1990 when they meet again as friends and the issue ends. totally irrelvent but a fun issue. that and black speech balloons for the sandman made the book a bit interesting, but don't get me wrong, unless you're really into that "out there" stuff, you won't like this. i only found it mediocre because of my LOW expectations.
it scrapes a 3 out of 5 thanks to the irrelevent 100 year meeting issue.
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Week #7
New X-Men Vol. 4: Riot at Xavier's
This is grant morrison and frank quitely back for another new x-men book. much like the first, the main x-men aren't the focus of the story and the art maintains it's same look. the book also deals mostly with "new mutants" who aren't on the x-men. you can kinda see what I mean about the art making the women look weird occasionaly when you look at jeans head shape on the cover of this. anyways the plot was about mutants takin' a drug called the kick which makes them feel powerul and causes a really smart telepathic one to become paranoid and lead a group of fellow students on a killing spree against humans. there excuse is a mutant fashion designer (who's clothes they where in their gang) being killed by humans (which of course is hardly true, he died form the kick as is later revealed). so they kill some humans and cause some trouble on open day (humans are visiting the school) and start a small riot which is contained by one of emma frost's prep girls stopping them. charles would've done it but they captured him using an opposite magneto helmet which disables charles telepathy. meanwhile, xorn takes "special" (in the bad way, for instance a mutant that looks like an old lady despite being a little girl) mutants on a camping trip where they run into U-men and each finds what they were missing. that was probably the better part of the story, making it better than the other new x-men book, but nothing great all the same.
I suppose new x-men's just not my style, 3 out of 5
after all these low grade reads, i'm beginning to think i should've given war crimes a higher rating. hmm.
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You know, I like that Batman War Crimes cover. It reminds me of like a classic 1940's movie poster.
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Week #8
Forgotten Realms: Legend of Drizzt Book II: Exile
From the popular fantasy series, Forgotten Realms brings their most popular character to comic book form! They've done a good job adapting this title into comic form while maintaing that fantasy book feeling. I've only read the beginning of one of the actually novels, but this story has a narrative (like old comics sort of) so it gives it the feeling of a fantasy book, but without all of the descriptions. For instance it could say he spent many months in the underdark and just have a few panels of stuff he did, rather than doing what the novels would've by describing the months. so it was a different style of comic book but nice for a change. it was 3 issues (each larger than normal comics though) and despite the first ones somewhat slow start by the second issue it really kicked off. that, and i realized and accepted that the whole thing was gonna takle place underground and in the dark. it had good characters and art that went perfect for it. drizzt is an exile dark elf (evil species, much like vampires with the whole families make up the tribes and armies, who live underground). he chose exile over their evil ways, and after surviving in the dark wild of the underdark (underground) he goes to the city of enemy race...(i forgot their names but they're very similar to dwarves and after months of distrust, he finally wins their trust. he finally gets a happy home when word comes of his family hunting him so he's forced to leave but his new frined from the city comes with him. the rest of the book has them being hunted by drizzt's revived father who's being controlled by drizzt's evil mother who wants him dead. so it was definitely interesting! i liked the new type of comic style for a change and was glad to get a story with a decent storyline after some of the stinkers that i've been reading
fun read, but the slow beginning holds it to a 4 out of 5. oh, and don't read this when you want a sunny book.
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Week #9 (yeah, i'm that far behind)
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
After my reads of Moore's impressive Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke along with great admiration for the V for Vendetta and Leaue of Extraordinary Gentlemen movies (based of his books)I figured I couldn't go wrong with this. I was WRONG. Gotcha! It's good stuff. It actually cost me less than a first printing of The Killing Joke which is funny considering that this contains a reprint of it. So it was overall worth it for the excellent Batman story. It has a great opener with the Superman story, "For the Man Who Has Everything" where it's Supes B-Day and Batman, Robin (Jason Todd I think), and Wonder Woman are heading into the Fortress of Solitude for his B-Day. They get there and he has a flower parasite thing strapped to him that puts his body and mind in a coma and causes him to dream of how he wants things. It makes him "content." Ayways the insight to Clark dreaming he's on Krypton is interesting while Batman and Wonder Woman try to get it off of him while defeating some evil alien dude that put the parasite on Supes in the first place. It's an interesting stoy that provides insight into the minds of Superman and his villains. Other stories include some random short ones about the Green Lantern Corps and some other random tales of little significance. A Vigilante story in their wasn't that great and there was some weak little 8 page fillers. Another Batman story about the third Clayface was also a bit weak. But don't let these fool you, thy weren't horrible (except for maybe the clayface one)they just weren't great. This volume truly succeeds with the last Superman Story ever told. In the 80s right before a reboot of DC's characters they did a mock last couple of issues where they pretend it's the last isssue of Superman ever and everything is wrapped up. It was truly great and could have effectively been the last Superman story ever told. I was satisfied with the ending. And then the book ends with the Killing Joke which is perhaps the best Joker story ever, as almost every comic creator would agree (according to a Wizard Magazine article). It truly defines the Joker/Batman relationship and may even be Batman's definitive story. The best part of it is the history in how the Joker became the Joker. A particularly great line is the Joker saying how one bad day turned him into the Joker and then saying to Batman while engaged in fight, "You had a bad day once didn't you." So overall this is worth it for the great Superman stories (including one where the Swamp -Thing save's Supes life, can you really pass that up?!?) and the great Batman story, especially if you like mid 80s DC comics, or Moore's writing style.
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Week #10
Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation
I was in the mood for some Ghost Rider (I still haven't seen the movie!!!) so i picked up this tpb. The art was awesome and I knew I could count on Ennis for being true to the character (or atleast the gruesome part of the character). It had some great art and covers and was overall an interesting, though gory, plot. Problem, the Rider Gets out of Hell due to a deal with a crooked Angel named Malachi. He does the deed, racing a fat demon and an archangel, but he's back in Hell. The deal was a scam. Yeah, I was like what?!? I paid $15 to get no real character background on the Rider and no real story tht went anywhere. It was like an episode of Heroes, bery little actually took place in the continous Ghost Rider plot. I like Heores, but they're episodes don't cost $15 and 3 hours reading. However, it was entertaining and sets the stage for the new ongoing series, but it didn't really get anywhere. Plus, he's Ghost Rider throughout the whole thing so it lacked the superhero feeling about it. I guess that's what the Ghost Rider really is but I was still hoping for a little more of a conventional read. Then again, it's Garth Ennis, I should probably smack myself. The art however, was done by the guy that did the cover of the tpb and the series and was absolutely awesome. Sort of a painted, comicy feel to it. It's almost worth getting to admore this guy's beautiful Ghost Rider poses. Especially when the Rider is about to get smashed by a bus, that sequence was pretty awesome. I just like the bulk of my comics taking place on Earth, call me old fashioned but...it was different.
The art gets it a 3 out of 5.
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Week #11
300
After the amazing movie (probably the best non-superhero action movie since the matrix) I couldn't resist the comic book that built it, no matter how badly it fit into a bookshelf. This is a wide hardback because he originally drew everything in double page spreads. That actually adds to the fun of reading it because it opens the comic genre up into huge pictures and battle sequences. The movie, all things considered was better, but still would have been nothing without this. Frank Miller was also a co-director so I'm sure he added some things into the movie that didn't quite fit in the comic. I was shocked to see that many of the more far fetched themes of the movie (the immortals monster, the flute playing goat, the fat, axe-for-hands executioner) that i thought were only in the movie because the comic book had them, weren't in the comic book! Most of the great lines however were in the book including the "fight in the shade" line, but excluding them laughing about that when being rained on by arrows. The book also excluded the back story with the queen trying to rally the Greeks assembly. It focused on the battle March and actual fights and told the story of Leonidas past in flashbacks. Some points that the movie left out were Delios's stories. In the end (of the film)he mentions Delios's ability to tell stories, though you never hear the stories in the movie. The comic book frequently shows him at camp telling stories to the men. The comic also includes an opening scene of the captain's son tripping and then getting punished for it and being called, "Stumblios" rather than Stelios. Other than that they were very similar, especially the sequence where the messengers of Persia come to Sparta, given the Queen wasn't in that sequence though. The Spartans weren't all quite so buff in the book either, with a few skinnier ones here and there. The books also better emphasized how many mne like the Arcadians came to help with about a 7,000 total that mostly leave once the goat path is found out. It also showed how the Persians plowed through the small fleet guarding the goat path. Other than that it was just like the movie which is what I paid for. The art of Frank Miller, despite it's praise from other creators and critics is a selective style that I like, but conventional comic fans won't neccessarily. So, a great story, fresh art style, and a wide screen, enlarged view that makes this comic a lot of fun and lets you relive the classic lines from the movie over and over. Oh, and the movie had bit more action but that's expcted considering the book really focused on getting the story and idea out and too much comic action would have detracted from that. It maintained a satisfying amount of hardcore battle sequences.
I'm sure I would have appreciated it even more had I read it before the movie improved on an already great comic. THat, and since it inspired one of my favorite movies of all time, I've got to give it a 5 out of 5. Especially considering some of the garbage I've read so far this year. But that's my rating and few would rate it so highly due to being somewhat of an aquired taste. It is Frank Miller after all.
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oh, and one more thing that slightly detracted, 'long shot' views of some spartans relaxing (sleeping, etc.) had some nudity, not in detail or anything, but definitley there.
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I probably asked this once already, but on the movie would you consider it as grose as Sin City or would the gore be more like quick action cuts and on to something else like say Underworld?
Cause Underworld didn't bother me, but Sin City freaked me out. Of course Underworld was just monsters getting cut up which bothered my wife but usually doesn't affect me at all because I tend to look at it as fake.
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Ok, I made it through Private Ryan ok, but I really love WW2 movies. The Patriot with Mel Gibson had some bloody moments too and I liked it. I'd prefer to see a guy get killed and then take the camera away instantly though. I don't know what's with all the realism.
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Week #12
Pride of Baghdad
WOE.... Checked this one out from the library to read a graphic novel not about superheroes. Made for mature readers (and for good reason) I figured Brian K. Vaughan was worth a read seeing as he's done good with the Young Avengers (despite rumors that two of its members are gay, that's an opinion by other gay people). Anyways, I know what you're thinkin, this is some communist anti-war book abusing the graphic novel medium and slamming America. It's not though, it's just the story of some lions that escape from the Baghdad zoo. A happy little kids book. Not today! This book is a crazy, depressing story. The twist--the lions escape because we bombed the zoo in our 2003 siege of Baghdad. It's gory too. This is based off of the true story about four starving lions looking for food in a pulverized Baghdad. The art is amazing! It delicately shows the beautiful forest of Baghdad to the horrible ruins of the city. The lions (who have dialogue with each other)have this story told from their point of view, including animal instincts and all. I felt the book was accurate in its depiction of how the lions would react overall. The story doesn't go many places (plotwise) and contains underlying themes of, I don't want to say "anti-war," but it definitely doesn't glorify war. And it shouldn't, it's not a game , fortuneately however, I don't think the writer wasn't going all anti-war on us (but again, I don't think any of the Young Avengers are gay either so it may be an issue of opinion). One thing that truly mkes me sick is the naive anti-war protests from people who don't even know what they're talking about. The job had to be done, if not now, then later. Anyways, the book doesn't accomplish much as far as the story of the lions, but provides insight on what it must be like being ruled by dictators forcing us to take control of the situation. And it would STINK to be bombed in our own country which is why I'm so proud of our revolutionary past where people like Mel Gibson in The Patriot (I think that was the Revolutionary war) fought for our freedom. That's why our troops are SO awesome taking the fight to them, and it's wrong for naive protesters to complain just because they're to dense to undestand why we're fighting. So, the book really makes you think, if nothing else. It makes you really appreciate freedom and our great country. Brian K. Vaughan told how the lions were eventually shot by U.S, troops but doesn't point the finger like they're bad guys, after all they were hungry lions, what would you do . And again, the art was awesome and provided a great mood to the book, especially since it wasn't inked. I don't think it was anyways. I wouldn't advise reading it becauase it was depressing and I appreciate freedom enough without reading gory and depressing graphic novels with allegorical themes. Kinda makes you bummed out. But it may be good for some people who take freedom for granted.
I prefer superhero comics, but if nothing else, this goevs credit to ocmics as a complex medium rather than just kids stories. So, for its elequate art and effective use of allegory without going too anti-war on us, I give it a 3 out of 5. I'd never read it again and it was just a bit too one dimensional for a 4, allegory and thought prevocativeness doesn't make it great entertainment.
oh and, I don't mean to offend anyone, peace out
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