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It's incoherent garbage. About as bad a comic as I have read in the last 20 years. Just a jumbled bunch of nonsense thrown at the reader without a lot of rhyme or reason. The artists are talented, things look cool, but the story is hollow and the characters unlikeable and dimensional in the extreme. Is this a post-post-modern joke of some sort? I feel like I am being played.
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There's also: Guardians of the Galaxy (all new), Carnage (all new), and I am going to pick up the first issues of Venom (all new), and Spidey (which starts this Wednesday).
I have a friend from the job I just left who we went to the comic store every Wednesday for our lunch break. Good times,
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Although I have been hearing his name for a few years now, this was my first time reading anything by Remender. It was rough going at first, opening en medias res. The story is about dimensional travelers trying to get back home after their travel device has been sabotaged, and the opening scene gradually covers the basics while the protagonist is racing through an alien environment while pursued by hostile locals. The action is fast-paced, the dialogue conveys considerable information without resorting to exposition, and everything seems very chaotic. Then everything abruptly became crystal clear, and then there were more shocking revelations. The pencils by Italian artist Matteo Scalera are very nice, with a distinctive flair, and then the colorization really takes it all over the top in a good way.
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Update: Google was able to retrieve the now two-year-old thread: fortressat.com/forum/43-books-comics/141...ow-what?limitstart=0
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Despite being a renowned comic book fan, I had never read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing beyond the first volume...until now.
I am now into volume 3 and I can't describe how this book is enriching my life at the moment. I've fallen pretty hard out of superhero books, even those to feature my spiritual guide, Batman. While I would never call Swamp Thing a superhero book, it's the closest thing to one that I've read in a long while. It's been like a constant feeling of, "Oh yeah, that's right, that's why I like this stuff." It's been like rediscovering something about yourself that you'd thought you'd lost.
So like I said, I'm now into the third volume, the second was incredible. The "Arcane trilogy" as Neil Gaiman refers to it in the introduction was the finest piece of horror writing I've ever seen in a comic, and one the best pieces of horror I've seen anywhere. "Pog" was also really great, and I like how something that could have easily said, "Shame on you for eating meat" turned into, "Yup, that's just how nature goes." I'd been aware of the hype behind the last issue in there, the quasi-sexual experience shared between Swamp Thing and Abby, and while I thought it was remarkably well done for something that really shouldn't have worked at all, the bar was already set really high by the stories that came before it.
I kept dreading the possibility of a dated feeling give-hoot-don't-pollute story, and there it is, "The Nukeface Papers." I just finished the first issue of that arc and while it seems pretty heavy handed so far, it still way better than I would have expected. I guess I might hit a point where I'm not surprised, given that these stories were written by The Grand Master himself, but I'm not there yet. Early verdict is that these might be my new favorite comics.
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Also, regarding the controversy when Vietch left the book, it wasn't just an incongruous appearance of Jesus in a mainstream comic book that alarmed the editors, it was seeing Jesus crucified directly upon a cross made of Swamp Thing (because, y'know, the cross was made of wood, and wood is a plant). They figured that out-of-context image might get some bad press.
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Jason Lutes wrote: Steve Bissette and I co-teach a class up here in Vermont, and it's always fun when he brings in pages from that run to talk about his penciling and inking technique. The kids in the classroom usually have NO IDEA what they're looking at.
Are you in Vermont now? I thought you were teaching in Oregon?
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metalface13 wrote:
Jason Lutes wrote: Steve Bissette and I co-teach a class up here in Vermont, and it's always fun when he brings in pages from that run to talk about his penciling and inking technique. The kids in the classroom usually have NO IDEA what they're looking at.
Are you in Vermont now? I thought you were teaching in Oregon?
I came here to post that I just read a Cold War graphic novel called "The Coldest City" which apparently is becoming a movie, and takes place in East Germany. Then I Google stalked Jason Lutes and he has an entire series based on Weimar-Republic Germany called Berlin. Wow!
I also read the first book in the Mind MGMT series, which was pretty good.
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After that you get art from Joe Madureira (I might have gotten that right), who is pretty awesome.
As for the book itself... it's pretty standard stuff. It has that awful comics writing style in which every character references every other character by name, all the time, since they know people have no idea who they are talking about.
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*As if anybody in the Marvel Universe ever stays dead.
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metalface13 wrote:
Jason Lutes wrote: Steve Bissette and I co-teach a class up here in Vermont, and it's always fun when he brings in pages from that run to talk about his penciling and inking technique. The kids in the classroom usually have NO IDEA what they're looking at.
Are you in Vermont now? I thought you were teaching in Oregon?
Been in Vermont for... 8 years now. I was in Seattle before that.
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