Blimey! You scared me. The title had caps and an exclamation mark, I thought I'd open it and it'djust say "f%^& off!"
Short story: I dunno, I'm two weeks behind on the old comicola front . OKComicsman has a copy stashed away for me though. This means I still have your Spidey/Human-Torch book. Many apologies but it will return to you! (It was supercalafragalisticexpialadocious) together with the Byrne.
Did you like the JLA Classified arc? I thought it fell to pieces like loo paper in a hot bath at the end. But Slott's name was down as just "plotter" by then, so I don't blame The Slott.
Slott's newbie has had some super stinky reviews on Da Interweb and it sounds like someone in editorial's given him a bad idea to execute as well as he can. So what I need to know is:
What did YOU think to Avengers: The Initiative? Hmmmm?
Anybody else read it?
And Hey! Mr Collector how ya doin!?
(We've gone "wireless" recently and I keep losing my "connection" but hopefully this will post unlike the last two attempts.)
im doing grand glad you liked spidey/torcho. yeah didnt really seem to end did the jla classified should have just been one ending or at least in some sort of i dont know distinguisable order.
lets just say the initiative to write the story wasnt slotts he managed to make it ok however not very good in comparison to anything else he has done.
Ah Collector! Glad you are grand. And working with OKComicsman is obviously rubbing off on you: "worth a try though" - your Comic retailer-fu is strong! Once I have had a good read of it I'll be back to give my verdict. Shall it live!? Or shall it die?! I know! You're all on tenterhooks now! Oh, Mr Nimbus, you are worthy of Doom! in your cruelty! My copy of Officially The Most Beautiful Book This Month is still in the sweaty hands of OKComicsman. I was planning on hyping it to The Frantic Forumites but having never read it decided this would be ethically wrong. But, Gil Kane!, Craig Russell!, Roy Thomas! and Monkeys (Apes)! How can it be anything but sublime! Have you read it? Has anybody read it? Is it fantastic or is it not? No jungle book! No Blade (CHAYKIN!)! No comics = bad juju. Bah!
Got to be honest I'd forgotten I'd got this when I picked it up on Saturday (it's reprints from the original Marvel Fanfare from the 80's if I remember correctly) but it's still sumptious artwork that warrants re-reading.
We have sold a grand total of 'no copies' of Marvel Jungle Book this week. And my hands are not sweaty, they're clammy. Who drew the cover to Amazing Spider-man 145? cos I've got a framed copy of the poster on my living room wall and it's not signed by any one and I wanna know?
See that! That's impressive that is. You go Collector, you go!
"no copies" - You're just twisting the knife now, clammy hands. I'm buying one and I think Nimbus is, so that's two copies! Two! God, that's disheartening. I'm not crying it's just <sniff> dusty in here.
We have a Mark Rothko print on "our" wall. I'd rather have Spider-Man #145 sho' nuff. Swapsies?
Hey LC ASM 145 wasn't that good a cover and was deriavative of an earlier Ditko (ASM 29) although a few of the ASM covers from this period suffer from that.
I just looked it up, and you are right. But, it is a fine Spidey figure by The Gilster and much better than "Earth and Green" (but I am a philistine). Strange choice for a poster isn't it? I bet you knew which cover it was using soley the power of your limitless mind. Which is all kinds of impressive.
Hey! OKcomicsman how come you get to decide what goes on the wall? I have an American Flagg! lithograph rotting in the garage and need advice on how to get it hung up. I am not master of my own home!
Maybe Mr Nimbus could post us a review of Jungle Book and help get some copies shifted. If he's finished building missile sites that is. Howsaboutit Mr N?
No swapsies on the Spidey poster, sorry. I've had it on my bed room wall since the early 1980's, along with a Captain America Jack Kirby poster. Now they are both framed and in pride of place in the living room. We've got lot's of Veronica's pictures in the house too. Though, if she ever leaves me, the Geof Darrow print is going up too.
Maybe we had six copies of Jungle Book, not five. We may have got an extra one in the previews pack. There's 4 left on the shelf, I only ordered 5. Incidentally, we've sold 15 copies of the Civil War graphic novel in the same amount of time.
Avengers: The Initiative #1. This was okay, I reckon, on the whole. Setting up Superheroes as some kind of branch of The Military Industrial Complex makes sense in the new post CW “no-fun” “badly thought out analogies” MarvelU. So, boot camp beckons and all the boxes are ticked off accordingly. “Tough But Fair” Drill Instructor with a nice line in funny profanity? Check! Mismatched Individuals learning to forget their differences and work for The Greater Good? Check! The Horrific Cost Of Combat driven home? Check! And so on. And on. Competently done but unsurprising, says I.
However, there are a few bum notes. Comedy German dialogue doesn’t sit well with the semi-serious tone. Hydra suicide bombers? Kind of funny or kind of tasteless? I can’t decide. Building the camp on the site of The Stamford Disaster shows Americans do understand irony, or maybe it doesn’t. And some of these new powers are a bit desperate. My favourite was @ss Flowers (In times of stress he produces flowers out of his @ss). Hopefully he will get his own series and an @ss Flowers: Origins spin-off. (Avengers fans may wish to note that The Avengers appear for one and a half pages and Henry “Hank” Pym gets on a bus, says something then gets off the bus.)
It is lifted up a notch by the chant “No More Civil War!”, which I may adopt for myself, and the truly chilling “Nothing Happened Here!” moment. In fact there are some good moments throughout. Nice clear art helps proceedings too. So yeah, The good outweighed the bad and there was nothing really heinous, so I’ll be back for more. I give this Six Point Five Slotts on The Slottometer.
