Chris O. Biddle
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Official Member of the Showmen's League Of America since 2007.
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Post by Chris O. Biddle on Mar 6, 2007 16:19:57 GMT -5
Man, I dig me some Promethea. Lord, but that's a deceptively good book. Moore was swinging for the bleachers in every issue. And there was also a very palpable feeling of "make sweet love em if they don't get it. I am writing this for myself. Maybe it'll make sense to some people. But this is for mainly for me to work out my feelings on the supernatural. In a comic book form." And that's damned exciting to me.
Starman is also just as good, if you want amazingly complex story construction laid over your cape and cowl books.
Also, I just read Book 1 of TESTAMENT on a comic book store clerks reccomendation. I want my 10 bucks back. They effed up a perfectly functional future dystopian story with Giant Robot Ants and a lot of other Vague Science. Which pisses me off. Also, the Bible. Who effing needs that crammed into their comics anymore?
Which makes me rethink his other reccomendation, "The Exterminators". I'll stick to my Fables and Y: The Last Man trades, thankyouverymuch.
Cheers, COB
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Post by Hendo the Showman on Mar 6, 2007 16:29:30 GMT -5
yeah, I've been reading Testament, and I'm just about ready to drop it. It's just too much. It's like a beginning improv scene, where you get a great start out of the first three lines, but they keep adding more stuff in and adding more stuff in, so where you had a nice scene about a young couple and their first Thanksgiving to start, and you end up in a frikkin' U-Boat.
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Chris O. Biddle
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Official Member of the Showmen's League Of America since 2007.
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Post by Chris O. Biddle on Mar 6, 2007 19:35:39 GMT -5
Really?
Because I just thought it was like a shitty comic.
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Post by Hendo the Showman on Mar 7, 2007 11:08:31 GMT -5
Oh, this is it. This is the last f'in straw...
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Post by dan on Mar 7, 2007 11:52:13 GMT -5
Yeah, that's pretty dumb.
I was never that into Cap so I'm not offended or anything. But killing off a hero is stupid. They're a freakin HERO, you know? Let them retire or disappear. It's more befitting. Death is just too sensational and cheap.
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Post by jasperT on Mar 15, 2007 11:29:03 GMT -5
I think they ended the civil war with Cap dying b/c they wanted to show the cost of America's pointless wars is the death of the American spirit and the American dream.
The reason they let Tony Stark win and are ushering in a new era of Big brther is so that way they can explore this totalitarian government and show its flaws.
I don't think they are telling us to listen to the govt. They are saying, watch how f***ed up this is going to get now that the "good guys" are in charge.
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