Getting Back to Comics For a Minute
Feb. 4th, 2011 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineOkay...I keep meaning to get back to discussing comic books here. It's supposed to be a main focus of my attentions, right? Not only as one of my favourite reading media forms, but the one I still entertain my best hopes of earning an honest living in.
(beat)
Right.
So, there's a few series - in print and online that I've been keeping an eye on of late. None of them have my hand in them, but you might want to have a look at them if you're not already doing so.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Paul Levitz having returned as writer of the series, and the characters living up to their name in terms of sheer numbers having indirectly prompted the revival of Adventure Comics and subsequently directly annexed it for the purpose of ensuring a broader canvas on which to work.
Having the broadest canvas of the 31st Century of the DC Universe on which to work, Levitz and his artistic partners are doing a solid job of picking up more or less where Levitz left off after the end of the "Magic Wars" arc a decade or two back. I'm happy with this, watching all the poking around going on. Earth, Durla, Winath, Orando, Avalon, and points elsewhere...
(I'm still convinced that there's room for more than one version of the LSH to see print on an ongoing basis, thanks to the revived multiverse, and I look forward to peeking back in on those other versions from time to time...in due course.)
Secret Warriors: Thanks to Marvel Editorial for giving Jonathan Hickman this particular set of toys, centred around Nick Fury, as well as his past with...
SHIELD: The idea of this organization having ancestry going all the way back to ancient Kemet - what we Anglophones still insist upon calling "Egypt" - and ensnaring the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Howard Stark, Nathaniel Richards and Nikola Tesla along the way?
I'm having fun. I don't quite understand all of what's going on here, but I'm having fun.
Iron Man: Matt Fraction, I offer thanks for bringing a new focus to Tony, Pepper, Rhodey and - to my happy surprise - Mrs. Arbogast of all people!
Galaxion:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ttallan brands it a "romance". I call it a mystery.
I think we're both right. And joining in the comments chatter is part of the fun, too.
Quantum Vibe: Written and Illustrated by Scott Bieser. Set in a 26th Century where humanity's taken the solar system, uplifted a number of its companion species Brin-style, and now Nicole Oresme is looking to make a few changes, starting with a new job taking her out of L-5 City - yes, it's where you think it is! - to work with a physicist she's only just heard of.
When she gets to Mercury...well, better you go back to the start of the series and see for yourself!
More to follow in irregular installments...and over to you!
(beat)
Right.
So, there's a few series - in print and online that I've been keeping an eye on of late. None of them have my hand in them, but you might want to have a look at them if you're not already doing so.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Paul Levitz having returned as writer of the series, and the characters living up to their name in terms of sheer numbers having indirectly prompted the revival of Adventure Comics and subsequently directly annexed it for the purpose of ensuring a broader canvas on which to work.
Having the broadest canvas of the 31st Century of the DC Universe on which to work, Levitz and his artistic partners are doing a solid job of picking up more or less where Levitz left off after the end of the "Magic Wars" arc a decade or two back. I'm happy with this, watching all the poking around going on. Earth, Durla, Winath, Orando, Avalon, and points elsewhere...
(I'm still convinced that there's room for more than one version of the LSH to see print on an ongoing basis, thanks to the revived multiverse, and I look forward to peeking back in on those other versions from time to time...in due course.)
Secret Warriors: Thanks to Marvel Editorial for giving Jonathan Hickman this particular set of toys, centred around Nick Fury, as well as his past with...
SHIELD: The idea of this organization having ancestry going all the way back to ancient Kemet - what we Anglophones still insist upon calling "Egypt" - and ensnaring the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Howard Stark, Nathaniel Richards and Nikola Tesla along the way?
I'm having fun. I don't quite understand all of what's going on here, but I'm having fun.
Iron Man: Matt Fraction, I offer thanks for bringing a new focus to Tony, Pepper, Rhodey and - to my happy surprise - Mrs. Arbogast of all people!
Galaxion:
ttallan brands it a "romance". I call it a mystery.I think we're both right. And joining in the comments chatter is part of the fun, too.
Quantum Vibe: Written and Illustrated by Scott Bieser. Set in a 26th Century where humanity's taken the solar system, uplifted a number of its companion species Brin-style, and now Nicole Oresme is looking to make a few changes, starting with a new job taking her out of L-5 City - yes, it's where you think it is! - to work with a physicist she's only just heard of.
When she gets to Mercury...well, better you go back to the start of the series and see for yourself!
More to follow in irregular installments...and over to you!
