tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post3316361251351659081..comments2024-01-02T09:18:23.893-05:00Comments on Written World: Still a bit wrapped up in my real life.Ragnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373059673228550524noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-46929649476847602082008-06-19T11:23:00.000-04:002008-06-19T11:23:00.000-04:00Don't worry about the leave of absences you may ne...Don't worry about the leave of absences you may need to take when Real Life Attacks! We'll keep checking in and reading whatever you post because you're entertaining and well-reasoned. <BR/><BR/>And you've convinced me to pick up Bru's cap run in trade now, so your work here is, obviuosly, done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-63220214703583413052008-06-18T22:03:00.000-04:002008-06-18T22:03:00.000-04:00He was just lost? ;-)Like Johnny Thunder when he a...He was just lost? ;-)<BR/><BR/>Like Johnny Thunder when he appeared in Sand's dream with the other deceased JSA-ers: "I'm not supposed to be here!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-30866349168832087322008-06-18T07:11:00.000-04:002008-06-18T07:11:00.000-04:00I know, I know...this is why I don't share more of...I know, I know...this is why I don't share more of my opinions about comics, you know. Because they are deeply hurtful and joy-crushing. :) Seriously, everyone other than me insists that the way Brubaker handled it made it work, and I still feel that the concept is so unworkable that it drags down an otherwise stellar run of comics by trying to make it fly.<BR/><BR/>Sorry.<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and the other thing I don't like about the Bucky retcon? HE'S DEAD. :) Brubaker keeps saying how they never showed the death, how it always happened off-panel, but he doesn't explain exactly what Bucky's soul was doing wandering around Death's realm in Avengers Annual #16. :) )John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221569513392130884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-67402319292227432242008-06-18T04:48:00.000-04:002008-06-18T04:48:00.000-04:00Seavey, you just called my new comic book boyfrien...Seavey, you just called my new comic book boyfriend a bottomless pit of lame.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I thought the concept was worth an eye-roll when someone told me about before I read the series. Seeing how he managed it, and did it well is part of what impressed the hell out of me. I've been holding back from a "What I like about the Bucky retcon" post since everyone did those back in 2006, though, but there's an appeal that goes beyond the formula with this retcon. It's just handed well. There's a complexity and subtly to this that takes it beyond "Grim and gritty" 90s redesigns, and the character is actively progressing towards balance instead of wallowing in this.<BR/><BR/>Aridawnia -- I've been savingthe "set out to walk the earth righting wrongs and kicking ass" path for my retirement, actually.Ragnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373059673228550524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-81995459941306230372008-06-17T22:33:00.000-04:002008-06-17T22:33:00.000-04:00Well, darn. My money was on alien abduction (with ...Well, darn. My money was on alien abduction (with a hedge bet on "set out to walk the earth like Caine in <I>Kung Fu</I>").<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though, <I>Captain America</I> continues to blow me away. Nowadays it seems like most writers have a half-dozen issues' worth of story material and then they sort of sputter out. The way Brubaker continues to not only keep all the balls in the air but add new ones...you're right, it does remind the reader of <I>Starman</I>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-3828542860611530222008-06-17T19:55:00.000-04:002008-06-17T19:55:00.000-04:00I sort of have a love/don't love (I won't call it ...I sort of have a love/don't love (I won't call it hate) relationship with Brubaker's Cap. On the one hand, I think he really understands the character in a way that we haven't seen in ages. Not just Cap, but all the characters. His Red Skull is practically definitive (which is why I don't believe Steve Rogers is dead, because Brubaker writes the Red Skull too well to have him just decide to gun Cap down in the street. The Red Skull doesn't want to destroy America, he wants to destroy America <I>while Captain America watches.</I>)<BR/><BR/>But on the other hand, the pacing is just brutal. Even following the series in trades, it still feels like very little happens in a single book; I realize that decompression has become the norm nowadays, but when six-issue chunks start feeling like single issues, and slow-paced single issues at that, I start wishing that Brubaker had an editor that would prod him along, just a little.<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and I'm just never going to be able to get behind the Winter Soldier. "Grim 'N Gritty Cyborg Assassin Bucky" is just such an inherently silly concept to me that Brubaker just cannot make him work for me no matter how hard he tries. He's like a bottomless pit of lame; no matter what you throw in there to fill it up, you're just throwing good material after bad. I am aware, though, that I am distinctly in the minority here.)<BR/><BR/>(I also feel the same way about "Grim 'N Gritty S&M Speedball", but that's a whole other story.)John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221569513392130884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-23077310220233507962008-06-17T14:45:00.000-04:002008-06-17T14:45:00.000-04:00Ragnell! You're NOT being tortured on Qward! But...Ragnell! You're NOT being tortured on Qward! But yes, real life can be time-consuming, which is why you should always have something to read stuffed in your purse.<BR/><BR/>Comparing Captain America to Starman is high praise indeed. Perhaps I should wend my way back towards Marvel, and start picking this up.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-46154421876197092352008-06-17T08:25:00.000-04:002008-06-17T08:25:00.000-04:00Aww, I was kind of hoping you had become a time-tr...Aww, I was kind of hoping you had become a time-traveling lesbian where you fight for the justice of unprivileged people in society, and so you went undercover for a reconnaissance mission for S.H.I.E.L.D., where you were to spy on Mr. Quesada, and see what kind of donuts he eats and what brand his khaki jackets are.<BR/><BR/>And <I>that's</I> why you were gone away for so long.<BR/><BR/>But apparently not. I get it - Mum's the word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-77188256122218840902008-06-17T05:26:00.000-04:002008-06-17T05:26:00.000-04:00Equal to Starman? Wow. Strong praise indeed. I'...Equal to <I>Starman</I>? Wow. Strong praise indeed. I've read some of Brubaker's run and been tempted on occasion to get one or two of the trades. But I always put it off...<BR/><BR/>And thats not a knock on it. Its a quality super-hero book. But <I>Starman</I> is the only series I've bought three times. There are a couple where I bought the floppies as they came out or hunted from the back issue bins (Morrison's <I>Animal Man</I>, Ennis' <I>Preacher</I>, Ellis' <I>Transmetropolitan</I>, Robinson's <I>Leave it to Chance</I>) and then traded up for the TPBs. But Robinson's <I>Starman</I> I bought when it came out monthly, then got the trades as they came out and now am getting the big expenisive Omnibus editions...<BR/><BR/>Anyways, good to see you back online...LurkerWithouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540770911478925992noreply@blogger.com