A successful visit to the comic mart yesterday. Managed to get a few missing Titans issues, one of the two issues of Nightforce I was looking for and all of the remaining issues of Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern for £1 each.
Sadly there was no sign of The Crunch, Dice Man or Warlock.
Next time.
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So now I have those missing Green Lantern issues, I've started reading the Johns run from the beginning again. That means going back to Green Lantern Rebirth, a story which I finished today. Great art from van Sciver (He makes Batman look like a real bat) and interesting to see Johns laying the groundwork for Sinestro Corps two years before the event itself.
I read rebirth when it came out, but it's much more enjoyable to read in hindsight. The moment where Parallax senses a disciple of fear in Batman was great. What a top Sinestro Corps member he'd have made. Might yet happen.
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For anyone enjoying Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, I strongly recommend listening to his recent interview with John Siuntres HERE. He also chats about Criminal.
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More action figure based shenanigans from Will and Ben...
If you missed the first part, you can see it HERE
Top stuff.
Showing posts with label Sinestro Corps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinestro Corps. Show all posts
Monday, 4 February 2008
Friday, 25 January 2008
Things not to call your sketchbook
On my travels through the backwaters of e-bay I happened upon this oddity...
Now look, I know Ethan van Sciver based his Sinestro on Adolf Hitler, but does he really need to be naming his sketchbooks "Mein Kampf"?
Seems like an odd choice to me. Then again I've got a giant Nazi robot for a blog banner so who am I to criticise?
Now look, I know Ethan van Sciver based his Sinestro on Adolf Hitler, but does he really need to be naming his sketchbooks "Mein Kampf"?
Seems like an odd choice to me. Then again I've got a giant Nazi robot for a blog banner so who am I to criticise?
Sunday, 16 December 2007
shopping through the pain
"Beer then wine is fine" and, as LLC reader Coach McGuirk says, "Liquor before beer, never fear." BUT, beer at 11am followed by copious amounts of red wine, spirits and more beer until 10pm is just no good at all. It doesn't rhyme, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it makes you puke up and shit fire for most of the following day.
Happy fucking Christmas.
Still, it's testament to my devotion to the power of comics that even with a radioactive hangover I managed to make my stinking way to the comic shop on Friday morning. Sadly I felt too ill to spend long in there and forgot to buy half the things I'd come for, a mistake which meant I had to go back today to fill my nerd sack with more sequential goodies. Bah!
Wonder Woman cheered me up plenty. Basically it's Amazons v Nazis - can't go wrong there folks.
The cover alone is worth the admission price...
Honestly, I'd quite like to buy it.
Elsewhere there's a bumper sized conclusion to the Sinestro Corps War in Green Lantern #25. It's a comic which veers between brilliance and schmaltz and I can't quite make up my mind what I thought of it. There's still plenty to enjoy, particularly in the huge fight scene splash pages. But the whole "go get 'em uncle Hal" sequence in the middle is frankly vomit inducing.
As for the end? Well it's nice of DC to tip us off to their answer to Marvel Zombies a year in advance. I smell variant covers.
Astounding Wolf-man was good again. Building up steam nicely this one. I reckon it'll be massive by issue #10. Wait and see.
I flicked through the bumper sized 2000AD Xmas special. It looked terrible. Sigh. Apparently Rebellion have done some deal to make it available online from the next prog. I reckon they need to sort the printed version out first. Such a shame to see the Galaxy's Greatest continuing to disappoint
Happy fucking Christmas.
Still, it's testament to my devotion to the power of comics that even with a radioactive hangover I managed to make my stinking way to the comic shop on Friday morning. Sadly I felt too ill to spend long in there and forgot to buy half the things I'd come for, a mistake which meant I had to go back today to fill my nerd sack with more sequential goodies. Bah!
Wonder Woman cheered me up plenty. Basically it's Amazons v Nazis - can't go wrong there folks.
The cover alone is worth the admission price...
Honestly, I'd quite like to buy it.Elsewhere there's a bumper sized conclusion to the Sinestro Corps War in Green Lantern #25. It's a comic which veers between brilliance and schmaltz and I can't quite make up my mind what I thought of it. There's still plenty to enjoy, particularly in the huge fight scene splash pages. But the whole "go get 'em uncle Hal" sequence in the middle is frankly vomit inducing.
As for the end? Well it's nice of DC to tip us off to their answer to Marvel Zombies a year in advance. I smell variant covers.
Astounding Wolf-man was good again. Building up steam nicely this one. I reckon it'll be massive by issue #10. Wait and see.
I flicked through the bumper sized 2000AD Xmas special. It looked terrible. Sigh. Apparently Rebellion have done some deal to make it available online from the next prog. I reckon they need to sort the printed version out first. Such a shame to see the Galaxy's Greatest continuing to disappoint
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Green Lantern Corps #16
Green Lanterns Corps #16 is nigh on perfect. The only thing that could have made it any better is Dave Gibbons art.
To be fair to Gibbons he does a fine job as writer here, producing a script which packs in plenty of top quality planet on planet action (Mogo v Ranx. Yay!) and hordes of cool aliens punching holes in each other's heads.
It's a "Fuck yeah!" sort of comic that I would've loved at 13. Twenty two years later and it's just sweet to read something that doesn't attempt to be anything other than a straight up action comic. This, my nerdy young chums, is perfectly paced, throwaway excellence. Just what I want from a funnybook.
Highlight has to be the moment the Guardians decide it's time to stop pussy footing around and rewrite the sissy part of their blue boy bible...
Look at his eyes, just look at his eyes! Those lanterns might as well be $$ symbols. KERCHING! Time to kick some Sinestro Corps ass!
Sodam Yat goes all Jack Torrance
FUCK YEAH!
Woo-hoo!
Even the mega-cool, logical Mr Spock type Salaak turns bad ass with his new kill ring, incinerating him some baby bombs...
Awwwwwwwwww yeah! Green Lantern Corps are the comics bomb motherfucker!
To be fair to Gibbons he does a fine job as writer here, producing a script which packs in plenty of top quality planet on planet action (Mogo v Ranx. Yay!) and hordes of cool aliens punching holes in each other's heads.
It's a "Fuck yeah!" sort of comic that I would've loved at 13. Twenty two years later and it's just sweet to read something that doesn't attempt to be anything other than a straight up action comic. This, my nerdy young chums, is perfectly paced, throwaway excellence. Just what I want from a funnybook.
Highlight has to be the moment the Guardians decide it's time to stop pussy footing around and rewrite the sissy part of their blue boy bible...
Look at his eyes, just look at his eyes! Those lanterns might as well be $$ symbols. KERCHING! Time to kick some Sinestro Corps ass!
Sodam Yat goes all Jack Torrance
FUCK YEAH!
Woo-hoo!
Awwwwwwwwww yeah! Green Lantern Corps are the comics bomb motherfucker!Friday, 5 October 2007
Sickening...
...yes sickening! Sometimes I appall myself. How can a man of 35, with a young family to support possibly consider it right and proper to spend £43.73 on comics?
Seriously, I'm not Paul Gambaccini or Jonathan Ross, I can't justify spending extortionate amounts of dosh on comics every week. Heaven knows I'm rapidly running out of space to store the bloody things. And yet, when I go into Forbidden Planet and see DC Showcase: Wonder Woman volume 1 on "special offer" for a mere £8.99, well let's face it I'm going to buy it. After all, that's a bra-busting 527 pages of black and white Amazonian action, and what red blooded dork can say no to that kind of offer? Not me pal.
Similarly when I see volume 7 of The Walking Dead, I have to buy it. I can't possibly wait on Amazon to deliver me this one, it's going to get read tomorrow and that's that. Walking Dead = best horror comic nay best comic out there. Thankyou Mr spotty goth cashier here's my £8.50.
While we're at it have another £2.99 for 2000AD Extreme, because there is absolutely no fucking way I'm missing out on a magazine that collects the entire run of Mean Team, a future sport spectacular whose roster of characters includes a psychic panther drawn by none other than the mighty Belardinelli. Honestly it's awesome and I would have melted into a pool of man fat had I not come home with this in my grubby little nerd sack.
I probably didn't need to bother with Back Issue #24 or Alter Ego #72 after all they set me back £9.25 for the pair. Really, £9.25 for two magazines? Yes, really, £9.25 to read some fanboy pour his heart out about Amethyst Princess of Gemworld and Captain Carrot. Christ buying that shit officially makes me ill.
No matter, I will make myself better with a fine pile of floppies! Top of the stack and first on the read list is obviously Green Lantern Corps #16 or to give it it's proper title The Sinestro Corps War part 7. It's the best multi-part extravaganza I've read in years, or at least the one which features the most aliens beating shit out of each other in space. I love it, and as soon as I'm finished here I'm going to sit down and read the latest episode.
After that I'll move on to the second of the one shot tie-ins to the series: Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg Superman. Obviously I realise that the mere sight of me reading a comic with the words Cyborg Superman on the cover is likely to make my girlfriend realise she is living with a deeply unattractive social misfit, but that's a risk I'll just have to take.
Perhaps she will look more fondly on me for reading Action Comics #856: Escape from Bizarro World part two. After all there's nothing childish about reading a comic co-written by the man who directed the Superman films and drawn by adult favourite Eric Powell. Very grown up.
As is Midnighter #12, a comic which features a gay super-hero. Oh yes, nothing frivolous about spending £2 on that, especially when you read it in conjunction with Detective Comics #837.
Mercifully this issue of 'tec sees the return of Paul Dini to writing duties. I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the last two issues, but after the drivel on offer in #835, I've yet to be able to face #836 and might just leave it to go yellow and unread in the corner.
That's a fate that definitely won't befall either Lobster Johnson #2 or Modok's 11 #4, two titles which pack as much fun as is humanly possible into comic form. I'll be bagging those little beauties up and adding them to the hundreds of other expensive funnybooks which are slowly taking over all the much needed space in our flat.
Huzzah for comics!
Seriously, I'm not Paul Gambaccini or Jonathan Ross, I can't justify spending extortionate amounts of dosh on comics every week. Heaven knows I'm rapidly running out of space to store the bloody things. And yet, when I go into Forbidden Planet and see DC Showcase: Wonder Woman volume 1 on "special offer" for a mere £8.99, well let's face it I'm going to buy it. After all, that's a bra-busting 527 pages of black and white Amazonian action, and what red blooded dork can say no to that kind of offer? Not me pal.
Similarly when I see volume 7 of The Walking Dead, I have to buy it. I can't possibly wait on Amazon to deliver me this one, it's going to get read tomorrow and that's that. Walking Dead = best horror comic nay best comic out there. Thankyou Mr spotty goth cashier here's my £8.50.
While we're at it have another £2.99 for 2000AD Extreme, because there is absolutely no fucking way I'm missing out on a magazine that collects the entire run of Mean Team, a future sport spectacular whose roster of characters includes a psychic panther drawn by none other than the mighty Belardinelli. Honestly it's awesome and I would have melted into a pool of man fat had I not come home with this in my grubby little nerd sack.
I probably didn't need to bother with Back Issue #24 or Alter Ego #72 after all they set me back £9.25 for the pair. Really, £9.25 for two magazines? Yes, really, £9.25 to read some fanboy pour his heart out about Amethyst Princess of Gemworld and Captain Carrot. Christ buying that shit officially makes me ill.
No matter, I will make myself better with a fine pile of floppies! Top of the stack and first on the read list is obviously Green Lantern Corps #16 or to give it it's proper title The Sinestro Corps War part 7. It's the best multi-part extravaganza I've read in years, or at least the one which features the most aliens beating shit out of each other in space. I love it, and as soon as I'm finished here I'm going to sit down and read the latest episode.
After that I'll move on to the second of the one shot tie-ins to the series: Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg Superman. Obviously I realise that the mere sight of me reading a comic with the words Cyborg Superman on the cover is likely to make my girlfriend realise she is living with a deeply unattractive social misfit, but that's a risk I'll just have to take.
Perhaps she will look more fondly on me for reading Action Comics #856: Escape from Bizarro World part two. After all there's nothing childish about reading a comic co-written by the man who directed the Superman films and drawn by adult favourite Eric Powell. Very grown up.
As is Midnighter #12, a comic which features a gay super-hero. Oh yes, nothing frivolous about spending £2 on that, especially when you read it in conjunction with Detective Comics #837.
Mercifully this issue of 'tec sees the return of Paul Dini to writing duties. I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the last two issues, but after the drivel on offer in #835, I've yet to be able to face #836 and might just leave it to go yellow and unread in the corner.
That's a fate that definitely won't befall either Lobster Johnson #2 or Modok's 11 #4, two titles which pack as much fun as is humanly possible into comic form. I'll be bagging those little beauties up and adding them to the hundreds of other expensive funnybooks which are slowly taking over all the much needed space in our flat.
Huzzah for comics!
Friday, 27 July 2007
Sinestro Corps - Enter Sodam Yat
From chapter three of The Sinestro Corps, Green Lanterns Corps #14...
Yes something makes him fucking special! This...
Oh man another glorious fanboy moment at L L C Towers!
No doubt Alan Moore was having a bit of a laugh when he slipped a character called Sodam into Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2.
"Sodam in a mainstream 80's DC comic book? Nah you'll never get away with that Al?"
But he did, and now Sodam's back and Mr Moore's prophecy outlined here is taking shape nicely.
Apparently it's been mentioned before. I've only recently returned to Green Lantern though, so I missed issue #11 of the current run which recreated the original prophecy page. Compare and contrast...
Oh and now we've got Sodam Yat, can we please have the rabid polar bear too? K thx bai.
Yes something makes him fucking special! This...
Oh man another glorious fanboy moment at L L C Towers!No doubt Alan Moore was having a bit of a laugh when he slipped a character called Sodam into Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2.
"Sodam in a mainstream 80's DC comic book? Nah you'll never get away with that Al?"
But he did, and now Sodam's back and Mr Moore's prophecy outlined here is taking shape nicely.
Apparently it's been mentioned before. I've only recently returned to Green Lantern though, so I missed issue #11 of the current run which recreated the original prophecy page. Compare and contrast...
Oh and now we've got Sodam Yat, can we please have the rabid polar bear too? K thx bai.
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