Mrdukey

Started on Rasl. Three issues in. Smith is class. He makes comic story telling look deceptively simple. As I'd only read Bone in colour reprints I'd never noticed how Eisneresque his artwork can be. OK maybe that's a weak excuse but I didn't draw that comparison before.

Badger was best in the Bill Reinhold days. He's a forgotten writer these days but I thought his Punisher was superb. He had a damn long run on it from memory. And of course Nexus. I'd like to see a live action series or movie of the Nexus story. I know Rude was trying to get an animated series going and while I'm ranting he was such a sweet artist in his prime.

Oh one last bit - the new Nexus stuff in DHP has not really got me excited.

Cool. How about Badger? Or Baron's run on Punisher? I've got him as a friend on Facebook which is a kick cause I was into all his stuff when I was a teen.

Hi Newtype. Yes it is. Are you a fan?

I see, when the masses are happy they deny the Baytor his hate, but when they need the Baytor-hate they attempt to appease him.... very well then.

 

Yes I still fucking hate Tim Bradstreet and find the man a fraud. I would find his art harmless if Punisher-covers everywhere weren't covered with rivulets of crusty sperm from the masses of geeks and critics who seem to jerk off hourly to what look like pictures of Tommy Lee Jones in like 6 poses with way too much shadow and a skull on his t-shirt.

 

So in closing, fuck Tim Bradstreet, Greg Land at least seems to do some form of actual drawing albeit a limited amount but some rather than trace, add shadows, and t-shirt decals. I may decide to hate him later.

You know I've been scouring the internet for more Tim Bradstreet hate and no one does it quite as good as you. Thanks again. I needed to know I'm not alone on this.

This was a very enjoyable comic for its short lifespan. I hope it gets resurrected at some stage.

Incognito thirded....Brubaker really nailed it.

Ok so I just finished the Highwater and Ashes and Dust arcs (174).

To be honest I don't think I like Azzarello's Constantine. Towards the end of the Paul Jenkins run, when it was known that Jenkins was wrapping up and Ellis would be coming on board, the editor at the time wrote how Constantine takes on a lot of the writer's personality when they are on the title. If that's the case Azzarello must be a bit of a dick. I can't wait for the next author but I'm determined to read it all in chronological order.

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Derren Brown is hit by allegations that Apocalypse 'victim' is an actor

• The Channel 4 show's star, Steve Brosnan, studied acting at college
  
• His Twitter page is linked to an actors casting database
  
• Claims he 'is very passionate about performing'
  
• Brosnan posts picture of himself 'filming' a BBC pilot on his Facebook page
  

 

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It's ambitious to say the least. Either to genuinely convince someone the world has ended or to convince the audience that is genuine......

Here is an earlier stunt where he 'tricks' a woman into thinking she has died in a car crash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntoix9JcDig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-59VkppgsI

Did anyone see the first episode of this yet?

Derren Brown sets up an apocalyptic scenario for a 21 year old slacker.

The first of a two-part show, Apocalypse unleashes Derren Brown's most audacious plan yet - to convince one person that the planet has been devastated by a catastrophic meteorite strike, that lethal infected now roam the land and he is one of a mere handful of survivors.

 

Our 'survivor' is someone who takes life for granted, and has yet to truly value what he has. The adventure that awaits him is meticulously crafted to give him the ultimate wake-up call, and teach him valuable life-lessons.

 

Will he rise to the challenge?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnvhQH9LvU[/media]

This guy decided to display his wares at a feminist rally in Brazil

This is the one I'm thinking of:

As you can see it says 1 of 4 but it ended up being 5. The covers were just jaw dropping for the time.

He did the first _ issues of the first Secret Wars series which captivated me as a kid but he must have had trouble even then because he was then replaced by Bob Layton who following on from the sweet forms of Zeck jolted the visual senses of at least one ten year old. I recently .read a blog entry by Shooter where he described Layton as butchering Secret Wars.

Zeck had a big hand in kickstarting the Punisher's career. His artwork in the initial mini series was astounding but once again the fifth and final issue was drawn by someone else.

I went and saw Charles Burns and Chris Ware tonight, two guys that I greatly admire. They talked for a couple of hours, had a slide show and took questions, then just sort of hung out. There were only about 50 of us there, it was really, really cool.

 

Charles Burns is definitely a little crazy, in a great way, and Chris Ware is just brilliant. He had this bit on the way that time flows in the reader's head when reading a comic, and moving out and in on the Z-axis (which is hard for me to explain, because I am not brilliant) that pretty much blew my mind.

 

It was a good night.

Hi Thrizzle.

Did the question of a movie adaptation of Black Hole arise? I read that Fincher was attached and it seemed a pretty good fit but maybe it's in limbo now?

Cheers

Probably right under my damned nose! Brisbane's really not that big as far as capitals go. Now I get to pull an Irish and go read through the AU run to take slight cultural pride.

 

I still have to read the Ellis run too, infact. Tangential(but seeing as I've not even mentioned Bradstreet...)- Did you read Planetary?

I've read a couple of issues of Planetary but so little that I really haven't got the gist of it yet.

I've read a bit more of Transmetropolitan and some black and white steam punk thing from Avatar. I wouldn't say I've read enough of Ellis to tell if the massive plaudits he receives are justified.

also: Jumbie reminded me years ago that after Ennis' 40 or so issue run, he did return (sadly with a different artist, but i wanna say Fabry still did covers? maybe not?) for a short run called "Son of Man" or the like, nothing amazing but enjoyable.

 

oh yeah before i forget again:

Yes that storyline buffered the Jenkins and Ellis runs and was a lot of sick fun. And thank you.

nice Zeck tribute:

 

 

Mike Zeck is a superb artist. I gather it takes time to draw that good because he's never really stayed on any series too long (has he?).

The Jenkins run was when he went to Australia right? among other things?

 

I enjoyed that run a lot. In fact, I think it was where I lost my Hellblazer virginity. (Well, maybe not. I did encounter Constantine for the first time in the Books of Magic mini.) I think there's an issue in there with a ghost pilot that I really enjoyed and one called Widdershins too that was kind of fun. I may be remembering wrong on all this... Actually been a while since I read this stuff and the issues are all locked in boxes until I have more rack space in the library.

That's right Jumbie. Jenkins, who was living in Brisbane when writing Hellblazer, takes him to Australia in one of his better arcs on the series. I thought he had a few good stories but towards the end of his run I found myself losing interest. To be frank I'm surprised he lasted three years on the series. He filled every panel with words and words yet I still know nothing about the supporting characters.

Heh. Paul Jenkins to me is very hit & miss. I haven't read his Hellblazer stuff but historically I've not read it in a continuous run but just happened upon particular arcs and creative teams- Ennis & Delano's run was what put me onto Preacher, Azzarello's onto 100 Bullets and so forth. I read some of Mike Carey's stuff and it was okay despite not being a big fan of his. I have the entire series digitally, so I just have to sit down at some point and wade on through irrespective of creative team.

 

 

And you're totally right. NOT only did I try to correct something I was wrong about but my bookshelf is clearly out of chronological order. DOUBLE FAIL.

 

Jenkins did some fine work for marvel - inhumans, wolvy: origins, sentry etc.

 

i still think i like ennis' run on Hellblazer best, it was a giant cohesive story...Ellis didn't get to do that, and azarello was enjoyable but spotty (see also: mike carey).

I agree with you guys. I rate Delano/Ennis the highest. I'm still on Azzarello. I was looking forward to Ellis and as usual it was technically pretty good but goddamn it was dark - is there a well known reason why his stint was so short on the series?

As to Mike Carey, I'm reading Unwritten at the moment and it's not as engrossing as I'd hoped for.

Cheers

 

 

Freezes Over was before that, surely. I love the hell out of Azzarello's style but that prison arc kind of felt shoehorned in despite how articulately he smoothed it into the bigger frame of reference. Freezes over and uh, *consults bookshelf* High Water(hey, both reference Hell! Just connected that). But lemme know how you went with Hard Time! Brian could stand to do more Prison stuff(see also: 100 Bullets & possibly Gangland).

Nahh i just checked my stack and Freezes Over comes a bit later. I liked Hard Times in the end. I find it a bit irritating when Azzarello imitates Rosie Perez in print but it turned out ok.

Can I ask you you're feelings to Paul Jenkins run on the series?

Over the last six months I've been on a big spree of catching up on comics and it's been fantastic. It's like when you've somehow missed a quality TV series and you get get your hands on the box set and watch episode after episode.

Anyway, The Boys has been one of the best rides I've been on so far. There's a certain humanity under the violence and scatology that is really endearing. Robertson's artwork really fit the series well too.

I agree at times Ennis can be repetitive on the topic of religion and he has other flaws but I think comics are a medium where it's not possible to be flawless. Two cents finished.

The Walking Dead

Fables

Hellboy/BPRD universe

The Boys

I intend to stick around - I have needs when it comes to discussing comic books.

Thanks for all the replies even the ones I have no hope of understanding.

OMG! Hellblazer fan.

 

*Sqwuueee!!*

 

My new BFF is here! :pant: :pant: :pant:

 

Okay, act cool...

 

Hey, Mrdukey, wanna hang out sometime? You could come home and meet my mother.

You may or may not be fortunate that I just read Brian Azzarello's first issue of Hellblazer last night. Where he is a noob in the joint and a large black man tells him he 'needs friends in here'.........

Ex Macina is very easily the best possible example of this kind of artwork. It still had that traced look but all the same characters looks A) like different people and B) like the same character from panel to panel.

It didn't have the same rage inducing impact on me as Mr Bradstreet, that's for sure.

And I support anyone who hates Tim Bradstreet's art, you are a good person sir, assuming you aren't another Logan troll.

I try to be. I only hate Tim Bradstreet and bureaucrats.

Thank you. More specifically for the Tim Bradstreet stuff. I recently rediscovered comics and have been catching up on the Hellblazer series and enjoying it immensely. Then I get to an issue with a Tim Bradstreet cover and even worse, his art inside. Firstly itjust looks like someone has taken a bunch of photos and applied a photoshop filter to them. Secondly the model for John Constantine looks like the original guy from the Lonely Planet tv show with a perm. Even though it was written by Warren Ellis i couldn't finish it as my heart rate had soared with rage. It's a disgrace that people like this actually take work from genuine cartoonists. I haven't come across Greg Land's stuff yet but when i do, I'll cry.

My first inkling that there were cretins doing this was the Ex Machina artwork

Thanks for venting