Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nice. That is All.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Shocked About Static?
Static Shock was one of several old Milestone titles I picked up regularly (Hardware and Blood Syndicate being the others, if your interested), so when I saw that it was getting a new lease on life, I was intrigued to say the least.
I got over that pretty quick. Heck, I got over DC NU52 pretty quick. OMAC was fun, but repetitive. Frankenstein was concept-awesome but execution-average. All-Star Western is stuck in Gotham City: CSI Ol' Timey Edition, which was cool, but I'd like some frontier six-gun action, pleaseandthankyou. Demon Knights is still on its first story six issues in (and oh it's a good story, but c'mon...six issues?). And Static Shock was...disappointing. Not bad, but not good.
It was certainly a comic book of some form or another. Just not one for me. Which was confusing, because John Rozum is a writer I like (Midnight, Mass. was the sh*t, y'all I ain't even lying), so I was expecting something better.
So, apparently there was a reason that Static Shock was, how you say, 'uneven' in terms of quality.
Yeah. That sounds depressingly familiar, don't it? It's not the same situation, really, but shades of Christmas Past and all that.
It's a shame for a variety of reasons. But at least now Rozum is free to do something else...like a new Midnight, Mass. series.
Y'know, if he wanted. No pressure.
Look...just gimme a one-shot. I'm not begging.
...
Fine, I'm begging.
I got over that pretty quick. Heck, I got over DC NU52 pretty quick. OMAC was fun, but repetitive. Frankenstein was concept-awesome but execution-average. All-Star Western is stuck in Gotham City: CSI Ol' Timey Edition, which was cool, but I'd like some frontier six-gun action, pleaseandthankyou. Demon Knights is still on its first story six issues in (and oh it's a good story, but c'mon...six issues?). And Static Shock was...disappointing. Not bad, but not good.
It was certainly a comic book of some form or another. Just not one for me. Which was confusing, because John Rozum is a writer I like (Midnight, Mass. was the sh*t, y'all I ain't even lying), so I was expecting something better.
So, apparently there was a reason that Static Shock was, how you say, 'uneven' in terms of quality.
Yeah. That sounds depressingly familiar, don't it? It's not the same situation, really, but shades of Christmas Past and all that.
It's a shame for a variety of reasons. But at least now Rozum is free to do something else...like a new Midnight, Mass. series.
Y'know, if he wanted. No pressure.
Look...just gimme a one-shot. I'm not begging.
...
Fine, I'm begging.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
SOPAdope
So, I was going to talk about Colin Smith's excellently incisive essay on the first issue of Marvel-Two-in-One today, but, well, I decided to post this instead:
As well as a link to this op-ed by Aaron Colter over at Comic Alliance. Because I do like riding in bandwagons, me.
For the record, as a dude whose first novel (which isn't even out yet!) is already available on a number of file sharing sites thanks to some ever-so generous black market file merchants, I can say that, at the moment, I could give two craps about internet piracy. Stealing potential money is merely annoying. It's when you start stealing my actual money, right out of my wallet, that I get stabby. To me, SOPA is a bit like swatting a hornet with a high-calibre handgun...you'll probably miss the hornet and hit some poor schmuck by accident.
As well as a link to this op-ed by Aaron Colter over at Comic Alliance. Because I do like riding in bandwagons, me.
For the record, as a dude whose first novel (which isn't even out yet!) is already available on a number of file sharing sites thanks to some ever-so generous black market file merchants, I can say that, at the moment, I could give two craps about internet piracy. Stealing potential money is merely annoying. It's when you start stealing my actual money, right out of my wallet, that I get stabby. To me, SOPA is a bit like swatting a hornet with a high-calibre handgun...you'll probably miss the hornet and hit some poor schmuck by accident.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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