Comments on: Laura & Adan’s Picks Pans & Scans – February 14, 2007

By: domino21710

domino21710 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:39:15 +0000

good intentions, certainly, but the execution blew…

By: Laura Hudson

Laura Hudson — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:03:14 +0000

FWIW, Morrison’s New X-Men didn’t make my soul bleed, and it had some interesting ideas, but it didn’t make me feel much beyond muted bemusement.

By: domino21710

domino21710 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:15:35 +0000

What? I’m not a Claremont-phile….I just thought Morrison was insanely ego driven and remiss of any cogent thought of continuity during his run……..or creativity.

By: Adan Jimenez

Adan Jimenez — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:04:08 +0000

Nah. I prefer the air of mystery my typos engender.

By: Laura Hudson

Laura Hudson — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:40:04 +0000

Like a what? You plan on finishing that simile?

By: Adan Jimenez

Adan Jimenez — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:21:13 +0000

“Weird, Morrison’s run on X-Men made my soul bleed. I’m much happier with his run on Batman.”

Blasphemy! Morrison’s run on Batman (with the exception of this issue) has been terrible. Very un-Morrison like. But his New X-men was wondrous and beautiful. Like a

And I’m pretty sure Claremont eats babies of all kinds just for kicks.

By: Adan Jimenez

Adan Jimenez — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:13:40 +0000

“That great line everyone keeps quoting is not that freaking clever; it’s just so nerd insular that it creates a twinge of recognition in your twisted nerd minds.”

maybe you ought not to make fun of nerds in a nerd heavy place, goober. it tends not to be received well.

also, line? as in, singular? no, no, sir. there were many lines. there were mountains of lines. there were planets of lines, so clever that you could not help but laugh out loud and then continue reading because you knew there were more lines as guffaw-inducing as the one you had just read.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:09:18 +0000

Jesus Christ, let go of Nextwave. People do not need to apologize for not buying something. That great line everyone keeps quoting is not that freaking clever; it’s just so nerd insular that it creates a twinge of recognition in your twisted nerd minds. Seriously, the book was sort of amusing, but it was basically just an extended parody of superhero comics. It wasn’t that great.

By: domino21710

domino21710 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:58:24 +0000

Weird, Morrison’s run on X-Men made my soul bleed. I’m much happier with his run on Batman.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:59:41 +0000

I decided to read Next WAVE and wasn’t impressed at all. I like the art and the premise sounded interesting but overall this is just Warren Ellis being himself and I get that from his mass e-mails. IMO, Its not his best work and is pretty low on the scale of greatness he usually puts out. I can’t understand the hype — then again, the people of the world made TITANIC the highest grossing film of all time so go figure. If you like THE GOON, you’ll probably like this book.

As for Grant Morrison not being a great writer, I wasn’t crazy about his first issues of BATMAN and I have yet to read the Joker issue. I think his greatest work to date would have to be the bold reinvention of the X-Men that’s collected in the NEW X-MEN OMNIBUS. This is the type of imagination and forward thinking that Chris Claremont would eat Chinese babies for. His run on those characters hasn’t been matched since.

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:03:36 +0000

Hey Laura! I caught your “Moulin Rouge” reference in the batman review! awsome!

By: oliver

oliver — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:43:39 +0000

Grant Morrison’s prose drove me absolutely insane, and I usually LOVE his writing. he went overboard on similes and description, which is fine when your giving an artist a script and you want him to portray these in a panel, but as prose it reads ridiculously long-winded. Most of the time I just wanted him to wrap it up.

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:55:14 +0000

“I am like a sitar that only speaks the truth.”

Oh Yes. Oh yes, you did.

By: B En

B En — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:04:20 +0000

The only people who “killed” it were Ellis and Immonen. Ellis decided he did not want to do the title without Immonen, who moved to “Ultimate Spider-man” and decided he could not do both at the same time.

By: Notime4Ando

Notime4Ando — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:43:49 +0000

I think we should put ‘ A’ and ‘B’ together and say that Joss Whedon killed Nextwave.
A: people freely admit that they are wasting money on Astonishing and hoping it will get better
B: those same people don’t buy Nextwave (or help spread the word by buying a copy for a friend).

By: domino21710

domino21710 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:08:29 +0000

After reading ‘butt sex’ I was quietly walking away from this article….

BUT…..I will concur that I am glad Whedon isn’t on WW anymore…..his whole idea of taking away the costume and giving her youth…….it was too much Buffy, and not Diana.

By: Alan Kistler

Alan Kistler — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:54:49 +0000

I gave Whedon one more chance and gave up Astonishing after this week. Sad, but I have a budget and can’t waste an extra three bucks on something that is fairly forgettable and flat.

I was actually never a fan of his being behind Wonder Woman. I dig a lot of his stuff, but I haven’t seen him write any character remotely resembling Wonder Woman and I don’t wanna see a Buffy or Kitty-esque WW or anyone resembling Emma Frost.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:33:12 +0000

Everyone who didn’t buy Nextwave should apologize right now.

By: Laura Hudson

Laura Hudson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:39:23 +0000

Dude.

By: Adan Jimenez

Adan Jimenez — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:22:57 +0000

mmmm…. butt sex…

….? wait, what were we talking about?