I'm not actually a fan of Winick as a superhero writer, but this blog entry by someone who is much more of a Winick superhero non-fan than I am but who really liked Barry Ween makes me want to read it:
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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Michele T. - Jul 08, 2004 7:24:36 pm PDT #4694 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
P.M. Marc - Jul 08, 2004 8:08:49 pm PDT #4695 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Barry Ween is well done. The reality that slip through the funny (and it's hilarious, in the best of all potty-mouthed possible ways) is handled with a deft touch, and without being a superhero book, it still manages to hit a lot of the core dilemmas that superheros face.
The blog entry does make me curious how much of Winick's superhero stuff the blogger has read, because his Green Lantern is not really much like his work on Outsiders (I'd say the same about his Arrow work, but there's less of it to go by than there is Green Lantern). It's far less quippy, and spends a lot more time on the why behind the reactions.
He's the only writer who's managed a Kyle with actual serious emotional heft.
Oh, and he writes a good Roy.
Glamcookie - Jul 09, 2004 7:43:24 pm PDT #4696 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Re: Powers. Oh my God, they killed Kutter! You bastards! No more "Nice chin pubes, Kutter" from Deena. That line always cracked my shit up. Also, I think that is a new Retro Girl at the end there. My GF thinks it's going to be that little girl, Calista, from waaaaaay back. Possibly from the real #1. I think that'd be cool.
Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2004 8:35:24 pm PDT #4697 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gloom, my pusher has that same theory, and having seen the next cover, he does believe he's right.
CaBil - Jul 09, 2004 8:39:20 pm PDT #4698 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Hrm, I always thought was the implication from that story arc...
Tom Scola - Jul 10, 2004 2:24:30 pm PDT #4699 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Has anyone got the Batman: TAS DVDs yet?
amych - Jul 10, 2004 6:41:27 pm PDT #4700 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Has anyone got the Batman: TAS DVDs yet?
I got home tonight to find 'em waiting for me. (WHEE!!!!) Haven't played with them yet.
Michele T. - Jul 10, 2004 7:47:49 pm PDT #4701 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I have them, and have watched a couple of eps. Not overloaded with special features, but the ones they have are good. S1 was not the best work they ever did, but it's nice to have.
Steph L. - Jul 10, 2004 8:15:21 pm PDT #4702 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
amych!!!! What up with Nationals, woman?!? I need to know!
Steph L. - Jul 10, 2004 8:22:23 pm PDT #4703 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Neil Gaiman said in his blog that he and Dave McKean will be on a panel at ComicCon. FYI.