Comments on: Good Superhero Comics: Week of April 25

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:08:25 +0000

Matthew, I flipped through the first issue of Agents of Atlas (because I enjoy Jeff Parker’s writing so much), but as you say, it’s continuity-heavy, too much for me. Putting the previous stories with it in the collection is a great idea.

By: Flaming Dork

Flaming Dork — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:12:25 +0000

I just have one thing to say about Legion #5 and Astro city #3. This is why I don’t read mainstream comics anymore. They have gone all Jerry Springer on us and quite frankly, I feel we are above that.

Oh, and the Silver Surfer/ Fantastic Four… Whatever it is, how can we accuse them of shameless movie promotion? It’s not as if Spidey changed his…

Oh, hold on…

By: Ray Tate

Ray Tate — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:15:18 +0000

I so agree with you on the DC team books, Joanna. They too leave me cold. The characters lack even the hint of a personality. You may as well just lump them all into one team and call them JSOutitamate.

That said, I concur with Matthew. Agents of Atlas and Spider-Man/Fanastic Four written by Jeff Parker who also writes the brilliant Marvel Adventures: Avengers is fantastic.

Marvel just collected Agents and included the what if they first appeared in as well as their original golden age appearances in a nicely priced hardback. Best of all no ads to interrupt the flow of the story.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:52:58 +0000

You mean you haven’t read Agents of Atlas?

While its continuity heavy, the ‘continuity’ is really just incredibly, old stories that are pretty much collected with the giant hardcover.

By: John

John — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:40:11 +0000

Yeah, actually I haven’t even been able to bring myself to read any Marvels in years . . . the art looks too icky.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:37:16 +0000

What John says above goes for me, too, only with Marvel, not DC.

Maybe, just maybe, things are a-changin’ and we are all being left behind. {sob}

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:29:44 +0000

There does seem to be some degree of “roll back the clock” syndrome in play there…

By: John

John — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:06:50 +0000

I find most of the output of DC Comics these days to be loathsome and more than a bit disgusting, with a couple exceptions. Can’t even read most of the stuff, which is sad. Other than old time male fans, I’m a bit confused as to who the market is and why pathetic sales figures haven’t caused the money people to do make some heads roll. I find it astonishing that they market toys to kids and the actual products are totally inappropriate . . .

By: Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:06:20 +0000

Geek moment–is Paul Pelletier the first FF artist to let Johnny keep his wavy locks while on fire? Maybe others have, but it’s the first time I noticed it. Plus, it’s odd to have Ben Grimm toss out words like “facetious”. Nonetheless, it’s the first time I’ve consistently enjoyed FF since Waid’s run ended.

(full disclosure, prior to my next comment–I interviewed Pfeifer regarding his new Amazons Attack miniseries)–it would have been nice if the editor on the mini and the editor on the ongoing got together on the pivotal Diana meets her resurrected mother scene. In the mini, her reaction is “Mom?” (which read off to me) versus the more natural reading of “Mother?” in the ongoing. A lot easier for me to monday morning quarterback, I know. Oh well. Honestly, I’m just looking forward to where Simone takes the WW dynamics.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:45:22 +0000

In addition to the stated concerns, I'd add this: the set-up for Amazons Attack seems oddly chosen, given that the circumstances of their departure during Infinite Crisis would provide a much clearer set of reasons for this particular war...

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:42:53 +0000

I don’t know… seems to me they could pull off the Silver Surfer/Galactus pairing in the Adventures line. It would sell to lower circulation. But it might actually sell to the more interested group. I am sad to hear that Gravity got an update. Might still check it out though.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:26:59 +0000

No, I read it — that sort of thing’s just become so common in DC comics that it didn’t really jump out at me. Which is a sad indictment of the depths to which they’ve sunk.

By: caleb

caleb — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:12:07 +0000

Did you not read JSA #5 then? If not, you should at least flip through until you get to the Dream Girl panel, which is the ickiest thing I've seen in a DC comic in...quite a while, actually. Made ickier by the fact that the chained, unconscious superheroine being licked and molested is named "Dream Girl." Here's the panel.