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matsya

03:28 / 19.08.03

well i thought it was shite. ordinary dialogue and confusing artwork that doesn't let you tell one end of the big robot from the other. and totally static.

anyone else buy this?

m.

Templar

18:19 / 19.08.03

Yeah, like a fool. For some reason I always pick up the first one of his three parters, and then think "Well, there's only two more to go..."

FinderWolf

18:51 / 19.08.03

I bought the first issue and was not impressed; didn't buy the 2nd and won't buy the 3rd. It was ok - the sort of thing that I'd read a friend's paperback in the future. But not something I'd pay (more) money for.

Sax

09:46 / 20.08.03

I bought this, but I can't remember why. It was another one of these typical Ellis mini-series like Mek which seem to me to be totally pointless and without any merit, but probably pay the gas bill for him. Avoid.

Haus of Mystery

11:42 / 20.08.03

It's all he seems to do really innit? Two or three issue series with a half-baked nearly good idea, and *luxury* artwork. The industry needs to take it's nose out of this man's bottom and force him at gunpoint to write a decent story. Preferably without a chain-smoking misanthrope as the 'hero'. Yawn.

foot long subbacultcha

14:14 / 20.08.03

I'm actually really enjoying TSW. Especially the art.

I've always thought that what's missing from Ellis' work is a sense of old fashioned romance. Hell, maybe even new fashioned romance. I just don't feel that in anything he's done. Apart from that I love his stuff. I think he has a real sense of where the world is going that comes across as exaggerated in the short term, but scary in the reflective long term.

Haus of Mystery

14:55 / 20.08.03

I'll admit that Ellis has a certain flair, but I feel his writing is too often derivative and lazy. I do appreciate that he's trying to do action comics that aren't judt soopah heros though, which is commendable. It's just that these minis never really go anywhere. Global Frequency seems like a nice idea, but I'll wait for the trade if at all.

Krug

17:04 / 20.08.03

His pop"Iloveasiancinemaandmanga"comics are really awful stuff that are a waste of anyone's hard earned money.

matsya

00:32 / 22.08.03

yeah, i went and bought issue one and two together, to "give it a better chance" and it just left me cold. too much expository dialogue that didn't really try anything new, and i gotta say again, the artwork was just bad. static when it came to the people and confusing when it came to the robots.

so mek wasn't any chop? Anyone trying RED? I got the same feel from that too - heaps of pages of action, not that much story. And that other star-trekky one too. That seemed like a good idea, especially from the preview pages at AiT/PlanetLAR, but then they turned out to be the last ten or so. would have worked so much better if they were the first ten and then he did something with the idea.

maybe that's the problem. a lot of these comics have good ideas that don't go anywhere...

m .

Krug

05:44 / 22.08.03

RED, MEK, Global Frequency...
They're all worthless.

pachinko droog

15:55 / 22.08.03

I don't have a problem with it. In fact, I rather like it as a "mood piece". Just don't go looking for any *deep* meanings in Ellis' short runs. What you see is what you get. Still though, I think I like it better than Global Frequency for some reason. I guess the idea of a slugfest between giant monsters and alien mecha just brings out the kid in me.

The Natural Way

17:30 / 22.08.03

Don't go looking for any deep meanings in Ellis' stuff full stop.

Haus of Mystery

18:04 / 22.08.03

Hear hear.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

16:51 / 23.08.03

I dislike Ellis's 3 issue things...too expensive for a quick read, not long enough for a decent collected version, and too long for a nice one shot.

Is this one about a cynical, smoking person who comments acidly about everything around him?

Haus of Mystery

17:25 / 23.08.03

Just went to see a panel discussion about comics into movies with an 'all-star' cast featuring Harvey Pekar and his missus, Bryan Talbot and Mr Ellis. He's a big fucker y'know. Looks a bit like a roadie. But he came across OK. Not as nice as monsieur Talbot, but he had some kind of erudite comments to make. Mrs Pekar (Dorian something - can't remember) was actually the most perceptive with regards to the industry. But anyway Ellis is bigger than I pictured.

matsya

01:52 / 25.08.03

pachinko - i was also drooling at the robots vs. monsters thing, but i like my robots and monsters to be done at least halfway well. the lack of this added to the disappointment.

m.

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