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Shiro Masamune's 'Orion'
Because it ends telling you the plot won’t climax for six point something billion years, but it’s okeh ‘cause we have lovers skipping merrily through a field and such. Damn straight.
Paul Jenkins' 'Inhumans'
Okeh, the series as a whole doesn’t hold up nearly so well in retrospect, and doesn’t read so great in one go. Month to month, this had me going though, at a time when I really wasn’t buying monthlies. And the last two/three issues had the reversals and reveals coming on like mad, and they were all quite well worked and just vague enough to give that sense that Blackbolt is better/smarter/more sound and foresighted than I, the reader.
You Higuri's 'Cutlass'
Again, the ‘main plot can wait, we got cute lovers and they’re happy’ gets me every time. Cute pirate lovers, too. This probably wouldn’t be on the list, long-term, but I just reread it yesterday.
Grant Morrison's 'Invisibles'
Could it have ended any other way? Did it end?
Pete Milligan's 'Enigma'
Detailed by others, so I’ll skip that. If anyone predicted this ending before getting, say, halfway through the last issue… I still won’t believe it. And, yet, in retrospect, it makes the whole story work so much better. And, cute lovers hand in hand so we can ignore the supposedly important plot.
Frank Miller's 'Dark Knight Strikes Again'
I can remember reading the last issue in the shop in New York (Forbidden Planet?) and trying to add up pocket change at the same time, to purchase. For the bunny ears from Flash, alone. Or, Ollie and ol’ faceless doing the talkshows. I’m like one of three people who enjoyed this series, much less the ending, aren’t I?
Honorable mention to-
Warren Ellis, for the last few issues of ‘Excalibur’, the last story for ‘Lazarus Churchyard’, and ‘Stormwatch’ being utterly slaughtered outside their own book, giving us just a funeral in-series.
Moto Hagio, for ‘A, A Prime’ and ‘They Were Eleven’.
And I-can’t-think-of-his-first-name Poe, for ‘Exploitation Now’ which never stopped being exploitation, but simply changed tack.
Best I’ll Never Get to See, goes to –
That ‘Blind Ballerina’ sequence Moore talks about in the BBC thing from the other night. I could go with the ‘blind girl dancing on the busy street with traffic bearing down on her’ ending for at least a few dozen shorts. It’d take a while to get old. |
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