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New Adam Strange mini

Mario

17:34 / 24.06.04

I just wanted to post this image. Because it's so damn cool.

FinderWolf

19:20 / 24.06.04

That is a nice image. I don't quite know what to make of the comic concept - a dark, drunk, street-level P.I. Adam Strange? We'll see....good creative team on it, tho'.

gridley

19:48 / 24.06.04

Call me a grumpy old man, but I just don't like the updating of the costume.

I don't like the big goofy wrist guards. I don't like the chin strap. I don't like the chest holster. I don't like how plasticky armored it all looks. And I don't like that his gloves and boots have changed from almost orange to pale yellow.

harumph!

gridley

19:53 / 24.06.04

Oh, and don't even get me started on the gun....

Mario

21:45 / 24.06.04

a dark, drunk, street-level P.I. Adam Strange?

Don't think that's accurate, given the solicit, which reads:

In this action-packed 8-issue miniseries, things have changed drastically for Strange. Once the greatest hero of the distant planet Rann, he’s now a wanted man on Earth. Pursued by the police and hunted by aliens, Strange has learned that his adopted planet has been destroyed. With his wife and daughter gone, is there any hope left, or is this the end of the space hero?

Sit back for a thrilling ride that takes one man on a trek though the DC Universe to rediscover the remnants of the L.E.G.I.O.N., the Darkstars, the Omega Men, and more as he faces a threat that will herald a galactic war!

I think you are mistaking the starting point for the whole mini...

Billuccho!

23:39 / 24.06.04

I am so buying the hell out of this comic.

LDones

01:21 / 25.06.04

Pascal Ferry's work is tremendous when he's not rushed (ie. the final General Zod arc from Action Comics last year). His style's unique, his linework is nicely odd. Can't say the story intrigues me, but I've enjoyed Ferry enough to check it out. Some of the early pages look interesting.

Mario

11:10 / 25.06.04

Like this art:

yawn - thing's buddy

12:31 / 25.06.04

graphics look awful.

best adam strange evah was issues 57, 58 of Swamp Thing.

'my need is greater than thine' still kills me.

seek them out and join in my reverie.

Haus of Mystery

13:01 / 25.06.04

Diggle's below par in my books. Homage writer. Adam Strange has a great name. End communication. Out.

The Falcon

00:02 / 30.06.04

Diggle seems of the same flesh as Wagner, Grant and (hush) Abnett & Lanning.

Bit younger. All I know is I'm not listening to MillarWorld recommend a book again after The Losers #1 and #2.

I really don't like the look of Strange there, in the first pic, but strangely had (until consultation of the aforementioned) been contemplating the purchase of this because of the Swamp Thing story which I bought just 2-3 weeks ago. That, and my oft-pronounced, and gutwrenching desire for some proper space opera in. the. comics.

It never fully materialises.

Simplist

01:41 / 30.06.04

"Proper space opera" is going to remain absent from superhero-populated universes in all likelihood, as every space opera-ish story will be forced to accomodate guest appearances from every preexisting spacebound character already populating the universe in question; the description makes it abundantly clear that will be the case here.

That said, I'm buying it anyway for more or less the same reason.

lekvar

03:09 / 30.06.04

I'm gonna have to throw my hat in with the crusty old grumps on this one. "Accused of a Crime He Didn't Commit!" We've seen it before, somebody got bored, came up with a story arc that was so generic that it couln't be sold except by "modernising" an existing character. Sometimes the end result works. I suspect this one won't.

besides, the plastic armor looks exactly like every other "modernised" hero. (I'm looking at YOU, Green Lantern.)

FinderWolf

13:19 / 30.06.04

Ah, I thought I remembered seeing/reading more about Adam as a 'drunk, down-and-out, trenchcoated P.I.' in the big story Newsrara ran on this mini a while back (and I thought I saw film noir-looking pages to back it up). I'm probably mistaken, thanks for the correction. It'll be interesting to see how this is.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

13:47 / 30.06.04

You're not imagining it - The series apparently starts out as depicted in the Newsarama pics, but quickly turns space-opera.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

18:14 / 30.06.04

As the Losers is at the top of my stack every month, I'm all about picking this up.

uncle retrospective

05:09 / 01.07.04

I'll have to give this a try. I've loved the Adam Strange stuff in Swamp Thing, Starman and the JLA so count me in. If it's half as good as the Losers (best comic I'm reading at the moment) I'll be very happy.

The Falcon

00:40 / 15.07.04

These look more like it - JHW III.

The Photographer in Blowup

07:50 / 15.07.04

New interview with Andy Diggle about 'Adam Strange,' here.

FinderWolf

13:19 / 16.07.04

I kinda like the armor. And even the gun. But I have no idea if this will be any good or not.

ThePirateKing

23:49 / 16.07.04

Diggle wouldn't get work (IMHO) if he hadn't been an editor first. But then what do I care. Good luck to 'em.

sleazenation

09:47 / 17.07.04

Diggle wouldn't get work (IMHO) if he hadn't been an editor first.

No, Diggle wouldn't get work if there were a sizable group of people that buy and enjoy it. I'm not saying that having been a comics editor, and an editor of 2000AD, the comic that a significant number of DC's most critically acclaimed creators first cut their teeth on hasn't helped, both in terms of making contacts and in honing his own skills as a writer, but if he was no good he wouldn't get the work.

jhunt

21:50 / 20.07.04

Although the "shape" of the story-arc gives me a little pause..(i.e. a guided tour of DC's outer-space characters veiled as a search for Rann), I enjoy Ferry's art enough to give at least the first couple of issues a try. His figures pop nicely, and I really enjoyed the look of his architecture during his Action Comics run. I'm just worried too much time will be spent "touching base" with former series and character such as the Omega Men, Darkstars, and L.E.G.I.O.N... However, it's worth a look, to me, anyways.

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