7 Soldiers

20:52 / 17.02.05

Oh, you mean That shit w/ the Spider? Why "memories"?

22:04 / 17.02.05

Don't read so deep. I downloaded pdfs and was looking at them quickly. My feeble mind saw the Spider/Bowman stuff as a purely allegorical trip through the Immateria. That's when I posted.

Sorry fo confyoozin yoo.

The Falcon

22:05 / 17.02.05

Who could say no now?

Zatanna looks a bit kooky, but I'm sure it'll go proper mental soon enough.

_Boboss

07:53 / 18.02.05

they looked great - so good i stopped reading them halfway thruu, turned teen again by a desire not to self-spoil. 'stop spoiling yourself' 'but mum, it feels niiiiiice....'

anyway, is slaughter swamp and its secrets a placed lodged deep in dcu lore, or is morrison just deliberately digging in a corner built by millar?

Mario

14:44 / 18.02.05

It's a part of DCU lore. The Cyrus Gold they mentioned became Solomon Grundy.

CameronStewart

14:48 / 18.02.05

...which is the "zombie" in Klarion, mentioned on the previous page of this thread...

16:24 / 18.02.05

So now I want to know all about Cyrus Gold and Slaughter Swamp, and some kind person is going to tell me all about them.

Excllent.

Um, thankyou.

Chad, I wasn't reading very deep, I just thought "Hmmm....Wrongness".

16:59 / 18.02.05

Ah, right, I've just had a web-trawl. So Grundy's the animated corpse of the enigmatic Cyrus Gold, is he? Weeell, he is a zombie of sorts, isn't he? And that Witch-Finder General chappy is still a great deal scarier than him. [in full geek mode] I love the fact that Slaughter Swamp is just outside Gotham and, after digging around a bit, I discovered that Morrison didn't invent the flowers, just made them more skilliant. As "The Spider" washes down the plughole, a new flower blooms. It really is DINNERTIME.

H3ct0r L1m4

19:16 / 18.02.05

great logo, Cameron! |m|

and what a nice preview. the Spider [or whatever the bow/arrow guy's name is] is Joe Casey, eh? I love the Whip already - as if anyone didn't =) .

The Falcon

19:59 / 18.02.05

Swamp Thing #155 seems like a useable wee guide (to Slaughter Swamp & flowers,) too.

Excellente.

I've just started picking up a load of the old Millar issues of this; got up to about 148 or so, so I think I may grab this if it's in the shoppy.

Those Sheeda types on the insects remind me of some Books of Magick faerie shit, too.

diz

00:30 / 19.02.05

"Because the buildings I jump from just aren't tall enough.

Because I've taken this whole morally ambiguous urban vigilante thing about as far as I can.

And now, God help me, I want to visit other planets and dimensions and fight rogue gods."

kinda says it all, no?

16:33 / 19.02.05

Dunc, I'm fairly sure "Sheeda" is a slightly corrupted version of the Irish "Sidhe" (tho' Sidhe is actually pronounced Shee) - the "Fair Folk", "Good People"; all that stuff.

The Falcon

18:05 / 19.02.05

Well, there you go.

Much creepier in that panel there than JLA:C, I thought.

CameronStewart

19:13 / 21.02.05

Interview with me over at Newsarama, with some artwork from issue 1...

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

20:31 / 21.02.05

*impressed whistling sound*

Those pages look fricking awesome, especially the two page spread. And, hark, The Return Of The Morrisonian Narrator! Old school!

This whole Seven Soldiers thing just looks fucking FUN. Remember that, kids? FUN COMICS? That joy you had reading through the mimeographed catalogue you got from your LCS and imagining how awesome Inferno was going to be? Spending three months playing the stories and possibilities out in your head? Fitting together all the pieces of the Marvel Universe, and how badass just the concept of Excalibur and the X-Men and X-Factor being in the same place at the same time was?

That is the vibe I am feeling today folks, and I am loving it.

H3ct0r L1m4

21:22 / 21.02.05

niiiiiiiice, Cameron! guardian-mobile! liked the pirate invasion splash page a lot, urban gadgets used as prizes.

is the drawing processed different from SEAGUY's? I remember you posted about it in those old threads and it was very interesting, different from the industry standards - as far as I know. is it difficult to work on body language while getting the final dialogue only after the art is ready?

with all [most of the] the series going to bi-monthly schedule, does this mean the series' finale will be seen only after 2 years? =P

"Press!"

Excellent.

nicked it today. spoilers and all that jazz...

this rocked. too bad they all ( seemingly ) bite it. although i wouldn't rule out a last minute save in the other bookend. I love these characters. Vigilante Dan is a hard motherfucker. I'm trying to figure out why the spider turned from a cool joe-casey lookalike into a skuzzy biker with cheezy tatoos. I mean i understand the seven unknown men did it, just the storytelling logic is all. and the outstanding question: who ditched on the seven soldiers of victory?

note the little refferences to the 'main' seven soldiers. i caught nods to frankenstein, the shining knight, and zatanna. there are probably others that won't come clear till later.

and of course, i just realised that the seventh sephiroth is netzach, wich means 'victory'. high comics weirdness at it's best.

RadJose

22:56 / 23.02.05

The Guardian's helmut in in the final pages as well.

vajramukti

23:16 / 23.02.05

aye, well, if you count that last page we see the seven men boxing up the helmet, some shining knight heraldry and another box with frankie's big ol' steam flintlock in it. I get a big stiffie just thinking of mahnke's pencils over a script by the mozzer.

seems like grant is using the seven unknown men as a kind of mechanism to explain 'retcons' and 'revamps' in-continuity. a time sewing machine, indeed. but i suppose they'll be needing something to reconcile the original Shining Knight in the picture at vigilante dan's house, and then introducing a new one with the same name next month.

Mario

00:27 / 24.02.05

Trivia bit I worked out, based on a lead from Millarworld.

Jacqueline "Gimmix" Pemberton is almost certainly related to Merry Pemberton, who adventured as "Merry, Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks"...and was the adopted sister of Sylvester Pemberton, a member of the original Seven Soldiers.

poser

01:14 / 24.02.05

With all these interior art previews going on, we should really have a "insert word balloon" thread here

SiliconDream

02:30 / 24.02.05

Merry's an old woman now, but the Whip mentioned that Gimmix had had plastic surgery and was older than her nominal "26"...Merry's daughter, maybe?

03:32 / 24.02.05

What I want to know is: to what extent did Shelly want to sleep with Spyder upon meeting him? She says she hates him already, and then leaps into describing roles in a superteam dynamic, and that hers was sexing the big bad Spyder.

Granted, she was probably being ironic about hating him, and more likely instantly attracted to him, but she seems to know more than she lets on about "roles" in a story.

I wonder if that way of shallowing out oneself for the sake of a "group" will be played out later...

Spyder Todd 2008

05:20 / 24.02.05

This book was soooo hot...

But then again, I love the golden age, so seeing a bunch of sooped up golden agers together makes me giggle like a catholic school girl.

RadJose

09:11 / 24.02.05

i don't see why Merry couldn't be Gimmix. If she's the girl of 1,000 gimicks why not a few to keep her young?

Mario

12:23 / 24.02.05

RE: Shelly "sexing" I, Spyder.

I just flashed on the whole Phoenix-Wolverine dialogue from X2:

"Jean: Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, Logan. They don't take him home. They marry the good guy."

As for Gimmix = Merry. I doubt that. Her gimmicks aren't quite that level. But she could easily be a daughter. (Merry was the mother of Brain Wave II, last seen in JSA).

13:04 / 24.02.05

Okay, time to get a little meta. The line "none of the seven returned from Castle Revolving" is a reference to Arthurian myth. Apparently, Castle Revolving, or - more properly - the revolving castle, is the home of the fairy folk.

That's all I've got from a quick google trawl. More later, I'm sure.

13:11 / 24.02.05

Chad, isn't it just the whole being attracted to the wrong type of man thing?

Ooh, I hate him and everything about him, he's so bad... but bad boys get me excited.

You know the rest.

13:12 / 24.02.05

I think we've seen it then. That multi-colored castle that appears when Neb-u-loh spring the spider-rider trap. It's all warped and looked twisted.

13:21 / 24.02.05

Yes, I know. I figured as much. But it felt strange that she mentioned it in such context. It felt like a clue I should note.

13:27 / 24.02.05

Yeah, I spotted the castle. It's fucking cool.

The entire episode was so brilliantly chunky. Lots and lots of story and so much to mull over.
Okay, so it's familiar territory, but this is Morrison on his game - It's gonna be a good year.

And, wow, thirty episodes.

yawn - thing's buddy

14:00 / 24.02.05

bobossity: your seal of approval has sealed my fate: I will walk to the forbidden planet in just over 1 earth hour.