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7 Soldiers: Klarion, the Witch-Boy

 
  

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Yotsuba & Benjamin!
14:12 / 20.06.05
It seems odder still, though, to kill him off after a few pages.
 
 
Aertho
14:25 / 20.06.05
Bah. It's only the yearning of past ethnocentric bonds that make E regret selling out his kinsfolk.

I admit, I also felt the comment meant more, but why invent a name so significant? Ebenezer? Bad-de? If he were curious Klarion's pa, he'd have climbed higher to blue rafters, and not stopped between worlds. Also: If Klarion could climb, why not others? Ebenezer prooves that others escape Limbo Town as well, and do not make it to Manhattan.

And he dies. Proving that Klarion's the more unpredictable bastard. Which was, in fact, the friggin point.

And no one's going to talk to me about Mister Melmoth being a creepy child molester/murderer/cannibal?
 
 
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14:33 / 20.06.05
Klarion's definetly my favorite of the soldiers' so far... he's so cute! My favorite but is when he says he wants to be a boy forever, then bursts out laughing, prompting Badde to say "You're not normal, Klarion". I find myself caring more for him and his cat then I do most of the other soldiers.

The Guardian looks good but the story doesn't interest me all that much. I like the Zatana character but I'm still not totally onboard for that one. Shining Knight I enjoy a bit more, not really because of the soldier involved but because it's one of the few of the titles so far that's showcased the Sheeda in any great detail. I want more Sheeda!
 
 
Ganesh
15:58 / 20.06.05
I admit, I also felt the comment meant more, but why invent a name so significant? Ebenezer? Bad-de?

Erm, is it particularly significant? Not just a pun (Jerry Sadowicz, who played Goode in the video, was a shadowy ne'erdowell with long curly hair and a top hat)?
 
 
Aertho
16:19 / 20.06.05
Eeenteresting.

Here I was thinking Scrooge, plus a witchy reversal of the whole "Goodie" So and So...
 
 
The Falcon
00:41 / 21.06.05
Yeah, sorry Americans/anyone who's not heard the band who are possibly Aberdeen's finest (Eurythmics, maybe) pop act.

It's a song about taking 'veras', and my whole year were banned from singing it on a school trip.
 
 
A beautiful tunnel of ghosts
06:35 / 21.06.05
I thought 'Veras' - like 'salmon', also mentioned in the song - was Mockney rhyming slang for 'cigarette papers'.
 
 
_Boboss
07:36 / 21.06.05
vera lynns - skins
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:38 / 21.06.05
I was musing on this the other day, and it occurred to me that, while the song was just an excuse to shout "Es are good" on Top of the Pops, I really couldn't imagine George giving a lusty chorus of "Es are bad".
 
 
Ganesh
09:49 / 21.06.05
No, that would be a tad literal, really. Fits with a story about puritans and puritanism, though.
 
 
The Falcon
12:31 / 21.06.05
My slang-fu is shit. Apologies.
 
 
adamswish
13:34 / 21.06.05
vera lynns - skins

Which can be used for various methods as not only do they burn well but also have a nice, slow, disolve in the stomach rate for that half past eleven zing some were after.

Or so I'm told.

Do love Klarion. Especially just how blue blue-rafters was. Frazer painting it as if we're seeing the sky through Klarion's eyes ourselves.
 
 
iamus
14:51 / 21.06.05
Salmon and Trout - Snout

The idea being that when tooled up with yer Salmon and Trout and Vera Lynns one can sneak off for a crafty Decimal Point, or something.
 
 
grant
13:56 / 14.07.05
I made a wiki page on Mister Melmoth. Feel free to add & clarify....
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:05 / 10.08.05
A preview of issue 3 - looks gorgeous. I get a real Nelson Evergeen vibe off page 4.
 
 
Sax
11:20 / 10.08.05
Isn't this out tomorrow (today for Yanquis)?
 
 
Sax
11:21 / 10.08.05
Or is that Zatanna?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:30 / 10.08.05
Do I look like I work in a comic shop?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:32 / 10.08.05
Do you really want an answer to that?
 
 
RadJose
14:34 / 10.08.05
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #3 (of 4)
Available: 2005-08-17


don't know about the other one
 
 
Sax
14:35 / 10.08.05
You look like you sleep in a comic shop, though.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
14:41 / 10.08.05
What a friggin' Splash Page.

And yeah, it's out next week, Zatanna came out today. It was a doozy.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
20:25 / 10.08.05
shame about the typo in the first damn sentence.

i've been seeing way too many typos in comics lately.
 
 
Ganesh
21:43 / 10.08.05
Or letteringos, perhaps.
 
 
iamus
13:06 / 17.08.05
So is this out today, then?

Should I be getting off my arse to head into town?
 
 
Aertho
13:13 / 17.08.05
Oh do.
And spoil us slightly.

Give us all some Sheeda madness.

And whether Melmoth is a Wacko Jacko / Wonka analog.
 
 
iamus
13:24 / 17.08.05
Further investigation reveals that it's out tomorrow over here.

I could make some stuff up if you'd like?
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
13:26 / 17.08.05
that would be fun.
 
 
iamus
13:41 / 17.08.05
It's really coming together now! Sparked on by the discovery of a couple of fag-papers discarded by a pedestrian in Guardian #1, the Witch-Boy's adventures take him into the hands of the insidious Mr. Melmoth, the fouth cousin's half-brother of Sheeda Queen herself Gloriana Tenebrae!

Melmoth takes Klarion to Alwaysland, plies him with booze and fags and hangs him off a balcony while hundereds of little bald men in wraparound shades sing songs about chocolate starfish in a Glaswegian accent.
 
 
Aertho
13:57 / 17.08.05
Does Zatanna show up to testify though?
 
 
Mario
20:56 / 17.08.05
Random notes:

Page 4: The story is entitled "The Deviant Ones". While the youth gang in the story is called the Deviants, I'm fairly certain that this is also a reference to the old Brando movie, "The Defiant Ones".

I'm pretty sure the other Deviants reference something, but I'm not sure what. Possibly some British kids comics?

Page 8, Panel 1: In the museum, we see on the left the costumes of Stripesy, the Star Spangled Kid, and the Crimson Avenger, all from the original Seven Soldiers of Victory. The costume on the right is harder to place, but looks female. .

Page 9, Panel 2: The costumes of Liberty Belle, and Wonder Woman

Page 10, Panel 1: I can't place all the vehicles, but on the left we can make out one of Blue Beetle's flying bugs, and Batgirl's motorcycle.

Page 18, Panel 2: The Erdel gate is named after Professor Paul Erdel, who's experimental transporter brought the Martian Manhunter to Earth in the 1950's. Hence, the "Red Place" is almost certainly Mars.

That's it for now.
 
 
Mario
20:57 / 17.08.05
Correction. Saul Erdel.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
21:32 / 17.08.05
It also reminded me of that big red demon Zee's crew walked around on in 7S:Z #1. But that's just a little flash I got. That's pretty incontrovertible evidence that The Misters are mining Mars for its Gold Reserves. And isn't that just the most perfect sentence ever.

I was initially wondering why they would've bothered with Limbo Town, but then I remembered all that Blue Rock stuff the Grundys were mining.

What a hell of a last scene, huh? "The Deviant Ones" had almost nothing to do with the overarching story but who cares.

"Shall I tell you the hour and date of your death?"
 
 
Mr Tricks
23:23 / 17.08.05
does anyone else thing Mr Melmoth is actually a hive of little Sheeda with a stitched on head... something about that close up which showed his neckline...

otherwise fun stuff... the robery elevated into art reminded me of that posse of artestes from Kill your Boyfriend
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
23:51 / 17.08.05
Have yet to pick this up - worked all today - but I'd also suggest that the "Deviants" might reference the Deviants from Marvel Comics, who were a weird mutated offshoot of humanity created by the Celestials, who lived underground...

You know, sort of like Croatoan's Limbo-Towners.

It's a might stretched, but Morrison's on his whole Kirby Love kick, so...
 
  

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