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7 Soldiers: The Bulleteer

 
  

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A
14:15 / 05.09.05
There's a cover and blurb for Issue 1 up on the DC site, so I guess we might as well start this thread now.

SEVEN SOLDIERS: THE BULLETEER #1 OF 4




Written by Grant Morrison; Art and cover by Yanick Paquette & Michael Bair

The Seven Soldiers saga continues as Yanick Paquette (TERRA OBSCURA) & Michael Bair (IDENTITY CRISIS) join writer extraordinaire Grant Morrison for an amazing new 4-issue miniseries! Obsessed with the idea of becoming a famous super-hero and preserving his beautiful wife's youth, Professor Lance Harrower invents Smartskin — a steel-hard living fiber which bonds with skin collagen. When his experiments go awry, Harrower is suffocated under a coating of steel skin. His wife Alix survives the horrific accident only to find herself an outcast and a freak. Now jobless, alone, and encased in super-hard, living metal, she is a truly reluctant super-human.

What happens when you get powers and abilities beyond those of mortal men but don't want them? Find out in "Ballistic: How the Bulleteer Began"!


DC Universe | 32pg. | Color | $2.99 US

On Sale November 2, 2005
 
 
A
14:16 / 05.09.05
Oh dear. I spelled "Michael" wrong in the abstract.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
14:41 / 05.09.05
Huh. "Harrower." Let the Harrowing begin.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
14:54 / 05.09.05
Getting a very "Marvel Boy" vibe from this one.
 
 
Aertho
15:12 / 05.09.05
How so, Kieth?
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
16:38 / 05.09.05
that sort of manic human/machine science vibe of Marvel Boy, Midas...and his daughter kind of thing. Maybe it's all connecting in my head because Bulleteer's predecessor from 7S #0 (The Whip) was basically Exterminatrix. but coupled with the liquid metal coating... dunno...just feels like it's going to have a similar type of wild science fiction feel as Marvel Boy.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
17:02 / 05.09.05
hmm...not sure why i called The Whip Bulleteer's predecessor. I've always had this idea that the 7S teams parallel each other in certain archetypal ways...maybe this isn't a worthwhile path of thinking.
 
 
Ganesh
17:03 / 05.09.05
Fetishistic outfit, named after a weapon (sort of). From the same stable as ExTerminatrix and the Whip, it would seem.
 
 
LDones
17:23 / 05.09.05
I get a real carnival vibe from that cover, as well as from the Golden Age bulleteer(s)...
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
17:42 / 05.09.05
Me? I'll follow a costume with piping wherever it leads...
 
 
Aertho
18:37 / 05.09.05
Obsessed with the idea of becoming a famous super-hero

I'd see this as Dyna-Mite Dan behavior. Not that one set of seven equals the next. We've seen several, you know.

The JLA Big Seven, The Six Soldiers from 7S#0, The original 7 Soldiers in that photo in 7S#0, The Seven Unknown Men, The Seven Soldiers proper whose minis we're reading, the last seven Knights of the Broken Table, the seven from The Last Stand of Don Vincenzo, the original Newsboy Army seven, the seven imperishable treasures, the seven Deviants, the seven continents of Century Hollow...
 
 
Billuccho!
20:04 / 05.09.05
From :

"Bulleteer is Alix Harrower, a young woman whose life falls apart when her husband's attempts to turn both of them into superheroes goes seriously awry," he said. "The story of how a reluctant superhero is born from the ashes of personal disaster. I think of this one as my 'Bendis book' but it's drawn like Penthouse!"

"As the story developed, I decided to tie as much as I could into continuity as well, which turned into an insane kind of Geoff Johns/James Robinson strand running through the narrative, which fully integrates my seven soldiers into the history of all the previous characters and reveals an 'Identity Crisis' style secret at the heart of the Golden Age team. Most of that stuff is in Bulleteer issue 2. I also have a new version of the Greg Sanders Vigilante turning up in that story - think High Plains Drifter, and Unforgiven, shake in a little Ghost Rider and bake until Bulleteer # 2 hits the stands. We're also doing the origin of the cosmic character Oracle, from Justice League 100 - 102, the 'Unknown Soldier of Victory' and learn the secret of Earth's first superhero."
 
 
Billuccho!
20:08 / 05.09.05
Er, that's from The Pulse, dammit.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
22:21 / 05.09.05
also linked to on that page is this rather long interview with General Grant.
 
 
matsya
22:25 / 05.09.05
She's got really big boobs. That artist guy - he did terra obscura, didn't he? - loves his cheesecake.

Getting a bit miffed at all the playboy covers in the comic shop at the moment. Anyone seen the Spider-Lady cover yet?

Hee. Boobies.

Fuck sake.

m.
 
 
Aertho
23:09 / 05.09.05
but it's drawn like Penthouse!

I'd like the cheesecake to be part of the series' design intention and subtle joke. Poor lady may have bigguns, but she's in a big metal condom. Called Bulleteer. With a conehead. Female in a phallus, really.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
23:22 / 05.09.05
As long as he can -distinguish- his characters, it's all good. I really enjoyed both Terra Obscura minis, but as much as I loved the Carol & Diana dynamic, half the time I couldn't actually tell them apart if they weren't in costume.
 
 
matsya
00:14 / 06.09.05
I note that the huge, fallin'-all-about jubblies weren't part of Mr. M's initial character design.

I see what you mean, though. In the right light, when squinting, they look like goolies, not boobies. Genius!

m.
 
 
Aertho
00:22 / 06.09.05
Goolies = Testes? Pardon my Latin.

I couldn't actually tell them apart

Funny bit that. That Bulleteer begins where the Stepford Cuckoos stops. Ain't but one ho with a zillion faces, right?

(On Terra Obsacura. I found both fairly boring, but I liked what was being done with archaic sooperheroes in a post now world. Did Carol ever get a better supername?)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
00:46 / 06.09.05
I like T.O. for Grant Halford ("The Magnet") as a schmuck Sam Spade with way too much personal magnetism, and I liked Carol & Diana. Carol never got a better codename.

Is anyone else worried this will fall into Rogue-like X-angst? While the "handicapped by their powers" angle can be well done, I'm still a little irritable about it cropping up every five seconds.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:53 / 06.09.05
Ain't but one ho with a zillion faces, right?

What are you on about now?
 
 
Aertho
01:45 / 06.09.05
Oh, I don't know. Angst is something Morrison doesn't do often, cept when he made X-Angst meaningful. I wouldn't doubt that this one's gonna be a bit pervy. The artists chosen for each of these minis was perfect for some reason or another. S'Just now were stuck with a substitute Pascal Ferry. There's a big sex element that's begging to be dealt with. Whip starts it back in zero, I'm assuming it's for Alix to carry.
 
 
Sax
06:37 / 06.09.05
Personally, I'll be saving my bishop-bashing for the Frankenstein mini.
 
 
A
08:12 / 06.09.05
I started this thread and the Frankenstein thread at almost exactly the same time, and this one, with the Sexy Dame Artwork, has more than five times as many posts as the other one.

For shame, Barbelith, you drooling fanboy perverts, you!
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:17 / 20.09.05
EVEN SOLDIERS: THE BULLETEER #2
Written by Grant Morrison
Art and cover by Yanick Paquette & Serge LaPointe
Who killed the Seven Soldiers? More shattering secrets of the Seven Soldiers are revealed in this special issue which unfolds directly from events in the best-selling SEVEN SOLDIERS #0! Together with a dying FBI agent, the Bulleteer investigates the disappearance of six bargain-basement Super Heroes, uncovering mysteries dating back decades...and beyond. Alix Harrower finds herself drawn deeper into a world she wants no part of as her journey into the dark underbelly of the hero dream brings her face-to-face with her first super-villain! Plus, from the grave - the return of the Vigilante!
On sale December 21 o 2 of 4 o 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
 
 
A
12:49 / 20.09.05


Cover for issue 2
 
 
Are Being Stolen By Bandits
13:12 / 20.09.05
Together with a dying FBI agent

Agent Helligan, from Shining Knight #3, anyone?
 
 
Aertho
13:31 / 20.09.05
Good call. I love how Grant's incidental characters aren't ever forgotten. It makes sense that Helen would be tracking the "bad lady"... Bet she meets up with Alix at Don's Slaughterhouse.

(Where's my issue twos for Frank and Shiloh?)
 
 
Quimper
14:36 / 20.09.05
Hopefully Sky High Helligan will be seeing the Seven Soldiers big picture soon enough and prod Alix along into superheroism.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:18 / 20.09.05
(Where's my issue twos for Frank and Shiloh?)

The Miracle Man #2 solicitation is linked to in the Miracle Man thread.

Frankenstein! #2 hasn't been solicited yet.
 
 
Juan_Arteaga
18:36 / 26.10.05
Comics Continuum and Pop Culture Shock put up the first three pages of Bulleteer #1.

This is the Comics Continuum version.

This is Popculture.
 
 
FinderWolf
19:04 / 26.10.05
>> The Miracle Man #2 solicitation is linked to in the Miracle Man thread.

"Mister Miracle," presumably. Unless Alan Moore's 80s revival is to be part of SS
 
 
Juan_Arteaga
19:42 / 26.10.05
Also, Popcultre has one more page Comics Continuum doesn't have.
 
 
Aertho
14:33 / 27.10.05
Issue 1 Preview at Buzzscope
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
13:29 / 02.11.05
i really liked the cover before they added all that Photoshop stuff to the metallic skin.

this is one busty woman, jeez.
 
  

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