All-Star Superman

21:00 / 20.12.07

Whoa.

That's an interesting choice for Number Eleven rather than, say, Number Twelve -- which makes me wonder at the final issue's resolution even more.

Time Telescope & Chronomobile & The Superman Squad... echoes from the future all over the house!

Query-- anyone else think Clark pens this final article right before he takes off to go beat up the Tyrant Sun? A little farewell?

FinderWolf

02:03 / 21.12.07

yowza!

I think your theory about the Tyrant Sun timeline just might be spot-on. But.... TIME WILL TELL!!! (yuk yuk yuk)

22:52 / 21.12.07

Kryptonian law demands that you be sent to the Phantom Zone for such terrible punnery.

KRYPTONIAN LAW DEMANDS IT.

CameronStewart

02:23 / 22.12.07

Clark Kent uses a Wacom tablet.

16:01 / 22.12.07

Funnily enough, so does Frank Quitely.

17:19 / 23.12.07

do journalists use it, actually?

this is FQ in his cartoon vibe again, or maybe i'm just being nitpicky.

Triplets

17:24 / 23.12.07

I'm sure Vince (as I call him, before we pash) wouldn't put in something if it was that jarring. Anyway, couldn't a non-artisty type use a tablet as a monitor/mousepad hybrid?

17:50 / 23.12.07

Anyway, couldn't a non-artisty type use a tablet as a monitor/mousepad hybrid?

I know several people that do that, actually.

CameronStewart

23:59 / 23.12.07

I'm an artsy type, but I actually use my Wacom in place of a mouse for everything. I switched over without even noticing it, just started doing more and more with the stylus until I realized the mouse was sitting there gathering dust. I find using a mouse kind of weird and clunky now.

What's a little odd is that Clark would need a Cintiq.

01:38 / 24.12.07

Cameron - and Jamie -, would you say the cover main drawing was done in a tablet? it's kiiiind of missing FQ's varied line weight that gives his scenes so much depth.

Dicodisco

09:27 / 28.12.07

An interview with Vince :
Link

... No "Indestructible Man", then ?!?

15:17 / 29.12.07

would you say the cover main drawing was done in a tablet?

I'll field this, cause I don't think Jamie'll be around for a bit.

The cover's done the same way the rest of the comic is. Vin "inks" in graphite with a technical pencil, so all the lines on the actual physical page are all pretty much the same weight. It's scanned into the computer and the linework is replicated three times in three different thicknesses and stacked on top of each other in Photoshop layers. The top layers then get erased wherever the linework gets too muddy, revealing the finer lines underneath.

Tablet work actually allows for an awful lot of variation in linework. The Wasted cover from that Pulse interview was done completely on the tablet and I think it has a lovely curve and chunk to it that suits his style very well.

From what I've heard, Bolland works exclusively on computer these days, and you'd never be able to tell the difference.

18:00 / 29.12.07

thanks, Iamus. Jamie had given us an insight on the technique and i'm glad to learn FQ still uses it.

cool interview.
Vertigo, go with the €uro! hehe. we need tha I-MAN comic.

anybody knows wht this is for?

14:25 / 30.12.07

It was the poster for a play. Favour for a friend, I think.

18:26 / 09.03.08

I'm getting into the mood to see a fresh issue again, and according to DC, Number Ten drops on March 26th. At least, that's what they're saying today, but who knows if it'll be pushed back to April or whatever.

Have they made any reference to what happens next?

And how do people feel about there being non-Quitely A*S specials or special following Number Twelve, fleshing out this Superman's world?

I'm revving up my super-brain for more adventure, I'll tell you that.

10:40 / 11.03.08

There shouldn't be a delay on the issue. Jamie packed it up and sent it off to DC about a week ago and now they're both right into the next ish. Should be out soonest.

12:17 / 11.03.08

WTF of the day: The Fauves' "A Tortured Soul" synched to Fleischer's Superman cartoon.

Hope Street boys, please show this to Grant. XD

05:58 / 18.03.08

Been rereading the series to date in random bites, out of order, while doing other things the last few days. I can't wait for some dinner come a week Wednesday.

Totally new appreciation for #3, by the way, with Lois teasing her poor, beleaguered boyfriend for his shenanigans.

The Natural Way

11:54 / 18.03.08

You know, I rather like The Fauves.

21:45 / 18.03.08

Oh! Sorry Hector. Shall pass to Vin to send Grant's way tomorrow.

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by that, got to say. Got a nice hook and it's lovely and poppy.

No Papers. A*S with no FQ and JG is just profane (but yeah... I'd buy it. Even more so if they'd give Cameron Stewart the chance).

Love the concept of a Olsenian Quintum (nice rhyme with 4's Quintumian Olsen). The thoughts layouts. The fantasticly alien FQ design on the scribe-machinery... The colors!

And school bus world-tour is the new saving cats from trees. Fuck, I'm already over-excited.

00:11 / 25.03.08

Must...resist...previews! I want to be fresh and sexy as a daisy going into it on Wednesday. Because: it is the very special thing getting me through what is going to be an intense week of union lockout stuff. Stuff="drama."

As an aside, as part of the union stuff I'm going to be dressing like mid-shirt-ripping Clark Kent for the rest of the week as part of a roving costume crew.

CameronStewart

01:52 / 25.03.08

Even more so if they'd give Cameron Stewart the chance

Oh, if only.

02:51 / 25.03.08

sweet preview!

only 3 issues to go and Supes still has 5 Great Works to do [I thought that concept had been dropped from the get go, so it's a bit of a surprise for me].

and extra ASS could be great with a who's-who of the best artists Morrison has ever worked with, Cameron included.

krakaboom

19:33 / 26.03.08

re: ALL STAR SUPERMAN #10

choked.
up.

we might be looking at an early eisner award nominee for "best single issue".
that is...until 11 and 12 arrive.

COBRAnomicon!

20:08 / 26.03.08

Agreed. I was going through, thinking, "well, this is pretty good, if not quite up onto the level of the best issues." And then I hit the Regan hug page, and GOD DAMN, I get shocked over and over again at what an emotional whallop simple, single lines can pack in this series.

krakaboom

20:49 / 26.03.08

i had the same reaction to the "regan page". i actually had to stop for a moment before i continued reading. but then the rest of the issue kept piling it on.

glee. bitterness. sadness. hope.

page after page.

all-star stellar!

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

21:16 / 26.03.08

Oh....oh my goodness.

Was that Regan's great great great grandson from the 24th Century?

I'm like welling up here.

22:22 / 26.03.08

That was ... beautiful.

First read only, but! I mean, there was just so much! And...

I mean, GM really kicks the crap out of the Superman Returns "Kal is Christ" metaphor. Beats it, hands down.

And...and...Superman is Trust!

This is the first issue to make me wonder if he'll live or die, and to hope-hope-hope that he has a last minute rescue. I actually got a little choked over it, stupidly.