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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:04 / 16.11.05

But not Jimmy's argyle socks, no no no.

21:32 / 16.11.05

I have Jimmy Olsen hair.

Oy.

Superman's kinda chubby here. Ha!

I found Superman's willful participation in genetic testing very strange.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:38 / 16.11.05

Maybe we're just used to all scientists being evil scientists? It's possible that Quintum's actually trustworthy.

We've seen the Kryptonian genetic code being too complicated to reproduce, so he might not actually worry that they'll be successful.

21:45 / 16.11.05

Oh I went there quickly. A bright, shiny, rainbow-mocked Wonka-esque super-scientist working hard for a World With Superman In It.

But an army of Bizarro drones? Literature has contributed too many fears to culture for a country yokel to not be aware of.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:01 / 16.11.05

Might have been the shock of the big revelation that distracted him, if you think about it - the whole thing builds toward that last page quite well.

The Bizarro Drones - I wasn't sure if those pale guys were actual drones or if he was just talking about what he could do with Superman's code mapped.

22:06 / 16.11.05

And were WAS that Lab anyway? Venus? Mercury? the Moon?

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

22:48 / 16.11.05

Ha!

I had been wondering what that muffler was about in the epilogue and I just read a post somewheres, he saved the guy using only Clark's Bunglingness! Fucking classic!

I cannot wait for an Absolute All Star Superman. It will be the prettiest thing ever printed.

23:13 / 16.11.05

I don't have much to say about this except that it was really great. Bright, airy, light, soft. Prometheus/Wonka is lovely and misguided. Jimmy Olsen and his jetpack. Clark trips, drops a thousand papers, and still catches the errant Starbucks cup and rights it on the desk.

If the epilogue bump confused anyone, the bit of machinery that looks like it's from a passing car is from the Metropolois Hoverrail that's running by overhead. I thought it was just a marquee at first, but you can see the mufflery bit sagging in the panel before the bump, Clark eyeing it.

Really looking forward to these Twelve Labours of Superman.

23:29 / 16.11.05

I assume it's on Earth somewhere...they were walking around outside, after all.

23:36 / 16.11.05

I don't think they were walking about outside. The first shot shows a series of spheres on some weirdish landscape with a guy in a space suit and a sort of land-rover. Then everything else was with-in a lab or a station.

Note also that Clark knocked that starbucks out of the guy's hand while standing up, from his initial trip, only to catch it and place it on the desk with-out spilling a drop.

00:17 / 17.11.05

The "doomed word" speech looked like it was outside.

And his Starbucks trick was in the Planet offices.

I wonder what P.R.O.J.E.C.T. stands for.

00:37 / 17.11.05

I get all DC books free in a big box every month, but it usually only comes a month AFTER they've been on the stands. As with We3, I simply couldn't wait that long to get it so I nipped to the comics shop today to buy a copy.

So great. What's weird is, at first I wasn't so sure, but I found myself reading it three times in a row. Most comics I can barely get through a single reading.

Can't wait for the next 11. Hopefully Quitely can stick to a somewhat reasonable schedule....

01:28 / 17.11.05

I'm jazzed about the masthead. So far, the title design for the two All-Star books are beautiful. Simple, powerful, intelligent, and [Could someone please invent a word that means adult without being lascivious, and lacking irony without being humorless?]

I'm still a bit miffed on DC's decision to maintain the Superlogo with the squared top serif. Quitely's design, while not perfect, was a step in the right direction. Likewise with McKone's Titans Tomorrow Superlogo. It's funny DC feels it has equity in the mark, when the only truly necessary element is the diamond-shaped shield. Ah well.

Anyone else have thoughts on design elements?

Keith, like a scientist

01:50 / 17.11.05

benjamin I had been wondering what that muffler was about in the epilogue and I just read a post somewheres, he saved the guy using only Clark's Bunglingness! Fucking classic!

I was coming on here right now to say that my favorite bit in the entire issue was when Clark saved that guy from the falling machinery. So subtle, but think of it: what if Clark is saving people all day from odd things and he can't change into costume? Tripping people, spilling coffee on them, who know...

chad I'm jazzed about the masthead. So far, the title design for the two All-Star books is amazing. Simple, powerful, intelligent, and [Could someone please invent a word that means adult without being lascivious, and lacking irony without being humorless?]

Masthead designed by Chip Kidd, who is basically the most famous book jacket designer to ever live at this point. The New York Times recently a very large feature article on him and he has a new book out of his most famous work. He is likely behind most of the jacket designs you notice in the bookstore.

I'm pretty sure DNA PROJECT was on the Moon. And is Quentin...er, sorry, Quintum a new character, or an existing character? Curious about that. Willy Wonka of Mad Science is too right.

This was one of the most refreshingly satisfying comics I've read in years. Direct, conceptual, and oh so pretty. The COLORS! My god, that colorist is a genius.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

02:08 / 17.11.05

Man, I used to love the ess out of Chip Kidd, especially the oversized Batman books he put together, but I've sort of gone cold when it comes to his work now. I really wasn't crazy about his Sin City redux and when I flipped through that new retrospecticus of his work I was so excited and then I realized, "Wow, he's done some dull-ass covers." I'll come out and say it, give me Rian Hughes any day over him.

As far as the All Star line, it definitely works as mainstream logo design. The only problem is getting the floppies into a mainstream environment. The best thing about them, though, is that they're really just a modernization of the old school comic/pulp covers. Which, conceptually, is awesome. On paper, though, it's just a shade too boring.

For my money, the Vimanarama logo is the best logo design in the past ten years.

Cameron, I had the same experience. I had a small stack of books to read and I just kept pulling this book out of the pile to read again. My favorite caught detail? Lex's Remote Assassin first bashing that one guy's head in (watch the cabling that connects him to the ceiling) and then spending the rest of his rampage sitting on his head. I had the biggest grin when I caught that.

And how much better does that double page spread look without titles?

(Although the Movie Style Credits at the end was a bit wack.)

02:25 / 17.11.05

I just got the reason for the title of the episode. Brilliant.

And all Frank's bald men look the same. I half expect Lois to have red hair.

Will look into Chip Kidd and Rian Hughes. Vimanarama? Really? I suppose excellent mastheads would be a subset under that cool looks/costumes thread. I vote Catwoman, again.

12:11 / 17.11.05

Quintim is almost certainly new, although he has elements of Emil Hamilton and the founders of Project Cadmus.

Keith, like a scientist

12:19 / 17.11.05

#2 can't possibly be out on December 7th, as the DC site still says, right? That would be the very definition of too good to be true.

13:03 / 17.11.05

I found a site that claimed All-Supes #2 is coming out January 18. I shall look for confirmation

13:30 / 17.11.05

It is currently scheduled for Jan. 18th, yes.

13:58 / 17.11.05

#1 came out yesterday!?!?? Haven't gotten to the shop yet. Very psyched to pick this up!

23:33 / 17.11.05

So subtle, but think of it: what if Clark is saving people all day from odd things and he can't change into costume? Tripping people, spilling coffee on them, who know...

Oh, it's not about not changing costume. Clark Kent (Reporter) IS the costume, just another identity for the Clark the Farmboy to help people in.

Remember the way Clark Kent saved that lady from Black Death. For the precision, delicate jobs, Clark Kent's yer (Super)man.

I reckon JLA:C was a way for George to test some of the stuff he's throwing into All-Star Supes.

Haus of Mystery

01:16 / 18.11.05

Loved this for all the above reasons. Too drunk to be articulate, but it felt so continuity free and joyful. Lovely stuff.

Re: Chip Kidd's logo - sack the cunt. Awful. Same goes for the Batman abomination. He was stylish for about twelve minutes. Now give the reigns back to Mr Hughes and go home.

01:56 / 18.11.05

Goodness.

02:04 / 18.11.05

It's so good. Technicolor butter.

02:05 / 18.11.05

It was awesome, of course.

Pretty straightforward, too... which is why I imagine there's not as much in-depth discussion here.

03:47 / 18.11.05

Anybody have a good shot of the changed "s" logo that they'd like to share with me? I can't find anything on the 'net that shows a good shot of the "s" and it's pissing me off.

03:49 / 18.11.05

Here's a good shot.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:50 / 18.11.05

I liked the idea of the nanonauts, engineering the outposts of tomorrow today. The accompanying image - the vial of fluid in Quintum's hand, with the barely visible figures swimming around inside? I don't know. I think half the reason I like the Mozzer-mad-ideastream is just that it's usually delivered in an oddly poetic fashion. The Voyager Titan was nice, the Quitely smoke/liquid nitrogen/what-have-you boiling off of it was super-smart!

03:59 / 18.11.05

Bill of R - Thanks. It looks like Supes is packing some major heat there. Tee-hee.

lonely as a cloud...

07:06 / 18.11.05

Wow. I think what I loved the most about this was Clark being Christopher Reeves' Clark. His dialog was spot-on Clark-from-the-movies, which I've never actually seen in comics - although I've never read much solo Superman stuff.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:57 / 18.11.05

I bought this yesterday.

and still haven't read it!

tho, i must say Lois looks just like my gal.

I'm thinking fffffrank must have spotted her on sauchiehall street.

and can someone say hi to Meme Buggerer for me.

ta.

11:00 / 18.11.05

I suppose it falls upon my broad shoulders to once again play the contrarian. I wasn't blown away. Frank's art is more beautiful and inspiring all the time, and maybe the best way to read this comic is to just flip through and look at the drawings. His sense of space and movement and design is really great. Grant, though, I can see he's trying, but he's doing his old dazzle-baffle schtick where he BLOWS YOUR MIND again and again, so that he never has to worry about characters or plot and it's a bit tired. I mean, I thought Seaguy was supposed to be his send-off to that approach. (It could be that I read too much into Seaguy. I loved it, but it really creeped me out.) Or maybe I just don't like Superman. Maybe I enjoy Supes better, if at all, as a tiresome thug. Does that make me borecore?

Hey, don't you think Grant's interview about meeting Superman at a comics convention sheds some light on why Superman is so nonchalant about the cloning and the apoptosis and so on?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:42 / 18.11.05

I loved it. Unfortunately, it's reminded me of why I always loved Supes as a kid(every time you call him that, part of Byrne's beard falls out, btw) and I now feel the need to catch up on a couple of decades or so's worth of comics, many of which will probably be poo.

The main "fuck YEAH" moment for me was saving the kid and the dog. Quitely is indeed getting better and better- the picture of them in front of the truck showed he hasn't lost the "still except moving REALLY FAST" magic that made We3 quite such an exhilarating experience.

14:55 / 18.11.05

Question: I want to do some annotations for All-Supes this weekend. Should I post them on this thread, or start a new one?

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