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Godland

Benny the Ball

16:29 / 21.10.05

Anyone reading Godland?

I like Casey's work, well, I liked his stuff on WildCATS (didn't read his X-Men, he did an X-Men, right?).

This is simple pure fun, the first issue features a cosmic being, a giant space dog and a villian who is a trippy skull floating in a liquid filled jar on a robot looking body. The art is a happy homage to Kirby, and the story harks back to Marvel 1960's.

Good honest fun in a time of cape-rape and crisisisisissss.

I'm 2 issues in, so will write more once up to speed (on issue four now), but as it stands it's a gorgeous looking book and is a really good read.

Henningjohnathan

19:37 / 21.10.05

The entire first issue is previewed online-
GØDLAND #1 - THE WHOLE ISSUE

Mr Tricks

19:47 / 21.10.05

I picked up the first couple of issues but got board reading it. Enjoyed the art but not enough...

Axolotl

12:09 / 22.10.05

I'm reading this and quite enjoying it. The art is just Kirby pastiche, but if you're going to do a pastiche, you may as well pastiche the best. I don't know how long it's going to keep me entertained - perhaps it would have been better as a miniseries? - but for now it's just good, old fashioned fun.

Tamayyurt

12:34 / 22.10.05

I've wanted to get this for a while. Glad to hear it's fun. The first trade comes out in Janurary so I might as well wait for it.

Mark Parsons

18:59 / 22.10.05

I'm torn. I love the Kirby-Lee throwback stylings, but the writing somehow left me indifferent. Casey often has that effect on me. I bought his Majestic tpb after enjoying the Abnett-Lanning mini-series and while lots of the ideas and concepts were really cool, there was a disconnect in the scripting. When Majestic moves out solar system utilizing a pair of mechano-gloves of his own design, that should have been a fun Silver Age moment of entertainment, but instead, the story felt flat. Maybe he sometimes lacks a sense of humor in his work? (in regards to that series).

Guess i'll have to read the ***cough-cough*** three issues I impulse bought cuz I like Kirby pastiches...

Henningjohnathan

18:06 / 26.10.05

Gaiman's ETERNALS

Considering Gaiman's next Marvel work is bringing back THE ETERNALS, I wonder if there will be any comparison to Godland or if it will essentially be Sandman with Kirby characters but none of the Kirby style?

Mark Parsons

04:20 / 27.10.05

I'd be surprised if they took the "Kirby Homage" approach, although part of me secretly delights in the idea of Giffen and Ladronn (did a nice K-routine in Casey penned CABLE issues) handling the art.

My bet for the art: P. Craig Russell

Tamayyurt

17:04 / 31.01.06

I just got the first trade today and I've read through some of it. So far so good. I'm really liking it.

Mark Parsons

18:10 / 31.01.06

The series has grown on me since I last posted. It's refreshingly odd and off the wall. In the new issue, Nicklehead, one of the villians, dances and sings a Bob Dylan song (Subterranean Homesick Blues.)

hachiman

16:33 / 05.02.06

Saw the trade advertised in the previews and ordered it for the comic shop i manage, so's i could read it. I love the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four to bits and am also a big fan of Kirby's New Gods.
I loved every minute of it. It was joycore, from the Villains (Nicklehead rocks)to the classic Marvel Style Dysfunctional Family; The Archers, to the cosmic weirdness; the snotty Yoda-esque Alien Collective that trains Adam, to Maxim, Intelluctual Alien SuperCanine. And of course, the mystery of: IBOGA! How cool is that? Go on, Shout it out Loud, IBOGA!!

fish confusion errata

18:35 / 29.03.07

My comic store gave me Godland #16 because they thought I'd like it, and I did. I don't know much about Kirby, but this is fun like Morrison's JLA or the awesome Doom Patrol #53. I'll be checking out more.

doctorbeck

07:24 / 30.03.07

i just got the first 2 trades from the library, enjoyed it more for the art than the story, kirby crackles everywhere, huge fists, cosmic scenery. you get the feeling something really big is on the way but unless the library gets trade book 3 i'll never know what.

i think what i didn't like so much was the characterisation of the villians as this is often what drives really good two fisted comic stories and it seemed a bit so so in this one.

Mike Phillips

15:54 / 30.03.07

Here's an interesting little essay I came across about Casey's Godland and Mr. Morrison, among other things.

H3ct0r L1m4

13:48 / 27.04.07

"GØDLAND" CELESTIAL EDITION COVER AND GRANT MORRISON INTRODUCTION

Twig the Wonder Kid

11:39 / 20.07.07

While I've spent much of my adult life searching for a monthly to replace the hole left by Shade The Changing Man, I'm beginning to think I may never find anything that satisfies that need. But I have now found something that fills my Doom Patrol requirements.

I am absolutely loving Godland at the moment. I got 8 issues from eBay for £4 (there's more on there as I write), which was 6 more than it took to convert me.

Godland has that same silver age wackiness, and abstraction, without straying off into stupidity. It's real strength is its simplicity.

Oh, and the colouring. Never has the colouring on a book jumped out quite as much, but this is a real disco for the eyeballs.

gush over.

lord nuneaton savage

12:58 / 20.07.07

It's also the best comic to smoke weed and read EVER.

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