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The Writings of Ed Brubaker

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13:52 / 16.08.07

Newsarama & Alex Ross clarify - we can all breathe a major sigh of relief, as now it's VERY clear that Bru will still get to do his story. "Return" isn't even in the title of the Ross project; that was put in only for the Newsarama story as a tease (and misdirection) by the editor (the ed. also said it was the 'return' of Alex Ross to doing some Marvel work, har har).

>> NRAMA: Tuesday morning Marvel announced the project – a 2008 12-part maxi-series entitled "Avengers/Invaders" – is not bringing the modern-day Captain America back from the dead, but instead according to Marvel, it’s time travel story featuring the Invaders in their prime thrust into the current Marvel Universe, fully integrated into, and reflective of, current Marvel continuity.

The story will be co-plotted by Ross and Jim Krueger, penciled by Steve Sadowski (JSA), with design work and covers by Ross. The series will be packaged by Dynamite Entertainment.

OK, so the story is about the Invaders:

>> NRAMA: Back to the team – this is Cap, Namor, Bucky, the Human Torch and Toro, right?

AR: Exactly – the classic five. It’s not like we won’t get a chance to show characters like Union Jack and Spitfire, but to the purists, those are inventions of the 1970s, realistically. Even the name “The Invaders” is an invention of the ‘70s.

So a meeting of The Winter Solider and young 1940s Bucky sounds like it's a-comin'.....plus lots of people freaking out about the 'young Cap' showing up in our time while the current Cap is dead...

18:26 / 16.08.07

regarding the new CAP issue: The Falcon doesn't have super-strong skin or something, does he? Why is he on fire for some of the issue and appears relatively unharmed...?

16:17 / 22.08.07

Just caught up with the first two trades of Brubaker's Daredevil - is there no one else that thinks it was a horrendous step down from Bendis? The plot's fine but the dialogue is just so humourless and leaden. And he does love his:

'She's leading me around by the nose. LITERALLY.'

or

'Are you the movers?'
'No - we're more like the SHAKERS.'

which is not the sign of a great writer.

17:15 / 22.08.07

His DD has succeeded in not interesting me in a progressively less-interested-with-each-new-issue sort of way and couldn't even begin really with his X-Men, but on rereading most of his Cap, I got right back into the swing, there.

There's something a bit weird in the Crossbones/Syn and Cap/Carter parallel, even if we've cut some generations into the Agent 13 mix to make that slightly healthier. Like to see that explored deeper, which isn't hard to excuse since there's no Cap to take up the title, right now.

Still, it's a bit annoying to me that this still smells like a story Waid and Garney handled better in half the issues. And still had time to shoehorn Doom and some man-without-a-flag business into.

And, while it's a bit threadrotty, 'Even the name “The Invaders” is an invention of the ‘70s' is just so 'I believe in the true continuity, today's continuity - that I just made up' it's pathetic. Ross is going to make me hate comics, some day, between his personally-enforced continuity, his trope of female heroes being defeated off-panel so their limp bodies can make iconic statement of image, his own awkward brand of ethnic determinism, and y'know, the whole not being willing to paint a whole Obsidian because OMFG they gayed him, those playful writers with their ideas!

07:20 / 23.08.07

Really? Fuck, I didn't know that. Yet another reason to loathe the beautiful, beautiful Alex Ross

18:20 / 07.04.08

Catching up on Cap at the moment, and is it just me, or should everyone who gets shot to death in this run show up in the cube, from Jack Munroe to Mother Night and Cappy himself? Like the Skull's dreamworld fantasy is to have all his friends and loved ones there to argue and fight and oh the drama!

I know that's probably not where it's going, but still.

Essential Dazzler

20:12 / 07.04.08

For the first time in my life, a comic book news story has upset me: Fraction and Brubaker are off Iron Fist after #16

20:56 / 07.04.08

Arses

00:42 / 08.04.08

I know that's probably not where it's going

But that's a good thing, right?

09:12 / 08.04.08

Pacific, I've been thinking about it all morning (sad bastard that I am). Despite the books faults, it's consistently one of the best superhero books on the racks. And... it just feels so incomplete, like there's so much more to do.

BORED NOW!

16:53 / 08.04.08

I had a feeling this was coming, when I discovered that there was a third trade planned with all of the one-shot stories up up #16. But I'm still bugged by it.

As for the new guy... I'm sure he writes excellent crime thrillers. But that doesn't mean he's the writer for Iron Fist, any more than I would expect Frank Miller to write Sugar & Spike.

22:33 / 25.07.08

I could really care less about Brubaker writing X-Men (or Mike Carey writing X-Men, too), but in addition to the extremely solid, intelligent work Bru is doing on Capt. America, Brubaker and Rucka tell a fine little mystery tale over in the pages of Daredevil, currently 2 issues into the arc. Worth checking out -- although the only story note that rang false was one supporting character suddenly being implied to have a romantic interest in another character in the book. Not sure where that is going, and why it's even there. But this current DD arc is a notch or two better than the "Mr. Fear" arc that was just prior, I'll say that much.

01:06 / 16.10.08

I have glanced at the new issue of Uncanny. I saw Dani Moonstone in that ridiculous choker and accoutrements. I saw her sit through a short lecture on voting discrimination and racial politics. Quietly. Because former superhero SHIELD operative with a history of acts of reactionary terrorism as an X-Man, New Mutant, and MLF member, would. Quietly.

I didn't really get any further.

Can she have some knives next issue? Or a psychic bow and arrow set again?

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