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Alias #1

Ellis

11:44 / 06.09.01

Did anyone buy it?

After all the fuss it was pretty good, I was only able to read it the shop since my retailer under ordered.

The sex scene wasn't as bad as I expected and very well done in fact.

For some reason the swearing at the start bothered me, it seemed gratuitous for the sake of being gratuitous.

What did everyone else think?

Ellis

12:19 / 06.09.01

Alias issue one is out today. My retailer just didn't order enough to meet the standing orders.

As for how I get my comics a week earlier, my (cool) retailer sells me the preview copies which come out a week early. And which your not actually supposed to seel.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

14:00 / 06.09.01

I picked it up, and scanned through, I haven't read it yet. I'm not fond of the art, I can tell you that...it's like fifth-rate Ted McKeever.

I'm bitter about there being no New X-Men despite Marvel saying it would be out this week... I asked the store clerk "hey, did New X-Men come out?" and he says "oh, Wolverine came out" "no,NewX-Men, Grant Morrison" "uh,no"

Ronald Thomas Clontle

15:29 / 07.09.01

I think it was okay...it didn't rock my world, but I think I'll try the next issue and then see where it goes from there.. it's not exactly my taste, but it was entertaining.

Bendis is without question a one-trick pony...has anyone even called him on the fact that this is more or less just a reconfigured Powers?

sleazenation

16:29 / 07.09.01

yeah it was pretty flat. Not a bad comic by any stretch of the imagination-- but hardly cutting edge stuff either.

OK if we are gonna talk about one trick crime fiction ponies

Brian Azzerello. Brian Bendis. Lockerd in a room. There is a gun on ther table between them. what happens next. (or perhaps what happened before...)

Ronald Thomas Clontle

18:19 / 07.09.01

quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:

Brian Azzerello. Brian Bendis. Lockerd in a room. There is a gun on ther table between them. what happens next. (or perhaps what happened before...)

they'd probably start talking in phony 'street' dialogue and Wizard would write an article about how well they capture 'the language of the streets' or some shit like that.

sometimes I think I'm the only guy on earth who is bored to tears by crime fiction, especially noir crime fiction.

POST 500! woo-hoo!

[ 07-09-2001: Message edited by: Flux = RAD ]

Ellis

18:22 / 07.09.01

quote:Originally posted by Flux = RAD:

sometimes I think I'm the only guy on earth who is bored to tears by crime fiction, especially noir crime fiction.

Trust me, you're not.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:20 / 09.09.01

Bendis would surely get dead much quicker, as Azzerello at least inspires panel variation in his artist.

Bendis' whole repeating panel shit was really never interesting in the first place and now it's just flat out ridiculous/smacks of laziness.

And, just for the record, it was really a kind of Ted McKeever Jill Thompson lovechild.

But hey, if something as outrageous and chuckle-inducing as Power Man fucking someone in the ass happens every issue, I feel I'll be picking up this sad sack book every month. I can only imagine what Ennis will do.

But, yeah. I hate Bendis, but can vaguely stand Azzarello, not because of his annoying street dialogue, but the fact that he's crafted a pretty gorgeously intricate story line over less than 30 issues. And, fuck, Risso's stuff is so nice.

Benjamin.

Jamieon

13:54 / 10.09.01

quote: I asked the store clerk "hey, did New X-Men come out?" and he says "oh, Wolverine came out" "no,NewX-Men, Grant Morrison" "uh,no"

Yeah they always do this.

It's annoying.

sleazenation

13:54 / 10.09.01

oh and was i the only one that thought marvel's oh-so-mature line was slightly self defeating when a 'mature' and 'sensitive' sex scene was interrupted by a gaudy and tacky ad for some marvel relatede card game.

*sigh*

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