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Shade the Changing Man Trade!!!

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sleazenation

15:11 / 18.07.07

Well, quite.

I have a feeling that the marketing department was looking to establish a 'library' and thus wanted to start at the beginning, but the great stuff, the stuff that really demands reprinting, and , arguably, the stuff that there is the greatest appetite for, is the stuff in the middle.

The interesting thing here is that the much lauded Sandman library started with The Doll's House rather than Preludes and Nocturnes...

yichihyon

04:43 / 25.07.07

I started reading Shade after Peter Milligan's take on Animal Man which I enjoyed. I thought there were some good comic book writing there so I hope they reprint more of his comics because I think he is an underappreciated writer. I just wish he wrote more TWilight Zone type stories like Face and the Eaters and Egypt and Skin and the complicated Rogan Gosh. I wish there was an Peter Milligan presents type tpb with these works collected finally! I think Animal Man 4 would be great as well as a trade paper back. As well as Shade the Changing Man. Or maybe another writer can handle Shade controlling maddess making him mad......reinvesting interest in Shade

sleazenation

10:36 / 25.07.07

A question: is good comic book writing qualitatively different from plain old good writing?

yichihyon

02:19 / 26.07.07

I think they are different media and we react to prose and grapic novels in different ways. I didn't mean to put one down in favor of another. I think they are different difinitely but it depends on the quality of writing and how we judge the works itself.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:55 / 26.07.07

I'd say so, yes. What works well in a screenplay may not work in a comic may not work in a novel.

PatrickMM

01:56 / 27.07.07

I'd argue comics is tougher in a lot of respects because you've got so little space to tell the story in. Too much dialogue and exposition and you wind up with one of those Stan Lee books that feels more like a summary of the story than the story itself, but space things out too much and you've got a book that costs $3 and takes five minutes to read. One of the things I love about Morrison and Moore, that set them apart from everyone else in the game, is that they can cram 22 pages full of plot and emotional content. Very rarely is a Morrison comic not worth the money, I can't say the same for most other books.

yichihyon

14:05 / 19.06.09

Shade the Changing Man Edge of Vision tpb
new Shade the Changing Man trade paperbacks on the way!!!! If only they reprint Milligan's Animalmans as well.....

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