Now he'll never be able to afford a mortgage.
Now he'll never be able to afford a mortgage.
That's one of the books being floated about by the rumors. Honestly he's a pretty good draw, so that would be a good book for him. I like the idea of Abnett getting to write Justice League more, but unless Inquisitor Eisenhorn or Commissar Gaunt take over leadership of the Justice League he's not going to pull in a new audience and bolster the book.I'd love to see him replace Hitch on Justice League.
Actually I'd love to see anyone replace him ...
Abnett would be my top choice; he's able to juggle multiple characters, dip into their personal lives, and give them interesting things to do while keeping up with what's going on in their own books. But I'd be good with Hickman. Or Seeley. Or Lemire.That's one of the books being floated about by the rumors. Honestly he's a pretty good draw, so that would be a good book for him. I like the idea of Abnett getting to write Justice League more, but unless Inquisitor Eisenhorn or Commissar Gaunt take over leadership of the Justice League he's not going to pull in a new audience and bolster the book.
The other title I've seen speculated is Legion of Super-heroes.
Apparently DC offered him a great opportunity, which we have no idea what is yet, but he said he couldn't do both. I like the stories he's come up with from a distance, but I can't stand the simultaneous inner monologues from both Simon and Jessica. It was a neat experiment, but I don't feel it worked and made those pages a chore.Sam Humphries is calling it quits on Green Lanterns, DAMMIT- love his crazy world building.
Might have been a chore, but probably not as insufferable as Loeb's Superman/Batman panels.I like the stories he's come up with from a distance, but I can't stand the simultaneous inner monologues from both Simon and Jessica. It was a neat experiment, but I don't feel it worked and made those pages a chore.
Hurray?Might have been a chore, but probably not as insufferable as Loeb's Superman/Batman panels.
"Looking forward to these hardcovers to come out so I can get the paperback versions of them."This has been another edition of "Nick's Comic Book Collecting Habits are Fucking Weird."
Heh, but that's generally the publishing trend. Like, DC is re-collecting the Justice League International run (when it was more a comedy book) in omnibuses. But they'll likely re-print the same material in softcovers as they have with other omnibuses."Looking forward to these hardcovers to come out so I can get the paperback versions of them."
You know better than I do. Dark Horse released the Alien omnibuses in paperback, so I'm sure eventually they'll do so for Hellboy.[DOUBLEPOST=1504844705,1504844459][/DOUBLEPOST]Okay, I was a little disappointed when I read through Hellboy stuff before, but now reading the article, they're planning to split these up into their stories and related story arcs, rather than the issue release order, which at times didn't make much sense. That's pretty cool. I might check one out just to see. I'm definitely interested in the short story ones, as I feel the smaller lore or character-focused stories were more Mignola's strength, while his bigger plots ended up feeling kinda hollow and repetitive.Heh, but that's generally the publishing trend. Like, DC is re-collecting the Justice League International run (when it was more a comedy book) in omnibuses. But they'll likely re-print the same material in softcovers as they have with other omnibuses.
So, I just need to be extra patient.
Yeah, that's part of the reason I sold my collection of Hellboy and BPRD. The stories didn't make a lick of sense half the time. Reading them in this order might help. I imagine it also didn't help that I'd waited a long time in between buying each volume so I wound up forgetting a lot of what came before. You're right that the shorter or more self-contained stories worked more to Mignola's strengths.You know better than I do. Dark Horse released the Alien omnibuses in paperback, so I'm sure eventually they'll do so for Hellboy.[DOUBLEPOST=1504844705,1504844459][/DOUBLEPOST]Okay, I was a little disappointed when I read through Hellboy stuff before, but now reading the article, they're planning to split these up into their stories and related story arcs, rather than the issue release order, which at times didn't make much sense. That's pretty cool. I might check one out just to see. I'm definitely interested in the short story ones, as I feel the smaller lore or character-focused stories were more Mignola's strength, while his bigger plots ended up feeling kinda hollow and repetitive.
I don't know if it would've mattered. Somebody was selling the trades for cheap, so I bought them up and read them one after another. I didn't feel confused, just disappointed, but now I'm wondering if that's from the jerky back and forth storytelling. Sometimes that's the nature of comic books, but the "insert backstory" issues of, for example, a Marvel or DC superhero book feel less troublesome because it's pasting something into an existing status quo. Hellboy never had much a status quo, the story was always moving forward, so sudden changes coming in felt like the narrative took a swerve off its route and sometimes wouldn't go back for 20 issues.Yeah, that's part of the reason I sold my collection of Hellboy and BPRD. The stories didn't make a lick of sense half the time. Reading them in this order might help. I imagine it also didn't help that I'd waited a long time in between buying each volume so I wound up forgetting a lot of what came before. You're right that the shorter or more self-contained stories worked more to Mignola's strengths.
I knew back when I read it, but what I started to recall as his origin is actually the backstory for Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing, so apparently I have no idea either .And I still don't have two clues what Abe Sapien's origin was supposed to be.
I did think it was sarcastic at first glance.Good for him.
[edit] that looks more sarcastic than it is. I've not read his stuff, but I hear he's talented and the few people that read Deathstroke (I don't think the character will ever be what DC wants it to be) seem to really love it.
I don't get it.https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/04/problems-marvel-legacy-lenticular-covers/
Marvel tries riding DC's lenticular coattails, but cheaps on the cover material, fucking it all up.
It's supposed to be left and right.I don't get it.
The lenticular images are obviously meant to be viewed by moving the cover up and down, but they film it going left and right? Of course it's going to look bad.
--Patrick
I wonder how much better the effect can get if you make sure that the cover is perfectly flat. All the videos I can find online have the cover curved or warped. If you set one on a flat table, and pressed it flat with a pane of glass, it might look pretty good. Not that such would excuse choosing such a flimsy cover material for a lenticular effect.It's supposed to be left and right.
But either way, the problem is that the image is supposed to show clearly when you put it to one way or the other, but instead they used thinner covers than DC did, so it just shows a glob of both.
Maybe they shouldn't have gone all-in on this shit. I hope my comic store will be able to recover the difference. They had a short box of available variants, but if they look like crap, nobody's going to want them. I saw one lenticular on the shelf and it had the bleed problem.
Maybe, but you're supposed to be able to just hold it up and see it. But then, it wouldn't be so curved if they'd done it properly.I wonder how much better the effect can get if you make sure that the cover is perfectly flat. All the videos I can find online have the cover curved or warped. If you set one on a flat table, and pressed it flat with a pane of glass, it might look pretty good. Not that such would excuse choosing such a flimsy cover material for a lenticular effect.
Very nice. So far this event has been fun and having Morrison contributing to this multiverse bender of a story will be a nice treat before the finale.So I mentioned in the What comic are you reading thread that the main Metal series was taking a break in February so Capullo could have some time off after getting sick, and they were going to publish a new one-shot in its place. Well it turns out that that book "The Wild Hunt" will be co-written by Scott Snyder & Grant Morrison.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/24/grant-morrison-nights-metal-wild-hunt/
I'll bet it's something they got access to when they finally settled some of the other things with the families, an outline and basic storyboarding that was/is finished by someone else.https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/24/action-comics-1000-30-168-page-hardcover/
Then there's going to be a 168 page hardcover titled Action Comics #1000 that'll have stories by various writers and artists, including apparently an unpublished alleged Siegel/Shuster story that DC has had squirreled away for decades.
Yeah, I know they keep those, but they've done so many different specials over the years and years since they passed I think that I remember hearing that they didn't have anything that wasn't already published.Could also be an old inventory story (finished stories that publishers would bank to help keep the books published on time) that never made it to print.