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im a big bendis fan (maleev as well). i read moon knight #1 and it was pretty good. got #2 but havent read it. im thinking it might be a better read in trade form though. when bendis spreads himself this thin some of his books are bound to suffer.
plus moon knights a cool character that modern marvel just cant develop a personality for.
i never read the moon knight series from the early 80's, but they say it was a game changer.
the first moon knight series are the only good comics i've read with the character...but they are dope as fuck...this is where bill sienkiewicz really showed his skill. they're available in 3 marvel essentials books...they're worth a look, they're almost in the same class as miller's daredevil.
bendis' problem to me...is that his plotting is weak, by which i mean he never really has any layers or subplots in his stories or any really creative ideas, and they take way too long to play out...there's no reason the 'eye of agamotto' story in new avengers had to be 6 issues, for example. his dialogue and characterization are good and entertaining though. if you took the best traits of bendis and warren ellis and grant morrison and combined them, you'd have the perfect comic writers, at least for me.
bill sienkiewicz is a fucking comic god to me. i need to read those asap.
and alias (although very dialog heavy) was a fantastic read. and probably bendis' most multi-layered work. its still kinda the background of his new avengers stuff, so i know thats why i have such a bias for that book. but this new storyline is really, really hard to get through.
fear itself is good fun. not a complex story by any means, but the chosen look fuckin cool as hell. good old fashion beat em up comics.
yeah, i agree
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/0...ctive-batgirl/
^new creative teams for the batman titles...bleh
"I think I see my stop just around the corner"
im glad ur feeling madnman bro eloels, my fav shit is the G Man from Hell arc, amazing to me :)
and eh, w/e as far as the batman shits
and moon knight is w/e for me, im stickin around for the sloppy maleev art eloels and X Force is back up quality wise
yeah i just have 'exit of dr boiffard' and 'g-men from hell' to read in the 'gargantua' book...and then i'll read the crossovers with nexus, the jam, and superman before getting into the 'atomica' book.
is the atomica and atomic comics run better than this stuff? because this'll be hard to top.
i also need to go pick up my comics...i need that x-force issue, lol
batman, inc is apparently going to continue...next year (grrrr) i haven't really seen any books from dc's non-reboot that are interesting to me, yet (they're not rebooting if red hood and the african batman are getting comics)
i liked the Atomics run, it was good shit, but honestly, the more Allred progresses with Frank and his universe its like, hard to critique, its kinda like, he goes weird places and u cant help but respect it, like it or not eloels.
i love it, i wish there were more comics like this...it's a modernized version of the silver age vibe but without being contrived.
ya i mean its so irreverent while still displaying a deep love and admiration for that old school shit
and they're even starting hitch's bat book over? after a whopping 2 issues.
i really was right when i said dc had their heads all the way up their asses. lol
*Finch and Marvel's head is up the same ass
Jun 7th 2011 By: Laura HudsonSpider-'Nam: James Stokoe Sends Spider-Man to Vietnam in Amazing Fan Comic
Over the years, Peter Parker has faced many problems relatable to the common man: struggling to make rent, dealing with a browbeating boss, dating a supermodel and even losing his job. In Spider-'Nam, a fan comic by Orc Stain creator and ComicsAlliance fav James Stokoe, Spider-Man deals with a situation that many young men faced in the '50s, '60s, and 70s: shipping off to Vietnam to fight in a complicated and divisive war halfway around the world. We're republishing the current four pages here with permission, but Stokoe says more will follow on his site as time permits.
You may remember Stokoe's insanely detailed work from the four-foot Galactus drawing he did a while back, and that intricacy is on display again in Spider-'Nam as Peter Parker explains in a letter Aunt May why he chose to drop out of college and enlist... apparently as Spider-Man?