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Wallace Sellars
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Kirby's Silver Surfer
Buscema's Silver Surfer
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Michael Connell
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I've got to go with John Buscema on this one, too many great childhood memories.
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Ted Pugliese
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Last night I started reading the new JLA HC, so today I ask...
TODAY'S TOSS-UP (6/22):
Which Brad Meltzer tale did you prefer, Identity Crisis or The Tornado's Path?
P.S. I see that he and I are almost the same age, and he lives in my hometown (Hollywood, FL). He and his wife also went to law school with my solicitor, who had a class with Brad's wife. Further proof that there are only 500 people in the world.
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David Barker
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Archer's Quest....Is that a cop out?
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Michael Connell
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You live here in Florida and call a lawyer a solicitor? Just where you from anyway boy? 
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Ted Pugliese
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Speaking of the Archer's Quest, I liked it except for the fact that it made Ollie a Bastard! Chew on this, Kevin Smith brings Ollie back, in a story I enjoyed, and in short order Brad makes him a dead beat dad, and Judd has him cheating on Canary, again. Why?
Why not bring him back and let him reunite with Dinah and rejoin the Justice League. They do not have to get married. They should not get married.
And as far as the new JLA is concerned, I liked it except for Red Arrow. Red Arrow is from an "imaginary" story of a possible future. Ollie should be in the JLA, not Roy. Otherwise, I liked it.
Edited by Ted Pugliese on 22 June 2007 at 6:32am
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Ted Pugliese
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Michael, I live in NJ now (since 1992), and my school board employs a solicitor, who is our attorney.
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Paul Greer
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I read and disliked Identity Crisis. I haven't read his JLA, except for issue 0, and I didn't like that. Archer's Quest was okay, but not as good as the Smith stuff that came before. I guess I choose neither. This Meltzer maybe a good novelist (I haven't read any of those either), but he isn't much of a comics writer.
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James Hanson
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I read ID Crisis and likely won't buy another Meltzer title unless the artist is
phenomenal. I don't think he's awful, but there wasn't much there that
fascinated me.
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Bruce Buchanan
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Haven't read The Tornado's Path, so I don't feel qualified to offer an answer.
I read Identity Crisis when it came out and had decidedly mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it was a well-crafted mystery - when I finished one issue, I certainly wanted to read the next one. I mean, the guy knows how to write a page-turner.
But the tone was so dark. Much darker than I like my superhero comics. I really hate that superhero stories have become about heroes making less-than-admirable choices, then arguing among themselves about whether or not those actions are justified.
I miss the moral clarity of comics as they used to be. I like comics where the good guys are good people and the bad guys are easy to identify.
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Andrew Hess
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Like the majority opinion, read Identity Crisis and didn't care for it: bad
plotting, bad characterization, needless plot twists. Written like the screen
play for a comic book movie by someone who doesn't know the characters
well enough.
Haven't read Tornado's Path, but everyone has raved about it. So I'll be
picking it up thru the library, like I did with ID Crisis. If I don't like it, I
haven't wasted anything but an hour of reading.
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Brian Hunt
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I've read Identity Crisis, but not Tornado's Path. So I abstain.
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