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John Mietus
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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:23am \| IP Logged \| 1

Wasn't meaning to be snarky, Matt, and sorry that it came across that way.
And we're in complete agreement in regards to the "different strokes"
matter.

I'm not trying to Rob Hewitt a dead horse here. Let me know if I am.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:35am \| IP Logged \| 2

I love DKR and Y1 too.However I'm not a big fan of Millers recent Batman work..

Interesting how people mention Mike Barr as one of their favorite Bat-writers. I like quite a few of the Bat-stories he wrote(he did one really cool dark story called "Faith for LOTDK),but some don't really sit well with me. Especially one he did in Batman and The Outsiders were Batman watches and smiles when a big group of people rip a dictator to pieces. I just thought that was seriously odd being the "in continuity" version of Batman.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:37am \| IP Logged \| 3

JM, you're about as far from old DA as you could possibly be. No worries.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:47am \| IP Logged \| 4

Grant's remarks in those pages from Animal Man - published, remember, in his first American comics work - are consistent with views held strongly by most of the members of this here forum.

DKR is one of the best-written Batman stories ever. It's not in continuity.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:51am \| IP Logged \| 5

I know the first thing I think of when I read a 'crackin' good superhero yarn is "thank god those idiots in tights saved the day again....if it could only have been more realistic."

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 10:58am \| IP Logged \| 6

He says "we" thought upping the violence would make things more realistic and adult, and that "we" were wrong. And he says it in, what, 1989?

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:04am \| IP Logged \| 7

In the same issue, he also goes on and on about "taking six issues of story to say nothing" - I took it to be similar to the interviews he does, where he talks about how much he loves superheroes, and then he writes a book trashing them.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:11am \| IP Logged \| 8

About writing for the trade ("six issues of story to say nothing"), I think quite a lot of that blame can be placed at the feet of editorial wherein a writer on a particular series at Marvel or DC doesn't like it, but it's mandated by editorial that X series takes Y amount of issues to tell a story. I absolutely know this was the case with Geoff Johns during his short stint at Marvel.

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:19am \| IP Logged \| 9

Given the drift of this thread, I may have missed my window to comment on the Morrison superhero costume issue, but I felt I had to post this priceless scene from Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men #1. It was such a great dig at Morrison and Quitely's leather X-Men outfits, it made me laugh out loud. "And quite frankly, all the black leather is making people nervous." Classic!

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:25am \| IP Logged \| 10

Who's the chick in the pink shirt?

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St�phane Garrelie
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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:27am \| IP Logged \| 11

It's Kitty.

Sorry.

Me I like her like that.

Edited by St�phane Garrelie on 27 August 2006 at 12:00pm

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Posted: 27 August 2006 at 11:39am \| IP Logged \| 12

By the way this story-arc (Astonishing X-Men #1 to #6) was good. Too bad, that after issue 8 the serie became crappy.

I really enjoyed how Whedon wrote Kitty. (By the way she's cute in this pink shirt).

But Wolverine was mainly a moving body, and the beast an utility.

Whedon did some good to Cyclops, who was writen in character for the first time in yeeeaaaars. And they gave him a cool costume.

Emma.... he couldn't erase totaly what Morrison did to her, but given the circumstances he did well.

Sadly the second story arc was so bad that i dropped the book after issue 11 (and the arc ended in issue 12.)... ho... and it was late too. Bad story + book late = book dropped. I didn't read the second season.

Edited by St�phane Garrelie on 27 August 2006 at 12:02pm

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