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Title: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 26, 2017, 03:51:04 PM
As I get ready to start Vol 4 I think dawned on me that I haven't spoken up about this book yet.

I really really like it.  It's a mix of space adventure and political intrigue here at home.  The basic premise starts off with a new president from the opposing party being sworn in.  He has all of his ideological ideas and plans ready to go.  The letter is the traditional letter that presidents leave each other in the desk as power transitions.  That letter shakes everything the new president ever had planned as he learns that there is an alien outpost watching us and that we sent a secret mission out there to investigate. That mission has taken years to travel there and they will arrive under the new presidents watch.

It's a mix of conflicting ideologies here on earth and what life has been for astronauts (a mix of military and scientists) spending years together out in space.  And then there's those aliens.......

Really good series and I definitely recommend.

Vol 4 collects issues 22-27. 

And now on to my reading it!


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on August 26, 2017, 06:01:11 PM
I wasn't blown away by the art, if I remember correctly, but I still want to read this someday. As it did just finish its run ... that helps.
 :)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 27, 2017, 05:48:01 AM
Vol 4 - issues 22-27

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!   :o

And those who know me know I don't use that word lightly.

This series is blowing me away.

This arc was a big one.  The biggest so far.

Perry - read this now!!

And yes this series just finished with issue 35.  And I can't wait to finish it.

Holy crap this just blew me away.

10 out of 10 holy shits.


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 27, 2017, 05:55:47 AM
I mean holy crap I'm still blown away.

I can't stop thinking about this.  Wow.  Just holy crap.

How in all that is holy did I miss this series until just now.  :o


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 27, 2017, 07:10:32 AM
Issues 28-30

Absolutely amazing.  My iPad only has 8% battery left so I won't get to finish tonight but I'm going to try.

Words can't express what is happening here.

This is powerful writing. 


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jimmy T on August 27, 2017, 12:35:49 PM
I will find a way, financially, to read this, Jeff. If you feel that way, it has to be at LEASTa little good to read.  ;)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 27, 2017, 03:08:06 PM
I will find a way, financially, to read this, Jeff. If you feel that way, it has to be at LEASTa little good to read.  ;)

ComiXology has a lot of it on sale for 50% off right now so that's 99 cents an issue for a lot of it.

I think it's a ComiXology Unlimited member only sale but the code is ONI17.  See if it works for you.


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 27, 2017, 03:23:58 PM
Issues 31-35

My iPad made all the way to issue 35 then halfway through died!  I had to finish it on my iPhone.  :D :D :D

Good ending to the series.  That unexpected twist from Vol 4 leads to a bit of a predictable ending but the journey there was a lot of fun for me.

In full disclosure I had friends over last night for poker and I had quite a bit of whiskey.  After they left I went out on the porch with a cigar and a beer and planned on winding down with a little reading. Could the whiskey have influenced me? Maybe.

But as I think back I still feel the same way about what I read last night.  I stayed up until 3am to finish it because I was so engaged in the story.

The build up issues are fun and interesting and though I would still have recommended it I wasn't as passionate until the endgame was revealed and it all came together.  It's worth the journey if you have the time and money.


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on August 27, 2017, 11:29:47 PM
Well if it hit you that hard, like Jimmy, I will see about reading a few issues. Or try to, again. I will get a hold of Dave and see if he can "hook a brotha up", but I may have to buy the issues in-between the first couple issues (which i know he has ... or had) and those that I may be able to grab/read from the LCS.

I know the art bugged me, at least at the time, so I will get a hold of those first couple first, to see if I can go for more, before buying more. But yeah, your excitement has me at least curious.
 :)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jimmy T on August 28, 2017, 02:04:18 AM
The code worked for me!!

Just need to double check finances before I pull the plug and try to go after this. :)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 28, 2017, 04:10:33 AM
I wasn't blown away by the art, if I remember correctly, but I still want to read this someday. As it did just finish its run ... that helps.
 :)

I agree the art is nothing to get excited about but it didn't bother me either.


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on August 28, 2017, 04:11:50 AM
The code worked for me!!

Just need to double check finances before I pull the plug and try to go after this. :)

That's great Jimmy!  Maybe just grab the first arc to see if you'd like it?


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jimmy T on August 29, 2017, 03:58:07 PM
Oh, I go full bore. I'm getting the 4 trades.  8)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jimmy T on September 03, 2017, 02:32:46 PM
Dammit! I forgot!! >:( >:(

Washing machine stopped draining on Wednesday, bathroom remodelers didn't show up until this week (should have been here 10 days ago!), been washing up in front of a sink and washing hair in the kitchen for 5 days, check engine light came on in the car, and Junior started getting sick and having trouble sleeping through the night (coughs, chest congestion, sniffling).

Plain forgot about any of this.  :-\


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on September 05, 2017, 05:43:17 PM
Forgot to mention this in the weekly reader so I thought I would post it here, where most of my thoughts should have gone anyway  :D It is a very small detail but I love the way
While in space, the communications are colored different around the text boxes, depending on who you are talking to;

Red for whole shipwide communications
Yellow for just the local group talk
and
Green for one to one convos... just makes it a tad cooler to know and understand who is talking to whom.
(of course it has been a couple hours ... maybe the colors are different, but ya get what I mean


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Jeff on September 05, 2017, 06:43:01 PM
Forgot to mention this in the weekly reader so I thought I would post it here, where most of my thoughts should have gone anyway  :D It is a very small detail but I love the way
While in space, the communications are colored different around the text boxes, depending on who you are talking to;

Red for whole shipwide communications
Yellow for just the local group talk
and
Green for one to one convos... just makes it a tad cooler to know and understand who is talking to whom.
(of course it has been a couple hours ... maybe the colors are different, but ya get what I mean


I hadn't noticed that (or at least don't remember noticing it - surely I did) but I agree that the small touches add to this series.  
I like how communications between the ship and earth isn't instantaneous.  It's a little thing but adds a nice touch that the President has to sit and wait so long for a reply.   :D


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on September 05, 2017, 11:02:52 PM
Forgot to mention this in the weekly reader so I thought I would post it here, where most of my thoughts should have gone anyway  :D It is a very small detail but I love the way
While in space, the communications are colored different around the text boxes, depending on who you are talking to;

Red for whole shipwide communications
Yellow for just the local group talk
and
Green for one to one convos... just makes it a tad cooler to know and understand who is talking to whom.
(of course it has been a couple hours ... maybe the colors are different, but ya get what I mean


I hadn't noticed that (or at least don't remember noticing it - surely I did) but I agree that the small touches add to this series.  
I like how communications between the ship and earth isn't instantaneous.  It's a little thing but adds a nice touch that the President has to sit and wait so long for a reply.   :D

Yeah, right. over 20 minutes of sitting
  :)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on September 06, 2017, 01:11:22 PM
Letter 44 Issues #5 and #6 -

I didn't enjoy those two issues at all. I am still stoked for the series, but those two ... especially the way
President Blades and that past Pres' conversation went. I just can't picture any President saying what Blades did or acting in that manner, no matter what the past President did or the wars that were involved. Well, maybe I could picture ONE president acting that way  ;). But it was also the way the space group handled the baby and alien situation.  :-\
Still looking ahead and liking the book. Every title has some bad issues so I am not worried.
 :)


Title: Re: Letter 44
Post by: Perry on September 07, 2017, 08:20:02 PM
Letter 44 #'s 7 and 8

First off, I am still enjoying this. Yes, starting a sentence like that pretty much guarantees a bitch session from me  :D but ... okay ... I am
just not understand the ... shift(?) in President Blades. Maybe that is something I will learn to understand later, but this guy just seems ... different from the guy I met in the first couple issues. His entire demeanor is different. That or I just read it different.
 ;D

Also, again, another bitch about the baby. What human being what go on a suicide mission and while in the act of the mission, a suicide mission remind, decide to have a kid. That still bothers me.

I am also thinking that either Soule changed a few things before issue 8 was sent to the printer, the letterer forgot some dialog or there was some miscommunication between he and the artist as there is one panel that clearly shows a guy talking, and by his pose he is adamant about what he is saying, yet there is no word balloon for his remarks.
I thought I had missed something at first. Like I couldn't see the dialog box, but look here ...

(https://s26.postimg.org/gn2tn996x/l44.jpg)

As you can clearly see, the guy pointing his finger is saying something. And he is saying it loudly too  :D Yet there are no words. Long hair guy (edit ... old long hair guy with beard) has words. Guy at the bottom of the pic has words, but this guy, this guy that is pissed or ... or saying happy birthday  :D ... he has no words. Maybe they got lost under that light fixture?
 :D

I know as you read this you are thinking I am not enjoying this series, but that would not be true. I am digging it, there is just a couple things I don't understand. Mostly dealing with human behavior but ... ya know the story has still got me. I am still here. Just hard pushing things aside that bug me. Like, for one example ...  
having a damn kid while
on a suicide mission!!!
>:(