Return of Wolverine 1-4-this is garbage.
I didn't even bother giving it the time of day. Didn't even open it to look.
... but it's Ramos art .... But it will never compare to Romita, or JRJr in his prime ...
I am not
NOT a fan of Ramos, I actually like him on Spidey more than any other title as his ... flare for exaggeration
fits better with the lanky hero that is Peter (well, lanky compared to most I mean) but I certainly understand why you (and others) don't ... enjoy it.
But the main reason I quoted you here was when I saw you wrote JRjr ... man!!!! That was prime Spidery right there. Back when Jr. was trying to look like his dad? That was the best work of his career. But then ...
Look I get you want to have your own style, especially if you are labeled a "Jr", you are already searching for self identity, but damn it, that was when his stuff looked the best, Spidey looked the best, the comics in general looked the best.
There is no group of artist today that can do what those in the 70's/80's did. The speed in which they did it. The look they had. Just can't compare. Art is so different now. A lot more inner substance, more character detail which sometimes ... no, not sometimes but a lot of times leads to the sacrifice of any decent background work. The artists of yesterday would both laugh and admire some of the stuff of today.
And hell, I admit that my eye tends to love the look of Mike Deodato. I just love it, but man, talk about over use of the digital platform?
I just love the "good ole days" of pencil and ink to paper and artists that can not only do a book a month, but maybe even enough pages for two (or five pages a day for the King
)
Black Hammer/Justice League 1 - Not sure I like the mash-up of these teams. Doesn't feel like Lemire's writing either.
Ya know, I think the problem I have is
that there wasn't much of a mash-up at all, although there is starting to be. It is just two teams switching locales. And for the writing? I hear ya! Using cliche lines like "You better start talking!" and "I'll be the judge of that" (and so many more) along with the very tired Curly, Moe and Larry -
"What's your name?"
"Weird"
"Yes you are but I asked what your name was"
It all just stinks of Lemire phoning it in.
Not to mention that we already know what the "farm" was ... is this taking place prior to that discovery? Although I liked the idea of the one character "death" being replaced for the other.
Now, as for what I have gotten through so far (and I don't see too much more in my immediate future
) -
New X-Men #117 - Continuing my read through of Morrison's X-Men run
Invaders #8 - Man, this one was wordy. Still good, but a long read for this title
Black Hammer/JLA #2 - Like Jeff, not enjoying this as much as I'd hoped. But there is time left!!
Bone Parish #10
Bone Parish #11 - Finally broke down and read the last two issues I had. Only one more to go ... sadly
Livewire #8 - This book is good, but just doesn't seem to be getting the readers. Time to reset?
Once & Future #1 - A good, possible, twist on the legend of King Arthur. Liked the art too. Good read.
Road of Bones #1
Road of Bones #2
Road of Bones #3
Road of Bones #4 - A super-fast read that I did like, but it could have been more enjoyable if I could have more easily tell the difference between the three characters as they made their trek across the wasteland. The art style just didn't do a good job of differentiating between three characters and when you
ONLY have three characters in your story for most of the book, that is a major problem. Still worth a read, I suppose, but only as say a $4 trade buy or something super cheap.