Title: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on June 20, 2015, 04:18:39 PM This book is the SURPRISE OF THE WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK
;D Dave had this only about 3 or 4 comics down in his pile this week (he rates his comics this way so I will know what he like more than what he liked less ... just to let you know, Doomed was at the bottom of his pile ;D), andI have to be honest as I almost said "What? screw this. I'll read this if I have time" but later I decided to hang in and give it a go. I started to read and figured I would be placing it right back in the pile within 3 pages. I got past those 3 pages and then figured I would set it down after 6 pages. Moments later, after finishing the book, I just sat and digested what I had read. This totally changes my thoughts about this character. I have honestly never been a huge fan of this guy. I admit it. He was almost as bad as Superman to me, having so much power that he seemed unstoppable and thus boring. Almost as bad because at least he had a very cool weakness, fire. Something so normal and readily abundant that John Jones was just a little better to me than a guy that was only worried about very rare, green (or any other colored) bits of his planet. But still, I just never latched onto this guy. This book, may have just changed that. I can't believe this but I am adding a Martian Manhunter comic to my pull. Holy Hell, first I am trying to read Greg Paks Superman and now this happens? WTF is going on with me? :D Can't put this under Perry Suggests as I may have been won over by just the fact I never cared about the character and now I kind of do, so it may not hit for everyone, but for me 8 out of 10 - Cookies in a bag Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jimmy T on June 20, 2015, 06:46:16 PM I really enjoyed it; alot actually! Great to see Eddy Barrows on a book I'll read again.
J'onn's history has been so wishy washy or mercurial, that one can really do a big number on it if you wish, particularly if the invasion angle this book is pushing is real. After all, a shapechanger could be anything, or could easily think or be anything, right? Why actually believe in anything if you are anything? I like that kind of analysis. A big pick up for me to keep up with. Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on June 21, 2015, 01:25:57 PM Ahhh, a book Jimmy and I agree on. Must be a special book indeed ;)
Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jeff on June 21, 2015, 05:49:11 PM I went ahead and downloaded this on Comixology. Make that three in agreement. This was fun to read. I'm going to add it to my pull.
Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on June 21, 2015, 06:26:36 PM 8)
Been a while since all three of us enjoyed a DC title at the same time! :) Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jimmy T on September 19, 2015, 02:43:09 PM Such a greatly, intriguing title! Issue #4
I'm very glad I've stuck it out with this book, and I'm highly anticipating reading the next issue with gusto! Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on September 19, 2015, 07:11:04 PM Couldn't agree more. I was kinda getting a lost feeling after I finished issue #3. Thought I may have misread or missed something because I just did grasp what was actually going on. Then, after reading issue #4, it all hit me like a truck. How did I not understand this? Haha. Maybe it was just me or maybe the story didn't open up until issue #4.
Crap, I should delete all this but I am going to leave it up. I just relized I hadn't read issue #4 yet :D :D :D I pulled up the last issue I read, to get a brief reminder of what happened in #4 and saw that I didn't read it yet. DOH!!!! Okay, I am going to go do that in a few, but let me correct what I was trying to say. It must have been issue #2 that I felt a little lost in and issue #3 that brought it all together. :D Thought I was gonna have a lot more to say ... but ... ;D Be back soon :D Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jeff on October 20, 2015, 01:30:52 AM Hmmm. I was coming here to say I was losing interest in this book but issue 4 doesn't get here until this week. I'm glad to hear it might be picking up for me.
Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jimmy T on January 24, 2016, 11:05:11 PM What a bizarre as hell book right now. I got to read...3 issues in a row, so that certainly helped. But right now, it's so goofy and big sci fi I can't even wrap my head around it properly right now. But always a great looking book. Even with the fill in for Eddy Barrows, it didn't seem to be a let down at all.
Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on January 25, 2016, 02:09:27 PM Yeah ... I dropped off. After issue #3 it just got waaaay to deep for me. Or maybe just too complicated for me? Or maybe just not good for me? I loved the first three issues, but the last two I read ... or the last one and a half I guess ... just left me feeling like I was not enjoying this enough for the time I was spending on it.
:( Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Jeff on January 25, 2016, 05:48:44 PM Yeah ... I dropped off. After issue #3 it just got waaaay to deep for me. Or maybe just too complicated for me? Or maybe just not good for me? I loved the first three issues, but the last two I read ... or the last one and a half I guess ... just left me feeling like I was not enjoying this enough for the time I was spending on it. :( LOL. I was only still getting it because I thought you were reading it. :o. :D I dropped it from my pull list a couple of months ago. It's an interesting premise but I lost interest too. Title: Re: MARTIAN MANHUNTER Post by: Perry on January 25, 2016, 09:24:43 PM Yeah ... I dropped off. After issue #3 it just got waaaay to deep for me. Or maybe just too complicated for me? Or maybe just not good for me? I loved the first three issues, but the last two I read ... or the last one and a half I guess ... just left me feeling like I was not enjoying this enough for the time I was spending on it. :( LOL. I was only still getting it because I thought you were reading it. :o. :D DOH!!!! Sorry, bad communication on my part :-\ |