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thebitterguySo, after the Garycon festivities where I slew a whole buncha people('s characters), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madmanofprague and I joined kinra for the ceremonial "Geeks geek over geekly things". I noticed that kinra had a couple trades written by Matt Fraction, so I said "Hey, are those any good, as I'm enjoying his Iron Fist book" and he said "read them!" and handed them to me.
So I took the first trades for The Order and Cassanova home and read them both.
Cassanova was neat, in a "what if Mick Jagger was Nick Fury's son?" kind of way. Loads of very tasty weirdness in that book. I endorse it strongly.
I really enjoyed The Order, though. So much so that I ran out and picked up the single issues that followed the trade from my FLCS.
The Order had a couple strikes against it coming out of the gate (ohhh, mixed sports metaphors). It was a new series, I didn't know the creator (I only started reading Iron Fist a few months ago, and that was mostly for Brubaker), and it was part of the damned Initiative 'eventlet', which was like ashes in my mouth.
The book is about the California superteam in the 50 state initiative, which is all composed of celebrities given short term superpowers.There's the actor who played Tony Stark on the Avengers TV show who ended up going alcoholic (the method, it kills), and others loosely patterned after Britney(or possibly her sister?) and Frances Bean Cobain.
It is enjoyable. I like the framing method used for each book where the leads are being interviewed prior to their acceptance in the program. And it has a Namor cameo in one issue, soredeem147 should like it.
It is, of course, being cancelled, apparently at Fraction's insistance. Sure it is, just like Nextwave was a miniseries. Sigh.
madmanofprague and I joined kinra for the ceremonial "Geeks geek over geekly things". I noticed that kinra had a couple trades written by Matt Fraction, so I said "Hey, are those any good, as I'm enjoying his Iron Fist book" and he said "read them!" and handed them to me. So I took the first trades for The Order and Cassanova home and read them both.
Cassanova was neat, in a "what if Mick Jagger was Nick Fury's son?" kind of way. Loads of very tasty weirdness in that book. I endorse it strongly.
I really enjoyed The Order, though. So much so that I ran out and picked up the single issues that followed the trade from my FLCS.
The Order had a couple strikes against it coming out of the gate (ohhh, mixed sports metaphors). It was a new series, I didn't know the creator (I only started reading Iron Fist a few months ago, and that was mostly for Brubaker), and it was part of the damned Initiative 'eventlet', which was like ashes in my mouth.
The book is about the California superteam in the 50 state initiative, which is all composed of celebrities given short term superpowers.There's the actor who played Tony Stark on the Avengers TV show who ended up going alcoholic (the method, it kills), and others loosely patterned after Britney(or possibly her sister?) and Frances Bean Cobain.
It is enjoyable. I like the framing method used for each book where the leads are being interviewed prior to their acceptance in the program. And it has a Namor cameo in one issue, so
redeem147 should like it.It is, of course, being cancelled, apparently at Fraction's insistance. Sure it is, just like Nextwave was a miniseries. Sigh.
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Date: 2008-04-04 12:07 am (UTC)I think some comics are better with endings, myself.
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Date: 2008-04-04 04:48 pm (UTC)Slackers with no hustle, too busy blogging to do their jobs.
And the hypocrisy of that last sentence made me giggle.
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Date: 2008-04-04 03:06 pm (UTC)