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Not talking about anything recent but I figure since it's an indie comic and with how popular Uber is in this thread... I just finished a reread of the 2014 Royals - Master of War comic by Ben Bailey and Rob Williams and enjoyed it quite a bit. It's about WW2 in a world where royal bloodlines had super-powers as manifestations of the divine right of kings. Protagonist is the younger son of a fictitious generation of the Windsor family (although the king takes a certain element from King Edward VIII). Against the understanding superpowered royals would sit out of commoner conflicts (royals having been happier to not impose their own will since the French royals were guillotined), the younger son is too moved by a sense of duty and the suffering during the Blitz to sit it out. Things evolve from there. It's six issues, so a quick read; while the themes about war a little all over the place, the character stuff with the protagonist and his immediate family is well-done, with characterisation for each of them about as good as could be expected in a short book which also has to have pages dedicated to war progress and plot. Art is hit-and-miss but not bad overall. Worth a read for anyone looking for something to tide them over between Uber issues.
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wielder posted:I haven't read what Alan Moore wrote for it, but I guess that would be expected of him too. You can find some good to great creators in the weirdest places. Hickman started God is Dead; there might've been more to it than him just wanting some easy cash. Moore did a story in one of the God is Dead specials, too. That whole book was loving weird and all over the place (and pretty much pornography in various places, which was groan-worthy). But anyway incongruous Moore involvement has a fine pedigree; he wrote for Youngblood.
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He was a hardcore alcoholic too. He wrote better when he was downing a quart of whisky a day
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Jordan7hm posted:Criminal’s latest run (Brubaker / Phillips) is on issue 5 Criminal is good and all but I want Incognito finished. ;( I really like Phillips on cape stories - the brighter powers stuff adds great contrast to the dark noir
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End of Life of Toyo Harada is good. I wondered how Dysart was going to wrap this up without eliminating Harada, a boring preservation of the global status quo, or making the entire setting unrecognisable. He managed something in between which works. I hope he returns to writing Peter Stanchek. Obviously Stanchek and Harada are paired narratively, and Harada is obsessed with him, I think in large part because he has an emotional need for the the acceptance of Stanchek. The only other god-tier psiot in Valiant endorsing what Harada's done would allay Toyo's misgivings about the very immoral things he's done in pursuing good ends (again, Harada is a great anti-villain). But Peter's not been developed to where he's intelligent and mature enough to be taken seriously by readers as on a par with Harada (unsurprising given at the start of the Harbinger stuff he was a homeless kid with substance abuse issues and now he can't be much older than 20). I'd like Dysart to be able to do that.
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Aug 17, 2019 08:55
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site posted:i asked kieron if he could just release the scripts (bottom post first). turns out uber isnt a creator owned project Well that sucks. Oh well. From the sounds of it we might at least get to see an outline of what was going to happen, contra where litigious companies sit on rights, preventing creators from doing absolutely anything (looking at you, HBO, still pissed about Carnivale).
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Skwirl posted:Okay, best independent Maxi-series? My apologies for voicing a taxonomic quibble, but is Planetary really independent given it formed part of WildStorm? Yeah, sure, for the most part it did its own thing, but it still has references to the High, Jenny Sparks appears, Elijah Snow is a century baby, and the Bleed is a major plot-point. But yeah, that aside, I'd put Planetary in my top 5 easily. But if despite its qualifications Planetary does qualify as independent, I'd put Sleeper up there as well - Brubaker does noir really well, and WildStorm was a great setting for super-powered noir.
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Skwirl posted:How many issues was Sleeper? Because now we're running into what you call a Maxi-series, I think 24 issues has to be the bare minimum. 24 - it's just in. It's really good. Relatedly, I wish Brubaker and Phillips would finish Incognito. I love their straight crime noir but I'd like some more supes/pulp-influenced work.
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