Actually, I'd like to know what you're getting @ by "that type of writing" - I'm sensing you mean to say that the writing is sensationalistic & confrontational, shocking for shock's sake, and possesses no substance beyond that shock, & I think those claims (if that's what you're getting at) have been dealt w/ on this thread.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(sorry Dang, had to!)
― J (Jay), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I like it ok, but my favo BMB remains vols. 5-6 of DD.
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
(My underpoint was about the murky narrative style of both the writing and the art and that particular example as a subversion of shock-tactic writing to actually flesh out characters and advance plot rather than just being there to SHOCK! THE! READER! (and Jessica, haha) but, as most people have pointed out, I haven't actually read the series, not because I didn't want to (because it seems like it's right up my alley) (hahax2), but because it came out during a self-imposed moritorium on comic book purchases due to extreme brokeness.)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I agree with Tep & David that it's the best of the bunch, but I also think you need to read the others first to get the full impact.
Also: the Luke/Jessica ass-fucking scene actually sets up a couple of the big character arcs of the series.
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, I think Dan just found Green Arrow's newest catchprase.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
(About which -- the sex, I mean -- I would say more, but I didn't want to spoil anything for Mark. Yeah, you heard that right. "Let's not say too much about the anal sex, we don't want to spoil it for Mark.")
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
That doesn't explain the big goofy smile on his face! (hahax3)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Ari and Avi take a conference call to discuss the studio's new television series, which will adapt Brian Michael Bendis's comic book Alias, about a former superheroine who gives up the costume to become a private investigator in Manhattan. Since Jennifer Garner's hit ABC show shares the same name, the new series has been tentatively titled Alter Ego.
"Bendis wrote the pilot, and it's awesome," says Ari. "We're just trying to figure out when we're going to shoot it or when we're going to get picked up. Bendis nailed it."
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 14 November 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 14 November 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I read the first one last night. I'm not sure what I think of it. Half of it seems to be "Look at what we can get away with!" and J. Loeb's whole intro where he talks about how "FINALLY COMICS FOR PEOPLE OVER 17!) only made me think that the only people who'd be superjazzed about that are 16 yr olds.The art is sometimes really good, sort of like Phil Hester under the influence of Keith Giffen as inked by Matt Wagner.
In a way, I kind of appreciated the opening bit with Luke Cage, because it says, well, what Dan said in his first post to this thread.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
but honestly i really liked the idea of this more than the execution... the stories themselves are pretty crappy.
(ok i do like the cap'n america one)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
P.S. Late to the game, but: Alias really was pretty good. I recently read it in conjunction w/the Bendis DD run and it was a perfect companion piece. And, perhaps, in some ways, better.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 22 April 2006 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
I just wanted to come back and contradict former me because the most offputting thing about that first issue isn't so much the anal sex thing as much as the liberal use of the word "nigga" in Luke Cage's dialogue and how Jessica equates having sex with him to degrading herself, which I hated when I first read it but wanted to reserve judgment on because so many people I like/respect were extolling the series' virtue.
On the positive side, the storylines were mined for a great season of Jessica Jones so it's not like the whole thing is worthless; I just have no interest in ever reading it.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link