Joe Casey: C/D

You care, really you do!

Anyway, I don't know much JC, but what I've read I liked. Given what A says about his Mr. Majestic run, & what JC has done on Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (& Godland!), he seems like a guy w/ both an understanding & healthy (dis)respect of comic history. The FF: First Family mini coming soon (w/ art by Chris Weston!) is definitely on my List Of Stuff.

And, yeah, I liked The Intimates as well, tho I liked the pop-up box idea more in theory than in practice. I never really bothered w/ all those extra notes (except for the last issue, where JC used that space to talk about why & how the book failed).

Who wants to bitch about his X-run!?!

I'm trying to remember what I've read, since I haven't read anything mentioned. I have good associations with him, they're just not specific. (Maybe he was a racmu poster.)

Wait, Children of the Atom? Was that him?

Yep! I was thinking of picking the trade up, but I noticed that Steve Rude was replaced halfway thru by about 1956 different artists, which put me off.

The artist thing really killed it. The writing was good, but there was just no recovering from that distraction. It's not like a shift from Rude to any other artist is ever a subtle one -- they may as well have put Sienkiewicz in to pinch-run and play up the differences.

I would buy a re-released trade with Rude finally getting around to the art he slacked off on, though.

Am I confusing Earth's Mightiest Heroes with an Erik Larsen project, or are they one and the same? Oh, I think I'm thinking of Larsen's FF tribute...

Oh, I'm feeling important!. =)

I have his Automatic Kafka sitting in my computer for months, haven't gotten around to read it yet.

Iodine has always spoken highly of his Superman.

The Intimates was really good up till number 8, it was great when it was just a bunch of kids doing things for no particular reason. When Camuncoli left and was replaced by a bunch of nimrods who couldn't figure out what was going on in the book it kind of lost direction (paradoxically, just when the book was having a direction and Casey started "telling a straight story").
The pop-up box was kind of annoying and it worked better in theory than in practice, anyway, it was interesting to try once.
That being said, number 8, the one with the summer vacation is pure indie glory. With superheroes!.