― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Why, Tom? I'm not actually familiar with his work, I don't think.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
He could perhaps have fitted in at Marvel under Jemas but there's a big quirky, whimsical streak to his work which I think is too soft-edged for them.
Actually Dan Slott reminds me of him, but Slott has a real love of continuity which Loebs never seemed to much. That said there may be hope and I'd love to see him do a monthly series again.
But even looking back I think it was amazing his Flash stories got greenlighted and published. Here you have one of a company's flagship heroes, recently relaunched with a new status quo and identity, and the stories involve turning into a porcupine beast, meeting Fidel Castro, palling around with an ancient non-continuity superguy called the Clipper, having your friend get possessed by an ancient spirit who then becomes a talk show favourite, dealing with Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, months and months and MONTHS without a recognisable 'supervillain' and then when one turns up it's the TURTLE, and so on. These are wonderful stories, every other Flash run pales in comparison to the warmth, humour, humanity in them, but they're terribly low-key and largely marketing-proof.
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
One ideal project for WML it strikes me would be a soapy/sit-comish Metropolis book.
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
(BTW, I'm changing my answer to the question posed above to Tom's.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I really liked his old Flash comics as a kid, but I can't remember anything about them.
― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I must dig my set of them out and have a good wallow sometime.
David A
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
:(
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/27/comics-william-messner-loebs-homeless/
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link
aw what the fuck :(
loved his long stint on the flash when i was a kid, really great superhero comics
seems like there's been a lot of activity on the severe weather network's gofundme in the last few hours, which is encouraging i guess
― sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
This is one of the great single-issue comics from DC in that period:
https://arousinggrammar.com/2014/06/22/flashs-airplane-free-fall/
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
Journey is also a must-read.
Man he has had it tough for a long time now.
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link