Explain me Alias

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Oh, and the covers are sorta wretched.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked the luke cage stuff

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

It's not bad (thought the fact that it leads up to a story involving the fucking Purple Man is about 1000 points off), but it of course helps if this is towards the start of the Bendis you've read. And the start of the comics you've read, if you're expecting exciting new comics for over 17s.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The second one, "Come Home", was just so, so Bendis. And it totally lost the plot of the whole Marvel U mutantism as stand-in for X, and it just seemed so, ugh, hateful and kinda hackneyed. I couldn't get a handle on the what the reporter was supposed to be. Was she supposed to be a Peggy Hill type naivebo or the kind of character that Drew Barrymore would play, ie that one hip person in an otherwise square-ass hicktown? OH BENDIS.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course, I still want to keeping reading.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i think you see why i tossed vol 2 in gratis

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, if I remember correctly, I think I sent you the Superman Wedding Album, so consider us square.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

noooooooooo

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i really liked alias. not as much as laura did, though. i could have done without the ant man subplot, though. who cares about ant man?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't that the point, though?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Is this series still ongoing? I'm really enjoying this on the downlo(ad), but #28 is the latest issue I've found.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

No, the series is done (as of #28). It became The Pulse. It's done now, too, I think. It's not as good, though.

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 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

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

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