impressions on comics as I read them

[salinea]

Read Freak Angels, which was very good. Gorgeous art and the story is entrancing start from finish. Reminded me a bit of la nuit des enfants rois.

The Immortal Iron-First

Aka the last chance for me to find out if Fraction actually can write or if everything he does is crappy. And, errr, yes, actually this was pretty damn good. Very solid storytelling, atmosphere, action and characterisation. Some of the one shot stories, especially, were really brilliant. Of course perhaps it was only due to Brubaker's co-writing XD The plot was a bit more so-so, with some strange skips here and there.

The follow up by Swierczynski was also solid, though a bit more aimless.

Immortal Weapons
Dog Brother #1 was good. The rest were mediocre. (Although Prince of the Orphan has some nice art of half naked Danny).

The first Robin miniseries

Well anything with Shiva is automatically good as far as I'm concerned. Overall a nice little story.

The second Robin miniseries

Cute stuff, especially the very 80's concept of computer virus OMG and what not. XD a solid story anyway.

But do I really want to read those 100 issues of the Robin on going by Dixon? Err, they're probably not bad and I'm sure it'll be somewhat entertaining, but I'm not sure I have the motivation, no.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

My first Fraction comic was Immortal Iron Fist so you can imagine my disappointment when I read other things by him!

[salinea]

haha yes, that's a terrible bait & switch!

[runespoor]

Read those with Steph and weep at the characterization BQM did. #85 is Joker obsessing about the Robin(s) and yummy meta-text.

[salinea]

Yeah, I'm going to read those with Steph, and noted for #85

[q99.livejournal.com]

Yea, IIF was a great series. I would've liked even more.

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But do I really want to read those 100 issues of the Robin on going by Dixon? Err, they're probably not bad and I'm sure it'll be somewhat entertaining, but I'm not sure I have the motivation, no.-

Also oddly uncollected, unlike say the Dixon Nightwing run.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Well, collections aren't really a factor for me ^^;;

[beckerbell.livejournal.com]

But do I really want to read those 100 issues of the Robin on going by Dixon? Err, they're probably not bad and I'm sure it'll be somewhat entertaining, but I'm not sure I have the motivation, no.

I love Dixon (even though I have some problems with his characterization, but they're far outweighed by the sense of connection and family and FUN that he put into his writing) but even I can't read the entire Robin run. I tried to, hit #... 13, I think? Somewhere early-ish into the run. And there was RANDOM TIME-TRAVEL THAT WAS NEVER EXPLAINED and I just went, "....nope, I'm out." It's not bad, but it's not really good, either. I love the characters, but Nightwing/BoP are much more readable to me. (Aside from occasional exception issues, of course.)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I tried Nightwing and got stumped around the 50th issues. It was just... it's not bad or anything, but it's not great either, and the plots are pretty boring *sighs*. BoP was easier to read, although by the end I was also skipreading to get to the Simone part. I don't dislike Dixon, he has a good handle of the Batfamily dynamics - connection and fun indeed - but if it's not an ensemble book it's not really attention keeping on its own.