Comic Relief
My Current Pull List:
-Angel: After the Fall
-Buffy: Season Eight (TBPs only)
-Criminal
-Dead, She Said
-Locke and Key
-Spike: After the Fall
-Supernatural: Rising Son
-Tek Jensen
-Twelve
I'd been having a horrid time trying to read novels, or anything like them. For obvious reasons, my tolerance for crap is lower than ever. I bail on books from the library on page two, because the character does something that makes no sense, or worse, the writer goes off on some personal offensive diatribe that so needed bribes to Payless to even make the claim it was terribly shoehorned in.
But I still need stories, I need stories worse than ever. So my hope came last fall, when I happened to overhear Blair Butler talk to Joss and the precious words 'Angel comic'.
I've been to a local comic bookstore ever since I met my Spousal Unit. There is a precious Wolverine collection to maintain. But, as much as I loved the *idea* of comics, the ones I looked over were boring. Superhero rehashes, where nothing new did or could ever happen, because there's this legacy and it's committee, and basically, it's all crap.
But I had to sign on for the angel comic. I wanted back with Team Angel. While I was waiting, I tried Buffy.
Buffy is a great comic, but I'll only read it in the graphic novel version. Dark Horse chokes the serial with ads, so while this way I get spoiled because people can't keep their yaps shut, I don't get yanked away from the story, or have to pay for twice the paper, and half of it an utter waste.
The art in Buffy is gorgeous, the writing a bit twitchy but solid. There is a B-plot that on it's own makes the story awesome, and has been my favourite part.
By the time I got Angel I was disappointed. The Angel comic isn't awful, but it suffers in comparison. The art is alright, but not of the same loving detail and quality of Buffy. The writing is a right mess, but has enough good ideas to keep you going. There is a clever touch in every issue, just enough to keep you coming back. I always thought Angel was better, and one of the best shows ever made, so it's frustrating to see it treated as B-string. Still, it is well worth reading, and hey, I never say that lightly.
One of the serious problems in Angel is it doesn't have an arc. Buffy is doing mini-arcs, telling a solid story that flows over five issues, as well as an overreaching arc. Much like the Jossverse did in tv series. Angel the comic is scattered all over. They're trying to follow way too many people, and they're just picking up a little here and there, and tossing wee chunks of backstory at us at random. It repeats, it gaps, it frustrates the hell out of you. So, it reads as dogs dinner. Without a flowing arc, it feels like a jagged rough draft. What they're telling is worth telling, but the way they're doing it is an utter mess.
I've meant to write this post for ages, but just couldn't find the time or the wellness. I still hope to jot you a few notes on the other comics I'm following, but the the only way to make this happen was to break it up, so let's clip here.
-Angel: After the Fall
-Buffy: Season Eight (TBPs only)
-Criminal
-Dead, She Said
-Locke and Key
-Spike: After the Fall
-Supernatural: Rising Son
-Tek Jensen
-Twelve
I'd been having a horrid time trying to read novels, or anything like them. For obvious reasons, my tolerance for crap is lower than ever. I bail on books from the library on page two, because the character does something that makes no sense, or worse, the writer goes off on some personal offensive diatribe that so needed bribes to Payless to even make the claim it was terribly shoehorned in.
But I still need stories, I need stories worse than ever. So my hope came last fall, when I happened to overhear Blair Butler talk to Joss and the precious words 'Angel comic'.
I've been to a local comic bookstore ever since I met my Spousal Unit. There is a precious Wolverine collection to maintain. But, as much as I loved the *idea* of comics, the ones I looked over were boring. Superhero rehashes, where nothing new did or could ever happen, because there's this legacy and it's committee, and basically, it's all crap.
But I had to sign on for the angel comic. I wanted back with Team Angel. While I was waiting, I tried Buffy.
Buffy is a great comic, but I'll only read it in the graphic novel version. Dark Horse chokes the serial with ads, so while this way I get spoiled because people can't keep their yaps shut, I don't get yanked away from the story, or have to pay for twice the paper, and half of it an utter waste.
The art in Buffy is gorgeous, the writing a bit twitchy but solid. There is a B-plot that on it's own makes the story awesome, and has been my favourite part.
By the time I got Angel I was disappointed. The Angel comic isn't awful, but it suffers in comparison. The art is alright, but not of the same loving detail and quality of Buffy. The writing is a right mess, but has enough good ideas to keep you going. There is a clever touch in every issue, just enough to keep you coming back. I always thought Angel was better, and one of the best shows ever made, so it's frustrating to see it treated as B-string. Still, it is well worth reading, and hey, I never say that lightly.
One of the serious problems in Angel is it doesn't have an arc. Buffy is doing mini-arcs, telling a solid story that flows over five issues, as well as an overreaching arc. Much like the Jossverse did in tv series. Angel the comic is scattered all over. They're trying to follow way too many people, and they're just picking up a little here and there, and tossing wee chunks of backstory at us at random. It repeats, it gaps, it frustrates the hell out of you. So, it reads as dogs dinner. Without a flowing arc, it feels like a jagged rough draft. What they're telling is worth telling, but the way they're doing it is an utter mess.
I've meant to write this post for ages, but just couldn't find the time or the wellness. I still hope to jot you a few notes on the other comics I'm following, but the the only way to make this happen was to break it up, so let's clip here.
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