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Lukis
11-01-2005, 11:26 AM
So one of the twerps at the local comic shop finally made me sit down with a stack of Manhunter. I've read a lot of the old stuff, but to be honest, there wasn't much appeal to me for the new series. The solicit made it sound a lot like the X-Cutioner from Marvel (remember him? No? You're not missing much) given a sex change and plopped into the DCU.

The actual book was much better than the solicit, which I would hope is the case with all comics, but sadly, sometimes isn't. One of the character quirks that never, ever needs to change: Kate MUST make 80's references whenever possible. It was an unexpected and highly entertaining character trait.

I could go on about other things I liked/disliked (although the former is a much longer list than the latter), but to be honest, I'm new here, and I don't want to go shooting my mouth off if I'm the only one who cares about my opinions. :blah:

This month I picked up issue 15 (the others will be in trades, right?). I liked the vignette setup. Very well done origins for the equipment (although I had the Darkstar suit pegged in issue 1).

Like I said, I've got more if you want to hear it. Mainly I just wanted to let you know I liked the book, and I'll be adding it to my stack from now on.

marcandreyko
11-02-2005, 02:04 AM
welcome aboard, lukis! issues #1-5 are in a TPB out next week and the sales of the TPB will decide if there are more volumes, so here's hoping! buy 10! the prefrect x-mas gift!

marc

Johnny C. TheLastHorseman
11-02-2005, 08:23 AM
Twerp? A TWERP am I? Ok, that's it Sally. From now on, your entire pull-list will consist only of Liefeld books, Byrne books, and anything with Arana, The Heart of The Spider in it. How ya like them apples? Oh, and did I forget to mention that from now on all your comics are 5.99 a piece? Special deal just for you.

But in all seriousness, I'm glad I was able to turn you on to this great book, it's about time you started picking up some quality reads :D Now if I can just get you to read Torso, and Black Sun (also by Marc) Hey how bout this? If you buy another Andreyko book this week, I'll throw you a couple copies of the Manhunters that Marc signed for me as a happy lil bonus.

Lukis
11-02-2005, 03:27 PM
You... have SiP as your avatar.

You don't even READ SiP!

I'm pretty sure I want to slap you for that... but then you might never read it, and you should. It's excellent.

Oh god, I just realized something. Byrne and Liefeld on Arana is pretty much the biggest comic book nightmare I can imagine. The horror!