General and generic comic chat thread.

[Dingo]

So here's a place for us to shoot the breeze and chat about comics in general. Feel free to talk about comics and all related topics. Writers, artists, inkers colourers, favourite comics, etc...

So today I read the first Fred Hembeck drawn issue of Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-man. A few months ago I didn't even know it existed.

Whilst Hembeck is not a bad artist by any stretch of the imagination, he isn't a style I would normally associate with Spidey.
Y'know what I learnt today? It doesn't matter what style the art is in as long as it succeeds in telling the story. After three or four pages I wasn't even noticing the art anymore. I read it again just to look at the art and see how well it told the story.

Maybe it is just the way my brain works, but the art should first and foremost tell the story, not showcase the artists talent.

By my standard Fred Hembeck is a great fit for superhero comics.

Also, I miss Assistant Editors month. Except for the Trial of Reed Richards, that story worked in spite of Assistant Editors month, not because of it.

[tom daylight]

A misnomer if ever there was one... all the "Assistant Editors Month" books were handled by their regular editors, as I understand it.

[Dingo]

Really?

I didn't know that.

I suppose that it would be more trouble than it was worth for an editor to completely be unaware of what was happening, but I didn't think they were doing all the work.

That puts a whole new spin on them. I used to assume that it was the assistant editors mixing things up to make a name for themselves. Now I guess that it was just the editors trying crazy stuff and blaming it on their 2ic's.

Where did you learn that?

[tom daylight]

somewhere on the net. unfortunately it was a long time ago so I don't remember where.

[Dingo]

This doesn't deserve it's own thread so it goes in here.

I lent out my Shulkie trades to a friend the other day because he loved the Initiative, and having read it in that order, he asked if we know what happens to Gauntlet that means Kid Glove ends up with the big hand thingie...

It didn't seem far enough in the future for him to retire, so I guess that means he is dead.

I am going to go for a reeeeallllly early wager and guess he dies in the Reckoning War.

What do you guys think?

[tom daylight]

I think Reckoning War seems too soon in the future for Gauntlet to die...

I would put a bet on Southpaw joining the Initiative by the end of 2007 though

[Dingo]

I think Reckoning War seems too soon in the future for Gauntlet to die...

I would put a bet on Southpaw joining the Initiative by the end of 2007 though

Ooooh, I don't know why I didn't think of that.

And MVP shows us Dan doesn't mind killing somebody if that is the way he planned it.

[wessner]

MVP shows us Dan doesn't mind killing somebody if that is the way he planned it.

True. But Armory also shows us that characters with big alien weaponry on their arms don't need to die in order for it to be removed. So although we know that Gauntlet will eventually pass his guantlet on to his daughter, we don't know for sure that he's dead in Kid Glove's time.

[Dingo]

True. But Armory also shows us that characters with big alien weaponry on their arms don't need to die in order for it to be removed. So although we know that Gauntlet will eventually pass his guantlet on to his daughter, we don't know for sure that he's dead in Kid Glove's time.

She was his daughter?

Back to the Time Trials TPB for me...

[wessner]

She was his daughter?

Back to the Time Trials TPB for me...

The father/daughter relationship isn't stated in Time Trials. Dan confirmed it in interviews and message board postings.