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avramDamn, Alias kicks ass.
Not the TV show; I’ve never seen that. The comic. Eve Tushnet was raving about it a few months back, and I made a mental note to pick up the trades, but by that time all I could find was volume 3. Marvel must’ve reprinted the early ones, because I’m seeing them around at various stores now, and I’ve read the first two.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Part of Marvel’s MAX line, established characters but written for adults. The main character of Alias is a new character, a private eye who used to be a superhero (and yeah, that reminds me of Bendis’s Powers too), but the stories generally involve established characters. Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Rick Jones.
Bendis’s dialog is what really makes the book. Yeah, a bit too many sentence fragments, but it’s worth it for the pleasure of reading Jessica talking with Luke Cage about their sex lives, or going on a date with Ant Man. The actual plots, well, I didn’t quite buy the first story arc, the one that makes up most of volume 1, but I loved the second, the Rick Jones one. It’s definitely better if you’ve some familiarity with the Marvel UniverseTM.
I also picked up the second Dead@17 book last week, which, mn. Not sure why I’m buying these. It’s like a generic Buffy retread, but with cool cover designs. It did give me an idea for something to do with Melorne, though, so it wasn’t a waste.
And I finally got the trade of Bill Sienkiewicz’s Stray Toasters. I liked this a lot when it first came out, but I think I’ll have to wait till the mood strikes before rereading it. (Holy crap! There’s a movie in the works!)
Not the TV show; I’ve never seen that. The comic. Eve Tushnet was raving about it a few months back, and I made a mental note to pick up the trades, but by that time all I could find was volume 3. Marvel must’ve reprinted the early ones, because I’m seeing them around at various stores now, and I’ve read the first two.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Part of Marvel’s MAX line, established characters but written for adults. The main character of Alias is a new character, a private eye who used to be a superhero (and yeah, that reminds me of Bendis’s Powers too), but the stories generally involve established characters. Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Rick Jones.
Bendis’s dialog is what really makes the book. Yeah, a bit too many sentence fragments, but it’s worth it for the pleasure of reading Jessica talking with Luke Cage about their sex lives, or going on a date with Ant Man. The actual plots, well, I didn’t quite buy the first story arc, the one that makes up most of volume 1, but I loved the second, the Rick Jones one. It’s definitely better if you’ve some familiarity with the Marvel UniverseTM.
I also picked up the second Dead@17 book last week, which, mn. Not sure why I’m buying these. It’s like a generic Buffy retread, but with cool cover designs. It did give me an idea for something to do with Melorne, though, so it wasn’t a waste.
And I finally got the trade of Bill Sienkiewicz’s Stray Toasters. I liked this a lot when it first came out, but I think I’ll have to wait till the mood strikes before rereading it. (Holy crap! There’s a movie in the works!)
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Date: 2004-09-28 03:01 pm (UTC)