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Topic: JLA |
RAIN KING
Initiate |
posted December 02, 1999 04:16 PM
  
is it just me or does grant's writing on jla seem a bit choppy( and
i don't mean that in the clipped-prose-kind-of-choppy)? at
times,while reading "rock of ages", i felt a headache coming on.
don't get me wrong. it's not like the storyline was utterly
confusing, it's just that i expected something a little more fluid.
when i read a comic i like to become totally imersed in the story.
this is difficult,however when the writer keeps drawing my attention
away from the story to its mechanics. all-in-all i think grant's
stories are a notch above the typical super hero stuff. all i'm
saying is, MAKE IT FLOW, MAN!
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 07:15 PM
It's probably got something to do with having 14 members in the JLA
and only 23 pages in a comic. The Rock of Ages storyline was
particularly bad imho, a lot of the story, like the Chewbacca
defense, just doesn't make sense.
The martian storyline in the first four issues flowed quite
nicely and in the recent issues it's really developed quite a pace,
but inbetween even the fill in writers seemed to either cut down the
roster or suffer the same 'choppiness'. It wasn't just GM.
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matsya
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 10:53 PM
I dunno, Rain King, I thought Rock of Ages was a really smooth ride.
Admittedly there's the whole Darkseid tangent there (the best part
of that story), but I thought it worked really well. Big, dense and
complicated (ie lots of things happening at once). I'm happy with
that.
m.
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panacynic
Initiate |
posted December 03, 1999 12:10 AM
Have to agree (my mum says so) RoA is my fave Morrison JLA
storyline, closely followed by 1 Million. The worst thing about it
was the two issue tangent into Darkseid's future, which at the time
had me gnashing my teeth, just gagging to know what Batman's plan
was, but now it reads like a dream. Shame about Crisis Times Five
though, now THAT was choppy.
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 01:22 AM
I think if you read JLA for the plot, you're going to have trouble.
The plot is irrelevant; it's all about speed and power and ideas and
this massive, absurd excess of bright colours and general
stylishness.
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Zephir
Myrmidon |
posted December 03, 1999 03:07 AM
Rock of Ages definetly needed a second read, but while Green Lantern
and Green Arrow are talking in the coffee house, GA says something
like:" What good could I do against someone like... I don't know,
DARKSEID, or someone?" And boom, there it is, asked and answered.
I remember thinking how much "Rock of Ages" sounds like
"werckage," which is really what the story's abou,t and is on Cliff
Steele's shirt in the Doom Patrol poster. Also, Animal Man's son,
Cliff, is always wearing the same kinds of sleeveless shirts that
say things like "heavy metal." what's up with that?
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PornoHolocaust
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 03:17 AM
See the lil Barbelith in front of Mageddon (yes, I know JLA and the
Invisibles are a fugue)? That's so cool.
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted December 03, 1999 07:37 AM
Zeph, thats why I love Grant. He writes so clearly and is always
about the triumph of the individual, or the weak. and furthermore
they are about the increase in human capacity necessary to succeed.
He is very Pollyannaish in a dark way. They are all Brer rabbit
stories. As indeed were the eighties Green Arrow stories. In a
different way.
Is it the wrong place to say Kevin Smith back on Green Arrow now?
(please)
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Captain Zoom
Initiate |
posted December 09, 1999 02:38 AM
Here, you lot, I'm gonna stick my two cents worth in.
I started with Animal Man, then got Doom Patrol, then got The
Invisibles, and then someone said I should check out JLA. #5,
Tomorrow Woman, was great. Add the special and her Hourman
appearance, and Grant has created one of the great tragic
superheroes of the 90's. Rock of Ages was great. It was kind of like
one of the longer DP adventures, without all the surreal
conicidences and bizarre villains.
I like Zauriel. I don't care what anyone says!
WW3 and Crisis Times 5 lost me. I just couldn't get into them,
even going back and re-reading them. DC really shouldn't have put
that fill-in issue for Day of Judgement in, it really breaks up the
continuty of the current storyline. Better to have published a
special like they did with Batman.
The current story? Three words: Animal Man Returns. And Grant's
writing him! How cool is that gonna be?
Anyway, there's my rant.
Zoom.
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