Man, Jaime Reyes is the biz-nass. That comic was just straight fun without being absolutely retarded(although I would take that you disagree with that last part).
I think that if they can put a Mature Readers tag on "The Authority" and get Warren Ellis to jump back on it, the Wildstorm line will start looking a lot better. That won't happen, but I'm sure it would help. If it happened.
You're not telling Dark Horse to get rid of Star Wars, are you? It's a third of their titles right now, and they still aren't doing new Droids stories. I, personally, don't know a thing about Solo, and really don't care for anything "Max".
They have? I'd just assumed they'd forgotten they were publishing it, and that's why it had lasted so long. I'll read Previews someday, maybe this will be the year.
And go ahead and like Jamie all you want, just know that until something better comes along, he's my favorite current punch-bag. Teen Titans are chomping at the bit though, I could see them pull it out in a few more months.
Oh, and BW Media: yeah, I'd pretty much rather have new Concrete than just about everything Dark Horse publishes if we're talking one comic-to-one comic on the trading floor. Check out Solo though! It's a great comic, and I can't see DC ever getting it together for trades or reprints.
I don't really have a specific beef with Jamie, I just think it's interesting that a character with such a short life span ended up inspiring such vitriolic response from a certain sector of fans. He went from not-existing, to existing in a series not many people read, to a sacred cow--all in about 14 months. The series had been going for what, three months? And even then you'd read these internet fans saying "This Is The Best Super-Hero Comic You're Not Reading" or "If You Don't Read Blue Beetle You Don't Like Joy" and it was just odd and surprising. I read some of the series, and it was like--eh, this isn't that much different from any of the other young teenager hero comics, except it doesn't have a backlog of crap to learn about. But if you didn't read the series, and you just trusted random internet people, it was like DC was secretly publishing some kind of Rosetta Stone of fun mash-up comics. And if you ever said anything mean about the guy, the reaction was that kind of out-of-proportion to reality reaction that you usually only see when somebody says "I think that Azrael was a better Batman" or "Gwen Stacy banged Norman Osborn." I'm trying to remember one, but I honestly can't think of a character--a character who wasn't really that innovative or different--who was able to capture such passionate love in such a short amount of time. As punching bags go, Jamie's an attractive one.
I can actually approve of that a lot. Joining the CBR forums was probably one of the worst decisions of my life...I just look at how people react and think about comic books and all the fun of it goes away. It just !@#$ing pains me that these people care so much about comics, but not the things that actually MATTER about comics.
So anything that pisses these people off gets my full support.
I'm not sure if you're being tongue in cheek, but that last Concrete thing? Sucked. Ass. I don't know that hoping for more of that is such a great idea....
Hey, I liked the last Concrete. I guess the pregnancy thing was maybe a little silly (uh, spoiler, I guess), but I still thought it worked. And I do really want to find out what happens next. So, yeah, let's get more, Chadwick! Because, yes, his art is really really good.
By the way, I'm totally with you on the Vertigo anthologies (I've been meaning to do some posts on some of those issues for a long time now) and Solo; damn good stuff there. Especially Solo, and holy crap is that list of possible future contributors on Wikipedia heartbreaking.
I read somewhere that the main reason that Solo ended was because Chiarello couldn't handle the workload. Get him an assistant, dammit!
Nextwave was apparently cancelled because Ellis didn't want to do it without Immonen, and Immonen has an exclusive contract and Nextwave didn't sell enough issues and blah blah....would it still be entertaining with a different creative team? Maybe if it was Fred Van Lente and Zeb Wells...
My wish for '09 is that we get some issues of Fell from Ellis and Templesmith. I'm a fan of Phil Hester's writing, and I hope his series Firebreather, The Atheist, and Golly! can get on track.
