Mini-Series / TPB evaluation thread

[spid]

Supurbia - Boom

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Overall I recommend this book and I'm really looking forward to the ongoing series!

I recently read the trade and I agree with pretty much everything you said. This book reminded me a lot of Welcome To Tranquility without some of the weirdness which is good and bad. The heroes are boiler plate copies of the JLA with even the kind of obvious twist on their difference. I do think the family aspect really does help to separate this book from the rest.

[BobBretall]

The heroes are boiler plate copies of the JLA with even the kind of obvious twist on their difference.

Standard hero archetypes are somewhat unavoidable.

I do think the family aspect really does help to separate this book from the rest.

It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting.

[spid]

The heroes are boiler plate copies of the JLA with even the kind of obvious twist on their difference.

Standard hero archetypes are somewhat unavoidable.

I do think the family aspect really does help to separate this book from the rest.

It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting.

For me, I did not find any of the hero stuff all that good. The heroes could have been almost anything, but it was the family dynamic that was the hook. The scene where they were all sitting around the tv watching the team fighting was the strongest thing in the book.

[BobBretall]

It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting.

For me, I did not find any of the hero stuff all that good. The heroes could have been almost anything, but it was the family dynamic that was the hook. The scene where they were all sitting around the tv watching the team fighting was the strongest thing in the book.

When I said "It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting." I wasn't talking about fighting. They have to make the characters into something that the reader cares about. It's most interesting to me on how they react to situations & how they behave DIFFERENT from the archetypes we know from Marvel/DC.

I liked that they created a bunch of new characters from the ground up (leaning on archetypes we know) and made them feel like fully fleshed out characters I knew while setting up the premise of the issue and tossing in some obligatory action.

[spid]

It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting.

For me, I did not find any of the hero stuff all that good. The heroes could have been almost anything, but it was the family dynamic that was the hook. The scene where they were all sitting around the tv watching the team fighting was the strongest thing in the book.

When I said "It's what is done with the hero developed from the template that makes it interesting." I wasn't talking about fighting. They have to make the characters into something that the reader cares about. It's most interesting to me on how they react to situations & how they behave DIFFERENT from the archetypes we know from Marvel/DC.

I liked that they created a bunch of new characters from the ground up (leaning on archetypes we know) and made them feel like fully fleshed out characters I knew while setting up the premise of the issue and tossing in some obligatory action.

When I said "stuff" I was thinking of the same things you pointed out. It did not really help the book for me. All of it seemed like the obvious thing you would do if you are going to make JLA knockoffs.

[spid]

Dejah Thoris And The White Apes Of Mars (Dynamite Entertainment

If this trade/miniseries had been part or the regular series I would not complain as much, but to make this its own mini was a bit of a stretch. It is already a small trade, but it felt like a two issue story stretched into four. I liked the art in the book, and you know...there are boobs. However, I would only recommend this to people who are really into Dynamite's John Carter world.

[ctowner1]

Infinite Vacation (Image) - It took two years to tell but this mini-series is finally over. The concept is basically there are infinite universes out there and you can sell your life to another you for a price. You can either swap lives completely, at which point you get a full memory dump so you can actually live in the new universe, or you can just visit.

That's the basic setup for this story. Things happen later on that I'm not sure made complete sense with that above logic, but hey .... all time travel/parallel universe stories need to be taken with a little skepticism. I will say Nick really had some cool ideas about parallel universes, I think it was issues 3 and 4 where it gets "deep" but all made sense. Then again I love physics and things like that.

Anyway, the overall story is pretty good and Nick does a good job throwing some cool twists in, and a couple scenes in particular are pretty disturbing. The art is a little rough but it didn't bother me, and the layouts were very inventive and I also liked the real picture scenes.

The ending ... well you need some skepticism at parts but overall I was satisfied and would recommend this to anyone who loves parallel universe stories.

I was on the fence with this one. I AM a big fan of parallel universe stories. I read the 1st issue and kind of liked it. But I wasn't sure if the core concept really made any sense at all (plus, I'm generally not a Spencer fan). So figured I'd wait for the trade and see what other had to say about it. But based on this, I'm still not sure! lol Anyone else been reading this?

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[abysslord]

I was on the fence with this one. I AM a big fan of parallel universe stories. I read the 1st issue and kind of liked it. But I wasn't sure if the core concept really made any sense at all (plus, I'm generally not a Spencer fan). So figured I'd wait for the trade and see what other had to say about it. But based on this, I'm still not sure! lol Anyone else been reading this?

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Well the core concept is the part that never really makes complete sense, that's what I was talking about in my review. I mean, you decide to sell your life for $80,000 or something .... why would anyone do that because you take the life of who paid for yours I assume. It seems really good lives would never go on sale.

I could be misunderstanding how it works but it's kind of Nick's fault for not really fleshing it out well enough .... unless I'm dense and missed it

BUT, as long as you can just sort of ignore that, because we are talking about science fiction, the rest of the story is really good.

[spid]

All Star Western Volume 1 and Volume 2 (DC) Let me say I am not a big DC reader so I never paid that much attention to their western stories. I did not read the Hex series before the New 52 so all of this is new to me. I really enjoyed the Dynamic between Hex and Arkham. It has a nice buddy cop feel to it. The second volume leans heavily on the Court of Owls stuff which I am not familiar with, but I did not feel like I was missing much. The backup stories are also a nice addition to the overall package.

[ctowner1]

I read the Mind Mgmt. vol. 1 HC by Matt Kindt last week. Awesome book! and also a beautiful HC. Highly recommend it.

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