A recent post by buggery reminded me that I still hadn't read Batman: Family #1-8 (written by John Francis Moore, art by Stefan Gaudiano and by Rick Hoberg). So today I remedied that
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I liked seeing the early team together, and much to my surprise I even liked this Aquaman.
Yeah, I liked this version of Aquaman too. He's much less dour than the usual Aquaman portrayal. He *pouts*, for goodness sake. (And, bwah! Bulb wrench?) :-)
I did not warm to Hal Jordan. Hee.
I think my favourite character at the end of the book was Barry Allen, though. I just loved Barry Allen's "fangirl" moment with Superman. And he just came across as so earnest, and endearing.
The weird body mutated parts story felt to me like someone had had a nightmare, and decided it would make great story fodder for a comic. ("So, yeah, and then there was this weird ray-gun, right, but instead of killing people it just kind of vaccuumed up body parts. And, next thing I knew, there was this army of....") I loved seeing all the second stringers who got introduced, even though I had no idea who any of them were when I read this. Heh.
Profound Barry love here, too. My favorite moment in the entire series, the one that just makes want to stand up and cheer, is all Barry's.
"My name is Barry Allen."
No words for what that does to me.
Mind you, I love everyone in Y1, and it was certainly news to me that I could get into an Aquaman who wasn't written by Peter David. But I have a special place in my heart for Barry.
I adored JLA: Year One. I have come to believe that Mark Waid is like unto a god ;)
Seriously, I haven't read the Silver Age issues either, but I loved this retelling of their early days. This was where I finally understood why so many people are so attached to Hal Jordan. It's where I learned to love J'onn. ::snuggles J'onn::
I bought it partially by accident, thinking it was a different book entirely, but I'm not sorry I did.
I HATE it when they use German in comics. Because it so often ends up sounding like crap. There was a Hawkman issue where he travels back to the spots of one of his past lives and talks German and it was just so obvious that somebody just typed the words into freetranslation.com and pasted it in.
I remember one of the early Lucifer issues had crappy German as well.
I mean there must be at least one German speaking person somewhere in the industry they could call to check something like this over.
Sigh, I adored Year One. Especially since I knew so little about comic history back then, it came as a total shock to me that the infamous JLA was founded by relatively unknown members, aka none of the infamous top 3 were original members. So that in itself made the story exciting for me.
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Yeah, I liked this version of Aquaman too. He's much less dour than the usual Aquaman portrayal. He *pouts*, for goodness sake. (And, bwah! Bulb wrench?) :-)
I did not warm to Hal Jordan. Hee.
I think my favourite character at the end of the book was Barry Allen, though. I just loved Barry Allen's "fangirl" moment with Superman. And he just came across as so earnest, and endearing.
The weird body mutated parts story felt to me like someone had had a nightmare, and decided it would make great story fodder for a comic. ("So, yeah, and then there was this weird ray-gun, right, but instead of killing people it just kind of vaccuumed up body parts. And, next thing I knew, there was this army of....") I loved seeing all the second stringers who got introduced, even though I had no idea who any of them were when I read this. Heh.
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"My name is Barry Allen."
No words for what that does to me.
Mind you, I love everyone in Y1, and it was certainly news to me that I could get into an Aquaman who wasn't written by Peter David. But I have a special place in my heart for Barry.
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Seriously, I haven't read the Silver Age issues either, but I loved this retelling of their early days. This was where I finally understood why so many people are so attached to Hal Jordan. It's where I learned to love J'onn. ::snuggles J'onn::
I bought it partially by accident, thinking it was a different book entirely, but I'm not sorry I did.
Hmm, I should go re-read that trade...
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I remember one of the early Lucifer issues had crappy German as well.
I mean there must be at least one German speaking person somewhere in the industry they could call to check something like this over.
Sigh, I adored Year One. Especially since I knew so little about comic history back then, it came as a total shock to me that the infamous JLA was founded by relatively unknown members, aka none of the infamous top 3 were original members. So that in itself made the story exciting for me.
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