Comments | selenak: Matt Fraction: The Order

selenak

Matt Fraction: The Order

Jan 07, 2009 19:40

I read The Order first issue by issue - thank you, likeadeuce! - but have now aquired the trade collections. Which you, gentle reader, should as well, especially since there are only two of them, and you can afford them; they tell a story with beginning and end, which manages to tie into the bigger Marvelverse but still stands on its own and is ( Read more... )

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oracne January 7 2009, 18:53:10 UTC

This sounds really interesting. Thanks!

selenak January 8 2009, 05:30:56 UTC

You're welcome!

wee_warrior January 7 2009, 20:07:42 UTC

I just realized I own this. Huh.

selenak January 8 2009, 05:30:42 UTC

There you go.

wee_warrior January 8 2009, 13:06:10 UTC

Hm. You rec'd this before, haven't you? I know exactly two people in RL who even read Marvel and both wouldn't have recommended this.

selenak January 8 2009, 15:11:54 UTC

I didn't - though I might have mentioned it in conversation, but I certainly haven't written a post. Do you know likeadeuce or resolute? Either of them are into Marvel big time and did write rec posts long before I did.

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samdonne January 7 2009, 20:54:32 UTC

Good sales pitch. They're ordered.

selenak January 8 2009, 05:30:17 UTC

And thus my evil work is done, but have another review anyway!

resolute January 8 2009, 00:23:50 UTC

This is one of the best comics ever, and I am so glad you liked it. :D And, in self-promotion, here was my review of it.

selenak January 8 2009, 05:29:27 UTC

Which is a great one, and hey, it hadn't occured to me that the motivations mirror Tony at different stages. Neat.

londonkds January 8 2009, 07:41:20 UTC

I liked The Order a great deal, and was also interested by the fact that it seems to be a response to another superhero comic series I really like, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's X-Force/X-Statix, which was a much more cynical look on junior-superheroes-as-celebrities.

selenak January 8 2009, 16:31:41 UTC

Isn't X-Force the title where Scott Summers becomes an assassin all of a sudden?

londonkds January 8 2009, 19:26:46 UTC

That is the current X-Force, the third of three largely unconnected comics to bear that title. The one I'm talking about is the previous X-Force, in which Scott does not appear, although Logan and Charles Xavier have cameos in which they're rather mocked..

likeadeuce January 8 2009, 23:54:11 UTC

You know, I bought an early volume of X-Statix on your recommendation but haven't gotten around to reading it. I should remedy that!