Ancillary, non-main-line stuff. Star Wars TF, Speed Stars, Titanium Series, Robot Heroes, that sort of thing. They're kinda neat, but we all know they're not really that important. Admit it, you know it's true.
Shockwave wrote:I just assumed it was done anime style and lack of scale is almost required for that style.
......? I'm not really sure what anime you've been watching, but boys' action shows in particular been all about creating a sense of scale in order to accentuate their obligatory Supermassive Set-Pieces since the 70s. Everything from Captain Harlock to Laputa.
I think it's more likely the artist just sucked..?
138 Scourge wrote:You not only get the entire story, which...I think was sort of cool, as those things go. Don't remember a lot of it, but it was pretty much standard superhero crossover stuff, but a really neat-looking, and again, well built example thereof.
The big thing with Unity was that Solar, Man of Atom had, in actuality, created the entire Valiant universe in the image of the old 60s Gold Key comics he read as a kid--after he had destroyed the original universe. That's why versions of Turok and Magnus Robot Fighter were hanging around. And then some other chick was trying to destroy it or whatever, I think.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
Right, "Mothergod. was the name she went by, she had the sa.e powers as Solar and went around in transparent combat fatigues for some reason. I just don't recall why she wanted to blow up the universe, is all. Presumably she'd gain something out of that, but again, don't recall what.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
liked some of the designs, but the art style just killed it and yeah, the writing sucked.
That was the killer. The character designs by Figueroa and ....(help me out here)... were amazing. Real work went into those, and was wasted by bad writing and art.
I actually saw a pic once of one of the designs without the greyscale applied to it and it was damned beautiful in color. They really should have stuck to that.
Even in black and white the designs looked amazing. The problem was that the penciller and inkers on the series did not care. The best things about that series were the sketch pages in the compilation and an article in "Toy Fair" that showed other sketches.
Unless anybody really has a problem with it, I am just going to post all of the cross-over issues in one thread.
Star Trek Infestation #1:
Despite being set during the movie era, (with Kirk being an Admiral), this comic reads like a bad paint by numbers episode of the original series. While the Tiptons doe a good job of having the characters "sound' right, they also go more than a little over-board with the "classic" lines. (Dammit Jim, it is fascinating how dead he is.) Plenty of read-shirts show up just to be predictably killed off while the named characters are all but indestructible.
Just read infestation 1, TF and trek issues, the whole absurdity of the concept ( I mean vampires, zombies, robots, TFs, Star trek, GI Joe and Ghostbusters it's like Lucio Fulci had LSD induced dream ) was what drew me in; and it got my attention on Z vs R titles which is just -as Shockwave said- IDW' s attempt to draw attention to that title. I don't think the story is to be taken seriously and it has the potential to be hilarious, At first I was not sure if that was the idea but after reading the TF issue I think that's where they're going which is fine by me, just some good ol' zombie fun.
I would agree with you on this except for the fact that IDW is forcing this trash into continuity as a way to compel regular readers to pick up thier in-house property. If this was like every other TF/something crossover in the last ~10 years, done in a contemporary style but out of context with the main book, it would be far more acceptable.
As it stands now, the TF portion has important threads from the main series.
Dom
-remembers when the big 2 pulled this crap in the 90s. It failed.
Indeed. As it's been, you could, for the larger part, simply read one or two TF books a month and get everything you needed. AHM never particularly goes into what Kup's been through and merely alludes to his past, so if you skipped Spotlight: Kup...well, shame on you, but you don't need to know that he went crazy and thought he saw zombies.
Last Stand of the Wreckers has barely been mentioned by anything.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
