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I think I like it! And not just for the Kirby schtick. There's something pleasantly frothy about combining snarky, grown-up content with retro storytelling techniques (thought balloons! portentous narration!). Makes me feel like a nine-year-old kid discovering his older, cooler, moved-on-to-girls-and-stuff big brother's comic stash.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I quite like it. Sometimes the postmodern-selfconscious dialogue borders close to being really bad, but it's generally above the rest. I always thought that Joe Casey was a man with cool ideas who needed to think them through a little better and he would be great. Hopefully this will prove it (sorry if the comment is shite, I'm really sleepy)

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

the postmodern-selfconscious dialogue borders close to being really bad

I think you really hit the nail on the head here. That high-wire act is definitely part of the appeal. Though I fear it could get old real fast, for the creative team as much as for the audience.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

OTM, especially on the high-wire act - that scene where the disembodied-skull-in-fluid trips his balls off on the stuff from the Lockjaw-stand-in straddles that line perfectly. (And if that doesn't intrigue non-readers, I don't know what will!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I've just read the first issue on Newsarama, and found myself pleasantly intrigued. The brash Silver Age atmosphere is nicely sustained, and it's obviously more than an outright parody. How many issues have been published?

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

They're up to #4.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

READ #8 FOR FREE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I don't know, I think it's a bit naff. He hasn't learnt to draw outside of this reference of copying comics, specifically Kirby, and it shows quite badly at times. (This is a personal thang with me: I 'learned' to draw mostly off comics too, and struggling against that and trying to improve my stuff, today, is about a hundred times harder as a result... much to my ongoing annoyance... hell, I even bought one of Hogarth's books a while back, which IS actually helping a little bit...)

(PLUG: see Comics International #194 for my first badly-drawn NetworX strip!)

― _chrissie (chrissie1068), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Just read the first trade, and wow was that fun!

― J (Jay), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

& it still is!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I'm shameless!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

This looks right up my strausse, but whats with discontinuing the hardcover TPB with an intro by Morrison?

Even knowing it exists makes me less inclined to buy the normal TPBs,

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

I got it on ebay for cheap. Well worth it. Maybe they'll do a reprint if they actually do the second Celestial Edition as has been rumored.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Celestial edition part 2 is doing it for me....

ridiculously full of extra bits and some nice Essays on the series.

much better than issue 1

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't know it was out! Nice. I'll have to add it to the next Amazon order.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)

Celestial v2 just arrived in the post - super excited by all the bonus stuff.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)

Still no reprint of the first one :(

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:14 (fifteen years ago)

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