SOLO - S/D

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SOLO refers simply to the artist, though the best stuff seems to come from the fellows (where da ladies at?) who choose their own adventures.
-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), December 28th, 2005.

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Clearly I have only read the Mike Allred and Darwyn Cooke ones. I've been meaning to start a Solo S/D thread anyway.
-- Jordan (jordan...), December 28th, 2005.

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SOLO - S/D:
Seek, not Destroy
Darwyn Cooke (though I wish they'd included his FCBD strip)
Paul Pope (even though he basically retells OMAC #1 in one of his stories, it's still purty)
Jordi Bernet (Batman by Bernet is mouthwatering, and you get a western, too!)
Mike Allred (his Batman story was pretty unsubtle, but pretty nonetheless)
Disinterested, but not destroyed
Richard Corben (mostly good, but nothing stood out)
Howard Chaykin (tasty, but not much to hold you for a long time)
D for Unread
Tim Sale (would probably be good, but haven't seen it around)
-- Matt Maxwell (maxwell...), December 28th, 2005.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I need the Cooke one! The only two I've actually bought after some lengthy store perusal were the Pope and Allred ones, both of which are definitely worth it.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

What number is Pope?

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

#3 (buying the odd numbered issues has been very good for me so far)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to modify the following MM statement (changes in CAPS):

Jordi Bernet (WOMEN by Bernet ARE mouthwatering, and you get a western, too!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that too. I need to get a line on some of those TORPEDO collections. Guess I know what I'm doing with some of that leftover Amazon credit.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Bernet is the Manara that doesn't make me feel stooopid.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Hey are they going to collect this? i've looked in 2 stores for the allred one, thanks the ILC raves, but no luck

― kenchen, Friday, 30 December 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Solo #9 was okay...the art was very pretty indeed, but stories ranged from stock to the dumbest thing I've read all year (Steven Seagle's contribution).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

From LITG:
George Pratt's declaration that the DC series "Solo" has been cancelled before his issue sees print has been widely reported. What hasn't been is some of the other artists whose work will be entering the infamous DC Bottom Drawer, never to be seen again... Berni Wrightson, Brian Stelfreeze, Jill Thompson, Scott Hampton, Sergio Aragones, Brendan McCarthy, Kevin Nowlan, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

If true, that's really too bad.

I would have loved to see a Jill Thompson Solo, among others.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have a hard time believing DC would cancel Solo at this, or any other point, unless they actually believed when they started it that it was going to be a money maker, which is pretty naive of them. I thought they were just doing it as a boutique item because it was, y'know, WORTH DOING.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

DC thinks IC is WORTH DOING. SOLO, less so.

Makes me crazy...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what I figured you would post, Matt. ;)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Me am Bizarro unpredictable!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

But INFINITE CRISIS megablowoutsales: FOuRTH REPRINT OF SUPERBOY PUNCHING THE UNIVERSE WITH BONUS LIEFELD SKETCH VARIANT HOLOGRAM COVER should be subsidizing Solo, which will, of course, make for VERY NICE bookshelf collections, or even COFFEETABLE BOOKS. FUCKERs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

SOLO is taking a slot in publication that could otherwise be turned into more issues of MEGABLOWOUT SALES CROSSOVER MADNESS. At least that's my guess at their thinking.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

They're saving their paper for the next time Nightwang go stabby.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

sad stuff!

i finally got the darwyn cooke one today and... not nuts about it, sadly! :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

what was with the weird al-qaeda revenge story?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

remind us?

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Question vs. THE MEDIA.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah! I think the point there was to be REALLY DITKO-Y, right-wing nutbarrism and all

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

it's been mentioned around on some other threads already but seriously, the sergio aragones solo is the charmingest treatiest treat i've read all year. get it puhronto.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think he really did kill Marty Feldman.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 3 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I loved the "first three days in New York" story.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 3 July 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

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