Four bucks for four paragraphs of Frank Miller's always overwrought dialogue, a bunch of nice splash pages, typewritten notes on Give Me Liberty and an ad for the complete collected Martha which is what I (and you) should've saved your money on. Honestly, this may be the comic that cures me of buying floppies anymore. See also: paying over 24 bucks for the individual issues of Jeff Smith's Shazam vs. waiting patiently for the book. What was I thinking?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 06:37 (eighteen years ago)
if you've bought the floppies for 18 years and want closure you're better off dropping four bucks on this than thirty or forty on rebuying hundreds of pages of non-good comics!
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)
I don't really share the Martha Washington wuv, so I say buy neither.
The one thing I love floppies in general for is that they are short... if I buy the trade it joins my book mountain, if I buy the floppy I might actually read it.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)
I like MW, it's just a really indulgent and unnecessary coda; clearly tacked on to sell an ad for the omnibus.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 26 July 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)
1. MW is fantastic
2. this was pretty bad
3. barbarians = alien invasion?
4. ending is a reference to star-spangled banner, right?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)
Is anything worth reading beyond the very enjoyable Give Me Liberty? I thought Martha Washington Goes to War was rotten.
― chap, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)
ha, sounds like you answered your own question.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)
i've read them all ... if you loved GML but hated MWGtW then i can't in good conscience recommend "martha washington saves the world". it follows along the same lines as MWGtW: tones down the violence, tones down the grittiness, becomes more, uh, silver age comic-book-ish for lack of a better term. and its basically about mind control. it could *almost* be written by grant morrison (that's a good thing for me, obviously not for everybody).
that only leaves "happy birthday martha washington" which includes a gritty story in the MWGtW mold, a goofy feel-good punchline story, and a "what if captain america were in the MW universe" story that i thought was kinda lame. and there's a couple of tiny shorts: "stranded in space" is a "big guy" crossover and there's a short punchline story called "logistics" ... all pretty disposable
i liked 100% of it, though
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, I thought he'd done more MW stuff than that.
― chap, Thursday, 12 June 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)
I didn't even know about Martha Washington Dies! GML is classic, though. The sequels weren't as good, but they were still entertaining.
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)
where is this GML love coming from? It is somewhat entertaining, but not brilliant in any real sense.
I liked the Gay Nazis, though. I reckon they should have their own comic.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)
And I keep thinking this is a thread about Martha Wainwright.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 12 June 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)