Paul Jenkins: C/D

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Short answer: not always one or the other, but based on the preview art for his final issue of Spectacular Spider-Man (page the first) (page 2nd), he's ending his run there on a high note. But, yeah - the dude gave Logan a backstory (w/ some help), gave the Hulk 3 radioactive dogs to play with, and mucked around w/ John Constantine for a while. How 'bout it?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/quadrinhos/news/marvel_comics/wolverine_end.jpg

WORST COMIC EVER

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah, there's that, too.

But, look! Calvin & Hobbes homage! By the Fables artist! Up there! Click on it!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard really good things about his Inhumans series -- I think that was the first time I'd noticed his name -- but haven't read it yet.

I have mixed feelings about Origin, but it's definitely better than most of the stories about Wolverine's past that had come before it -- it just seemed anticlimactic (Logan's secret past is ... Wuthering Heights). Being anticlimactic is better than being climactic, though, in this case -- we really didn't want a "Wolverine is the left hand of God, Wolverine is an Egyptian pharaoh, Wolverine is LO-GAHN a cursed Apache shaman, Wolverine is the Wandering Jew" kind of story.

I've liked his Spidey stuff, but never enough to read it regularly.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The only way to do a really good Wolverine Origin story is to either a) tie him far deeper into marvel continuity than he already is - ie He is WEAPON TEN and Captain America was WEAPON ONE etc - or b) even better, tie him into the continuity of the real actual world. Obviously deeper=better which is why the best Wolverine origin story is the origin of the lead character in POWERS, ie, the first time we see him HE IS A MONKEY.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, brilliant, I just read that the other night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing I've read by him is Sentry, which I thought was dreadful. I do like the snowmen pages though.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That's definitely in the dud column -- I never read the last issue, but everything leading up to it reminded me of early Vertigo miniseries and/or terrible fan fiction.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The last issue was well within those parameters yes. I started it thinking "please please please let the twist be anything other than that" and of course it was 'that'. I have read a review saying "yes the ending is obvious ha! that is part of the depth". I have not read a review which says "Come back Triumph, all is forgiven".

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I flipped through several of his Peter Parker issues in the store; his take on the chaaracter seems to have been to turn him into a soppy blubbering blouse. On the one hand it was actually very touching and realistic but on the other hand I felt myself spontaneously generating a vagina.

― The Ghost of Vaguely Misogynistic Due To Lack Of Sleep (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

For a while (after acquainting myself w/ his Spidey stuff), I was a PJ fanboy. I actually bought his run on The Darkness. You know, the Top Cow series about that guy that is HAUNTED by SILVERFISH that BITE OTHER PEOPLE when the LIGHTS GO OFF? Oh the BURDEN.

I've only read some parts of his Inhumans series (& I read those a long time ago), but the parts I read, I liked lots.

His Spidey, though. CLASSIC when he's fleshing out PP's relationship w/ Uncle Ben & folks around him & himself - the first few issues of his run deal w/ that stuff. Then there's the Important Spider-Man Stories dealing w/ Spidey's relationship w/ his adoring public. Those are OK. Then there are the stories dealing w/ Spidey's Rogue's Gallery (both the known and the unknown). Varying levels of success, w/ his Green Goblin stories kinda falling flat. Better are the new villains he tried introducing to the mythos - they're cute in their own inept way, but PJ uses this ineptitude well. DUD DUD DUD is what happened, for the most part, when Mark Buckingham left the series - either MB had a psychic link w/ PJ, or PJ just can't talk to other artistes, but most of the books following MB are uneven, to be kind, and the art plays a large part in this. SUPER DUPER DUD are the stories that followed the 3-part Lizard arc in Spectacular, wherein Spidey gets webs and grows extra legs.

[x-post - "vaguely"]

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm channelling Diceman today.

― The Ghost of Daytona Beach In His Vagina (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who read Origins thinking "This all seems familiar, and not very Wolverine-esque.Wait...ooo it gets dark, it gets lonely on the other side..." I also had issues with the fact that it makes Logan about 120 years old, even though they tried to gloss over that.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, don't dis The Darkness, Ennis's run on it was the best thing Top Cow's done (yeah okay I know but still). Haven't read the Jenkins run, though -- the Top Cow stuff that survives its artists' slowness and obsession with video games turns into giant boring bloat with too much emphasis on weak attempts at crime fiction, as though I'm supposed to forget I can watch television for free instead.

Buckingham's an artist I have mixed feelings about, and I can't picture his Spidey stuff so don't know if it goes in the classic or dud column. He's great on Fables, but everything that makes him great there made him a weird and jarring choice for the Batman (or Detective?) stuff I read this weekend (either Cataclysm or No Man's Land, I guess). There are stories where a Buckingham Batman would work -- a Grant Morrison sci-fi closet one, maybe -- but boy, this wasn't it.

xpost -- the thing about making Logan 120 years old is that he'd actually been older than that before. The "secret origins, now revealed to be false memory implants" Jenkins was wiping away implied he was maybe thousands of years old (I did not make up the left hand of God example), and a couple centuries at a minimum -- post-Origin, his life seems very busy now, with adventuring all over the world and just happening to run into supervillains/wars/mystical shit every time he stops in at a bar.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I can see Ennis doing something interesting w/ the Darkness, but in PJ's hands, I was underwhelmed, and (as you might've been able to gather), the character doesn't interest me all that much.

I wasn't sold on Buckingham until Fables, myself, but MB brings a nice, simplistic, square-panel approach to his Spidey work. It's throwbacky in a good way, a nice complement to the informed whimsy PJ's scripts dabbled in (at their best).

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sidebar: the ancillary reason I was geeked about The Darkness was DALE KEOWN, which, in hindsight, wasn't much to get geeked out about. Pitt flashbacks abound...

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pitt crossover episode of The Maxx freaks me out a little whenever I see it for some reason, just because I don't think I'd remember the character otherwise.

Buckingham would do a perfect Bibbo Bibbowski, if he hasn't already.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.