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Has anyone read Johns small run on booster gold? Saw a youtube video on it and love the idea of the story. I honestly live everything ive read of Johns so far. Besides green lantern justice league jsa aquaman flash avengers what else has he written? At the moment Jim and Hickman are my favorites by far.
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[QUOTE=mtop2036;1528864]Has anyone read Johns small run on booster gold? Saw a youtube video on it and love the idea of the story. I honestly live everything ive read of Johns so far. Besides green lantern justice league jsa aquaman flash avengers what else has he written? At the moment Jim and Hickman are my favorites by far.[/QUOTE]
His Booster Gold is pretty good, not his best work, but pretty good. He als wrote Hawkman, Teen Titans, Infinite Crisis and parts of 52 out of the top of my head.
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[QUOTE=mtop2036;1528864]Has anyone read Johns small run on booster gold? Saw a youtube video on it and love the idea of the story. I honestly live everything ive read of Johns so far. Besides green lantern justice league jsa aquaman flash avengers what else has he written? At the moment Jim and Hickman are my favorites by far.[/QUOTE]
It is very enjoyable, though it probably helps to have some knowledge of JLI and Infinite Crisis and 52. In addition to what Victor added, Johns also did Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. which is fun, and not a bad start to a comics career really. He did a run on Action Comics (both pre-New 52 and more recently) too. The New 52 run is short and sweet, the pre-New 52 run buildt into a big crossover as Johns left the book, New Krypton, which has mixed reviews. I ended up binding it as one massive saga, rather than keeping the titles separate (as the collected editions did) and I think it reads much better that way, minus the ending which is pretty lame no matter how you slice it.
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I asked over in the DC forum but the Green Arrow appreciation thread is a bit quiet. Is Identity Crisis worth picking up for someone looking for more Green Arrow stories? I've read it's told through Ollie's eyes?
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[QUOTE=Dayle88;1529231]I asked over in the DC forum but the Green Arrow appreciation thread is a bit quiet. Is Identity Crisis worth picking up for someone looking for more Green Arrow stories? I've read it's told through Ollie's eyes?[/QUOTE]
I haven't read any green arrow stuff but I love identity crisis. And yeah Ollie plays a huge role I. It. I would definitely pick it up its o e of the books I made on my first order for trades after reading it in digital. Plus its also in a great looking deluexe instead of that horrible tpb cover
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[QUOTE=Dick Grayson;1528126]The solicitation content listed is hopefully not what's going in the book, so hard to say. The solicitation text reads:
GREEN LANERN #53-60, GREEN LANTERN: LARFLEEZE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #1, GREEN LANTERN (2011) #1-20, GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL #1, GREEN LANTERN CORPS #58-60, and GREEN LANTERN EMERALD WARRIORS #8-10.
The Green Lantern title prior to the New 52 went up to issue 67. I find it hard to believe they would include New 52 issues 1-20 but not all of the pre-New 52 issues, especially since they are part of a crossover with GLC 58-60 and Emerald Warriors 8-10 which are listed as being included.
In the New 52 material there's the Zero issue written by Johns that I imagine they will include even though it's not listed in the solicitation text, plus the fact that issues 13-20 are part of two crossovers, Rise of the Third Army and Wrath of the First Lantern, not sure how those will be handled.
So it's possible the solicitation text above is almost correct except it'll be Green Lantern 53-67 instead of 53-60, and they'll throw in the zero issue. If that's the case, that's the end of Johns run. Or they could split things up to include the full crossovers at the end of the run, requiring another volume. I'm guessing it'll be the former rather than the latter though.[/QUOTE]
Rise of the Third Army and Wrath of the First Lantern weren't really crossovers per se. They were events that affected the whole line, but each book told its own story independently. For example, the Wrath of the First Lantern tie-in focus on Volthoon messing with the lives of each book's characters. So there's no need to include the GLC or New Warriors issues.
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[QUOTE=mtop2036;1528864]Has anyone read Johns small run on booster gold? Saw a youtube video on it and love the idea of the story. I honestly live everything ive read of Johns so far. Besides green lantern justice league jsa aquaman flash avengers what else has he written? At the moment Jim and Hickman are my favorites by far.[/QUOTE]
I love it a lot. Great run with great Dan Jurgens art.
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[QUOTE=Dick Grayson;1529227]It is very enjoyable, though it probably helps to have some knowledge of JLI and Infinite Crisis and 52. In addition to what Victor added, Johns also did Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. which is fun, and not a bad start to a comics career really. He did a run on Action Comics (both pre-New 52 and more recently) too. The New 52 run is short and sweet, the pre-New 52 run buildt into a big crossover as Johns left the book, New Krypton, which has mixed reviews. I ended up binding it as one massive saga, rather than keeping the titles separate (as the collected editions did) and I think it reads much better that way, minus the ending which is pretty lame no matter how you slice it.[/QUOTE]
I'm planning on getting all of New Krypton, after reading and really liking it at my local library. I will not be including the godawful editorial disatr that is War of the Supermen. My Post Crisis Superman collection will end with New Krypton alive and well, as it should have for everyone.
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Thanks for all the responses about Convergence and Multiversity.
Skipping Convergence. And since I ONLY read DC through collected editions I assumed Convergence came first because it is released first. It's good to know it not only came after Multiversity but I don't need it to enjoy Multiversity.
Now only Morrison himself can ruin that book for me.
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[QUOTE=Balakin;1525095]It's weird how people keep asking what should they read for Multiversity. Rule one: if the name on the cover is Grant Morrison then you should only read what Grant Morrison himself wrote and read as a kid when he got some comics from US soldiers coming to Scotland :D
It is basically Final Crisis 2.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha, exactly!
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[QUOTE=mtop2036;1528864]Has anyone read Johns small run on booster gold? Saw a youtube video on it and love the idea of the story. I honestly live everything ive read of Johns so far. Besides green lantern justice league jsa aquaman flash avengers what else has he written? At the moment Jim and Hickman are my favorites by far.[/QUOTE]
Fine work that. But yeah some reading of JLI and the other titles mentioned make it more special. ANd that art!
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[QUOTE=Dayle88;1529231]I asked over in the DC forum but the Green Arrow appreciation thread is a bit quiet. Is Identity Crisis worth picking up for someone looking for more Green Arrow stories? I've read it's told through Ollie's eyes?[/QUOTE]
There's a lot of hate for this book for some reason, but I read it monthly at the time thought it was great. A true mystery and shocker right to the end. In fact, IST some time back had the Absolute edition of it for about $25 or so. I picked up a copy and re-read it. GA plays a big role, but Batman does as well.
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[QUOTE=TomSlick;1529990]There's a lot of hate for this book for some reason, but I read it monthly at the time thought it was great. A true mystery and shocker right to the end. In fact, IST some time back had the Absolute edition of it for about $25 or so. I picked up a copy and re-read it. GA plays a big role, but Batman does as well.[/QUOTE]
The story is outright offensive, the mystery makes no sense, the art deliberaltly lies to the reader to protect the impossible solution to the mystery, Firestorm is nonsensically killed for no real reason, the Satellite League are retconned into amoral jerks, and the infamous Deathstroke fight which pushes him to near Batgod levels of obnoxiousness.
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[QUOTE=TomSlick;1529990]There's a lot of hate for this book for some reason, but I read it monthly at the time thought it was great. A true mystery and shocker right to the end. In fact, IST some time back had the Absolute edition of it for about $25 or so. I picked up a copy and re-read it. GA plays a big role, but Batman does as well.[/QUOTE]
From what I've always read and understood, the book is so polarizing - people seem to either think it's fantastic or utter crap - because it essentially took DCU characters and put them in realistic situations and made them do realistic things. Without getting into spoilers, there is a rape and mind wipe in the book that was especially controversial amongst those who think superheroes should never do anything to get their hands dirty - the moralist crowd. Then there are those, like the crowd I'm in, that think it was the story that allowed the DCU to finally grow up and enter the modern world and finally allowed superhero comics to truly be three dimensional. Before that, it had only been titles like Starman or the occasional exception to the rule (for example, making Hal Jordan evil for a good chunk of the 1990s and 2000s); in this title it put Batman and Superman into such a setting and let it directly effect them.
Also, the art is sometimes cited as controversial as Rags used real people as inspiration for his work and sometimes it doesn't fit the traditional DC house style.
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[QUOTE=FlashingSabre;1530446]The story is outright offensive, the mystery makes no sense, the art deliberaltly lies to the reader to protect the impossible solution to the mystery, Firestorm is nonsensically killed for no real reason, the Satellite League are retconned into amoral jerks, and the infamous Deathstroke fight which pushes him to near Batgod levels of obnoxiousness.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I disagree with pretty much everything you said. Not sure what you find offensive. It's a "who dunnit" mystery and it makes perfect sense after the reveal. I'm not sure what you mean about the art lying to the reader. I don't recall Firestorm dying (maybe he did), but I always hated the character, so I don't really care (lol); the Satellite League was split; and Deathstroke was pushed near Batgod levels years before this story happened.
[QUOTE=jjsheridan1001;1530448]From what I've always read and understood, the book is so polarizing - people seem to either think it's fantastic or utter crap - because it essentially took DCU characters and put them in realistic situations and made them do realistic things. Without getting into spoilers, there is a rape and mind wipe in the book that was especially controversial amongst those who think superheroes should never do anything to get their hands dirty - the moralist crowd. Then there are those, like the crowd I'm in, that think it was the story that allowed the DCU to finally grow up and enter the modern world and finally allowed superhero comics to truly be three dimensional. Before that, it had only been titles like Starman or the occasional exception to the rule (for example, making Hal Jordan evil for a good chunk of the 1990s and 2000s); in this title it put Batman and Superman into such a setting and let it directly effect them.
Also, the art is sometimes cited as controversial as Rags used real people as inspiration for his work and sometimes it doesn't fit the traditional DC house style.[/QUOTE]
This.