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1,854:is a pretty amazing figure for the Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus. It beats a lot of Marvel Omnibuses with regards to their premiere month which is no easy feat, in particular when one takes into account it being a $150 book. Also what's interesting to note is that even with the blaring error of a duplicate page, comic retailers have been reordering it due to high demand. I wonder if DC are going to be bothered to do anything about fixing it.
I'm still on the fence as to whether to pick up the Green Arrow Golden Age Omnibus.
I don't remember all of the ending but I'd have to disagree in that the higher power got involved in the movie (remember when the devil was dragging Constantine) and while that was a cool scene I think it took away everything from Garth's everyday mage/magician/whatever. John did everything himself and relied on the long con. To me, that was a key part of his writing that was absent in the storytelling. I guess I shouldn't have said the movie was horrible. It was watchable, but like Preacher - it shouldn't have been called Constantine. Just call it something else.
And don't get me started on that TV show. It's even more ridiculous. Although the guy looks like John, he's running around in dapper clothes with the tie undone - AS A FASHION STATEMENT.
LOL...John didn't do his tie because he was a slob and always on the run. That's more the director/producer fault, tho. I liked the actor.
^Tried to go into the Preacher show with an open mind, but I just didn't think it was good enough to continue. Like with comics, there's too many great shows available now to watch something I'm not feeling. Did manage to finish season one though
As a purchaser of the Green Arrow omnibus, I've enjoyed what I've read so far. The restoration is good and shows off some art that is better than a lot of contemporary Golden Age characters. I wish George Papp had been drawing some of the A-listers like Batman or Green Lantern. The stories range so far from whimsical (Green Arrow meeting Robin Hood, GA losing his fortune and having to get a job and then fight crime on his lunch hour) to pretty grim (Green Arrow being hanged while the crooks tell him what a good dancer he is, or Green Arrow having his feet encased in cement and tossed into the ocean by harbor pirates). I'm a big fan of 1940s DC anyway, and I'm delighted to get 750 pages of newly reprinted material. I hope for a lot more like this!
Hellblazer just doesn't suit that CW format. I've watched like 2 or 3 episodes, liked Matt Ryan but everything else was just a flat, dull nothing. HB should be a ballsy HBO, Amazon or Netflix series with like 10 episodes/season and have a serious storyline with heavy themes. Everyone loves a gritty take nowadays but instead of doing something with properties that do that naturally (Sandman Mystery Theatre, Hellblazer, Question) they try to fit Superman and other more upbeat characters into that box.
As for the Keanu Reeves movie, it was alright back then and I remember the ending being pretty decent but SPOILERS: it has nothing on the original story where John first tricks the devil into drinking holy water then tricks them again to cure his cancer and then even gives them the finger! That story made me love Hellblazer.
Anyone know when the Super Sons Rebirth Deluxe Edition is due out?
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
Curious that there are no Batman Silver Age Omnibus. I guess if I had a choice of continuing the Golden Age or jumping onto the "new look," bye-bye Bat-Mite.
That's basically by design at this point.
DC Collections has stated, or alleged to have stated, that they are trying to preserve and collect the Golden Age material first due to it's aging rate. Silver Age material in various forms has been collected and what hasn't isn't in danger of aging and crumbling away before it's scanned and restored.
So if they hold to that we aren't likely to see Silver Age Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman for several more years.
However, DC is collecting various Batman Bronze Age material.
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