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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-18 18:19:00

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char: hawkman/katar hol, char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason, creator: kyle baker, creator: mike allred, creator: neil gaiman, title: wednesday comics

Another week, another Wednesday Comics
The Metamorpho (Gaiman/Allred) and Hawkman (Kyle Baker) pages from issue 2.

For those who don't know who Rich Morrissey is: http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL346.htm.

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	superfan1 2009-07-19 01:43 am UTC (link)
	Hawkman can control birds? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kenn_el 2009-07-19 01:57 am UTC (link)
	Talk to, at least. LOVE Wednesday Comics! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darklorelei 2009-07-19 01:58 am UTC (link)
	WANT ELEMENT DOG. Cruel teases. (Reply to this)

	thatnickguy 2009-07-19 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Allred's style here reminds me so much of Windsor "Little Nemo in Slumberland" McCay. Want more please. Kthnx! (Reply to this)

	hawkman has me hooked! chipsnopotatoes 2009-07-19 02:18 am UTC (link)
	this is far and away my favorite strip in Wednesday comics. This art is just so amazing. Love the scene with the little girl in the owl glasses. Is it me or is hawkman a little creepy when he smiles... (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: hawkman has me hooked!

jlroberson
2009-07-19 05:45 am UTC (link)

The art is the very best I've seen from Baker in years. Which is shocking that I'm seeing it on Hawkman.

You know what else? Keep him the hell away from the rest of the DCU and Hawkman is a perfectly good character. Sometimes I think the real way to save DC is a kind of Vertigo strategy: no more crossovers. To dispense with the idea of the DCU altogether. (That would be impossible with Marvel, as it's all been interwoven on an atomic level almost from the start)

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	sandoz_iscariot 2009-07-19 02:52 am UTC (link)
	A Gaiman/Allred collaboration? Delicious. (Reply to this)

	colonel_green 2009-07-19 03:12 am UTC (link)
	Am I the only one who though the Element Girl mention was morbidly funny since Gaiman had her commit suicide in the mainstream DCU? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-07-19 04:02 am UTC (link)
	I felt bad for laughing a little, but I couldn't help it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	red_cyclone 2009-07-19 07:56 am UTC (link)
	Thats what I thought, I like that the cute kids didn't mention what happened to her. On the other hand, I've always read it as more a mercy kidding than suicide, or at least as not a negative thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kenn_el 2009-07-19 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	Element Girl is listed as a cast member in the first week's installment. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 03:16 am UTC (link)
	This feels more like stealing than what we usually do. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-07-19 03:42 am UTC (link)
	Only because no one posts anything from it until there's a .cbr up! :/ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 03:53 am UTC (link)
	Each page is a full story, if anything we should limit ourselves to half a page or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-07-19 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Nope. Each page is 1/12th of a story. Which is why the mods have declared we're not allowed to scan more than four of any one character. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluefall 2009-07-19 04:23 am UTC (link)
	Have you seen those things? I'd rather scan a trade than one of those suckers. If you know someone else is going to do it for you within a couple of days, and better and more professionally than you... there's an effort threshold, and WC is clearly over it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-07-19 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Hey, no argument from me, I'm just as guilty of waiting for the .cbr as anyone else! Last week I felt weird about it, but ultimately vindicated when everyone else started posting from it as soon as the .cbr was up. As long as you still get your paper copy cos oh man are you missing out if you don't! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-07-19 04:08 am UTC (link)
	Quote of the week. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	crinosg 2009-07-19 03:25 am UTC (link)
	You know, they don't need Hawkman to beat those terrorists; they could just take that girls absurdly large and thick coke bottle glasses and use it to catch the sun and light those guys on fire. Seriously, in that first scan of her looking out the window she looks like some sort of bug creature. (Reply to this)

	kingrockwell 2009-07-19 03:26 am UTC (link)
	And I'd almost posted Metamorpho just now! (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-07-19 03:49 am UTC (link)
	This is the most awesome I've seen Hawkman be since... ever. (Reply to this) (Thread)

arbre_rieur
2009-07-19 07:20 am UTC (link)

Let's all take a moment to remember Baker's comments about this series:

"By the way, just for the fans, I'm making this story the bloodiest and most depressing story ever! Full of realism! HAWKMAN'S WORLD WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER! I've revealed too much. I can say no more."

"For some reason, a lot of message board posters think I'm joking about the story being depressing. I'm not sure why. The most successful book I've done recently has been NAT TURNER, which was certainly a bloody, realistic, and depressing story! By contrast, my work on PLASTIC MAN was hated by fans, and the last six issues were never reprinted. Dan Didio told fans and editors that nobody liked my art style, and I wasn't offered work from DC for years after. The great comedian Sergio Aragones is writing serious cowboy stories for another artist at DC. DARK KNIGHT was the biggest movie ever, and Warner's has announced they are going to make more superhero movies that are dark and depressing. Obviously, this is what people want. I will not do any more comedy in DC or Marvel comics. I have four children to feed. I have enough awards.

Writer Bob Morales was recently speaking to Marvel editor Axel Alonso about doing a sequel to our Captain America book, TRUTH. Axel said, "We want you to write it Bob, but the folks here at Marvel really hated Kyle's art on that book." Bob told Axel that I had changed my style, and sent him links to this post. Axel saw the art and said, "That's much better, he can do it."

So I'm back folks. I've got my mind right, boss."

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	janegray 2009-07-19 12:24 pm UTC (link)
	Dark Knight wasn't totally depressing, though. The boat scene was all about hope and (most) people's inner goodness. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	devastron 2009-07-19 07:32 am UTC (link)
	Someone has GOT to make an avatar out of Hawkman giving the thumbs up. Anyone doing so will be given a free cookie.* *Cookie not actually available. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Best I can do. superfan1 2009-07-19 08:08 am UTC (link)
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	Re: Best I can do. devastron 2009-07-19 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Awesome! Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-07-19 08:18 am UTC (link)

"Hawkman regrets the death of so many birds... but this is war, they are his army"

No, they are sodding well not, you malevolent, bird-murdering bastard Hawkman!

They are non-sentient animals with no vested interest in what you are forcing them to do. If anything they are, metaphorically, civilian non-combatants you have forcibly drafted into your feathery Suicide Squad!

Now if we were to find out that these are grateful birds who are doing it in return for your protecting their endangered habitat, then it's not quite so bad, but we haven't seen any indication of that.

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	janegray 2009-07-19 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	Motto :/ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-19 08:44 am UTC (link)
	Gaiman, you are brilliant. Just the concept of a DCU where Metamorpho is the most popular superhero makes my cool-sensing nerves twitch in a pleasurable way. I would want to read those comics - and lookie here, I am! (Reply to this)

	kitty_tc_69 2009-07-19 09:54 am UTC (link)
	Is the volcano warmed arctic land something that has been around in DC for a while? Because Marvel has had the Savage Land for decades. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-07-19 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	Well, the DCU has had Skartaris for decades, the "world inside the world" approach, but I can't think of any volcanoes being mentioned specifically. As for the Savage Land... it's been modified a few times, it's no longer just volcanoes, I believe it's current story is that it's maintained by Celestial technology. (Reply to this) (Parent)