The new Mark Millar jump off.
Let's see which Millar were gettin today
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I'm digging the art in this so far.
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Interesting beginning to a space opera so far. Not quite the shock value shlock i'd expect from Millar.
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And hey go fig a preview of Jupiter's Legacy 2
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Based Immonen.
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Man I am very psyched to read this.
It's a'ight. The art is definitely its strongest point.
Looks like Millar and Marvel Icon want to get in on some of that Saga space opera action.
I'm hot and cold on Millar... some of his stuff, I love, and then there's some of his stuff that I loathe. There's almost no middle ground for me when it comes to his individual works.
There's not enough material here that I can form an opinion on Empress one way or another, although it's pretty substantial for a modern #1 issue—Millar gets a lot of the essential exposition in there without it dragging down the action, which is a lot harder than it sounds when you're introducing readers to a whole new fiction.
And I can't hate on Immonen's art. Dude's one of my favorite contemporary comics artists.
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Instead of Deadpool's fourth wall breaking awareness this sword mere has actual perception powers visualized as cubes. Literal Fourth Walls. She like Super Deadpoolette.
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Blade was forged by Grant Morrison. It's real
Cold Opens in comics suck, I know it's a TV/movie pitch but yuck.
Immonen's art is still god tier, shame Marvel can't find the guy a decent writer, he's gotten nothing but slop for 10 years.
Millar has lost it, this is just Starlight from a different perspective.
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Already seeing the typical Mark Millar level of subtlety here.
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>Not quite the shock value shlock i'd expect from Millar.
He's going to do a bad-guys-win "twist" here like he's done eighty times before. Either that, or the main-character-was-the-villain-all-along twist.
He's Mark Millar. He genuinely thinks that the edgier something is, the better it is.
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Stuart Immonen should create his own story, or find a decent writer to help it. then ship it to Image.
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The art is lovely. Nice clean sci-fi aesthetic.
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I felt like starlight was a nice alternative to his normal shit.
Good space opera raygon gothic buck rogers type tale and not all that edgy.
Who knew Millar only needed a genre shift to be good? It's still very obviously written with a film option in mind, but I would never have expected consistently good space opera stuff from him considering his early sci-fi work in 2000AD and the downward spiral his cape stuff was on.
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I'm honestly surprised that he hasn't pitched anything with his wife.
Reading.
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Those look pretty human for non-humans
>65 million years ago
Only?
After that introduction, I didn't think we'd be going back to a whooping 5 minutes before midnight.
So I guess instead of doing something clever, it's just another dinosaur comic then.
Oh well.
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Oh shit, it's Apocalypse.
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Now that's what I call edgy.
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So I guess it's not a dinosaur comic after all. What's the point of it being set on earth in the past then?
One panel of a T-Rex and some with Pteranodons?
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>called Empress
>titular character is a Queen
>it's apparently not even about how she becomes an Empress at all
>she's just called Emporia
If I had to guess, it seems like a half-hearted mix of Saga and Metabarons.
But the writing seems inconsequential and didn't leave any impression at all after this issue. Art is pretty though.
5/10: Don't care. Thanks for the storytime.
And to think Immonen could be drawing a Bendis book instead of this!
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Didn't they just get done their own indie project?
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>Ughhh guess its just another dinosaur comic
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>Psht it's not even a dinosaur comic...whats the point
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Immonen is one of my favorites, i wish he had some better stuff other than Nextwave
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>wants to stay but mom gets shot just in time to change her mind
I hope she sides with the dad
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Wait a minute, feeling dejavu as i hv read it somewhere before.
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65 million years ago the air is just too toxic for human to breath. Unless these guys wearing breathing apparatus while outside.
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>Interesting beginning to a space opera so far. Not quite the shock value shlock i'd expect from Millar.
"Obi-Wan helps Padme steal her children away from Darth Vader"
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Hey, it's already better than TFA.
to be honest hokey, dopey, forrest gumpish, "we need real special heroes oh boy" mark millar is worse than edgy mllar because its really disingenuine tv pitches masked by a thin facade of millar saying comics needs stories like this and huck
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Anne Hathaway has made a commitment to do more science fiction films because she wants to see more female protagonists.
So this is not a tv pitch, this is viral marketing for a movie.
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>what if Padme was a stripper?
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why did i say tv pitches? fuck
i forget millar is a movie guy. and also im fuckin tired
I heard the 'movie pitch' thing on the 'The Fix' storytime thread and i'd love someone to explain it to me.
Other than the story being told in such a way that it would be functional as a movie i'm not sure why this story is in and of itself designed to be a movie. Or how it working as a movie makes it a worse comic book one way or the other.
to me it just speaks of a bigger variety in storytelling in comics.
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We usually mean it for high concept books like Dinosaur Vs Aliens or Supercrooks. It's hard to pin down but some books feel barebone so itfeels like a pitch to an a movie producer.
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I never heard of it, to be honest.
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>There's not enough material here that I can form an opinion on Empress one way or another, although it's pretty substantial for a modern #1 issue—Millar gets a lot of the essential exposition in there without it dragging down the action, which is a lot harder than it sounds when you're introducing readers to a whole new fiction.
there's more truth in these words than I've read on /co/ all year
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It's difficult to describe. The thing is that many books at Image are created with a movie/tv adaptation in mind. That's not to say that all the books are bad, but some of them start out strong and then seem to meander because they weren't thought out past that initial pitch. Millar is just a rather extreme example, since quite often he's literally writing the comic while it's being optioned out, such as Supercrooks. In addition, most of his books only run about five issues, and tend to follow a pretty standard movie set-upalthough that's not saying too much, since fiction in general follows a patternThe biggest problem is that quite often it feels like the story is underdone, like we're missing exploration of the characters or plot.
It's not a hard or fast thing, and generally speaking I find a lot of books at Image either don't adhere to the stereotype or manage to work otherwise, but it still exists.
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Its set in the past so we can see when Xenu sends all the Thetans into the volcanoes and nukes them.
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Hey, i've enjoyed Huck so far....
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and its a bad cash-grab when you realize he works for Fox and all that bullshit about needing a real doe-eyed, real special boy tom hanks-superhero is utter marketing bullshit
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Essentially comics that are written so that an adaption to film/tv is easier, usually high concept or with a pitch that would be easy to sell to a producer. Image has been pumping out a few of them recently, such as Descender and now this.
There is surprisingly not enough Mark Millar in this book.
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Sometimes, the story is better when the bad guys win. I read many of Stephen King's novels and in some of them, the good guys winning feel cheap.
