tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post7474242200719427061..comments2024-03-28T04:14:30.305-04:00Comments on Thoughts on Stuff: X-Men: Manifest Destiny and The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist StoryPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702965396185870813noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-89803226042185486912009-07-11T19:13:30.050-04:002009-07-11T19:13:30.050-04:00Sounds like I've got to check out Brubaker'...Sounds like I've got to check out Brubaker's Captain America, and some of the creator owned stuff. <br /><br />As for Ellis, he'll occasionally do something that hits emotionally, like the short about the woman who got unfrozen in Transmetropolitan, or some of Planetary. But, he puts out so But the best of his stuff is really solid, and I'm awaiting that last Planetary issue at Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04702965396185870813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-48905446241662877062009-07-11T19:13:19.934-04:002009-07-11T19:13:19.934-04:00Sounds like I've got to check out Brubaker'...Sounds like I've got to check out Brubaker's Captain America, and some of the creator owned stuff. <br /><br />As for Ellis, he'll occasionally do something that hits emotionally, like the short about the woman who got unfrozen in Transmetropolitan, or some of Planetary. But, he puts out so But the best of his stuff is really solid, and I'm awaiting that last Planetary issue at Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04702965396185870813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-59427089429586213632009-07-11T05:44:01.025-04:002009-07-11T05:44:01.025-04:00Can't help but leap to the defense of Brubaker...Can't help but leap to the defense of Brubaker as well. Captain America is good comics, but so far I think his best work is in the Wildstorm series Sleeper. Gruesome noir, twisted spy shenanigans and a clever, sympathetic central character running through it all. Really impressive.<br /><br />I had the same problem with Casanova you did. Yeah, OK. Great art, crazy ideas. But why should I careI.V.P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17167362896416316361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-61966239006102798502009-07-11T05:02:14.843-04:002009-07-11T05:02:14.843-04:00Brubaker is my second favorite comic writer after ...Brubaker is my second favorite comic writer after Morrison. Captain America is my favorite(and actually got me into comics), but I also love Daredevil, Immortal Iron Fist, and Criminal. <br /><br />Daredevil and Captain America especially have a great emotional connection, IMO. The way Bucky Barnes has to deal with his past and his relationship with his former mentor and best friend, how Sharon Jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-81797756843054796272009-07-10T23:21:19.888-04:002009-07-10T23:21:19.888-04:00I don't think you necessarily need an emotiona...I don't think you necessarily <i>need</i> an emotional connection for a story to work, but I think any truly great story should engage you emotionally. That emotion might be a more abstract sort of awe or cosmic joy, as in in 2001 or some of Morrison's work, but it's there. Fraction's stories produce some pop joy from time to time, but I have trouble relating to his characters as Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483689490186954593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555488.post-84150788235496288772009-07-10T20:11:06.391-04:002009-07-10T20:11:06.391-04:00do stories really need to connect to you on an emo...do stories really need to connect to you on an emotional level for them to be deemed good stories? I don't think so. <br /><br />If i get an emotional reaction to something in a story, it is an added bonus it isn't something i feel it neccesarily has to do. Oddly enough it's usually Morrison's work that gets railed against by most people for not having enough of a "emotional malpracticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951567969857627623noreply@blogger.com