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    Supervillains Vs. Bastards, In Sick, Twisted "Incognito"

    Is This The Secret Behind Captain America's Rebirth?

    Sleeper Offers Classic Noir Pessimism

    Ed Brubaker On Sleeper

    Is Captain America Coming Back To Life?

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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    11/27/09

    In reply to Supervillains Vs. Bastards, In Sick, Twisted "Incognito"
    I'd been out of buying single issues of comics for a while, and when I jumped back into it about a year ago (thanks in no small part to Locke & Key), someone recommended Incognito to me. After that, I snapped up all of the Criminal trades. Brubaker's on a short list of my favorite authors, along with Azzarello, Waid, Vaughn and a few others. Hell, he and Azzarello have almost single-handedly revived the crime comic genre.

    As much as I love Criminal, I hope he returns to the world he's created here. Does anyone know if the Jess Nevins articles are reprinted in the Incognito trade? I'm missing one of them, because I had to buy the two issue compilation to get issue two.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    11/27/09

    In reply to Supervillains Vs. Bastards, In Sick, Twisted "Incognito"
    You forgot to mention Zeppelins. Gotta love the Zeppelins.
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    Image of rek rek
    06/28/09

    In reply to Is This The Secret Behind Captain America's Rebirth?
    "I only killed him with the intention of bringing him back."


    That right there is why I stopped reading superhero comics by Marvel and DC. Nothing means anything.

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    Image of Geoffrey Sperl Geoffrey Sperl
    06/28/09

    @rek: But there's strong fan resistance to Rogers coming back as Cap, so I suspect Barnes will stay on. Rogers can go off and sit on a beach in the Caribbean or something.


    Let's be honest: The superhero genre has been going for so long that original stories are difficult to pull off month after month (and Cap has been around for over 60 years). Killing Rogers with the planned intention of bringing him back is better than the half-assed way DC killed Superman and brought him back (or how they recently killed Batman, or broke his back, or the rather sloppy way they are bringing Barry Allen back, etc.).


    Since it seems there is an actual plan to how the story is unfolding then does it really matter that Rogers is coming back? Especially if it all comes down to a well-told story?

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/28/09

    @rek: Ditto to the new testament!
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    Image of Brian Hogg Brian Hogg
    06/29/09

    @Geoffrey Sperl: Wasn't the death and return of Superman planned out? Ditto for Batman's back-breaking?


    I think the real problem here, and the problem with legacy characters in comics, is that they're ageless. The "original stories are difficult" criticism is valid, certainly, but it would seem much less so if these old characters aged and died naturally.


    The part that bothers me about all this is the disingenuous press; story-wise, you can pretty well guess it's going to happen. But when the companies putting out the stories make such a loud point to say "no, no, really, he's actually really totally dead this time!" it feels like a scam to get press.

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    Image of Iamtehawesome Iamtehawesome
    06/17/09

    In reply to Sleeper Offers Classic Noir Pessimism
    Tom Cruise?!


    Why?


    Looks like Clooney.


    Clooney could probably pull it off too.


    F*ck Tom Cruise.

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    06/17/09

    @Iamtehawesome: Clooney is too old. Carver has a younger man's ambivalence and susceptibility to the authority of his mentors (Lynch, Tao).
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Sleeper Offers Classic Noir Pessimism
    The prequel, Point Blank, is pretty good, too, especially the last couple of pages.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    04/21/09

    In reply to Is Captain America Coming Back To Life?
    Actually Counterglow and Dry-Roasted bring up some good points.


    If Marvel can have divine beings like Thor and Heracles running around, why not ancient superheroes like Moses, Buddha or Jesus?


    Too controversial? Why? Are they afraid kids might dismiss Jesus as being wimpier than Thor? (I'd personally find that enormously funny but I'm already damn in some eyes.)

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    Image of braak:  You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04/21/09

    @corpore-metal: The Marvel universe has always been kind of weirdly Judeo-Christian Neutral. The gods that do appear--mostly the Norse or Greek Pantheons, and also Mephisto--are actually usually portrayed as science gods (Mephisto especially, which a lot of modern interpretations seem to forget about).


    So, I don't know.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/21/09

    In reply to Is Captain America Coming Back To Life?
    Uh, yeah. Real shocking news.
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    Image of dopepope dopepope
    04/21/09

    In reply to Is Captain America Coming Back To Life?
    NO WAY!!!!!! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?????
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    04/21/09

    @dopepope: COME BACK TO LIFE?! THATS UNPOSSIBLE.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/05/09

    In reply to Abandon Your Resolutions And Enter The Morally-Grey Pulp World Of Incognito
    Pulp pulp pulp, I want some OJ now.


    I've never bought single issues of comics before; I might wait until a compilation comes out. Something about this series implies that there may be cliffhangers, and I hate cliffhangers. They make me want to burn buildings down.

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