Review Group Week 239 - BILLY THE KID #1
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You miserable flip-flopper! ![]() |
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Not to mention anyone could've read the previous adventure online for free like I posted. Not the first tpb, but the intermediary one. |
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It introduced the characters but not the concept behind it all. I knew why a historical figure was running around with a bunch of circus freaks but if you hadn't done the research, you really wouldn't get it. |
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![]() No, I honestly think that if you read the first issue of the first series you would dig it and totally hate it by the end. There is a shift in the tone of the book and it carries on into this. It starts out a whacky book about circus freaks hiring Billy the Kid and then becomes a straight on horror book with a keen sense of humor and wicked irony. I think the fun I feel for it is in my love for Powell's kind of humor which is very much in line with mine and my love of his use of everything to create a story. I mean there is basically a version of Remember the Titans in The Goon and somehow it works. Greg finds it fun, cause it is a funny horror book and well he is a horror fan and it is very well done horror that is HIGHLY referential to the great pre-code horror stuff in both it's writing and art. I did you a disservice by not warning you and I apologize. |
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It was written in such a way that the "why" wasn't important to this story. It made me want to go back and read the first series, but not because I was confused or that I felt like I had missed something important. |
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It didn't make me want to go back at all. |
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see that's the thing though, people talk about the difference in accessibility of older comics versus modern comics and this is just as accessible if not more so than the first mid story issues of Spider-Man, Batman, and X-men that I read as a kid. We demand more in our definition of accessibility now. Recap pages have made us lazy.... it doesn't matter if we know how they got together, it is just as absurd as it was in the first issue and the origin is all based on a lie anyhow, so what does it matter? none at all - we as readers are just lazier than we were as kids. |
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exactly. |
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The creators are lazier, not the readers. Is it that hard to put in a recap? |
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Well, you were just trying to pimp review group. and I think your punishment will be handed out Greg style... ![]() |
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I'm not looking for a recap page at all. But as I understand it from google... Billy the kid's been blackmailed into going along for the ride. Even a simple throw away line like "I may be shanghai'd into being with you freaks..." or something along those lines conveys info I needed. Lazy writing - not lazy reader. |
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great, I am at home, how am I supposed to hide that boner from Morgan?!? ![]() |
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He hasn't been blackmailed. He was blackmailed into going on the first journey (and lied to as why) but by the end, he is friends with them and stays on because they are his family, even if he doesn't necessarily like them. And the recap stuff was not directed at you. ![]() |
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I knew I wasn't really on ignore! |
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Put some pants on, for starters. |
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