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"We Hate Comics" (AKA Review Group) Week 280: All Nighter #1
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   All Nighter #1 as selected by Royal Nonesuch ALL NIGHTER #1 “Stealing Coins” Kit Bradley is a 20 year-old art student and petty criminal who knows it’s time to leave her delinquent past behind, but isn’t ready for the responsibilities of adulthood. Her social headquarters is an all night diner, and while trying to put the ‘off’ on an on-again-off-again boyfriend, she runs into an old flame, and an enigmatic loner named Martha, whose mysterious disappearance will alter Kit’s life forever. Created, written, and drawn by Eisner and Ignatz Award nominee DAVID HAHN, with lettering by Aditya Bidikar  Royal Nonesuch has next week's pick.  If you would like to join the group, it's easy. Just post a review and I'll add you to the member's list. As long as you stay active, eventually it will be your turn to make a pick. With $4 comics becoming the norm, the economy being what it is and the growing popularity of mail order services the Review Group recognizes that it's becoming harder and harder to commit to participating each and every week. As long as you can post one review per calendar month you will stay in the member's list. It doesn't matter if you post your review the week of it's release or if you post it later. There is no such thing as a "late" review. The only request I make is that if you don't plan on posting a review or if you're going to be posting late is that you drop a note in the thread so that I can keep track of who is active and who isn't. The Spreadsheet of Doom is thorough, but it can't read your mind.  Comics are to be scored on a scale from 1-10. 1 being suck, 10 being a damn good comic. Beyond that, there's no right or wrong.  If it's your week, you must announce your selection by 5pm EST the day Diamond releases it's shipping list. If you do not announce your pick at that time, I will add a poll to the thread that will remain open until 12pm EST so that the group can make the selection for that week. (If you're seriously MIA, I'll probably put the poll up sooner) To ensure that you know it's your week, I will PM you when Midtown's list goes live on Thursdays. Also you'd better keep in mind the Amber Atoms rule, if your pick isn't reviewed by 2 or more people you will be exiled from the Group for 1 year. Our definition of a single issue comic is limited to comics listed at $3.99 or lower, anything above that is off limits. Also, to prevent utter filth being chosen deliberately, the Weird Worlds Rule has also gone into affect. Any book scoring a new all-time low (2.12 as of today) will not count as a miss if people wisely choose not to purchase it. Any poor soul who did review the book will earn a free pass on a book of their choice. Royal Nonesuch Victorian Squid Stephen Day Jude Terror GLX Punchy BlueStreak guitarsmashley starlord John Snow Sweet James Jones thewhinyman Daringd Amoebas SilverPhoenix Eli Katz Twig AMS Mammon, Fool Breaker Comic_Doctor Zero BLUE indicates explanation given for not posting a review. RED indicate that no review or explanation has been posted in two weeks. RED and BOLD will be deleted at the end of the week unless a review or explanation is posted.  Eventually, I (or amlah) will putting together all of our reviews and we will have our very own article on the front page of The Outhouse! If you would like for your review to be included, please try to have it posted by the end of day on Monday. |
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BS, did you get my PM with my Sweet Tooth article. |
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I did. I'll post it when I get to work unless you want to take care of it now. I just heard back from Lemire about an interview, so I'll probably have the quote to add in the next couple of days. |
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Nah man, let's wait until you have the quote. |
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Eh, the only problem is that he's slammed right now, so I don't know if he's even seen the email yet. We got the Jeff Parker quote added a day or two after the fact, so there's a bit of precedent. I just don't want to wait on something that's not definitely a sure thing. |
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The main character is obviously at this point a bit of a cypher. I appreciated the efforts to flesh out her character, and you get a bit of a sense of what she's about. The other characters obviously weren't that interesting yet, but it's a first issue what can you do. The art was very nice, I thought it flowed very well, and even though I read it on a screen I liked it. My two big problems: [Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand The first problem is the tacked on mystery element of the plot. She killed her mother, I get that, but it comes across as cumbersome when she is talking about it. I get it has to be forced in sort of to create a bit of mystery, but it's really not that interesting as of right now. The second is to do with some of the dialogue. Whilst most of the time it is fine if a little bland (honestly it's hard to tell in one issue) there's a few lines that stand out. "Dwane is like a bad penny you always find in your pocket" a poor metaphor which managed to sound very new yet cliched at the same time. Also who is that blonde girl? Overall, y'know one of the better comics I've read recently (really not saying much). It did everything it needed to in a serviceable way, and it didn't need to resort to a fight scene or hitting me with anything over the head. The characters are a bit on the thin side so far, but EVERY character will be a bit on the thin side after an opening issue. I'm in a very good mood. This get 7.5 out of 10 |
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Meh meh meh. I'm not a teenage girl so this didn't appeal to me in the least. 2/10 |
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I don't have superpowers, so most superhero comics leave me cold. |
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I'm Amazing, but lately Spider-Man leaves me pretty cold. |
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