I'm impressed with Boom! for landing the licenses to The Incredibles and The Muppet Show, both of which made their debut issues this week. I reviewed the Incredibles in this week's Comic Column; basically it's a fun enough comic that sort of feels like Waid's a little too mired in conventional superhero thinking to be able to get fully on the movie's wavelength. There's the teensiest whiff of condescension here. But maybe I'm reading way too much into it based on my personal feelings about mainstream comics.
The Muppet Show, as I mentioned in the other thread, is fairly spectacular, but again I might be baised as I know the writer/artist.
All in all, I'm impressed with the direction Waid seems to be taking the company. I was posting on the talkbacks to one of his Kung Fu Monkey columns and giving him grief for how narratively inert "The Foundation" was, and he was gracious about it, mentioning that he was going to be trying to turn things around now that he was EIC (The Foundation was in production before he came aboard). I also liked his announcement somewhere that he was against treating comics as movie pitches, or Hollywood hand-me-downs.
I'm always rooting for one of the smaller guys to pick up a little more steam, so I'm rooting for these guys.
The Muppet Show, as I mentioned in the other thread, is fairly spectacular, but again I might be baised as I know the writer/artist.
All in all, I'm impressed with the direction Waid seems to be taking the company. I was posting on the talkbacks to one of his Kung Fu Monkey columns and giving him grief for how narratively inert "The Foundation" was, and he was gracious about it, mentioning that he was going to be trying to turn things around now that he was EIC (The Foundation was in production before he came aboard). I also liked his announcement somewhere that he was against treating comics as movie pitches, or Hollywood hand-me-downs.
I'm always rooting for one of the smaller guys to pick up a little more steam, so I'm rooting for these guys.
