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7/30/09 at 12:02pm
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I leafed through a few issues at my comic shop last week, anyone reading this? Garth Ennis is writing, and while I really enjoyed his work on Hellblazer and Preacher, but this looked to be somewhat awful. Is Avatar Press the company where mainstream writers go to do their B projects or something? Not everything they make is bad (as I am completely in love with Ignition City) but a lot of it seems that way.
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7/30/09 at 2:04pm
Avatar is where some of the most critically acclaimed writers (Moore, Ellis, Ennis) go for a free hand with their projects.

Not sure which issue you read, but Crossed has been a solid (if particularly brutal, even by Ennis' standards) venture into the horror genre for Ennis. When the title was first released, I thought it might be an opportunity for Ennis to vent on religion, etc., but my only real complaint is that it's packed into 9 issues when it should be at least twice that. It's certainly head and shoulders above Walking Dead - not much to be said for that, I guess...

It's sort of a shame, however, that folks remember Ennis for Preacher and Hellblazer, stuff he wrote when he was in his mid-late 20s. One of the best titles out there today is War Stories which, thankfully, will be continued.
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post #3 of 5
7/31/09 at 10:14am
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<snip>It's certainly head and shoulders above Walking Dead - not much to be said for that, I guess...
Heh. Even Invincible is better than Walking Dead these days. My last hope with that series was when they found the small group that "had to" get to DC because one of the dudes was a scientist. I thought to myself "Alright! Finally, they are going to advance the story past killing off major characters!!" Well, not so much it would seem.

I read the issue where there is some biker dude running around with a horse's cock in his hand yelling "Horsecock!" Which is what I would be yelling if I had one in my hand I guess. But that seemed awfully silly. Contrived even, like "shocking" just because the publisher let him do that.

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It's sort of a shame, however, that folks remember Ennis for Preacher and Hellblazer, stuff he wrote when he was in his mid-late 20s. One of the best titles out there today is War Stories which, thankfully, will be continued.
I will have to check out War Stories now, thanks for the recommendation!
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post #4 of 5
7/31/09 at 11:41am
The Boys is shaping up to be something pretty.
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post #5 of 5
7/31/09 at 2:37pm
And there is a splendid little western trade out there right now, Streets of Glory, which Ennis did for Avatar - priced a little highly, but a terrific story in the vein of Lonesome Dove and The Wild Bunch.

Ludwig, I fucked up before - Ennis' current war series is Battlefields, from Dynamite, and War Stories is the one he did a few years back with Vertigo, currently collected in trade. Sorry about that. Both are uniformly excellent, however, and one would be hard pressed to guess they came from the same writer of Dicks and the Pro (although those titles definitely have their charms).
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