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AICN COMICS Q & @ WITH JIMMY PALMIOTTI & JUSTIN GRAY WRITERS OF HEROES FOR HIRE, JONAH HEX, AND FRIDAY THE 13th!!!

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Oh, and FIRST, MOTHERFUCKERS! by Squashua	Dec 11th, 2006 10:02:31 AM
FIRST! Eat that, piggies!
nice interview by blackthought	Dec 11th, 2006 01:30:10 PM
i like these two...they write nicely with nice stuff you know.
Jonah Hex is one of the best mointhlies on DC's slate.. by Sledge Hammer	Dec 11th, 2006 04:17:44 PM
...right now. Fact. A relaunch done right (unlike the festering lump of shit that was Warlord for instance), it deserves a bigger audience.
What the fuck is a mointhlie? by Sledge Hammer	Dec 11th, 2006 04:19:21 PM
I swear, my dyslexia gets worse by the god damned day...
Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, by dregmobile	Dec 11th, 2006 04:46:17 PM
when held against the light that is DC's Supes, Bats and WW, look like a bunch of unruly dickheads (I'm ignorant, I know). Still, there is some great art in this series and the return of (or appearance of a new) Black Condor. That alone will have me looking out for this when it (if it) hits trades.
Fresh! by Homer Sexual	Dec 11th, 2006 08:39:21 PM
That's what I love about P/G. Every book they write is fresh, but not heretic to old fans, not overwrought or overly serious. Not pedantic or dull. Heroes For Hire, grade A! Shows what great writers can do with overlooked characters. Mucho fun. Freedom Fighters, very different, very interesting, very entertaining. Grade A. Jonah Hex, somehow brings life to a very tired genre. Grade A. Wolvrine/Black Cat, probably my favorite story of 2006. Grade A+. Guess I better check out Friday the 13th.
They do good work by dan grendel	Dec 12th, 2006 05:00:53 AM
I'm not a fan of everything Palmiotti and Gray do, but they produce a lot of quality material. JONAH HEX is one of the best books being done each month. I loved me some DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON, and the HEROES FOR HIRE followup, while tied into the hated Civil War, has been quite entertaining too. I like to hear pros excited about fun comics- cuz god knows I miss 'em too.
talking about strippers and sex and beating people up by Shigeru	Dec 12th, 2006 11:26:19 AM
won't make anybody forget that you write funny books. good interview, tho.
Green Lantern Creator Martin Nodell Passes Away... by Abin Sur	Dec 12th, 2006 02:04:49 PM
MIAMI (AP) - Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91. Nodell died at his home in Muskego, Wis., on Saturday of natural causes, his son Spencer Nodell told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He previously lived in West Palm Beach. Nodell was looking for a new idea for a comic book in 1940 when he was waiting for a New York subway and saw a train operator waving a lantern displaying a green light, said Maggie Thompson, senior editor of Comics Buyer's Guide. Nodell imagined a young engineer, Alan Scott, a train crash survivor who discovers in the debris an ancient lantern forged from a green meteor. Scott constructs a ring from the lamp that gives him super powers, and becomes a crime fighter. He brought his drawings and story lines to All-American Publications, which later became a part of National Periodical Publications, the company that was to become DC Comics, Thompson said. The first Green Lantern appearance came in July 1940, an eight-page story in a comic book also featuring other characters. The character then got his own series, and Nodell drew it until 1947 under the name Mart Dellon. After its cancellation, the series was reborn in 1959 with a revised story line, and it has been revived several times. Meanwhile, Nodell left the comics field for an advertising career. In the 1960s, he was on a design team that helped develop the Pillsbury Doughboy. In later years, Nodell traveled the comic book convention circuit with his wife, Caroline, who died in 2004. "There were myriad of fans who would come up to my dad and would say `Green Lantern got me to read' or `Green Lantern got me to do something in my life,'" Spencer Nodell said. Nodell was born in Philadelphia and studied at art schools in Chicago and New York. Besides Spencer Nodell, survivors include another son, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Not hacks at all. by SleazyG.	Dec 13th, 2006 11:37:41 AM
You gotta remember, when you work for hire, you're doing what you were hired to do. You only have so much leeway. I think they've done a good job with HEX, and I definitely prefer this take to the old Vertigo version that Truman and Lansdale sucked so hard at. BLUDHAVEN was flawed, but UNCLE SAMD AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS has been really good so far--political but without being as obviously biased as CIVIL WAR, for example, something it accomplishes by being less specific. I liked what they were doing with HEROES FOR HIRE, too, and don't know that it'll work nearly as well when they're gone. They're definitely on my list of writers to watch for on new titles.

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