|
 |
|
 |
 |
03-26-2014, 08:25 AM
|
#1
|
|
Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,143
|
Starlight by Mark Millar
What would happen if Jon Carter, Flash Gordon, Michael Kane, Buck Rogers or any other Pulp-Era, space adventurer returned home to earth after their amazing adventures on other planets ... and resumed their normal, earth lives, growing older, getting fat, raising families etc...?
It's a great question & one I'd never really considered even though I've read them all and have collected their ppbks & comics all my life. Mark Millar, in his starlight comic attempts to answer this. I loved the 1st issue. I saw in his Nemesis, & now here, that Millar really gets older people. His hero, Duke McQueen is written very well w/ the sadness of a widower & old man carries. The flashbacks to his space-warrior golden days juxtaposed to his gray-haired forgotten by his adult children old man, makes for an almost heartbreaking 1st ish. If you like the old pulp-style heroes, you should check out Starlight.
|
|
|
|
03-26-2014, 09:11 PM
|
#2
|
|
Rescue
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: BAY AREA!!!
Posts: 15,955
|
Heard this was already optioned for film....
|
|
|
|
|
05-20-2014, 09:40 AM
|
#3
|
|
Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
|
This is looking really good. I've sworn off Millar for quite some time now, but I think I'll give this a shot.
|
|
|
|
|
05-20-2014, 09:50 AM
|
#4
|
|
Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,143
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Babytoxie
This is looking really good. I've sworn off Millar for quite some time now, but I think I'll give this a shot.
|
I really enjoy almost everything he writes. Millar, like Ennis, another one of my favorite writers, seems to play by his own rulebook, thumbing his nose to the more conventional & boring status quo found in 80% of today's modern comics. He takes "what if" scenarios & artfully runs with them, but is smart enough to know when to close a story. (Nemesis/Superior/Old Man Logan/ even his X-Men run). I'll admit that he's pushed his Kick-Ass a little too far, but that's about it as far as I can read. Hell, his Ultimate Avengers set the bar on the MU to this very day.
Back to Starlight ... I think you'll like it BT for the reasons I mentioned in post #1. We're now 3 issues deep & he's stumbled just a little bit w/ the 3rd ish, but it's still going strong for a kick-off. I'm looking forward to all the Millar movies in development & I know people thinks he just writes now to sell movie ideas, but he still writes very good comics. His MPH starts tomorrow & I'm looking forward to his version of The Flash.
|
|
|
|
|
05-20-2014, 09:16 PM
|
#5
|
|
Husband-Father-Collector
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Orlando
Posts: 2,834
|
Millar is in the group of writers that I will always read when offered. That group only includes, Ennis, Millar, Ellis, BKV, and Brian Wood.
|
|
|
|
|
05-20-2014, 11:45 PM
|
#6
|
|
Cyclops
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 11,557
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad4Busts
Millar is in the group of writers that I will always read when offered. That group only includes, Ennis, Millar, Ellis, BKV, and Brian Wood.
|
You should add Remender to that list.
|
|
|
|
|
05-22-2014, 06:28 AM
|
#7
|
|
Husband-Father-Collector
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Orlando
Posts: 2,834
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Luminous
You should add Remender to that list.
|
Damnit...you're are exactly right. I typed this on my way out...Remender is defo on there, I am reading Black Science and Uncanny Avengers currently.
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:09 AM.
|
