Heh.
Presume not to imagine the fantasies that go through the mind of a Composite Ailuropoda Melanoleuca/Mid-price Tabloid Model.
Was it my imagination though, or was Grant on almost
every panel there?
I'm more
curious than thrilled about most of the stuff he's hyping for the year ahead. His Batman works so well outwitting Gods in
JLA that I find it hard to imagine how it'll work 'street level'. The Wildstorm stuff sounds more intriguing by the minute, but there I'm fascinated by the whole Big Carey&Simone Picture.
Seven Soldiers-wise I'm a little
nervous. He says he's written 100 pages for the final issue and needs to squash it down to 30. Now I'm all in favour of the whole hyper-compressed technique, but this once and just once couldn't they just delay the book and get Williams to draw the whole b*****d thing? Following this series has been one of the best times I've ever had following a superhero run and for the conclusion I want to see
everything. I'm also a little disapointed that Morrison doesn't go with the idea that
7S is set during
52. His placement of it (a week before the
Crisis) is great in terms of "why it falls on the little guys to save the world" and for the Fall of Camelot analogy, but lousy in terms of Zatanna's characterisation in that it means the Whiny Cow Zee of
Day of Vengence comes after she got over all the issues she's whining about. On the bright side...having 7S set before the Crisis means that thier appearences in
IC and
52 will be able to take the soldier's stories
forwards, which can't be a bad thing.
The thing I'm probably most interested in though are the VERTIGO projects he says so little about. For one of VERTIGO's founding fathers and for someone who says his VERTIGO work is the only stuff he thinks of as being "his", it's a shame that he's not done anything there since
Vimanarama. The
Endless Nights-style
Invisibles book (Invisible Nights?) sounds fun...the story doesn't need another panel added to it, but the idea of just giving us character pieces would be a welcome indulgence as I'd just like to spend a bit more time with those people. We know almost nothing about what the characters do between 1999 and 2012 so there's plenty of space.
The mysterious VERTIGO Williams project sounds more promising though. I'm coming to the opinion that Williams can draw anything, and the more complex the concepts that the Moores, Ellises and Morrisons throw at him the better he gets.
I'm abandoning any attempted to be calm, reserved and mature about
52. The more Waid and Morrison talk about it, the more it sounds like
Seven Soldiers inflated to the size of a universe so that everyone can play. Once it got out that Grant'll be writing 'Animal Man lost in Outer Space' as part of it then...well, that's exactly the sort of comic I do fantasise about. Morrison's Animal Man lost in Outer Space! If it were just about Buddy lost in Space and nothing else I'd be sleeping outside the comic shop each week the day before its release.
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