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Post by HoM on Sept 11, 2018 14:30:34 GMT -5
Please take a moment and let us know what you thought of this issue!
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Post by Steve K. on Sept 14, 2018 16:27:46 GMT -5
Like many of the current series on DC2 I was not really familiar with the characters featured in Secret Six. And yet again I am blown away. I don’t know if this is just me but I could really picture this series as a TV show. The way you write your scenes is very cinematic. I’m going to save going into the plot until the full arc is released. Just know you’ve got a reader.
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Post by HoM on Sept 15, 2018 4:40:58 GMT -5
Another great issue, and one filled with a brilliantly horrible creeping sense of dread. We know Copperhead is going to come up against El Penitente in some form or another, but I didn't expect it to be in the first part of this new arc!
The flashbacks were really well done, reinforcing her terrible childhood as a great juxtaposition against her terrible life as an assassin in the present day, and the rundown of who exactly the cartel’s trio of assassins were was fantastic. In my opinion, Flamingo is a character that was never done properly since his debut in Batman & Robin, but I think you really captured how absolutely depraved he is, and the description of how he ended up that way absolutely awful. So, basically, perfection.
I’m interested to see where the story goes from here, and I liked nods to how awful the Six’s new client really is, with the side eyes Corcoran gives to everyone she comes across a really well done way to show how much of a piece of trash she is as a person.
Great work, UDC!
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Post by UltimateDC on Sept 15, 2018 18:05:55 GMT -5
Like many of the current series on DC2 I was not really familiar with the characters featured in Secret Six. And yet again I am blown away. Thanks, Steve! That means a lot. These characters have become very near and dear to me (for better or for worse) and it's good to know that there are other readers who have affection for them as well. I'm not sure if I've heard that note before, but it makes a lot of sense. Visual media has likely been a much bigger influence on me than prose fiction (in the case of the Secret Six, it's crime dramas like Breaking Bad and Fargo and directors like Quentin Tarantino and Martin McDonagh), and I think that's become how my brain operates when translating images into words. Sweet! I look forward to reading it. -UDC |
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Post by UltimateDC on Sept 15, 2018 18:34:37 GMT -5
Another great issue, and one filled with a brilliantly horrible creeping sense of dread. We know Copperhead is going to come up against El Penitente in some form or another, but I didn't expect it to be in the first part of this new arc! Thanks, Charlie! This story was a long time coming (and not just because of the hiatus) - El Flamingo and the Penitente cartel, much like their fellow Morrison creation Professor Pyg, have a fantastic sense of menace to them. They're both utterly unmoored from reality and astoundingly terrifying at the same time. It's both disturbing and fun to dig into something like that. This wasn't the intention when I put together the story initially, but what ended up coming about was setting up Copperhead as a contrast to what I had just done with Mister Toad in the previous arc. Both of them have this disturbing adoptive family that informed how they became who they are, but while Toad embraced the darkness, Copperhead is trapped by it. Where she goes with that and what it'll do to her long term remains to be seen. Flamingo is the sort who seemed perfectly suited to this kind of story. I've got a lot of love for Grant Morrison's work (in case that wasn't obvious), but the dude has the attention span of a goldfish. He has a habit of coming up with these weird, off-the-wall, instantly memorable ideas, then moving on without going into any significant depth. Such is the case with the cannibalistic assassin who dresses in hot pink and rides a matching motorcycle. Flamingo will have more to do in the next issue, and hopefully I can live up to expectations. I like to think I've gotten better at writing this series as I've gone on, or at least figured out what it should and shouldn't be. For as much as it's enjoyable to fill in character backstories and motivations, the real meat of Secret Six is gathering together a collection of terrible people and (pardon my language) watching the shit show. Nadine is very much born of that impetus - someone who will get on the Six's nerves and test their patience, much for our entertainment. Thanks again, Charlie. And thanks to our anonymous donor for that gorgeous cover. -UDC |
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