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Post by arcalian on Jul 21, 2010 19:37:43 GMT -5
Please let us know what you think!
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Post by HoM on Dec 23, 2015 17:45:14 GMT -5
I plan to plough into this soon. I think the premise is fascinating and it demonstrates another opportunity missed by DC during Blackest Night! Psyched!
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Post by HoM on Jun 30, 2016 16:27:33 GMT -5
Holy crap am I fool for missing this when it originally hit the site! Finally got round to the first issue and I will endeavour to share in depth thoughts ASAP. But MAN what a brilliant opener! God damn Suzie! GOD DAMN
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Post by HoM on Jul 5, 2016 5:10:26 GMT -5
Last week I finally got round to reading this bad boy, and I thought it was fantastic. A very sad story in parts but Jonah makes a great man out of time, and the flashes to his "life" while he was dead were horrifying. The tone is great, part horror show, part comedy of manners, part thriller! An odd concept but you deliver in spades. You've got all these tools ready in your box and the Weird Western Blackest Night continuation is so interesting. I remember picking up that issue mainly because of you, Susan, but I felt it was lacking in places. Dan Didio just doesn't write very well, does he? But your adaptation of what he did and seeing what happens next was brilliant. The mystery is fascinating, and I'll start reading through this series and let you know what I think as I go!
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Post by Susan Hillwig on Jul 5, 2016 12:53:41 GMT -5
Didio's work on Weird Western Tales #71 was rather lacking, and in some cases rather annoying, like his introduction of the town of Illumination and the idea that Quentin Turnbull had other descendants (only one we've ever heard of before is his long-dead son Jeb). There's a story there, I'm sure of it, but Didio doesn't bother to tell us...but I've got a notion in my head, and I'll eventually get around to writing it. And of course, there's Don Hall's rejected black ring, which essentially vanishes from the Blackest Night storyline after WWT#71. Prior to writing Shades of Gray, I asked around on the DC Message Boards (may it rest in peace) and searched comics databases to see if there was any other mention of that ring, but nope, it's just gone. Why would Nekron send troops after only this black ring, and not the couple of others that went unused (like the pair that Hal and Barry managed to duck), not to mention why Don Hall's dead body rejected it in the first place? It's one of the few unanswered questions leftover from Blackest Night, but by the end of this first arc, you'll have an answer.
The flashes of Jonah's "afterlife" are indeed horrifying, and are based partly in comic-book truth: his corpse did indeed shoot two people, and it was lost for long stretches of time. The internal part of it -- the idea of Jonah's soul being trapped within, unable to find peace -- was my addition, a way of reasoning out how a dead man could shoot people, and will tie into an important part of the story later on. Basically, I didn't torture the poor guy for nothing.
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