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Post by starman99 on Apr 8, 2020 13:18:07 GMT -5
I’ve just completed my final issues of the Warrior by Beau Smith and it was fragging excellent, I miss when a Guy was written by Beau Smith back in the nineties.
Does anybody remember the Guy Gardner Warrior series?
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Post by HoM on Apr 8, 2020 14:05:25 GMT -5
I’ve just completed my final issues of the Warrior by Beau Smith and it was fragging excellent, I miss when a Guy was written by Beau Smith back in the nineties. Does anybody remember the Guy Gardner Warrior series? Yeah! I have a number of issues from that run and they're really great. There's something about the mid-nineties output that DC was churning out that really resonates with me. I guess it's because that's my entry point into comics? Dixon / Grant / Moench on Batman, Waid on The Flash, Marz on Green Lantern, that's what I'm all about. |
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Post by starman99 on Apr 9, 2020 15:26:09 GMT -5
I’ve just completed my final issues of the Warrior by Beau Smith and it was fragging excellent, I miss when a Guy was written by Beau Smith back in the nineties. Does anybody remember the Guy Gardner Warrior series? Yeah! I have a number of issues from that run and they're really great. There's something about the mid-nineties output that DC was churning out that really resonates with me. I guess it's because that's my entry point into comics? Dixon / Grant / Moench on Batman, Waid on The Flash, Marz on Green Lantern, that's what I'm all about. The mid-nineties of DC was the era of comics that i grew up with the most; my dad and mom got me into comics through their collection of Green Lantern Quarterly and Justice League International when i was only 4 or 5. Then from 8 to 12, I officially became a comic book reader for my entire life after going to my local comic shop and purchasing the first few issues of the Kyle Rayner run from the late nineties, they had them a quarter a piece during a large buyout sale. Although Guy Gardner got me attached to the character and his run, since Beau Smith embraced the past and present of the Dc universe in his Warrior run; allowing Guy to crossover with the Justice League and many other heroes allong the way. |
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Post by HoM on Apr 18, 2020 5:58:53 GMT -5
Although Guy Gardner got me attached to the character and his run, since Beau Smith embraced the past and present of the Dc universe in his Warrior run; allowing Guy to crossover with the Justice League and many other heroes allong the way. That said, and representative of how I write him on the site, I hate Guy being an out and out arsehole. You see a lot of that from his 80s-90s heyday. The right balance was found in early Gibbons / Gleason Green Lantern Corps, and Tomasi wrote a great version of the character in his run, all through Emerald Warriors. |
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Post by starman99 on Apr 22, 2020 13:56:53 GMT -5
Although Guy Gardner got me attached to the character and his run, since Beau Smith embraced the past and present of the Dc universe in his Warrior run; allowing Guy to crossover with the Justice League and many other heroes allong the way. That said, and representative of how I write him on the site, I hate Guy being an out and out arsehole. You see a lot of that from his 80s-90s heyday. The right balance was found in early Gibbons / Gleason Green Lantern Corps, and Tomasi wrote a great version of the character in his run, all through Emerald Warriors. I got to talk with Beau Smith one time at a convention and he told me that he tried to change Guy from being an arsehole in his early years to a matured and friendly character in his Warrior series; which led to Gibbons/Tomasi/Gleason's version of Guy following his example. The jerk side to Gardner was an aspect that bothered me a little when i was first getting into comics; although it was later taken up by Wade Eiling and Major Force when i started to collect Captain Atom (How does the Government not fire or imprison Eiling for some of his homicidal jerk tendencies?) |
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