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Post by markymark261 on Oct 19, 2010 17:24:58 GMT -5
Please let us know what you think!
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Post by HoM on Oct 19, 2010 18:57:11 GMT -5
And if someone can tell me how many stories I've called "Survivalism", I would very much appreciate it! Aha!
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Post by Quester on Oct 20, 2010 14:11:13 GMT -5
OOOooooh I enjoyed it. I always love twists where you think the big villian is really dangerous until you find they are just a build up for something much worse. Classic story telling without straying into the predictable. I must say though Im incredibly psyched for the next issues. Seems to be the Multiverse is really falling apart eh?
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Post by HoM on Oct 22, 2010 14:49:01 GMT -5
OOOooooh I enjoyed it. I always love twists where you think the big villian is really dangerous until you find they are just a build up for something much worse. Classic story telling without straying into the predictable. Thanks. We've got more coming from the future/alternate Justice League in the Booster Gold special that should hopefully hit within the next week or so, with a big, tragic twist that I can't wait to have ripple through the rest of the DC2-- it also begins to continue on from Zero Hour! Oh, yes! I must say though Im incredibly psyched for the next issues. Seems to be the Multiverse is really falling apart eh? It is indeed... Don and I have concocted a wicked sinister story for The Omega Point, and Dave and I are having a blast drawing Earth-3 and all it entails into the mythology of Earth-1. Brilliant. See you next times! |
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Post by HoM on Nov 6, 2010 12:46:59 GMT -5
Just to let you know, The Omega Point is being pushed back a few weeks due to some rewrites, but hopefully we'll have it out before 2011 hits. It's going to be big, and we need to make sure that it's the best it can be before you read it!
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Post by oblique on Sept 1, 2017 18:11:33 GMT -5
The Justice League faced a terrifying challenge in "Collision Course!" I loved the opening issue and, I'll admit, that brief excursion into the multiverse was pretty cool. I enjoyed the set of characters created for Red Robin's dystopian future, and how it played with elements from the prime world's past. It was a great setup to the arc! Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm the biggest fan of the the finale. First, the writing and plotting were quite good! This is more of a matter of personal opinion. Red Robin came off as a little pretentious and unnecessarily opaque, making it hard for me to root for him. (Mind you, I think it's hard to get on-side with someone that single-minded...) The final conflict fell a little flat for me, like it was building up to something but I was missing a few pieces! (I believe this is due, in part, due to the fact that the finale was a cliff-hanger!)
I still enjoyed the brief moments of calm in this issue where characters from the two timelines could connect, great dialogue and touching moments for me as a reader. The Justice League demonstrated the true depths of sacrifice and commitment required of great heroes. I see that that next issue heralds a new beginning, and I'm on to more! Cheers.
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Post by oblique on Sept 1, 2017 18:58:38 GMT -5
P.S. I had this niggling feeling so I checked a few old threads and you did mention that, for now at least, Omega Point has been put on the shelf. As an aspiring writer and fan, I understand when that happens! I've had more than one great project stall on me in the past! This site and these stories are a tremendous testament to your skill and commitment, including this arc on Justice League.
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Post by HoM on Sept 2, 2017 7:05:43 GMT -5
P.S. I had this niggling feeling so I checked a few old threads and you did mention that, for now at least, Omega Point has been put on the shelf. As an aspiring writer and fan, I understand when that happens! I've had more than one great project stall on me in the past! This site and these stories are a tremendous testament to your skill and commitment, including this arc on Justice League. , along with Lamentation Day and Most Wanted are 'events' that fell to the wayside due to lack of site interest and involvement. When you're trying to do something big and brassy, it's not that they require attention, but it's One More ThingTM on top of everything else, and if there's low readership on the site you sort of shrug and pack in these extra-curricular stories to stick to what you're working on at the moment. That said, and I've mentioned it before, Don once told me that the Justice League, as a concept and a team, isn't hanging out every single day of every single week to fight small, petty crimes. They're coming together to battle Crisis-level threats. So you could, in theory, write The Omega Point as an arc in the ongoing series. Obviously if we were an actual publishing company we're going to miss out, but we're not, so let's tell stories how we think it's best to tell them. Maybe one day we'll have a 'flashback' series of event arcs in the Justice League title proper, once I've told all my present day tales? Who knows. The actual plan for the story was for the 'replacement team' that we see in the final issue of "volume one" to have adventures as a group for a few months, while The Omega Point ran concurrently as a miniseries with the ongoing, set in a different place. From an inspiration standpoint, that came from Joe Kelly's " The Obsidian Age", a storyline that ran at a time when I was absorbing ideas as fast as I could and basically making them part of my own storytelling make-up. Lamentation Day is important because it wraps up threads from Justice Society of America, Secret Society of Super Villains and The Question; thought to be honest I did co-opt storylines into the still-incomplete Green Lantern Corps arc that started in #73. Most Wanted syncs the timeline of the books together so we know what happened between events in Secret Society of Super Villains and the second volume of Justice League and clears up a major character's current situation. I won't say who, but it might be pretty obvious. And of course there's Omega Crisis, which will eventually wrap-up as a god damn priority! |
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Post by HoM on Sept 6, 2017 11:58:31 GMT -5
The Justice League faced a terrifying challenge in "Collision Course!" I loved the opening issue and, I'll admit, that brief excursion into the multiverse was pretty cool. I enjoyed the set of characters created for Red Robin's dystopian future, and how it played with elements from the prime world's past. It was a great setup to the arc! Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm the biggest fan of the the finale. First, the writing and plotting were quite good! This is more of a matter of personal opinion. Red Robin came off as a little pretentious and unnecessarily opaque, making it hard for me to root for him. (Mind you, I think it's hard to get on-side with someone that single-minded...) The final conflict fell a little flat for me, like it was building up to something but I was missing a few pieces! (I believe this is due, in part, due to the fact that the finale was a cliff-hanger!) I still enjoyed the brief moments of calm in this issue where characters from the two timelines could connect, great dialogue and touching moments for me as a reader. The Justice League demonstrated the true depths of sacrifice and commitment required of great heroes. I see that that next issue heralds a new beginning, and I'm on to more! Cheers. One of my go-to narratives is of the timey-wimey variety, and I think this is perfectly encapsulated by what I was doing in “ Collision Course”. The future Justice League is something very cool to me, and I liked the idea of what the team would do if they came from their dystopian future to the past, and interact with those they might not be able to anymore. Who lived? Who died? And how did those who survived do just that? I did something very similar (I was paying homage to myself in a way because I’m a sociopath) in Justice League #45, when Tim Drake once again came from the future to stop something from happening. That version of Tim was almost from a utopian future, that of the Ten Years Later variety, because after the events of “ Collision Course” the ‘bad’ future was averted. The finale fell flat because the cliffhanger was never resolved. Justice League #38 actually hit the site, and it was the start of a Justice League vs Crime Syndicate storyline, but I lost the thread and couldn’t finish it. Also, I couldn’t wrap my head around The Omega Point #2, and it was at this point I left the site for a few years, before returning with Green Lantern Corps and the second volume of Justice League. Because the first volume ended on such a damp squib of an issue, I archived the original #38 and moved on. I doubt I’ll return to it. Such is life! Also, I'm procrastinating on Justice League #68 by responding to feedback. I just dressed Roy's stellar cover but I'm trying to find my muse. Thanks for giving me some feedback to kill time on!! |
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Post by HoM on Sept 6, 2017 11:58:56 GMT -5
Just to let you know, The Omega Point is being pushed back a few weeks due to some rewrites, but hopefully we'll have it out before 2011 hits. It's going to be big, and we need to make sure that it's the best it can be before you read it! lol |
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