Mike Deodato and Howard Chaykin's New Avengers #9

[nova_prime]

Take a look at "New Avengers #9" that sees Mike Deodato and Howard Chaykin on art. Immonen is doing the "Fear Itself" event. Always been a fan of Deodato's!

Full preview at Cosmic Book News.

Comments

Re: Bendis Speak

[valtyr]

I just don't get how it's a joke?

Re: Bendis Speak

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

She's making it sound like a superhero name. So instead of Power Man, he's Impatient Man. It's one of those things that aren't inherently funny, but gain a measure of humour from the context. In this case, context being that Luke Cage, the big, strong, scary Power Man, is whining impatiently and is scolded in a joking way by his wife.

Re: Bendis Speak

[valtyr]

Oh. I have to say, I think that's a shitty joke. It would probably be funnier if said right, but as words on a page it doesn't work very well.

Re: Bendis Speak

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

Not any shittier than Spider-Man's quipping. It's basically the same thing.

Re: Bendis Speak

[valtyr]

Well, depends who write it. I often like Bendis, I am still squeeful over the last issue of Prime, but in my opinion, this is fairly low-grade banter and a bad joke. Hey, if you like it, great.

(Also, I'm a bit confused by the order of the speech bubbles, I'm not sure who Carol's responding to there.)

Re: Bendis Speak

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

I think Jessica.

Re: Bendis Speak

[valtyr]

So it's down the left hand side, down the right hand side, and then the ones at the bottom. Huh. It reads awkward; Ben's 'best part' line is clearly a response to Jessica's line, but he's already responded to that with "I'm with Cage."

Oh wait. Maybe it's across the top, ending with "I'm with Cage" and then sort of diagonally across the middle - Jessica then Danny - then the bottom.

I guess I just don't like this page much.

Re: Bendis Speak

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

I think it goes:

"Let's just pounce on them!" (Luke)
"Luke Cage: Impatient Man." (Jessica)
"Really." (Carol)
"I'm with Cage." (Ben)
"You used to be a private eye, Jessica; you're used to doing a stakeout." (Danny)
"I love a stakeout. This is the best part." (Jessica)
"The best part is the clobbering." (Ben)
"Hold on... Sshhh..." (Logan)
"What's going on, Logan?" (Jessica)
"Sshh, means shhhh!!" (Logan)

It's fairly intuitive, in my opinion. Across the top, with priority given to vertical speech bubble combinations, then across the bottom with the same caveat.

Also, the spell checker accepts "combination", but not "combinations". Fail.

Re: Bendis Speak

[valtyr]

Huh, I assumed Danny was responding to Jessica, but that makes sense and is probably it. IDK, obviously I disagree with you it's intuitive, as I couldn't figure it out. :)

Re: Bendis Speak

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

Well, the same convention of ordering speech bubbles is used in manga (although obviously right to left rather than left to right), which I read a lot of, so I'm used to it.

Re: Bendis Speak

[fifthie]

Nah, Spider-Man's quipping is often good, whereas this is not.