Triple Helix #1

[superboyprime]

'I want these books to read as if they’ve been around for a while, so the reader is dropped into the middle of the action, instead of having to wade thru an origin issue (or six). Backstory is picked up as we go along.

'This is, of course, how I was first introduced to comics. Superman, Batman, Flash, even the FF had been around for a while (I had no idea how long!), and it was fun to “play detective” and pick up the Who, What, Where, When and Why as I read, issue to issue.' - John Byrne

Comments

[flash_fan]

I guess he's going for an 80s vibe. Calling back to his heyday maybe? Don't really mind it but the dialogue is a little exhausting.

[ensiform]

Agree about the dialogue. "What chance have you?"
"Perhaps none! But I can do better!"

So stilted and awkward and sad.

[glprime]

I especially love when people do not use contraction, as if they are not in the heat of battle. Fragment? What is a fragment? How could one convey expression with something so short as a sentence fragment?

[leoboiko]

Not too excited with the result, but I like the premise. My favourite way of reading Marvel comics has always been that: picking up a random, thin issue from a coffee shop's magazine basket, and reading a piece of some epic struggle or another with no context as to who are all those minor characters and what are the heroes fighting against.

[draganoche]

she seems to be pretty surprised at the effects that pointy sticks of metal tend to have on people

[donnblake]

I really hope this is a running gag, and she's always throwing sharp metal shafts at people and then acting all shocked when they die.

[silicondream]

"But...but Green Arrow and Hawkeye shot arrows at people for like 30 years without killing anybody! I just assumed that people must not mind pointy things very much!"

[icon_uk]

Natural selection will ultimately favour those who are immune to sharp pointing things...

[silicondream]

In fairness, the guy's outfit is surprisingly fragile. I mean, his head-jar cracked when he fell over. You'd think that if you had a skull bathed in glowy ooze for a head, you'd at least make the jar out of Plexiglas or something.

[halloweenjack]

It's an interesting idea, and might have been much more interesting in execution if the characters hadn't been so easily mappable to pre-existing ones. Basically, what we have here is the X-Men fighting Dr. Doom. (When I saw a pic of Golgotha on Bleeding Cool, I immediately thought of him as "Half-Doom.") And then the Sentinels show up.

[insolent_one]

I was quite amused, when I saw the CBR preview of this, by Golgotha's disbelief over the phrase "fashion Nazi." I wonder if "grammar Nazi would have been more or less insulting to him?

He makes a rather valid point though. The term of Nazi has become a somewhat devalued phrase. Not for everyone, but definitely for each generation that comes later in life from the events of WWII.

[espanolbot]

The fact that it's used as an insult towards both people on the left and the right is also kind of stupid, as is people tagging the term onto any government move that they disagree with. Like socialised medicine.

[rainspirit]

Looks interesting! But I hope it'll go to a place beyond "X-Men knockoff".

[squirle]

That Dart person really should get a better outfit herself before going "fashion nazi" on people. I guess shorts make sense when you go running, but... it's not a good look.

[protogarrett]

Her power is she can make sticks and throw them.

I just needed to type that out.

[drexer]

Pointy sticks.

With the side effect of going through people.

I felt like that needed to be highlighted.

[randyripoff]

Could be worse. She could be able to make fresh fruit and throw that. That would be terrifying.

[icon_uk]

Hey, don't knock fruitokinesis!

[randyripoff]

This is more along the lines of what I was thinking.

[salamangkiero]

Something like Carmen Miranda, but with deadshot aim.

[lieut_kettch]

I dunno. Someone like that would be useful in famine relief. Plus braining someone with coconut is potentially deadly.

[cainofdreaming]

This looks kinda fun, but Byrne seems to churn out this same type of story, in atmosphere at least if not the plot, periodically. And even though I usually like it, it also usually flops commercially and we'll be left with a torso of a story.

[featheredserpent]

Now, from the circular file of John Byrne, who has once again run short of cash: Next Men Part IV, The Nextening!

[superboyprime]

To be fair, Byrne's said this on his forum:

"As I've mentioned before, I have waived my page rate and first publication royalties on all my books at IDW, to make it easier on their corporate wallets."

[beyondthefringe]

The art. The writing. The sheer ridiculousness.
It's so Byrne at his Byrniest. It burns.

Also, those robots have Gravity's chest symbol for faces.

[espanolbot]

Another X-Men homage by John Byrne? Errkay. Isn't he still writing Next Men, which is basically the same thing.

If he brings mindcontrol sex into this as well, I'm walking.

[wizardru]

So this is Byrne basically reprising his 70s/80s work, thematically? I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, though honestly I think he'd work better with someone else doing the writing.

If I have a comment about this, its that it feels very 'on the nose', somehow. I'd be willing to give it a chance, though.