r/graphicnovels • u/Friendly-Symbiote • Aug 03 '26
Action/Adventure It was perfect. PERFECT. Everything down to last minute details.
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u/arpad-okay Aug 03 '26
yeah. amazing is the baseline, and then it pulls all kinds of shit like the pizza dog issue or the sign language stuff and shows you it could go even, impossibly, harder. aja is a beast, and hands down fraction's finest work. i truly miss the marvel now vibe, maybe we can get something like that again now that akira is headed back to nippon. also, i thought the soule/pulido she-hulk from this era was excellent, as was the waid/samnee black widow
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u/jesusunderline Aug 04 '26
Superior Foes and Ellis' Moon Knight are among my favorite marvel books from all time.
Even with all it's faults, Marvel NOW gave us some great runs
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u/FaithInterlude Aug 03 '26
The Soule She Hulk is from Marvel Now too?
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u/arpad-okay Aug 03 '26
yep. soule was a lawyer so it is literally full of shit like, "what happens when dr doom's kid applies for asylum in america?" lots of v good patsy walker. pulido in top form and a couple of ron wimberly issues in there, too. big big fan
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u/FaithInterlude Aug 03 '26
Awesome, I have the complete collection trade but didn’t know it was from this era. Thank you!
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u/KubrickMoonlanding Aug 04 '26
Hawkguy, lucky, Kate, Kate in LA doing Elliot Gould’s Long Goodbye, grills
Bro, is best comic ever made, bro
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u/Friendly-Symbiote Aug 04 '26
You forgot Detective Pizza Dog bro.
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u/ubiquitous-joe Aug 03 '26
It brought me back to mainstream comics with its indie flavor and visual innovation. I was a little letdown whenever the art wasn’t Aja, and for some reason I fell off on the Kate stuff even though I didn’t dislike her as a character.
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u/Friendly-Symbiote Aug 04 '26
You pick it up for Clint so it happens that people may not like reading about Kate Bishop. But for me the kate stuff was good too.
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u/joeycraw5 Aug 03 '26
Yes an excellent series, loved it.
The follow up by Jeff Lemire and Ramon Perez was pretty cool too.
I still have to catch up on the other Kate Bishop series by Kelly Thompson that came after tho.
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u/KubrickMoonlanding Aug 04 '26
That’s good too - KT is way up there
The 1st story arc of her black widow brought me to tears (not the only mainstream comic that ever did but it’s not a frequent occurrence)
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u/idkyesthat Aug 04 '26
I almost got this to give marvel another try since I like the artists from DC works.
Can’t help to think that Tom taylor wrote this (it was something else form this era that he wrote that I had in the radar), anyways, it seems like a good read!
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u/jf727 Aug 04 '26
My favorite superhero book ever, along with Astro City
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u/Friendly-Symbiote Aug 04 '26
Astro City? I assume it's indie and I'm not very familiar with indie comics yet.
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u/jf727 Aug 05 '26
It started out with Image and ended up on Vertigo. Kurt Busiek wrote it. Lots of different superheroes, lots of person-on-the-street, and good original takes on all the old tropes. In the first intro he wrote that the goal was to see what other kinds of stories he could tell with Superheroes. It’s great. Feels familiar, but from surprising, earnest points of view.
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u/DennGlanzig1138 Aug 05 '26
As a graphic novel? Sure yeah pretty perf. As an ongoing? GOD those delays turned it into a slog. Still loved it, don’t get me wrong, but it practically sold me on the concept of “tradewaiting.”
Boomerang arrow til death.
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u/skiprecon777 Aug 05 '26
I got lucky enough to score an autograph signing with Matt Fraction at the Image Comics booth at NYCC back in 2014.
Was super cool and signed a couple books for me.
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u/Abstractreference01 Aug 04 '26
The change in artist really killed the momentum for me.
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u/Friendly-Symbiote Aug 04 '26
Aja was in charge with most of the issues till the end so it wasn't much of a buzz killer for me.
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u/WriterDirector93 Aug 04 '26
Liked everything except LA Woman. Just threw off the momentum for me.
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u/Friendly-Symbiote Aug 04 '26
L.A. Woman was really good too but maybe it wasn't something you would want when you're picking up a Hawkguy book.
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u/king_clueless Aug 05 '26
Didn't rate it but stuck it in the attic in case I was missing something. Will have to dig it out 👍
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