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With Bob's Office, there is a couple of options I like to see if you are going to redo the pictures.

a) Video, come on, all the kids are doing it.

b) Or do a panoramic picture again but Stitch it together with to make it look seamless.

My feelings on Madame Mirage was that the artwork always felt rushed in places particularly on the last issue. I had always thought the issues were sporadic because Paul Dini was involved with Countdown.

Skyhawke wrote:With Bob's Office, there is a couple of options I like to see if you are going to redo the pictures.

a) Video, come on, all the kids are doing it.

b) Or do a panoramic picture again but Stitch it together with to make it look seamless.

I may be able to do video, we got a new camera a month or so ago. I'm also holding out for John to do an update of the pics when he comes to CA for this year's SDCC.

Big issue is me cleaning up the room, I have tons of junk (e.g. unread comics, toys, DVDs, etc. laying all around.....

Skyhawke wrote:With Bob's Office, there is a couple of options I like to see if you are going to redo the pictures.

a) Video, come on, all the kids are doing it.

Worth considering but Bob's room is really big with tons of stuff in it. I'm afraid that any video that did it justice would be fairly long.

Skyhawke wrote: b) Or do a panoramic picture again but Stitch it together with to make it look seamless.

That would be cool. Any idea how we'd go about doing this?

AutoStich
is one program that I know of that can do this. There are most likely other programs that do similar things.

Good episode as usual gents. Bob, you really need to get an updated set of pics up on your room; curiosity is killing this cat!

As to the issues you reviewed, oddly I didn't order two of the three. I was so turned off by the DC: Year One and more recently the Raven stuff that I didn't think twice about skipping over Cyborg this time out. Sounds like it might be worth picking up in the $1 bins though, maybe at the next Wild Pig sale.

I generally find I'm in agreement with you guys on most books but we must be reading a different Fantastic Four series. I've been morbidly depressed about Millar/Hitch on this book; and hope upon hope they get bored and move on quickly. Hitch's artwork, particularly in the prior issue (part 3 or 4) was way below standard for him (I generally like his stuff), and the story was about as uninteresting as any in recent memory. If Fantastic Four wasn't one of those books I never drop; this would be on the cutting room floor.

I'm not reading Madame Mirage, but I can empathize with your point Bob vis-a-vis the interior artwork not matching the exterior. Whether it be Marvel, DC or the smallest press publishers, they all seem resigned these days to put different cover artists on books; which too often doesn't jell with the interiors. What's odd about this Mirage book though is it sounds like the interiors and cover WERE done by the same guy; just that his style looked rougher inside? Odd.

On that point, have you guys read Necessary Evil #5 yet? I've been reading (and enjoying) the series per your recommendation and after this issue I'm dropping the book UNLESS the new artist was just a fill in. I thought the art in #5 was a criminal abomination; some of the worst sequential pages I've paid $$$ for in years; and not at all like the vibe I got from the first few issues. Did you guys feel the same or is that art striking me differently than others?

Wood wrote: On that point, have you guys read Necessary Evil #5 yet? I've been reading (and enjoying) the series per your recommendation and after this issue I'm dropping the book UNLESS the new artist was just a fill in. I thought the art in #5 was a criminal abomination; some of the worst sequential pages I've paid $$$ for in years; and not at all like the vibe I got from the first few issues. Did you guys feel the same or is that art striking me differently than others?

I haven't read it yet. I'll try to do so as soon as I can and let you know what I thought of the art.

Necessary Evil is in my big pile of unread Indies. I'll try to read it this weekend (still in Florida....going home tomorrow!)

Wood wrote:I generally find I'm in agreement with you guys on most books but we must be reading a different Fantastic Four series. I've been morbidly depressed about Millar/Hitch on this book; and hope upon hope they get bored and move on quickly. Hitch's artwork, particularly in the prior issue (part 3 or 4) was way below standard for him (I generally like his stuff), and the story was about as uninteresting as any in recent memory. If Fantastic Four wasn't one of those books I never drop; this would be on the cutting room floor.

We were bound to disagree eventually