Paul O'Brien

I'm a huge admirer of Paul O'Brien's writing - I have two websites of his in my bookmark bar, and his sales colum is now published in a place I can find it, compared to previously, on The Pulse, and, as always, is fascinating reading. I'll update this in a few days when the DC list is published


Edited, with apologies for my atrocious spelling.

I think Civil War might end up being one of those things that gets talked about for decades. It just amazes me that you can slap "Civil War" on a book and that seems to be good for an extra 10k in sales.

If I read the "3 year comparisons" correctly, it means that sales on Black Panther have gone up 314% since 2003? That's sick...just sick that a hack like That Writer is getting a gold star for his shitty stories.

I'll spare you another round of "Priest's Black Panther was pretty good", though.

Y'know...I'm okay with the Civil War delays. Just means my monthly account balance will last me a little bit longer.

I'll say this about Black Panther - while not the best read on the market, Hudlin's run is fairly enjoyable month to month, fairly all-ages, and he's managed to keep things going for issues at a time.

And besides, the prevailing rumour is he's not actually writing it, but an intern of his at BET who's into comics is supposedly doing all the work. Plotting anyway.



And I liked his Spider-Man run and will defend it in public. And have done

The thing is with the delays is that they did it for the right reasons. It's funny people whine about this but gave DC a total pass for Infinite Crisis and still got a rushed and shitty product. I'd rather Marvel do this so they can put out quality instead of having 5 artists drawing it and then the company admit it sucked by changing it in the TPB. Plus with my preordering it pushes some things back so I won't have to spend as much for a few months until the books catch up with what I ordered.

Fair enough. I wont argue comic tastes with you.

But I NEED to know...did they explain the massive continuity fuck-ups with their use of Radioactive Man, Klaw and most notably, the Black Knight?!

Or this whole thing with T'challa being a NEW Black Panther? That'd render his previous Avengers and "Illuminati" experience null and void.

I liked Priest's run on Deadpool a lot as well.

In a word......No.

With the Illuminati thing though, they're half mumbling.......Marvel time says it was only 7 years ago or something.

I will admit, under Priest it never would have happened, and blame Hudlin's less than encycopediac knowledge of Marvel History, and leave it at that

That's...BS, then. It's not like these were fringe characters.

Black Knight was suddenly a semi-racist super soldier for the Vatican?

Radioactive Man, who was appearing at the same exact time in "Thunderbolts", was suddenly a Russian named "Igor"?! Huh?

I could kinda' stomach the Klaw re-make. But the guy's been around forever. Fuck, hit Wikipedia, idiots.

I'm okay with the Illuminati retcon. It fits in with old Marvel chronology. Yes, I'll believe that it was all 7 years ago. That works.

BUT..it doesn't work for Black Panther. In Hudlin's new series, T'Challa has suddenly ascended to the "Mantle of the Panther" (or whatever the hell they wanna' call it). Sooo..who was that guy named "T'challa" who was the Black Panther 7 years ago in Illuminati?!

They should have slapped "Ultimate" on the new BP title and set it off as such. As it is, it's just a worthless mag for the Director of House Party (and/or his flunkies) to whine about "racism".

Four issue in and they'd already composed a "soundtrack". Okay, then....

IIRC...Jeph Loeb and Joe Mad are doing Ultimate Black Panther. You dont wanna know