Originally posted by: JediSage
I just finished The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb, which I thought was quite good and draws a lot of it's material from Year One. The City of Crime run in Detective Comics I thought was good as well.
Has anyone read any of the One Year Later titles? I read Detective, Bats, and Green Arrow last night. So far, so good. Gives them a lot of lattitude.
I just finished The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb, which I thought was quite good and draws a lot of it's material from Year One. The City of Crime run in Detective Comics I thought was good as well.
Has anyone read any of the One Year Later titles? I read Detective, Bats, and Green Arrow last night. So far, so good. Gives them a lot of lattitude.
My goodness! I just read The Long Halloween today myself. I must say, it took a while to draw me in, but as a whole, this book just blew me away.
But I did one better today, IMHO. I also read A Superman for All Seasons. One of the greatest comic books I've ever read in my life. No exaggeration. The art was breathtaking, the writing approach brilliant, and the story was just plain great.
Tim Sale - check it out - one of the pest set of two comic book pages I've ever seen/read:
A quote from Loeb about this spread: For example, we always knew that when Clark left Smallville at the end of the first chapter, Pa Kent was going to be out in the field, and they were going to be looking at a sunset. Tim had drawn two characters in the foreground, a little bit of grass, and a line across the horizon, and sent it in. And of course, I had the audacity to write Clark saying, "Do you ever get tired of looking at that?" and Pa replying, "Nope. Never have, never will." And that was it! When DC saw that, they said, "Where's the rest of the page?" The rest of the page was Bjarne Hansen. It's a wonderful, magical moment, just like Tim knew that it was going to be.
Loeb's choice of inner voices for each season just added so much depth to the story and the characters. If you're a Superman fan, go read it now. I think it's the closest thing to a "Superman: Year One" you can get.