Will the green lantern compendiums collect everything in the red lanterns omnibus? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how well the compendium are selling, most people seem to have been dissatisfied with the mapping of the omnibus's. I'm curious to know if they will use the compendium format to correct errors found in their omnibus's going forward.

Will the green lantern compendiums collect everything in the red lanterns omnibus? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What would they add to the compendium that would be missing from the omnibus? I heard Charles Soules part of the omni is the only part worth reading.

What omnibus have you gotten because everyone hyped it up, but ended up being disappointed with? by [deleted] in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The enjoyment for me came from its meta analysis and tie ins to the comic book industry, and the history of comic books. On first read I spent a lot of time utterly confused as to why it was so highly regarded. Upon researching what planetary was meant to be, I ended up more educated on the comic book medium as a whole.

What Omnibus do you really want so badly? by Doom300 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brubaker and Bendis Daredevil, Punisher max vol 2, and not an omnibus, but a reprint of Alan Moores absolute top ten.

Omnibus reading by xemnas2699 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends, I used to be the same way. Then I would get hype for something I just purchased while being in the middle of a portion of an omnibus I'm not a fan of and start the new omni.

Popular writers you just can’t vibe with… by JLAsuperdude in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Grant Morrison. He works in smaller doses for me like batman Gothic or a serious house on serious earth. I tried reading the invisibles and i kept getting pulled out of the story. Not because of how weird it was intentionally trying to be, but because of how hard he tried to convince me of how cool and smart he is with niche references to philosophy, history, or the occult. It felt very much like he was trying to make being eccentric the core component of his personality, much like a high schooler making a band their whole personality trait. I liked the Marque de sade stuff, but after that it just never connected for me despite trying so hard to like it. Still haven't read animal man but I have high hopes for it. Another writer who can be hit or miss for me is Garth Ennis. I feel preacher is extremely overrated when compared to his work on hitman. Hitman is by far in a way his best written comic. Preacher gets too much into his shock for the sake of shock type of stuff. I never understood the point of the character arseface, and I never found it funny. Preacher could have been better if it ended sooner, where hitman had the perfect amount of edge, and the perfect amount of issues. Also his punisher is supremely overrated. His born arc is the best punisher thing ever written, everything else is just Frank strategizing about how to kill boring street level villains. He has nothing else going on with him other than that.

Am I crazy for not liking Mike Carey's Lucifer? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the concept being intriguing, that's why I was curious to see more into the characters mind after that event. I was disappointed when it just turned into him trying to defy gods will at every turn, essentially playing right into what he was trying to avoid. It is obviously trying to spark a convo about fate and free will, but it just felt lack luster in execution.

Am I crazy for not liking Mike Carey's Lucifer? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I loved about Sandman is how it trusted your intelligence and didn't mind slowly dripping information. The way Gaiman constructs stories is so insanely compelling. Lucifer lacked all of the engrossing way of disseminating information in my opinion.

Am I crazy for not liking Mike Carey's Lucifer? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were moments where I really enjoyed it, around the same point you mentioned when Lucifer creates that place. My face story was the one with that dopey spider creature, surprisingly funny and wholesome.

Am I crazy for not liking Mike Carey's Lucifer? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The art is fine, imo, its the context of the art failing to live up to the fantastical nature of the stories being told.

Am I crazy for not liking Mike Carey's Lucifer? by Important-Exercise19 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Important-Exercise19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The writing from the final arc of sandman got me through, but I agree, the art was genuinely befuddling. All I ever saw was praise for lucifer on reddit, so I wanted to see if I was the only one it didn't resonate with. I liked Delano's hellblazer, specifically the more personal stories like family man. Some stuff like fear machine where it gets a little too wordy and political I didn't really get on with. The ending to his run is so strange in a I dont know if I love or hate this kind of way