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10th Muse comics April 12, 2006

Posted by BDcomics in : Comics, ProjectW.org ,

I couldn’t find info about this, but it seems to be good. Check it out, I say. Lots of links after the jump.

Thanks to foxmuld38 from ProjectW for these.

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Bullseye - Greatest Hits April 12, 2006

Posted by BDcomics in : Comics, Marvel, ProjectW.org ,

Finally for this week, Bullseye gets his own miniseries. Because you demanded it. Yes you did. Shut up.

Villain books are usually a tricky proposition. This one seems to be trying a structure that normally ends up cumbersome - the villain explains his origin story in flashbacks, while some story in the present day is somehow entangled with it all. It’s better than that makes it sound, to be fair. But not all that much better.

It’s a mood piece, and it works largely on giving Bullseye the superman build-up. He’s in jail as we start - he has to be, so that the police can spend the entire miniseries interviewing him about his history - but boy, what a jail. They’ve gone to incredible lengths to remove any objects from the area, because Bullseye might turn them into weapons. Because he’s That Damn Good.

Now, this works. This is a good way of building up Bullseye’s improvised-weapon routine as something genuinely threatening rather than just a novelty act. Whether it really needs ten pages of exposition to establish the point is open to debate, but then it’s a Daniel Way book. It’s going to be decompressed. At least here the mood build-up is effective, and it comes across as justified.

There’s a bit more content as we get onto Bullseye’s back story although, as the characters point out, it’s not desperately original material. Child of an abusive home. You’ve read it before. Possibly, having covered this ground in issue #1, Way is getting it out of the way so that he can deal with something more distinctive in future issues.

So far as it goes, it’s well handled. Way’s script is nicely paced, and Steve Dillon is always a fantastic character artist, able to add a ton of depth to a character with subtleties of facial expression that most artists either ignore, or just plain can’t do. It takes an artist like him to pull off a slow-paced script like this - somebody who can convey a ton of additional information about the characters even when, strictly speaking, nothing is really happening. Thanks to his art, the book just about gets away with a first issue that could easily have been painfully slow.

A decent start (hideous cover notwithstanding), but Way will have to find something more original to say about Bullseye if this is going to sustain five issues.

Side note: This issue was solicited as featuring “timely cameos by Daredevil, Elektra, the Kingpin and the Punisher”. It doesn’t. Bad Marvel!

Quoted from http://www.thexaxis.com/misc/bullseye1.htm

Thanks to Alphan76. Also ONEz from ProjectW.

Download links:
http://rapidshare.de/files/10252870/Bullseye_-_Greatest_Hits_01__2004___robbdaman-DCP_.cbr.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/10253697/Bullseye_-_Greatest_Hits_02_Dec04_.cbr.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/10254151/Bullseye_-_Greatest_Hits_03.cbr.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/10254939/Bullseye_-_Greatest_Hits_04.cbr.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/10255383/Bullseye_-_Greatest_Hits_05__2005___MaiKero-DCP_.cbr.html

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Codename Knockout April 12, 2006

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Some people complain that the Vertigo titles are too dark and depressing. If you’re one of those people you should pick up Codename: Knockout. Take a small pinch of the Austin Powers tongue-in-cheek spy wackiness, throw in a dash of Will & Grace’s snappy patter and then add a whole bunch of beautifully done good girl art and you end up with a pretty good idea of what Vertigo’s newest series is like.

Codename Knockout
Issues 00-23

Download links thanks to senatorpitt1111 from ProjectW.

http://www.zshare.net/download/cnko-00-10-rar.html

http://www.zshare.net/download/cnko-11-23-rar.html

A review of the first four issues of the series after the jump.
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Kingdom Come April 12, 2006

Posted by BDcomics in : Alex Ross, Comics, DC comics, ProjectW.org, Sampa1 ,

Here’s the Acclaimed graphic novel by Alex Ross & Paul Dini.
There’s soo much to say about this one but it is a DEFINITE MUST HAVE for any collector!!! Sampa1

Kingdom Come
[Trade Paperback Edition] [1997]
[40MB]

Download link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8423751/DC_Kingdom_Come__Trade_Paperback_.cbr.html

Thanks to Sampa1 from ProjectW for this.

Superman: Peace on Earth April 12, 2006

Posted by BDcomics in : Alex Ross, Comics, DC comics, ProjectW.org, Sampa1, Superman ,

As the holiday season arrives in Metropolis, Superman becomes uncomfortably aware of the stark division between the priviledged few and the impoverished many who verge on starvation.

Deciding he can best help by example, Superman puts his incredible powers to work in a titanic effort to alleviate world hunger. Despite the cynicsm he encounters along the way, his greatest gift to the world is an undeniable message of hope and peace.

Superman: Peace On Earth is a graphic novel in a unique format combing aspects of both comics and picture books. Writer PAUL DINI, the emmy award winning producer of the Superman and Batman animated series, has joined forces with illustrator ALEX ROSS (DC Kingdom Come), the most acclaimed painter in comics today, to create this classic work for all ages.

Story: Alex Ross & Paul Dini
Text:Paul Dini
Art: Alex Ross

Superman: Peace On Earth
Download:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8368374/Superman_-_Peace_On_Earth__Oneshot_.cbr.html

Thanks to Sampa1 from ProjectW.

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