Well, I finished Tellos yesterday. And it was just superb, though the ending was a bit of a disappointment and a bit on the childish side. Regardless, it's just one of the top fantasy comics that's been published.
Have I ever mentioned how I wished Joe Madureira would get off his lazy ass and finish Battle Chasers already!? Discounting the Tellos-related one-shots and prequels and all the minis that were released, Tellos itself was just a 10 issue series. Battle Chasers was up to nine issues and the tenth one was never completed, with Madureira hinting that he might come back to finish it.
Is it so hard to finish what you've started? Granted, it's Joe Madureira, Mr Lateness himself. And yeah, his track record, aside from his run on Uncanny X-Men is pretty spotty. And Battle Chasers issues had an average release time of SIX MONTHS for each new issue release...with a delay time of 16 months in between issue 6 and 7!
But cmon...is it THAT hard just to finish issue 10? Just finish it and never speak of it again...that's how easy it is!
You've let your fans down over and over again, Madureira. I don't care how great your Ultimates 3 run is, the stain has been left on your legacy with your seeming unwillingness to listen to your fans and finish up what you started.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
First Look: "Ultimates 3" #2
Holy moley! Everyone knows (well, that is everyone who READS this blog, yes all ONE of you, if at that) how excited I am that the next installment of The Ultimates is going to be released come December, with Jeph Loeb and Joe Madureira at the helm. And here's hoping that The Ultimates Season 2 will be released in HC format before the first issue of Season 3 is shipped.
Looks like it's going to be a fabulous series though, with Magneto being the main villain and Spider-man joining the team! w00t w00t!
FIRST LOOK: ‘ULTIMATES 3’ #2
Is Spidey joining? Jeph Loeb dishes on what’s new with the Ultimate Avengers
Alien invaders, superpowered political extremists and vengeful Norse gods—remember when things were simple for the Ultimates?
“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better,” promises writer Jeph Loeb of his and artist Joe Madureira’s Ultimates 3. Picking up roughly a year after the end of the stellar run by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch on Ultimates 2, Loeb’s not pulling any punches, beginning with the return of Magneto and a team tragedy right off the bat! “At the end of the first issue, something terrible happens, and the reason for it and the goals of the villains—who may or may not be the Brotherhood—is part of the mystery,” hints Loeb.
Saddling up alongside the Ultimates for the adventure is Ultimate Spider-Man (shown here in a first look of January’s issue #2), who Loeb says “is not welcome” by the team. But after seeing Joe Mad’s pencils, we couldn’t be happier!
WHAT’S NEW
BLACK PANTHER
“He’s sort of a grim and dark character who is going to prove his value to the team almost immediately,” Loeb says. “I think he’s always been at Cap’s level. His own particular history leads him to believe that he’s certainly at the strength and speed of somebody who is a super-soldier.”
VALKYRIE
Seemingly powerless in the past, the ex-Defender now “can stand toe-to-toe with Thor,” Loeb says. “How that happened is one of the many mysteries of the story.” And she does more than stand with Thor, Loeb hints: “She’s 19 and he’s immortal; they’re a very interesting pair.”
HAWKEYE
After his ordeal in Ultimates 2, the bull’s-eye on Hawkeye’s mask “may speak more to the idea that this is a man who doesn’t really care whether he lives or dies,” explains Loeb. “The Clint Barton part of him is gone, and the only person who remains is Hawkeye.”
CAPTAIN AMERICA
The Living Legend is the face of the Ultimates, but he’s still trying to find his place in our time. “I’m not even sure he feels comfortable [on the team],” reveals the writer. “He’s just trying to come to terms with who he is and what he’s doing with this team.”
IRON MAN
“Tony’s in pretty bad shape,” Loeb says of Iron Man, who’ll sport new armor. “There may be a sort of complication to what’s going on with the tumor in his head.” But Loeb offers a few encouraging words. “In many ways this is a tale of redemption for Tony,” he explains.
THOR
“He’s pretty much the badass of the team,” says Loeb. Unfazed by his teammates’ skepticism over his claims of godhood, Thor’s living large. “He’s a Viking; he likes to drink and enjoy women,” laughs Loeb. Look for things to develop between Thor and his Norse-warrior girlfriend, Valkyrie.
WASP
Janet Van Dyne’s the new team leader, and “that doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody has to be happy about that,” says Loeb, adding, “Because she’s been in a situation her whole life where men have told her what to do, this is an opportunity to overcompensate.”
Looks like it's going to be a fabulous series though, with Magneto being the main villain and Spider-man joining the team! w00t w00t!
FIRST LOOK: ‘ULTIMATES 3’ #2
Is Spidey joining? Jeph Loeb dishes on what’s new with the Ultimate Avengers
By Matt Powell | Posted November 9, 2007 5:00 PM |
Alien invaders, superpowered political extremists and vengeful Norse gods—remember when things were simple for the Ultimates?“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better,” promises writer Jeph Loeb of his and artist Joe Madureira’s Ultimates 3. Picking up roughly a year after the end of the stellar run by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch on Ultimates 2, Loeb’s not pulling any punches, beginning with the return of Magneto and a team tragedy right off the bat! “At the end of the first issue, something terrible happens, and the reason for it and the goals of the villains—who may or may not be the Brotherhood—is part of the mystery,” hints Loeb.
Saddling up alongside the Ultimates for the adventure is Ultimate Spider-Man (shown here in a first look of January’s issue #2), who Loeb says “is not welcome” by the team. But after seeing Joe Mad’s pencils, we couldn’t be happier!
WHAT’S NEW
BLACK PANTHER
“He’s sort of a grim and dark character who is going to prove his value to the team almost immediately,” Loeb says. “I think he’s always been at Cap’s level. His own particular history leads him to believe that he’s certainly at the strength and speed of somebody who is a super-soldier.”
VALKYRIE
Seemingly powerless in the past, the ex-Defender now “can stand toe-to-toe with Thor,” Loeb says. “How that happened is one of the many mysteries of the story.” And she does more than stand with Thor, Loeb hints: “She’s 19 and he’s immortal; they’re a very interesting pair.”
HAWKEYE
After his ordeal in Ultimates 2, the bull’s-eye on Hawkeye’s mask “may speak more to the idea that this is a man who doesn’t really care whether he lives or dies,” explains Loeb. “The Clint Barton part of him is gone, and the only person who remains is Hawkeye.”
CAPTAIN AMERICA
The Living Legend is the face of the Ultimates, but he’s still trying to find his place in our time. “I’m not even sure he feels comfortable [on the team],” reveals the writer. “He’s just trying to come to terms with who he is and what he’s doing with this team.”
IRON MAN
“Tony’s in pretty bad shape,” Loeb says of Iron Man, who’ll sport new armor. “There may be a sort of complication to what’s going on with the tumor in his head.” But Loeb offers a few encouraging words. “In many ways this is a tale of redemption for Tony,” he explains.
THOR
“He’s pretty much the badass of the team,” says Loeb. Unfazed by his teammates’ skepticism over his claims of godhood, Thor’s living large. “He’s a Viking; he likes to drink and enjoy women,” laughs Loeb. Look for things to develop between Thor and his Norse-warrior girlfriend, Valkyrie.
WASP
Janet Van Dyne’s the new team leader, and “that doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody has to be happy about that,” says Loeb, adding, “Because she’s been in a situation her whole life where men have told her what to do, this is an opportunity to overcompensate.”
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Our Final Story
This interview with the creative team of The Ultimates, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, was on Wizard Universe:
OUR FINAL STORY
Millar and Hitch on 'Ultimates'
Mark Millar: The 26 issues took about five and a half years [2001-2007] to come out, which is an incredible length of time. But the weird thing is if they had come out every month, it wouldn’t have been as good.
Bryan Hitch: Seeing the responses to what I was doing kind of threw me off the deep end. When people like Neal Adams, Alex Ross and Dave Gibbons are telling me that they think it’s one of the best comics they’ve ever seen, there’s an awful lot I feel I’ve got to live up to. I think I got stage fright, and it paralyzed me for a long time.
Millar: I was rewriting the whole time Bryan was drawing. It’s not as if I wrote 26 issues and put them in a drawer. I was reacting to what Bryan was drawing on one page and then a few pages later tweaking little bits of dialogue and so on.
So even though Bryan had been drawing [the last issue] since October of last year, I probably just finished my final dialogue about a week before it went off to press. It was a constant work in progress. I was quite sad [writing the final pages]. These characters took up a huge part of my life.
Hitch: Up until last Christmas, my wife had never known me not working on Ultimates. Neither had my children. It’s a horrifying thing to think that when I was drawing issue #1, I hadn’t even met my wife, let alone had my first child. [The book] has done a lot of good [for my career], but I think it’s also done it a bit of harm, too. My reputation for delivery is not at its best, and there’s certainly some justifiable criticism about that. But at the same time, I lost a lot of money doing it because I was working at about half the speed I should have been. One could argue that it might not have been as good if I hadn’t been fueled by all of the neuroses. We’ll never know.
Millar: Bryan and I both said from the start that we’d love to come back some point in the future, but it’d have to be years down the line. Our idea was to do it for the 10th anniversary of The Ultimates. It started in 2002, so we’d do it in 2012 maybe. We had an idea for a book set 10 years on from where we started with The Ultimates and where they all are.
Hitch: There is one big story we haven’t done, and we might have done it in Ultimates 3 if we’d stayed on.
Millar: I’ve already started putting notes together for it. I look forward to coming back to it at some point. But I’d only do it with Bryan now.
As late as the book shipped, Millar and Hitch at the VERY least finished the series (unlike some other series which just ended prematurely *cough*Battle Chasers*cough*). And the series was well worth the wait...heck, because it was so long in between issues, I could hardly remember what had happened in issues past. So I was forced to re-read the old issues again...and reading everything at one go makes the series all the better!
I do hope they come back to The Ultimates again in the future. Perhaps Season 5, after Joe Madureira and Ed McGuinness have finished their runs!
OUR FINAL STORY
Millar and Hitch on 'Ultimates'
By Danny Spiegel | Posted October 15, 2007 9:35 AM |
Mark Millar: The 26 issues took about five and a half years [2001-2007] to come out, which is an incredible length of time. But the weird thing is if they had come out every month, it wouldn’t have been as good.
Bryan Hitch: Seeing the responses to what I was doing kind of threw me off the deep end. When people like Neal Adams, Alex Ross and Dave Gibbons are telling me that they think it’s one of the best comics they’ve ever seen, there’s an awful lot I feel I’ve got to live up to. I think I got stage fright, and it paralyzed me for a long time.
Millar: I was rewriting the whole time Bryan was drawing. It’s not as if I wrote 26 issues and put them in a drawer. I was reacting to what Bryan was drawing on one page and then a few pages later tweaking little bits of dialogue and so on.So even though Bryan had been drawing [the last issue] since October of last year, I probably just finished my final dialogue about a week before it went off to press. It was a constant work in progress. I was quite sad [writing the final pages]. These characters took up a huge part of my life.
Hitch: Up until last Christmas, my wife had never known me not working on Ultimates. Neither had my children. It’s a horrifying thing to think that when I was drawing issue #1, I hadn’t even met my wife, let alone had my first child. [The book] has done a lot of good [for my career], but I think it’s also done it a bit of harm, too. My reputation for delivery is not at its best, and there’s certainly some justifiable criticism about that. But at the same time, I lost a lot of money doing it because I was working at about half the speed I should have been. One could argue that it might not have been as good if I hadn’t been fueled by all of the neuroses. We’ll never know.
Millar: Bryan and I both said from the start that we’d love to come back some point in the future, but it’d have to be years down the line. Our idea was to do it for the 10th anniversary of The Ultimates. It started in 2002, so we’d do it in 2012 maybe. We had an idea for a book set 10 years on from where we started with The Ultimates and where they all are.
Hitch: There is one big story we haven’t done, and we might have done it in Ultimates 3 if we’d stayed on.
Millar: I’ve already started putting notes together for it. I look forward to coming back to it at some point. But I’d only do it with Bryan now.
As late as the book shipped, Millar and Hitch at the VERY least finished the series (unlike some other series which just ended prematurely *cough*Battle Chasers*cough*). And the series was well worth the wait...heck, because it was so long in between issues, I could hardly remember what had happened in issues past. So I was forced to re-read the old issues again...and reading everything at one go makes the series all the better!
I do hope they come back to The Ultimates again in the future. Perhaps Season 5, after Joe Madureira and Ed McGuinness have finished their runs!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Joe Mad 101
I'm a big fan of Joe Madureira, sometimes more commonly known/abbreviated in the comics world as Joe Mad! (yes, with that exclamation point too). I'm not a big fan of the lateness of the work he produces though. His run on Ultimates 3 starts this December and I can't wait to purchase them hot single issues!
Hopefully the Ultimates 2 HC will be released before then too, so I can read all the Ultimates issues back to back in time for the start of the new series.
Wizard Universe gave us the low down of Joe Mad!'s comic book life thus far:
JOE MAD 101
Joe Who? Here’s everything you need to know about Mr. Madureira, the superstar artist who returns to comics after six years with Marvel’s ‘Ultimates 3.’
They are the seminal childhood fantasies: driving Optimus Prime, dodging boulders with Indiana Jones, or sitting in the Marvel bullpen. If you manage to do any one of these things (hi, Shia LaBeouf!), you’re usually too jaded an adult to enjoy it.
But über-artist Joe Madureira made the dream happen as a teen intern at Marvel. The slot led to a storied career both in and out of comics. Now Madureira (“Joe Mad” to his typing-averse friends) returns to the medium after a six-year sabbatical with Ultimates 3, the long-delayed successor to Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s variation on the Avengers in the Ultimate Universe.
Taking a brief respite from sketching out Jeph Loeb’s U3 scripts, Madureira helped us recap his career, one fulfilled fantasy at a time.
Joins Marvel (1991)
Marvel Comics plucks 16-year-old Joe Madureira from Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design and enlists him as an intern.
First Published Work (1992)
Though it was the actually second story he drew, Marvel Comics Presents #89 is Mad’s first published work. The first, a vignette with a pre-“Brokeback” Northstar, runs in #92.
Joins the X-Office (1993)
After Mad graduates, Marvel editor Bob Harras awards the prodigy his first book-length gig on the inaugural Deadpool miniseries.
Draws the X-Men (1994)
Harras offers him Uncanny X-Men, starting with issue #312. “I’m pretty sure I soiled myself right there on the spot,” Mad says. Mad designs and pencils hugely popular “Age of Apocalypse” arc.
Forms Cliffhanger (1997-2001)
Mad departs Marvel for creator-owned WildStorm imprint Cliffhanger, with his fantasy book, Battle Chasers. Battle Chasers suffers lag times of over a year between some issues. By the time #9 is released in September 2001, Mad has designs on another medium; #10 is never published.
Departs Comics for Video Games (2002)
Joe Mad’s passion for the pixels entices him to enter the video game industry as a conceptual artist. “I’d been doing comics for over 10 years, and I was starting to get burnt out. When I got the chance to work in games, I felt like I couldn’t pass it up.” Mad forms game company Trilunar in 2001; its first project is Dragonkind, an original property that never made it to shelves due to lack of funding.
Forms new game Company (2005)
After Trilunar folds, Mad works on NCSoft’s game, Dungeon Runners. Itching for more creative control, he founds a second company called Vigil, which is quickly acquired by THQ. Their first effort, Darksiders: Wrath of War, gets a warm reception at the 2007 E3 convention.
Returns with ‘Ultimates 3’
(2005)
Loeb and Mad are announced as the team on the third Ultimates series during 2005’s Wizard World Chicago; their first issue sees print in December ’07. “I made it extremely clear that I already had a full-time job in the game industry, and the only way I was going to be able to do [Ultimates] was if the deadlines were extremely flexible. Marvel’s been really awesome and supportive.”
Life After ‘Ultimates 3’(2007)
After Ultimates 3 wraps in ’08, Mad plans to concentrate on his duties as Vigil’s creative/studio director. “I’d love to do comics again later on, but I’m definitely going to take a break for a while and focus on the games. Juggling the two is not something I’d want to do again anytime soon."
Hopefully the Ultimates 2 HC will be released before then too, so I can read all the Ultimates issues back to back in time for the start of the new series.
Wizard Universe gave us the low down of Joe Mad!'s comic book life thus far:
JOE MAD 101
Joe Who? Here’s everything you need to know about Mr. Madureira, the superstar artist who returns to comics after six years with Marvel’s ‘Ultimates 3.’
By Jake Rossen | Posted October 9, 2007 9:20 AM |
They are the seminal childhood fantasies: driving Optimus Prime, dodging boulders with Indiana Jones, or sitting in the Marvel bullpen. If you manage to do any one of these things (hi, Shia LaBeouf!), you’re usually too jaded an adult to enjoy it.
But über-artist Joe Madureira made the dream happen as a teen intern at Marvel. The slot led to a storied career both in and out of comics. Now Madureira (“Joe Mad” to his typing-averse friends) returns to the medium after a six-year sabbatical with Ultimates 3, the long-delayed successor to Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s variation on the Avengers in the Ultimate Universe.
Taking a brief respite from sketching out Jeph Loeb’s U3 scripts, Madureira helped us recap his career, one fulfilled fantasy at a time.
Joins Marvel (1991)
Marvel Comics plucks 16-year-old Joe Madureira from Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design and enlists him as an intern.
First Published Work (1992)Though it was the actually second story he drew, Marvel Comics Presents #89 is Mad’s first published work. The first, a vignette with a pre-“Brokeback” Northstar, runs in #92.
Joins the X-Office (1993)
After Mad graduates, Marvel editor Bob Harras awards the prodigy his first book-length gig on the inaugural Deadpool miniseries.
Draws the X-Men (1994)
Harras offers him Uncanny X-Men, starting with issue #312. “I’m pretty sure I soiled myself right there on the spot,” Mad says. Mad designs and pencils hugely popular “Age of Apocalypse” arc.
Forms Cliffhanger (1997-2001)Mad departs Marvel for creator-owned WildStorm imprint Cliffhanger, with his fantasy book, Battle Chasers. Battle Chasers suffers lag times of over a year between some issues. By the time #9 is released in September 2001, Mad has designs on another medium; #10 is never published.
Departs Comics for Video Games (2002)
Joe Mad’s passion for the pixels entices him to enter the video game industry as a conceptual artist. “I’d been doing comics for over 10 years, and I was starting to get burnt out. When I got the chance to work in games, I felt like I couldn’t pass it up.” Mad forms game company Trilunar in 2001; its first project is Dragonkind, an original property that never made it to shelves due to lack of funding.
Forms new game Company (2005)
After Trilunar folds, Mad works on NCSoft’s game, Dungeon Runners. Itching for more creative control, he founds a second company called Vigil, which is quickly acquired by THQ. Their first effort, Darksiders: Wrath of War, gets a warm reception at the 2007 E3 convention.
Returns with ‘Ultimates 3’(2005)
Loeb and Mad are announced as the team on the third Ultimates series during 2005’s Wizard World Chicago; their first issue sees print in December ’07. “I made it extremely clear that I already had a full-time job in the game industry, and the only way I was going to be able to do [Ultimates] was if the deadlines were extremely flexible. Marvel’s been really awesome and supportive.”
Life After ‘Ultimates 3’(2007)
After Ultimates 3 wraps in ’08, Mad plans to concentrate on his duties as Vigil’s creative/studio director. “I’d love to do comics again later on, but I’m definitely going to take a break for a while and focus on the games. Juggling the two is not something I’d want to do again anytime soon."
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