Sun, 26 May 2013 00:52:07 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=941#Comment_941 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=941#Comment_941 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:32:32 -0800 warrenellis
Anyone who read MINISTRY OF SPACE knows, of course, that it's a subject close to what passes for my heart. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=944#Comment_944 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=944#Comment_944 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:40:08 -0800 Z
I'll get back to you..

- Z ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=967#Comment_967 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=967#Comment_967 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:21:04 -0800 hemlock_martini
Dan Dare has awesome eyebrows. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1403#Comment_1403 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1403#Comment_1403 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:07:10 -0800 AdiTantimedh
You will like if this is the sort of thing you like. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1411#Comment_1411 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1411#Comment_1411 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:20:48 -0800 IsenMike http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1420#Comment_1420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1420#Comment_1420 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:56:34 -0800 Bill Reed
I went in with no expectations and it ended up being pretty good. I'll be back for #2. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1498#Comment_1498 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1498#Comment_1498 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:25:03 -0800 Rich
I was hoping for more from Ennis.

On the other hand, Erskine's work is as solid as ever and he does a fine Gary Frank impression. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1538#Comment_1538 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1538#Comment_1538 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:43:21 -0800 cfinn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1549#Comment_1549 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1549#Comment_1549 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:14 -0800 Red Scharlach
I think the way the story flows though might lend itself to better reading once it's collected. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1556#Comment_1556 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1556#Comment_1556 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:10:19 -0800 helloMuller http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1796#Comment_1796 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1796#Comment_1796 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:35:37 -0800 Rantz
I think you'll quite like it Warren. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1847#Comment_1847 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1847#Comment_1847 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:28:26 -0800 hyim
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I have a passing association with Dan Dare, read a bit in my youth (not classic Dare, but the relaunched Eagle stuff) and played the amazing Spectrum games but feel I know the character better than I probably do (it's British comics osmosis, read enough of them and you feel like you know the lot).

I liked Ennis stark, serious take on the premise and think the Digby revision has legs.

Oh, and if anyone wants some 'new', beautifully realised, 'old style' Dare do check out Spaceships Away. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1904#Comment_1904 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1904#Comment_1904 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:21:25 -0800 Lee Newman
I liked the story a lot, similar in themes to the classic, but the tone was different.

I do have to say that I hated the art. Erskine is not my favorite artist, his inks take over Army@Love and Jack Cross was quite possible the ugliest book I have ever read. Hopefully as with those two books, the story can continue to overpower the art. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1933#Comment_1933 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=1933#Comment_1933 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:35:17 -0800 Red Scharlach http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2019#Comment_2019 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2019#Comment_2019 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:55:25 -0800 Stitchy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2026#Comment_2026 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2026#Comment_2026 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:07:05 -0800 ultramandingo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2029#Comment_2029 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2029#Comment_2029 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:08:40 -0800 genequagmire http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2152#Comment_2152 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2152#Comment_2152 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:44:15 -0800 blankfabio I liked that the second aboard the spaceship's named Christian (Mutiny on Board), pretty good anxiety in that scene.

The bad side of that is... is just a comic book, too expensive for thirty pages and "to be continued". I really would rather buy some graphic novel with the character, or some black and white book on the Scott Pilgrim format.

By the way. I loved MINISTRY OF SPACE. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2252#Comment_2252 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=2252#Comment_2252 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:25:39 -0800 Ted
It's filling a small hole in my monthly purchases nicely; I'm quite liking a lot of Virgin's range so far. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4229#Comment_4229 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4229#Comment_4229 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:56:08 -0800 Adam Violent about the character), I felt like Ennis may have been relying too heavily on people being acquainted with his personality and motivations, which left the rest of us with just a very drab character. Your generic hero.

Besides that, I really didn't enjoy the art. I don't usually complain about the look of comics unless they're really awful because, really, in most cases even ugly art works. But this seemed far too amateur for the project and the spaceships themselves looked like silvery loofahs. Plus, every few panels, someone made an inexplicably weird face and Dan himself seemed to be wearing a very ill-fitting fur coat. I feel like the overall package (pencils, inks and colors) were all just very ick, to use a professional industry term.

That said, there's nothing to really make me want to buy the following issue. Which is too bad, because I could do with some serious space opera adventures. Fear Agent will have to do for now.

Edit: I should also note that I think this is the sort of thing that may end up better as a GN. And that, in a way, is another detractor because on first hearing about the project it sounded like it would be more of a serial adventure. In other words, I was hoping for something different and while I'm sure it may wind up being better later, I don't have the cash or patience to watch it drag along. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4238#Comment_4238 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4238#Comment_4238 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:08:42 -0800 morganagrom http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4248#Comment_4248 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4248#Comment_4248 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:23:45 -0800 Admiral Neck
I miss the Dan Dare strips from 2000AD all those decades ago. Bellardinelli and Gibbons on art; gorgeous stuff. I'd love it if Rebellion gave them the reprint treatment they've given some of their other titles. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4798#Comment_4798 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4798#Comment_4798 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:57:39 -0800 C.c. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4911#Comment_4911 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=4911#Comment_4911 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:17:52 -0800 screaming meat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=5401#Comment_5401 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=5401#Comment_5401 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:22:00 -0800 oshvat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6100#Comment_6100 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6100#Comment_6100 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:45:41 -0800 Derleth
And here I thought Erskine was doing his best Chris Weston. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6150#Comment_6150 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6150#Comment_6150 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:26:52 -0800 lamuella

hold on, is that the test ship from Ministry Of Space in the picture? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6235#Comment_6235 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6235#Comment_6235 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:26:59 -0800 Monk.Eastman
That one panel aside, I really felt like I was reading Ministry of Space Pt II.

Which is by no means an insult, just that between the art and the tone, it felt like a fastforward on that same alternate history.

I'll actually be picking up issue 2, and I largely swore off Ennis since he started tossing the word 'n#gger' around in his panels. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6265#Comment_6265 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=45&Focus=6265#Comment_6265 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:38:02 -0800 IsenMike Waiting for the paperback. Anyone think there won't be one?

Virgin has been pretty good about collecting their stuff, and considering how hard they've been marketing this one, I doubt it'll be one to fall through the cracks. ]]>