Whitechapel - CAPTAIN SWING #1 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:50:04 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221387#Comment_221387 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221387#Comment_221387 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:25:30 -0800 warrenellis CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221408#Comment_221408 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221408#Comment_221408 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:41:23 -0800 wymarc have all my spare change...

Just picked up Ignition City a few days ago and now this. Back to the shop I go.

Seriously. It looks interesting. I always love your sideways takes on history; and while the art is not my usual taste, it fits nicely. I can't wait to see where this goes. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221415#Comment_221415 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221415#Comment_221415 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:34:26 -0800 Rootfireember interesting.
I enjoyed the ?journal/letter pages? with their diagrams and how they contrast with the main comic pages, and offer not just a different viewpoint but also different visual style. Font for that section is a bit large, IMHO, but after reading crud in a times size 10, I think my eyes needed a break anyway.

I don't feel hooked, though, and the dark red backgrounds on some pages I find really, really distracts me from the rest of the art -- and I feel like it clashes an itty bit with the lighter highlights on the cover's blue border and seems to be fighting with a lot of the blues when they appear on the page. I keep on finding myself staring at the red areas and following those lines like an utter idiot and having to force my mind to go from the background to the actual images, and I feel sorta bad for not really finding the comic to my taste so far, because it has a lot of the elements of things I like.

I don't hate it, but it just doesn't feel like a "must have" to me. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221422#Comment_221422 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221422#Comment_221422 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:47:08 -0800 James Cunningham
Love the art, too. Raulo Caceres put in some amazing linework, and possibly because I read it in very good lighting the dark colors didn't obscure a bit of detail. It's always fun when a book is slow reading because I keep getting distracted by the intricate art.

Very enthusiastic for this one. More please! ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221428#Comment_221428 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221428#Comment_221428 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:55:26 -0800 stsparky CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221436#Comment_221436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221436#Comment_221436 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:38:19 -0800 Warped Savant
I liked the large text pages, they were different. I think a smaller text would have been lost on the page, and the larger text (beautiful font by the way) made it so that they were short sentences that got to the point.

And I'm with James up there when he talks about the dark colours not obscuring the details. Usually I don't like a lot of dark colours in comics because it so often hides what I want to actually see. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221511#Comment_221511 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221511#Comment_221511 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:50:48 -0800 MarshallQuicksand CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221571#Comment_221571 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221571#Comment_221571 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:04:03 -0800 stsparky CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221614#Comment_221614 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221614#Comment_221614 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:38:09 -0800 Jeff Owens kind of reminds me of the old EC artists.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw Charlie in the second panel on page four. I'm a bit of an EC nerd, so that definitely made me happy, right off the bat.

I picked up this book in the shop to look at it and decide if I would read it. I saw Swing holding a beaten man in uniform and thought it looked great. Nearly convinced I, for some reason, flipped to the last page.

"FUCK THE LAW!"


Yup, I thought, looks like I'll be buying four issues of this!

I'm pretty excited for the next three issues. It feeds the hunger for a new issue of Dok, quite nicely, though nothing could ever truly replace that. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221622#Comment_221622 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221622#Comment_221622 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:06:49 -0800 btx .

I'll keep my Gravel praise to another thread :) ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221633#Comment_221633 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221633#Comment_221633 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:43:32 -0800 Rooth It's funny, I was expecting it to be a black and white book like Crecy (Warren posted some B/W art a few months back), so the colour caught me by surprise. Nicely done, I especially like the crackly lightning bits. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221637#Comment_221637 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221637#Comment_221637 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:54:33 -0800 Will Ellwood
Also the last page feels like it is riffing off the "gaze into the fist of Dredd" panel. No bad thing that. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221655#Comment_221655 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221655#Comment_221655 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:39:11 -0800 tpete
Love that it's got the Spring-Heeled Jack mythos. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221659#Comment_221659 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221659#Comment_221659 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:22 -0800 AndyMcGregor two copies, as a friend of mine (who doesn't read comics) was so taken with the cover he insisted on one. I may be expecting too much, what with it being the finest title for a comic ever and all, so I'll pop back to tell if illusions were shattered... ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221702#Comment_221702 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221702#Comment_221702 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:30 -0800 phill_sea CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221721#Comment_221721 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221721#Comment_221721 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:49:15 -0800 Ken Miller CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221725#Comment_221725 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221725#Comment_221725 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:06:44 -0800 afua richardson CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221737#Comment_221737 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221737#Comment_221737 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:14:45 -0800 Oxbrow CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221740#Comment_221740 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221740#Comment_221740 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:39:38 -0800 lampcommander CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221744#Comment_221744 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221744#Comment_221744 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:20:34 -0800 Brigman
The timing of the release is impeccable. End of "Crossed" is the beginning of "Captain Swing."

Normally, when I read a comic for the first time I focus on the story. I loved the pages of text, and I wish them to continue. However I found myself focusing on each panel on my first run. I am not familiar with Raulo's work, but it is engaging. The chops are magnificent. I believe I took in the locks on the last page for several minutes. This is new to me.

Man, that guy REALLY dislikes authority. I'm sure it's going to be a great story. It's already rife with historical bents and supressive agents. Four issues? I hope there is a meaningful conclusion. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221836#Comment_221836 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221836#Comment_221836 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:20:01 -0800 Casey Moore
The pieces in between the pages felt like backmatter moved to inside the book. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221858#Comment_221858 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=221858#Comment_221858 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:19:01 -0800 ErikCJones CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222011#Comment_222011 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222011#Comment_222011 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:47:34 -0800 draxxx Heyhey! I was hoping something like this would show up. Hang on...

Dee-SPISE the title, and I'm a big fan of, uh, "mouthfuls." (Boy, that could be misconstrued.) Seriously, I'm very fond of long chains of words tumbling like an ornate puzzle that elicit "What the fuck could this story POSSIBLY be about," but come on—"Captain SWING and the (you know the rest)"? Jesus. Sounds like a fake Don Ho album that would show up in a SIMPSONS bit. Or WAYNE'S WORLD, "Captain SCHWIING! Haha har..." Moving on.

Cheers to the Chief Mechanic. Love the full page expository bits w/ groovy period illustrations. And jumping ahead to the last one ending with, "I am Captain Swing." Very cool.

Not insanely nuts about the art. Nothing wrong with it, and I suppose it's "appropriate," question mark. But it's just so heavy and dark. If I were feeling uncharitable, I might describe it as "overworked," but it's not, it's fine. It's just not my thing.

OK, the story (shit, duty calls, I have to go) THE STORY: I dug it. Will be there for all four issues. Kind of hard not to like a story that ends chap one with "Fuck the law!" Good stuff, Internet Jesus. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222029#Comment_222029 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222029#Comment_222029 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:17:46 -0800 Charlene
I didn't feel that way at all. I thought they were placed perfectly to move the story along by providing kind of background info. I wouldnt have liked them at the back because I think the story would have felt a little disjointed or maybe a little confusing then.

I loved this issue. It feels a bit doktor sleepless mixed with a tiny bit of spider jerusalem and a whole lot of new weird electricity stuff... before there was even electricity. Even before there were flying boats! ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222112#Comment_222112 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222112#Comment_222112 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:54:02 -0800 kyu915
Give me more rebellious steampunk electroshock therapy immediately ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222116#Comment_222116 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222116#Comment_222116 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:20:30 -0800 Warped Savant
I don't understand his reasoning, I thought they were really well done and it really doesn't matter that they were written by him. Anyone else not like them? ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222136#Comment_222136 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222136#Comment_222136 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:02:07 -0800 sneak046
As for the commentary from Captain Swing, I thought it was an interesting and novel addition - adding perspective to the main body of the story, without feeling like it had crow-barred in. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222279#Comment_222279 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222279#Comment_222279 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:16:08 -0800 Mandrakk CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222429#Comment_222429 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222429#Comment_222429 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:24 -0800 Erok Dragun
Thank You Warren, for exciting my imagination....as always! ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222515#Comment_222515 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222515#Comment_222515 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:28:20 -0800 Casey Moore CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222609#Comment_222609 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222609#Comment_222609 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:20:06 -0800 mister hex
Now, if we could only get a new issue of Desolation Jones... ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222678#Comment_222678 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222678#Comment_222678 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:36:32 -0800 curb CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222828#Comment_222828 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=222828#Comment_222828 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:19:14 -0800 Kelind CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=224227#Comment_224227 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=224227#Comment_224227 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:08:26 -0800 cjstevens
Gravel was read first OH YEAH ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226152#Comment_226152 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226152#Comment_226152 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:43:48 -0700 Jane_Irwin Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain or just synchronicity? I was listening to that audiobook the night before I read the issue, and it stuck in my head. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226263#Comment_226263 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226263#Comment_226263 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:55:28 -0700 warrenellis CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226281#Comment_226281 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226281#Comment_226281 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:55:44 -0700 nigredo CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226902#Comment_226902 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226902#Comment_226902 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:25:34 -0700 nickytea My wife and I played Scrabble last night, and I drove her crazy with random and often unfounded exclamations of "FUCK THE LAW."

No idea what drew me to look on the bottom of the swivel rack at my local shop. Glad I did.

I can't wait for issue #2. I'm loving the prose segments intermittently included. They are somehow able to both ground and expand on the overall outrageousness of the concept. Which I friggin' love. Having a casual interest with Spring Heeled Jack, I'm fascinated with the other legends that have been worked in here that I'm not at all familiar with. Can't wait to see where this goes. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226952#Comment_226952 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=226952#Comment_226952 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:37:29 -0700 freakbox
High expectations. totally sucked in. No idea how this can be a 4 issue arc. Wishing I hadn't left it at work so I could read again right now! ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=227384#Comment_227384 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=227384#Comment_227384 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:06:11 -0700 paribolzi I did think the AV Club review was a bit... off. Some criticism, followed by a B- grade? Strange.
It's about halfway down the page here. ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=227446#Comment_227446 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=227446#Comment_227446 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:40:32 -0700 UrbanAngel He's from my home town, Bury. We have a whole 19th C tower/monument on top of a hill dedicated to him at the bottom of my village!
:P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Peel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Monument ]]> CAPTAIN SWING #1 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=228698#Comment_228698 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7787&Focus=228698#Comment_228698 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:40:27 -0700 Sullivan