Mark Waid. Alex Ross.

I'm reading it. Aren't you?

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I loved Marvels and thought, hey let's give Kindom Come a try. It was one of
the best comics I've read. GREAT ART! (the story's great too!)

i picked up kingdom come becuase my friends said it would be great..  i won't
reget it either.  I amnot one ot read dc or marvel comics.. but i love tis
series.  I agree teh art work is the best thing about it..

oh my god! I must say, Kingdom come is one of the most powerful and realistic
(artwise) comic i have ever read, and it is interesting to boot. I couldnt
put the first 2 issues down even to go to the bathroom. I am anxiously
awaiting the 3rd issue. The emotion...the suspenseful parts...wow!...if you
couldnt tell already, i liked it ;)

Alex Ross is God!

If you like Kingdom Come, and I know you do, look out for a ongoing series
that will be in the curent DC continuity. Marc Waid will come back to write
the story (with some help with Alex Ross) and bring some of the character in
the mini-series to this prequel. "Are we going to trun what was a 'Elseworlds'
into a really thing?" Waid questions. Art will be done by Gene Ha and Covers
by Alex Ross (who will aslo act as an advisor). 

there's also a novel with 50% new stuff and a collected trrade with new
pages coming soon...

A new novel?!  When?!  Where?!  I must get it!!!!!  Kingdom Come was one
of the best stories I've read, period, in any media.  

that new series is called "Kingdom" and is based in actual DC continuity
but will introduce characters from the "Kingdom Come" mini-series to 
readers.. 

Okay, but when is this happening?  I've got to keep an eye out for it.

Kindom, the comic book oprequel to Kingom Come will be out next summer. The
prose novelization written by Elloiot S. Maggin (Last Son of Krypton and
Miracle Monday) with 50% more matial will be in book stores sometime around
November '97.

Quote CSN, "Waid said that no schedule date has been set for Kingdom, although
he quipped, 'It'll definitely be out before the events portrayed in Kingdom
Come come to pass.' He also said that the development of Kingdom will strongly
indicate that the events of Kingdom Come are more than likely the future of
DC, rather than a possible future."

I wonder if they are going to make Kingdom Come true if that means Superman
will retire for tens years? I don't think so. Better keep it an Esleworlds.

ten years "comic book" time of course.. which is about how long Marvel comics
time has passed since 1963 or so..

Egad, that would mean that DC would have to stop publishing Superman for 35
to make the events in Kingdom Come come true... but time may travel
differently in DC from Marvel, so who knows.

hehe.. when DC and Marvel crossover they basically suspend time altogether..
deeming them "timeless" tales.. 

*JLA Annual #1 has the first appearance of a Kingdom Come character in the
real DC universe... Braintrust. This will be in the "pulp Heroes style which
will pay tribute to the detective magazine of the 30's where the Martian
Manhunt investigates a murder which the JLA THINKS they solved. Out in
September 10th.
*Kingdom Come has won several CSN Fan Awards. Mark Waid got best writer, Alex
Ross got best painter, and Kingdom Come got best best limited sereies AND best
comic-book story. (Astro City with covers by Alex Ross got two awards for best
series and best tpb.)
*Mark Waid has announced that gene Ha will no longer be penciling the Kingdom
on-going series. No word on his replacement yet.

and alex ross isn't doin the covers! but at least we still got waid in it,
if they change that the book will most definately suck. when the hell is the
novel coming out! i've looked at book orders from little prof.  up to august
of next year and it's not there! did i skip it or is it cancelled?

I'm confused. So who puts out this series, DC or someone else?

I've finally read Kingdom Come. This is some of DC`s best work yet. I thought
nothing would top Marvels, but Mark Waid and Alex Ross managed to one-up
themselves. It's amazing to read a comic that actually explores the
philosophical implications of superheroes without being totally negative
like Marshall Law was.

My buddy let me read his issues of Marvels under penalty of death and I must
say that I am glad that I risked my safety to read that book. Why can't more
comics use beautifully painted pages  such as those. Is money that big an
issue?

Well, it takes time and effort to paint one picture, let alone the hundreds
of panels needed for a comic.  That's difficult to assemble for the normal
production schedule of a periodic story.

(it works very well for limited series, which is what most painted comic
works have been. it also works well for trading cards. [Marvel Masterpieces,
etc.])

(also note that _Gog_ [which was released a week or so ago as part of
DC's "New Year's Evil" promotion] is directly related to events depicted
in _Kingdom Come_.)

(the _Kingdom Come_ TPB had some new material in it, and also some m
material that had only appeared in the trading cards. the hardcover
edition had a *LOT* of supplementary material, but I passed it up due
to budget limitations.)

Kingdom has finaly came out. I only have the first issue. It apparently leaves
off from where the collected edition left off (they added an 8 page epiloge
where Superman and Wonder Woman make Batman the godfather of their unborn
child). Gog takes place several years after Kingdom Come, but goes back in
time to shortly after the Kingdom Come. As they left it after issue #1, they
are going back further into the past into the current continuty? I only read
one issue and my opinion is, so far so good...

Kingdom was a great follow-up to Kingdom Come. Most of the one-shots were
mediocre, but did add some nice touches to the Kingdom Come reality.

I read issue #2 which came out really late. Miuke Zeck did the art. I usualy
like Mike Zeck from his work on Captain America, Secert Wars, and several
others, but I really disliked this issue's art. It felt like he was trying
to draw in the old Jerry Ordway style and was really not up to par with any
of his other past work. As for the story...  The first issue started out very
nicely. Pacing was good, intreging plot, enough twists to keep ya interested.
This was completely trown out in the second issue. It felt like whatever story
was being written for this ongoing series was completely scrapped... Here's
the deal. The second issue was the last issue and they decided for whatever
reason (anybody know?) to end it with two issues. The story had to be rapped
up and rather poorly. I'm just rather disapointed with the end of this story
as it was one of the best storylines ever in comics. There's a difference
between the one shot which I enjoyed in context of the rest of the series.
But this made out to be an on-going series and couldn't follow through. The
story just can't be told in two issues and the book suffered for it. It's a
mystery to me.

Alex Ross and Geoff Johns have been returning to the Kingdom Come ideas in
the last year or so of the superb superhero team book Justice Society of
America. Magog and the Kingdom Come Superman and Starman all play major roles.

Meanwhile, MARVELS 2: EYE OF THE CAMERA just began its publishing run. I'll
check it out when it's collected, probably.

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