Nathan Implosion’s favorite, Rich Johnston, has the first five pages of “Before Watchmen: Minutemen”, which comes out tomorrow. Johnston seems prone to overanalyzing, so we’ll instead sum up our two cents right here.
This is obviously intended to be of a piece with “Watchmen”, but the artwork is gorgeous and very much in Cooke’s style, opening with a cinematic “zoom” shot that looks a little like a certain last hurrah from “The New Frontier”. The book itself seems to be using Hollis Mason and “Under the Hood” as a framing device to explore what happened to the Minutemen, and Cooke nails Mason’s dialogue and resigned but optimistic attitude.
It’s five pages, but it’s five pages of Cooke’s A-game. If the rest of the team on these books can deliver this kind of quality, this will be absolutely worth reading.
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BLAAAAAARRRGGGHRICHJOHNSON!
Honest to god, this book could tongue kiss my penis and it wouldn’t make up for the insanely stupid shit didio and crew have been saying. I’m glad that cooke and amanda conner and jae lee haven’t been talking about it, but every time jim lee or jms or didio opens their mouth about this project, it makes me want to drop every dc book i’m reading.
I couldn’t resist needling you.
also, i would hope that the quality on all of these books is at the absolute peak of what each of these folks can put out. the only way they blunt any of the criticism to this, which they seem very sensitive to, is to put out very very high quality comics.
Well, we’ll know soon.