Spider-Man #1000
COME ON AKIRA, DO IT, I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU
If Marvel did their own version of DC One Million?
Are you reading Martian Manhunter right now? Rossmo's art is out of this world but Orlando's story is super compelling right now and strikes a great balance between wacky and gripping/emotional
I am not. Forgot Orlando was doing that.
My thing with Orlando is this: He handles character extremely well. JLA was amazing with this. The characters alone had me reading the book, but the problem is plot. He does humor and dialogue and the base mechanics of it all just fine. But the plot is just so fucking...boring. And it's not just JLA, because I brought up Supergirl as well. Like, something about that just cause me to detach, and I think in that case his version of Supergirl was good, but it was "babysitter/camp counselor" Supergirl, as I call her. Not the Supergirl that I like, which is the kickass "I'm a Kryptonian let's fucking go!" type that I liked in DCAU and that Bendis wrote in Man of Steel that seems to be in the current ongoing (I only read the first few issues and have yet to catch up, while New 52 was similar, but far too lost and mopey though Soule's Red Lanterns was much closer). And the plot of his Supergirl I just kind of detached from because Kara's struggle wasn't as engaging. Then he contrived it with his backdoor pilot out of nowhere for the finale.
The Midnighter books were fucking bomb though. So, he's very hit or miss. I'm not really into J'onn as a character, and Orlando and Rossmo isn't the team to pull me in, so I probably won't grab the ongoing. I was mostly making a joke about Doom Patrol. I want to like Orlando because I loved Midnighter and I've loved parts of his other stories. When he goes raw, it's fucking great. When he tries to play this soft, long epic. it becomes a boring slog.
