Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti, �Ash�
Here�s the overheard at campus I can�t believe they let you attend classes here quote of the day:
�Storytelling involves telling a story.�
Wow. Deep. Sometimes I am very afraid that stupidity might be contagious, which probably explains why I spend a lot of time by myself.
And speaking of stupidity, this book has it all over it, and I can�t place all the blame on the book. Quesada and Palmiotti were the artist and tracer for the Kevin Smith issues of the Daredevil comic, so when I spotted this I decided to pick it up to see what they could do on their own. What I had completely forgotten was that Quesada penned a one-issue filler story for Daredevil once when the regular artist was too far behind on deadlines.
It was a total piece of crap.
And so is this. They created their own superhero character and apparently released it themselves, but that just might be because it�s really not very good at all, and nobody else was willing to touch it. Or maybe I�m just burnt out on hero worship involving firefighters � particularly firefighters in New York.
No, this isn�t a tribute to the firemen involved with September 11th � it was actually written in 1996, and there�s a shot of the New York skyline featuring the twin towers.
(Side tangent: with all the sensitivity for the World Trade Center going on, which included the cancellation of a Starbucks promotion featuring two side-by-side cups of coffee with the tagline, �Collapse Into Cool� I�m surprised there hasn�t been violent protests over the title for the second Lord of the Rings movie. But I digress...)
The story is a mess and barely makes sense at all, although the art is pretty good (if a bit unoriginal, looking nearly the same as the art they used in Daredevil). Even the person writing the introduction, a spot usually reserved for people writing unadulterated praise, spends more time on the weak points of the story, ending with an upbeat note that it looks like Ash, as a character and a comic book, could become a very good book with a little work. As it turns out, they both stopped work on the comic entirely.
Good for them.
