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JMS\'s Comics
I'm not sure where this thread belongs. It doesn't really go in B5-related, but as it's JMS stuff it seems elevated a bit over the run-of-the-mill other sci-fi stuff. So I place it here. Besides, this forum never gets enough traffic anyway. It's neglected. So here we go.
I got in to my school two days ago, and as there's not a whole lot to do right at the beginning of the semester, I had time on my hands. A friend of mine -- also a B5 fan -- had brought two of JMS's comics. So he loaned them to me to read.
The first was Rising Stars. I was really impressed with the story, incomplete as it is. Fascinating how the characters played out. Superb foreshadowing. And I really like several of the characters, esepecially John Simon (you can tell he's the hero because his initials are JS). I tore through the whole thing in less than a day.
The second comic was Midnight Nation.
It was mindblowing.
I can truly say that's one of the more powerful stories I've ever read, if not the most. When I put the thing down, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing else I wanted to read; anything else would be a letdown, second-best. That doesn't happen to me often; to the best of my recollection, it mainly occurred with Dan Simmon's Hyperion books and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
So, later that day, I picked up Midnight Nation again and started to read. I have never re-read anything so immediately after the first reading in my entire life -- and bear in mind that in some respects I've spent my entire life reading.
So amazing. So incredible. So thought-provoking. So painful. So uplifting. Clearly the product of a great but tortured mind; clearly the product of long and loving labor.
I bow to JMS and do him honor, for truly this is his masterpiece.
I'm not sure where this thread belongs. It doesn't really go in B5-related, but as it's JMS stuff it seems elevated a bit over the run-of-the-mill other sci-fi stuff. So I place it here. Besides, this forum never gets enough traffic anyway. It's neglected. So here we go.
I got in to my school two days ago, and as there's not a whole lot to do right at the beginning of the semester, I had time on my hands. A friend of mine -- also a B5 fan -- had brought two of JMS's comics. So he loaned them to me to read.
The first was Rising Stars. I was really impressed with the story, incomplete as it is. Fascinating how the characters played out. Superb foreshadowing. And I really like several of the characters, esepecially John Simon (you can tell he's the hero because his initials are JS). I tore through the whole thing in less than a day.
The second comic was Midnight Nation.
It was mindblowing.
I can truly say that's one of the more powerful stories I've ever read, if not the most. When I put the thing down, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing else I wanted to read; anything else would be a letdown, second-best. That doesn't happen to me often; to the best of my recollection, it mainly occurred with Dan Simmon's Hyperion books and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
So, later that day, I picked up Midnight Nation again and started to read. I have never re-read anything so immediately after the first reading in my entire life -- and bear in mind that in some respects I've spent my entire life reading.
So amazing. So incredible. So thought-provoking. So painful. So uplifting. Clearly the product of a great but tortured mind; clearly the product of long and loving labor.
I bow to JMS and do him honor, for truly this is his masterpiece.
