Which title from this line was your favorite?

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:05:58 pm

Although I enjoyed each issue of Mighty Samson, and there were issues of Dr Solar I didn't like, (several early ones) the last four Dr Solars were so good I had to vote for that title as my fave from this line.

MarrowMan · Post by **MarrowMan** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:29:16 pm

I voted for Solar, even though the stories were only 1% as good as VH1 Solar.

kevinbastos · Post by **kevinbastos** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:33:28 pm

I thought SOLAR started out REALLY bad, but got better as it went. The others I felt had great covers, but declined through the run.

SJS4 · Post by **SJS4** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:44:55 pm

Overall I enjoyed Turok the most, but I thought the last 4 issues of Solar were very good (especially the origin story). I honestly think if Dark Horse had given Shooter enough time he was starting to really pull the stories together. I used to collect a lot of DH comics back in the 90's and even back then they had a notoriously short attention span.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:09:14 am

Magnus which I thought was really excellent. The rest just weren't good enough imo.

stp1503 · Post by **stp1503** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:37:19 am

I thought Magnus was the most consistent. I would have voted for Solar but the first few issues were SO terrible!! I liked the origin story and I felt that given a little more time it would have been terrific.

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:49:35 pm

Mighty Samson all the way.

I think it's more because I didn't have any expectations for this book going in, so it was easier to please.

iwantvaliant · Post by **iwantvaliant** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:19:00 pm

SJS4 wrote: I honestly think if Dark Horse had given Shooter enough time he was starting to really pull the stories together.

Wasn't the problem that Dark Horse gave Shooter too much time. Turok #1 was the best selling issue in the whole line and it took 4 months for the next issue to come out. Maybe if the books had come out on time Shooter would have had the sales needed to finish his story.

I picked Samson. Mostly because I've always enjoyed Ollife's pencils. And redheads. You can't go wrong with redheads.

iwantvaliant · Post by **iwantvaliant** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:22:53 pm

What if people want to vote tot The Occultist? It was a... ummm... well... premise wise it was almost good.

Second_Death · Post by **Second_Death** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:52:33 pm

Been a long time since I enjoyed reading a superhero comic as much as I did Doctor Solar #5-8.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:38:10 pm

Second_Death wrote:Been a long time since I enjoyed reading a superhero comic as much as I did Doctor Solar #5-8.

Same here. Those were amazingly good.

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:19:06 pm

I actually liked Solar from the beginning. But it did get a lot better toward the end. The origin serial was pretty darn good.

And I really liked Mighty Samson. That was my favorite. And I think it was because he wasn't a Valiant character, and I had never read any of the Gold Key material, so it wasn't a re-hash of a re-hash. It was new and original.

I thought Magnus was the weakest only because it felt like I had read it before.

Paradigm38 · Post by **Paradigm38** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:30:43 pm

First arc of Solar... terrible. The rest were great!
Turok 1 & 2... awesome! The rest, increadibly poor art...
Magnus, solid all the way through.
Samson good all the way also.

My 2 cents (minus inflation).

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:11:17 pm

Paradigm38 wrote:First arc of Solar... terrible. The rest were great!
Turok 1 & 2... awesome! The rest, increadibly poor art...
Magnus, solid all the way through.
Samson good all the way also.

My 2 cents (minus inflation).

Good summary.

Aram · Post by **Aram** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:23:33 am

etos45 wrote:Mighty Samson all the way.

I think it's more because I didn't have any expectations for this book going in, so it was easier to please.

+1

I haven't had the heart to try the others, but I figured I couldn't lose on Mighty Sampson and I was pleasantly surprised. I probably would have bought it monthly.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:20:15 pm

Tell you what, the new Doctor Solar origin Shooter wrote for this line was one unbelievably good.

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