Go Back   Colonial Fleets > BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DISCUSSION AREA > The Last Battlestar......Galactica!
Notices
The Last Battlestar......Galactica! For discussions about the ORIGINAL series
What Dreams May Come!

Reply

 
Thread Tools
Old October 10th, 2012, 09:18 AM   #1
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Thumbs up New BG Classic ongoing comic

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/10/...tar-galactica/
__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old October 10th, 2012, 01:53 PM   #2
JLHurley
Warrior
 
JLHurley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 343

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Well, it can't be any worse than what's come before it...

On a postiive note, Abnett & Lanning have put out some solid comics, so I'm hoping for the best.
__________________
JLHurley
JLHurley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old October 10th, 2012, 03:06 PM   #3
Benedict
Warrior
 
Benedict's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Outer London
Posts: 210

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Doesn't look too bad. I'm not a comic reader by and large but original BSG might just change that.
__________________
Galactica-era fan fic: Battlestar Pacifica #2 Saga of a Battlestar

"We thought the opposite of war, was peace. But we found the opposite of war was slavery."
Benedict is offline   Reply With Quote
Old October 10th, 2012, 05:29 PM   #4
JLHurley
Warrior
 
JLHurley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 343

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

A brief interview with DnA can be found here:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=41473
__________________
JLHurley
JLHurley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old October 16th, 2012, 05:10 PM   #5
JLHurley
Warrior
 
JLHurley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 343

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Ok, IMO this has gone from good to bad news. They're picking up where the Galactica 1980 comic left off...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/nycc...interview.html
__________________
JLHurley
JLHurley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old November 12th, 2012, 03:24 PM   #6
JLHurley
Warrior
 
JLHurley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 343

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

An interview with Andy Lanning:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=41842
__________________
JLHurley
JLHurley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old November 13th, 2012, 07:09 AM   #7
Eric Paddon
Squadron Leader
 
Eric Paddon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Morristown, NJ
Posts: 1,795

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

So long as Dynamite holds the rights to do Galactica comics, you can expect nothing but substandard efforts.
__________________
"They hate us with every fiber of their being. We love....freedom, independence, the right to question. To them it is an alien way of living."-The non-myopic wisdom of Commander Adama, "Saga Of A Star World"

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."-Ronald Reagan
Eric Paddon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old November 13th, 2012, 11:58 PM   #8
Senmut
Strike Leader
 
Senmut's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wenatchee, Soviet of WA., Ex U.S.A.
Posts: 4,491

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

How long, O Lord? How long?????
__________________
Populos stultus viris indignas honores saepe dat. -Horace
----------------------------
Fortuna est caeca. -Cicero
----------------------------
"You know the night before was a tough one when even the sound of the fizz hurts your head." -Mike Hammer.
Senmut is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 8th, 2013, 05:10 PM   #9
JLHurley
Warrior
 
JLHurley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 343

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

For what it's worth...

The covers and solicitation for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #1:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=43663
__________________
JLHurley
JLHurley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 8th, 2013, 06:26 PM   #10
Reaper
Warrior ACE!
 
Reaper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North NJ
Posts: 522

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Classic Battlestar Galactica?? and they mentioned deploying Dr Zee's Experimental Temporal weapon? DR ZEE?????? Already a fail there!
__________________
Strike Captain Edan
Blackstar Squadron
http://blackstarsquad.proboards.com/index.cgi



Classic fan, and die hard!
Reaper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 9th, 2013, 07:16 AM   #11
martok2112
Colonial Story Teller
 
martok2112's Avatar
 
FORUM STAFFFleet Moderator
Colonial Fleets

Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Orleans (Metairie), LA
Posts: 4,785


Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Paddon View Post
So long as Dynamite holds the rights to do Galactica comics, you can expect nothing but substandard efforts.
As with any series, show, or storytelling medium that goes into some form of series, writers change out all the time....especially in comic books. Many comic books have enjoyed (or endured) both good writers and bad writers in their runs. Likely the same with Galactica. It could very well have some good writing coming up.
__________________
Don't be a fan. Don't be a victim!-Martok2112
martok2112 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 13th, 2013, 08:39 PM   #12
monolith21
Squadron Leader
 
monolith21's Avatar
 


Join Date: May 2003
Location: Vista, CA
Posts: 1,707

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

It isn't a Galactica comic so much as a Galactica 1980 book. I don't understand that company's attraction to something nearly all Galactica fans despise. They should just do a comic version of Superscouts and get it over with.
__________________

Lt. Killian
Blackstar Squadron
"The Fighting Faithful"


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein
monolith21 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14th, 2013, 12:49 PM   #13
Eric Paddon
Squadron Leader
 
Eric Paddon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Morristown, NJ
Posts: 1,795

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Quote:
Originally Posted by martok2112 View Post
As with any series, show, or storytelling medium that goes into some form of series, writers change out all the time....especially in comic books. Many comic books have enjoyed (or endured) both good writers and bad writers in their runs. Likely the same with Galactica. It could very well have some good writing coming up.
The thing is, if you don't start with the right approach and the right template to what a true "classic" Galactica comic should be which is *starting after Hand Of God* and building off from there, then you have basically failed in terms of vision. An ongoing saga of Galactica should take the approach of picking up with the windows of opportunity left by the end of that episode and from that point build a new dimension of storytelling that above all blends in with the episodes that were made so it seems like a natural extension of that universe.

We have seen other projects fail to grasp this. Hatch's novels in particular. The Scalf comic started with the right approach but didn't get a chance to develop itself. Max Press started off on a terrific note but then self-destructed. Dynamite though, has demonstrated time and again that it does not care one whit about the universe of Galactica as it was created and developed over the course of the series. It regards the original as kiddie-fare to be enjoyed by 70s nostalgists and the thing that should know its place compared to the other project. They demonstrated that time and again in the controversies I know you well remember when their aversion to being criticized on this point led them to expel me and several others from their message board. Even though they did eventually come out with a slightly better story that took place after HOG than did their initial, bizarre story set *during* Saga (which could never be squared with traditional Galactica continuity in a million yahrens), it still failed to measure up to the necessary standards of putting characters first and paying attention to how things were set-up. Instead it gave us too much action from start to finish that while entertaining on one level is not how I want to see an official Galactica project develop itself.

Dynamite is going to have to do a lot more than just get better writers to change my view of them. They have to finally demonstrate they "get" what Galactica is really all about.
__________________
"They hate us with every fiber of their being. We love....freedom, independence, the right to question. To them it is an alien way of living."-The non-myopic wisdom of Commander Adama, "Saga Of A Star World"

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."-Ronald Reagan
Eric Paddon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14th, 2013, 12:58 PM   #14
Reaper
Warrior ACE!
 
Reaper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North NJ
Posts: 522

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

This right here!!! All of this!!!


Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Paddon View Post
The thing is, if you don't start with the right approach and the right template to what a true "classic" Galactica comic should be which is *starting after Hand Of God* and building off from there, then you have basically failed in terms of vision. An ongoing saga of Galactica should take the approach of picking up with the windows of opportunity left by the end of that episode and from that point build a new dimension of storytelling that above all blends in with the episodes that were made so it seems like a natural extension of that universe.

We have seen other projects fail to grasp this. Hatch's novels in particular. The Scalf comic started with the right approach but didn't get a chance to develop itself. Max Press started off on a terrific note but then self-destructed. Dynamite though, has demonstrated time and again that it does not care one whit about the universe of Galactica as it was created and developed over the course of the series. It regards the original as kiddie-fare to be enjoyed by 70s nostalgists and the thing that should know its place compared to the other project. They demonstrated that time and again in the controversies I know you well remember when their aversion to being criticized on this point led them to expel me and several others from their message board. Even though they did eventually come out with a slightly better story that took place after HOG than did their initial, bizarre story set *during* Saga (which could never be squared with traditional Galactica continuity in a million yahrens), it still failed to measure up to the necessary standards of putting characters first and paying attention to how things were set-up. Instead it gave us too much action from start to finish that while entertaining on one level is not how I want to see an official Galactica project develop itself.

Dynamite is going to have to do a lot more than just get better writers to change my view of them. They have to finally demonstrate they "get" what Galactica is really all about.
__________________
Strike Captain Edan
Blackstar Squadron
http://blackstarsquad.proboards.com/index.cgi



Classic fan, and die hard!
Reaper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14th, 2013, 03:02 PM   #15
martok2112
Colonial Story Teller
 
martok2112's Avatar
 
FORUM STAFFFleet Moderator
Colonial Fleets

Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Orleans (Metairie), LA
Posts: 4,785


Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Some folks took their criticisms too far with Dynamite, as they did with Skiffy...some even started getting personal, and that's what started the expulsions, which eventually became a bit more indiscriminate. If more people were thoughtful about their criticisms instead of coming across as "my childhood got raped" fanboys, then at least their voices would still be heard, if not heeded. I'm not saying this to belittle those who love Classic Galactica, and actually have their senses about them...I'm just stating the truth.

That's why I despise fandom. Radical fans are the ones who ruin fandom, by taking things so passionately and so personally that such folk cannot be taken seriously, which filters down to those who actually have the good sense to learn to snap back to real life....and thus, that particular fandom gets a bad name. This goes for either side of the Galactica fandom fence, and for any fandom in general.

I stopped considering myself a fan of anything a long time ago. I don't like the term. I don't like being thought of as a "fanatic". I have my own political reasons for despising the term...and given the way some "fans" act in "defense" of their favorite following, I have little to no reason to make any distinctions. Yes, I go to fan functions like Comic Con, or make "fan films" or "fan fictions" which I prefer to call tributes, but I no longer consider myself a fan of anything. As stated earlier, this is not a slam against those folks who love Classic Galactica, and know how to comport themselves as human beings.

In truth, I haven't followed any Galactica stuff that Dynamite has done for quite a good long while. I already have enough old comics and magazines lying around taking up space, and regardless of the quality of the tales being told by Dynamite, I just don't have any more room. It's certainly not out of a lack of interest.
__________________
Don't be a fan. Don't be a victim!-Martok2112
martok2112 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14th, 2013, 11:43 PM   #16
Eric Paddon
Squadron Leader
 
Eric Paddon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Morristown, NJ
Posts: 1,795

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

There were indeed some "fanatics" at the Dynamite board including one infamous person who no one in their right mind would ever defend. But in my own case, the Dynamite people proved that they possessed very thin skins and given how the guy who was running that site revealed a penchant for not telling the truth on more than one occasion (he was the one who strung a lot of us along by insisting there would never be any story set after HOG unless we got masses of people to sign petitions.....and lo and behold what did we then learn but that story that came next DID take place after HOG!) I think they squandered all their opportunities to come off as reasonable to those of us who simply wanted some *reasonable* objections heard out. These guys had to be shamed into just giving Glen Larson proper credit after they ran their first issue thanking Ron Moore and giving no mention of the guy who actually created the show!

Of course there were extremists in that lot, but frankly it was Dynamite's own actions right out of the box and their condescending attitude about the series in general that brought the whole thing on and I think I did act like a human being in that case in letting them know how perfectly ordinary "fans" felt about that situation, which given the context of what else was happening at the time was perfectly understandable.
__________________
"They hate us with every fiber of their being. We love....freedom, independence, the right to question. To them it is an alien way of living."-The non-myopic wisdom of Commander Adama, "Saga Of A Star World"

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."-Ronald Reagan
Eric Paddon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 3rd, 2013, 12:30 PM   #17
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic



Cover for issue 2.
__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 3rd, 2013, 12:56 PM   #18
martok2112
Colonial Story Teller
 
martok2112's Avatar
 
FORUM STAFFFleet Moderator
Colonial Fleets

Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Orleans (Metairie), LA
Posts: 4,785


Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Oh, damn! That is gorgeous!
__________________
Don't be a fan. Don't be a victim!-Martok2112
martok2112 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 3rd, 2013, 09:57 PM   #19
Punisher454
Warrior Ace
 
Punisher454's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Salem Oregon
Posts: 528

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Dont know anything about the content, but the cover is nice.
__________________
"Friend? Oviners have no friends!"
Punisher454 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 6th, 2013, 09:39 PM   #20
Jubal
Warrior
 
Jubal's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 203

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Huh... didn't see this at my bookstore. Need to see what is going on.
Jubal is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 7th, 2013, 04:49 AM   #21
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jubal View Post
Huh... didn't see this at my bookstore. Need to see what is going on.
The first issue is next month.
__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 12th, 2013, 07:17 AM   #22
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 13th, 2013, 09:32 PM   #23
Eric Paddon
Squadron Leader
 
Eric Paddon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Morristown, NJ
Posts: 1,795

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Time travel and alternate realities??? For crying out loud this is what did in Max Press years ago when they went all off-kilter after such a promising beginning. Why is it so impossible for these people to just do a nice simple continuation picking up off "Hand Of God" and take things from there???

Sorry for my perpetual cynicism but I just remain dumbfounded by how not a single official Galactica project ever gets it when it comes to entering things with the right mindset.
__________________
"They hate us with every fiber of their being. We love....freedom, independence, the right to question. To them it is an alien way of living."-The non-myopic wisdom of Commander Adama, "Saga Of A Star World"

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."-Ronald Reagan
Eric Paddon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 14th, 2013, 04:45 PM   #24
Senmut
Strike Leader
 
Senmut's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wenatchee, Soviet of WA., Ex U.S.A.
Posts: 4,491

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Because they aren't content to just enjoy, EP. They always feel that they know, somehow, what it "really needs", and so they play with it. They are like meddling children. We've seen this in GINO, as well as the mangling of the Trek franchise, and numerous other shows on TV.
Another reason both for, and why, the VS Project is so great. One can tell many and varied stories, without playing Picasso with the material.
__________________
Populos stultus viris indignas honores saepe dat. -Horace
----------------------------
Fortuna est caeca. -Cicero
----------------------------
"You know the night before was a tough one when even the sound of the fizz hurts your head." -Mike Hammer.
Senmut is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 20th, 2013, 08:40 AM   #25
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Cover to Dynamite's Battlestar Galactica #3.

__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old April 20th, 2013, 03:25 PM   #26
Punisher454
Warrior Ace
 
Punisher454's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Salem Oregon
Posts: 528

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Cover #3, really tasteless. I'd expect something like that from MAD magazine.
__________________
"Friend? Oviners have no friends!"
Punisher454 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 13th, 2013, 10:52 AM   #27
peter noble
Strike Leader
 
peter noble's Avatar
 
Colonial Fan ForceCo-Founder
Colonial Fan Force
COMMAND INSIGNIACo-Owner
TombsofKobol.com

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Derby, England
Posts: 2,560

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Preview: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...eview&id=16465
__________________
"Battlestar Galactica will never happen again the way that it was." – Laurette Spang
peter noble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 13th, 2013, 06:36 PM   #28
Reaper
Warrior ACE!
 
Reaper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North NJ
Posts: 522

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

DO the artists even know the Facts of the original Series premiere? Adama with a Goatee? Basestars attacking the Fleet?

It's like all they know is Galactica 1980 and they were told to include certain facts.
__________________
Strike Captain Edan
Blackstar Squadron
http://blackstarsquad.proboards.com/index.cgi



Classic fan, and die hard!
Reaper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 14th, 2013, 02:00 AM   #29
Jubal
Warrior
 
Jubal's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 203

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Paddon View Post
Why is it so impossible for these people to just do a nice simple continuation picking up off "Hand Of God" and take things from there???
There have been some Galactica that to me is done right. To me the Cylons were a element to keep the fleet moving from time to time. Actually I liked the aspect that as they got further and further out they saw the Cylons less and less, and I believe that in time the Cylons should not have been a factor at all.

What I liked was how the show explored other races. Encountered other beings. And ultimately I loved the banter between the pilots.

I liked how in the Marvel Universe comics a lot of stories were taking place amongst the fleet itself.

Sooooo many possibilities and what do we always get? Cylons.

And lately it seems to always hinge around defending Earth itself. Blah.

Oh well. I can hear in the background Catholic Nuns singing that song...

"You can't always get what you want...
you can't always get what you want..."
Jubal is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 14th, 2013, 05:27 PM   #30
Senmut
Strike Leader
 
Senmut's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wenatchee, Soviet of WA., Ex U.S.A.
Posts: 4,491

Default Re: New BG Classic ongoing comic

How would YOU do it, now?
__________________
Populos stultus viris indignas honores saepe dat. -Horace
----------------------------
Fortuna est caeca. -Cicero
----------------------------
"You know the night before was a tough one when even the sound of the fizz hurts your head." -Mike Hammer.
Senmut is offline   Reply With Quote

Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Classic Battlestar Comic: Baltar One-Shot peter noble The Last Battlestar......Galactica! 4 April 2nd, 2008 04:00 AM
More on the upcoming classic BG comic JLHurley The Last Battlestar......Galactica! 4 June 29th, 2006 01:23 PM
Writer for classic BG comic ongoing named! JLHurley The Last Battlestar......Galactica! 12 April 4th, 2006 07:14 PM
Newsbreak: NEW comic based on CLASSIC BG! JLHurley The Last Battlestar......Galactica! 15 February 2nd, 2006 09:44 AM
Battlestar Galactica comic book copyrights, who has them? KJ The Last Battlestar......Galactica! 8 October 31st, 2004 05:42 PM




So sez our Muffit!!!

For fans of the Classic Battlestar Galactica series



COPYRIGHT
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 09:58 AM. Contact the Fleet - Colonial Fleets - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top
Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.11, Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content and Graphics ©2000-Present Colonial Fleets
The Colonial Fleets Forums are run by Battlestar Galactica fans, paid for by Battlestar Galactica fans, for the enjoyment of fellow Battlestar Galactica fans.



©2000-2008 Colonial Fleets