Showing posts with label The Delinquents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Delinquents. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2015

Digitally Speaking...37 "The Delinquents"

via Valiant Universe
The Delinquents #1 (Valiant)
From 2014.

Archer & Armstrong.  Quantum & Woody.  Together.  Except out of those four names, you really only need to know one name:

Deadpool.

As in, they totally Deadpooled this series.  "They" as in James Asmus and Fred Van Lente.  Asmus is the writer of Quantum while Van Lente is responsible for Archer.  I actually came away from the Quantum reboot when I sampled it thinking somewhat positively.  But yeah, totally Deadpooled.

It's more disappointing seeing Van Lente in this kind of form.  I know him best from Action Philosophers and the various Hercules comics he did with Greg Pak for Marvel.  Those were funny.  Here, he's, yeah, Deadpooled.

Look, I appreciate hobos just as much as anyone else.  But enough about Asmus and Van Lente.  Ha!  Seriously, though, this is a bunch of nonsense.  And I'm not even sure "Delinquents" was the best term to use for those hobos.  I mean, bozos.  

Whatever.  

This may be the real legacy of the great Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Bwa-ha-ha League.  Sad to see.