Black Hammer #1-5

>>87820733
Thank you

>>87820562
I'm amazed how fucking good this turned out to be dark horse can really pump out great stuff

>>87820692
I know that feel, Gail.

the annual is going to be nice

OK, so
Abraham Slam = Slam Bradley + Golden Age Superman?
Barbalien = Martian Manhunter + John Carter?
Col. Weird = Adam Strange

The others I'm not really sure of. Anti-God is very close to Darkseid, but he's from the 70's and Anti-Monitor the 80's.
If there's some metaphor at play here I'm not really getting it, maybe if I find out who the other characters are it'll be more clear. MM and Strange were two of Lemire's pet characters at DC so those make sense.

I'm pretty sick of the whole "Golden Age characters become fucked up edgy shit" gimmick that's been done to death since Watchmen and this isn't doing much to make me change my mind, but I'll keep reading because I at least like the characters.

>>87821557
gail is captain marvel/ miss marvel

>>87821557
Wait I just got to issue #2 and Golden Gail is Captain/Mary Marvel, so I got that now. MM and Strange are late Golden Age/Atomic Age characters and Slam Bradley and Marvel are early Golden Age so I still don't quite get the choices here.

>>87821557
>>87821609
Looks like Abe has some Captain America in him.

>>87821944
>Lives in an observatory
>That costume
>Named James Robinson
>Doctor Star

I love how blatant this entire page is.

>>87822178
Nice one.

>>87820919
Just wanted you to know I'm reading along, OP. A surprisingly gripping story. I'm on-board for it. Thanks for sharing.

>>87822178
>I'll throw a rock at em!

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That's all for now

>>87821883
Ouch.

>>87822376
Hot damn that was so good. Thanks op. Really passed the time. Ill have to go pick up issue 6 on december 21st.

wow this is rad thanks OP. i appreciate it. love you.

>>87821776
Goddamn. These people need to escape if only to be free of this little shit.

>>87822376

I'm definitely intrigued. Does anyone know how many issues this is? I only buy comics in TPB form these days, but I could definitely see myself following this series in that form.

>>87825014
Its an ongoing. #5 is the most recent so I am guessing the trades will collect the first 6 issues

Aside from Ben getting Mad at Johnny, I can't seem to connect with Super dysfunction stories.

>>87820905
Anti-God= Anti-Monitor, Darkseid and Galactus

>>87821615
Jeff Lemire: What I tried to do originally was have each of the five characters represent a different era of comic book history. It became a little more complicated than that, but the original tag was: Golden Gail was a Golden Age Captain Marvel/Shazam-type hero. Abraham Slam would also be a Golden Age hero, a sort of pulpy crime-buster character from the ’30s or ’40s. Then you have Colonel Weird, who started off as the clichéd 1950s Mystery in Space kind of Adam Strange/Captain Comet guys, and then Barbalien was more of a Bronze Age/Silver Age hero, and then Madam Dragonfly was totally a ’70s-’80s House of Mystery, early Vertigo kind of character. So between the characters you kind of get the whole history of comics that I love. And then the big event that wiped these characters out is a real nod to Crisis of Infinite Earths, the first big comic book event from the ’80s that has since spawned so many every summer. That comic had a massive impact on me. As we move on in the series, we’ll start to comment on how these events have become the anchors of the whole industry, maybe in not such a good way.

>>87820526
One of my favorite ongoing comics at the moment. Jeff Lemire excels at character focused comics. Dean Ormstone and Dave Stewart are foing great work. Thank god they waited for Dean to recover following his medical issues. Thanks for the storytime OP.

>>87821609
>abraham slamkowski
>punch socklingham
these names are great holy shit