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The Real World |
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Zeitgeist is the result of a collaboration between two of the greatest creative minds in the comic book industry. Neither of them have any clue that this site exists and probably would make fun of me if they knew. |
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Mike Allred's a madman. |
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Mike Allred is known for his retro pop art style. I first heard of Mike when he was putting out his first few issues of Madman in the early 90's. His pop art stylings were really different from most of the gritty crap that was being produced at the time. Madman was critically acclaimed and did tremendously well for an independent comic. He also did the art for Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy which was a pretty funny movie. While Allred has been a guest artist in several titles of both Marvel and DC, he is best known for Madman which was produced by Kitchensink, Tundra, Darkhorse, and his own company AAApop. Mike's recentlt adaptated the book of Mormon into Comic form and continues to draw Madman. |
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Peter Milligan the changing man. |
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Peter Milligan has done a lot of titles over the years. He did a lot of stuff for 2000 AD but I haven't read any of it so I don't won't say anything about it. His first DC title was Shade the Changing man. It was a vertigo rendition of Steve Ditko's classic character. The title was twisted and really gave the tired character some depth on a more mature level. He wrote a few other titles while doing Shade and one that really sticks out is Batman. He did this cool story arc about the Riddler and this demon that Thomas Jefferson helped free. I haven't got the last issue of the arc but it started out really cool. He's also done Animal Man, Catwoman, Tank Girl, Human Target, Revolver, X-men and Enigma. Anyway Peter is known for his interesting social commentary and his unpredictable plot lines. He currently writes the Programme a story abour cold war superheroes contextualizing themselves in the current global social/political world.
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Originally I wanted to be serious and talk about what X-Force meant as a comic book, because after all it was the first mainstream comic title to permanently drop the comic code approval without becoming a mature readers only title. But I decided I wouldn't bother with a lengthy article on the horrors of the comic code or the social satire of X-Force.
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