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Post by Lexi on Apr 21, 2010 19:28:27 GMT
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Post by Esmeralda on May 6, 2010 0:50:32 GMT
Here's a link that does a great job of putting all of the current images we've been given into one spot: Wiki: Charmed Comics |
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 2, 2010 0:33:57 GMT
I'm *very* happy. I just got my copy of Charmed #0 from my local comic book store, ironically called "The Source". Although some of it made me roll my eyes, all-and-all I'm happy with it and am planning on getting Charmed #1 when it comes out. SPOILER ALERT! ANYONE WHO IS PLANNING ON GETTING CHARMED #0 AND HASN"T YET AND DOESN'T WANT TO GET SPOILED, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THE REST OF THIS POST!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!The main thing that irritated me is that it appears that Piper gets her whole family when Phoebe only gets her single daughter and Paige just her twins. Since Piper never even mentioned her daughter in her entry during "Forever Charmed", and Paige specifically mentioned a son she doesn't get to have, I don't feel like Prudence Melinda should exist in the comic book world. It just makes me feel like the comic book is going to be the continuation of "The Perils of Poor, Poor, Pitiful Piper" and if that's the case, I won't keep buying them for long.
But I thoroughly enjoyed all of the summaries, both of the sisters and the seasons, and was very curious by the spells that were chosen, wondering how many of them will pop up in future issues.
My only problem with those is that the writing doesn't sound like any of the sisters, not even their own pages, and why draw pictures of themselves? If they're going to include photos of Prue, Cole, Grams, Patty, Wyatt, Chris and Billie, I feel like they should've included photos of Piper, Leo, Phoebe, Coop, Paige and Henry. Actually I would've preferred photos of the latter and drawings of the ones who are gone, but I suppose that would've led to speculation as to whether those characters would return. If the ones in the pictures never return to the comics, I won't complain, as much as I love Prue, Grams and Patty.
It also irritated me that the season recaps are supposed to be written by one of the Charmed Ones, but each sister is always referred to by her name, not but "I", as Phoebe is in the writeup of Cole (and that's the one that sounded the least like the person writing it). Especially where they use different fonts for each sister's page and continue to do this for the "Forever Charmed" page, I feel like each sister should've written a quick summary of what had happened to them, perhaps set up to sound like it had just been written at the end of that season with no idea of what was to come, so that even Prue could've written about Seasons 1 & 2.
But those are just irritations, not true complaints. All and all, I'm pleased and plan on getting Issue #1. |
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 22, 2010 1:27:55 GMT
YAY! I got Charmed #1 today!! Got it and read it! So, here's another spoiler alert!
First off, I'm very happy with the way the sisters (and Leo and Coop - no signs of Henry yet - not thrilled with the drawings of the kids, especially Phoebe's baby Prue - she looks like she is being played by the same fugly set of twins who played Baby Chris) were drawn. They don't look *that* much like the actressses, but I'm glad - the ones on the cover *do* look like the actresses and I don't think they're pretty at all, while the ones in the comics are all very pretty, especially Paige as a redhead. The characters are all in line and so far they're the Paige, Phoebe and Piper (since that's the order they're introduced) who I love, not the Miss Whinealot, PhoeME and Ditzy who starred in the last three seasons of the show.
It's supposed to be 18 months since the Big Battle, but I still insist that no way Wyatt (who is not a blond, but whose hair is styled differently than Chris') is 3 1/2 and no way Chris is 2! At the very youngest, Wyatt is 5 and Chris is 4, making this closer to 3 years in the future, which works, coz that would make it 2010. So as far as I'm concerned...
I'm also not happy that although Piper's daughter is older, she's named Mel (which I assume is short for Melinda) while Phoebe's is named Prue. No way I can't see Piper naming *her* daughter Prue and no way I can see Phoebe naming "Ladybug" that - she just never seemed that close to Prue, not the way Piper was. Actually I'd be happier if Phoebe's daughter had been named something else, because then I could pretend that Piper's daughter is Prudence Melinda - the name they were going to give Wyatt if he was a girl - but are calling her Melinda, while Phoebe's was Patricia WHATEVER, but they're calling her WHATEVER. So I'm more than just a bit irritated about that, but can accept it because up to this point, it's the only thing about the series irritating me.
I'm not thrilled with the powers that were given the two kids (HATE it when kids are more powerful than their mothers who are supposed to be Charmed), but up to this point, the powers (and the way the powers are shown) are fun. Hopefully those powers don't take over the series...
I liked the two demons and their powers, especially Neena, and I've got a funny hunch that the BIG BAD is going to be Zankou, which would be absolutely fantastic, since then I can pretend that except for Paige meeting Henry and Phoebe meeting Coop - which I can pretend happened during S7 rather than Leslie and Brody and *oh, well* Drake - S8 never happened, because I definitely prefer this plot to the ones during that season. I read somewhere that the first five issues make the first "episode". If that's the case, this would be the Teaser and it works fantastically as that. Kudos to Paul Ruditis, Raven Gregory, Dave Hoover, Millen Parvanov, Jim Campbell and Ralph Tedesco. What truly irritated me is that of 34 pages, only 24 of them are truly Charmed #1. The other 10 pages are Zenoscope previews, none of which I was particularly interested in, especially at $3.50. I would've preferred paying the $1.99 I paid for Charmed #0 and only have the 24 pages, or paying the full $3.50 for Charmed #0 and getting the previews there. But for now, I'm happy and looking forward to Issue #2. If you want to reply and are going to do some spoiling, why not do it this same way? |
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Post by Lexi on Jul 22, 2010 14:11:15 GMT
I've not been buying the comics and to be honest I can't see myself buying them - at least not for a while until I'm completely settled in my new flat. I do look forward to reading your reviews though, Es, if I was to buy the comics then I would want to know what you thought first to know whether it would be worth it.  |
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Post by CSF on Dec 15, 2010 3:29:23 GMT
I haven't bought them, and I doubt that I will. It's not because I don't like comics, though. It's more that I have a very firm set of fanon in my head in terms of what happens to the Charmed Ones after Season 8, and I don't think I would like the comics very much, since I'll nitpick at every thing that conflics with my fanon. Plus, I'm kinda broke and can't afford it.  Hey, Es, did Paige's twins get named yet in the comics? |
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Post by Esmeralda on Dec 16, 2010 3:57:03 GMT
LOL, maybe that's the reason why I can enjoy the comics. I accept them as an alternate universe, the way I accept anything past S8 as an alternate universe. I have a hunch if they ever did do a Charmed spin-off (and I'd prefer it like this over one that just had the boys), I'd just take *that* as an alternate universe.
As far as I'm concerned, both Phoebe and Piper died during "Kill Billie Vol 2", with Forever Piper, I mean Forever Crap, I mean Forever Charmed as Piper's delusion as she dies, with Paige and Victor having brought up the boys after Paige bound both her powers (she didn't want to be a whitelighter until after she was dead) and the boys' powers, so the Warrens are now forever UnCharmed. That's fanon to me, so you can see how I'll look at just about anything as an alternate universe and not worry how similar or different it is to anything else, including my own.
No, Paige's twins haven't been named yet. And for that matter, we haven't seen any of the kids since the beginning of Issue #2 and I just bought Issue #4. What's nice is that the new artist has started and all of the sisters look a lot more like the actresses than they did in the previous ones. In fact, there are some panels where they look AMAZINGLY like the actresses, but unlike some of the drawings I've seen, they actually look pretty.
Best of all Paige is back to having dark hair! So hopefully that means the twins will be back to being dark-haired, too.
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Post by Esmeralda on Dec 16, 2010 4:19:58 GMT
Oh, if anyone wants an idea of what the new artists' stuff looks like (and also does a bit of spoiling for Issue #4, check this out: Marcio Abreu's Gallery |
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Post by Esmeralda on Jan 23, 2011 2:48:40 GMT
YAY! I'm very happy. Before I was irritated that in the comic books, they call Piper's daughter Melinda and Phoebe's daughter Prue, (although those are the names that Lexi used in "Angels and Demons", to make them different than the characters in "Progeny") even though Piper was always much closer to Prue than Phoebe ever was and Piper wanted to name Wyatt Prudence Melinda if he was a girl as he should've been. Well, I found myself looking up stuff on Charmed Wiki and found this: Melinda Halliwell which includes this: Prudence Melinda Halliwell, more commonly known as Melinda, is the third child and only daughter of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt, and the younger sister of Wyatt and Chris. She is born in 2007,[1] when Chris is three and in the comics, in which the year is 2008, she looks like a one year old. She was seen in the final episode of Charmed being sent off to school with Wyatt and Chris. [2]
Confirmation of Existence
Both the Official Charmed Companion Book, The Book of Three Volume 2 and The Official Charmed Magazine have confirmed that Piper and Leo will have a third child, a daughter, and that she will be named Prudence Melinda Halliwell. She was shown only in a short scene, being sent off to school with Wyatt and Chris, in one of the flash forward sequences at the very end of "Forever Charmed", confirming that this obviously came to pass.
Name
In the episode "Baby's First Demon", Phoebe has said that Piper originally wanted to name her first child, Prudence Melinda, in honor of their big sister Prue . The name Melinda appeared in one of the episode's casting scripts, though it was never mentioned explicitly in the final episode. The Book of Three Volume 2 credits her as Prudence Melinda. That book is a fully authorized companion, and thus proves that her names is Prudence Melinda. Other than the fact that she exists, and the obvious given conclusion that her powers are purely inherited from Piper's side of the family, little is known about her.
Notes:
In the comic, Phoebe names her eldest daughter Prudence as well. Still, it is possible for both sisters to name their daughters Prue. Piper just uses her daughter's second name, Melinda.
YAY! This is *so* what I wanted - both sisters naming their oldest daughter after their lost sister - but calling one Melinda so she has an identity of her own and the other one now has a nickname - PJ. Perfect!
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Post by matthew on Oct 28, 2012 13:30:59 GMT
Must Admit Charmed comics are rather good, the advancements in girls powers are also logically explained and the sight of new baddies and return of old characters do spice the show up even more than before and best of all its back to revolving around the girls rather than new comers or big bad ultimate evils.
Now charmed comics can be purchased on Andriods. Look up on your App store. Volume one, two and three are available.
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Post by Lexi on Oct 28, 2012 16:43:10 GMT
Hmm, I wonder if they have something for the iPhone too. That's the problem with many apps, they come out for one but not other smartphones. I think Windows phones get the real short end of the stick when it comes to apps.
Es, haven't seen reviews for a while, how far into the comics are they now?
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