A-Team movie prequel comics

[mizhowlinmad]

I haven't had a chance to read them aside from the Murdock issue of "War Stories" (the other series is "Shotgun Wedding," which makes me think of TILL DEATH DO US PART.) The first one is solo acts, the other one is a team story. Anybody else get them yet? Anyway, my impressions of the Murdock story...

*spoilers below*






Murdock is drawn to look like SC, but his performance and style are very much in DS' ballpark. I didn't realize that the Team in the new storyline are 1st Gulf War veterans rather than Iraq War. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me if the movie is set in the present, since the Gulf War was almost 20 years ago.
The story is in a US Army psych hospital in Mexico (), rather than a VA hospital. Murdock is trying to escape by disguising himself as a priest, which seems much more like a Face thing to me. He gets caught by the orderlies and they take him in to his shrink's office. The shrink starts interviewing him about how he ended up there, yada yada, and Murdock goes into flashback mode about the time he landed a chopper in hostile territory to rescue a downed couple of pilots. There are some priceless moments, notably:
1. Billy! He is "there" the whole time and Murdock keeps trying to reassure the doc that Billy is a good dog and won't bite. ;D Loved that.
2. The dialogue is very much in Murdock's "voice" and felt organic to me.
3. At one point the doc asks Murdock what his life would be like if it were a book, and he responds it would have to be a pop-up book to be accurate.
4. There are a couple of really funny movie references, including THE WIZARD OF OZ and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.

Things I didn't really like:
1. It's quite short, only about 30 pages, and there are more illustrations than actual dialogue.
2. Without giving too much away, there is some actual violence here. I can see Murdock only getting violent if one of his friends were in mortal danger.
3. In the flashback scenes, I couldn't visibly recognize him as Murdock aside from his clothes (maybe it was the shorter hair.)
4. Some of the drawings lack "punch," but then again, I don't read many comics or graphic novels (unlike Murdock himself.)

I may pick up the other ones if I get a chance, but definitely wanted to read this one.
And no, we don't find out what "HM" really stands for here, either.

[Aquamaniac]

As with the movie, I have no interest in these comic books.

[amyk]

I'm interested enough to at least glance at this thread, and I'm interested enough in the movie to at least glance at some of the stories and things about it, as well as the thread on this forum. But, I have no interest in reading these comics. Actually, I'm not even into fanfiction about the real A-Team (and rarely, if ever read it) unless it's my own! That may sound really conceited, but it is because I try to picture in my head when I'm writing the fanfiction the characters on the real show and I try to not put anything in there that I think they would never do on the show and try really hard to keep them in character.

[mizhowlinmad]

*chuckling*

Amy, I'm kind of the same way on fanfic. The way I imagine it in my head is the way I call it.

Isn't that kind of Hannibal-ish? Like method acting for the various monsters? ;D

[80sguy]

I've read all the comics for this series. Out of all the war stories, I think I like Hannibal's the best. The way he talked in it seemed really reminded me of the George Peppard's Hannibal. He even cracked a few jokes at the bad guy!

Shotgun Wedding is worth a read, if you wanted a story that's like an episode of the series. Hannibal is basically hired by his friend to protect his daughter from a contract kill threat during her Wedding, and the team disguise themselves as members of the ship, Hannibal disguised as a priest, B.A. a security guard, Face as the wedding planner, and Murdock as a chef.

The comic itself is more violent then the film though in the sense that there's more blood and you see more gun shots hitting people, so modernized in that sense. And yeah, they kill bad guys, but it's not a body bag fest and you get use to it VERY fast.

Typically jokes from the show (Murdock drugs B.A.'s hot chocolate lol). Fun read overall. Considering the chances of a sequel are pretty much slim to none now, the best way to get more A-Team adventure is the comics.

[celine]

I have a "TAT War Stories" comic my friend bought me. I like Murdock's adventure, and also Hannibal's where he walks right into Hussein's headquarters and gets busted because he's wearing the wrong boots! LOL

[lionheart]

I don't pick up comic book's on moives, I tend to see they lack something, I don't know what it is and can not pin point it but there something about them, I do not like.

Now the old 1980's comics from the show now I would love to pick up if I can find them.

[geneaqueen]

I still have to get the movie comics (having FINALLY seen the movie, I definitely want them - the fanficcer coming out full force, I guess).

lionheart, watch eBay for the series' comics - they appear quite often there and usually are very reasonable. That's where I've gotten 99% of my memorabilia.

[lionheart]

Thats what ['m going to end up doing is going on Ebay to seek out A-team comics yay!