The only Marvel book I looked at in the last year was X-Men Forever simply because it continued the early 90s storyline as if none of the shit after that ever happened.
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/12/09/morrisons-inspiration-decoded/
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I gotta give it to Empowered once again. Everybody needs to check it out...don't let the manga look fool you; animu it is NOT.
I read The Walking Dead, Chew and Invincible from Image and from Marvel/DC: Morrison's Batman and Robin, Blackest Night, Green Lantern/Corps, Detective Comics, Spiderman, all The Avengers books, The Unwritten, Greek Street, Daytripper, X-Factor and all the Deadpool series.
I also follow the Dr.Who monthly and Rucka's Stumptown.
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/12/09/morrisons-inspiration-decoded/
:rofl
:lol
I'm surprised some of you BUY comics, I just pirate everything. When I read something I really like or I would rather read it in hand then I'd buy it, like Nextwave or the numerous Batman books.I gotta give it to Empowered once again. Everybody needs to check it out...don't let the manga look fool you; animu it is NOT.
I don't like this at all, the art is great but besides that :x
Empowered from Adam Warren, which is always entertaining as hell, but the books come out like once or twice a year and that's it.
I just got into comics and i'm starting to get out of them again. I currently read walking dead and that's about it. Trying to finish Y: The Last Man but it's boring, and almost finished with Box Office Poison, then I can move onto Marvel 1602, but I fucking hate hardcovers.
What's the Joss Whedom Xmen comics? Good?
So Im reading that Punisher got beheaded, resurrected as some Frankenstein like creature and now has superpowers?
WHAT?
Isn't that the second (possibly third) time they've offed him? Didn't he come back as an angel or something at some point?
So Im reading that Punisher got beheaded, resurrected as some Frankenstein like creature and now has superpowers?
WHAT?
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/FrankenCastle.jpg
:roflIsn't that the second (possibly third) time they've offed him? Didn't he come back as an angel or something at some point?
Yeah. I never read those books, but IIRC he had guns that shot unlimited "holy bullets" or something. The Punisher is one of those characters that should either never interact with 99% of the rest of the Marvel universe, or be put into a universe of his own.
Remember THE PUNISHER VS. ARCHIE? :lol
I want to see Punisher vs Batman just to see who is more fucked in the head.
So Im reading that Punisher got beheaded, resurrected as some Frankenstein like creature and now has superpowers?
WHAT?
So Im reading that Punisher got beheaded, resurrected as some Frankenstein like creature and now has superpowers?
WHAT?
Wasn't he beheaded by wolverine's emo son too? :lol
I really can't tell any difference between Marvel and DC; the point at which you care is the point past which you become "fanboy", I'm afraid (where you start liking/disliking books because of who publishes them). They both have practically identical strategies, as far as I can see.
Seriously.
I've never really kept up with comics as they're being released, but I got the impression over the last few years that the two big labels have been going nuts with the big, world-threatening crossovers. Every time I went to the local comic shop there'd be promotional stuff for Secret Invasion, Civil War, World War Hulk, Crisis and all the affiliated stuff.
I can see the appeal of doing these now and again, but if your universe is always in turmoil then it's not really an event, is it?
Whats the best comic ereader?
Whats the best comic ereader?The Mac comic reader landscape is pretty barren. Windows is well-served by this app, which is luscious in its simplicity and competence. I would LOVE if this was available for Mac:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/12/17/the-15-worst-comics-of-the-decade/
Amazing read. Comics are so terrible. He said, loving comics.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/12/17/the-15-worst-comics-of-the-decade/
Amazing read. Comics are so terrible. He said, loving comics.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/12/17/the-15-worst-comics-of-the-decade/
Amazing read. Comics are so terrible. He said, loving comics.
Plots seem random and slapped-up. Weird justifications are given artlessly: Juggernaut's just a big, angry kid in a suit, there was a real Xorn who was not Magneto and oh yeah there's a brother, because fans really liked Xorn and were really shocked and heart-broken and Morrison's twist and why not just biopsy the impact completely? Then there's the legendary "Draco" storyline, which goes something like this: The Devil has been on Earth, impregnating women for years, so that he can go to Earth. And he's Nightcrawler's father! And he's The Devil!
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/12/17/the-15-worst-comics-of-the-decade/
Amazing read. Comics are so terrible. He said, loving comics.
About the X-Men, in particular:QuotePlots seem random and slapped-up. Weird justifications are given artlessly: Juggernaut's just a big, angry kid in a suit, there was a real Xorn who was not Magneto and oh yeah there's a brother, because fans really liked Xorn and were really shocked and heart-broken and Morrison's twist and why not just biopsy the impact completely? Then there's the legendary "Draco" storyline, which goes something like this: The Devil has been on Earth, impregnating women for years, so that he can go to Earth. And he's Nightcrawler's father! And he's The Devil!
FFFFFFUUUUUUU! The Morrison run was godlike. I've read it 4 or 5 times. It's one of the comics that I don't give away, because I know I'll keep coming back to it. Put a comics-industry permaban on whomever made the call to retcon Xorn.
Put me in with the "Morrison (and especially Morrison/Quietly) = :yuck :yuck :yuck" crowd. I did like it when they did the Authority though, go figure.It's like I don't even know you. You are dead to me.
Morrison wants to be Alan Moore so bad his stories are becoming jokes. DC is going to need to do REALLY FINAL CRISIS once he's done fucking with Batman.I'm pretty sure that, despite both of them claiming to be magicians, Alan Moore is eccentric but verifiably sane and Morrison is probably actually insane but socially productive. Any writer who doesn't respect and admire Alan Moore is speaking from a place of jealous self-delusion; even Warren Fucking Ellis is pretty candid with the regard in which he holds AM.
The only artist worse than Quietly is Liefeld. It's like Quietly makes too much an effort to make his Superheroes look extremely gay.
All-Star Superman is a terrific miniseries, you don't really have to know jack shit about Superman to enjoy it
Joe Kelly wrote a Superman story in Action Comics #775 called What's so funny about Truth, Justice & the American Way? which is probably the best single issue Superman comic in the past ten years.
I mostly hate new (mainstream) comics. They're too expensive, too inbred, too charmless and cynical. I mainly stick with reprints of stuff pre-1980 or independents nowadays, if I read at all.
you've watched the care bear movie enough to draw the parallels?
You know, Blackest Night also has the same plot as most Lucky Charms commercials.
The only artist worse than Quietly is Liefeld. It's like Quietly makes too much an effort to make his Superheroes look extremely gay.
Quitely's art is ugly? My god, just stop reading comics. He may draw ugly people, but ugly art? Are you fucking kidding me? I could stare at any Frank Quitely book all day.
Quitely's art is ugly? My god, just stop reading comics. He may draw ugly people, but ugly art? Are you fucking kidding me? I could stare at any Frank Quitely book all day.
Considering that superhero comics focus on the people, uh...yeah. :lol Kind of reminds me of the guy who draws Initial D, where the cars are insanely detailed, but the people are ugly as sin. Anyway, like I said, Quietly has talent. I hate his artwork, but he's no Rob Liefeld.
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It was him or Geoff Johns! Johns sometimes accidentally writes something readable, though.
In an interview with Loeb, Z. Julian Cenac of ComixFan.com noted that some readers were upset that the Red Hulk was able to thrash other powerful Marvel characters, and were concerned that such a high power-level wouldn't be sustainable. Loeb replied, "I tell the best stories I can."[24]
I haven't read a mainstream superhero book in years. I heard Blue Beetle got killed off, which pisses me off. He was one of my all-time favorite comic book characters.
I haven't read a mainstream superhero book in years. I heard Blue Beetle got killed off, which pisses me off. He was one of my all-time favorite comic book characters.
they killed him off in a really shitty way, too
Pick up All Star Superman if you haven't read it, probably the best superhero book of the decade.
Pick up All Star Superman if you haven't read it, probably the best superhero book of the decade.
Is it out in paperback? I don't buy single issues anymore.
Not hating X-Men Forever. An X-Men book without Wolverine in every panel is a good thing.
I haven't read a mainstream superhero book in years. I heard Blue Beetle got killed off, which pisses me off. He was one of my all-time favorite comic book characters.
they killed him off in a really shitty way, too
I just read the Wiki. That makes no sense at all. The Ted Kord Wiki says his body was incinerated, so how could he come back as a Black Lantern or whatever? I can understand making a mistake in continuity for an older story, but wasn't Ted Kord killed off just a couple of years ago? How can the writers have forgotten that the body was reduced to cinders?
Well, they can't ever die permanently now that the prospect of even the most questionable characters being turned into a multi-billion dollar movie franchise exists. It shouldn't really matter all that much, since most kids only read comics for 4-5 yrs - keep a character dead for that length of time and it has SOME meaning. The creators don't have a lot of choice in this.
One more reason to step outside of Marvel/DC.
They killed off Superboy during Infinite Crisis and brought him back less than a year later. :lol
They brought back Barry Allen, what the fuck...
Reading these wikis is fuck depressing.
Oh, they brought back Ice! Sweet, another of my favorite Justice League characters. Just sucks that they brought her back only to kill off Ted Kord. :(
Have any of you guys read Wanted, the comic that the movie was very loosely based on? I've heard that the comic is completely different from the movie, and also that the comic is really good. I was thinking about trying to get a copy of it based on what I've heard.
They also did a reasonably fun Defenders mini-series for Marvel. Why Kevin McGuire isn't working on a major book at all times, I have no idea. Still does the best facial expressions in comics.
...unlike all the top artists in comics today!
i dunno, Justice League always seemed to come out on time. I used to buy it in issues monthly, I should know.
last thing i remember him doing is leave it to chance with james robinson, that was a good seriesKewl, thanks! The first book of that is only ¥1600 on amazon, so I'ma bag it.
Really enjoying Green Lantern right now.
Blackest Night is great and after that we get Brightest Day.
what's the post-Blackest Night stuff that you think is going to be "pants wettingly awesome"?
Brubaker is the best Marvel has. It's too bad he's forced to do Quesada's bidding.
Raban: Read Batman Year One. Miller and Mazuchelli. Really good stuff.
No Man's Land is a must? What?
In general, all the best Batman stuff is regular single-issue stories. Longer does not equal better.
Manabyte, "faithful to the comics" does not inspire me at all. The recent animated film had all that stuff, even Kilowog, and it was still boring.
For Supes I'd jump around. Read the Death storyline but stop before the funeral/supermen crap. The newer stuff has been good. Richard Donner had a short run on it that reintroduced Zod and lead into the current (and good) New Krypton story.
Same thing with Batman. Read Knightfall, but not the Azbat bullshit.
Azbat was shit. It was just DC trying to capitalize on Image by making a Batman that was a reject from Youngblood.
wait, did you fail to recommend All Star Superman and recommend New Krypton instead?
They altered Golden Compass so much from the books people hated it.
GL is extremely faithful to the comics. Jordan gets the ring from Abin Sur, Sinestro is his mentor, and they even have Kilowag in it. Hammond is the main villain but they're having Sinestro in it as Jordans mentor to set up at least the first sequel.
wait, did you fail to recommend All Star Superman and recommend New Krypton instead?
to be fair new krypton is pretty good
Is DC still in danger of losing their rights to Superman?
http://www.tcj.com/superhero/rich-kreiners-yearlong-best-of-the-year-new-krypton
We’re in the midst of complimenting, amazingly enough, aspects of three ongoing commercial mega-crossovers. Last time, acknowledgment went to crafted early moments of Brian Michael Bendis’ Dark Avengers which displayed real cleverness in conception and smacked of authentic presidential malfeasance. This time it’s the more complex social and political framework underlying the “New Krypton” cycle in DC’s Superman-related titles.
“New Krypton” is the realm created by the enlargement of Brainiac’s bottled city of Kandor, a Silver Age artifact familiar to Superman readers of longstanding. That enlargement unleashes a flood of super-powered Kryptonians on Earth, in essence 100,000 new Supermen, itself a wrinkle that might awaken some curiosity in readers of almost any standing.
Early on there are glimpses of what that many endowed aliens might mean to the storyline. Among the glistening spires of New Krypton, a newly supered-up visitor dumps a blue whale carcass in a pristine courtyard: “I found this in the water. It tried to eat me. I punched it. It stopped trying to eat me.” At street-level Metropolis, two Kryptonians exhibit indifference, then disdain, at a traffic accident; they were moved neither to prevent it before nor to mitigate the severity of the injuries after. It all tends to heighten the clash of sensibilities and, in the process, throw into high relief the deep-seated humanity the Kents bequeathed their adopted son Clark during the course of his upbringing.
Of course things get worse for almost everybody. There’s an admirable coordination between the saga’s authors, among them Geoff Johns and James Robinson, in conveying the astonishment and confusion rippling along both sides of the species divide.They provide the satisfying progression from nervousness to apprehension to suspicion to antagonism to provocation and hostility between the sides, an escalation accelerated by sheer foreignness and disparate wherewithal. On “our” side are wary citizens, overmatched costumed good guys and, well behind the scenes, bad guys forwarding their own agenda. The other side boasts a multitude of strange visitors from another planet, augmented to unmatchable levels, carrying out their own agenda in plain sight. And why wouldn’t they? What have they to hide or be ashamed and hesitant about? Anyway, who could do anything about it?
In one proactive bit of vigilante housecleaning — not to trivialize death, even in funnybooks — several cops are killed in the line of duty by Kryptonians (unnecessarily, it appears to readers). The newcomers’ leader, Alura, explains: “there’s an earth term I’ve learned of late – collateral damage. These policemen were unlucky.” Eventually she will allow that humans are “Pathetic and inferior yet mired in hubris. Let them all die.”
Not to trivialize real-world horrors — especially as funnybook inspiration — but it’s difficult not to map specific incidents, twists or snippets of dialogue onto those real-world horrors. First to mind are the conflicts of the Middle East. American servicemen and women, armed and armored like relative supermen, alien supermen, intervene in Iraq, hoping that shock and awe can pave the way to immediate objectives. Perhaps a closer mapping still is that of the Palestinian / Israeli fighting during the winter of 2008. There, the latter, enjoying a similar superiority of armament and weaponry, inflicted wildly disproportionate degrees of “collateral damage” upon their opposition. Theirs was a premeditated response that could have flowed directly from the position enunciated by the fictional Alura: “Until we are absolutely safe, there can be no limits.”
As for our escapist entertainment, Superman, compromised by his multiple allegiances, is superimpotent to effectively intervene, unable to prevent unfolding tragedies. So’s Supergirl, twice over, as her mom is Alura. By way of contrast, Lex Luthor remains an exemplar of unswerving motivation, pure as driven soot. All in all, the opening act made for a tight and tidy dilemma for its principle players.
As of the end of the second collected volume of the “New Krypton” storyline, some of the most intractable problems mentioned here have seemingly been sidestepped, put on a back burner by the fabulous developments possible only in comics. Thank goodness this is only an imaginary story, eh?
GL always takes place in Earth and space and this is an origin movie so it makes sense.
It's like complaining about Batman Begins having too many villains.
GL always takes place in Earth and space and this is an origin movie so it makes sense.
It's like complaining about Batman Begins having too many villains.
GL always takes place in Earth and space and this is an origin movie so it makes sense.
It's like complaining about Batman Begins having too many villains.
Hey Mana I'm interested in GL. What some essential shit that I should read? Is it worth digging up the Showcase Presents books or should I focus on the more contemporary TPBs?
GL always takes place in Earth and space and this is an origin movie so it makes sense.
It's like complaining about Batman Begins having too many villains.
Hey Mana I'm interested in GL. What some essential shit that I should read? Is it worth digging up the Showcase Presents books or should I focus on the more contemporary TPBs?
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The scariest part is that is 100% American-made.
Chew continues to be hilarious and surprising. Fantastic art too. Strongly recommended.
Chew continues to be hilarious and surprising. Fantastic art too. Strongly recommended.Will find. Thanks.
Chew continues to be hilarious and surprising. Fantastic art too. Strongly recommended.Will find. Thanks.
http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Star-Superman-Grant-Morrison/dp/1401229174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265157871&sr=1-1
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Yeah, cool. Of course, I'd have to ship it to you and you'd have to ship or hand it off again. But I'll probably like it.Chew continues to be hilarious and surprising. Fantastic art too. Strongly recommended.Will find. Thanks.
First 5 issues are out in trade, 'Taster's Choice'.
One-time only offer: If you don't like it, I'll buy it from you and give it to someone else!
Yeah, amazon is our best bet. The only problem I have is that buy one comic, and they send you an email every day for the rest of your life plugging shitty comics.I've got that system beat, Fuad Ramses! I use a chaff hotmail account for my amazon dealings, and get my notifications on stuff i actually care about, like MP3 freebies and sales, through their twattings.
You will LOVE Chew.
jim lee own shares in an india ink mine or something?
Hawkman :lol
i've never watched an ep of Smallville but i must see this
Two full hours!
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Is there anything else interesting about Hawkman?
I've been meaning to ask, I assume you guys download a lot of comics. Where exactly do you get them from?
I've been meaning to ask, I assume you guys download a lot of comics. Where exactly do you get them from?
You shut your whore face, it looks fine.
(http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvvw4dhFcu1qz8qfno1_500.jpg)
No, it doesn't.
*bad art*
:rofl
Armor, who coincidently is Japanese.
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(http://i.newsarama.com/images/astxmenvol2_01cov_col_02.jpg):-\
:rofl
Storm's hips and waist are so awful I think they would have been rejected from Aeon Flux :yuckYeah, actually my first thought was "when did Peter Chung pick up art chores?"
Storm's hips and waist are so awful I think they would have been rejected from Aeon Flux :yuckYeah, actually my first thought was "when did Peter Chung pick up art chores?"
link please
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=388940
I know there's a thread for GAF, but I'd really like to know how Marvel undid Spidey's outing and his marriage without it being absolutely distinguished mentally-challenged? Please. Somebody.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=388940
I know there's a thread for GAF, but I'd really like to know how Marvel undid Spidey's outing and his marriage without it being absolutely distinguished mentally-challenged? Please. Somebody.
The Devil undid their marriage so that Peter Parker could save Aunt May from dying.
... couldn't they have gotten a divorce? I've been through one and it's more hell than the devil can do.
How about undoing his outing in the civil war?
HOLY CRAP
that is bad. I've got a good 200 or so spidey comics and am a pretty big fan of the old stuff. The last time I bought a spidey comic he had some bad attitude and was married to MJ and I thought Aunt May had died or something (I picked it up randomly without reading previous entries) and it was just godawful. I'm staying the fuck away forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day):barf
holy shit. an imposter?? and people keep reading this shit?? every few years I hear someone tell me that Marvel is starting on a clean slate and going back to the basics for spiderman, but yet they use the same annoying tactics over and over again they know spiderman fans hate. and they wonder what makes comic book reading such an embarassing hobby nowadays. It's worse than your grandma's soaps. Gimme normal peter parker/spiderman and mary jane and aunt may and the good ol' bad guys coming and trying to fuck shit up and spidey saving the day. I don't need a spiderman from a different dimension or another down and out spidey. just give me the basics back.HOLY CRAP
that is bad. I've got a good 200 or so spidey comics and am a pretty big fan of the old stuff. The last time I bought a spidey comic he had some bad attitude and was married to MJ and I thought Aunt May had died or something (I picked it up randomly without reading previous entries) and it was just godawful. I'm staying the fuck away forever.
I had been wondering about Aunt May coming back from the dead myself, since I was an avid Spider-Man reader up until the mid-90s, when I dropped Marvel all together for 4-6 years. What was it, Amazing Spider-Man #400 where Aunt May "died?" I say "died" because apparently what they did to bring her back was to make it so that the Aunt May who died was actually an imposter. :lol ::)
Put Spider-Man back with Mary Jane. Focus on good stories instead of stupid-ass "earth-shattering character-changing events." I miss the way the Marvel Universe was right at the beginning of the 1990s.
Spidey has been pretty awesome since one more day, Gauntlet has been fantastic so far, but I think they should have kill May in these arc, she serves no purpose whatsoever and it would make for a great story if they pick the right writer, same with Jimmy fucking Olsen I want him to have a very long and painful dead.
lyte edge - I checked out Power Girl after your raving ITT. Pretty fun! Hope this team sticks together...I'll probably stop reading the second they split up.
I'll take a look at those. I have no idea who this Terra is.
I was most amused to see Vartox appear. He was in some random issue of Superman or Action Comics that made it over to Ireland when I was a kid. Even at the time, I thought he had the gayest costume ever made. Blatantly a parody of Sean Connery in Zardoz too.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Vartoxdcu0.jpg/250px-Vartoxdcu0.jpg)
:supergay
Wasn't she hes daughter?, or was that another terra?
moore is so moe
Can someone explain to me, in a world where color eReaders are about to hit the market in a very big way, why DC and Marvel are not selling digital comics for download?
Really, make downloadable .PDFs for 99 cents and I'll subscribe! Marvel has some kind of digital comic store, but it's not really recent stuff and tied to the web browser. How is this not a done deal? Don't the realize everyone's just going to pirate comics once everyone owns an iPad?
And so Marvel Zombies was born :'(:lol
I stopped by my local comic shop to pick up Essential Ms. Marvel and the clerk there told me that Disney is archiving all the essentials and that they aren't printing any more. Is this true?
I stopped by my local comic shop to pick up Essential Ms. Marvel and the clerk there told me that Disney is archiving all the essentials and that they aren't printing any more. Is this true?
Your comic book guy is an angry nerd pissed that Disney bought Marvel.
I stopped by my local comic shop to pick up Essential Ms. Marvel and the clerk there told me that Disney is archiving all the essentials and that they aren't printing any more. Is this true?
Your comic book guy is an angry nerd pissed that Disney bought Marvel.
I stopped by my local comic shop to pick up Essential Ms. Marvel and the clerk there told me that Disney is archiving all the essentials and that they aren't printing any more. Is this true?
Your comic book guy is an angry nerd pissed that Disney bought Marvel.
Wow! Asking a comic store employee how a comic is created and published is just as accurate as asking a GameStop employee how a game is developed and published!
Also, 'Essential Ms. Marvel' is an oxymoron.
Also, 'Essential Ms. Marvel' is an oxymoron.
Six years, five volumes, and 1,000 pages. Now the long anticipated finale to Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit Oni Press graphic novel series has finally arrived. On Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 comic shops and bookstores across North America will celebrate the release of SCOTT PILGRIM VOL. 6: SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR.
“It’s been quite a ride, and I couldn’t have gotten here without the support of the fans and the retailers,” said O’Malley. “It feels great to be in the home stretch, and I think this is going to be the best Scott Pilgrim book ever!”
Bryan Lee O’Malley and the SCOTT PILGRIM series have both been honored with multiple awards including the Harvey, Doug Wright, Joe Shuster, and National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards, in addition to being named Entertainment Weekly and Wizard Magazine’s Independent Comic of the Year. Series Editor and Oni Press Editor-in-Chief James Lucas Jones gave additional praise to O’Malley, “it’s been an honor working with Bryan over the years. He’s got such a unique voice and I’ve been fortunate to witness him develop a style unlike anyone working in the industry today; a style that I feel will influence many future generations of comic professionals. I’m so proud that Oni has been a part of that.”
Oni Press will be rolling out a series of event announcements in the weeks and months leading up to the release, including Bryan Lee O’Malley signings at this year’s sold out San Diego Comic Con. Oni Press Publisher Joe Nozemack said about the works, “I’m convinced that Scott Pilgrim will go down as one of those series that changed comics forever. When I’m out and see someone wearing a Scott Pilgrim t-shirt or sitting in a cafe reading one of the books, I get so excited about comics entering the mainstream and to know that Oni Press’ books are helping lead the way, it’s an indescribable feeling. I can’t wait to see the reaction to the final volume!”
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s SCOTT PILGRIM VOL. 6: SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR, is published by Oni Press and features 248 pages of evil-ex butt-kicking in the easily digestible digest format for the low, low price of $11.99. Available at your local comic shop or bookstore Tuesday, July 20th, 2010.
Damn, Palmiotti/Gray/Conner are leaving Power Girl after issue #12. That was the only book I was buying regularly. Oh well.
Damn, Palmiotti/Gray/Conner are leaving Power Girl after issue #12. That was the only book I was buying regularly. Oh well.
A shame, Conner was the book imo, it wont be the same without her style and charm.
Yeah, Millar's stuff just reads like movie storyboards these days. They're all 5 minute reads that are carried (or not) by the artist, plus whatever degree of shock he manages to evoke in you. Still fun for 5 minutes though.
McFarlane just tweeted that movie producers are contacting him about Haunt.
They'll definitely have to change that costume for a movie...
Started reading Siege tonight. Marvel moving away from the "villains pretending to be heroes" bs has me looking forward to Avengers #1.
Siege #4 was complete crap, but the other issues where good, dark avengers is great, its pretty much a sequel to Ellis Thunderbolts.
Tried to read some of Batman & Robin. But Frank Quietly = puke
I love Quitely's work, though sometimes I'm less than thrilled with his women, who commonly appear m2f postops.
Tried to read some of Batman & Robin. But Frank Quietly = puke
Miller on Xerxes:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/06/xerxes-300-frank-miller-300-zack-snyder-300.html
What part makes you incredulous?Miller on Xerxes:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/06/xerxes-300-frank-miller-300-zack-snyder-300.html
You gotta be shitting me
Yeah, I don't get the WW redesign either. Maybe I expected too much from Jim Lee. They are throwing out everything about the character and essentially starting over with her, but I read the prelude in WW #600 today and it just seemed like more the same, tired, cliche "character who doesn't know his/her past on the run in gritty environment" storyline we've seen before. WW's design also screams early-90s leather jacket-with-pushed-up-sleeves-super hero.
They need to leave the iconic characters' costume designs alone, but it's not like this storyline and character change will be permanent anyway. I'm not a big fan of Wonder Woman's costume as is, but this latest version isn't any better.
That said, I'm all for DC removing the underwear-on-the-outside-of-the-tights look that Superman and Batman (didn't they do this at one point already?) still have. :P
So let me get this straight:
-Morrison's big idea for Batman after Bruce Wayne returns (properly) to the DCU is "Batman, Inc."
-It will focus on Batman recruiting other superhero/vigilante types to wear Batman suits and fight crime in his style.
-The costume is getting a re-design, ditching the jockey shorts outside the pants (yes!) and bringing back the yellow and black bat symbol.
So are they gonna ditch "Red Robin," "Batgirl," and others and just give them all matching batsuits?
wow there is a girl Scorpion and a photo negative Venom now?
What if Captain America was SECRETLY a NAZI?
What if instead of KILLING KILLERS, the Punisher RAPED RAPISTS?
What if the Invisible Woman was the secret cause of male nocturnal emissions ALL ALONG?
No longer just a metaphor: what if Spidey's webbing WAS real jizz?
What if I wrote an implied rape scene and then said people were reading the rape into it?
I'd buy a comic where Punisher rapes rapists. That's not too off character for Frank Castle.
so what's the story on THIS costume?
The Story: To face off against an amped-up HOBGOBLIN, you need an amped-up SPIDER-MAN! What's the story behind Spidey's NEW SUIT? What is it and what can it do? Meanwhile, MACH 5 (from THE THUNDERBOLTS) faces off against one of Spidey's deadliest foes! All this, and a secret side mission for THE BLACK CAT. Plus an additional 8 page story: We showed you who was behind the HOBGOBLIN'S mask last issue. But what were they up to BEFORE their startling return? Here's where you find out! 40 PGS.
I think this is more like Spider-Tron
I'm up to the prison sequence in my re-reading of The Walking Dead. I'd forgotten about how creepy Michonne is, right from the start, and I'd completely forgotten how quickly the situation with the neighboring community and "The Governor" unravels.
I'm going to have to pace myself through the four new trade paperbacks I picked up. Reading through this, the pace seems relentless, like there is no break at all where people can just relax and show the portion of their personalities that isn't completely wrapped up in this dire, traumatic situation. There are several spots where it looks like they're going to be able to put down stakes and relax, but it never actually pans out. Even the prison.
I dunno, like The Road, this is a story about a father and son journey. Kirkman has stated that it's only about Rick, and the changes that a person would go through in this situation. I think at some point Rick will likely die, and we'll see some hint of where Carl will next go. But the story can't be about Carl, because it's not a story about the loss of the world for him. It's constantly shown that Carl is more practical in adapting to every situation. He may bawl and cry occasionally when things are understandably emotional, but he also has shown more pathos when appropriate -- and less, when the situation has demanded it.I'm up to the prison sequence in my re-reading of The Walking Dead. I'd forgotten about how creepy Michonne is, right from the start, and I'd completely forgotten how quickly the situation with the neighboring community and "The Governor" unravels.
I'm going to have to pace myself through the four new trade paperbacks I picked up. Reading through this, the pace seems relentless, like there is no break at all where people can just relax and show the portion of their personalities that isn't completely wrapped up in this dire, traumatic situation. There are several spots where it looks like they're going to be able to put down stakes and relax, but it never actually pans out. Even the prison.
I did a bit of thinking about how they could wrap the TV series up quickly if it doesn't last long enough to follow the full narrative of the comic. This got me thinking about how the comic should end. The only logical conclusion is a last panel of Zombie Rick chewing on his son, Carl. Or MAYBE Carl gnawing on Rick but I doubt it. Anything else would be a betrayal of the promise implicit in the title.
Last night I read Alison Bechdel's rather extraordinary 'Fun Home'. It was so good I bought another copy for my mum, which might be the first and last comic she'll ever read. Can't recommend it highly enough, it even has enough gay quotient for EB, being written by a lesbian activist and daughter of a gay father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Home
There are oodles of great superhero comics. For my sins, I've read every page of that Green Lantern stuff in scans and I can barely remember any of it. Given what you're looking for, I'd try Invincible, maybe - things can actually happen there since it's creator-owned. Consistently fun series.
That's a great series. I read it and the Forty-Niners series prequel. Wait... am I thinking of Top-Ten?
i read superman red son recently, it was good except for the lol twist ending
i read superman red son recently, it was good except for the lol twist ending
MARK MILLAR
Just finished reading
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It was awesome. :rock Batman should die more often.
Just finished reading
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It was awesome. :rock Batman should die more often.
Yeah, I love this. The writing is eh, solid enough but the art is just stunning. Loved his riffing on Mazuchelli. The only drawback is that the cool double-page layouts were spoiled a bit by the spine.
It's coming back soon, in case you weren't aware. JH is writing as well.
Also, anyone who's re-reading All-Star Superman in the Absolute version really needs to read this:
http://techland.com/2010/11/02/the-secret-of-all-star-superman/
I've read the series 3 times but this never occurred to me even though I was SURE there was something weird going on with Quintum.
http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com
http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com
I posted this in the Outside link thread the other day, pretty entertaining stuff.
Read 52, skip Final Crisis and just read the wiki entry.
The INCAL Classic Collection by Jodorowsky and Moebius. This is one of 750 produced in English, at the original Euro size and coloring:
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Sorry dude :(
I didn't actually know about it until a few weeks ago, and impulse pre-ordered. It's $100 though, in case that eases your pain at not buying it.
Sorry dude :(
I didn't actually know about it until a few weeks ago, and impulse pre-ordered. It's $100 though, in case that eases your pain at not buying it.
"ease my pain"? the moment I saw this thread I placed an order on Amazon, just in case it ever comes back in stock :(
I'm sure I'll track one down eventually :)
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Just in case, you may want to get on this as well 'cause it will also be a very limited run:
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600108334/ref=wms_ohs_product
http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/commissioner-gordon-is-jerk.html
I think the one where she got exposed to Blue Kryptonitespoiler (click to show/hide)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7mLRGgZm-kQ/TIbSt5JbotI/AAAAAAAAAHI/vrcaiuXe1GQ/s1600/handicap_sign.jpg)[close]
what issue did supergirl get polio
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Speaking of Power Girl, I hope the Power Girl series never ends. They could just repeat the same stories over and over and I wouldn't care.
Speaking of Power Girl, I hope the Power Girl series never ends. They could just repeat the same stories over and over and I wouldn't care.
I loved the first 12 issues, with Conner/Palmiotti/Gray, but with the new team from #13 on, it just hasn't done much to keep my attention. The first few issues with the new team were good after I got used to the direction they went in, but I'm just not digging this Maxwell Lord resurrection thing. I never read older JLA and OMAC stuff so it's not grabbing me.
“LIFE IS LIKE A HURRICANE”
IN THE ALL-NEW ORIGINAL ONGOING SERIES
WRITTEN BY
EPIC MICKEY VIDEO GAME CREATOR
WARREN SPECTOR
February 17, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA - Strap in for adventure as BOOM! Studios flies you back to Duckburg to join Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and all your favorite feathered friends in the all-new, original ongoing DUCKTALES comic series! A beloved classic of The Disney Afternoon, DUCKTALES returns with writing by Epic Mickey video game creator Warren Spector and spectacular art by fan-favorite Disney Duck artist Miquel Pujol! Don't miss out as The Disney Afternoon Revolution continues in a big way this May with DUCKTALES!
“You want ducks? Oh, do we have ducks!” says BOOM! Studios Marketing Director Chip Mosher. “We're taking you back to one of the most celebrated Disney Afternoon series ever aired! And with a creative powerhouse like Warren Spector and fantastic art from Miquel Pujol, this series is sure to be jam-packed with duck adventures no DUCKTALES fans will want to miss!”
DUCKTALES is BOOM!'s latest and greatest of The Disney Afternoon Revolution that “might solve a mystery,” and will definitely “rewrite history!” Existing within the same continuity as BOOM!’s hit series DARKWING DUCK, find out why “life is like a hurricane!”
DUCKTALES #1 is written by Warren Spector and drawn by Miquel Pujol and ships with A & B covers by Leonel Castellani and James Silvani respectively, as well as a 1-in-10 incentive cover. This title ships this May.
Speaking of Power Girl, I hope the Power Girl series never ends. They could just repeat the same stories over and over and I wouldn't care.
I loved the first 12 issues, with Conner/Palmiotti/Gray, but with the new team from #13 on, it just hasn't done much to keep my attention. The first few issues with the new team were good after I got used to the direction they went in, but I'm just not digging this Maxwell Lord resurrection thing. I never read older JLA and OMAC stuff so it's not grabbing me.
Well that's disappointing. Conner, Palmiotti, and Grey did really well with the writing and art. Maybe it'll turn around soon.
Speaking of Power Girl, I hope the Power Girl series never ends. They could just repeat the same stories over and over and I wouldn't care.
I loved the first 12 issues, with Conner/Palmiotti/Gray, but with the new team from #13 on, it just hasn't done much to keep my attention. The first few issues with the new team were good after I got used to the direction they went in, but I'm just not digging this Maxwell Lord resurrection thing. I never read older JLA and OMAC stuff so it's not grabbing me.
Well that's disappointing. Conner, Palmiotti, and Grey did really well with the writing and art. Maybe it'll turn around soon.
It will if they ever come back to it! :lol But right away with #13, the new creative team destroyed a lot of the stuff that the first twelve issues built. :-\
Looks like a fanboy doodle on a Pee-Chee Folder.
Flashpoint
:bow Johns :bow2
Flashpoint
:bow Johns :bow2
:rock
<3 Seven Soldiers
Check out the annotations at Barbelith for your inevitable re-read:
http://www.barbelith.com/faq/index.php/Seven_Soldiers_Annotations
The entire DC Comics line of comic books will be re-launched with new #1 issues and feature "younger" and cosmetically redesigned versions of the heroes of the DC Universe. Written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Jim Lee, Justice League will be the first of the more than 50 titles to debut in September, each of which will go on sale with same day digital releases via DC's various mobile applications and Web store. The initiative is designed explicitly to make the DC Universe more palatable for new readers and, in the words of DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, "today's audience."
Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are among the DC Comics characters who will be "injected with new life," according to Dan DiDio, who spoke with USA Today.
In September, more than 50 more first issues will debut, introducing readers to stories that are grounded in each character's specific legend but also reflect today's real-world themes and events. Lee spearheaded the redesign of more than 50 costumes to make characters more identifiable and accessible to comic fans new and old.
"We looked at what was going on in the marketplace and felt we really want to inject new life in our characters and line," says Dan DiDio, who co-publishes DC with Lee. "This was a chance to start, not at the beginning, but at a point where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today's audience."
DiDio's remarks would seem to indicate that existing DC readers are going to see major changes in the status quo and continuities of their favorite characters and titles. Among the major events that have informed various characters' modern histories include the death of Superman; Clark Kent's marriage to Lois Lane; the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd; the activities of Damian Wayne, the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul; Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and 52, the stories that defined the nature of the DC Multiverse itself; the crippling of Barbara Gordon, the original Batgirl; the defeat of Batman at the hands of Bane, resulting in the installation of the homicidal Jean-Paul Valley as Batman; the fall and redemption of Green Lantern Hal Jordan; The Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night and the rest of the Green Lantern "emotional spectrum" mythology; Final Crisis and the journey of Bruce Wayne across time; the emergence of Batwoman Kate Kane; and the consolidation and reconciliation of dozens of characters from the Golden Age of DC Comics and their descendants, as depicted in books like JSA, Justice Society of America and Starman.
A DC spokesperson declined to comment on questions of continuity or the fate of Grant Morrison's Batman comics at this time and directed ComicsAlliance to The Source blog post.
USA Today suggests that DC's intentions are at least in part a response to the success of Marvel Comics, whose market share has eclipsed DC's every year since 2002, and that Lee, Johns and DiDio consider the plan integral to the company's continued existence in the publishing market.
"We're trying to set the table for the DC Universe's future success and health," said Lee.
UPDATE
DC Entertainment's Senior Vice President of Sales, Bob Wayne, issued a letter to retailers addressing the announcement. While no prices were discussed for the new books or their digital counterparts, Wayne addressed the question of narrative continuity:
We have taken great care in maintaining continuity where most important, but fans will see a new approach to our storytelling. Some of the characters will have new origins, while others will undergo minor changes.
More on this as it develops.
This made me realize that the only mainstream DCU books I give a crap about are whichever Batman Morrison is writing, and to a lesser extent Detective (Snyder, Jock and Francavilla are all killing it). It would be very annoying to have Morrison's 5 year storyline disrupted by this but he has a history of nimbly writing around this crap so I doubt it will disturb things too much.
Rumor mill is suggesting that Morrison will be writing Wonder Woman and / or the Flash after the reboot. Not very enthusiastic about that but will check it out of course. Would much rather see Morrison unleashed on the New Gods or something where he can really tear shit up.
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Reminds me a lot of Fables, in that both authors borrow really heavily from Neil Gaiman's fiction-reality blurring schtick, but tend to tell more conventional stories with more explicitly defined rules.
It's a good read so far, and there are two awesome stunt included in the first three volumes that I don't want to spoil.
In an interview with USA Today, Dan DiDio stated that while roughly three-quarters of titles will see a creative team switch-up, one quarter -- the books that are working -- won't be touched by the reboot.
There's no conceivable reason to mess with high-selling moneymakers like Batman Incorporated, Green Lantern, Batman: The Dark Knight and, well, other Batman titles, and to do so would be a huge mistake, especially since Grant Morrison's major Leviathan uber-arc is, alongside Geoff Johns's Green Lantern, the only major DC title with ongoing stories continuing past August.
Nightwing #1 on the way :gloomy. Guess the world needs another 2nd rate Spider-man. Oh well, I enjoyed the steady diet of Dick while it lasted.spoiler (click to show/hide)To quote Bill Simmons' podcast intro: It might be cool, I dunno. And if it's not...I don't care[close]
Comic fans will hate the reboot, non-comic fans won't care.
I want Fantagraphic's new Mickey Mouse book:
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have you not read anything recent, Chrono? At the very least you need to read All Star Superman
The best news out of this whole DC mess of announcements is that Morrison is supposedly to write Superman as an ongoing from September. I guess I'm looking forward to it but it's hard to imagine it'll improve on All Star. And unless they get like Moebius or somebody, any artist will be a big step down from Quitely. Personally, I think he should probably just walk away from Superman unless he's going to do something radically different from ASS.
buh? DC has been 'holding the line' at 2.99 for print for some time now, no? My understanding is that digital will have the same pricing but will drop a dollar after a month.
They ARE doing a combo pack for Justice League for $3.99 that gives you a code in the polybag for the digital version when you buy the physical.
I remember when Ultimate Spider-Man started, it enjoyed what I read of it.
And the reason nobody cares is that since Superman died we got an endless supply of death and resurrection in the comic medium, it got old really fast.
I remember when Ultimate Spider-Man started, it enjoyed what I read of it.
And the reason nobody cares is that since Superman died we got an endless supply of death and resurrection in the comic medium, it got old really fast.
Such beings may also have access to some afterlife where the soul of the character fled after dying (such as fictional variations of Heaven or Hell)
(such as fictional variations of Heaven or Hell)
(such as fictional variations of Heaven or Hell)
What's the big deal about Ultimate Spidey dying? Marvel deaths are meaningless after Bucky got resurrected and Cap came back a few years after being shot in the head. Also, it's not even in the main Universe.
I tried to nerd out about that to the guy working the desk at MoCCA but he didn't know what the fuck I was going on about so I stopped trying.
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in NYC is having an exhibit on Will Eisner. One of the sections is artists with their art talking about the influence of Eisner. Included is Kubert's Superman Vs Ali original cover art. 1) it's huge. 2) it's far more detailed than even the recent special edition allows you to see.
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Hidden among the artists and writers of DC and various other celeb's (like the Sweat Hogs, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder) I found Plastic Man, The Metal Men and Billy Batson.
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I tried to nerd out about that to the guy working the desk at MoCCA but he didn't know what the fuck I was going on about so I stopped trying.
So Sony re-boots Spider Man after 3 films in 7 years, Fox reboots X-Men inside a decade but people will protest DC rebooting after 60 years?
i'd imagine the protesters care precisely because it has gone 60 years without a reboot, which gives it some weight or meaning in their minds that I cannot for the life of me manage to give a fuck about
And if you haven't read The Invisibles....THAT is the motherfucking Vertigo series to end all Vertigo series'
The DC panels at Comic Con were really good. Except for this really annoying bitch who went to EVERY SINGLE panel and got to the mic to grill DC as to why they have no female characters at all and no women working for the company.
The DC panels at Comic Con were really good. Except for this really annoying bitch who went to EVERY SINGLE panel and got to the mic to grill DC as to why they have no female characters at all and no women working for the company.
??? at the "no female characters" comment, :lol at "no women working for the company." Although all I can think of is Gail Simone right now.
The DC panels at Comic Con were really good. Except for this really annoying bitch who went to EVERY SINGLE panel and got to the mic to grill DC as to why they have no female characters at all and no women working for the company.
??? at the "no female characters" comment, :lol at "no women working for the company." Although all I can think of is Gail Simone right now.
The DC panels at Comic Con were really good. Except for this really annoying bitch who went to EVERY SINGLE panel and got to the mic to grill DC as to why they have no female characters at all and no women working for the company.
??? at the "no female characters" comment, :lol at "no women working for the company." Although all I can think of is Gail Simone right now.
Hey guys, which matoor graphical novel should I read next?
- Sandman
- Starman
- Hellblazer
- Lucifer
?
Kinda leaning towards Sandman, because I've heard people talk about it all my life and also I want those sweet, sweet Absolute Editions.
read four volumes of Scalped in 3 days. I didn't like the first volume, but man from 2 on it's just fucking amazing
Hey guys, which matoor graphical novel should I read next?
- Sandman
- Starman
- Hellblazer
- Lucifer
?
Kinda leaning towards Sandman, because I've heard people talk about it all my life and also I want those sweet, sweet Absolute Editions.
SANDMAN!!!!
I have 1-4, but will pass on 5.
I got them all from amazon, and I really should have returned #1 (despite the huge bath I'd have taken on international postage). The binding was a mess - it came apart as I read it. The other ones were fine but watch out for that. They are pretty huge books so I'd imagine this is a common issue. They are fun as hell to read though - feels like you are reading from the Book of Destiny. You want to stand up and put them on a plinth.
Having said that, I just pre-ordered the IDW Wally Wood Artist Edition book - 22" x 15"! What the fuck! I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it.
no, i have that already. It's AWESOME!*
I'm talking about this: https://shop.idwpublishing.com/walter-simonson-s-thor-artist-s-edition-pre-order-with-shipping-options.html
Also at HPB:
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Because my friend's been going on about this series for a while.
Comics Journal has a great piece on it:
http://www.tcj.com/the-walter-simonson-interview/
your tolerance for G-Mo (mine is sky-high)
Before there were 3-D movies there were 3-D comics! In the mid-fifties comic book great Joe Kubert hit upon the idea of doing comics in 3-D, which resulted in some of the best-selling comics of all time, with print runs in the millions! Eisner Award winner Craig Yoe collects the best of these stories and samples by artists like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bob Powell, Al Jaffee, Russ Heath, Milt Stein, Alex Toth, and many more! Carefully re-mastered and reproduced in large format so that every dynamic, eye-popping effect can be looked at in astonishment! The comics cover every genre: superhero, jungle adventures, horror comics, science fiction, funny animals, satire, western and romance! Features a fascinating, behind-the-scenes introduction by the mastermind behind 3-D comics himself, Mr. Joe Kubert! Rare art and ephemera as only Yoe Books does it! And, yes, of course, it comes with special FREE 3-D GLASSES! BUT WAIT! There's more! This must-have hardback book boasts a special linticular 3-D cover that puts the amazing in Amazing 3-D Comics!
I wouldn't have gotten that, joe-- It sucks. The story takes forever to get going, too.
I wouldn't have gotten that, joe-- It sucks. The story takes forever to get going, too.
I guess I probably shouldn't mention that I also got the first volume of the latest Birds of Prey series.
The book will be $29.95 — 672 b&w pages — clothbound hardcover with stamped gold foil, and look something like the mock-up above. On the
right are a handful of cover ideas that didn’t make the cut.
Habibi is a forthcoming graphic novel by Craig Thompson. It will be published by Pantheon in September 2011, about seven years after Thompson began work on it.[1] At 672 pages, it is Thompson's longest work to date.[2]
The story involves slavery, religion, and "a love story between a prostitute and a eunuch."[3] Particular focus is given to Islam: Thompson said that he was motivated by a "desire to humanize Islamic culture, instead of it always being vilified"[4] and that the book is "like an Arabian Nights tale of my own making."[3] The word "Habibi" is Arabic for "my beloved."[5]
Bits of it did, don't get me wrong. Other bits were like reading Bebpo posting about his new romantic obsession
FAO Eric P: http://www.amazon.com/New-Teen-Titans-Omnibus-Vol/dp/1401234291/ref=pd_sim_b_20
Vol. 2! May as well pre-order now and lock in the best price. I succumbed after all :lol
and speaking of excellent batman comics, looks like they're doing the deluxe thing for Morrison's Batman Run as well
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401233368/ref=pd_1ctyhuc__bxgy_01_01
FAO Eric P: http://www.amazon.com/New-Teen-Titans-Omnibus-Vol/dp/1401234291/ref=pd_sim_b_20
Vol. 2! May as well pre-order now and lock in the best price. I succumbed after all :lol
*cough*
I may have already done so.spoiler (click to show/hide)(http://www.titanstower.com/assets/gallery/perezgallery/commissions/Robin1999.jpg)hundreds of pages of short shorts robin.[close]
and speaking of excellent batman comics, looks like they're doing the deluxe thing for Morrison's Batman Run as well
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401233368/ref=pd_1ctyhuc__bxgy_01_01
Hubba hubba
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He still lives in Glasgow, is there a chance of bumping into him?
There's a very good chance of running into him, and I hope I'm going 100 miles an hour when it happens.
well, the good news is that there are hundreds of other comic series of similar or higher quality i guess
Invincible just seems a little stupid to me. How could a race like the Viltrumites exist? How would evolution ever produce such a species? At least with the Kryptonians, it was justified as being some weird quirk with the yellow sun. The Viltrumites just defy all logic.
Invincible just seems a little stupid to me. How could a race like the Viltrumites exist? How would evolution ever produce such a species? At least with the Kryptonians, it was justified as being some weird quirk with the yellow sun. The Viltrumites just defy all logic.
Who cares? It's suitably terrifying to think of "What if Superman was lying to all of us? And there is an army of them which have no compunction about turning into $20 bath mats and anal sex toys... not necessarily in that order."
Invincible just seems a little stupid to me. How could a race like the Viltrumites exist? How would evolution ever produce such a species? At least with the Kryptonians, it was justified as being some weird quirk with the yellow sun. The Viltrumites just defy all logic.
Who cares? It's suitably terrifying to think of "What if Superman was lying to all of us? And there is an army of them which have no compunction about turning into $20 bath mats and anal sex toys... not necessarily in that order."
Also the whole damn thing is just Dragon Ball
Invincible just seems a little stupid to me. How could a race like the Viltrumites exist? How would evolution ever produce such a species? At least with the Kryptonians, it was justified as being some weird quirk with the yellow sun. The Viltrumites just defy all logic.
Who cares? It's suitably terrifying to think of "What if Superman was lying to all of us? And there is an army of them which have no compunction about turning into $20 bath mats and anal sex toys... not necessarily in that order."
Also the whole damn thing is just Dragon Ball
Also the whole damn thing is just Dragon Ball
Yeah, that's the easiest/best dis for Invincible. It's Dragon Ball with pervert suits!
I will be honest. I love JSA and I like Earth-2, so I'm theproblemtarget audience.
"DC claims there’s no Psycho Pirate-type loophole in their new continuity where someone “remembers” the old continuity."
(dot dot dot)
"This weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Dan DiDio confirmed an ongoing rumor: James Robinson and Nicola Scott are working on a new Justice Society of America book -- that takes place on Earth-Two."
:facepalm
"DC claims there’s no Psycho Pirate-type loophole in their new continuity where someone “remembers” the old continuity."
(dot dot dot)
"This weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Dan DiDio confirmed an ongoing rumor: James Robinson and Nicola Scott are working on a new Justice Society of America book -- that takes place on Earth-Two."
:facepalm
Why does that bother you? It's an actual separate timeline it seems, so JSA would appear to be starting over free of continuity. Robinson might be good on this, I dunno. He has been shit for years and his JLA was diabolical but you never know! It seems the kind of book on which he could thrive - slow burn plots free of interference from other books, retro setting which he loves... And come on, no matter what else happens, DC is not going to let valuable copyrights lapse.
I'm torn about Johns-Lee JLA. I kinda want to get it just 'cause it's a big event, and it casts a vote for same day digital comics. On the other hand, it's Johns and Lee, which is like the definition of corporate mediocrity. I'm sure i'll hate it.
Batman Inc - not part of the launch but may as well be. Still on board forever despite that fairly horrible last issue.
"DC claims there’s no Psycho Pirate-type loophole in their new continuity where someone “remembers” the old continuity."
(dot dot dot)
"This weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Dan DiDio confirmed an ongoing rumor: James Robinson and Nicola Scott are working on a new Justice Society of America book -- that takes place on Earth-Two."
:facepalm
Why does that bother you? It's an actual separate timeline it seems, so JSA would appear to be starting over free of continuity. Robinson might be good on this, I dunno. He has been shit for years and his JLA was diabolical but you never know! It seems the kind of book on which he could thrive - slow burn plots free of interference from other books, retro setting which he loves... And come on, no matter what else happens, DC is not going to let valuable copyrights lapse.
I'm torn about Johns-Lee JLA. I kinda want to get it just 'cause it's a big event, and it casts a vote for same day digital comics. On the other hand, it's Johns and Lee, which is like the definition of corporate mediocrity. I'm sure i'll hate it.
Well, reintroducing Earth-2 right away doesn't seem like much of a continuity sweep... it's hard to take DC seriously when we have the same writers, artists, and now apparently multiverse as pre-wipe.
Is there a retail market for Western comics in Japan? Do any stores import them?
Has HarleyQuinn (sp?) been part of the DCU before?
I hate this DC reboot- I was just getting into stuff again- motherfuck
My two word review of Justice League of America v2 #1:
"SHIT"
("SANDWICH" won't appear until JLA v2 #2)
My two word review of Justice League of America v2 #1:
"SHIT"
("SANDWICH" won't appear until JLA v2 #2)
I've always thought Plastic Man worked best in the way Jack Cole originally intended him - as a perfectly sane man in an utterly insane world. As much as I've enjoyed the 'wacky' Plas from other stories, I've always enjoyed it more when Plas is a flexible and unflappable straight man and everyone else around him provides the absurdity.
Marvel Fan Letter of the Day: Way back in 1964, Marvel received a fan letter about The Avengers and The Fantastic Four from an opinionated 16-year-old kid named George R.R. Martin.
Yep, that’s the same GRRM who went on to write A Song of Ice and Fire and see his work adapted into an HBO series.
The teenage Martin had high praise for Stan Lee’s “fast-paced action and solid characterization,” but disliked a handful of villains, including the Moleman, Diablo, the Puppet Master and the Thinker.
The letter was unearthed by comics writer (and Coheed and Cambria frontman) Claudio Sanchez, while reading through old issues during a power outage.
Did you ever see the Art Spiegelman/Chip Kidd book on Jack Cole and Plastic Man? It's amazing, check it out if you get the chance.
I like Morrison's blue-collar socialist Supermanspoiler (click to show/hide)Intergang! :heart[close]
today i get The New Teen Titans Omnibus. I am excited. 640 pages of teen angst! Big hair! Short Shorts!
I read Animal Man #1 - it was alright. I really like the way the clean art contrasts with the graphic tone - animal powers as Cronenbergian body horror, rendered with storyboarded precision. I'm hoping the narrative picks up a bit, but it wasn't JL paced or anything.
If I wanna jump in on xmen, which one should I buy? I haven't read an xmen comic in years.
It's just been one big rolling mega-event for like 10 years now. I wouldn't worry about it - if there is a creative team that interests you, jump in whenever. It's not like it makes any fucking sense anyway :lol I mean, they recently went through something called 'The Heroic Age' - all the books got branded with this. I double-dare anyone to tell me what this actually meant for any books that didn't have Steve Rogers in it though. Basically, he became head of SHIELD. It was billed as this line-wide change in tone - all the superheroes would be like accepted and happy and inspirational and shit. Were they fuck :lol
One thing I loved was the slow open. Starting with a page of text takes balls, but using a double page splash on a tableaux of a family making dinner and chit-chatting? That takes some balls, especially in a first issue. Lemire really has a handle on the slow build-up of tension that is needed for true horror. He also has the voice for Buddy down - I felt comfortable with it right away. That said, if you were comparing it to Morrison's Animal Man I'd have to agree with 'alright'. I thought it was easily as interesting as say, Sweet Tooth or American Vampire though, which is a lot more realistic an expectation I think.
I mean, they recently went through something called 'The Heroic Age' - all the books got branded with this. I double-dare anyone to tell me what this actually meant for any books that didn't have Steve Rogers in it though. Basically, he became head of SHIELD. It was billed as this line-wide change in tone - all the superheroes would be like accepted and happy and inspirational and shit. Were they fuck :lol
Bah, I'll just jump into some random xmen ones and see what catches my eye then. Maybe start with some of the classics.
Local shop is out of animal man and swamp thing. Fuuuuu
He's got two copies of OMAC left. Hopefully they're still there by the time I get off work.
T. Hawk?!
I read the first bit of Do Androids... and wasn't super moved by it. It was the novel, with all the dialog intact. I dunno; it's a nice idea, but it's overly loyal to the source material.I haven't gotten to the actual novel one (I've never read the novel either but always wanted to). I'm on Dust to Dust which is supposed to be a prequel of sorts. Other than showing certain bits of information like it's a tweet (which grates the fuck out of me) it's pretty interesting. A bit slow, but considering what it's going for I can handle that for now.
wasn't a fan of Detective #1, Mups. He was trying pretty hard but other than that last wtf page, nothing about it grabbed me. He's probably read DKR a few too many times, I think.Maybe I liked it because I've never read any of the DK stuff (subbed at the local shop for #1 though). I've never been much of a reader of the different Batmans so it was definitely a different batman than I'm used to.
Mups, if you like Detective, read the Dark Knight Returns to start, I say. It's still awesome. And by all means, don't let me stop you from sticking with Detective...i've read a bazillion Batman books and am jaded.Cool. I'll order the dark knight returns tonight. Never read any Frank Miller stuff but I've always heard good things. I'll give it a shot.
Did anyone read Batman and Robin #1? I picked it up today on a whim since they forgot to pull my ultimate spidey #1 so I gotta wait til 2nd shipments come in Monday.
Did anyone read Batman and Robin #1? I picked it up today on a whim since they forgot to pull my ultimate spidey #1 so I gotta wait til 2nd shipments come in Monday.
I like that batgirl is back, batwoman too. Suicide squad looks like an even crazier secret six, but while it was a guilty pleasure, power girl had good writing and now it's gone
I like that batgirl is back, batwoman too. Suicide squad looks like an even crazier secret six, but while it was a guilty pleasure, power girl had good writing and now it's gone
Power Girl was a mercy killing. After Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner left it turned sour pretty fast.
I've only read up to the last 7 issues? TPBs. Where did these folks go? Any new 52 series by them?
I also got in 15 back issues of ranma 1/2 that my wife ordered. I'll read them *shrug*
Just bought Frankenstein. Pretty good, and I'll follow through the first arc, but not as great as Animal Man #1.
On that note, why the hell are digital comics the same price as print? I'll keep up with a series or two at $2.99, but at $1.99 I'd read almost anything I'm interested in, and at $0.99 I'd buy Rob Liefeld's Hawk and Dove just to laugh at the teeth on my iPad.
I'm only familiar with the anime. But my wife was reading them last night and laughing her ass off.I also got in 15 back issues of ranma 1/2 that my wife ordered. I'll read them *shrug*
I liked Ranma but it's been lik 13 years since I read it
I'm only familiar with the anime. But my wife was reading them last night and laughing her ass off.I also got in 15 back issues of ranma 1/2 that my wife ordered. I'll read them *shrug*
I liked Ranma but it's been lik 13 years since I read it
As for me, should I pick up Watchmen or V for Vendetta?
Picked up a few things over the last few days
Ranma 1/2 Part 3 - All 13 issues
Super cheap. less than a dollar for each issue. I got 13 issues for around 12 bucks. I would get the manga but my wife (and me too actually) prefer issues over TPB's and with most stuff it's about the same or cheaper.Picked up a few things over the last few days
Ranma 1/2 Part 3 - All 13 issues
Was this really cheap? If not, I would recommend getting the regular manga versions instead. The newer ones aren't reversed, too. Ranma is a huge series (like 38 volumes...I think 35-36 in the States though) and Viz Comics quit releasing their stuff in comic book format, going manga format-only around 6-7 years back.
It's also cheap on comixology, although i'm reading it on paper. It's basically one long crazy kung-fu epic, and played straighter than you might think at first. Mix in some blaxploitation, zombies and western tropes and it pretty much SCREAMS 'Joe Molotov' on every page.
lol wtf @ catwoman #1 ending- GRR Martin guest writer?
Super cheap. less than a dollar for each issue. I got 13 issues for around 12 bucks. I would get the manga but my wife (and me too actually) prefer issues over TPB's and with most stuff it's about the same or cheaper.Picked up a few things over the last few days
Ranma 1/2 Part 3 - All 13 issues
Was this really cheap? If not, I would recommend getting the regular manga versions instead. The newer ones aren't reversed, too. Ranma is a huge series (like 38 volumes...I think 35-36 in the States though) and Viz Comics quit releasing their stuff in comic book format, going manga format-only around 6-7 years back.
-Supergirl #1 just retcons her coming to Earth...again. Weird that after the whole no-pants edict and before that, the whole "issue" fanboys had with them giving the character bike shorts under the skirt.
Some GAFfers are freaking out over Starfire being some kind of free-spirited alien-hippie-type who loves sex, but hasn't that character always been like that? I never read Titans or Outsiders.
Yup, larger is nicer...but again they quit doing them in comic format and went manga format only.So after a certain point I can only get them in Manga? Hm. I'll have to tell my wife it continues then. she still has a lot of volumes to go through though.
-Supergirl #1 just retcons her coming to Earth...again. Weird that after the whole no-pants edict and before that, the whole "issue" fanboys had with them giving the character bike shorts under the skirt.
Bike shorts are awesome, why would anyone complain about them?
Is supergirl less OMG WHINY TEENGIRL now?
She's probably a Monitor, getting everyone prepped for Crisis on 52 Earths, beginning November 2012. Thrill as they unretcon all of the retcons that nobody liked and cancel all the series that aren't selling very well. Oh yeah, and it's crosses over all 52 series, so get them wallets open!
The scene with Starfire in Red Hood and the Outlaws was utterly ridiculous. :lol
The scene with Starfire in Red Hood and the Outlaws was utterly ridiculous. :lol
The Catwoman/Batman costume-fetish fuckfest at the end of CW #1 might top it! :lol
She's probably a Monitor, getting everyone prepped for Crisis on 52 Earths, beginning November 2012. Thrill as they unretcon all of the retcons that nobody liked and cancel all the series that aren't selling very well. Oh yeah, and it's crosses over all 52 series, so get them wallets open!
You don't need any of the DC books this week, real talk.
Bah. Well I got Nightwing, Supergirl and Wonder Woman already. Just hadn't read them. Oh well, I've got plenty of other stuff to read
look up at the top of the page Lyte
Mups, if you like Detective, read the Dark Knight Returns to start, I say. It's still awesome. And by all means, don't let me stop you from sticking with Detective...i've read a bazillion Batman books and am jaded.Cool. I'll order the dark knight returns tonight. Never read any Frank Miller stuff but I've always heard good things. I'll give it a shot.
What are the best Superman trades so I can arrrrrr 'em?
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/22/starfire-catwoman-sex-superheroine
perfectly summarizes why red hood and catwoman were hot garbage
now reading miracle man.
i had read two issues previously, but couldn't stand the art on my computer screen.
on the touchpad it's damn near perfect.
fucking awesome stuff.
Billy Baston? More like Billy Bastard, AMIRITE?!
I liked Supergirl *shrug* Wasn't amazing but it was pretty entertaining.
Wonder Woman was WTF but pretty awesome
A 7-year-old responds to the new Starfire (http://io9.com/5844355/a-7+year+old-girl-responds-to-dc-comics-sexed+up-reboot-of-starfire)
I know there's other points being made and it's not just the clothing, but it's kinda funny how she posts pictures of her daughter with funnybooks featuring scantily-clad Starfire and Supergirl, pre-reboot.
I know there's other points being made and it's not just the clothing, but it's kinda funny how she posts pictures of her daughter with funnybooks featuring scantily-clad Starfire and Supergirl, pre-reboot.
Article aside, i think it has more to do with Starfire wantin SEX, and LOTS OF IT. Its just creepy.
(http://i.imgur.com/XeXo8.png)
:rofl
Scott Lobdell :yuck
I was going to get Teen Titans today at the store but they ran out. I asked how it was since Lobdell wrote and the dude said it's actually good, unlike Red Hood.
And to be fair, half of what's wrong with Red Hood is the artist depiction of Starfire.
less beach scenes more super hero-ing
its a dumb costume shut up- ill check out Superman #1 then
Is anyone going to check out Holy Terror?
I know there's other points being made and it's not just the clothing, but it's kinda funny how she posts pictures of her daughter with funnybooks featuring scantily-clad Starfire and Supergirl, pre-reboot.
Article aside, i think it has more to do with Starfire wantin SEX, and LOTS OF IT. Its just creepy.
I guess, although is from one of the comics Starfire was in, pre-reboot:
http://readrant.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/starfire-is-still-naked.jpg
So it seems like Lobdell took the character's personality and dialed it up one too many notches. And you're right...it is creepy. I have no problem with scantily-clad characters and with sex in comics, but that book just did it all wrong. See something like Empowered on how to do that right.
lyte edge:
(http://i.imgur.com/MOAG3.jpg)
so excited about Kamandi, will look great next to my Fourth World and OMAC omnibii!
so... is Finder actually good? (ducks)
so excited about Kamandi, will look great next to my Fourth World and OMAC omnibii!
so... is Finder actually good? (ducks)
Must get OMAC as well, fuck. Finder is great but very oblique and idiosyncratic. The mindless ones have had some great posts about it recently.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/29/dc-amazon-kindle-fire-graphic-novels-exclusive/
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
EDIT: Well, as long as they work with the Kindle app on iPad...which seems to still be up-in-the-air.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/29/dc-amazon-kindle-fire-graphic-novels-exclusive/
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
EDIT: Well, as long as they work with the Kindle app on iPad...which seems to still be up-in-the-air.
i can't imagine this being worth while on a 7" screen
i can't imagine this being worth while on a 7" screen
exactly - iPad is jussst big enough, 7" Kindle Fire is quite not
DC Comics On Starfire Controversy: 'Pay Attention To The Ratings'
Prompted by the resoundingly negative critical response to Red Hood And The Outlaws #1's dubious, oversexualized depiction of the superheroine Starfire -- in particular, the disgusted reaction of a 7-year-old fan of Cartoon Network's Teen Titans, a popular animated series in which a version of Starfire appeared -- DC Comics released a terse statement via Twitter (here and here) that advised unhappy readers to "pay attention to the ratings." The full statement is as follows:
We've heard what's being said about Starfire today and we appreciate the dialogue on this topic. We encourage people to pay attention to the ratings when picking out any books to read themselves or for their children.
Red Hood And The Outlaws #1 is rated "T -Teen", which DC Comics defines as "Appropriate for readers age 12 and older. May contain mild violence, language and/or suggestive themes." Fair enough, then. By that guideline, the book is obviously inappropriate for a 7-year-old. But the 7-year-old girl's question, and that of Shortpacked's David Willis and our own Laura Hudson remains valid. Should a Starfire comic book be targeted so narrowly? As part of the bold and massive publishing initiative and mainstream outreach that is DC's New 52, does using characters best-known from all-ages cartoons in books like Red Hood And The Outlaws make sense?
Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/28/dc-comics-on-starfire-controversy-pay-attention-to-the-ratings/#ixzz1ZN6gfNVq
Is DC even publishing any titles that AREN'T rated T for Teen?
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/09/catwoman03bwul.jpg)
Yeah, the stated point of the relaunch was to draw in people who weren't reading comics before, but it's clear that the actual goal is to further pander to the dwindling fanbase.
i can't imagine this being worth while on a 7" screen
exactly - iPad is jussst big enough, 7" Kindle Fire is quite not
ah to dream for a 13" tablet
Anybody reading Witch Doctor from Image? It's got a really fun 'House meets Hellblazer' vibe to it. I giggled at least 3 times at the latest issue. I recommend it unreservedly. The zero issue is even free on comixology!
(http://www.witchdoctorcomic.com/comics/2011-03-25_15-Issue1Cover.jpg)
http://www.witchdoctorcomic.com/
The Flash was probably the best from DC this week. The story was pretty slight but the visual storytelling was really nice. Had a very fresh feel despite not being Manapul's first run on the Flash. Proof that artists can tell a story better by themselves than when being stage-directed to death by a writer who can't draw. (although to be fair, some of the narration was a bit clunky...but who cares).
Holy jesus, Action Comics is fucking AMAZING. Swamp Thing, Batwing, and Animal Man are all great...but holy crap, Action Comics just slapped its semen drenched dick on my proverbial face and I asked for seconds.
Hey Cormac, did you get Holy Terror yet?
So how good is Kamandi? If I want to get into Kirby is this a good place to start, or should I wait for the Fourth World omnibus reprints?
http://fuckyeahkirby.tumblr.com/
X-Men Schism #5 was good. Wolverine is a dumbass.
X-Men Schism #5 was good. Wolverine is a dumbass.
Care to spoil it for me? I don't read comics anymore but I always like to hear what's going on with X-men.
I don't fucking know. I don't see the point in Jean coming back now that Scott has Emma.
Funnily, Professor X is on Scott's side.
X-Men Schism #5 was good. Wolverine is a dumbass.
Care to spoil it for me? I don't read comics anymore but I always like to hear what's going on with X-men.
LOL, I see Himu covered it.
If you're gonna read any X book, make it Uncanny X-Force. It's self-contained and far better than everything else out there. I'm hoping that if nothing else, Schism makes the other X books interesting again.
Thanks a lot himu. And in which issue did wolverine and cyclops have that brutal fight? I must read it!
You really can't go wrong with Kirby, though I'd recommend the four Fourth World Omnibii as the best starting point
NEWSBOY LEGION FUCK YEAH
EDIT: Somehow I missed there was a Newsboy Legion HC (http://www.amazon.com/Newsboy-Legion-Simon-Spangled-Comics/dp/1848565763/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317922303&sr=8-2)!
Two issues is pushing it. I think it could have been done in 4 but I wouldn't say nothing happens.
You really can't go wrong with Kirby, though I'd recommend the four Fourth World Omnibii as the best starting point
NEWSBOY LEGION FUCK YEAH
EDIT: Somehow I missed there was a Newsboy Legion HC (http://www.amazon.com/Newsboy-Legion-Simon-Spangled-Comics/dp/1848565763/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317922303&sr=8-2)!
Let's start an EB Newsboy Legion. I call dibs on the name change to Big Woids
jesus fuck, batman is getting so much play in the new 52 :lol
Distant: Marvel is teasing this for the NYC Comic Con.
Bet it's Jean/Phoenix :lol
Of course, some writers have hinted that Hope is Jean reincarnated. :-\
jesus fuck, batman is getting so much play in the new 52 :lol
who did he fuck this week
Some reporter lady. Im wondering where Batman finds all this time for all his local crimefighting, JLA, JLI, Catwoman fucking, reporter fucking, yelling at his son.
Some reporter lady. Im wondering where Batman finds all this time for all his local crimefighting, JLA, JLI, Catwoman fucking, reporter fucking, yelling at his son.
Totally. Batman is featured in too many books.
He even shows up in Africa in Batwing.
Maybe you guys don't realize how long its been since DC lead a month in market share. 8 out of the top 10 books are DC - that's insane for them.
(still no evidence of any mainstream crossover of course but it's something)
all star western was pretty good, if a bit too "wink-wink hey jonah hex is in GOTHAM CITY, you know, where BATMAN is from"
Thought this was kinda interesting:
http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/10979241054/rebooting-the-justice-league
all star western was pretty good, if a bit too "wink-wink hey jonah hex is in GOTHAM CITY, you know, where BATMAN is from"
Kamandi arrived today along with Hark a Vagrant
Kamandi arrived today along with Hark a Vagrant
Nice! Mine are in the post. I got One Soul, btw, haven't started it yet. If you are not yet on the Prince Valiant bandwagon, now is a good time to start, as vol. 4 just hit. vol. 3 is really where it hits its stride artistically, so you could jump on there, or just go straight to vol. 4. We are in 'End of Year Best of List' territory now. All the art house stuff is hitting at once.
Picked up the watchmen tpb today. Pretty excited :hyper
Picked up the watchmen tpb today. Pretty excited :hyper
temper your expectations
::)
i'm goin' to bed, fuck this noise
::)
i'm goin' to bed, fuck this noise
If we're on Moore, I like V for Vendetta and From Hell more. I have read a lot of graphic novels, and while Watchmen is a classic, one's expectations should be tempered when reading it for the first time due to hyperbolic fan frenzy.
I went in Watchmen with high expectations, and came out with high praise. Chill out Himu.
:lol::)
i'm goin' to bed, fuck this noise
If we're on Moore, I like V for Vendetta and From Hell more. I have read a lot of graphic novels, and while Watchmen is a classic, one's expectations should be tempered when reading it for the first time due to hyperbolic fan frenzy.
TEMPER YOUR EXPECTATIONS, IT'S ONLY A CLASSIC
Toshiko Tomura is a genius; the darling of the intelligentsia. A modern-day Michelangelo, this twenty year-old is already an established international stage actress, an up-and-coming architect, and the next recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize as Japan's best new writer. Her actions make headlines in the papers, and inspire radio and television programming. And like many great talents, her troubled past is what motivates her to greatness. She has the amazing ability to emulate the talents of others.
Toshiko is also the mastermind behind a series of murders. The ultimate mimic, she has plagiarized, blackmailed, stolen and replicated the works of scores of talents. And now as her star is rising within the world of the elites and powerful she has amassed a long list of enemies frustrated by the fact that she has built critical and financial acclaim for nothing more than copying others' work. Neglected as a child, she is challenging the concepts of gender inequality while unleashing her loneliness upon the world as she climbs the social ladder one body at a time.
One of Osamu Tezuka's most wicked tales, The Book of Human Insects renders the 70's as a brutal and often polarizing bug-eat-bug world, where only those willing to sell their soul to the masses and become something less than human are capable of achieving their wildest dreams
I fail to see how I'm annihilated.
I fail to see how I'm annihilated.
Just makes it better, really
I fail to see how I'm annihilated.
Just makes it better, really
"Temper your expectations" does not mean "it sucks". in this case, it means "Watchmen is a great comic, but the way comic geeks whack their nut all over it borders on hilarious, so don't go in with ridiculous high expectations or it may not meet them " to which you're proving my point to a tee, right fucking now.
Watchmen fanboys are fucking obnoxious.
I dunno, I'm about 1/4 of the way through and it's awesome-wowsome. I didn't have much reading time this weekend but I hope to knock it out tonight .
Shit is amazing so far.
Wolverine and the X-Men #1 is win.
Wolverine and the X-Men #1 is win.
like it or not, that IS Wolverine in the current Marvel U - Aaron's been writing him that way for years now. He is of course doing the whole 'fish out of water' riff here.
Just read it, Gundam. It's really fun. Reminds me of the start of Morrison's X-men but played for laughs. The class descriptions at the end are straight-up hilarious. Bacchalo's art is wonderfully expressive as usual - probably as good as anything I've seen from him.I ordered a physical copy. ComiXology has shown me one thing about an iPod Touch screen and comics: SIZE DOES MATTER.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61oq%2BOSfsgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Age-Apocalypse-Scott-Lobdell/dp/0785159827/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1HFM9ZM28U00L&colid=2QM6L71N76HFT
Just in time for my birthday- cant wait. I have the first TPB releases but hardcover edition = MO BETTA
Apparently part of sticking with Scott after the schism for Emma is getting to dress in even less clothing. Comic books, now even more embarrassing to explain to your friends.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61oq%2BOSfsgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Age-Apocalypse-Scott-Lobdell/dp/0785159827/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1HFM9ZM28U00L&colid=2QM6L71N76HFT
Just in time for my birthday- cant wait. I have the first TPB releases but hardcover edition = MO BETTA
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lurmm39Ojm1qdz8ujo1_500.jpg)
I think Eel would be quite interested in Alter Ego, which focuses on Golden and Silver age topics and creators.
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lurmm39Ojm1qdz8ujo1_500.jpg)
how am i supposed to be reacting here
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lurmm39Ojm1qdz8ujo1_500.jpg)
how am i supposed to be reacting here
Is Sandman worth reading?
I went back and read it and while it holds up for the most part, it's definitely an artifact of the 90s. I kind of wish we had that Gaiman around instead of our current model.
Is Sandman worth reading?
Deepo, natch
Deepo, natch
:heart U
Are you my 1/750 brother in cultural imperialism?
So they kill spiderman, and then release avenging spiderman series? Im confused! Oh well- least its been a fun two issues.
I'm waffling on the Metabarons but should just buy it - if I end up regretting it, I can always flip it for a $250 profit later on! :lol
NEW COMICS AVATAR
+luv to the first to ID
having said that i pre-ordered it instantly anyway, may as well lock in the pre-order price guarantee early
The comics that DC will cancel, effective in April, are “Blackhawks,” “O.M.A.C.”, “Men of War,” and “Hawk and Dove,” as well as “Mister Terrific” and “Static Shock,” which are among the rare mainstream titles to focus on African-American heroes.
Among the series that it will introduce (or reintroduce) in May is “Batman Incorporated,” written by the popular comics author Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chris Burnham, in which the alter ego of Bruce Wayne deals with worldwide crises; DC was publishing a similar series before it began its company-wide makeover, called “The New 52,” at the end of the summer.
Other new titles include “Dial H,” written by the science-fiction and fantasy novelist China Miéville, and which DC described in a news release as “a bold new take on a cult classic concept about the psychological effects on an everyman who accidentally gains powers to become a hero.” The publisher will also start series called “Earth 2″ and “Worlds’ Finest,” set in a parallel reality; as well as “G. I. Combat” and “The Ravagers,” about a group of teenage heroes.
Can't say I'm surprisedQuote
The comics that DC will cancel, effective in April, are “Blackhawks,” “O.M.A.C.”, “Men of War,” and “Hawk and Dove,” as well as “Mister Terrific” and “Static Shock,” which are among the rare mainstream titles to focus on African-American heroes.
Among the series that it will introduce (or reintroduce) in May is “Batman Incorporated,” written by the popular comics author Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chris Burnham, in which the alter ego of Bruce Wayne deals with worldwide crises; DC was publishing a similar series before it began its company-wide makeover, called “The New 52,” at the end of the summer.
Other new titles include “Dial H,” written by the science-fiction and fantasy novelist China Miéville, and which DC described in a news release as “a bold new take on a cult classic concept about the psychological effects on an everyman who accidentally gains powers to become a hero.” The publisher will also start series called “Earth 2″ and “Worlds’ Finest,” set in a parallel reality; as well as “G. I. Combat” and “The Ravagers,” about a group of teenage heroes.
I LOVE the Dial H for HERO concept and always have. I'm very curious to see China's take on the while thing
They should cancel catwoman imo, what crap that is- also how did Voodoo escape their wrath?
They should cancel catwoman imo, what crap that is- also how did Voodoo escape their wrath?
Tits ftw, apparently.
really curious about China's Dial H
I'm dropping Animal Man after the first arc - it's barreling straight into a Swamp Thing crossover and I can't pretend to keep up
Simply avoid Marvel and DC then!Recommends my good man!
Best non-Marvel/DC comic? Jim Balent's Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. Don't believe me? Check it, yo:(http://www.the-isb.com/images/Tarot53e.jpg)
http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980
from the travel channel?
Batman: Noel has some sweet art. That's pretty much it.
Long Shadows and Life After Death both take place right after Batman's "death" and the Battle for the Cowl, I don't know how easy it'll be to get into those if you haven't already been following Batman. Bruce Wayne is gone and Dick Grayson (original Robin) is now Batman and Bruce's son Damian is Robin.
That whole storyline was weird as hell. I've read Batman RIP, Final Crisis, and The Return of Bruce Wayne, and none of that shit makes a lick of sense. But I'm fine with that, because we got Morrison's Batman and Robin out of it, which was awesome.
Mr. Moore, who has disassociated himself from DC Comics and the industry at large, called the new venture “completely shameless.”:lol
Speaking by telephone from his home in Northampton, England, Mr. Moore said, “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”
well, at least straczynski finally got what he wanted, he's been writing watchmen knockoffs for yearsI really liked his Justice League knock off for the Marvel Max line
well, at least straczynski finally got what he wanted, he's been writing watchmen knockoffs for yearsAdmit it, you're just jealous that you couldn't think of and sell the idea of Superman walking across the country lecturing people.
i would write that, only i would jack him up on about a dozen different types of kryptonite first:lol
Picked up the Xombi and Batman:Gates of Gotham trades. Love Scott Snyder's Batman books. Black mirror is still phenomenal after reading it a few times in a row. It just captures this great frisson of detective work and psychological craziness I love in my Batbooks.
I wish I liked his American Vampire but it's just too blargh. I guess "typical?" I dunno.Quotewell, at least straczynski finally got what he wanted, he's been writing watchmen knockoffs for yearsI really liked his Justice League knock off for the Marvel Max line
well, at least straczynski finally got what he wanted, he's been writing watchmen knockoffs for years
also got Batman & Robin Vol 4.
Holy Hell, I just read this article about what happened to Bill Mantlo:
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2011/11/07/tragic-tale
I am thoroughly depressed, heartbreaking stuff there :(
“Generally, if I can’t be true to the creator’s intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.”
That Alan Moore webcast was pretty awesome. 2.5 hours and I saw Cormacaroni in there!
Alan confirmed that he is God :bow2
Also reading She-Hulk: Single Green Female, which was one of my half-off TPBs. It is surprisingly entertaining. She-Hulk gets kicked out of the Avengers' mansion and is offered a job at the most prestigious law firm, but only under the condition that she operate as Jen Walters in the office. Some clever cases are brought before her; it makes for good set-ups and punchlines.
Just read this in one sitting
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this is, to borrow a phrase from semiotic theory, some seriously fucked up shit
Might even have to give it the Eric P :drudge in fact
Ah, the hot warm bath of Eric P approbation :)
In a similar vein, I also got that Pinocchio book by Winschluss...will post when I get around to reading it.
http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Batman-Robin-Reborn/dp/1401237371/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331329045&sr=1-2
I am very curious to see what is in this
first reaction
wait he was still alive
second reaction
hopefully we'll get some deluxe silver surfer reprints now!
Wolverine and the XMen > Uncanny Xmen
first reaction
wait he was still alive
second reaction
hopefully we'll get some deluxe silver surfer reprints now!
Ron Lim is still the definitive SS artist though
*ducks*
first reaction
wait he was still alive
second reaction
hopefully we'll get some deluxe silver surfer reprints now!
Ron Lim is still the definitive SS artist though
*ducks*
i don't disagree, but i would like the mobius stuff in a nice handsome volume
He-Man fans rejoice! An all-new comic book series chronicling HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE will be released starting in July, and offer an entirely new take on the storied warrior who celebrates his 30th anniversary this year. The six issue, limited series is written by James Robinson, with pencils by Phillip Tan and inks from Ruy Jose.
In the new series, Robinson reintroduces the Masters of the Universe® to comic readers with Skeletor having won a major victory and rewriting the world of Eternia where he now rules from Castle Grayskull and the Masters have no memory of their former glory. Adam is a simple woodsman haunted by dreams of a heroic warrior, wielding a powerful sword in battle. He is found by a mysterious sorceress who tells him his dreams are of the way the world should be, that he is Eternia's champion He-Man. Adam sets off on a quest to regain his power and reawaken the Masters of the Universe.
Also enjoying Prophet a lot, definite Eric P bait I'd say
Although it definitely wins some sort of consolation prize for not sounding/reading exactly like every single other mainstream cape book on the stands, Dial H may be the unfortunate herald of a terrifying future: crappy imitations of Grant Morrison comics. Sponsored by slumming, Dial H is written by some guy who writes those kinds of fantasy novels that look more respectable than Dragonlance books but aren’t respectable enough not to be shelved alongside them, and it’s drawn by another one of those DC artists who never saw a picture he couldn’t add way too many extraneous lines to. It’s about a fat guy with a friend, a rotary phone booth that turns people into random super-heroes, and it’s probably qualitatively better than most DC comics currently available while still not being half as aesthetically successful as the last two YouTube videos somebody emailed you links to. This will be the favorite thing of exactly no one, but it will probably be a few people’s number seven.
I can't wait to read the new Dial H book. I wonder what people think of it!
http://www.tcj.com/if-kirby-was-still-alive-he-would-totally-have-killed-himself-by-now/QuoteAlthough it definitely wins some sort of consolation prize for not sounding/reading exactly like every single other mainstream cape book on the stands, Dial H may be the unfortunate herald of a terrifying future: crappy imitations of Grant Morrison comics. Sponsored by slumming, Dial H is written by some guy who writes those kinds of fantasy novels that look more respectable than Dragonlance books but aren’t respectable enough not to be shelved alongside them, and it’s drawn by another one of those DC artists who never saw a picture he couldn’t add way too many extraneous lines to. It’s about a fat guy with a friend, a rotary phone booth that turns people into random super-heroes, and it’s probably qualitatively better than most DC comics currently available while still not being half as aesthetically successful as the last two YouTube videos somebody emailed you links to. This will be the favorite thing of exactly no one, but it will probably be a few people’s number seven.
Well there goes that
I got the Court of the Owls book and it really just hammered home how much of a joke the whole "reboot" is. In the first issue of a new timeline and there's already been 4 Robins and a Batcave full of junk? Ignoring that, it's pretty good. I like Scott Snyder's take on the Bat Fam well enough. I like his Bruce, but I think I liked Black Mirror a bit more.
Are there any other verses as fleshed out as Marvel and DC? I mean with a bunch of heroes and stories all in the same universe but not of DC/Vertigo/Marvel?Darkhorse?
I got the Court of the Owls book and it really just hammered home how much of a joke the whole "reboot" is. In the first issue of a new timeline and there's already been 4 Robins and a Batcave full of junk?
:drudge
Invisibles Omnibus!
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401234593/ref=pd_1ctyhuc__sbs_02_02
:drudge
DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.
Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.
But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed that an existing character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become ‘one of our most prominent gay characters’, according to comic blog BleedingCool.com.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147928/Is-Batman-gay-Major-DC-Comics-character-come-closet.htmlQuoteDC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.
Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.
But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed that an existing character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become ‘one of our most prominent gay characters’, according to comic blog BleedingCool.com.
soooo who hasn't been rebooted yet?
Is Shazam still a young boy in the reboot?
Aquaman would be the obvious choice. or Kyle Rayner.
Aquaman is married and Kyle is dating Sinestro's daughter, although I think they may have broken up. I don't remember John Stewart ever being married or dating anyone though, maybe he's on the DL.
Still gonna be weirdIs Shazam still a young boy in the reboot?
Aquaman would be the obvious choice. or Kyle Rayner.
hes gonna be an adult.
Still gonna be weirdIs Shazam still a young boy in the reboot?
Aquaman would be the obvious choice. or Kyle Rayner.
hes gonna be an adult.
Still gonna be weirdIs Shazam still a young boy in the reboot?
Aquaman would be the obvious choice. or Kyle Rayner.
hes gonna be an adult.
I'd buy a comic about a young hetero boy who transforms magically into a gay muscleman wearing a sash and cape
Full Metal AlchemistStill gonna be weirdIs Shazam still a young boy in the reboot?
Aquaman would be the obvious choice. or Kyle Rayner.
hes gonna be an adult.
I'd buy a comic about a young hetero boy who transforms magically into a gay muscleman wearing a sash and cape
Alan Scott is the character DC is relaunching gay.
Is his daughter gay too then
Shoulda been Dave Cockrum-drawn 70's Cosmic Boy, who was a gay icon anyway. That whole era of LSH was just Studio 57 in Space
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5bcfpMCxb6I/ST4V2GZSoFI/AAAAAAAADfo/mURzJ3aAQYI/s400/CosmicBoy1.jpg)
Alan Scott is the character DC is relaunching gay.
isnt he in earth 2?
DC already (re?)introduced an openly-gay character in their Teen Titans book, too.
Why does this even matter?
DC already (re?)introduced an openly-gay character in their Teen Titans book, too.
Why does this even matter?
because this will be a pre-existing character. like gay beast that existed in exiles. its an effort to ramp sales like bi racial spiderman was.
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I just don't see "The gay Green Lantern of Earth-2" ramping up sales.
And that goes for what Marvel is doing too. Who the hell cares about "minor character Northstar marries minor character boyfriend that appeared in three issues over the last five years"?
Was Captain America even dead for a year? I remember he was time-displaced or something equally as stupid as what happened when Batman "died."
Then then killed Bucky-Cap...only they didn't and he's the Winter Soldier again. :lol
Was Captain America even dead for a year? I remember he was time-displaced or something equally as stupid as what happened when Batman "died."
Then then killed Bucky-Cap...only they didn't and he's the Winter Soldier again. :lol
when Batman "died."Caveman Batman was kinda fun. Then the reality of the story arc set in for me. I weeped a little.
The Marvel stunt is working for sales, probably because they showed issue #50 on the View :lol
The issue immediately sold out and people who never buy comics have been coming in the shop asking for it every day since it came out.
Seems like they should stop killing characters and start doing more gay weddings instead!
Nerds would rebel and burn the planet in revengeSeems like they should stop killing characters and start doing more gay weddings instead!
If Batman married Superman, I guarantee that would be the highest selling issue of any printed media ever.
Seems like they should stop killing characters and start doing more gay weddings instead!
If Batman married Superman, I guarantee that would be the highest selling issue of any printed media ever.
Seems like they should stop killing characters and start doing more gay weddings instead!
If Batman married Superman, I guarantee that would be the highest selling issue of any printed media ever.
two good comics?
anal scott
I think Ed Brubaker is the closest thing you guys have to Alan Moore.
I don't know earth two, but it sounds scary. The thing is I've been researching Brubakers work, and holy shit, he's just so amazingly consistent. But unlike Anal, is rather more open to Hollywoods priapic cock-monster. I guess that'll change sooner or later.I think Ed Brubaker is the closest thing you guys have to Alan Moore.
the cool thing about comics is that we all have alan moore
except earth two
they have anal moore.
anal scott
I'm all for diversity but this is kind of getting into cynical, pandering territory yo
I'm all for diversity but this is kind of getting into cynical, pandering territory yo
comics have been pandering. miles morales is a case of pandering too.
I don't know earth two, but it sounds scary. The thing is I've been researching Brubakers work, and holy shit, he's just so amazingly consistent. But unlike Anal, is rather more open to Hollywoods priapic cock-monster. I guess that'll change sooner or later.I think Ed Brubaker is the closest thing you guys have to Alan Moore.
the cool thing about comics is that we all have alan moore
except earth two
they have anal moore.
But maaaaan, him and the artist guy they have a serious alchemy, one thats a rare and beauteous thing. I bought Moores Lost Girls, and it's just porn.
I'm all for diversity but this is kind of getting into cynical, pandering territory yo
comics have been pandering. miles morales is a case of pandering too.
Mile Morales is a case of Bendis being an unoriginal hack. It's the result of people saying Donald Glover would make a good Spider-Man.
Just read a graphic novel called A God Somewhere.
It had some really excellent panels, and some good dialogue, but I felt that the story was far too rushed. It felt like a cliffnotes version of what the story should have been.
Huh. Ok. Yes I will. Although I never really liked Cap Amer for obvious reasons.I don't know earth two, but it sounds scary. The thing is I've been researching Brubakers work, and holy shit, he's just so amazingly consistent. But unlike Anal, is rather more open to Hollywoods priapic cock-monster. I guess that'll change sooner or later.I think Ed Brubaker is the closest thing you guys have to Alan Moore.
the cool thing about comics is that we all have alan moore
except earth two
they have anal moore.
But maaaaan, him and the artist guy they have a serious alchemy, one thats a rare and beauteous thing. I bought Moores Lost Girls, and it's just porn.
Read all of Brubaker's Cap run. Even when he goes all Silver Age crazy like in last year's Cap relaunch, it's good.
I think Ed Brubaker is the closest thing you guys have to Alan Moore.
the cool thing about comics is that we all have alan moore
except earth two
they have anal moore.
I'm all for diversity but this is kind of getting into cynical, pandering territory yo
comics have been pandering. miles morales is a case of pandering too.
Mile Morales is a case of Bendis being an unoriginal hack. It's the result of people saying Donald Glover would make a good Spider-Man.
So did anyone read Minute Men #1?
I had my LGS set aside a copy for me but I haven't picked it up. The only thing that could possibly come from it is disappointment.So did anyone read Minute Men #1?
No, not even going to steal it. It just makes me feel queasy and question the integrity of everyone involved. Even if Alan Moore had written it, and Dave Gibbons had drawn it, i'd STILL feel it was an unnecessary cash-in that could do nothing but cheapen the original.
So did anyone read Minute Men #1?
No, not even going to steal it. It just makes me feel queasy and question the integrity of everyone involved. Even if Alan Moore had written it, and Dave Gibbons had drawn it, i'd STILL feel it was an unnecessary cash-in that could do nothing but cheapen the original.
WW - art is delicious but I am so so bored with updates of Greek mythology. Dropped it months ago.
Green Arrow - tell us how it is :lolI never read Green Arrow before the reboot, but they changed Oliver Queen into the young head of a tech company. He moonlights as a crime fighter and has a few people at his company helping with stuff, kind of like how Oracle used to help Batman. Nothing is really happening in the book though. He fights C-list villains and pretends to give a shit about his company. Kind of feels like they're attempting to rip-off Tony Stark with GA's redesign.
You shop at Midtown usually, Eric P?
Ever go to Bergen St? Tucker Stone and Matt Seneca work there, so their selection is fuckawesome (going by their site/twitter feed)
i never thought i would say this about garth ennis, but after having read all of the various crossed comics the ones he writes are downright subtle compared to the rest
Crossed, over all, is trash. I felt bad for having read it, particularly the David Lapham stuff which is just pointless yuck.
http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/6/14/3084348/the-second-40-worst-rob-liefeld-drawings
found via twitter - 'Catwoman does yoga!'
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found via twitter - 'Catwoman does yoga!'
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LTTP, but I just saw the Catwoman #0 teaser image. :lol
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This is not how the human body works!
Is DC rebooting again already? :-\
Thanks for whoever recommended the Infinity Gauntlet/Wars sagas. I loved the classic cheese and ridiculousness and would like to read even more old superhero arcs. Do Secret Wars, Dark Phoenix Saga, and Age of Apocalypse still hold up? If so how would you guys rank them?
I have to confess that I do not like 90s comics that much. 00s aren't that great either. so now it makes me think that my love of 80s and 70s stuff is just nostalgia
picked up Wild Children yesterday. Didn't go far enough in either the deconstruction or the plot. Should have been double the length.
Reading reviews around the net, and everyone else seems to be raving over WD 100, so I guess I'm just out of step with modern comics or something. I think he's just a mediocre writer who got lucky, overexplains in his dialogue, and can't foreshadow for shit (if you didn't see it coming you weren't paying attention). I've gotten the feeling that he really gets off on excessive brutality a few times before, but it really sank in this time. He just uses over the top shock moment violence to cover his medium talent. I've had enough.
People seem to rave over Crossed, too, as if that isn't just an extended exercise in seeing how much an audience is willing to take. What the fuck is wrong with comics nerds nowadays? Are they all closet sociopaths?
Reading reviews around the net, and everyone else seems to be raving over WD 100, so I guess I'm just out of step with modern comics or something.
Taking a page straight from the Geoff Johns playbook—“do exactly what everyone expects you to do, but so blatantly that even the most jaded reader can’t help but shrug their shoulders and appreciate the fact that you’re at least self-aware”—this, ladies and gentleman, is the comic book that the world was looking for. The fact that it’s a piece of shit–and The Walking Dead is fucking shit, 100% pure octane trash–isn’t an accident. Kirkman’s never-ending zombie opera is the closest you’re going to get to the kind of megapopular success that is prized in comics above all else; it’s a television show that your dad thinks about more than he does your mother’s feelings and a comic book that nine-year-olds are going to learn about life from. In this issue, we watch along with Rick (the main character of the series) as yet another character in the series gets brutally murdered, because that’s what life is all about in The Walking Dead, man. It’s about how you can capitalize off of people’s worst possible instincts and the lowest common denominator, and then proceed to collect money, hand over fist, for the rest of your natural life.
New Neil Gaiman Sandman project with JH Williams III.spoiler (click to show/hide)(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2012/07/smpromojhwilliams.jpeg)[close]
If you liked Infinity Gauntlet, you should check out the run in Silver Surfer that led into into. Great stuff.
Secret Wars doesn't (but it never really did. It was basically Marvel's Crisis on Infinite Earths)
Phoenix / Dark Phoenix kind of does but I don't like Cosmic X-Men stuff personally.
Mutant Massacre / Fall of the Mutants are the two hightpoints in Marvel Crossovers of the 80s, I think
Reading this list is like watching the Singularity spin up into action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_of_the_Marvel_Universe#1970s
Reading reviews around the net, and everyone else seems to be raving over WD 100, so I guess I'm just out of step with modern comics or something.
we old
read some Bronze age stuff with me!
OHMIGOD IS THAT CAT THE TOOTH FAIRY unfortunately no
Reading reviews around the net, and everyone else seems to be raving over WD 100, so I guess I'm just out of step with modern comics or something.
we old
read some Bronze age stuff with me!
will totally do it! i'd love to revisit some of the comics i read as a kid to see if they hold up. i've been on a pre-code horror kick for a while, but i'm kinda getting burned out on it, haha.
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of ones waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better...So the paradigm becomes all the Salieri shadows unable to touch the Mozart reality, all the respectably-talented but not awesomely-endowed Antonio's fulminating with frustration at the occasional Amadeus...Excellence is its on master, owes no allegiance, bows its head to no regimen. It exists pure and whole like the silver face of the moon. Untouchable, unreadable, exquisite. But frustrating because it reminds us of how much mediocrity we put up with, just to get through the week.
The point being: Neil Gaiman's work on The Sandman
I read it for the first time earlier this year. It's ... okay. I kinda think you had to be there. Hell, I'm increasingly of the opinion you kinda had to be there for Watchmen, even.
http://www.amazon.com/Marshal-Law-Deluxe-Pat-Mills/dp/1401238556/ref=sr_1_23?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342463567&sr=1-23&keywords=dc+comicsI think the first book does, not sure about the rest. Oh and when he fights the cenobites........
does Marshal Law hold up? I haven't read it in forever
tried to read age of apocalypse
it's horrible
Posted?
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Get excite! :hyper
The Joker is giving me the finger :'(
Also I ordered one of those Court of Owls masks from Comic-con on eBay. Because I'm that guy.
Rob Liefeld has revealed that he will end his run on superhero comics in 2013.http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a395118/rob-liefeld-abandons-superheroes-in-2013.html
Grant Morrison made a similar announcement earlier in the week.
Veteran Image Comics founder Liefeld tweeted that he "will be close behind".
"As for DC work, I've done my job, stopped the bleeding, revived the patient... enjoying my collaborations..." he continued.
"Lots of creator owned dreams yet to realise..."
The writer and artist will conclude his work on DC Comics' Deathstroke, Hawkman and Grifter next year, adding that that was "a ways off".
Morrison has revealed that he will end his current work for DC with Action Comics #16 and Batman Incorporated #12.
A string of top creators have recently announced their intention to end their work-for-hire superhero projects to focus on creator-owned comics.
"The current corporate comics conditions are an absolute bear, on both sides, for both Big Two," tweeted Liefeld. "Not a political statement #fact."
"Gotta say, for me personally, working at DC this past year has been ridiculously enjoyable and fun," he added. "Treats talent right."
QuoteRob Liefeld has revealed that he will end his run on superhero comics in 2013.http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a395118/rob-liefeld-abandons-superheroes-in-2013.html
Grant Morrison made a similar announcement earlier in the week.
Veteran Image Comics founder Liefeld tweeted that he "will be close behind".
"As for DC work, I've done my job, stopped the bleeding, revived the patient... enjoying my collaborations..." he continued.
"Lots of creator owned dreams yet to realise..."
The writer and artist will conclude his work on DC Comics' Deathstroke, Hawkman and Grifter next year, adding that that was "a ways off".
Morrison has revealed that he will end his current work for DC with Action Comics #16 and Batman Incorporated #12.
A string of top creators have recently announced their intention to end their work-for-hire superhero projects to focus on creator-owned comics.
"The current corporate comics conditions are an absolute bear, on both sides, for both Big Two," tweeted Liefeld. "Not a political statement #fact."
"Gotta say, for me personally, working at DC this past year has been ridiculously enjoyable and fun," he added. "Treats talent right."
Thread title update pls.
"The BORE thread of Comics and how Rob Liefeld will no longer draw [superheroes]."
AoA rocks, you guyz r teh comic snobz
YOU USED THE POSITIVE ANYMORE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore) ARRRRGH I HATE YOU ARRRRGH WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Chrono is to grammar what Rob Liefeld is to anatomy.
Chrono is to grammar what Rob Liefeld is to anatomy.
I read Synder's The Black Mirror (Batman arc). It was okay, but it falls firmly into that Year One/The Dark Knight Returns genre of "serious" Batman books that don't really do much for me. The "villain," in particular, was rather bland. I get that's the point, but... I don't dig the Se7en style grimdark Batman stories. BEAUTIFUL art, though.
I really dislike the court of owls for some reason
Has anyone checked out Double Barrel on comixology etc yet? (also iBooks, iVerse etc). It's probably my favorite thing right now. So much great content for $2, and the price goes down to $1 after a month. The only proviso is you should really read Kevin Cannon's 'Far Arden' before jumping into his story, since it's a direct sequel.
"I've been itching to tell more adult stories. For me, it's a reflection of everything that I've been consuming for years - just harder, more adult fare that I could really only do on my own.
"It's not a reflection on any company other than subject matter and the levels of 'mature' content I'd be able to produce. More gore, blood, sex, violence, like any good cable show."
I've been itching to tell more adult stories. For me, it's a reflection of everything that I've been consuming for years -- just harder, more adult fare that I could really only do on my own.
why do those guys have no feet
So what's Rob Liefeld going to be doing after he finishes up at DC?spoiler (click to show/hide)(http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1344458520.jpg)
Fresh off his epic Deathstroke/Lobo battlefest, Rob will make comics featuring...his Deathstroke and Lobo rip-offs.[close]
I was stuck somewhere with my iPad and realized that I'd bought World War Hulk when comixology had it on sale for 99¢ an issue.
Somehow, despite the fact that it didn't take much time to read and it was cheap, I feel ripped off.
robertliefeld @robertliefeld
I'll be doing dramatic readings of some of my comics work at upcoming appearances. Who doesn't want to act this stuff out right?? Stay tuned
So what. Jack Kirby frequently drew four-jointed fingers and such. Hate on Leifeld 'cause it's horrid monotonal art with no dramatic or emotional range, not because of some technical deficiency in a field where damn near everybody is cutting corners like crazy all the time.
A follow-up post, I suppose. This sequel to the original 40-worst Liefeld drawings post is a wonder and a public service. But here’s the thing: like all good people, I love Jack Kirby and loath Rob Liefeld. But most of the criticisms of Liefeld – namely, it’s so, so anatomically wrong! – could be applied to Kirby. Why do all his characters look like someone poured a pot of ink down their foreheads? What are those things on the women’s cheeks that might be cheekbones but aren’t? But in the one case I feel affection and admiration, in the other, contempt and revulsion.
I mean: she’s got, like, five extra vertebrae. If you like it, you like it. If you don’t, you’ll say you don’t like it because she’s got too many vertebrae. But then there’s probably some other unrealistic style of painting you like ok. So what are you really bothered by?
Liefeld’s problem isn’t that he can’t draw feet. (Although it’s true. He can’t: how to draw comics the EXTREME way! is funny!) Liefeld’s problem also isn’t that he is a fetishist, because it’s not so unusual for artists to, ahem, investigate the same subject matter over and over again in a body of work. The problem is that the spirit of the whole thing is repellent … but why exactly? It’s juvenile without being attractively childish. It’s incompetent without being attractively outsider-art-y. (If only Rob Liefeld had died and all of his stuff been discovered, unpublished, in his mom’s basement. He could have been a genius.) (...)
So what. Jack Kirby frequently drew four-jointed fingers and such. Hate on Leifeld 'cause it's horrid monotonal art with no dramatic or emotional range, not because of some technical deficiency in a field where damn near everybody is cutting corners like crazy all the time.
John Holbo at Crooked Timber did a whole article on this, http://crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/body-images-and-realism-in-art-notes-towards-a-transvaluation-of-liefeldian-values/QuoteA follow-up post, I suppose. This sequel to the original 40-worst Liefeld drawings post is a wonder and a public service. But here’s the thing: like all good people, I love Jack Kirby and loath Rob Liefeld. But most of the criticisms of Liefeld – namely, it’s so, so anatomically wrong! – could be applied to Kirby. Why do all his characters look like someone poured a pot of ink down their foreheads? What are those things on the women’s cheeks that might be cheekbones but aren’t? But in the one case I feel affection and admiration, in the other, contempt and revulsion.
I mean: she’s got, like, five extra vertebrae. If you like it, you like it. If you don’t, you’ll say you don’t like it because she’s got too many vertebrae. But then there’s probably some other unrealistic style of painting you like ok. So what are you really bothered by?
Liefeld’s problem isn’t that he can’t draw feet. (Although it’s true. He can’t: how to draw comics the EXTREME way! is funny!) Liefeld’s problem also isn’t that he is a fetishist, because it’s not so unusual for artists to, ahem, investigate the same subject matter over and over again in a body of work. The problem is that the spirit of the whole thing is repellent … but why exactly? It’s juvenile without being attractively childish. It’s incompetent without being attractively outsider-art-y. (If only Rob Liefeld had died and all of his stuff been discovered, unpublished, in his mom’s basement. He could have been a genius.) (...)
Mark Millar on Liefeld: "the best high concept artist in the business"
https://twitter.com/mrmarkmillar/status/238033568096473088
Rob Liefeld walks off three DC titles ‘to preserve my sanity’
Rob Liefeld, who teased last month on the heels of Grant Morrison that he too would be leaving DC Comics soon, announced his abrupt departure this morning with a flurry of tweets criticizing his editors and the handling of the New 52. Although he’s listed in the solicitations for Deathstroke, Grifter and The Savage Hawkman through November, the writer/artist states that next month’s zero issues will be his last.
“Officially got off the DC52 treadmill this morning,” he wrote, adding, “I believe in what DC is doing, but had to preserve my sanity. I walked off all 3 books. Can’t wait to see any attempts to spin. I have every email.”
Liefeld was among the original creators when DC launched the New 52 a year ago, penciling and later also writing Hawk & Dove before moving in May to Deathstroke (writing and penciling), The Savage Hawkman and Grifter (plotting both).
“This is the 4th time I quit in the last 4 months. This time it will stick,” he wrote from a theater, where he was watching The Expendables 2. “Never thought the Image section of my book would be topped. This last year was a humdinger. The DC52 chapters will go top all of it. [...] Reasons are the same as everyone’s that you hear. I lasted a few months longer than I thought possible. Massive indecision, last minute and I mean LAST minute changes that alter everything. Editor pissing contests… No thxnjs. Last week my editor said ‘early on we had a lot of indie talent that weren’t used to re-writes and changes … made it hard.’ Uh, no, it’s you.”
Liefeld is only the latest creator to exit DC’s New 52 titles amid complaints of a relaunch plagued behind the scenes by disorganization and indecision. Notably, George Perez expressed his frustration over the repeated rewrites and lack of creative freedom that he contends led to his run on Superman being cut short.
“Don’t look for any tell all interview with me,” Liefeld added. “Just follow this feed. … the best stuff has not been shared — not even close!”
“This is the 4th time I quit in the last 4 months. This time it will stick,” he wrote from a theater, where he was watching The Expendables 2.
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http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/08/rob-liefeld-walks-off-three-dc-titles-to-preserve-my-sanity/QuoteRob Liefeld walks off three DC titles ‘to preserve my sanity’
Rob Liefeld, who teased last month on the heels of Grant Morrison that he too would be leaving DC Comics soon, announced his abrupt departure this morning with a flurry of tweets criticizing his editors and the handling of the New 52. Although he’s listed in the solicitations for Deathstroke, Grifter and The Savage Hawkman through November, the writer/artist states that next month’s zero issues will be his last.
“Officially got off the DC52 treadmill this morning,” he wrote, adding, “I believe in what DC is doing, but had to preserve my sanity. I walked off all 3 books. Can’t wait to see any attempts to spin. I have every email.”
Liefeld was among the original creators when DC launched the New 52 a year ago, penciling and later also writing Hawk & Dove before moving in May to Deathstroke (writing and penciling), The Savage Hawkman and Grifter (plotting both).
“This is the 4th time I quit in the last 4 months. This time it will stick,” he wrote from a theater, where he was watching The Expendables 2. “Never thought the Image section of my book would be topped. This last year was a humdinger. The DC52 chapters will go top all of it. [...] Reasons are the same as everyone’s that you hear. I lasted a few months longer than I thought possible. Massive indecision, last minute and I mean LAST minute changes that alter everything. Editor pissing contests… No thxnjs. Last week my editor said ‘early on we had a lot of indie talent that weren’t used to re-writes and changes … made it hard.’ Uh, no, it’s you.”
Liefeld is only the latest creator to exit DC’s New 52 titles amid complaints of a relaunch plagued behind the scenes by disorganization and indecision. Notably, George Perez expressed his frustration over the repeated rewrites and lack of creative freedom that he contends led to his run on Superman being cut short.
“Don’t look for any tell all interview with me,” Liefeld added. “Just follow this feed. … the best stuff has not been shared — not even close!”
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Pretty fucking impressive.
Manhattan Projects is Next Level (tm). NEXT. LEVEL.
I read the first 5 issues of Hickman's The Manhattan Projects. SUPER impressed. I was expecting some sort of wink-wink Atomic Robo series of historical jokeism from the description, but instead it's something much darker about America's relationship with science and the pursuit of knowledge at all costs.
Bendis is the Liefeld of comic writers. Ends a five-issue limited series with an annoying cliffhanger.
it reads like Image's Promethea which it kind of isYour extra-tera-astral projections
No more Phoenix ever?
Wait, so Marvel Now really is a ripoff of New 52? :lol I thought they were just shuffling around their writers and relaunching some things as well as finally getting their digital asses in gear.
man, i am so tired of the joker
i think everyone would give batman a pass for killing him
"well, okay. just don't do it again."
Yo cormac what would you recommend I check out? I already started Punk Rock Jesus from a previous post of yours and I'm really liking it.
I think the Joker was pretty central to RIP/Batman & Robin really. As central as any other villain was anyway.
I think my biggest problem is when the Joker is written in a way that overshadows Batman and other villains story wise. He is up there as probably my favorite comic book villain of all time alongside Magneto and Dr.Doom, but they ought to give him a break and focus on other villains.
Batman: "I will make an exception in your case."
he's overexposed in the comics, too
dude stole mr mxtplk's (sp) powers and made himself a god
basically, fuck the joker, and fuck the strained "bububu i can't lower myself to that level and kill him" storylines the character drags along behind him like a blanket
Well, Feelbad - the twist recently is that the current Robin IS a take-no-prisoners badass ninja assassin in a 10yr child's body. He has killed multiple bad guys in cold blood by this point. When he was left alone with the Joker in an interrogation room, he just beat the shit out of him with a crowbar and there was a genuine sense of danger to the proceedings. Obviously a major character can't ever really die in these comics of course, but there was at least a palpable sense that one of the heroes was actually prepared to do the smart thing.
And also, there was the Batman 666 issue that showed Damian as Batman in the future, and he actually HAD killed off a bunch of the badguys in that timeline IIRC.
Andrex - Joker set up huge chunks of those storylines, you may need to read it again. Don't forget that he was appearing in disguise for a bunch of B&R too
I was more talking about how they have 20 different services offering overlapping but not completely complimentary series. There was like Marvel.com, Comixology, Chrome app, some other ones, etc. And they all offered different sets of series.
Link: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/07/marvel-digital-comics-buy/
With DC it's pretty much just Comixology. As a digital-only buyer I don't care about budles or whatever. Why take up both physical as well as digital space? Worst of both worlds.
I was more talking about how they have 20 different services offering overlapping but not completely complimentary series. There was like Marvel.com, Comixology, Chrome app, some other ones, etc. And they all offered different sets of series.
Link: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/07/marvel-digital-comics-buy/
With DC it's pretty much just Comixology. As a digital-only buyer I don't care about budles or whatever. Why take up both physical as well as digital space? Worst of both worlds.
That article's over a year old. Now the Marvel comics store account can be linked to Comixology so if you buy or redeem a code at Marvel.com, you can download and read the comic in the Comixology app.
:bow IT'S OUT :bow2 (http://www.comixology.com/Batman-2011-13/digital-comic/AUG120180)
:bow IT'S OUT :bow2 (http://www.comixology.com/Batman-2011-13/digital-comic/AUG120180)
Death of the Family" part 1 featuring the return of the Joker! He crippled Batgirl. He killed Robin.
QuoteDeath of the Family" part 1 featuring the return of the Joker! He crippled Batgirl. He killed Robin.
did he? i thought none of that happened
I meant in the "new 52"
I meant in the "new 52"
I meant in the "new 52"
Barbara being crippled is still in continuity, she just got automagically healed at the beginning of the New 52.
Which is still better than Jason Todd being resurrected by Superboy-Prime punching a hole in the space-time continuum.
We've previously seen the estate of Jack Kirby try to wrestle back ownership of the characters the King of Comics had created for Marvel, and now it's apparently time for the corporation bearing the name of Kirby's co-conspirator to try the same thing. Yes, Stan Lee Media, Inc. has launched legal action against Marvel owner Disney, claiming that it is actually the true owner of all of Lee's characters at the publisher.
The company, founded in 1998 and having no real connection with Lee himself (The two have actually been involved in various legal battles against each other to underscore that fact), is suing Disney for the profits it has made from the various Marvel Entertainment movies and merchandise since it purchased the company in 2009, claiming that the copyright to Lee's various co-creations actually belongs to Stan Lee Media, Inc. and not Marvel, and therefore Disney.
"Defendant The Walt Disney Company has represented to the public that it, in fact, owns the copyright to these characters as well as to hundreds of other characters created by Stan Lee. Those representations made to the public by The Walt Disney Company are false," explains the lawsuit. SLMI is claiming that Lee signed over the rights to characters he created in October of 1998 in exchange for stock in Stan Lee Media, Inc., meaning that the November, 1998 agreement he signed with Marvel to assign the publisher control of the characters was worthless. "Lee no longer owned those rights since they had been assigned to SMI previously," the lawsuit explains.
"Accordingly, the Marvel agreement actually assigned nothing." Considering the near-mythical legal might of Disney, it's unlikely to imagine that this lawsuit will end up as anything more than a footnote in Marvel history, but if nothing else, we can look forward to a trial if only to find out why either Stan Lee Media, Inc. or Lee himself apparently believed that Lee had any ownership over the various Marvel Comics characters to assign in the first place.
Yeah of course he's not going to be doing any killing of significant cast characters; that just makes it all the lamer. They're calling it Death of the Family, not Death of a Bunch of Cops, but this will quickly be revealed as a shock tactic sales generator, as usual.
I'll say one thing for Robert Kirkman: Invincible and the Walking Dead cast are pretty lame as characters compared to the big Marvel/DC characters, but the actual books are usually way more exciting because they have actual consequence and story progression. He's maxing out what talent he has pretty effectively as a result.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/10/stan-lee-media-sues-disney-marvel-characters/
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/10/stan-lee-media-sues-disney-marvel-characters/
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
So if what I'm reading is correct, this company died when the dotcom bubble popped, and has existed only to sue and be sued by Stan Lee and Marvel ever since? Sounds like a pretty awesome business model.
about ten years or so ago i went on a group trip to carowinds amusement park
it was august (that was a brilliant plan), so of course it was 80 jillion degrees, and one of the group and i decided fuck the heat and opted to hop from theater show to theater show instead of getting heat stroke standing in line for rides
one of the shows we saw was a stan lee media joint, some animated 3D adventure starring outcast teens with superpowers
it was a total x-men ripoff, and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked in the way only an eighty year old man writing teen characters could (but the way the mechanized theater chairs tossed you around was pretty cool)
so when i think of stan lee post-marvel i think of stumbling around in a hellish amusement park wasteland with heat haze coming off the asphalt, and "at least it was air conditioned"
no more Phoenix ever.
With his directorial debut and accompanying soundtrack due out in the next few weeks, the RZA is striking while the iron is hot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has signed up to adapt Grant Morrison’s latest comic, Happy!.
Happy! debuted just last month via Image Comics, featuring art by industry vet Darick Robertson. It centers a corrupt ex-cop and hit man who, after a hit goes bad, is suddenly able to see Happy, “a cheerful little blue horse who won’t give in to adversity, no matter what unpleasant obstacles are in the way.” It has been described as a mix between It’s a Wonderful Life, Sin City and Care Bears.
RZA will co-produce with Reginald Hudlin, the director of House Party and former president of BET; the pair announced a partnership at this year’s Comic-Con.
Morrison will write the script. He is best known for his acclaimed runs on various Batman, Superman, and X-Men titles, and he has been awarded the honor of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen for his services to literature.
The only stuff i've read is Joe the Barbarian (with Grant Morrison), which was disappointing, and a great American Vampire spin-off mini. Pretty sure you'd like American Vampire actually. It's not the most amazing comic ever but it always looks great and is reliably entertaining. I think he came up on 2000 AD but not 100% on that.Yeah, I'm reading Joe the Barbarian right now; I had high hopes, but I am not amused at having dropped hardcover money on this.
no more Phoenix ever.
:rofl
I gave 100 Bullets a go, tbh it's pretty clunky, and it reminds me of Prison Break for some reason.
http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/09/speaking-power-to-stupid-the-ever-dumb-green-lantern-comics-of-geoff-johns/
what in the hell?
So if I want to get back into X-men now, what are the ongoing series? And which ones should I actually read?
After a while, you can just pick the ones by the writer(s) who you like. At the start, faced with all those books and all those creators you aren't familiar with, it must be fucking baffling.
I haven't tried the X-Men since Brian Wood came on. I tried one issue of his mini-series with Quentin Quire, didn't like it much. I like the occasional thing he does (like Conan now) but never really for anything he does on the books, I think.
I've really liked Wolverine and the X-men (or WAX as i call it) and Uncanny X-Force. I'd be more tempted to try Remender's Uncanny Avengers than the spin-off UXF books though. I can't remember who's writing those (Sam Humphries?) - my impression was I would probably given the first issues a shot but wasn't wildly excited about 'em.
I've just reached the 'Croatoa' bit, and yep it's getting better, still something seems off. Like that Grant Morrison guy.I gave 100 Bullets a go, tbh it's pretty clunky, and it reminds me of Prison Break for some reason.
how far did you get into it? it starts of pretty pulpy with the individual stories, but it starts to kick up.
Actually it's about a guy who uses a bow and arrow.
I accidentally bought Alan Moore and his wife's porn journey. It's a chunky ass HB, and after a cursory flip through, it seems really into doggy style. It's basically a reactionary coffee-table book.
Yes it was. But I also actually wanted to buy it, and I hope I never have to read it. It's actually in between various gardening and cookbooks on a shelf atm.
On the flip I bought all of Incognito in one nice HB, it's great, and damn Sean Philips and the Aja, I'm guessing one aped the others drawing style in a more than little way.
My black neighbour, who's black, cracked that joke once so I hit them over the head with a spade.
Justice League Dark is mediocre but i can't tell if it's the artist's fault or Milligan's fault or if it's just a failing of both. My guess is that the first volume is just an overall failure. I understand it gets better, but man it was disappointing.
Justice League Dark is mediocre but i can't tell if it's the artist's fault or Milligan's fault or if it's just a failing of both. My guess is that the first volume is just an overall failure. I understand it gets better, but man it was disappointing.
it's a fuckin' hot mess is what it is. The art is distractingly based on Poser (Mike Deodato does this now too) but it's basically just a pile of shit. I check in on it now and again just in case but it never fails to disappoint.
Justice League Dark is mediocre but i can't tell if it's the artist's fault or Milligan's fault or if it's just a failing of both. My guess is that the first volume is just an overall failure. I understand it gets better, but man it was disappointing.
it's a fuckin' hot mess is what it is. The art is distractingly based on Poser (Mike Deodato does this now too) but it's basically just a pile of shit. I check in on it now and again just in case but it never fails to disappoint.
well ok! I'll just stop reading it. thankfully these volumes are super cheap through amazon so it's not like i'm missing out on much.
So I read all of Avengers Vs X-men.
Did the Avengers not read anything about the Phoenix after the Dark Phoenix saga?
Avengers Vs. X-Men dragged on and a lot of it just felt like filler. The various Avengers and X books associated with it generally had more interesting storylines.
Also Uncanny Avengers is a direct continuation of AvX...I would have waited to read that.
IIRC X-Force is getting restarted as two separate books. One is the next version of the team in Uncanny (led by Psylocke now) and the other is an "outlaw" team led by a returning Cable.
A recent book that started is "The First X-Men," drawn by crazy ol' Neal Adams. It's more retcon crap that makes it so that the very first team of mutants was led by Wolverine and Sabertooth, because Wolverine needed to be on yet another team. Magneto and Xavier are in and are kind of dicks.
There is also going to be another New X-Men book, which brings back the original five X-Men...literally. Beast goes back in time and brings them into the future.
I'm afraid to ask, but what happened to Spawn?
I'm afraid to ask, but what happened to Spawn?
Todd McFarlene.
AFAIK Al Simmons' story was finished up and some other dude became Spawn. McFarlene himself seemed to have lost interest in it years ago and went on to create some supernatural-looking Spider-Man rip-off called "Haunt."
Created by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted on October 7, 2009.[1] The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and inks by McFarlane.[2] Joe Casey and Nathan Fox took over as the book's creative team as of Haunt #19.[3]
I'm afraid to ask, but what happened to Spawn?
Todd McFarlene.
Looks like it's still being created; it's hard to know from the wikipedia entry, for sure. Spawn #227 is the last search to return cover image hit results. The wiki page says the series peaked in 1997 with the movie's release, and no-one is clamoring for "citation needed," so it MUST BE TRUE.
Shit series. Image comics are largely as disappointing as DreamWorks, in terms of a new entity being created to encourage shaking up the scene, and instead only making more of the same-old, same-old.
Seriously, Todd?
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Looks like he only half worked on the book and then lost interest after less than two years:QuoteCreated by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted on October 7, 2009.[1] The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and inks by McFarlane.[2] Joe Casey and Nathan Fox took over as the book's creative team as of Haunt #19.[3]
Chopping Block: Another round of New 52 cancellations this month. Say goodbye to Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. (#16), Grifter (#16), Blue Beetle (#16), and Legion Lost (#16).
Also why is DC so horrible at naming superheroes for the most part. The Blue Beetle and Black Canary? Seriously?
QuoteChopping Block: Another round of New 52 cancellations this month. Say goodbye to Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. (#16), Grifter (#16), Blue Beetle (#16), and Legion Lost (#16).
ah ok then, my bad. Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid name.
ah ok then, my bad. Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid name.
Is it really any worse than "Superman" and "Wonder Woman?" :P
I dunno, Superman is alright since he is the template and it's a generic name that fits. But yeah Wonder Woman does sound horrible now that you mention it.
The face thing is really, really dumb. I can't get over it. Someone thought that was a good idea.
How about a story where the Joker kidnaps some random kid and brainwashes him into being his son? You know, he's kind of jealous that Batman has a kid now, so he snatches up some pampered rich teen and fucks his brain up good, even going so far as to mutilate him to look like his "Dad." They could even get into some darker territory where you discover he's been trying to knock up Harley for years, and even succeeded a few times, but Harley always took a morning after pill or got an abortion before he found out because even though she's fucked up she's not fucked up enough to let him get his hands on a baby.
Anyway, Joker eventually regrets creating his own son, because it turns out the kid is a "better" Joker than he is - you know, actually funny and clever, brings in more money, doesn't arbitrarily kill the henchmen so they like him better, has charmed Harley into being a mother figure, etc. So of course Joker wants to kill him now. Now Batman's got two Jokers warring with each other and destroying large chunks of Gotham in the process.
As for stories with lasting impact...
You don't see the title of the story until the end, because that's been the kid's plan all along, to show up "Dad," to humiliate him and crush all his criminal enterprises, to get Harley on his side to the point she lets her guard down so he can publicly kill the one thing Joker gives a teeny bit of a shit about right in front of him, all as payback for having his face/mind wrecked.
"Did You Hear The One About The Matricide?"
oh.
ok then.
also i read Think Tank which panders to the worst nerd wish-fulfillments ever
Amazing Spider-Man #700 "leaked" and was scanned. Apparently the follow-up comic to it also got scanned early. Check the comics forum on 4chan...I'm sure a link is still there.
No real surprises here...it follows what started in #698, so that storyline was not a red herring of any kind-spoiler (click to show/hide)Spider-Man, in Doc Ock's dying body, makes a last-ditch effort to swap bodies and fails- Doc Ock in Spider-Man's body was prepared for the real Spider-Man to try switching bodies again and armored his head. However Spider-Man's mind switch attempt does beam all of the good and bad events that defined him as a hero into Ock's mind, and he becomes "good." Spider-Ock, dying, then makes Ock-Spider promise to protect his loved ones and blah blah blah. It's kind of dull, really. They also set it up for some characters to be suspicious. I hope this leads to Ock-Spider turning bad later on and the Marvel Universe has to deal with an evil Spider-Man, leading to the inevitable return of the real Spider-Man, because right now it's less "The Superior Spider-Man" and more "The Slightly Different, Kind Of A Dick, But Trying To Be Good Spider-Man"[close]
i've waited this long, i'll read the actual story.
Having read comics for 35 years, there is literally NOTHING that could possibly happen that could not conceivably be reversed in a couple of panels (or more likely these days, a 12 issue maxiseries with 3 tie-ins). Actually getting mad or upset about it is crazy.
Yeah, this one's too crazy to stick. Not like undoing the marriage or w/e.
I dunno, I stopped reading Spider-Man after One More Day. It made the whole thing feel like a pointless waste of time and money to know such massive changes could be wreaked in such a flimsy way. It just really bothers me that these guys are, for the most part, just going to yell and scream at ol' Dan but not do what they should do if they dislike it so much (stop buying the damn thing).
Do those Spider-Man changes even matter? Isn't Marvel going to be doing a universe reboot like the new 52 with Marvel Now anyways?
Do those Spider-Man changes even matter? Isn't Marvel going to be doing a universe reboot like the new 52 with Marvel Now anyways?
Nah, for better or worse, Marvel tries to avoid actual continuity reboots in favour of half-assed retcons. Marvel Now isn't even that. It's just a bunch of new #1s.with rejiggered creative teams in the wake of the A vs X storyline.
Yeah, this one's too crazy to stick. Not like undoing the marriage or w/e.
I dunno, I stopped reading Spider-Man after One More Day. It made the whole thing feel like a pointless waste of time and money to know such massive changes could be wreaked in such a flimsy way. It just really bothers me that these guys are, for the most part, just going to yell and scream at ol' Dan but not do what they should do if they dislike it so much (stop buying the damn thing).
Basically, read up on X-Men Schism. The X-Men are weak, and they're attacked by anti-mutant people. Cyclops thinks the kids training there should fight and defend themselves. Wolverine thinks that they fight so that the kids don't have to. It creates a schism and Wolverine and Cyclops have this badass fight in the rain and shit, and Cyclops rails on Wolvie's ass, and then Wolverine fucks up Cyclops' shit. Then they go their ways, Cyclops has his X-Men team and Wolverine starts up his own X-Men team in the abandoned Xavier institute in New York.
Hijinks ensue.
Dunno haven't read in a while. I should catch up.
Do those Spider-Man changes even matter? Isn't Marvel going to be doing a universe reboot like the new 52 with Marvel Now anyways?
I thought they already did it?
Something I don't like about Marvel is how inconsistent they are. "Let's do digital before DC!" "OK, but let's support three third-party services in addition to our own, and have varying content between them!" And certain series are Marvel Now but some aren't.
Basically, read up on X-Men Schism. The X-Men are weak, and they're attacked by anti-mutant people. Cyclops thinks the kids training there should fight and defend themselves. Wolverine thinks that they fight so that the kids don't have to. It creates a schism and Wolverine and Cyclops have this badass fight in the rain and shit, and Cyclops rails on Wolvie's ass, and then Wolverine fucks up Cyclops' shit. Then they go their ways, Cyclops has his X-Men team and Wolverine starts up his own X-Men team in the abandoned Xavier institute in New York.
Hijinks ensue.
Dunno haven't read in a while. I should catch up.
So it finally happened with those two, eh (i thought the Jean/Emma shit would have done that long ago)
Might check this out.
Really don't like Schism or Jason Arron's work on the X-men in general. Just couldn't buy Wolvie and Cyclops fighting, nor can i buy the direction Wolvie has been going.
Wolverine's got a poor sell for sure. Cyclops has the right of it; mutants in the present timeline are almost extinct, and in order to protect mutantkind kids are gonna have to pull their own weight. The cause of the schism is stupid, but the drama that unfolds is money, I think. Then again I'm an X-slut.
SCHISM WAS NOT BAD
okay?
You're a Wolverine slut, eh?
Slut.
You're a Wolverine slut, eh?
Slut.
I am, but I really don't like how he became the main focus of the X-Men franchise(which isn't the point of X-Men imo) about as much as I hate how my favorite supervillain, The Joker, is the center of fucking attention every fucking time he shows up.
I'm no expert, but I'll try.Really don't like Schism or Jason Arron's work on the X-men in general. Just couldn't buy Wolvie and Cyclops fighting, nor can i buy the direction Wolvie has been going.
why dont you buy the wolverine going peacemaker thing?
DC's new Batgirl editor fires Gail Simone after they butt heads.
Simone cries on Twitter and her legion flips the fuck out and threatens to storm DC's offices.
DC rehires her 10 minutes before closing the offices for Christmas break.
Are they? I've been trying to figure out what DC New 52 comics have been good and the opinion has been mixed on everything it seems.DC's new Batgirl editor fires Gail Simone after they butt heads.
Simone cries on Twitter and her legion flips the fuck out and threatens to storm DC's offices.
DC rehires her 10 minutes before closing the offices for Christmas break.
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are awesome, so fuck DC.
Are they? I've been trying to figure out what DC New 52 comics have been good and the opinion has been mixed on everything it seems.DC's new Batgirl editor fires Gail Simone after they butt heads.
Simone cries on Twitter and her legion flips the fuck out and threatens to storm DC's offices.
DC rehires her 10 minutes before closing the offices for Christmas break.
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are awesome, so fuck DC.
I've only been following Justice League Dark and Batwoman myself. I liked Dark after Miligan left and well Batwoman has nice art and stuff.
SCHISM WAS NOT BAD
okay?
...yeah it was. and it also made me realize that i hate when they nerf logan so hes more even with his opponents.
well the Daken thing has been cleared right up
Dan Slott bitch slapped by Stan Lee:
https://twitter.com/TheRealStanLee/status/284092188672020480
Dan Slott @DanSlott
@TheRealStanLee HA! Printing that out now. THAT'S goin' up on the fridge! I am NEVER taking that down!!!! :-D
stan lee @TheRealStanLee
@DanSlott at lest you'll have a good price of writing in your house. Ha. Keep up the amazingly spectacular work you always do!
Can I just follow Batman and be fine? Do I have to pick up more of the Bat family books?Are they? I've been trying to figure out what DC New 52 comics have been good and the opinion has been mixed on everything it seems.DC's new Batgirl editor fires Gail Simone after they butt heads.
Simone cries on Twitter and her legion flips the fuck out and threatens to storm DC's offices.
DC rehires her 10 minutes before closing the offices for Christmas break.
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are awesome, so fuck DC.
I've only been following Justice League Dark and Batwoman myself. I liked Dark after Miligan left and well Batwoman has nice art and stuff.
Go and get Scott Synder's entire run on Batman right now. First 12 issues is the Court of the Owls stuff, which was awesome. Issue 13 was a filler issue, but Snyder says that character will be in more stories next year, and then issue 14 begins the current AWESOME Joker story.
I haven't read it yet but Stan Lee has a piece in Amazing #700 so I highly doubt any bitch-slapping was intended.
Can I just follow Batman and be fine? Do I have to pick up more of the Bat family books?Are they? I've been trying to figure out what DC New 52 comics have been good and the opinion has been mixed on everything it seems.DC's new Batgirl editor fires Gail Simone after they butt heads.
Simone cries on Twitter and her legion flips the fuck out and threatens to storm DC's offices.
DC rehires her 10 minutes before closing the offices for Christmas break.
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are awesome, so fuck DC.
I've only been following Justice League Dark and Batwoman myself. I liked Dark after Miligan left and well Batwoman has nice art and stuff.
Go and get Scott Synder's entire run on Batman right now. First 12 issues is the Court of the Owls stuff, which was awesome. Issue 13 was a filler issue, but Snyder says that character will be in more stories next year, and then issue 14 begins the current AWESOME Joker story.
And I picked up Batwoman Elegy today. Seems better then her ongoing so far.
Fantastic Four #57-60 is pretty hard to top
On it.
I only found 58 for some reason, and I'm refusing to read until I find the others. And yes I'm trying to find it for free cause of money issues.
Comics piracy. :lol
I have AVX, but what other X-Men do you have?Well as I'm sure you know some of the issues come with the codes. I don't have an ipad and well I buy the physical copies because I dont like reading them digitally.
I think it was just some fatherly poking at worst. But he definitely burned Dan hard there, haha. Didn't know the old guy still had it in him.
gawd people, the Status Quo Restoration button could not be more obvious for this one, do not panic. Peter's body and brain still live - what was imprinted on Doc Ock's body was just a copy. You could undo this crap in 3 panels if you felt like it, like in a 70's Marvel Team-Up fill-in by Bill Mantlo
I think it was just some fatherly poking at worst. But he definitely burned Dan hard there, haha. Didn't know the old guy still had it in him.
Damn, just saw he turned 90 today
I think it was just some fatherly poking at worst. But he definitely burned Dan hard there, haha. Didn't know the old guy still had it in him.
Damn, just saw he turned 90 today
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Which one is supposed to be Beast ??? One on the left looks like the original Hank McCoy, one on the right looks like...I've got nothin'.
The ride is fun, the end is uhhhhh
Which one is supposed to be Beast ??? One on the left looks like the original Hank McCoy, one on the right looks like...I've got nothin'.
Both of them are Beast. All New X-Men's plot involves the current Beast going back in time to when the original X-Men were younger and bringing them to the present, in the hopes that what they encounter will have them change their ways and convince Cyclops not to turn out how he is now. So far this has led tospoiler (click to show/hide)Jean Grey's telepathic powers developing faster than they originally did and the younger Beast saving his future self from dying.[close]
It seems like this was supposed to be a "scared straight" tactic by Beast, but Jean Grey pushed to have them stay in the present to "fix" everything that's gone wrong. So she's back. Sort of.
It's pretty slow-paced, but I guess that's typical of Bendis.
Which one is supposed to be Beast ??? One on the left looks like the original Hank McCoy, one on the right looks like...I've got nothin'.
Both of them are Beast. All New X-Men's plot involves the current Beast going back in time to when the original X-Men were younger and bringing them to the present, in the hopes that what they encounter will have them change their ways and convince Cyclops not to turn out how he is now. So far this has led tospoiler (click to show/hide)Jean Grey's telepathic powers developing faster than they originally did and the younger Beast saving his future self from dying.[close]
It seems like this was supposed to be a "scared straight" tactic by Beast, but Jean Grey pushed to have them stay in the present to "fix" everything that's gone wrong. So she's back. Sort of.
It's pretty slow-paced, but I guess that's typical of Bendis.
I feel like this is dumb and would lead to all kinds of paradoxes/timeline splits/alternate universe shenanigans. But I guess that is kind of Marvel's bread and butter.
So Superior Spider-Man #1 was scanned and released early, just like ASM #700 and Avenging Spider-Man #15 were.
AND GUESS WHO'S ALREADY BACK!? :lol
So several times in Avenging #15 and Superior #1 Otto-Spider-Man's body has reacted on its own, doing heroic stuff that Otto wouldn't.
Is it the memories from Peter Parker or the responsibility-factor taking over?
NOPE!spoiler (click to show/hide)The ghost of Peter Parker appears on the last page and says that he has been with Otto since he died in Ock's body. He is making Otto do stuff against his will, indicating that he still has some control over his own body and that he is going to keep fighting to get his body back. So all that hype and build-up about Peter Parker being gone and there being an all-new Spder-Man has already been shot down. Now it's gonna be Peter Vs. Ock for control of his body- which I might add Marvel ALREADY DID with Bruce Banner and the Hulk in the last Hulk series. :dizzy[close]
Amazing Spider-Man #700 "leaked" and was scanned. Apparently the follow-up comic to it also got scanned early. Check the comics forum on 4chan...I'm sure a link is still there.
No real surprises here...it follows what started in #698, so that storyline was not a red herring of any kind-spoiler (click to show/hide)Spider-Man, in Doc Ock's dying body, makes a last-ditch effort to swap bodies and fails- Doc Ock in Spider-Man's body was prepared for the real Spider-Man to try switching bodies again and armored his head. However Spider-Man's mind switch attempt does beam all of the good and bad events that defined him as a hero into Ock's mind, and he becomes "good." Spider-Ock, dying, then makes Ock-Spider promise to protect his loved ones and blah blah blah. It's kind of dull, really. They also set it up for some characters to be suspicious. I hope this leads to Ock-Spider turning bad later on and the Marvel Universe has to deal with an evil Spider-Man, leading to the inevitable return of the real Spider-Man, because right now it's less "The Superior Spider-Man" and more "The Slightly Different, Kind Of A Dick, But Trying To Be Good Spider-Man"[close]
ASM writer Dan Slott has also been receiving death threats. :-\
Which one is supposed to be Beast ??? One on the left looks like the original Hank McCoy, one on the right looks like...I've got nothin'.
Both of them are Beast. All New X-Men's plot involves the current Beast going back in time to when the original X-Men were younger and bringing them to the present, in the hopes that what they encounter will have them change their ways and convince Cyclops not to turn out how he is now. So far this has led tospoiler (click to show/hide)Jean Grey's telepathic powers developing faster than they originally did and the younger Beast saving his future self from dying.[close]
It seems like this was supposed to be a "scared straight" tactic by Beast, but Jean Grey pushed to have them stay in the present to "fix" everything that's gone wrong. So she's back. Sort of.
It's pretty slow-paced, but I guess that's typical of Bendis.
I feel like this is dumb and would lead to all kinds of paradoxes/timeline splits/alternate universe shenanigans. But I guess that is kind of Marvel's bread and butter.
They keep saying that Professor X (in the past) will wipe their minds of everything when they do go back.
OK, i'll throw out something that is getting NO attention but deserves it. Jennifer Blood, by Al Ewing and <the shittiest artist in the world>. Ewing took over this extremely unpromising 'What if the Punisher was a housewife' package from Garth Ennis, and has turned it into something extraordinary and genuinely unpredictable. It feels dangerous, like it could end explosively at any time. The downside: horrible good-girl covers, terrible shat-out interior art, vile coloring. But the story and the writing is fantastic; sharp, funny, with a wonderful ear for dialog. It would be criminal to spoil it, but I feel like the whole thing went off the rails about 6 months ago and may never get back on them. It might be ending next month for all I know. It just feels like anything could happen at this point.
He may have seemingly burned bridges at both Marvel and DC in recent years, but there's no reason to feel sorry for Rob Liefeld just yet. Not only are his creator-owned titles undergoing new critical appraisal thanks to last year's Image relaunch, but now he has a new project in development for the big screen. Is the world really ready for a Godyssey movie?
Variety reported earlier this week that producers Todd Garner and Brooklyn Weaver have signed up the movie rights to Liefeld's 1996 one-shot (Originally a spin-off from Liefeld's Avengelyene and Glory titles), with plans to develop the idea into a fully-fledged stand-alone movie. Both producers already had relationships with the comic book creator thanks to other projects; Garner had tried to buy Liefeld's 2003 sci-fi comedy pitch Planet Terry (Unrelated to the Marvel comic of the same name), while Weaver is currently attached to the in-development movie incarnation of the creator's Bloodstrike character.
If you're despairing about what this means for the future of modern culture, it's worth remembering that deals like this don't necessarily translate into finished movies (For instance, it's nine years later and we still haven't seen that Planet Terry movie yet). For those who remember Godyssey and also value cinema as a medium, this is a fact to desperately cling to; for everyone else, here's a taste of what you missed:
little theory of mine on what is under that serving dome the Joker is showing off in Batman 16 -spoiler (click to show/hide)I think it’s going to be Bruce Wayne’s alleged brother from Court of the Owls – a family member (if his story is true) and someone who usurped Batman’s attention while the Joker was gone. A few other things in the dialog hint at it too. Obviously the serving dish is a pretty strong hint that it IS Alfred but I think that’s misdirection. Let’s face it, it’d be much easier to kill off a character they just invented rather than a key piece of the mythology than Alfred[close]
I haven't re-read the issues recently but I think that fits thematically.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/17/rob-liefeld-godyssey-movie-optioned/QuoteHe may have seemingly burned bridges at both Marvel and DC in recent years, but there's no reason to feel sorry for Rob Liefeld just yet. Not only are his creator-owned titles undergoing new critical appraisal thanks to last year's Image relaunch, but now he has a new project in development for the big screen. Is the world really ready for a Godyssey movie?
Variety reported earlier this week that producers Todd Garner and Brooklyn Weaver have signed up the movie rights to Liefeld's 1996 one-shot (Originally a spin-off from Liefeld's Avengelyene and Glory titles), with plans to develop the idea into a fully-fledged stand-alone movie. Both producers already had relationships with the comic book creator thanks to other projects; Garner had tried to buy Liefeld's 2003 sci-fi comedy pitch Planet Terry (Unrelated to the Marvel comic of the same name), while Weaver is currently attached to the in-development movie incarnation of the creator's Bloodstrike character.
If you're despairing about what this means for the future of modern culture, it's worth remembering that deals like this don't necessarily translate into finished movies (For instance, it's nine years later and we still haven't seen that Planet Terry movie yet). For those who remember Godyssey and also value cinema as a medium, this is a fact to desperately cling to; for everyone else, here's a taste of what you missed:
I picked up what I assume(well duh it says number 1) is the first HellBlazer collection. Seems pretty good. The bookstore had random collections as well, but it seems best to start with the first.
I also picked up All Star Superman. Been wanting to read this since I like Grant Morrison and Frank Quintly back from reading X-men. I'm hoping this is just as good. I do want to ask you guys what other Morrison stuff I should read, but I won't be able to get to any recommendations soon since Y The Last Man is my buying priority.
oh yeah, and that is addressed in the text. But he doesn't HAVE to draw endless pages of nude children in sexualized poses, or being the object of lust, or raped etc etc..it's an artistic choice regardless of the milieu he is working in
Geoff Johns leaving Green Lantern after he made it so boring no one gives a fuck anymore.
Geoff Johns leaving Green Lantern after he made it so boring no one gives a fuck anymore.
What happened?
The issue opens right where Batman #16 ended. The Joker has Batman strapped to an electric chair at the head of a table. On each side of the table sits the members of the family, each with their faces rapped in bloody bandages. The Joker tells Batman that they’ve each been anointed with gasoline and that there’s flint under his chair. So if he tries to bail out, they’ll all die in a fire. He reveals the cover from the dinner, and inside are the faces of each member of the family. Of course this really sets Batman off, but being Batman he has a way out because he’s smarter than the Joker.
It turns out the whole faces being ripped off thing was another Joker prank, and Batman is reunited with the family right before The Joker douses all of them with his gas, which causes the members of the family to start fighting it out with each other as Batman chases the Joker down.
What follows is a Batman/Joker confrontation and dialog that ranks right up there with the two’s final battle in The Dark Knight Returns. I don’t know if it was an intentional Sherlock Holmes reference or not, but they face each other right above a huge waterfall. As Batman is really beginning to get to the Joker and get under his skin, The Joker takes a swan dive off the waterfall as his face flutters in the wind. Capullo’s art in these panels with the Joker falling and his face fluttering off is pretty awesome.
In the end, the family is still together…if a bit scarred. Alfred is saved and Bruce is now the caretaker as he recovers. The whole truth on whether or not The Joker knew Batman’s true identity is dealt with, in a way that is perfect for The Joker.
new deadwardians was pretty good but there were a few stylistic anachronisms which threw me out of the world
one was a very simple use of the word "sucks" in a protest sign which seemed really vulgar given the time frame and setting, the other was a propaganda poster which stylistically didn't fit the time period either.
aside from that, rather enjoyable little mystery with a kind of gonzo conclusion
'editors decided he would still exist despite there being no logical reason' is his backstory
So the current rumor is that "Age of Ultron" is going to be Marvel's "Flashpoint". The solicitation for issues 7 and 8 came out and it involves time travel, and people are saying it'll result in a line-wide continuity reboot for Marvel. If that happens it'll be the second #1 relaunch for them in a year.
Wasn't the whole point of the Ultimate line so they could avoid doing reboots like that?
Comics are so confusing, I don't know how anyone can possibly keep up with them. There are so many crossovers, events, and continuity, that if you don't start immediately from the start of a reboot and get every issue, it can get very easy to get hopelessly lost. I would love to be able to read comics through single issues, because I feel that comics are to books what tv is to movies. But my word, the invest of time and especially money is astronomical. I just have to stick with the occasional odd tpb, and hope that the story is as self-contained as possible.
Batman and Son is the start of Morrison's run but no reason you can't go back and catch upYeah the Deluxe Hardcover edition has those issues.
Maybe I'll just read Birds of Prey in hopes it comes close to what Catwoman eventually became.
Maybe I'll just read Birds of Prey in hopes it comes close to what Catwoman eventually became.
A comic about a slut?But this time three or more sluts. :drool
i'm reading Birds of Prey right now and it's weird. Super crazy cheesecake art with "Real Women"(tm) style relationships. Kind of an odd disconnect.is totally acceptable. There was a whole part of Catwoman where it was being all serious about relationships and alcoholism/addictions and drama but drawn like the Batman animated series comics.
It must be cheap as hell to produce a hardcover book nowadays. I'm noticing a flood of Golden Age and 1950s reprint hardcover collections cropping up, very esoteric stuff like ACG comics titles and such.
hahaha, what the fuck is going on with his right armForced perspective obv.
Morrison confirms the Batman Inc 8 rumors:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/holy_hit_job_robin_eats_it_kZ9EWvYlw10mf4wS324GhN
That cover even spoils the whole deal. Why bother doing something shocking if you're going to give it all away upfront? I wonder.
you gonna spoiler tag that shit now or should we just change the thread title
yeah, there's really no way to go into that one cold, unless you wore a blindfold and had someone lead you around until you were ready to read it
EXTREME TALENT CONTEST! LIEFELD DRAWS YOUR STORY!
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EXTREME TALENT CONTEST! LIEFELD DRAWS YOUR STORY!
I want to help out young writers and give them a chance at having a short story published in an issue of Youngblood and Bloodstrike. Here’s how you participate.
Step 1 – Write a short story featuring one of my EXTREME CHARACTERS. the story MUST BE EXTREME CHARACTERS ONLY. You are submitting a brief few paragraph’s pitching your idea for a short 5-6 page story.
Step 2 – HIT THE BUTTON. Here on this web site, to the right is a button that says CONTACT ME! This will send your story to my attention.
Step 3 – Wait to be contacted. I will choose 3 winners, 1 every few weeks starting March 6th, 2013. If your pitch is chosen you will be given a work for hire agreement to sign in order to participate.
Step 4 – Submission agreement. Click link below.
EXTREME TALENT CONTEST SUBMISSION FORM
I have the absolute highest regard for creators and for the ownership of original properties, and this agreement should in no way be misconstrued as license for us to appropriate your creations. This agreement protects Rob Liefeld from any liabilities involving coincidental similarities to works-‐in-‐progress or other submissions. Any submissions received without a signed agreement will be discarded without review.
5. GOOD LUCK!
http://robliefeldcreations.com/?p=3314QuoteEXTREME TALENT CONTEST! LIEFELD DRAWS YOUR STORY!
Posted in: Uncategorized
EXTREME TALENT CONTEST! LIEFELD DRAWS YOUR STORY!
I want to help out young writers and give them a chance at having a short story published in an issue of Youngblood and Bloodstrike. Here’s how you participate.
Step 1 – Write a short story featuring one of my EXTREME CHARACTERS. the story MUST BE EXTREME CHARACTERS ONLY. You are submitting a brief few paragraph’s pitching your idea for a short 5-6 page story.
Step 2 – HIT THE BUTTON. Here on this web site, to the right is a button that says CONTACT ME! This will send your story to my attention.
Step 3 – Wait to be contacted. I will choose 3 winners, 1 every few weeks starting March 6th, 2013. If your pitch is chosen you will be given a work for hire agreement to sign in order to participate.
Step 4 – Submission agreement. Click link below.
EXTREME TALENT CONTEST SUBMISSION FORM
I have the absolute highest regard for creators and for the ownership of original properties, and this agreement should in no way be misconstrued as license for us to appropriate your creations. This agreement protects Rob Liefeld from any liabilities involving coincidental similarities to works-‐in-‐progress or other submissions. Any submissions received without a signed agreement will be discarded without review.
5. GOOD LUCK!
You KNOW you want to win!
alfred came along after robin
I mean, i'm STILL not 100% convinced. Maybe you guys have all read interviews with Morrison and such but AFAIK 'Batman and Robin' is still being solicited for months to come
Eel, have you seen Francesco Francavilla's Black Beetle from Dark Horse? It is GORGEOUS vintage pulp comics, think you'd dig it
(http://myhollywooddream.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cover-TheBlackBeetle.jpg)
Jennifer Blood is definitely fun. Remember to check out Jennifer Blood: First Blood and The Ninjettes spin-off, too!I mean, i'm STILL not 100% convinced. Maybe you guys have all read interviews with Morrison and such but AFAIK 'Batman and Robin' is still being solicited for months to come
Sure..."Batman and Robin." Not "Batman and Damien."
It wouldn't be any kind of surprise to see Damien come back, either. Everyone else seems to die and come back. :lol
Jennifer Blood is definitely fun. Remember to check out Jennifer Blood: First Blood and The Ninjettes spin-off, too!I mean, i'm STILL not 100% convinced. Maybe you guys have all read interviews with Morrison and such but AFAIK 'Batman and Robin' is still being solicited for months to come
Sure..."Batman and Robin." Not "Batman and Damien."
It wouldn't be any kind of surprise to see Damien come back, either. Everyone else seems to die and come back. :lol
It took until the next issue for Morrison's Xorn/Magneto stuff to get changed after he left #never forget
Jennifer Blood is definitely fun. Remember to check out Jennifer Blood: First Blood and The Ninjettes spin-off, too!I mean, i'm STILL not 100% convinced. Maybe you guys have all read interviews with Morrison and such but AFAIK 'Batman and Robin' is still being solicited for months to come
Sure..."Batman and Robin." Not "Batman and Damien."
It wouldn't be any kind of surprise to see Damien come back, either. Everyone else seems to die and come back. :lol
It took until the next issue for Morrison's Xorn/Magneto stuff to get changed after he left #never forget
Yeah, I'm wondering if this will be retconned within 6 months because the kids love that crazy-ass Damian wakka wakka
I must say, I love Damian, I love his arc, I love what Morrison's done with Batman. I hope the Damian story gets turned into a film one day, instead of yet-another-Joker-reboot
Marvel reboot announced on Sunday?spoiler (click to show/hide)(http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1362423037.jpg)[close]
Wasn't their a rumor about a hard reboot being to outcome of Age of Ultron? I just don't see how that would make sense now.
a New 52 sort of thing.
Quotea New 52 sort of thing.
also shit.
Wasn't their a rumor about a hard reboot being to outcome of Age of Ultron? I just don't see how that would make sense now.
Well Age of Ulton starts tomorrow and Marvel claims thatspoiler (click to show/hide)it will create an all-new Marvel universe[close]
So it could result in a Heroes Reborn sort of thing, which is shit, or a New 52 sort of thing.
Wasn't their a rumor about a hard reboot being to outcome of Age of Ultron? I just don't see how that would make sense now.
Well Age of Ulton starts tomorrow and Marvel claims thatspoiler (click to show/hide)it will create an all-new Marvel universe[close]
So it could result in a Heroes Reborn sort of thing, which is shit, or a New 52 sort of thing.
But this makes absolutely no sense after the entire Marvel Now soft relaunch. I agree with it being more like Heroes Reborn in that at the end, everything gets reset back to normal and another alternate reality is created.
It makes sense when Diamond is telling retailers to expect some high-level management changes at Marvel to be announced at C2E2.
The theory is that Quesada is getting the boot, and this reboot is going to be used to put the Marvel Universe back to before he started fucking it up with stupid shit like the Spidey marriage retcon, etc.
Someone help me understand the new 52. Is this shit really all taking place in one giant universe? I feel like I'm missing out on some stories cause I'm not reading everything. I'm only buying the one's I like.
Is this new "New 52" Earth 2 a continuation of the old Earth 2 (which itself was a continuation of golden age superhero adventures) or is it a reboot kind of thing?
That's a shame to hear. I just ordered the first trade on a whim.
I also think Fatale is kinda screwed. Brubaker soon writing for computer game plots, it won't end well, just look what happened to Keiron Gillen.
It just seems dumb to me that they went through this major reboot but then only half assed it and now things seem way more convoluted than they ever were.I'm sure the New 52's Crisis On Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis will clear all this up.
:-\Wait, so this was actually finished after all?
Speaking of needless and pointless revisioning, I finally got around to reading the rest of Marvel's The Twelve. As I read I pictured J. Michael Straczynski locking all the doors to his house, putting on a long fake beard and wig, lighting a pentagram-shaped arrangement of candles, and muttering to himself "So what happens now, Alan?" as he sits down at his desk to type.
Seriously, it's fascinating how badly the dude wants to be Alan Moore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_(comics)
When I signed on in October of last year, they gave me a one-page... you could charitably call it an outline, written by Straczynski where he saw the remaining issues going. I think it was drafted at a point where he assumed he'd be writing them. So this is what he's giving DC Editorial to draft solicitation copy. Apparently, at some point after that, before Superman: Earth One has come out, Straczynski decides that the monthly books don't matter anymore because he knows there's a relaunch coming, so he can comfortably quit and let somebody else finish the story for him. When given this one-page outline, it was with the context that "here's where we were going to go, use of it what you want and do your own stuff," and basically the only things I was beholden to were to have Superman go to each of eight towns and eight cities in each of the issues, Superman is walking from East to West, and in issue 708, Wonder Woman shows up, and in 709, the Flash shows up. Beyond that, everything you see on the page is mine.
I still really enjoy Fatale - they have opened it up a lot in the interests of making it an ongoing. Best read in trade though I thinkThe first tranche I thought was really strong, but it seems to have become listless as the story progresses.
So it's like an ongoing Elseworlds? That could be kind of interesting, I usually like Elseworld stories.
So I just got my first Absolute book(Batman and Robin) and man this thing is very nice. Sadly, this is probably the nicest comic book I own now.
Anyway, I'm about to be finished with Batman R.I.P. Should I get Battle for The Cowl? I know it just adds some details and may not be important to the Morrison story, but was it good?
As for Final Crisis. While I'm aware that it has some important plot points, I was just going to skip it. I don't know anything about DC continuity, outside of a few Batman stories. I guess if its good I'd try it, I mean the Internet can help explain anything, but I've read some wiki articles on the Crisis story lines and it just seems a bit overwhelming.
He'l is basically the New 52 Bizarro.
The crossover wasn't bad except for the WTF shit with Supergirl.
The DKR reference was :lol
And the entire Aquaman episode was amazing.
All Star Western was cancelled IIRC.
Right now I'm reading:
Vampi an anime-inspired, cyberpunk reboot of Vampirella by David Conrad and Kevin Lau
spoiler (click to show/hide)In “Age of Ultron,” a story currently being published by Marvel Comics, the Avengers and their allies are on the ropes against their archenemy Ultron, an artificial intelligence who has taken over the world. The story concludes in June and will feature a special guest star: the angel Angela, a character created by the writer Neil Gaiman and the artist Todd McFarlane for “Spawn,” published by Image Comics.[close]
Right now I'm reading:
Vampi an anime-inspired, cyberpunk reboot of Vampirella by David Conrad and Kevin Lau
I remember this garbage. It's like they did everything possible to rip-off all the popular cyberpunk stuff at the time, like GiTS and The Matrix. They even had photos of artist Kevin Lau dressed up like Neo. :lol
(http://www.cactusbud.com/Thumbnails/VAMPI.jpg)
i see
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Who did they "fridge"? References to "the black guy" and green lantern rings is making me think John Stewart.
Comixology is having a 99¢ sale on John Constantine: Hellblazer. Which writer had the best run? Fabry, Ellis, or someone else?
Comixology is having a 99¢ sale on John Constantine: Hellblazer. Which writer had the best run? Fabry, Ellis, or someone else?
i'm a huge fan of the original delano run.
my first run was the Ennis books and I think it holds up to this day. I stopped around issue 200 or so making me not that well versed in some well regarded "modern" stuff
Who did they "fridge"? References to "the black guy" and green lantern rings is making me think John Stewart.
basically
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/21/fialkov-left-dc-comics-over-plans-to-kill-off-john-stewart-dcs-black-green-lantern/
Such was the popularity of that incarnation that when Ryan Reynolds was announced as the star of the Green Lantern movie, much of the online response was outraged that he was being played by a white actor.
I wrapped up the final Manhunter trade over the weekend and wow what a series. You could tell it was going to die because it was just too weird. It really reminded me of Alias and not just because of the art, but rather because of the lead character. Absolutely loved it, until the final two "we're cancelling your series, wrap it up" issues which jumped the series 15 years into the future.
DEADPOOL (to the thugs)
You're probably wondering. Why the red suit? It's so if you shoot me, you can't see me bleed.
(points to thug)
This guy has the idea. He wore the brown pants
COLOSSUS
with qualities like yours, you
could have joined us. Been a super- hero.
DEADPOOL
Tell ya what. The day I decide to
become a crime-fighting shit- swizzler who rooms with 44 other little whiners at the Neverland mansion of some creepy old bald Heavens-Gate-Iooking mother- fucker ••• on that day ••• I'll send your shiny, happy ass a friend request. 'Til then, I'm gonna do
what I came here to. Either that or slap the bitch outta you.
(off Colossus's frown) That count as quietly?
i just read the heat and as always the reaction to the controversy is worse than the controversyWhat is the controversy. Can't be because of Uncanny Avengers?
oh i also read the first two volumes of I, Vampire and really enjoyed it. it's a shame that the "dark" DCU stuff isn't doing that awesome, because when it's done well (like here and Animal Man), it's very cool stuff.
oh i also read the first two volumes of I, Vampire and really enjoyed it. it's a shame that the "dark" DCU stuff isn't doing that awesome, because when it's done well (like here and Animal Man), it's very cool stuff.
and i tried to read the bendis X-Men book and hated it.
Aside from Captain Marvel and Hawkeye is there anything worthwhile in Marvel town?
i just read the heat and as always the reaction to the controversy is worse than the controversy
In a day that already saw the passing of beloved movie critic Roger Ebert and Archie mainstay George Gladir, news has now come that comics legend Carmine Infantino has passed away. He was 87 and had been in poor health for a while.
One of the most influential comics artists of the Silver Age, Infantino not only drew “Flash of Two Worlds” in Flash #123 that kicked off Earth Two and ushered in the modern age of comics. Sleek and dynamic, his artwork defined the DC look for decades. He later served in a more controversial role as DC’s editor in chief, before returning to art on Star Wars, Spider-Woman and many more titles.
So, what are some good Wonder Woman stories?
I always liked the character when used in a Justice League setting, but never cared enough about her rogue gallery or history to really get into the comics. For whatever reason she always seemed like she only got famous and stayed so because of her being a woman and a feminist icon to me, I'm sure I'm wrong and would like to be proven wrong.
Another big DC comic spoiled by mainstream media coverage. This time it's Batman & Red Robin #19:spoiler (click to show/hide)http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/is_this_the_new_robin_FVOg92HhNqmHabt71nDrBP[close]
Another big DC comic spoiled by mainstream media coverage. This time it's Batman & Red Robin #19:spoiler (click to show/hide)http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/is_this_the_new_robin_FVOg92HhNqmHabt71nDrBP[close]
wut
Another big DC comic spoiled by mainstream media coverage. This time it's Batman & Red Robin #19:spoiler (click to show/hide)http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/is_this_the_new_robin_FVOg92HhNqmHabt71nDrBP[close]
"It's a New 52 version, but we're staying close to Frank Miller's visual template and personality of Carrie Kelley. She's a college kid who's got spunk and speaks her mind. This is not an alternate-earth Robin, this is simply a girl named Carrie Kelley who we learn knew Damian which in turn weaves her into the fabric of the DC Universe for the first time in 25 years," Tomasi said of Carrie's place in the moder Batman mythos. "It's all real. It's all in continuity. It's all part of the Batman universe in the here and now. Carrie Kelley has found her way into The New 52 and she's here to stay - in what capacity is anybody's guess - except mine of course."
As I mentioned above, after all the guest stars in Batman and Robin, the title will theoretically revert back to it's original name and that means we'll need an actual Robin to appear in the book. Snyder has stated that he 'never intended for Harper Row' to become Robin, which is not the same as saying she won't don a variation of the familiar red, green and gold costume when the time comes. Add in a character like Carrie Kelley and the picture becomes much less clear but is this a smoke screen or will Kelley really fight side-by-side with Batman in The New 52 just as she did in The Dark Knight Returns? We should find out by September at the very latest.
Update April 12, 2013: The Saga #12 saga continues today with a strange twist. According to comiXology CEO David Steinberger, Apple never banned the issue - comiXology actually never submitted it to the company for approval at all. In a statement on the comiXology Blog, Steinberger had this to say:
"To our customers -
In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.
As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today.
We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.
Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.
After hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. You’ll be glad to know that Saga #12 will be available on our App Store app soon.
We apologize to Saga creator Brian K. Vaughn and Image Comics for any confusion this may have caused.
All the best,
David Steinberger
CEO and co-founder
comiXology"
finished My Friend Dahmer yesterday. Pretty great stuff! Makes you happy to be able to feel and process basic emotions (well, better than Dahmer anyway)
well we figured apple wouldn't like all the dicks, so we didn't even try.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/apple-bans-saga-12.htmlQuoteUpdate April 12, 2013: The Saga #12 saga continues today with a strange twist. According to comiXology CEO David Steinberger, Apple never banned the issue - comiXology actually never submitted it to the company for approval at all. In a statement on the comiXology Blog, Steinberger had this to say:
"To our customers -
In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.
As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today.
We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.
Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.
After hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. You’ll be glad to know that Saga #12 will be available on our App Store app soon.
We apologize to Saga creator Brian K. Vaughn and Image Comics for any confusion this may have caused.
All the best,
David Steinberger
CEO and co-founder
comiXology"
well we figured apple wouldn't like all the dicks, so we didn't even try.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/apple-bans-saga-12.htmlQuoteUpdate April 12, 2013: The Saga #12 saga continues today with a strange twist. According to comiXology CEO David Steinberger, Apple never banned the issue - comiXology actually never submitted it to the company for approval at all. In a statement on the comiXology Blog, Steinberger had this to say:
"To our customers -
In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.
As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today.
We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.
Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.
After hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. You’ll be glad to know that Saga #12 will be available on our App Store app soon.
We apologize to Saga creator Brian K. Vaughn and Image Comics for any confusion this may have caused.
All the best,
David Steinberger
CEO and co-founder
comiXology"
bizarre - i wonder if he is falling on his sword for Apple on this. If you are going to buy from comixology, you should buy it from their website anyway I think, and say a little fuck you to both Apple Tax and Apple Censorship
well we figured apple wouldn't like all the dicks, so we didn't even try.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/apple-bans-saga-12.htmlQuoteUpdate April 12, 2013: The Saga #12 saga continues today with a strange twist. According to comiXology CEO David Steinberger, Apple never banned the issue - comiXology actually never submitted it to the company for approval at all. In a statement on the comiXology Blog, Steinberger had this to say:
"To our customers -
In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.
As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today.
We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.
Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.
After hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. You’ll be glad to know that Saga #12 will be available on our App Store app soon.
We apologize to Saga creator Brian K. Vaughn and Image Comics for any confusion this may have caused.
All the best,
David Steinberger
CEO and co-founder
comiXology"
bizarre - i wonder if he is falling on his sword for Apple on this. If you are going to buy from comixology, you should buy it from their website anyway I think, and say a little fuck you to both Apple Tax and Apple Censorship
Comics are the same price through the app as on the website so there's no "Apple Tax" on them.
My copy of Marshall Law hardback came today, it's great apart from the forward that I've not bothered reading by Jonathan Ross.
I really wish HBO would snap this up and turn it into a series.
I just can't take Daredevil seriously after seeing this
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After reading the current Hawkeye and liking it I got the immortal iron fist, because it's supposedly the same people. but then I find out the end bit is done by different people. Is the quality in iron fist consistent? Is it actually good at all, because I kinda just assumed so without asking anyone... ?
Reminder to self - post a few pages from Daredevil by Chris Samnee. Easily some of the most striking work since Miller left.I didn't really bother with the crossover stuff until I downloaded the cenobites vs Marshall Law. I didn't reach the end, due to not wanting to.My copy of Marshall Law hardback came today, it's great apart from the forward that I've not bothered reading by Jonathan Ross.
I really wish HBO would snap this up and turn it into a series.
I loved this as a teen but there is not a whole lot of substance there, especially in the later crossover bullshit. How on earth would this work as a HBO series?
The first issue of my friends comic is out and it's free. If you have the time, please give it a read: http://thrillbent.com/comics/the-eighth-seal-2/
As I understand: New issues every week, will cost $1 or so. Every two weeks the previous issue is made free for everyone.
Where is Orko?
boo Demon Knights cancelled.
edit: and dial h.
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It's not a huge surprise if you've read the book from the early issues.
Jennifer Blood is worth reading. Mostly-bad art, but still worth reading.
How did Before Watchmen turn out, was it the abomination everyone expected?
Indestructible Hulk- i like Smart Banner but i don't know if Marvel needs yet another genius level inventor alongside Stark / Richards. The HULK sections are greeeeeeat. Shame the book is only 5 issues long.
Thunderbolts - meh
Marvel Comics the Untold Story is pretty damn amazing. But what's funny is how much of it is actually...well TOLD because the primary sources seem to be fanzines and previously published interviews with the subjects. It's a fascinating look behind the scenes into stuff which at the time I had no clue about. I spent my money on comics, not magazines about comics, so I didn't really know any of this stuff at the time.
The section Boom and Bust about the 90s just makes so much sense. Marvel was fuuuuuuuuucked up and I got out of comics pretty much altogether right when the mega hype stuff was destroying comics as I loved them so I'm very curious to read about the mid to late 90s bust cycle as I have practically 0 knowledge of comics in that time frame.
Jennifer Blood is worth reading. Mostly-bad art, but still worth reading.
I'll never get this, if the art is shit the book is pretty much worthless to me. It's a visual medium, the art is HALF the book. It's why I never finished Uncanny X-Force because Phil Noto came on and ruined the book with still,dull,lifeless,shit art.
it's really hard to tell who fucked Marvel more. The money men of the 70s / 80s or Stan Lee chasing after Hollywood dreams / legitimacy on the back the work of other men.
i kind of wish that there was more, i don't know, journalism or whatever of this ilk regarding the bronze age, because I'd love to learn more about what drove certain decisions. I'd love a follow up about DC, but as that company has been around forever and lacks a "Stan Lee" it may be hard to craft a narrative.
It's amazing to read the shell shocked reactions of Marvel Veterans to the hiring of Palmiotti and Quesada but if it weren't for P&Q, I probably wouldn't care about Marvel at all.
it's really hard to tell who fucked Marvel more. The money men of the 70s / 80s or Stan Lee chasing after Hollywood dreams / legitimacy on the back the work of other men.
i kind of wish that there was more, i don't know, journalism or whatever of this ilk regarding the bronze age, because I'd love to learn more about what drove certain decisions. I'd love a follow up about DC, but as that company has been around forever and lacks a "Stan Lee" it may be hard to craft a narrative.
It's amazing to read the shell shocked reactions of Marvel Veterans to the hiring of Palmiotti and Quesada but if it weren't for P&Q, I probably wouldn't care about Marvel at all.
Lee's talked about it a lot and it seems like it was the money men. When Warner bought DC, Lee was pushing that something like that should have happened with Marvel. If it did, they probably wouldn't have gone bankrupt in the 90s. Apparently there were offers like that, but the people running Marvel were either too stupid or too stubborn to let it happen, and then the company went bankrupt and had to sell off X-Men and Spider-Man to Fox and Sony FOR LIFE.
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uuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh
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uuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh
I didn't say it was redoing anything. The "ugh" is that they're even bringing back Doomsday at all. I had the same reaction when Venom appeared in Ultimate Spider-Man. What's the point of a reboot if you're just going to port over the bad stuff as well?
That said the DC Squared stuff sounds interesting to a point. I think "choose your own adventure" comics is neat, but comics with sound effects is kind of eh. I'll have to see it before I render a final verdict.
http://www.newsarama.com/18002-dc-debuts-new-dc-squared-digital-initiatives.html
Since I'm reading it in trades, I'm way late to this but Captain Marvel #9 is some damn fine comics. The entire series was a little shaky at first but then really picked up after the first arc. The second volume has been great reading. Love this series and it will be a shame when it is inevitably canceled.
And speaking of "series that will be inevitably canceled" jesus christ The Movement is fucking horrible. It's social liberal theory for the tumblr set. It's 2013's Captain Planet. I have followed Gail Simone since Agent X but this is just blergh. If there's ever a DC comics Avengers Arena rip off, it's young characters from this book who will inevitably be murdered to give the series a bit of grimdark gravitas.
you are high. The Captain Marvel comics are very good and present something you rarely see; genre comics with a female lead character written by a woman with characters that are somewhat mature. Carol Danvers is presented with a kind of world weariness and ennui that Greg Rucka turned up in his writing of Wolverine. To see this tone taken with a female character is fairly unique especially when this kind of crushing Camus Comix is just one aspect of a fairly well rounded character. Carol in this series has been through a lot but she isn't defined by her past damage. She is still allowed to be funny and she is allowed to fail, as her first instinct is to solve her problems with her firsts.
My largest complaint is the title's inability to keep a consistent artist.
Lucifer rulz.
I am on the fence about buying these books yet again though
my bookshelves cry out for mercy already
The culprit, in my opinion, is the culture of the comic industry over the two and a half decades I have worked in it. When things are going poorly, the creators are most valuable. They are needed, so that they can pull the publishers arses out of the fire when creative bankruptcy sets in. When the business is doing well (and let’s face it, the Avengers just made 1.4 billion dollars) then the creators are disposable. Frankly, why on Earth would Disney have a care about a small industry like comics when their core product is the film and merchandising? They would naturally be most concerned with character maintenance
My metaphor for corporate comics throughout the year goes back to my days working at Disney in the '90s. I remember some of my friends working on a lot of branded books for Aladdin or Pocahontas or Mickey or whatever like kids picture books and audio books and coloring books… the gigs usually paid very well, but it wasn't like they went in to the editors' office and said "I have an idea for a Mickey Mouse Audio Book that's going to change Mickey's world forever." They just got a call from an editor and went in and pitched "Mickey Mouse is trying to mow the lawn" and a book got written. There was no ego involved. It's pretty clear that corporate comics are going in that direction. You get the call to write Firestorm or Firestar and the cheat sheet with the event of the quarter and that's it.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on the stories. I think the first arc was the roughest and I too have issues with some of the art but i don't see how you can say the art by Filipe Andrade is bad. It's wild and expressive and plays well with the format.
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It's Mighty Avengers, by Al Ewing and Greg Land, featuring the likes of Luke Cage, Spider-Man, She-Hulk, White Tiger, Blue Marvel, Power Man...and more!(http://cdnmo.coveritlive.com/media/image/201306/phpcDWRrhMIGHTYAVN2013001_DC11.jpg)
"Mighty Avengers is launching in the midst of Infinity. It's a pretty key component. The gist of the opening story is that the Avengers are off in space dealing with the Builders and in their absence, Thanos comes to Earth. A number of other characters rise up and join together to oppose to what's going on, arraying themselves around Luke Cage. 'If the Avengers aren't here, we're the Avengers.'" - Tom Brevoort
Wait, did Eric P just pull a ManaByte and got called out by ManaByte?!?!?(http://i.imgur.com/bymGY.jpg)
Oh man, Bendis. Age Of Ultron is going nowhere and has been such a waste of time. One issue left so whatever.
Marvel is releasing a new Mighty Avengers book soon. Looks to be more down to Earth than the other titles. Not a fan of Greg Land's artwork though.QuoteIt's Mighty Avengers, by Al Ewing and Greg Land, featuring the likes of Luke Cage, Spider-Man, She-Hulk, White Tiger, Blue Marvel, Power Man...and more!(http://cdnmo.coveritlive.com/media/image/201306/phpcDWRrhMIGHTYAVN2013001_DC11.jpg)
"Mighty Avengers is launching in the midst of Infinity. It's a pretty key component. The gist of the opening story is that the Avengers are off in space dealing with the Builders and in their absence, Thanos comes to Earth. A number of other characters rise up and join together to oppose to what's going on, arraying themselves around Luke Cage. 'If the Avengers aren't here, we're the Avengers.'" - Tom Brevoort
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Aren't Luke Cage and Power Man the same person?
Now that Michael Alan Nelson has established his new direction and style for Supergirl, the writer is introducing Cyborg Superman to the DCnU - and to September's "Villains Month."
Sandman with J.H. Williams III artwork :drool
St. Louis-based digital comic book Lion Forge Comics has come to licensing terms with NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to develop new ‘reimagined’ digital comics based on five 1980-90’s television series, including the iconic Miami Vice and Knight Rider, along with Airwolf and Punky Brewster, and Saturday morning live-action Millennial-touchstone Saved by the Bell.
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St. Louis-based digital comic book Lion Forge Comics has come to licensing terms with NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to develop new ‘reimagined’ digital comics based on five 1980-90’s television series, including the iconic Miami Vice and Knight Rider, along with Airwolf and Punky Brewster, and Saturday morning live-action Millennial-touchstone Saved by the Bell.
reimagined Punky Brewster and Saved By The Bell?
Sandman with J.H. Williams III artwork :drool
I don't really see what the big dea--
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:drool
His introduction and lack of resolution in Morrison's X-MEN run was wonderful. I don't want to read anything else about him, because other writers will mess it up.
Like Xorn.
GRRM's Saved By The BellI enjoyed this joke!
"Summer is coming."
Fantomex seems mildly racist. I'm picturing a hispanic Phantom ripoff.This also pleased my laughter glands.
I really hope Vertigo aren't doomed.Doesn't seem like it with new Sandman and a bunch of other new titles.
The Eisner-nominated series continues with Life With Archie #31! In “Archie Marries Veronica,” Riverdale’s been hit hard by a string of misfortunes. Most recently there was a horrific mass shooting at a nearby mall, and then Fred Mirth fled town and took most of his money and businesses with him! These unfortunate events have been affecting the Riverdale gang pretty hard—Jughead’s Chocklit Shoppe is unlikely to succeed, and Veronica’s been arrested for fraud! Her connection to Kevin isn’t helping his candidacy much, either. How can Riverdale possibly recover?
Anyone else play the Deadpool game? This thread seems more appropriate.
Anyone else play the Deadpool game? This thread seems more appropriate.
I'm crazy late on this but Life With Archie appears to be the Funky Winkerbean of Archie ComicsQuoteThe Eisner-nominated series continues with Life With Archie #31! In “Archie Marries Veronica,” Riverdale’s been hit hard by a string of misfortunes. Most recently there was a horrific mass shooting at a nearby mall, and then Fred Mirth fled town and took most of his money and businesses with him! These unfortunate events have been affecting the Riverdale gang pretty hard—Jughead’s Chocklit Shoppe is unlikely to succeed, and Veronica’s been arrested for fraud! Her connection to Kevin isn’t helping his candidacy much, either. How can Riverdale possibly recover?
http://comicsalliance.com/life-with-archie-31-gun-control-urban-crime-preview/
I just finished Neonomicon.
Fantastic read and great use of the Cthulhu mythos, one of my favorite horror comics of all time. I also just found out it's a sequel to Alan Moore's The Courtyard, which I'm obviously going to check out soon.
I'm crazy late on this but Life With Archie appears to be the Funky Winkerbean of Archie ComicsQuoteThe Eisner-nominated series continues with Life With Archie #31! In “Archie Marries Veronica,” Riverdale’s been hit hard by a string of misfortunes. Most recently there was a horrific mass shooting at a nearby mall, and then Fred Mirth fled town and took most of his money and businesses with him! These unfortunate events have been affecting the Riverdale gang pretty hard—Jughead’s Chocklit Shoppe is unlikely to succeed, and Veronica’s been arrested for fraud! Her connection to Kevin isn’t helping his candidacy much, either. How can Riverdale possibly recover?
http://comicsalliance.com/life-with-archie-31-gun-control-urban-crime-preview/
what in the holy hell is happening at DC?
Huge ass article about DC
http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2013/08/sir.html
So it turns out that the mysterious woman who was inserted into background shots of every Nu52 first issue is actually Pandora - the real, mythical Pandora, of Greek myth, who opened Pandora's Box and allowed evil to enter the world. She's wandered the Earth for thousands of years, cursed as punishment for her transgressions. She is one of the story's titular "trinity of sin" - the other two being the Phantom Stranger and the Question. The former has been completely revamped, given a confirmed origin as Judas Iscariot, and given a secret identity, a human family, and a talking dog sidekick; the latter has been revamped into a mysterious amnesiac ancient evildoer forced to live forever, walking the earth in search of the question (get it?) that will reveal his identity. It should not need to be said that both of these revamps commit unforgivable violence against the characters' original intent. Since the first cryptic announcement of the Trinity War, fans assumed that the trinity in question would be the familiar trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. I must give them some points for defying expectations, but in this instance the expectations would certainly have made more sense than what we got.
Oddly enough for a crossover involving two of the best-selling comic books in the country, the story actually picks up on a few plotlines from third-string titles like Team 7 (already canceled) and Phantom Stranger (not yet canceled but sells like shit, despite the fact that - notwithstanding the awful creative choices made in rebooting the character, J.M. DeMatteis makes the book at least somewhat readable). They've been very methodical in terms of laying the groundwork for this story. The plot begins when Pandora discovers that if a truly good soul reopens Pandora's Box, then the evils that were once trapped in the box will be reimprisoned once again. Like most sane people she assumes Superman to be genuinely good, but of course since this is the Nu52 he's not, so instead of opening the box and solving all evil it instead fucks with his head enough that he murders Doctor Light by blowing his head off with heat vision. Which is exactly what I want to see in a Superman story: Superman failing the moral paragon test and being tricked into killing people. The murder happens during the Justice League's big fight with the Justice League of America (controlled by the unappealing, amoral Nu52 Amanda Waller) in Kahndaq, after intercepting Shazam who has come to the country to spread Black Adam's ashes after killing him last month. After the fight in which Superman kills Dr. Light, the two teams come together in order to try to solve the problem with Superman. The teams split down the middle regarding the plan of action while Wonder Woman seeks out the Justice League Dark for their help, at which point Constantine tries to trick Wonder Woman into becoming his slave. (Which is just a fantastic thing to do, really.) But meanwhile the real villain is a character who (apparently) survived the destruction of the Flashpoint universe and, for some reason, is trying to rule the world by capturing Pandora. Or something along those lines, admittedly the story is still only halfway done. Phew.
Batman '66 #7 - The Joker! Kind of weird because this series also introduces Harley Quinn 66 (or at least her civilian identity). the joker is drawn with his mustache intact!
Rachel didn't like that STorm was ready to straight up murder someone on the suspicion that it would help them.
last night I also read A+X vol 1 thanks to it being at my local library. Really liked it for the most part. Less serious tales outside of any continuity that team one x-man and one avenger for 10 pages is usually pretty great. There was a fairly amazing one where Quinten Quire was teamed with Captain America that makes me laugh still. Some clunkers in this too like the Black Panther / Storm tale that was tonally inconsistent w/ the rest of the book. It was a non-romantic romance with flat double entendre komedy.
I'm dreading the day the writer of The Walking Dead has a massive stroke, and we get one issue a year.
DC Comics says no to marriage for batwoman
creative team quits
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/60350176589/williams-and-blackman-quit-batwoman-due-to-ban-on-kate
it's not really steampunk, though the Tin Woodsman might look that way. all the dialogue is directly from the books and it's a good and faithful adaptation. also Baum did introduce Tik-Tok in book 3, so it was Steampunk like 90 years ahead of schedule?
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it's not really steampunk, though the Tin Woodsman might look that way. all the dialogue is directly from the books and it's a good and faithful adaptation. also Baum did introduce Tik-Tok in book 3, so it was Steampunk like 90 years ahead of schedule?
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this is awkward because i thought the faux troll (traux?) was obvious
DC Comics says no to marriage for batwoman
creative team quits
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/60350176589/williams-and-blackman-quit-batwoman-due-to-ban-on-kate
But DC's latest art contest, featuring popular villain Harley Quinn, they're offering lucky artists the chance to begin their careers in the industry—if they can effectively draw a naked woman preparing to kill herself. This seems, at the very least, tone-deaf.
The contest comes on the eve of National Suicide Prevention Week, and many comics fans are outraged.
I picked up a used copy of Frank Miller's Hard Boiled this past weekend at HPB. I haven't yet dug too deeply into it yet, but what I've seen of it from a quick scan really bowls me over. The art is incredible, some of the best I've seen in a Western comic. It all feels feel Katsuhiro Otomo-esque in the way it captures urban decay, biological horror, and violent chaos with such astounding detail. Definitely not a bad buy for $6.50.
The contest is to draw four panels of Harley Quinn contemplating suicide. :-\ :-\ :-\
http://www.dccomics.com/node/305151
PANEL 1
Harley is on top of a building, holding a large DETACHED cellphone tower in her hands as lightning is striking just about everywhere except her tower. She is looking at us like she cannot believe what she is doing. Beside herself. Not happy.
PANEL 2
Harley is sitting in an alligator pond, on a little island with a suit of raw chicken on, rolling her eyes like once again, she cannot believe where she has found herself. We see the alligators ignoring her.
PANEL 3
Harley is sitting in an open whale mouth, tickling the inside of the whale’s mouth with a feather. She is ecstatic and happy, like this is the most fun ever.
PANEL 4
Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of “oh well, guess that’s it for me” and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen.
- See more at: http://www.dccomics.com/node/305151#sthash.9QUDlz1x.dpuf
Red Sonja #3 - very good low fantasy comics. Red Sonja afflicted with plague is cast out into the winter to prevent the disease from destroying the rest of the settlement she had been in, and we spend some time on her back story and history in some pretty good flashbacks. really enjoying this.
I need to get Mighty Avengers at some point, but it's not like it will sell out on me.
Backstory AGAIN? They did that already in the last series. :lol
The first issue was...OK. I guess. It's an Infinity tie-in, which I don't care for and is your typical "group of heroes comes together to fight bad guys at the end of the book" story. Nothing particularly-special and is basically the Luke Cage New Avengers all over again. With bad Greg Land art.
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700.1 & #700. 2
DAVID MORRELL (w) • KLAUS JANSON (a)
Covers by PASQUAL FERRY
Variant Covers by KLAUS JANSON
• One year after his death at the hands of the Superior Spider-Man – PETER PARKER IS BACK!
• Acclaimed novelist David Morrell (First Blood) and legendary comics icon Klaus Janson (DAREDEVIL: END OF DAYS) team up to kick off this celebration of the world’s greatest super hero!
• With a blizzard crippling New York City, Spider-Man must protect the city – but Aunt May’s life is in danger!
40 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T …$3.99 (EACH)
I have not. I have heard good things about it, but I haven't tracked it down. I just missed a comixology sale on back issues
(http://i.imgur.com/boCAX62.png)I want that mug.
Murder She Writes
Murder She Writes #1 (probably a stand alone) - Back in the day there were only a handful of webcomics that were worth a shit and John Allison's Scary Go Round was probably the best of the bunch. This is a stand alone cozy manor mystery involving sex, betrayal, shocking reveals all in the classic early UK Murder Mystery style shot through with a humor and warmth and dripping irony as a children's book author tries to find out who murdered a colleague at an annual get away amongst her peers.
at least it was cheap!
how did you read it and how did you enjoy the reading experience?
i'm a fan of the adventure time comics. i love that they give crazy underground artists back up stories to just go nuts in
Have you read The Sixth Gun?
Have you read The Sixth Gun?
no.
i have very low tolerance for weird western as a genre
weird western i like; Wild Wild West tv show
weird western i don't like; deadlands rpg
weird spy gadget stuff is cool.
indian zombie magick is not
sucks the fun out of batman 66
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I have not. I have heard good things about it, but I haven't tracked it down. I just missed a comixology sale on back issues
Is there a good site for tracking comixology sales? I would buy just about everything at $0.99 / issue but I don't want to load the app every day just to go through their splash pages.
comics update.
I spent last night reading 4 recent ( within the past few years) Spider-Man trades by Dan Slott aaaaaaaand I didn't really like them. This tying Spidey to the Avengers and the Fantastic Four put him into cosmic world shaking events and that just didn't appeal to me. I get that they want SM involved in more of their stories but ehhhh. It was very cool to see Peter's smarts play into a lot of the story lines though. I really didn't like Doc Oc's visual design in the giant iron lung nor Scorpion's design in basically power armor. I think the exaggerated anime style of the art is to blame for that.
Sex Criminals #1 - For a sex comedy it's not really funny. Will give it a few more issues to see how it goes. Basically two people can stop time with their orgasms. the first issue is basically the origin story from the female character's point of view. it's..ok, i guess. I like Fraction and I like Zdarsky but this never really gelled for me.
Rat Queens #1 - this, on the other hand, made me laugh out loud. foul mouthed violent fantasy with no redeeming qualities. highly recommended. I've read this issue like 5 times in the past two days.
And that it was probably a sad attempt to recapture the magic of Crisis on Infinite Earths that failed miserably.
Hinterland, a post apocalyptic tale that opens in NYC, where every character that isn't a literal monster is white.Any more info on this? I have a hard time finding anything that looks related to it.
bonus, features a tri-corn getting shot in the face
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I guess Brian Wood has been writing Star Wars? Is it any good?
This wild omnibus features rare and previously uncollected stories from UK publications, toy pack-ins, cereal boxes, Star Wars Kids magazine, and even issues that were originally published in 3-D! A treasure trove of unexpected gems for the casual Star Wars fan - and a completist's dream - this volume contains work from some of comics' most famous writers and artists, including Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, Archie Goodwin, Walt Simonson, and Alan Davis, plus stories featuring the greatest heroes and villains of Star Wars! Stories you never knew existed - that you can't live without!
PSA: Battling Boy is out this Tuesday.
http://www.amazon.com/Battling-Boy-Paul-Pope/dp/1596438053/
I guess Brian Wood has been writing Star Wars? Is it any good?
I read the first issue and it was ok, I guess. I've heard that it's super slow and not much happens, so I didn't really pursue it much further.
Apparently THE Star Wars book to read is the Wild Space Omnibus which collects Star Wars UK strips along with other assorted thingsQuoteThis wild omnibus features rare and previously uncollected stories from UK publications, toy pack-ins, cereal boxes, Star Wars Kids magazine, and even issues that were originally published in 3-D! A treasure trove of unexpected gems for the casual Star Wars fan - and a completist's dream - this volume contains work from some of comics' most famous writers and artists, including Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, Archie Goodwin, Walt Simonson, and Alan Davis, plus stories featuring the greatest heroes and villains of Star Wars! Stories you never knew existed - that you can't live without!
Supposed to be somewhat insane (as most UK sci-fi comics of the time were)
Well Battle of the Atom is turning out to be a disappointing event.
Really in general, All New X-men has been the same shit since it started.
X-men:"Oh noes the O5 are here"
X-men:"we should send them back"
O5:"We don't want to go back, we're going to do something about this future!"
And then a few X-men act supid for no reason and say "well it's not good that they are here, but they should decide what happens to them"/
Thats all it's been with a whatever subplot with Mystique. And the O5 are boring. Angel stands in the background, Iceman makes the same jokes the Older Iceman could just make, and Teen Cyclops is moppy. Jean is ok, because her backstory is cool and Bendis really just wanted to write Jean.
Battle has basically been the same argument over and over, just with even more future X-men and now a lame future X-men that I can only assume is Arron's creation. It's just been boring, the same characters talking about the same things. For an event, the 50th anniversary no less, nothing shocking really has happened.
I thought she was gonna go down on him while he maintains that expression the whole time she's blowing him.
Of buyers new to ComiXology in the last three months, 20% are women. That’s up from less than 5% when they started the app, and it’s a number that Steinberger says is changing rapidly. Comic book publishers, take note. The survey also found that of the readers who were reading their first comic digitally, many went on to buy comics in print. Again, comic book publishers, take note.
When did he ditch Emma? Or is that young Scott?
When did he ditch Emma? Or is that young Scott?
that's young Scott
it's the ultimate trolling
When did he ditch Emma? Or is that young Scott?
that's young Scott
it's the ultimate trolling
Total role reversal. Instead Jean having the hots for Logan, he hooks up with his clone/kid/whatever.
Since 2007, Dark Horse Comics has provided readers with the canonical continuation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's trials and tribulations in the fight against the forces of evil. "Buffy" is about to begin its tenth season adventures, with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10" launching in March 2014 by previous "Angel & Faith" creative team Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs, while a new volume of "Angel & Faith" hits in April 2014 helmed by writer Victor Gischler with art by Will Conrad.
"'Season 9' was different than 'Season 8' in that we got it focused on the core characters, eliminating a lot of the big world-shaking, army stuff," Allie continued. "We focused on the characters, but we also split the characters apart. 'Season 10' won't just be about us bringing them back together -- it'll be about them actively bringing themselves back together. The outcome of 'Season 9,' both in 'Angel & Faith' and in 'Buffy,' brings magic back, but it takes it all down a notch, and messes with the vampire thing in a way that makes it all a challenge again, but a challenge they can engage with on a very personal level."
In the early 1990s, Neil Gaiman wrote several issues of the post-modern superhero comic series Miracleman for Eclipse Comics, taking over where Alan Moore left off. Gaiman had planned eightteen issues in total, but Eclipse collapsed after only eight were published, with the ninth still in-production.
The series was in limbo until Marvel purchased the rights to the character in 2009, and today at NYCC Marvel announced that they would begin reprinting Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman’s issues in 2014. But the even bigger news came from Gaiman (via video), who announced that he would be completing his nearly twenty-year old story! Gaiman added that he was excited to return to the series, which he considers some of his best work as a young writer. And now we’re excited to see what he has in store for Miracleman, Miraclewoman, and Kid Miracleman!
Al Ewing is now writing a Loki as sexy secret agent solo series.
I am 100% on board
Also Comixology is having a Mark Waid sale. I cannot say enough good things about his current Daredevil run. you can pick up the first 6 issues for a buck each
Also Comixology is having a Mark Waid sale. I cannot say enough good things about his current Daredevil run. you can pick up the first 6 issues for a buck each
Man how do I physical comic book store? I honestly don't know here in Seattle.
Also Comixology is having a Mark Waid sale. I cannot say enough good things about his current Daredevil run. you can pick up the first 6 issues for a buck each
Man how do I physical comic book store? I honestly don't know here in Seattle.
Comic shops in North Seattle:
Arcane Comics in Ballard
Comic Stop on 45th in the U District (next to the Neptune)
The Dreaming on the Ave in the U District (they've got a sweet mural of Godzilla and Cthulu fighting over Seattle painted on the windows)
Comics Dungeon on 45th in Wallingford
Dreamstrands on 85th in Greenwood
Supergirl gets it pretty rough.
Second Issue Of 'The Sandman: Overture' Delayed Until February 2014
lol bi-monthly
Comixology is having a women of marvel sale which includes 12 issues of Dan Slott's excellent She-Hulk
so i've read some of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowered
it's basicaly about this super heroine full of self-esteem issues who gets her super power from a latex tight suit but since the suit rips off easily,she easily lose her super power and thus she usualy ends gagged and bounded (it's pretty NSFW,i'm not sure i should be talking about this in the first place :S) and with every other superhero making fun of her for being useless
in a perfect world this would be a videogame and the "sexist!" shitstorm would be the most glorius thing ever :fbm
Well The Wake just got crazy.spoiler (click to show/hide)Though, I'm unsure if we needed 5 issues of set-up. Hopefully, the pre-disaster stuff still has some importance, but I'm very excited to see where this is going. Snyder's little preview at the end of #5 makes it sounds like it's going to be pretty insane. That and the picture of the "new" main character makes it seem like it's going to be even more action packed.[close]
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dark orko
thanks, obama
context for the dark orko thing above
http://everydayislikewednesday.blogspot.com/2013/12/dc-universe-vs-masters-of-universe-3-it.html
context for the dark orko thing above
http://everydayislikewednesday.blogspot.com/2013/12/dc-universe-vs-masters-of-universe-3-it.html
Which brings us to the third issue, where two more Justice Leagues join the adventure, more Masters arrive on Earth-New 52, and Skeletor's unseen ally is finally revealed to be the most hilariously dumb villain imaginable.
What the fuck is going on in The Ultimate universe? I haven't read anything since Ultimatum.
a female clone of Peter Parker with Peter's memories
What the fuck is going on in The Ultimate universe? I haven't read anything since Ultimatum.
it's from DCU vs the Masters of the Universe
i don't think stan was necessarily malicious in what he did. some people are just self-promoters by nature. others are pretty bad at it. lee is a very good self-promoter. as it happens, he worked with a lot of people who were bad at/not comfortable with self-promotion, and feelings ended up hurt as a result.
first i came to love stan lee, then i came to loathe stan lee, now i'm just sad for kirby
Yeah, while I'm forgiving of Lee, I don't feel the same way about Bob Kane. That guy deliberately cheated people out of both money and credit, and he did it to the very last. I can't remember the last time Lee had a problem sharing a co-creator credit, even if he generally did only look out for himself.
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And then ends on a weak note:spoiler (click to show/hide)For the SECOND time in this series, it turns out that Peter Parker is "alive" within Doc Ock's memories. He was already "killed" once before, but comes back, relives Doc Ock's entire life through his memories, then regains his own as Peter Parker. Instead of fighting Doc Ock for control of his body again, however, this time Doc Ock just suddenly up and decides that he's been defeated, straps himself to a machine, and erases himself from Peter's body, leaving Peter back in control.
This leaves Peter to clean up the mess, which he does pretty easily considering that he's been "dead" and unaware of everything that's been going on for months of continuity. It turns out that the Green Goblin has changed his face and has been acting as a founder of Alchemax. Spider-Man gets a cure for the goblin virus and uses it on the Green Goblin, effectively erasing his insanity and super strength. He escapes and says he's going to change his face/identity again to keep fucking with Spider-Man, though.
And that's pretty much it. Maybe Amazing will cover the fallout in more depth, but with Superior, it's just Peter basically saying "sorry I was a dickhead" and people going "hmm...OK!" :lol ::) Mary Jane and Carlie get the truth, but instead of sticking by Peter, they both give up on him and want nothing more to do with him. Makes no sense after they spent months trying to figure out what was going on and didn't give up.[close]
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I don't know, I think it is more sobering than upsetting.
And now the same thing is going on with their movies. For the longest time, DC was the only game in town with first their Superman, then Batman movies. Then Marvel movies started coming out and DC is playing catch up all over again.
Reminds me of when Marvel decided they didn't need Diamond.
Oh well, this got me to take a closer look at Marvel Unlimited, and I've found it's better for my needs.
Yeah, I don't think there's anything to worry about. If anything, it means less chance Comixology will go tits up in some bizarre future.
I stand corrected.
http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/4/26/5656468/comixology-ios-update-removes-in-app-purchases
Right out of the Amazon playbook.
In the new Android 3.6 upgrade we have a new comiXology in-app purchase system and a great new shopping cart, one of our most requested features. In the new app, customers may be prompted to update your payment information to continue purchasing books. This is a one-time action after which you can purchase inside the app."
1. where payment is primarily for physical goods or services (e.g., buying movie tickets, or buying a publication where the price also includes a hard copy subscription); or
2. where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g., buying songs that can be played on other music players).
that future's end 0 for fcbd was haliribad
it took me 4 times of actively sitting down to try to read it to get through it
it's so nu52 dc, which i have decided is the slipknot of comic book universes
Dan Slott was told there was a movie coming out and they needed the AMay2ing Spider-Man back
Dan Slott was told there was a movie coming out and they needed the AMay2ing Spider-Man back
Dan Slott was told there was a movie coming out and they needed the AMay2ing Spider-Man back
yeah a friend of mine told me the same thing, apparently electro is in the comic and is now black too?
man, what a sad life, being the d-grade back-up to a villain who's b-grade on his best day.cracked up when i saw boomerang try to
She-Hulk is damn near perfect for a She-Hulk book. It's big and brash and colorful and a lot of fun.
Ghost Rider is strange. It's using slang and stuff that's way out of date, but it's visually very well done. It's def influenced by Fast and the Furious, but it's only had two issues so I can't really speak to it's quality just yet
Hulk is just disappointing. I don't think that Waid has a good idea of what to do with him.
Mighty Avengers is very good but not great. I think it suffers a bit being under the Avengers editorial line forcing it into cross overs rather than standing on its own
Ms Marvel is good, but I've read complaints of its stereotypical treatment of Muslims (but considering the previous treatment of Muslims in mainstream comics, this may be better)
Someone here mentioned a really good comic on Comixology recently, it was 99¢, and highly recommended... and now I can't find the link. Anyone remember what that comic was?
All New X-men good?.......
Don't know about that. Unless you think repeating the same crap over and over good.
I mean I'm going to have to disagree with the point of "nothing else happens in the other xbooks". Nothing is happening in All New. It is the same argument over and over again. The 05 are here and it's bad. That's it, the series has hardly moved past that.
The series honestly only focuses on Jean with pretty much all the other characters in the background. Yet all it does with Jean is the same thing it's been doing for 20+ issues. All it does is keep showing teases of the Phoniex and how terrible Jeans life became. Even the Guardians Crossover did'nt do anything and the premise was stupid. Yes lets put Jean on trial even though: Jean was alive for years after DP and wait it wasn't jean. The entire series has honestly been flimsy excuses for anything that's happening. Thats fine, but the thing is nothing happens in All New. It's just spinning it's wheels on an idea that it has'nt done much with.
At least in Uncanny X-men you're getting actual new characters and not just young versions of characters where they can't even use the older ones well, let alone the young ones. The entire plotline with Shield, Mystique, and Cyclops is actually going somewhere. At least it feels like something is happening in the X verse.
X-men has been pretty disappointing. X-Force is just it's own crew doing something. X-Factor is the same. Uncanny Avengers dosen't feel like it's a part of anything, but it's all epic fun.
Copyright or not, She-Hulk is one of the best Marvel books going now. :obama
comixology have a bunch of current x-men stuff on sale, i'm tempted to say fuck it and just buy the bundle since it's all new to me and nostalgia
Yeah, though Stan is fibbing (as usual) too. She-Hulk was created for the same reason Spider-Woman/Spider-Girl/Supergirl/Superboy/etcetc were created: to secure a copyright. Specifically there, CBS was looking to create a female spin-off of the Hulk TV series a la the Bionic Woman, which Marvel wouldn't have gotten a lick from.
I'm not going to say that every writer has treated She-Hulk respectfully (I think Chuck Austen had her fuck the Juggernaut for REASONS), but she's actually a pretty good female character by cape-comic standards. In my personal opinion, she's a far better character than her cousin.
comixology have a bunch of current x-men stuff on sale, i'm tempted to say fuck it and just buy the bundle since it's all new to me and nostalgia
most of it is probably on Marvel Unlimited which costs $6/mo
Hulk is fine provided he have a great storyline. I really think the next hulk film should adapt Planet Hulk.
Hulk is fine provided he have a great storyline. I really think the next hulk film should adapt Planet Hulk.
good try but HULKMURO should really talk in all caps
HULK FINE PROVIDED HULK HAVE GREAT STORYLINE. HULK THINK NEXT HULK FILM SHOULD BE PLANET HULK.
(note: Planet Hulk is way more interesting as a concept than it was in execution...)
Re: Superman stuff.
I'm pretty behind on most of these books and just read the Krypton Returns storyline. The ending made no sense to me. Superboy saves Argo City from blowing up with Krypton and dies in the process. Superman and Supergirl are just like "eh" and go back to their own time. Except that this didn't happen in Suberboy's own comic, where he was in the future with the Teen Titans and HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE. Now there is another Superboy, apparently evil, who has replaced him and come back from the future. He's supposed to be different, yet looks exactly the same and has the same powers.
:dizzy
Seems to be less cutting off their noses to spite their face and more like taking a short term hit for a potential huge long term gain. So they don't sell any X-Men toys or Fantastic Four comics for a while. How much is that worth? They split the toy revenues with Fox, and FF comics sell, like, five copies a month. If they can weaken the IPs sufficiently for Fox to return them (or fork over full merch rights as with Sony/Spider-Man), that's worth a lot more. If I were Marvel, I'd be undermining the *shit* out of those properties to try to get them back.
Re: Superman stuff.
I'm pretty behind on most of these books and just read the Krypton Returns storyline. The ending made no sense to me. Superboy saves Argo City from blowing up with Krypton and dies in the process. Superman and Supergirl are just like "eh" and go back to their own time. Except that this didn't happen in Suberboy's own comic, where he was in the future with the Teen Titans and HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE. Now there is another Superboy, apparently evil, who has replaced him and come back from the future. He's supposed to be different, yet looks exactly the same and has the same powers.
:dizzy
Maybe he punched the space-time-continuum really hard.
The next DC reboot will just straight up make Superman a killer.
Maybe a return to the black and long hair look for extra edginess.
Have they? Seems like business as usual.
Haven't seen anything as "gritty" as the shit they pulled in Identity Crisis since the reboot, but I don't pick up all the books.
Have they? Seems like business as usual.
Haven't seen anything as "gritty" as the shit they pulled in Identity Crisis since the reboot, but I don't pick up all the books.
http://comicsalliance.com/dcs-futures-end-0-free-comic-book-day-2014-review/
Have they? Seems like business as usual.
Haven't seen anything as "gritty" as the shit they pulled in Identity Crisis since the reboot, but I don't pick up all the books.
http://comicsalliance.com/dcs-futures-end-0-free-comic-book-day-2014-review/
Speaking of death-of-Superman, reboots, and faux-edginess, Marvel's current "THREE MONTHS TO DIE" effort, which I'm guessing is the death arc for Wolverine, really makes me sick at heart for the state of comics. When Superman was killed off, yeah, sure, we thought he might come back -- would probably come back -- but we didn't know how or why, and the "placeholder Supermen" who arose in his wake were at least interesting as an experiment.
Marvel pretending like they're going to kill Wolverine in anything other than a "WHAT IF..." storyline is so utterly money grubbing and disingenuous, it boggles my mind. They're not drumming up other interest in Wolverine, the character which is applied-like-a-stamp to other comics' covers just to increase reader interest. They're not going to whack the one superhero fans consistently flock toward.
It's just gross.
Oh, never mind. I see there's a "Death Of Wolverine" mini-series being solicited for late summer/fall. More bullshit leading towards like the 10th Wolverine #1 in four years!
Why is Thor being a woman such a controversy? Wasn't Loki a woman for a while?
Basically it's Supergirl/Batgirl/etc. type stuff that won't last like those. I don't see the hype or the outrage.
nobody likes carol danvers, no matter how much marvel have tried to shove her down people's throats in the last ten to fifteen years. she's a lame character with boring powers and a ridiculously convoluted past. i'd even take bendis's pet spider-woman over carol if we're adding to the movie roster. or, i dunno, wasp?
"weird horse-face alien Thor" . . . show some god damn respect for Beta Ray Bill.
Marvel's best female characters are all on the X-Men, so Marvel is kind of screwed for making movies with a female lead
Storm
Jean Grey
Kitty Pryde
Psylocke
Mystique
Emma Frost
Roguespoiler (click to show/hide)...Jubilee and Dazzler[close]
I was just saying no one gives a fuck about Thor in general unless it's a gimmick issue
I like She-Hulk a lot, but to most people she just would appear to be a female version of a male super hero.
I looooooved Dan Jurgens' run on Thor. That King of Asgard story was fucking epic. :whew
Really liked Walt Simonson's run too. For a while, Thor was the only reprieve from the same old cape bullshit.
I looooooved Dan Jurgens' run on Thor. That King of Asgard story was fucking epic. :whew
Really liked Walt Simonson's run too. For a while, Thor was the only reprieve from the same old cape bullshit.
I hope this stupid ant man movie doesnt ruin WaspThat would only be appropriate, considering how many times Hank Pym ruined Wasp herself.
They should have Professor X struggle with pedophilia for real edge
welll....they ARE sending him to San Francisco.
They should have Professor X struggle with pedophilia for real edge
Dey already did dat doe
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I just don't get the point of these changes if marvel isn't going to stick to them.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/marvel-reimagines-green-goblin-as-lefthanded,36507/
Reactions to the announcement have reportedly been mixed, with a number of readers praising the introduction of a more relatable figure, while others expressed frustration that the Marvel Universe still lacked an ambidextrous character.
You can look at the date breh.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/marvel-reimagines-green-goblin-as-lefthanded,36507/
A pun? How gauche.
Soule says that near the end of the miniseries, it was difficult to write the final sequence, with editor Nick Lowe adding that, after years and years of reading dozens of comic scripts, this was one of the rare ones that brought a tear to his eye.
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/wolverine-dies-and-the-hulk-goes-omega-at-the-marvel-panel/QuoteSoule says that near the end of the miniseries, it was difficult to write the final sequence, with editor Nick Lowe adding that, after years and years of reading dozens of comic scripts, this was one of the rare ones that brought a tear to his eye.
:comeon
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/wolverine-dies-and-the-hulk-goes-omega-at-the-marvel-panel/QuoteSoule says that near the end of the miniseries, it was difficult to write the final sequence, with editor Nick Lowe adding that, after years and years of reading dozens of comic scripts, this was one of the rare ones that brought a tear to his eye.
:comeon
I got that Marvel Netflix for 99 cents and so the first thing I jumped into, having not read anything Marvel in 20 years, was the "biggest crossover arc of the last decade", the Civil War storyline. I figured I'd read the biggest and best of the post-2000 Marvel first to get something epic and satisfying. I finished reading all the "road to the Civil War" comics from Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Avengers Special and am now reading the first few Civil War issues and I'm super bored and already feeling burnt out on "superhero" comics.
This whole thing just seems like an excuse to have all your favorite Marvel(tm) characters duke it out fighting game style. The plot is really dull (Superhero Registration Act!) and there's not much character development so far. I dunno, not feeling this at all. Thinking about bailing and trying another series before giving up on modern Marvel.
I like comics like Y: The Last Man and Watchmen and stuff that is about story & characters. I used to like X-men and superhero stuff as a kid, but now it just feels like it's written for 13 year old boys and is dumb, simple and ACTION. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong series. Will probably cancel Marvel Unlimited before the month ends, any recommendations that will change my opinion of post-2000 era Marvel comics?
I'm going to disagree with Wolverine and the X-men being the natural thing to read after Astonishing and New. It's nothing like those two runs and is pretty horrible. It also takes a character introduced and those runs and shits on them. Completely running the point.
Here's how comic crossovers work:
1) they want to shake up the line to keep people interested so editors come up with some huge things they want to have happen to the characters (death, body swaps, team splits, whatever)
1b) it doesn't matter if it makes narrative sense, the important thing is to fuck everything up
2) there is a standalone series of 7 issues that makes ABSOLUTELY no sense and is usually running 4-6 weeks behind schedule
3) there are a lot of tie-in books that make a bit more sense but are boring
3b) previously enjoyable books are forced to drop everything to participate in the crossover, ruining their story and momentum
4) the crossover ends, the editorial fiat has been accomplished, and NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME
5) there's another crossover in 4 months
Final Crisis, doe. :lawd
Wolverine and the X-Men is great fun.
Here's how comic crossovers work:
1) they want to shake up the line to keep people interested so editors come up with some huge things they want to have happen to the characters (death, body swaps, team splits, whatever)
1b) it doesn't matter if it makes narrative sense, the important thing is to fuck everything up
2) there is a standalone series of 7 issues that makes ABSOLUTELY no sense and is usually running 4-6 weeks behind schedule
3) there are a lot of tie-in books that make a bit more sense but are boring
3b) previously enjoyable books are forced to drop everything to participate in the crossover, ruining their story and momentum
4) the crossover ends, the editorial fiat has been accomplished, and NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME
5) there's another crossover in 4 months
Final Crisis, doe. :lawd
Halfway through Nextwave and it's good, but a bit hit or miss in the grand scheme of everything. The art and writing is good, and sometimes its quite funny, especially when it pokes fun at the Marvel universe, but so far there's no real story and everything is silly to the point that it's all kind of a joke and fluff. Enjoying it enough to keep reading, but it's no The Losers or anything.
Speaking of which I read Punisher Silent Night by Andy Diggle and that was pretty good.
I think I'm looking for more single story arc, semi-serious titles with quality writing and characters. Will check out some of the shorter ones recommended here after I finish Nextwave like The Thor Series, Hawkeye, Daredevil.
Oh and btw, is EVERYTHING under the Marvel category a superhero comic? Do they not publisher stories about normal people that just happen to fall under the comic medium? I guess Punisher is kind of close since he doesn't have super powers, but he's still a superhero. Wondering if I can get some non-superhero mileage out of this Marvel Unlimited app.
Are there any good Guardians of the Galaxy comics? I'd be interested in reading some after the awesomeness of that movie.
Since Exitar had a brief cameo in GotG, I'm wondering if the Celestials will show up in Avengers 4.
Are there any good Guardians of the Galaxy comics? I'd be interested in reading some after the awesomeness of that movie.
Since Exitar had a brief cameo in GotG, I'm wondering if the Celestials will show up in Avengers 4.
Not really, no. They're mostly shitty tryhard books. One run was semi-fun, but it was nothing like the movie. The movie being so good is probably because they took the broadstrokes of the comics and then just made everything actually entertaining.
Scarlett Johansson in skin-tight leather as a secondary character in a movie staring a white dude; it's so progressive, brehs. :lawd
I'm surprised no one recommended Runaways either.
So thinking about it, the Marvel Unlimited thing is a good deal if you haven't read many comics in a decade or two. But it's probably something only good for a year, because, since you can blow through comics fairly quick, I'd wager in a year you could read every good series Marvel's published in the last 40 years. So I definitely think I'll stick with it for a while, but I can see myself cancelling when I run out of series that people recommend.
Here's how comic crossovers work:
1) they want to shake up the line to keep people interested so editors come up with some huge things they want to have happen to the characters (death, body swaps, team splits, whatever)
1b) it doesn't matter if it makes narrative sense, the important thing is to fuck everything up
2) there is a standalone series of 7 issues that makes ABSOLUTELY no sense and is usually running 4-6 weeks behind schedule
3) there are a lot of tie-in books that make a bit more sense but are boring
3b) previously enjoyable books are forced to drop everything to participate in the crossover, ruining their story and momentum
4) the crossover ends, the editorial fiat has been accomplished, and NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME
5) there's another crossover in 4 months
Final Crisis, doe. :lawd
Infinite Crisis > Final Crisis
Actually felt like a contained story.
The artist probably traced over porn, some people do that.
The artist probably traced over porn, some people do that.
Not a fan of Mark Miller.
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I haven't bought a single DC book since they pulled that shit with Batwoman. It was my favorite book of like, all time, and you can check my posts about it on GAF way before any drama came up. Shit, I've read comics for 3 decades and that was the only time I ever wrote in about something. Got a short, but pleasant response from Williams.
#ForeverSalty
Young Avengers (2013): Didn't enjoy this too much starting out. The art was stylish and modern pop, which was cool. But I had no clue who these characters were and why they looked sorta like other character (Hulking), (little Loki) (fake Captain America at one point), also the entire story run being about EVIL DIMENSIONAL MOM PARASITE was just super lame. However, it ended up being a good story and the characters really grew on me. Loki is SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER in this one. He steals the entire show and I really, really like his character here. Ended nice and bittersweet too. As I mention below I'm going to read the original run of Young Avengers so I can see their origin story which will add a lot to this one. PS, for some reason Marvel Unlimited does not carry a digital version of the final issue (it's not a time exclusive thing) which was rather annoying, but I was still able to read it elsewhere and finish the thing. A-
Now I'm currently about halfway through The Immortal Iron First (2006-2009) and enjoying it for the great art and Mortal Kombat story like Treesong said. After I finish that I'm gonna finally read something LONG and read the Morrison arc of New X-men, Whedon's Astonishing X-men, and Uncanny X-Force. I'm probably also going to read the first run of Young Avengers because as I mentioned jumping into the 2013 run was a little confusing and I'd like to see the origin of these characters even if it's not that great of a manga.
Eventually after I get through all that stuff, what are some good arcs to read of characters I'm interested in: Iron Man, Spiderman, Fantastic Four (never read any FF, would like a cool Dr. Doom arc), Ghost Rider (never read GR either and would like to read a good art because I like the character design and Mephisto in MvC2 looked awesome), and maybe Captain America. I want to check out Inhumans because I keep seeing Black Bolt show up in other comics and I heard the "War of Kings" arc is a good arc to get an idea of them. Also I have no idea who the Skrull and Kree aliens are but they keep showing up in stuff which makes me want to read some arc about them so I can get more out of them in the Marvel Universe.
It's also been stated by a feminist friend, rightly, that when a man splays his legs and presents his junk, it's a display of power; conversely, when a woman spreads her legs, it is a show of submission.
It's also been stated by a feminist friend, rightly, that when a man splays his legs and presents his junk, it's a display of power; conversely, when a woman spreads her legs, it is a show of submission.
Lol. Of all the dumb things Tumblr says, this is among my favorite.
It's also been stated by a feminist friend, rightly, that when a man splays his legs and presents his junk, it's a display of power; conversely, when a woman spreads her legs, it is a show of submission.
Lol. Of all the dumb things Tumblr says, this is among my favorite.
Why so dismissive?
It's also been stated by a feminist friend, rightly, that when a man splays his legs and presents his junk, it's a display of power; conversely, when a woman spreads her legs, it is a show of submission.
Lol. Of all the dumb things Tumblr says, this is among my favorite.
Why so dismissive?
Nah.
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Read through the 2nd main arc in Immortal Iron Fist (#15-20 I think about dragon dude) after the initial tournament arc. Was damn good. The first arc was cool but it got kind of rushed and changed focus after the tournament started. Now the further arcs using the existing base the opening arc set up...this is a lot of fun. The one-shots have been alright too, liked Orson Rand vs. Death Queen of California. This 2006-2009 version is a good, nice meaty franchise. Looking forward to the last few arcs and the Immortal Weapons spin-off. John Amon Prince of Orphans is f'ing cool. And Danny Rand/Iron Fist is pretty boss too when he has his shit together. Good cast.
Also, after I finish this series gonna need to play some UMvC3 and kick some ass as Iron Fist. Cool that there's a Netflix Iron Fist TV show coming one day, gonna look forward to that.
Oh, Sleeper. I really like what I've read from that. Nice blend of noir, undercover/spy work, and four-color super villains.The first run of Sleeper owned. I never got into the second one. My name was Agent Carver on forums as a teenager.
Oh, Sleeper. I really like what I've read from that. Nice blend of noir, undercover/spy work, and four-color super villains.The first run of Sleeper owned. I never got into the second one. My name was Agent Carver on forums as a teenager.
Are any of the stories that lead into Superior Spiderman worthwhile/helpful to read? Can I just jump right in? (I'm aware it's Doc Ock. in PP's body, does it just take that premise and run with it, or is it part of a greater arc?)
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/multimedia/meet-the-somalis
I know this thread tends toward capes and away from webcomics, but this is pretty neat.
Anyone have an opinion on Prophet by Brandon Graham? I randomly saw a pic on twitter that looked pretty cool.
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What are some comics with good sense of humor? I like how Whedon's run on Astonishing had some good laughs each issues and Nextwave was fun. Uncanny X-Force, which I'm reading currently has some good humor thanks to the Deadpool/Fantomex combo. Would like to read some stuff that is amusing.Persepolis, Transmetropolitan, Hawkeye(the current run), Y The Last Man, Saga, and X-Statix all have a sense of humor on top of actually having good storytelling.
I read about it and it sounds fucking stupid.
Gambit? Well written?
Gambit? Well written?
Not particularly. In this or his recently cancelled solo.
I'm not seeing how his character is poorly done. For ounce he's not being written as the stereotypical Cajun ladies man or simply Rogues bf. Which is what most writers can't do. He's being written as just a cool dude who happens to be kind of accidentally sly. Which is more intersting then how he's normally done.
Wanted some Power Girl. No Power Girl except Huntress and Power Girl.
apparently the power girl team now does harley.
Someone please tell me what the fuck is going on in Marvel? I went to my Comic shop tonight and they've got New X-Factor (WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD MULTIPLE MAN X-FACTOR TEAM THIS IS IMPORTANT), New Avengers, New this, New that, and I have no inkling as to what the CHRIST. What's good in Marvel these days? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY BELOVED X-FACTOR INVESTIGATIONS? Are all Spider-Man books still shit? What the Christ is the Spider-verse or whatever?
So I had put off ever reading anything from the New 52 until I killed off my old DC universe backlog. (Not counting stuff "outside it", in other words I'm only talking about anything involving people in the JLA/JSA.) Finally just randomly this week I decided to finish off the last bundle of stuff through Brightest Day and into Flashpoint.
Got Court of Owls, JLI, Stormwatch, Batwoman and some other New 52 stuff sitting on the floor now with more to come. Can't wait to go through all the cancellations, bad editorial decisions and botched launches!
This may be the stupidest dumb fan thing I've ever done. Also in a weird way I'm kinda like deep down mildly angry at them "rebooting" the universe. Like Booster Gold + Final Crisis + Blackest Night had this kind of "this DC universe is my DC history" cementing effect on me since I really only comprehended the DC Universe as a thing well after the original Crisis so that "reboot" is like the start of my experience with DC, my Superman, Batman, Flash, etc. This may be the stupidest dumb fan thing I've ever felt.
I find it tough to read comics with bad art. How do you enjoy stuff that has good stories if the art looks like crap?
Also in a weird way I'm kinda like deep down mildly angry at them "rebooting" the universe.
Also in a weird way I'm kinda like deep down mildly angry at them "rebooting" the universe.
Don't worry, they're now hinting at the old one still being around. :dizzy
That's the same thing they're doing with the Abramsverse for Star Trek, the comic which is "canon unless countered by the films" is now hooking up with post-show Sisko and Picard and Janeway in the old timeline using Q as justification. :lolspoiler (click to show/hide)There's also been hints that after the third movie they're going to ditch it entirely and go back to the old Trek unless it makes an illegal amount of money. Apparently some people in suits are quite unhappy about JJ ditching for Star Wars.[close]
Seems to me, Marvel Now is kicking the pants out of new 52.
Also in a weird way I'm kinda like deep down mildly angry at them "rebooting" the universe.
Don't worry, they're now hinting at the old one still being around. :dizzy
are they? i guess the reboot didnt do as well for them as they hoped. it makes me wonder why people want marvel to reboot the 616
Can't seem them going back to the old Star Trek for films. Surely they made more money off those last two than the previous Star Trek movies did?The first one did the best of any of them in the US, but Into Darkness was adjusted for inflation close to some of the others in the US. Only because of the new overseas market did Into Darkness beat out the first movie more than half of its money was made overseas, and it wasn't a huge hit, which Trek never has been, and they have to figure out something when they lose Pine and Quinto anyway. (Among others, nobody's signed past a third movie.)
I dunno. I find myself reading more DC books than I would have before.
Also in a weird way I'm kinda like deep down mildly angry at them "rebooting" the universe.
Don't worry, they're now hinting at the old one still being around. :dizzy
I'm probably kinder to New 52 than most because I like the idea of a single** (for the most part) streamlined universe,
-There is now a new comic event that was just announced called "No More Mutants." The teaser image shows...Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. :lol There is speculation that they are going to be de-powered and then re-powered as...Inhumans. And now that they're not mutants...HEY! Marvel can use 'em in films! :lol
Quote-There is now a new comic event that was just announced called "No More Mutants." The teaser image shows...Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. :lol There is speculation that they are going to be de-powered and then re-powered as...Inhumans. And now that they're not mutants...HEY! Marvel can use 'em in films! :lol
But... they're already using them? ???
Quote-There is now a new comic event that was just announced called "No More Mutants." The teaser image shows...Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. :lol There is speculation that they are going to be de-powered and then re-powered as...Inhumans. And now that they're not mutants...HEY! Marvel can use 'em in films! :lol
But... they're already using them? ???
And now here's the reason why...I guess? :lol
They have all these characters they can use. Wonder why it concerns them so much.
It's really strange how they've been handling the X-men. The X-men have been able to be alone off in thier corner for awhile now, yet they've been perching members and making them appear in cross overs with the Avengers. Effectively integrating them more with the marvel universe.
They kill off Wolverine, but I don't think that has any secret agenda behind it. It really is "killing heroes makes money" type of thing. Though if they did somehow bring him back as a non-mutant then well fuck marvel.
They've taken characters like Cannonball, Rogue, Havok, and Sunspot and made them Avengers. Pulling them away from the xbooks. I really don't think this will make them be able to appear in Avengers movies or anything, but I really don't know why these characters are in Avenger books.
It's been said the X-Office is'nt supposed to make new characters. Hasn't stopped Bendis from making so many new characters that he can't even bother to develop them. Yet I guess Bendis can do that because he's a top creator. Yet there you go, Marvel put one of it's top creators on marvel. Even Brian Wood was able to create a new villain though.
I mean it's obvious that they want to push the Avengers more and the X-men may get the short stick of that. Yet, it's not like they can ignore one of thier better selling franchisees. I mean what would be the end goal here? Devalue the brand so Fox will sell it back? I don't see how crippling the comic books will effect the movies. The movies will do fine regardless of the books. It will be a long time before Fox would be 100% sure there's no point to making X-men movies.
So you cripple the books and don't merchandise the franchisee. Well dosen't Marvel just loose out? Comic book sales go down and toy sales are left on the table. Doesn't Marvel still have the rights to merchandise?
I mean it does seem like X-men are getting the short end of the stick, but really to what end?
When the first X-Men movie came out they reissued many of the 90s Toy Biz toys. I know, I bought tons of them. Marvel also had thier recent Marvel Universe toy line that had plenty of X-men characters. They can't put these out when the movies are out? They don't have to have the movie branding, but surly the toys sell fine even if they are using the comics iconography?
Sure this would benefit Fox, but they would be riding that wave.
Yeah even if toys sales weren't great. You still have a billion random things from towels to shirts to anything you see in Target, Khols, or walmart. Things I assume they could sell with the comic book iconography and not the movie's. X-men is a well known brand, but it sure is losing popularity and honestly thats Marvel's fault.
Though I think what makes them work better with Sony is that they do get a cut of the movie's actual merchandising. I wonder exactly what the X-men deal is though.
Also, something cool about New 52 is that the New Gods (Darkseid et al) are singular entities and only one of them exist across all universes, kind of like... actual gods. I dunno, I think it's cool.Technically, in the "Post Crisis" universe this was also true. Boomtubes were how you got to New Genesis and Apokolips's 'Fourth World' and then back to the universe.
I don't agree with this.Yeah even if toys sales weren't great. You still have a billion random things from towels to shirts to anything you see in Target, Khols, or walmart. Things I assume they could sell with the comic book iconography and not the movie's. X-men is a well known brand, but it sure is losing popularity and honestly thats Marvel's fault.
Though I think what makes them work better with Sony is that they do get a cut of the movie's actual merchandising. I wonder exactly what the X-men deal is though.
except that even if that were the case, kids and casual fans will want the things with the movie characters on them. my cousin sees the wolverine, and tells me he wants a silver samurai figure(he didnt call him silver samurai, but the robot at the end of the movie) if he were to see the comic variant and the movie variant, he wouldnt give the comic version a second glance. when youre trying to compete 1 to 1 with a medium that has more exposure, youre gonna need one hell of a gimmick to keep up
I don't agree with this.
Because even the Marvel Avengers stuff dosen't look like the movie 100% of the time.
Just a quick search through Target.
http://www.target.com/p/avengers-sheet-set/-/A-13980847#prodSlot=medium_2_3&term=marvel
http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=marvel&category=0%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Call+categories&lnk=snav_sbox_marvel#navigation=true&searchTerm=marvel&sortBy=bestselling&Nao=72&viewType=medium&category=0|All|matchallpartial|all+categories
http://www.target.com/p/avengers-throw/-/A-13982512#prodSlot=medium_3_3&term=marvel
I mean look at the Disney Infinity stuff. It looks nothing like the movies. I don't think Marvel has a problem with presenting tons of avengers merchandise that dosen't have the movies exact look. That stuff seems to do fine, so whats the problem with X-men?
Kids really won't pick up a Cyclops figure because it's not in black leather? Marvel has no problem putting out Wolverine in his comic look, so why not the other X-men? I doubt Wolverine things have problems selling because he dosen't look like Hugh Jackmen.
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Any help here :tocry
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Any help here :tocry
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Any help here :tocry
Spider-Man stuff:spoiler (click to show/hide)In brief, A dying Doctor Octopus mind-swaps with Spider-Man. Spider-Man tries his best to get his body back, but in the end dies and convinces Ock to be a good guy, with great comes responsibility and all that. Ock does do super heroics, but with an arrogant, mad inventor-like twist. He also makes a number of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's friends hate him, gets a PhD, and starts his own company after being somewhat responsible for the lab he worked at being shut down. While this is happening, the Green Goblin returns and builds up an army (literally) underground. Part of Peter Parker is also still inside his original body, and he fights Ock for control, but loses and appears to be "erased". However there's hints that he still exists and at the end of Superior Spider-Man, Ock realizes that he cannot beat the Green Goblin and erases himself from Peter's body, restoring Spider-Man back to normal. Peter sends the Goblin packing but his life is now completely different and Amazing is focusing on the fallout from everything that happened.[close]
During all this, Spider-Man 2099 goes back to the present day and gets trapped there. He's now working at the corporation he fights in the future and keeping tabs on his evil grandfather. He got his own new series recently.
On top of all that, a major retcon was done regarding Spider-Man's origin. He now was not the only one bitten by the radioactive spider. A female classmate was too, but she was locked away to prevent some major bad buy (Morlun, who apparently hunts down "spider avatars" and devours their souls or whatever) from finding her. Spider-Man finds her and now she's a superhero called "Silk." They also have some animal-like attraction between themselves and keep wanting to screw when close to each other.
The event Andrex was talking about, Edge Of Spider-Verse, relates to Morlun and his family. They're going all over the multi-verse killing various versions of Spider-Man. Edge is just the prequel to the Spider-Verse event and features Doc Ock Spidey gathering various Spider-Man characters in attempt to combat Morlun. (This part of it takes place before the end of Superior) It also has one-shot books focusing on various alternate versions of Spider-Man. The one getting all the attention is a Spider-Woman who is actually Gwen Stacy in an alternate universe. Marvel is going to be giving her a series, because Spider-Woman, Arachne, and Silk were not enough, it seems.
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Any help here :tocry
I only really know the DC side of things though I've been trying to keep up with Spider-man.
- Batman's origin still has trappings of Year One but basically in Batman's first year, he encounters the Red Hood Gang (led by a pre-Joker Joker, as in DCU past) and dumps him into the vat of chemicals. Then Riddler takes over the city and turns it into a cross between I Am Legend and Gladiator. Then Batman beats his ass in the ultimate riddle or something. Read Batman: Zero Year, it's better than I make it out to be.
- Doc Ock was Spider-man for a bit after taking over Peter's body but Peter's mind was still there and Ock was going "I am the SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN! I'm way better than that other loser! Also I'll add Doc Ock's robo tentacles to my costume THAT WON'T BE SUSPICIOUS OR ANYTHING!" To Ock's credit he does manage to fool the dumbasses in Avengers into thinking he's really Peter. But then Peter pulls some Obi-Wan Kenobi shit after Ock hesitates saving some chick and Ock was all like "Peter, YOU are the superior Spider-man! I've basically been buttfucking your life for the past few months but now I'll take my leave, kthx." Then Peter shows up to stop Green Goblin who knew Ock was Spider-man, but then Peter cracks a wise about Gobby carrying a purse and Gobby goes "OMG it's the real Spider-man!" and Peter replies "The one and only." Which would be pretty badass but the current Spider-man event is called "Spider-verse" where there's LITERALLY A BILLION OTHER SPIDER-MEN AND WOMEN MEETING UP.
- The new Thor is a new character from my understanding. Old Thor can no longer lift Mjolnir because reasons (editorial.)
- Arkham isn't at Wayne Manor to my knowledge? But it has been taken over by the inmates. Batwing and Spectre (or rather Spectre's human vessel) were investigating it last I checked and got sucked into some hell dimension beneath it where this random character who found Joker's cut off face and is calling herself "the Joker's Daughter" (literally the worst idea by DC in the past 10 years, at least) is serving whoever is running things (they revealed who it was I just forgot.)
Read Batman (monthly, only Batman for the most part, a new storyline called Endgame just kicked off last issue) and Batman Eternal (weekly, involves the entire Bat-family and the lower-grade rogues, about halfway through its 52-issue run) if you want to stay caught up.
ALSO btw Alfred's niece is running the Batcave and stuff in Gotham and she's like a 007 agent or some type shit. ALSO Lex Luthor is on the Justice League AND knows Bruce is Batman. ALSO Dick Grayson the original Robin/Nightwing is presumed dead but that's just a cover he's a spy for this group called Spyral (so clever) and his series Grayson is actually really fucking awesome. ALSO I think Damian Wayne might be back or something, haven't been keeping up with Batman & Robin but Batman went to Apokolips cause that's where his body was for reasons (???)
Aside from seeing the Squirrel Girl news which is :lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THESE COMICS NOWADAYS!!
Apparently Batman has a new origin or something, Peter was Doc Occ, there is a female thor (not a gender bent version of male thor), Arkham Asylum is now at Wayne Manor, plus some other stuff my mind cannot begin to wrap around ?
:mindblown
what the fuck is goin on?
Any help here :tocry
Spider-Man stuff:spoiler (click to show/hide)In brief, A dying Doctor Octopus mind-swaps with Spider-Man. Spider-Man tries his best to get his body back, but in the end dies and convinces Ock to be a good guy, with great comes responsibility and all that. Ock does do super heroics, but with an arrogant, mad inventor-like twist. He also makes a number of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's friends hate him, gets a PhD, and starts his own company after being somewhat responsible for the lab he worked at being shut down. While this is happening, the Green Goblin returns and builds up an army (literally) underground. Part of Peter Parker is also still inside his original body, and he fights Ock for control, but loses and appears to be "erased". However there's hints that he still exists and at the end of Superior Spider-Man, Ock realizes that he cannot beat the Green Goblin and erases himself from Peter's body, restoring Spider-Man back to normal. Peter sends the Goblin packing but his life is now completely different and Amazing is focusing on the fallout from everything that happened.[close]
During all this, Spider-Man 2099 goes back to the present day and gets trapped there. He's now working at the corporation he fights in the future and keeping tabs on his evil grandfather. He got his own new series recently.
On top of all that, a major retcon was done regarding Spider-Man's origin. He now was not the only one bitten by the radioactive spider. A female classmate was too, but she was locked away to prevent some major bad buy (Morlun, who apparently hunts down "spider avatars" and devours their souls or whatever) from finding her. Spider-Man finds her and now she's a superhero called "Silk." They also have some animal-like attraction between themselves and keep wanting to screw when close to each other.
The event Andrex was talking about, Edge Of Spider-Verse, relates to Morlun and his family. They're going all over the multi-verse killing various versions of Spider-Man. Edge is just the prequel to the Spider-Verse event and features Doc Ock Spidey gathering various Spider-Man characters in attempt to combat Morlun. (This part of it takes place before the end of Superior) It also has one-shot books focusing on various alternate versions of Spider-Man. The one getting all the attention is a Spider-Woman who is actually Gwen Stacy in an alternate universe. Marvel is going to be giving her a series, because Spider-Woman, Arachne, and Silk were not enough, it seems.
i kinda want a little more of the edge of the spider verse.feels odd, yet hilariousspoiler (click to show/hide)seeing amazing friends spidey and crew and unlimited spidey get killed[close]
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between this and multiversity, im excited for the future
then again, i love multiversal crossovers like this. its almost a guarantee to get me to pick up issues. (amalgam 3 when?)
Superior Spiderman was fucking amazing. I don't think I've ever had so much fun reading a comic series. Fuck Peter Parker.
venom is a terrible character and villain
Now that I'm not 10 it's time to face the facts
venom is a terrible character and villain
Now that I'm not 10 it's time to face the facts
I feel like Venom is good when used as a plot device for something else. Kind of like Bane.
I feel like Venom is good when used as a plot device for something else. Kind of like Bane.
bane is actually a good well rounded character. was anyway, i dont know what their doing with him since the reboot
I read the two issue DC arc that came out recently where Wonder Woman goes into Gotham and cleans shit up.
Felt like the biggest missed opportunity ever. Shit could have been incredible, but they wrap everything up in like 3 panels at the end.
venom is a terrible character and villain
Now that I'm not 10 it's time to face the facts
then someone felt the need to off him and ruin eddie brocks progression.
Read Invincible Iron Man: Extremis 6-party by Warren Ellis. Was fine. Nice art, not a lot of dialogue, popcorn story & action. Since there's only like 6 other issues in the series and if they're anything like the first 6 and take 5 mins to read each, I'll just finish this run of Iron Man out.
Going to read the rest of Remender's Uncanny X-Force and the connected Age of Apocalypse and Wolverine and the X-men soonish, but taking a break from all this X-stuff.
Starting up Planet Hulk now because I'm sick of reading good comics and with everyone talking about Civil War I want to blast through the last decade of big dumb MARVEL EVENTS so I can stop getting accidentally spoiled all the time. I want to do it chronologically so planning on reading this over the next couple of months:
Planet Hulk
Avengers Disassembled
Cosmic Marvel (which I get is pretty separate and takes place all throughout the 2004-2011 arcs, but just gonna read it all when it starts)
House of M
Civil War
World War Hulk
Secret Invasion -> Dark Reign
Age of X
Avengers vs X-men
Axis
Avengers/New Avengers -> prep for next year's Secret War
When I get burnt out on that stuff I'll read some more short arcs of good comics. There's some stuff I want to get to, like reading all 700 issues of Amazing Spiderman and starting Superior Spiderman, reading the Bendis good Daredevil stuff that's extremely wordy, Deadpool, Avengers Academy -> Avengers Arena, reading the good Fantastic Four arcs, Black Panther arcs, waiting on Hawkeye 2012 to finish and reading it straight through since the team's Immortal Iron Fist was super fantastic.
Pretty happy with the Marvel Unlimited year sub for $60, getting a looooot milage out of this and now I'm starting to understand what's going on in comic world on the Marvel side, which should make me more interested in the Marvel movies/tv shows as well.
Btw, what's Earth 616?
616 = "real" continuity
http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/case-closed-on-the-end-of-she-hulk/
Now that Shulkie is a Disney Princess, I don’t know why Marvel doesn’t put more energy into keeping a viable, beloved title more int he public eye! :maf
Damian's back and he has superpowers, fuck everything.
http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/case-closed-on-the-end-of-she-hulk/
Now that Shulkie is a Disney Princess, I don’t know why Marvel doesn’t put more energy into keeping a viable, beloved title more int he public eye! :maf
Can't say I'm not surprised. She-Hulk books never seem to last. I would have read this book but the artwork turned me right off.
Christ, that does looks bad. I would still take that over Greg Land's garbage though. Don't know how that dude keeps getting work.
Damian's back and he has superpowers, fuck everything.
What's Damien's powers?
Would be hilarious if it turned out Superman was his father
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/27/rumor-batman-robin-director-joel-schumacher-to-finish-his-batman-trilogy-in-a-comic-book
:rofl
:lol
There is no burn like a Phoenix burn.
Does anyone even give a shit about any comic characters death? The always come back.
So Jean is gonna come back and resurrect him now, right? Just to stick it to Scott.
Phoenix Force invades Wolvie.
Phoenix Force invades Wolvie.
LOL, been done already.
:dead
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I feel like the Ultimate universe has "ended" five or six times by now.
Superior Iron Manspoiler (click to show/hide)Asshole Tony Stark giving people a taste of physical and mental perfection via a smartphone app only to take it away as part of a limited trial to renew for $99.99?[close]
Sign me up :heh
Superior Iron Manspoiler (click to show/hide)Asshole Tony Stark giving people a taste of physical and mental perfection via a smartphone app only to take it away as part of a limited trial to renew for $99.99?[close]
Sign me up :heh
It's too bad they couldn't call the book "Asshole Iron Man." :lol
This and All-New Captain America came out this week. I don't like how Marvel handled the backstories for these new books. The Captain America stuff with what happened to Steve Rogers is a complicated mess, as is the new Nomad, and Tony Stark staying as a 'villain' from what happened in Axis is weird...since that storyline isn't over yet and in fact has really just started.
:dizzy
I'm finally all caught up on Uncanny Avengers, which is where Axis started.spoiler (click to show/hide)Basically the event centers around the revived-Nazi-era-Red Skull-who-stole-Prof. X's brain-and-now-has-his-powers getting killed by Magneto after it is discovered that the Skull has created camps in Genosha to herd (and presumably kill) mutants into. This reminds Magneto of WWII and he loses it, only after the Skull is killed, he is revived as Onslaught. Red Onslaught uses his mental powers to fuck with the entire world, making good people bad, but something sort of fucks up and bad people suddenly turn good.[close]
While the story has been pretty stupid, I like the hero/villain reversal that has been going on. Could make for some interesting stories as Superior Iron Man is showing.
Superior Iron Manspoiler (click to show/hide)Asshole Tony Stark giving people a taste of physical and mental perfection via a smartphone app only to take it away as part of a limited trial to renew for $99.99?[close]
Sign me up :heh
It's too bad they couldn't call the book "Asshole Iron Man." :lol
This and All-New Captain America came out this week. I don't like how Marvel handled the backstories for these new books. The Captain America stuff with what happened to Steve Rogers is a complicated mess, as is the new Nomad, and Tony Stark staying as a 'villain' from what happened in Axis is weird...since that storyline isn't over yet and in fact has really just started.
:dizzy
I'm finally all caught up on Uncanny Avengers, which is where Axis started.spoiler (click to show/hide)Basically the event centers around the revived-Nazi-era-Red Skull-who-stole-Prof. X's brain-and-now-has-his-powers getting killed by Magneto after it is discovered that the Skull has created camps in Genosha to herd (and presumably kill) mutants into. This reminds Magneto of WWII and he loses it, only after the Skull is killed, he is revived as Onslaught. Red Onslaught uses his mental powers to fuck with the entire world, making good people bad, but something sort of fucks up and bad people suddenly turn good.[close]
While the story has been pretty stupid, I like the hero/villain reversal that has been going on. Could make for some interesting stories as Superior Iron Man is showing.
Who else has gotten polarities reversed? I've only heard aboutspoiler (click to show/hide)Iron Man being a capitalistic dick, and Carnage becoming a murderous anti-hero (kind of like a psychotic Punisher?)[close]
It's too bad they couldn't call the book "Asshole Iron Man." :lol
This and All-New Captain America came out this week. I don't like how Marvel handled the backstories for these new books. The Captain America stuff with what happened to Steve Rogers is a complicated mess, as is the new Nomad, and Tony Stark staying as a 'villain' from what happened in Axis is weird...since that storyline isn't over yet and in fact has really just started.
:dizzy
I'm finally all caught up on Uncanny Avengers, which is where Axis started.spoiler (click to show/hide)Basically the event centers around the revived-Nazi-era-Red Skull-who-stole-Prof. X's brain-and-now-has-his-powers getting killed by Magneto after it is discovered that the Skull has created camps in Genosha to herd (and presumably kill) mutants into. This reminds Magneto of WWII and he loses it, only after the Skull is killed, he is revived as Onslaught. Red Onslaught uses his mental powers to fuck with the entire world, making good people bad, but something sort of fucks up and bad people suddenly turn good.[close]
While the story has been pretty stupid, I like the hero/villain reversal that has been going on. Could make for some interesting stories as Superior Iron Man is showing.
The problem is that we don't entirely know. :lol Carnage and Hobgoblin have books about being "good guys" (debatable in Carnage's case!) and then you have dickhead Iron Man and Falcon Captain America somewhat affected. But their solo books are ahead of the Axis mini series. #4 does show that a number of Avengers are affected, notably Thor, and most of the X-Men, too. The Hulk has also gotten sad, which turned him into...Kulh.
:dead
The two superheroes unaffected by all this are Spider-Man and Nova. In the X-Men's case, Axis #4 hasspoiler (click to show/hide)the Uncanny Avengers breaking up and Havok and crew going back to the X-Men, who join with Cyclops and co. to stand side by side with Genesis, who now looks like an adult Apocalypse. The only one who seems to be opposed is Magneto.[close]
the new cap variant is awful and offensive
the new cap variant is awful and offensive
the new cap variant is awful and offensive
marvels doing a bang up job at making cap falcon look ineffective as steves successor. this axis event has him getting shit on pretty damn hard.
the new cap variant is awful and offensive
marvels doing a bang up job at making cap falcon look ineffective as steves successor. this axis event has him getting shit on pretty damn hard.
I give his run 10-12 issues before Steve returns but not before Sam is vilified for this Axis fuckery after being on the job for a grand total 5 minutes
tony starks default form is douchebag though. it was kind of a mistake to turn falcon into cap around this time, hes being made to look like a real idiot.
im curious why spidey, nova, and those with rogers dont seem to be flipped. was it a close point thing? because i dont see why so many mutants would be going through with evans bs if not flipped
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Good: DC's "band aid" project for their spring move from NY to LA, Convergence, goes back to the beloved re-New 52 versions of characters with some of the original great teams that wrote them.
Bad: It's being run and plotted by the infamous hack Scott Lobdell, who ruined Teen Titans so bad they had to reboot it AGAIN after his New 52 run ended as a colossal failure. (Seriously, it went back to #1 again. For the second time in three years.)
How so? He comes off as pretty confident/strong in Axis and Mighty Avengers #1. I haven't read All-New Cap yet though.
How so? He comes off as pretty confident/strong in Axis and Mighty Avengers #1. I haven't read All-New Cap yet though.
axis was the wrong time to make him captain america. if they had given some breathing room prior to, to do things he wouldnt look so ineffective as leader of the avengers.
Good: DC's "band aid" project for their spring move from NY to LA, Convergence, goes back to the beloved re-New 52 versions of characters with some of the original great teams that wrote them.
Bad: It's being run and plotted by the infamous hack Scott Lobdell, who ruined Teen Titans so bad they had to reboot it AGAIN after his New 52 run ended as a colossal failure. (Seriously, it went back to #1 again. For the second time in three years.)
Uh-oh. :-\
well he's the falcon so he's going to look pretty ineffective doing anything :hitler
I liked Falcon in The Winter Soldier. You guys are saying the comic version of him sucks?
I'm reading Ultimatum for shits and giggles, and lordy lordy lord.
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At least it has Boss Cyke.
Wait, is that Magneto getting his head blown off by Cyclops? Fucking Magneto? Killed by Cyclops? Say it ain't so.
I'm reading Ultimatum for shits and giggles, and lordy lordy lord.
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At least it has Boss Cyke.
i could have saved you the time and told you it was garbage dude
You should read the Age of X mini-event. It's one of my favourite recent X-Men events.
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Beps: do you have the problem of certain comics not loading many times in a row? No joke, last night I was going through some Avengers stuff, and multiple comics in a row failed to load like 9 times in a row. Then I'd get them on the 10th try.
I wanna get into Miles Spidey, has his Ultimate stuff been good? Gonna check out his new series when that hits next month.
I wanna get into Miles Spidey, has his Ultimate stuff been good? Gonna check out his new series when that hits next month.
So now I'm ready to move on to non-Mutant Marvel, but a part of me feels like there's so much X-men that I've missed out on. Jumping from Morrison -> Whedon -> 6 years later Uncanny X-Force & Wolverine & the X-men, I feel like I've only been reading half the story since I've just been seeing Wolverine & crews side and there's this whole other Cyclops/Utopia side I haven't read anything from. Hell I don't even know why Wolverine hates Cyclops' guts in Wolverine & the X-men or what caused the split between the two schools. I know people say Uncanny X-men/X-men is pretty terrible post 2004, and that's a looot of issues between 2004-2014, but kind of feel compelled to see the whole story and what happened to Cyclops.
If I ever run out of completed stuff, maybe I'll do that Amazing Spiderman run. Really want to check out Spiderman comics, but there's just so much >_<
I wanna get into Miles Spidey, has his Ultimate stuff been good? Gonna check out his new series when that hits next month.
Personally, it took miles a while for him to stand out for me. His cast
and the people he interacts with really help him as a character. With recent events however, i say theres a chance he could really grow into something.
I wanna get into Miles Spidey, has his Ultimate stuff been good? Gonna check out his new series when that hits next month.
It's Bendis, so expect tons and tons of dialogue and an extremely slow pace, but it's a good read. Only Ultimate line comic worth a damn. The original series ended with the Ultimate Cataclysm event, but then picked up right where it left off with Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man and Miles is also in the new Ultimates book, which is a spin-off from USM since most of the team are his buddies. I got bored with it pretty quickly though, then the art went to shit. :-\
Also I think Miles has the coolest Spidey outfit possibly of all time. It looks soooooo cool.
Symbiote costume looked too much like a gimpsuit the way they drew it. But it's OK.
Symbiote costume looked too much like a gimpsuit the way they drew it. But it's OK.
:what
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Gail's return to Secret Six was....weird to say the least.
I'll give it 3-4 more issues or however long this arc will last.
Gail's return to Secret Six was....weird to say the least.
I'll give it 3-4 more issues or however long this arc will last.
Is that out today? Who's even on the current roster now?
Gail's return to Secret Six was....weird to say the least.
I'll give it 3-4 more issues or however long this arc will last.
Is that out today? Who's even on the current roster now?
No "real" roster yet but Catman, Ventriloquist, and Black Alice showed up
Also I think Miles has the coolest Spidey outfit possibly of all time. It looks soooooo cool.
2099, breh.
Beps: do you have the problem of certain comics not loading many times in a row? No joke, last night I was going through some Avengers stuff, and multiple comics in a row failed to load like 9 times in a row. Then I'd get them on the 10th try.
What device are you viewing them on? Seems to make a big difference. I've found a few issues (maybe like 3 out of 100) where pages were missing on the iOS version but were there on the web version.
Windows 7 PC, Chrome as the browser. I tried Firefox, but got the same problem.
Btw guys just holy fucking FUCKING FUCKING SHIT
GRAYSON IS GODDAMN GOOD
It's so good that even my standard Andrex™ hyperbole isn't sufficient to describe it. It's literally as good as a comic can be, especially the Future's End issue and the latest one (#5.)
THE ART IS SO GOOD TOO
But the writing, my fucking god. GOD
GOOOOOOOD
THIS IS SO GOOD
Symbiote costume looked too much like a gimpsuit the way they drew it. But it's OK.
:what
(http://www.chasingamazingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ASM-252-02.jpg)
Literally a gimpsuit.
If that's a "gimpsuit," then so is Miles' costume, being that it's also mostly black.
:what
Btw guys just holy fucking FUCKING FUCKING SHIT
GRAYSON IS GODDAMN GOOD
It's so good that even my standard Andrex™ hyperbole isn't sufficient to describe it. It's literally as good as a comic can be, especially the Future's End issue and the latest one (#5.)
THE ART IS SO GOOD TOO
But the writing, my fucking god. GOD
GOOOOOOOD
THIS IS SO GOOD
a few months ago i was reading 0 DC comics because they're mostly garbageNuMetalNu52 grim n gritty w/ the horrid house style art
now i'm reading Arkham Manor, Grayson, Gotham Academy, Multiversity and Secret Six (I miss this Gail Simone)
Grayson is that good.
If that's a "gimpsuit," then so is Miles' costume, being that it's also mostly black.
:what
I dunno. Miles suit looks like cloth, the symbiote suit looks like cheap pleather or something. Too shiny.
The Spider-man 3 version is far superior IMO. Uses the same idea of a black suit but actually makes it look cool. The comics version is too basic.
oh yeah, forgot i'm reading that too
she's not really a hipster so much as "young"
she reminds me more of NYU students i see instead of actual scene kids
:larry :goty2 :mindblown :gurl :comeon :beli :trash :shaq2 :flabbypd :hitler :brazilcry :what
Btw guys just holy fucking FUCKING FUCKING SHIT
GRAYSON IS GODDAMN GOOD
It's so good that even my standard Andrex™ hyperbole isn't sufficient to describe it. It's literally as good as a comic can be, especially the Future's End issue and the latest one (#5.)
THE ART IS SO GOOD TOO
But the writing, my fucking god. GOD
GOOOOOOOD
THIS IS SO GOOD
a few months ago i was reading 0 DC comics because they're mostly garbageNuMetalNu52 grim n gritty w/ the horrid house style art
now i'm reading Arkham Manor, Grayson, Gotham Academy, Multiversity and Secret Six (I miss this Gail Simone)
Grayson is that good.
It really is. Multiversity sounds amazing too, I'd pick it up if I didn't have so many comics I'm trying (and failing) to keep up with.
Hipster Batgirl also looked great.
Say what you want about SM3 the movie, but they nailed the suit and improved on it.
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:mouf
They tried copying the comic but it came out straight trash... Just like the comic. :hitler
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Good lord that Ultimatum page wtf
edgy as fuck
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/todays-axis-7-will-retcon-scarlet-witch-quicksilver-forever-spoilers-obviously/
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really marvel
Marvel should just retcon Wolverine into being an Inhuman, lol. :neogaf
I don't think anyone would accept a non-Jackman Wolverine (at least, while Jackman Wolverine is still around.) Also FOX would probably go nuclear over it.
Wolverine's first appearance was in The Incredible Hulk, tho. :hitler
Marvel should just retcon Wolverine into being an Inhuman, lol. :neogaf
I posted a little while back that I wouldn't be surprised if they bring him back this way, then proceed to use this as legal means to bring him into their movies. :lol
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/todays-axis-7-will-retcon-scarlet-witch-quicksilver-forever-spoilers-obviously/
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really marvel
Wolverine's first appearance was in The Incredible Hulk, tho. :hitler
And TMNT were in Daredevil, so? :hitler
Alright, so I got past Infinity; I'm getting kind of deep into New Avengers (issue 17), and now there's an editor's note telling me I need to read the regular Avengers series #28 before this one. But I haven't read Avengers since like #18 or so (and I read those for the purpose of keeping up to date with Infinity). So Avengers Issue 28 makes no sense.
Why can't these series just be their own things? Bouncing back and forth is annoying as fuck. At the very least the series could just be unified. Why have Avengers and New Avengers if they're going to constantly tie in together? Shit is fucking whack. Just do one Avengers series. They're both written by Jonathan Hickman, so the split doesn't even make sense from a creative standpoint. I get to a point in one series where the plot is starting to pick up, and I suddenly get informed that I need to be reading another series to make full sense of it. Fuck this shit.
I feel the same. I've never followed or really cared about the Avengers, but decided to read it because of Hickman. I downloaded all of it to what was up to date as of I guess October. Read that shit quickly. I could just not put it down. Made me interested in the Marvel universe beyond the X-men. It's just so good. I've gone back and bought all of the issues(save a few) of New and Regular Avengers. Just really good stuff.
Late 80s X-men is so good!
Vertigo is launching a new anthology miniseries called "Strange Sports Stories," which will include work from former WWE Champion CM Punk, Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Gilbert Hernandez, Nick Dragotta and more.
I could never get into the Earth 2 stuff. It seems like it could be a fun universe with what-if stuff, maybe like Ultimate in concept, but DC has none of the commitment necessary to keep the continuity in check like Marvel does with Ultimate. The entire universe can be (and has been) wiped out at a moments notice and then rebooted later on.
I just bought all the issues in The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (https://www.comixology.com/Batman-The-Resurrection-of-Ras-al-Ghul/comics-story-arc/225) today, got super nostalgic for pre-New 52 stuff all of a sudden. And man... I miss this Tim Drake. :(
Yeah, there's only one Darkseid. Reading up on it, seems like he steamrolled Earth-2 before moving onto Earth-0?
Also, Superboy is coming back in March's Teen Titans. Hopefully they undo some of the asinine things Lobdell pulled with him. I want my Red Robin/Superboy bromance damnit!
they really built a head of steam with ras and red robin, and then just tossed it in the trash for nu52.
Sort of. Earth 2 #1 starts off as the aftermath of a huge war with Darkseid's forces. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are dead as are a lot of other super heroes. Darkseid still has some forces on earth and new heroes/villains get established, then Darkseid and co. start heading back to Earth again to finish the job, which is where the series is now.
I wonder if it will be the 'original' clone or a new one...
Sort of. Earth 2 #1 starts off as the aftermath of a huge war with Darkseid's forces. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are dead as are a lot of other super heroes. Darkseid still has some forces on earth and new heroes/villains get established, then Darkseid and co. start heading back to Earth again to finish the job, which is where the series is now.
It's a cool premise, though a little dark for what Earth-2 usually is. At least it'll have its own identity without the big three (though you said they brought Supes back...)
That's how it started and was one of the big reasons why I really liked it, but things have kind of been changing lately.
Will spoiler-tag this in case anyone cares:spoiler (click to show/hide)Trying to keep this brief, basically all three die saving the world. Forgot what happened to Supes, Wonder Woman gets stabbed, and Batman blows himself up after detonating a bomb (he has to be the one to trigger it) that stops something from happening. Can't remember what that is...maybe it was boom tubes. Early stories about Superman and Batman are now in World's Finest, but that book is being canned as you mentioned already.
With all this going on, Supergirl and Robin (Batman and Catwoman's daughter) end up in a boom tube that takes them to the New 52 Earth, and their story continues in World's Finest, with them taking the identities of Power Girl and Huntress. The two eventually meet up with Robin (Damien), Supergirl, and Superman and Batman before finally finding a way to get back to Earth 2.
Wonder Woman has not come back, but her daughter, Fury, is around and initially was on Darkseid's side, but switched after a bunch of shit happened, mainly with her master, Steppenwolf, getting killed pretty violently by...[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Superman has come back twice now. The first time, he was a bad guy and pretty much spent a number of months just kicking the absolute shit out of all the superheroes and ruling the world. He was finally killed and then the good guys found out he was some kind of fake. The supposed real Superman was then found deep inside a hidden lab filled with Superman clones. He may be powerless now.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)There is another Superman. This is a black Kryptonian was kept hidden and freed by the other superheroes. He was initially a pacifist but finally started fighting and is in a relationship with Powergirl, cuz why not?[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Another Batman showed up and was revealed to be Thomas Wayne, who takes some drug that gives him enhanced strength so he can keep up in his old age. He's addicted to the drug.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)With the original Superman found, they hint that someone has the power to resurrect dead heroes, so it's possible Batman and Wonder Woman will show up again.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Lois Lane died, but was resurrected inside an android body and is the Red Tornado.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Dick Grayson is married to Barbara Gordon. Dick is an average joe and Barbara is a cop. Barbara just got killed off in a recent issue.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)John Constantine is now on Earth 2 (why I don't know, it's from his own series which I still need to read) and looking for a way back. When some big tidal wave is coming and people get on a train to escape, Dick gives John his kid and stays with Barbara's corpse because I have no idea why.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Mr. Terrific, from the New 52, is also on Earth 2 for whatever reason. We know he makes it back to the original Earth because of the Future's End biweekly book. In fact, if that's canon and not something that they end up making irrelevant (the future gets changed, blah blah blah), all the Earth 2 people end up on the original Earth as refugees from the Darkseid war.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)The other notable heroes are Green Lantern (Alan Scott- who is now gay, but that is pretty much meaningless since his boyfriend got killed immediately and there's no other mention of his sexuality until his boyfriend comes back as an Earth elemental and holy shit this is getting complicated),[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)The Flash (Jay Garrick), Hawkgirl, and Dr. Fate, but despite playing a big role previously, over the past year or so the focus has shifted to Earth 2 Batman, Superman, Red Tornado, and crew, although it is an ensemble book.
The last issue of Earth 2 also saw Huntress get turned into one of Darkseid's furies.[close]
I just bought all the issues in The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (https://www.comixology.com/Batman-The-Resurrection-of-Ras-al-Ghul/comics-story-arc/225) today, got super nostalgic for pre-New 52 stuff all of a sudden. And man... I miss this Tim Drake. :(
Getting a bit towards convoluted territory... Though a de-powered Supes reminds me of Flashpoint.
...Steel?
Owlman? This also sounds like a Flashpoint thing.
:mindblown OK this is straight up Looney Tunes shit.
Sounds like it's gotten completely away from its initial appeal. :lol
I just bought all the issues in The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (https://www.comixology.com/Batman-The-Resurrection-of-Ras-al-Ghul/comics-story-arc/225) today, got super nostalgic for pre-New 52 stuff all of a sudden. And man... I miss this Tim Drake. :(
I really liked the period of DC comics from Infinite Crisis - Flashpoint. I read a ton of stuff during that time, bought a ton of trades too.
Nah, Steel is not a Kryptonian. This guy is literally black Superman, powers-wise. I suspect they will keep OG Supes powerless and have black Supes take his place.
Nope.spoiler (click to show/hide)Actually Thomas Wayne as Batman was done in Flashpoint, yeah, but this version acts differently-- the Flashpoint version was the only Batman. This version is Batman #2, after his son was Batman for years.[close]
Owlman is on New 52 Earth, BTW. :) He's one of the Earth 3 villains still around.
I will give it to them on this one because Lois' father is an army general and did this to save her. His New 52 counterpart did the same thing to create Metallo.
It's a LOT different than when it started, yeah, but it's still a fun read.
In the rebooted continuity of The New 52, John Henry Irons first appears in Grant Morrison's Action Comics as a young scientist working on the government's "Steel Soldier" program. He retaliates after seeing the mistreatment of Superman by Lex Luthor (who was under the command of General Sam Lane to torture him). Irons immediately quits. When John Corben goes on a rampage after donning the government's "Metal 0" suit, John Henry aids Superman in fighting him off by using his own prototype armor for the first time, uploading a virus into the Metal 0 suit that he designed specifically to shut it down in the event of the user going rogue.
It's technically not the same Owlman though, right? I mean if we're talking about the same dude from the end of Night of the Owls.
So basically Cyborg's new origin story?
:o
I need to get to reading that already!
So re: Death Of Wolverine. Remember the mini series about the Weapon X program people? One of them took off the gas mask he was wearing in an earlier issue and had Logan's face, plus old memories. So was he a clone? Did Wolverine's mind merge with him?Issue #4 got really, really fucked up in regards to the rest of the characters, too. The last issue is next month and I don't think it's gonna end well for this crew.spoiler (click to show/hide)The answer is none of that! They were just fucking with us-- it's Wolverine's old master/foe Ogun, transferring his consciousness into the poor guy and taking over his mind.[close]
Spider-Woman is getting a new costume. It's being used in a cartoon (or game?) first, then will be introduced into the comics next year.
(http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/0/0/1/Spiderwomanprofile-dc8a4.jpg)
I don't really like it. It's not too terribly bad, but for recent awesome-looking female Spider character costumes, Silk and Spider-Gwen do it better. This costume reminds too much of Wonder Woman's redesign from right before the old DC universe ended and just doesn't fit the character, IMO. If anything, I'd just take the original costume and make it look like a Shield uniform with a mask or something. This new costume also seems like a rejected female version of Hawkeye's current duds.
If you think the above image looks OK, fine. Now let's see it when drawn by someone else.
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All-Star Superman
American Vampire Vol. 1
Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls
Batman: Earth One
Batman: Hush
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: Year One
Extremely Moronic MAD
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Final Crisis
Green Lantern: Rebirth
Identity Crisis
JLA Vol. 1
Joker
Justice League Vol. 1: Origin
Kingdom Come
MAD About Superheroes
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book One
Spy vs. Spy – The Top Secret Files
Superman: Earth One Vol. 1
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
V For Vendetta
Watchmen
Wonder Woman Vol. 1: BLood
Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned
I just bought all the issues in The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (https://www.comixology.com/Batman-The-Resurrection-of-Ras-al-Ghul/comics-story-arc/225) today, got super nostalgic for pre-New 52 stuff all of a sudden. And man... I miss this Tim Drake. :(
they really built a head of steam with ras and red robin, and then just tossed it in the trash for nu52.
Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis
It's even worse when you remember that they had just done Formerly Known as Justice League and that I Can't Believe It's Not Justice League was supposed to run at the same time (although they did delay until the next year). So on one hand, you got Ralph and Sue Digby getting up to hijinks with Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, and then on the other hand, you've got whatever the fuck was going on in Identity Crisis. Oh and then Blue Beetle gets killed too (by Maxwell Lord), and not even in the Infinite Crisis proper, but in the Prelude to Infinite Crisis. :lol At least Booster Gold came out of it alive and got his own series.
Started on New 52 Batman. Well, that's not quite true since I read all of the Court Of Owls/Night Of Owls stuff when it was coming out. Not going to be reading stuff in order and may not read everything. I started with The Dark Knight, which I believe was canceled earlier this year (?). Read the first arc with art from David Finch. The storyline felt like it was trying hard to be like Hush, but failed miserably at it. You even had Clayface pretending to be someone else again. ::) This storyline introduced new...uh...villain? The White Rabbit, AKA David Finch wants to show you a girl in a playboy bunny costume's ass at every chance possible. She literally just runs around and is just...there with the other bad guys actually doing stuff. This character's "secret identity" could have made her interesting, but as far as I can tell, the character was pretty much forgotten about and just showed up in a panel or two in Forever Evil. So, spoiler- The White Rabbit is actually rich socialite Jaina Hudson, who can split herself into two people. Bruce Wayne is dating Jaina during this storyline, but as soon as its over, he's fucking some piano player in the next issue, with no explanation given. LOLWUT I don't know if I can stand the rest of this series.
Washed that bad taste out of my mouth by starting Zero Year. :bow ZERO. FUCKING. YEAR. :bow2 This is just too good. Snyder and Capullo are amazing. I don't want this storyline to end.
I don't want this storyline to end.
The OMAC Project
Decent concept, execution, and art. I'd give it a 3 / 5 but there's not much here to go back to. I'd call it a nice, concise, self-contained story, but right in the middle there's four tie-in issues (Superman (1939) #219, Action Comics (1938) #829, Adventures of Superman (1986) #642, and Wonder Woman (1987) #219) that become required-reading, and those issues are where most of the catalysts come from - namely Superman getting mind-controlled and beating Bruce almost to death, and Wonder Woman infamously snapping Maxwell Lord's neck in order to free him.
Not a total waste of time and I was glad to have further context for Infinite Crisis, but probably not something I'll ever reread.
2 / 5
The OMAC Project
Decent concept, execution, and art. I'd give it a 3 / 5 but there's not much here to go back to. I'd call it a nice, concise, self-contained story, but right in the middle there's four tie-in issues (Superman (1939) #219, Action Comics (1938) #829, Adventures of Superman (1986) #642, and Wonder Woman (1987) #219) that become required-reading, and those issues are where most of the catalysts come from - namely Superman getting mind-controlled and beating Bruce almost to death, and Wonder Woman infamously snapping Maxwell Lord's neck in order to free him.
Not a total waste of time and I was glad to have further context for Infinite Crisis, but probably not something I'll ever reread.
2 / 5
They released a trade of those four issues, Superman: Sacrifice. Villains United was really the only good Infinite Crisis tie-in though. :bow Secret Six :bow2
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
That's a pretty big statement considering Scott Lobdell, Mark Millar, and Jeph Loeb.
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
we might get a good sabretooth out of it, so it isnt all bad.
Forgot to mention that Uncanny Avengers is also restarting as a result of Axis. New team members.AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
I think the biggest problem with this event is that it was rushed. A storyline with heroes and villains allegiances being reversed should have been a huge, long event. This should have been six months to a year long, to better flesh out the changed up characters.AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
we might get a good sabretooth out of it, so it isnt all bad.
We've already had good Sabertooth-- The AoA/Exiles version. And we already have a good Wolverine in X-23. Not to mention a bad Wolverine in Daken.
Is he fired off Teen Titans yet? :hyper :hyper :hyper
and aoa sabretooth is who knows where with all the other exiles characters that i want back in the 616.
i dont give 2 shits about x-23. daken is cool if hes back to his usual trolling ways, and not this "remorse for a man you wanted dead" shit
and aoa sabretooth is who knows where with all the other exiles characters that i want back in the 616.
There was an AoA series a few years back that dealt with Wolverine becoming the new Apocalypse and the human resistance that opposed him. Jean Grey and Sabertooth joined them, but were depowered by the humans (because they're idiots) and then Sabertooth died at the end, IIRC.
Quotei dont give 2 shits about x-23. daken is cool if hes back to his usual trolling ways, and not this "remorse for a man you wanted dead" shit
X-23 is fine. They're doing a good job with the character in All-New X-Men. Daken was resurrected as a bad guy in Uncanny Avengers...seems to be back to being evil smug asshole Daken again now.
Oh shit, LOBDELL KICKED OFF OF CONVERGENCE (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/01/continuums-jeff-king-to-write-dcs-convergence-weekly-comic-usa-today-to-announce/) :o
What a great day! :rejoice
i wonder what they plan on doing with earth prime in convergence
Nightwing/Oracle
Writer: Gail Simone; Artist: Jan Duursema and Dan Parsons
Shazam
Writer: Jeff Parker; Artist: Evan "Doc" Shaner; Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Swamp Thing
Writer: Len Wein; Artist: Kelley Jones; Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Batgirl
Writer: Alisa Kwitney; Artist: Rick Leonardi and Mark Pennington
When the New 52 hit, Stephanie Brown's fans immediately wondered when and where their hero would appear in the now-canon DCU. Brown recently returned as The Spoiler in the pages of "The New 52: Futures End," but there remains a strong and vocal fanbase of the pre-"Flashpoint" Batgirl version. Well, this "Convergence" tie-in marks the return of Bat-Stephanie along with another Batgirl fans haven't seen in awhile, Cassandra Cain. Cain will be in her guise as the Black Bat, but it will be very cool to see these cult favorite Batgirls return to action. Add in the return of the pre-New 52 Tim Drake, and it all adds up to a book that should have Bat fans very excited.
CONVERGENCE BOOKS AND CREATIVE TEAMS ANNOUNCED (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=58068)
When the New 52 hit, Stephanie Brown's fans immediately wondered when and where their hero would appear in the now-canon DCU. Brown recently returned as The Spoiler in the pages of "The New 52: Futures End," but there remains a strong and vocal fanbase of the pre-"Flashpoint" Batgirl version. Well, this "Convergence" tie-in marks the return of Bat-Stephanie along with another Batgirl fans haven't seen in awhile, Cassandra Cain. Cain will be in her guise as the Black Bat, but it will be very cool to see these cult favorite Batgirls return to action. Add in the return of the pre-New 52 Tim Drake, and it all adds up to a book that should have Bat fans very excited.
AXIS was ass. Rick Remender is the biggest hack in comics right now.
now watch as they completely shit on tim and cassie. good lord i hope they dont
Shazam
Writer: Jeff Parker
not Geoff Johns
yeah great job DC
First, the book's entire creative team has just been killing it on Dynamite Comics' "Flash Gordon."
Did you just say the art on Shazam was ok? Fucking Gary Frank "ok"? That's :trash tier talk
Holy shit Cassandra Cain is coming back??? God is real.
just a reminder to never purchase Image comics at full price
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just a reminder to never purchase Image comics at full price
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Anything good in there?
Spider-Verse resumed this week. More Spider-Totem-Hunters-Killing-Spidery-Mans continues, more Spider-peoples running away and shit. Amazing Spider-Man #12 was hyped up to have a huge, megaton reveal, but it kind of fell flat to me.
Summary:spoiler (click to show/hide)During this event, the various Spider-Men were taking refuge in a universe protected by the Spider-Man fused the power of Captain Universe. The head of Morlun's family pops up and kills him easily, leaving them with no safe places to go. However, Silk teleported to a version of Earth that was an apocalyptic wasteland and the hunters chasing her were scared to go there. The place is highly irradiated and the Spider-Men can withstand the radiation, but others can't. She finds a safe place to go -the hidden 'vault' that she was locked in on 616 Earth is here in this world, and it's Spider-Man is still there.[close]
The reveal:spoiler (click to show/hide)It's Uncle Ben.
(http://www.newsarama.com/images/i/000/141/367/original/ASM_12_Uncle_Ben_Reveal.jpg?1420644737)[close]
But since it's just an alternate version of the character, I don't see what the big deal is. Maybe it will lead to something though.
Also, Spider-Horse and the talking Spider-Car!
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/Manmademan/speedbuggy_zps7dd341b2.png)
http://marvel.com/news/comics/23916/japanese_spiderman_rocks_spider-verse_returns_to_marvelcom
Marvel is streaming two episodes of the 1970s tokusatsu Spider-Man show. They haven't hosted these for 6 years
This is the only Spider-Man video you need to watch. :smug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hpv13xSzE
If I'm hearing it right, Spider-Man introduces himself as "the warrior from hell" in the first few clips. :lol
HE'S IN RIVERDALE WITH A FEW DAYS TO KILL!
Archie vs. Predator #1 (of 4)
Alex de Campi (W), Fernando Ruiz (P/Cover), Rich Koslowski (I), Jason Millet (C), Eric Powell (Variant cover), and Francesco Francavilla (Variant cover)
On sale Apr 15
FC, 32 pages
$3.99
Miniseries
America's favorite teen meets the galaxy's fiercest hunter! Archie and friends hit Costa Rica for Spring Break, where party games and beach games are soon replaced by the Most Dangerous Game! What mysterious attraction does the gang hold for the trophy-collecting Predator, and will the kids even realize they're in danger before it claims them all?
· The wildest Archie crossover ever (and that's saying something)!
· From Alex de Campi (Grindhouse, My Little Pony)
· Variant covers by Eric Powell (The Goon) and Francesco Francavilla (Afterlife with Archie)!
My only real issues with the Wade run is that nothing permanent seems like it can really happen. They can't kill off a FF member or change The Thing back to human or anything because then they wouldn't be the Fantastic Four. So there are minor changes but they lack real impact because everything will be all fine and back to status quo again in 20 issues. I know that's a big problem with the Marvel Universe in general, but at least with X-men there's like a million mutants/characters so they can do some pretty major changes here and there. The characters and who they are aren't completely locked in stone like Fantastic Four.
Avengers #40 pissed me the fuck off.spoiler (click to show/hide)Namor and the Cabal are the only ones doing what's needed. They'd all be dead if not for those great heroes.[close]
I think the cliffhanger in that issue is just a big tease.spoiler (click to show/hide)Nobody is going to be dead...especially Thanos.[close]
1998 Priest run. Using this page as a basis for all the stuff to catch up on before moving to post-2004 era Marvel. Probably already read about 1/3rd of those.
got around to reading final crisis, my first dc event/story and really enjoyed it especially all the meta superman stuff. any other stories in a similar vein? and how's x-factor?
got around to reading final crisis, my first dc event/story and really enjoyed it especially all the meta superman stuff. any other stories in a similar vein? and how's x-factor?
which era of xfactor? theres 4 distinct series. the first had the original xmen as the lineup, the second had the government run team(one of my favorite lineups ever. havok with the GOAT costume) the third and most popular is the dectective agency run with jamie madrox as the lead character, and the current soon to be ending run that has polaris as the leader of a corporate run super team
Speaking of old X books, I went back and re-read a lot of the Uncanny X-Men books, starting from where I last left off in 2005 (before resuming again in 2009 or 2010) and...couldn't really get through most of it. I skipped the space stuff with Vulcan which led into the storyline of the X-Men going to San Francisco and starting up a haven for all mutants. Most of the stories were pretty boring or bad, and the art -from Greg Land- was vomit-inducing. I did like it when Terry Dodson stepped in instead and also enjoyed the X-Club's antics. Time traveling Beast and friends should have been a series of its own.got around to reading final crisis, my first dc event/story and really enjoyed it especially all the meta superman stuff. any other stories in a similar vein? and how's x-factor?
which era of xfactor? theres 4 distinct series. the first had the original xmen as the lineup, the second had the government run team(one of my favorite lineups ever. havok with the GOAT costume) the third and most popular is the dectective agency run with jamie madrox as the lead character, and the current soon to be ending run that has polaris as the leader of a corporate run super team
I thought Gambit was the leader? But I dunno; I dropped that book quick.
After Brubaker, Fraction took over and his run was a clusterfuck. Really just disastrous. It wasn't until Kieron Gillen took over and the book was relaunched after Schism that it was readable again.
Marvel UK is such garbage. Chris Claremont is obsessed with it. The original X-Calibur was pretty great, but New X-Calibur and everything related to Captain Britain was hilariously bad. Pete Wisdom :lol Faiza Hussein :lol Roma :lol The X-men saving the Queen :lol
Yeah and about that Black Panther/Namor stuffspoiler (click to show/hide)Namor did Wakanda dirty, but honestly, he was possessed by the Phoenix so whatever. I've moved past it and so should everyone else.[close]
Sorry, I just hate Black Panther. :yeshrug
Marvel has promised "the announcement to end all announcements" at today's "Secret Wars" press conference with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort, as more of the May-debuting event series from Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic is slated to be revealed.
Marvel PR's Chris D'Lando started the event, hosted at Midtown Comics in New York City, by recapping the original "Secret Wars" announcement last fall at New York Comic Con. D'Lando asked Alonso and Brevoort how it feels to get to this point, given that Hickman's "Avengers" run has been building to the event since 2012.
"'Secret Wars' is the culmination of the storyline that Jonathan has been telling, beginning with the first issue of 'Avengers' and 'New Avengers' that he wrote," Brevoort said. "Readers have begun to get a sense of the whole picture, and seem to be becoming much more excited about it, which is great. This is something that we've been headed towards literally since the start of Marvel NOW!."
Brevoort related that the idea for "Secret Wars" actually originated before Hickman's "Avengers" run began, before everyone at Marvel saw the potential of what the story could be. "It's a lot bigger now than what was originally imagined," Brevoort said. "I've said it before, it sounds like typical Stan Lee hyperbole, but it is difficult to imagine something that would be larger in scope and scale than what we're doing in 'Secret Wars.' We've never done anything like this before, ever."
"All the divisions are in line," Alonso added. "It's the most coordinated event we've ever done. As everyone knows, we're a shared universe. Every single time we've done an event, we've always had to be mindful of 'Secret Wars.'"
Brevoort recapped the current "Avengers" storyline, "a series of intersections between universes. Situations where two parallel universes intersect at a given point." Such intersections are called "incursions" -- "two Earths go in, one comes out. Or none of them come out."
"Having become aware of this, the Black Panther reformed the Illuminati," Brevoort continued, though the group has not yet figured out how to deal with the problem.
Alonso prepared to drop the "big bomb": "The Ultimate Universe, the Marvel Universe, they're going to slap together. Imagine two pizzas: They're going to combine toppings, some toppings are going to drop off. And that is the Marvel Universe moving forward. It's more than the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, it's all the universes you can imagine. That is the Marvel Universe going forward."
The final issues of "Avengers" and "New Avengers" will build up to this incursion, but "Secret Wars" #1 will contain the main action of this event "The heroes of those two worlds will have eight hours to figure out what to do about it before both universes are destroyed," Brevoort said. "And they won't. I've ruined 'Secret Wars' #1 for you!"
The previously revealed "Battleworld" is the "melting world from which the new Marvel Universe will be fermented," Brevoort said, calling it the "detritus" from the resulted combined Marvel Universe. "Various characters will live their lives, and contend with this new situation, and set up all the building blocks and the bedrock of what the new Marvel Universe will be going forward."
"There will be conflicts and fighting," Alonso added. "Imagine that."
"Once you hit 'Secret Wars' #1, there's no Marvel Universe, there's no Ultimate Universe," Brevoort said. "It's all Battleworld." "None of these stories are What Ifs are alternate reality stories," Alonso said. "And they will have legs. They will impart new things into the Marvel Universe going forward."
All of the previously revealed Battleworld teasers represent parts of the new Marvel Universe, and are described as only the "tip of the iceberg." Several "Secret Wars"-related announcements are planned over the next two weeks.
"If you're an 'Amazing Spider-Man' reader, this is going to be your book," Alonso said, pointing to the teaser of a married Peter Parker and Mary Jane with a child.
The presentation that cut to the previously released "Battleworld" teaser video, showing the series of teaser images combining into the new Battleworld landscape. "We haven't even announced half the titles," D'Lando said of the "Secret Wars" tie-ins. An interactive map of Battleworld will be released later today on Marvel.com.
Talk turns to the "Secret Wars" Free Comic Book Day release. "It's a little bit of a primer," Brevoort said. "You'll get caught up to speed where everything is in the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe going into 'Secret Wars.'" Also, the issue will include the Marvel/Attack on Titan crossover, previously only published in Japan.
The cover to "Secret Wars" #2, illustrated by Alex Ross, is revealed. "There's a whole lot of Thor going on," Brevoort said of the image.
"Secret Wars" #2 will also ship in May. "In sort of an odd twist, the second issue is the fat one. It's a gargantuan, oversized issue. It will give a full guided tour of the new Battleworld, and set up everything you need to know. Esad Ribic just turned in the last pages for it earlier today. Stunningly beautiful work by Esad."
Speaking of the legacy of the story, Alonso said, "This is putting an endcap to decades of stories, and starting a new era. When you see the scope of the stories, you'll see what we're willing to do. If we wanted to resurrect Gwen Stacy, this would be the place to do it, wouldn't it? If you ever wondered what would happen if you take the 'Age of Ultron' universe and perch it next to the 'Marvel Zombies' universe, this would be the place to do it." Alonso said he thinks "Secret Wars" will be a great jumping-on point for new fans.
Hasbro, Mighty Fine, Mad Engine, Funko and Hot Wheels are named as licensors working on "Secret Wars" merchandise. Marvel's game division is also at work on interactive tie-ins.
"We tell our own stories," Alonso said, of the belief that Marvel publishing follows the lead of Marvel Studios. "You'll be shocked at the chances we're willing to take."
The live stream has frozen, but here's a quote from Brevoort via Marvel's Twitter account:
Doesn't look like the stream is starting again, but according to Marvel, the presentation has ended. CBR's Brett White is on-site for the post-event Q&A, and will have a full report soon. Keep reading CBR for much more coverage on "Secret Wars"!
Hope my precious Ultimate X-Men survive. I think I was the only one reading Wood's Ultimate X-Men run and it was really fucking good.
Watch them do the "ultimate" FUCK YOU to Fox and send the Fantastic Four and X-Men off to the Ultimate universe, completely away from the rest of 616 at the end of this.
I have to wonder though...does most of the movie-going population even give a shit about silly comic books? Seems doubtful.
Today's Magneto and All New X-Men were great. Magneto is surprisingly one of the best current Marvel series.
And over in Spider-Verse, things are finally beginning to come to an end.spoiler (click to show/hide)In the Scarlet Spiders mini-series, the three clone Spideys succeed in shutting down the facility that produces clone bodies for the spider-hunters to keep regenerating themselves with. Ben Reilly sacrifices himself to do it, which makes no sense to me since him being dead would fuck up continuity, but I guess we're either A) not supposed to think about this or B) he's actually from some other universe. Probably the latter. Kaine goes nuts and goes to attack the spider-hunters on their own turf, transforming into a giant spider...man. Then Silk goes to the same place to try and rescue Spider-Woman, who has been there undercover. This is what the hunters want, since Kaine (The Other), Silk (The Bride), and baby Ben (The Scion) are all needed in the same place for them to achieve real ultimate power or whatever. So what about OMG UNCLE BEN?!?!. Well this was a big nothing. He's alternate reality Ben who got spider powers and gave up being Spider-Man after his reality's Green Goblin killed May and Peter. He hid in a bunker even when Doctor Octopus was threatening the world, fucked up, and caused a nuclear disaster. It ends up being The Superior Spider-Man who gets in his face and tells him to man up and fight with everyone. Superior also realizes that the 616 Spider-Man with him is in fact Peter Parker from the present time -his future- meaning he now knows he's going to 'lose' and Peter will get his body back.[close]
It feels like Spider-Verse is irrelevant now with Secret Wars, which is like the same thing on a much bigger scale. But Spider-Verse is fun and easy to follow, since it's just happening within the Spider-Man titles.
Multiversity Guidebook :whew
Multiversity Guidebook :whew
Yeah that was cool, I definitely would read books with some of those Earths.
Can't get enough of ms marvel
Spidey is my fave fave, and his books are trash now
Spidey is my fave fave, and his books are trash now
:what
I'm waiting for the spiderverse crap to die off. when are they getting mj and peter back together again? read something about an event coming june 2015?
There's no telling what's going to come out Secret Wars. No face-palming just yet. We could very well see all the shit that's happened since One More Day 'fixed' and Spider-Man back with Mary Jane.
There's no telling what's going to come out Secret Wars. No face-palming just yet. We could very well see all the shit that's happened since One More Day 'fixed' and Spider-Man back with Mary Jane.
Quesada's not in charge anymore and has nothing to do with Spider-Man books AFAIK.
I don't see the multiverse stuff going away. Even DC did that with the New 52 and then hey! Earth 2! Followed by HEY! EARTH 3! And then there's all that Multiversity stuff that Morrison is doing.
I see a future Marvel storyline happening where OH SHIT! ANOTHER EARTH LOLWUT happens within a few years of Secret Wars ending. You just know it. Plus not all the multiverses are going away anyway...The Marvel Cinematic Universe counts lolol.
Some major shit happened in Uncanny X-Men.spoiler (click to show/hide)The current storyline is about a new mutant being discovered named Matthew Maloy (http://marvel.wikia.com/Matthew_Malloy_%28Earth-616%29). Matthew is an omega-level telepath/telekinetic with insane destructive power. But it turns out that he is not "new" at all-- Xavier was aware of him in his youth and used his own power to basically "hide" Matthew and suppress his power. This finally backfired and Matthew started destroying shit. SHIELD wants to take him out but Cyclops and Magik get to him first. Other stuff happens but the big thing here is that SHIELD tries to kill him with missiles and Matthew retaliates...which in the end kills Cyclops and Magik. They're nothing but bones. He then makes his way to the X-Men and ends up killing Emma Frost too. To stop Matthew, younger new mutant Eva Bell goes back in time and brings back...Xavier.[close]
I can see this storyline going in three ways. It's either just self-contained and everyone comes back after it's over. Or this ties into Secret Wars.spoiler (click to show/hide)Or this not only ties into Secret Wars, but the younger Xavier sticks around and ends up becoming the younger also-from-the-last X-Men's teacher...before this is all fixed with Secret Wars.[close]
Some major shit happened in Uncanny X-Men.spoiler (click to show/hide)The current storyline is about a new mutant being discovered named Matthew Maloy (http://marvel.wikia.com/Matthew_Malloy_%28Earth-616%29). Matthew is an omega-level telepath/telekinetic with insane destructive power. But it turns out that he is not "new" at all-- Xavier was aware of him in his youth and used his own power to basically "hide" Matthew and suppress his power. This finally backfired and Matthew started destroying shit. SHIELD wants to take him out but Cyclops and Magik get to him first. Other stuff happens but the big thing here is that SHIELD tries to kill him with missiles and Matthew retaliates...which in the end kills Cyclops and Magik. They're nothing but bones. He then makes his way to the X-Men and ends up killing Emma Frost too. To stop Matthew, younger new mutant Eva Bell goes back in time and brings back...Xavier.[close]
I can see this storyline going in three ways. It's either just self-contained and everyone comes back after it's over. Or this ties into Secret Wars.spoiler (click to show/hide)Or this not only ties into Secret Wars, but the younger Xavier sticks around and ends up becoming the younger also-from-the-last X-Men's teacher...before this is all fixed with Secret Wars.[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)I have no idea why the hell Eva is bringing Professor X back to the future when she could have just jumped back to tell him what to do. My money is on Professor X mind-controlling Matthew into reviving Emma, Cyclops and Magik, but then somehow he gets stuck in the present like the All New X-Men.[close]
What do Vandal Savage, Ra's Al Ghul and the Joker have in common? A lot more than past DC Comics history would have you believe. According to Batman #38, Vandal Savage acquired his immortality from the radiation of a mysterious meteorite that fell to Earth in the prehistoric era. Ra's Al Ghul apparently bathes in a "corrupted version" of the chemical/radiation. And the Joker, as told in Snyder's Batman #38 also encountered the meteorite before Gotham was ever born. That's right, the Joker is immortal. It's a clever retcon to explain how the Joker bounces back time after time from all the punishment Batman dishes out. As explained in Batman #38, the chemical only activates in the Joker at moments of extreme physical injury.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=983732(http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sleepsmilie.gif)
Batman #38 spoiler regarding a Joker retcon.spoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteWhat do Vandal Savage, Ra's Al Ghul and the Joker have in common? A lot more than past DC Comics history would have you believe. According to Batman #38, Vandal Savage acquired his immortality from the radiation of a mysterious meteorite that fell to Earth in the prehistoric era. Ra's Al Ghul apparently bathes in a "corrupted version" of the chemical/radiation. And the Joker, as told in Snyder's Batman #38 also encountered the meteorite before Gotham was ever born. That's right, the Joker is immortal. It's a clever retcon to explain how the Joker bounces back time after time from all the punishment Batman dishes out. As explained in Batman #38, the chemical only activates in the Joker at moments of extreme physical injury.[close]
:goty2
So I read a ton of Ultimate Reed stuff in excitement for Secret Wars, since I'd avoided 1610 entirely.
What a fucking terrible, awful, irredeemable mound of shit the Ultimate universe is. Holy fuck it's bad. Started at Ultimatum and finished Cataclysm last night. The only enjoyable takeaway is that I'll never have to do it again.
Lmao @ Ultimatum to Cataclysm. That's like watching X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins back to back to get to know the X-Men film franchise. I'm so sorry for u.
So I read a ton of Ultimate Reed stuff in excitement for Secret Wars, since I'd avoided 1610 entirely.
What a fucking terrible, awful, irredeemable mound of shit the Ultimate universe is. Holy fuck it's bad. Started at Ultimatum and finished Cataclysm last night. The only enjoyable takeaway is that I'll never have to do it again.
Lmao @ Ultimatum to Cataclysm. That's like watching X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins back to back to get to know the X-Men film franchise. I'm so sorry for u.
he missed out on the attempted murder ant man, gay hating nightcrawler so hes winning so far
Lmao @ Ultimatum to Cataclysm. That's like watching X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins back to back to get to know the X-Men film franchise. I'm so sorry for u.
he missed out on the attempted murder ant man, gay hating nightcrawler so hes winning so far
But he missed Dazzler being the disgusting lead singer of a punk band and Jean Grey having a real personality.
Spider-Verse is over, sort of- there's still an epilogue issue in ASM #15 coming out in two weeks.
I actually read another epilogue comic first, in Spider-Woman #4:spoiler (click to show/hide)The Inheritors are defeated, but what about the world they took over and were running, which was populated by people from various multiverses? They all go crazy and start rioting. But the focus isn't on that. Instead we see that this world's Jessica Drew has taken up residence on Captain Namor's pirate ship and is enjoying herself. Spider-Woman, Silk, and Spider-Gwen beat up some pirates and convince this Jessica Drew to become the leader of this world. Uh, OK.[close]
And that's it for the Spider-Verse part. Then Spider-Woman goes back to 616 and quits the Avengers, mentioning she wants a new costume. In other words, this is a garbage-tier forgettable issue basically telling you that Spider-Woman is REALLY starting with #5. This character absolutely did not fit into the Spider-Verse story at all, IMO.
Spider-Verse part six in ASM #14:spoiler (click to show/hide)Another ho-hum ending to a Dan Slott Spider-Man event. The Inheritors are easily dispatched (WTF? WHY?! :lol). We never do find out why Silk is referred to as "The Bride." Spider-Uncle Ben takes baby Ben into another world, saving him from being killed by Morlun. Superior Spidey kills the weaver, effectively stopping the Inheritors from being able to teleport to other worlds. Superior once again does what it takes to actually save the fuckin' day. Spider-Girl has a chance to kill Solus, whose essence is inside a crystal, but stops herself from doing so. All the Inheritors are then kicked through a portal into the radioactive world where Spider Uncle Ben came from. They're now trapped there, inside the fallout shelter/vault Ben was using, but not dead so they can come back at some time in the future. Kaine appears to be dead but who knows.[close]
And that's it. I hope the epilogue issue does a better job of really ending things, because after all this build-up, everything just totally fizzled out; that ending had zero impact.
Spider-Verse is over, sort of- there's still an epilogue issue in ASM #15 coming out in two weeks.
I actually read another epilogue comic first, in Spider-Woman #4:spoiler (click to show/hide)The Inheritors are defeated, but what about the world they took over and were running, which was populated by people from various multiverses? They all go crazy and start rioting. But the focus isn't on that. Instead we see that this world's Jessica Drew has taken up residence on Captain Namor's pirate ship and is enjoying herself. Spider-Woman, Silk, and Spider-Gwen beat up some pirates and convince this Jessica Drew to become the leader of this world. Uh, OK.[close]
And that's it for the Spider-Verse part. Then Spider-Woman goes back to 616 and quits the Avengers, mentioning she wants a new costume. In other words, this is a garbage-tier forgettable issue basically telling you that Spider-Woman is REALLY starting with #5. This character absolutely did not fit into the Spider-Verse story at all, IMO.
Spider-Verse part six in ASM #14:spoiler (click to show/hide)Another ho-hum ending to a Dan Slott Spider-Man event. The Inheritors are easily dispatched (WTF? WHY?! :lol). We never do find out why Silk is referred to as "The Bride." Spider-Uncle Ben takes baby Ben into another world, saving him from being killed by Morlun. Superior Spidey kills the weaver, effectively stopping the Inheritors from being able to teleport to other worlds. Superior once again does what it takes to actually save the fuckin' day. Spider-Girl has a chance to kill Solus, whose essence is inside a crystal, but stops herself from doing so. All the Inheritors are then kicked through a portal into the radioactive world where Spider Uncle Ben came from. They're now trapped there, inside the fallout shelter/vault Ben was using, but not dead so they can come back at some time in the future. Kaine appears to be dead but who knows.[close]
And that's it. I hope the epilogue issue does a better job of really ending things, because after all this build-up, everything just totally fizzled out; that ending had zero impact.spoiler (click to show/hide)they really killed the impact of what happened to kaine. its like noone really gave a damn[close]
Finished Superior.
That...was awful.
Yeahhhh, I think I'm done with spider-man. Peter Parker is no longer an everyman. He's not relatable at all and Marvel keeps shoving shit down his fans throats. I think I'm done, at least until Slott leaves as head writer. Wow. What an awful series that had potential.
Seems to me, with Marvel, it's best to go with stand alone books (ms marvel, Hawkeye, she hulk, squirrel girl, Star Wars) than the big books and their crappy crossover events.
Kamala Khan IS the new everyman hero, anyways.
disagree heavily. i get a similar vibe from kamala. i can relate to her. she's a nerd, her religious background, she tries to do the right thing and it often blows up in her face Parker style, her comedic sense and timing, it all feels like how a contemporary take on spider-man would be like. kamala has struggles and fitting it all into her superhero double life is tough. it's like a mix of spider-man and buffy.
that's a bad argument, though, because you could say NO ONE is an everyman character because no character appeals to EVERYONE.
either way, i'm not the only one who sees the similarities between kamala khan and peter parker.
:yeshrug
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/21/between-the-panels-why-ms-marvel-is-the-new-spider-man
even marvel agrees
(http://i.imgur.com/jUH59g4.jpg?1)
Finished Superior.
That...was awful.
Yeahhhh, I think I'm done with spider-man. Peter Parker is no longer an everyman. He's not relatable at all and Marvel keeps shoving shit down his fans throats. I think I'm done, at least until Slott leaves as head writer. Wow. What an awful series that had potential.
Kamala Khan IS the new everyman hero, anyways.
You may have heard that Marvel has turned Thor into a woman. What you probably don’t know, because you likely greeted the news with bafflement and horror and then resolved never to pick up a comic book from that company ever again, is just what a disaster the initiative is turning out to be.
Thor a woman? It’s hard to believe the most macho, overtly masculine character in the comic canon could possibly be reimagined as a broad. But that’s almost certainly precisely the reason Thor was chosen: as a fuck-you to so-called nerdbros from the achingly progressive staff of today’s comic book establishment.
This has led to some questions from comic book fans. Questions such as: will Wonder Woman turn out to be a cheeseburger? Is the Incredible Hulk only incredible because he endured cruel fat-shaming as a teen but didn’t let his size define him? And shouldn’t Spider-Man be a gay latino?
...
Men don’t seem to care about gender-swapping great female characters, which rather gives away the game about the sort of agenda driving these awful decisions. Why is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way? I mean, have you ever heard of calls for a male Lara Croft? It makes very little sense, until you learn that comic books, fantasy and sci-fi were taken over years ago by ultra-progressive misandrists who basically hate their own core audiences.
Does that sound familiar? It should: the recent GamerGate controversy in video games happened because ordinary gamers, unlike comic book readers or fans of fantasy and sci-fi, stood up to the authoritarian moral panic brigade in the press and their feminist agitator icons and said: no. We don’t recognise the world you’re sketching out, and we don’t want your bizarre and outlandish politics to pollute our hobby.
Retroactive continuity and franchise reboots are being used today not to shine fresh light on the enduring themes of superhero stories, such as triumphing against the odds or the ultimate victory of good over evil, but for cack-handed, tone-deaf ideological reasons that simply aren’t resonating with most readers.
This, in a nutshell, is what GamerGate supporters are concerned about when they say social-justice warriors will ruin video games. Because, while there’s no evidence that video games make people violent or sexist, there’s plenty to suggest that imagination-based hobbies are wrecked when the hand-wringing progressives come to town.
And if you don’t believe me, take a look at the following cells from the new female Thor comic and tell me this excruciatingly cringeworthy dialogue is something any normal person would pay money to read and enjoy.
Why is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
I mean, have you ever heard of calls for a male Lara Croft?
Squirrel girl is bad? Cover looks hilarious.Nah, Squirrel Girl's great. I can see why the art is divisive, but I like it a lot.
And that art isn't from ms marvel but spider-man, lyte.
QuoteWhy is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
Marvel is trying to increase its readership and appeal to female audiences. Hence why female Thor was unveiled on the View. Aren't you supposed to be a "journalist?"
Has to be someone who hasn't even bothered to read any of the shit he's going on about. Also let me respond to him as if he were a poster here:QuoteWhy is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
Marvel is trying to increase its readership and appeal to female audiences. Hence why female Thor was unveiled on the View. Aren't you supposed to be a "journalist?"
Wasn't Power Boy conceived as a joke character? (Admittedly not a very good one.)Has to be someone who hasn't even bothered to read any of the shit he's going on about. Also let me respond to him as if he were a poster here:QuoteWhy is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
Marvel is trying to increase its readership and appeal to female audiences. Hence why female Thor was unveiled on the View. Aren't you supposed to be a "journalist?"
honestly, the last male version of a female superhero i can think of is power boy, and that was a fantastic failure
Wasn't Power Boy conceived as a joke character? (Admittedly not a very good one.)Has to be someone who hasn't even bothered to read any of the shit he's going on about. Also let me respond to him as if he were a poster here:QuoteWhy is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
Marvel is trying to increase its readership and appeal to female audiences. Hence why female Thor was unveiled on the View. Aren't you supposed to be a "journalist?"
honestly, the last male version of a female superhero i can think of is power boy, and that was a fantastic failure
Wasn't Power Boy conceived as a joke character? (Admittedly not a very good one.)Has to be someone who hasn't even bothered to read any of the shit he's going on about. Also let me respond to him as if he were a poster here:QuoteWhy is there a demand for female versions of male superheroes, but no demand the other way?
Marvel is trying to increase its readership and appeal to female audiences. Hence why female Thor was unveiled on the View. Aren't you supposed to be a "journalist?"
honestly, the last male version of a female superhero i can think of is power boy, and that was a fantastic failure
Savage Dragon 202: Remember when Malcom Dragon had a three way a few issues back? Well, he's at it again! And then his step-sister comes in for a visit and it's a four way!
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:dead
I was questioning if Erik Larson was changing this into a porno mag or something, but at least at the end of the issue, Malcom tells his girlfriend that there's no more kinky sex shit with other girls happening. Oh and there's some super hero stuff too, but this sex stuff is the clear focus of the issue. Again. Can we get back to some real plot?
LOL @ looking for anything worthwhile in an Erik Larson book.
And in other spider-news, Toho's sentai Spider-Robot just appeared in US comics:
http://io9.com/spider-mans-giant-robot-just-became-official-marvel-com-1678509168
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles
Morrison suggested a "wankathon" in the hope of bringing about a magical increase in sales by a mass of fans simultaneously masturbating at a set time.
Morrison became seriously ill while writing the book, something he attributes to working on the title and the manner in which its magical influence affected him, and has stated that his work on the comic made him into a different person from the one who started it. He has also said that much of the story was told to him by aliens when he was abducted during a trip to Katmandu.
I've had a comic itch for a few weeks and I've been thinking of subscribing to Marvel Unlimited for a month test the waters.
Thoughts on the service/Android app?
Also, can someone recommend me a series/arc that would convince me I made the right choice?
I think I'm down to reading anything, but something Cosmic would probably excite me more.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_InvisiblesQuoteMorrison suggested a "wankathon" in the hope of bringing about a magical increase in sales by a mass of fans simultaneously masturbating at a set time.
Morrison became seriously ill while writing the book, something he attributes to working on the title and the manner in which its magical influence affected him, and has stated that his work on the comic made him into a different person from the one who started it. He has also said that much of the story was told to him by aliens when he was abducted during a trip to Katmandu.
:spin
Madmen make the best art, it is known
Morrison loves him some drugs. But it makes for great comics!
I'm halfway through reading the 2002 "reboot" of Captain Marvel (Genis) and I've never seen a series go from "great!" to "total trash" like this before...and it's the same writer! (Peter David).
why is most everything associated with amazing spider man so fucking terrible? his cast, his villains, hell, even him. reading amazing just pisses me off now. meanwhile i can read something like spider man and the x-men, or any other series hes doing a guest spot on, and get a writer who tries not to make reading a spider man comic a terrible experience.
do u guys think miles morales will get a personality in the final issue of ultimate spider-man?
This Black Vortex crossover is pretty shit. Trial of Jean Grey was so much better and I feel like they're just trying to recreate that magic and it's just not working.Bendis' X-men is shit.
Wonder Woman's got pants again. :rejoice
wonder woman with pants sucks :-\ why do they keep trying it with these gimmick costumes
This volume is notable for having a faster pace and more intense action while inflicting major physical changes on the Turtles themselves; Leonardo losing a hand, Raphael's face being scarred, Splinter becoming a bat, and Donatello becoming a cyborg. In a startling plot twist, Raphael even took on the identity of The Shredder and assumed leadership of the Foot. With Volume 3, the Turtles were incorporated into the Image universe, which provided opportunities for a few crossovers and guest appearances by characters from the The Savage Dragon series. The series ceased publication in 1999.
Leonardo losing a hand, Raphael's face being scarred, Splinter becoming a bat, and Donatello becoming a cyborg
So, who said Black Panther (Priest) was good?
Cause the first 5 or so issues where he decks Mephisto in the face were great, but man o' man is it crap from that point on. Achebe is an awful villian, Malice jealous girl is :\, KILLMONGER arc is fucking terrible. I've been slogging my way 30 issues in now out of about 60 through this Priest run and occasionally there's a good few issues, but it's really pretty bad stuff. BP seems like a cool dude, but his antagonists and these arcs in general are just awful. There was an arc recently that went super politcal with Namor and world war III standoffs and was fairly interesting, but otherwise it's been bad. I'll stick with it through the end because I've got the time and am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, but people said Priest was the good Black Panther run? Because if this is good then I don't want to see bad Black Panther.
Power Girl crying over the older Earth 2 Superman's body
We also got this:
(http://i.imgur.com/IIft8aTl.jpg)
:bow
Irredeemable Ant-Man (2006) #7
Published: April 04, 2007
Added to Marvel Unlimited: December 03, 2007
Rating: T
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Cover Artist: Phil Hester
Why fight super-villains when you can watch attractive ladies take their clothes off in the privacy of their own homes? Ant-Man has got it made! That is until he realizes that the subject of his perverted voyeurism is none other than Ms. Marvel!
Is this the plot of the movie? :lol
How often does Marvel Unlimited update/catch up with print issues? I finished all 8 issus of Ms. Marvel and realized the series has progressed further than what the app lead me to believe (issue 14?)
As an aside, I'm looking to jump on a next series/arc that's complete on Unlimited. Any suggestions? Nextwave looks cool.
How often does Marvel Unlimited update/catch up with print issues? I finished all 8 issus of Ms. Marvel and realized the series has progressed further than what the app lead me to believe (issue 14?)
As an aside, I'm looking to jump on a next series/arc that's complete on Unlimited. Any suggestions? Nextwave looks cool.
last issue of miles morales today. ended on a complete dud. what a sad series with a sad hero. miles = top 3 worst spider-men ever.
So, who said Black Panther (Priest) was good?
Cause the first 5 or so issues where he decks Mephisto in the face were great, but man o' man is it crap from that point on. Achebe is an awful villian, Malice jealous girl is :\, KILLMONGER arc is fucking terrible. I've been slogging my way 30 issues in now out of about 60 through this Priest run and occasionally there's a good few issues, but it's really pretty bad stuff. BP seems like a cool dude, but his antagonists and these arcs in general are just awful. There was an arc recently that went super politcal with Namor and world war III standoffs and was fairly interesting, but otherwise it's been bad. I'll stick with it through the end because I've got the time and am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, but people said Priest was the good Black Panther run? Because if this is good then I don't want to see bad Black Panther.
youre the first person ive encountered that didnt like the priest run. no joke
last issue of miles morales today. ended on a complete dud. what a sad series with a sad hero. miles = top 3 worst spider-men ever.
im irritated because it looks like they were actually going somewhere, for it to straight fizzle out. oh well. bring on the end of the ultimate universe
QuoteIrredeemable Ant-Man (2006) #7
Published: April 04, 2007
Added to Marvel Unlimited: December 03, 2007
Rating: T
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Cover Artist: Phil Hester
Why fight super-villains when you can watch attractive ladies take their clothes off in the privacy of their own homes? Ant-Man has got it made! That is until he realizes that the subject of his perverted voyeurism is none other than Ms. Marvel!
:lucas
http://t.co/ypKAlt04m0
Bunny Batman is...spoiler (click to show/hide)Commissioner Gordon[close]
Just finished:
Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Peter Parker TPB - felt rushed and lazy. CAVEAT: I have only read the TPB, have NO IDEA about what has come before or after, don't really care because fuck spider-clones and a bazillion earths diluting hero meaning. Captain America shows up, tells Peter he doesn't know enough about war, Spider-Man shows up on a bridge fight where Punisher is going to assassinate Captain America, and Spidey takes the bullet. Cap abandons Spidey on the bridge, WHAT THE FUCK?
In spirit of posting more, in All New X-Men #40(which comes out this Wed):spoiler (click to show/hide)Reveals young Bobby to be gay, which of course in stark contrast in adult Bobby who is very straight.[close]
I know it's capeshit and I shouldn't feel be upset but I'm actually kinda butthurt. Thanks a lot Bendis.
Everyone has known iceman has always been gay. He almost came out to Jean grey back in the 90s and another time, Emma frost entered his mind and made a gay joke. He's always been a closet case. His last 2 "relationships" have coincidentally been with mutants who can transform into male bodies.
which would actually add to the universe because I think of any canon bisexual male characters at Marvel
Even with the sliding timescale, the All New X-Men are coming from the late 90s/early 00s. Gay acceptance back then was a lot different than now.
There's quite a long list of bisexual men in Marvel. Daken, Prodigy, Hercules, Rictor, just to name a few.
And hey, guess what happens in regards to the death of Peter Parker in the Mile Morales Ultimate Spider-Man comics?spoiler (click to show/hide)Peter just shows back up again! SURPRISE, HE'S NOT DEAD! How? Who knows, who cares! He's back, helps Miles beat SURPRISE I'M NOT DEAD EITHER Green Goblin, then says Miles can be Spider-Man since he just wants to go off and fuck Mary Jane or whatever.[close]
...BENDIS!
backdoor way
i dont think this is going to stick. this isnt the first time theyve tried making one of the original xmen gay, and that went over like a wet fart. then theres the fact that the current line xmen cant remember anything thats happened to the O5. that seems like a backdoor way to explain away anything that will happen to them for better or worse
i dont think this is going to stick. this isnt the first time theyve tried making one of the original xmen gay, and that went over like a wet fart. then theres the fact that the current line xmen cant remember anything thats happened to the O5. that seems like a backdoor way to explain away anything that will happen to them for better or worse
I don't see why they're bothering with this with Secret Wars right around the corner. All this shit's probably going to get changed up. Maybe that's why Bendis did it.
but apparently both ice men being different is a bad idea for some reason.
but apparently both ice men being different is a bad idea for some reason.
Well, it makes no sense whatsoever, for one thing.
but apparently both ice men being different is a bad idea for some reason.
Well, it makes no sense whatsoever, for one thing.
it does if their from different universes. theres a few inconsistencies that would make sense if this were true
but apparently both ice men being different is a bad idea for some reason.
Well, it makes no sense whatsoever, for one thing.
it does if their from different universes. theres a few inconsistencies that would make sense if this were true
But the whole point of All-New X-Men is that these are the original 616 X-Men from the past! :lol Easy way to end the series, going into Battleworld, if they change this, though.
The Joker "retcon" everyone was up in arms over last month was just a red herring
The Joker "retcon" everyone was up in arms over last month was just a red herring
I've seen people saying that they changed the story due to the overwhelming negative response, and I would agree with that.
Batman #40It'll be sooner. After Convergence they're talking about jumping ahead a year like after Infinite Crisis.
Endgame: Part 6
I liked how the one overhead shot showed the blood in the shape of a heart. Found an odd art error too. The Joker's scar on his face is seemingly there from Alfred shooting him, but he has another one beforehand when he comes up in the Cave, but if you go back an issue he doesn't have it and inbetween they don't indicate where he got it from. Or how half his head got shaved. Unless he did it while swimming underwater.
Future's End and World's End both led to nowhere. DC's really been botching the endings of their BIG EVENTS since New 52 started.
Future's End and World's End both led to nowhere.
Which reveal was that?
I really hate what they've done with Tony. Kind of wish Superior Iron Man had never happened, or that Hickman could just ignore it.
Tony's new armor is Iron Man 3 junk-tier. Dude gets his arm, chest-plate and helmet ripped off by Steve in a powersuit? Makes no sense how he's ever fought a supervillain.
The main thing I've hated is what a self-righteous prick Steve Rogers has been for many months now.
Tony's new armor is Iron Man 3 junk-tier. Dude gets his arm, chest-plate and helmet ripped off by Steve in a powersuit? Makes no sense how he's ever fought a supervillain.
Have you read Superior? His armor (the same armor! :lol) is much more effective and has a T1000 liquid-metal thing going on at times.The main thing I've hated is what a self-righteous prick Steve Rogers has been for many months now.
I keep thinking all of this isn't going to matter after Secret Wars. Marvel refuses to say it, but they're totally hitting the reset button.
Secret Wars #1
:whoo :whew :badass :lawd
THEY KILLEDspoiler (click to show/hide)Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Spider-Woman, and Black Widow! :o I mean, pretty much everyone else who didn't escape in a high-tech "life raft," too, but DAYUM![close]
Good setup for what's coming. The Ultimate universe people, Reed Richards aside, were total scrubs.
like i said on the other site, they should have saved the deadpool finale for this week
I'm still going through the classic Doctor Strange comics. These things are so corny I'm starting to enjoy it, but for the sake of clarity, does anyone in the know... know when his stories/arcs became more enticing? i.e. when did Stan Lee stop writing him?
Secret Wars #1
:whoo :whew :badass :lawd
THEY KILLEDspoiler (click to show/hide)Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Spider-Woman, and Black Widow! :o I mean, pretty much everyone else who didn't escape in a high-tech "life raft," too, but DAYUM![close]
Good setup for what's coming. The Ultimate universe people, Reed Richards aside, were total scrubs.
Read The Unwritten, started off so well and then just fell into the gutter and I think 80% of the plot threads were just ignored and made laughable. The ending stabbed me in the gut more because of where the series went instead of what happened in it.
Seems like it will be pretty fun to me. Looking forward to seeing how it plays out. Way too early to be getting all negative about it. Still, this is already 10000000000 times better than DC's Convergence.
Might be because I got the collected version but I though Forever Evil was amazingly paced and just as long as it needed to be.
I dropped it around the time it crossed over with Fables because I wasn't reading that. What a shameThe end of that Fables crossover (actually an alternate Fables universe lol) was actually the ending of the series, then they did a 12 issue wrap-up called "The Unwritten: Apocalypse." That didn't wrap anything up, made everything more convoluted and could have been done in six issues.
Also it's not like you can't read things like Daredevil, Ms Marvel, Captian Marvel, plenty of X-men(though why would you they all suck), and what not that stand on thier own.
I can't stand Japan so I don't read any manga. Just Gundam The Origin. The Incal and Peresepolis are the only French Comics I've read with Peresepolis being pretty fantastic.
shonen and shoujo series have the same basic tropes for their given categories. with shonen its often main characters with something special about them that fall into worlds larger than anything theyve imagined, and and they rise, fail, and eventually overcome obstacles to meet their goals. theres training arcs, tournament arcs, vacation chapters, misunderstandings over inane shit, getting completely blown away by an enemy/rival to learn character limitations. shoujo has weak/clumsy female protagonists, prince charming like male romance leads, male harems with men of all types that all desire the main female. and internal growth. seinen and josei are more diverse than those categories true, but im not gonna pretend like manga is some comic sect that favors originality.
I just want to read the fucking X-men, why is it so hard for Marvel to understand that their baggage is the problem and making these world-shattering events, even for a reboot is what drives casual readers away?
QuoteAlso it's not like you can't read things like Daredevil, Ms Marvel, Captian Marvel, plenty of X-men(though why would you they all suck), and what not that stand on thier own.
Not ENTIRELY true!
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Because what we have now been told by multiple sources is that the X-Men will discover that the Inhuman Terragenesis mists kills mutants. And with it circling the globe, the X-Men and mutantkind choose to leave the Earth, go onto space, and found a brand new world.
Same reality, different planet. X-Men In Space. “An entire new world.”
It was a while ago that we first reported that it was Marvel’s wish that the Inhumans replace mutants in the Marvel universe. I just never guessed it would never actually be enacted so literally.
WHY DOES IT SAY SECRET WARS ON THE COVER
THIS SHIT IS CONFUSING
“What would you do if you learned today was your last day on Earth?” says Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. “That’s the question your favorite Marvel heroes are going to ask themselves in their LAST DAYS story lines as they brace for Secret Wars and the end of the Marvel Universe.”
Battleworld is set to transform the Marvel Universe as you know it. But before Secret Wars can begin, this chapter may come to a close. What will our heroes do with their final hours? What secrets will be unearthed? Who will they want to spend their LAST DAYS with?
WHY DOES IT SAY SECRET WARS ON THE COVER
THIS SHIT IS CONFUSING
Entirely true. The "last days" branding is just being used for comics with settings that take place before Secret Wars, I.E. what happens to these characters right before the event starts.
I would expect that to be the end of the series. Will it start over? No idea, but we already know that Ms. Marvel will be in the new Avengers book.
BTW, Ms Marvel is NOT one of the books Marvel is killing off. So I'm safe.
...So just read the X-Men.
...So just read the X-Men.
You're missing what I'm getting at. For me to read the X-men now, I have to go through 50+ issues of cross-overs and other bullshit when most of the time those cross-overs are only 1-2 issues and probably could just be referenced in future issues as a "hey, remember that time where <<Cross over happens>>?"
Instead, we have to buy X-men #5908305 and #0983405834058340 for Secret Wars AND buy the main Secret Wars thing to even get a sense of what the fuck X-men #0958063805348 was going on about.
Messiah Complex sucks.
X-Men centric crossovers are great.
Inferno :rejoice
Mutant Massacre :rejoice
Fall of the Mutants :rejoice
X-Cutioner's Song :rejoice
Age of Apocalypse :rejoice
Operation Zero Tolerance :rejoice
Messiah Complex :rejoice
Age of X :rejoice
Kill.
Crossovers.
They're shit.
Messiah Complex sucks.
Messiah Complex sucks.
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Madrox and Layla getting sent into the future? Bishop destroying the mansion? Predator X eating the dead x-kids in the graveyard? Mystique's crazy plan all coming together and saving Rogue from the Hecatomb?? It was incredible! The trilogy was ruined by those POS Messiah War and Second Coming, but MC is probably the best X-Over since AoA.
Yeah, I left out a few like Phalanx Covenant (RIP Blink) and X-Tinction Agenda is the Genosha one. Also the godawful ones like Muir Island Saga, Ages of Apocalypse, Onslaught and Necrosha :yuck :lol
X-Cutioner's song is the nonstop climax action fuckery when Stryfe kills Xavier and ruins the X-Men's lives because he wants to be a real boy.
Rumor on what will happen to the X-Men after Secret Wars:spoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteBecause what we have now been told by multiple sources is that the X-Men will discover that the Inhuman Terragenesis mists kills mutants. And with it circling the globe, the X-Men and mutantkind choose to leave the Earth, go onto space, and found a brand new world.
Same reality, different planet. X-Men In Space. “An entire new world.”
It was a while ago that we first reported that it was Marvel’s wish that the Inhumans replace mutants in the Marvel universe. I just never guessed it would never actually be enacted so literally.[close]
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Rumor on what will happen to the X-Men after Secret Wars:spoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteBecause what we have now been told by multiple sources is that the X-Men will discover that the Inhuman Terragenesis mists kills mutants. And with it circling the globe, the X-Men and mutantkind choose to leave the Earth, go onto space, and found a brand new world.
Same reality, different planet. X-Men In Space. “An entire new world.”
It was a while ago that we first reported that it was Marvel’s wish that the Inhumans replace mutants in the Marvel universe. I just never guessed it would never actually be enacted so literally.[close]
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Fall of the Mutants is pre-Australia. It's the event that leads to the Australian X-Men era and sets up Magik's dark side and Inferno a couple years later.
I love New Mutants :-[ It was so innocent and charmingly out-of-touch. Danielle Moonstar being this angry Native American who didn't trust "white eyes" like Xavier and rebelled by wearing her Cheyenne fashion belt which was strictly against dress code. Then there was Roberto Dacosta was this arrogant Brazilian soccer star who went around screaming "Madonna!" while Wolfsbane was the poster child of cartoonish religious oppression. I loved every minute of that stereotype clusterfuck. I'm not even going to start with Karma and Cannonball :lol
X-Force was good too, I think it was probably the most consistently good X-Comic in the 90s. Didn't care for Liefeld's early days, but when Nicieza took over, it was awesome. Loeb and JF Moore's runs were really great too. It's a shame what Warren Ellis did to those poor mutants.
Exiles was hot, Blink was hot. :(
X-Cutioner's Song :whew
The way they treat the xmen rofl. Marvel is just a disaster
It really is kind of sad that Doctor Strange never got better writing or better writers in general. The best I've read of him was a relatively recent retelling of his origin story. And even that was just pretty alright.
I've actually been reading Exiles since someone brought it up. It's pretty fun so far, like an X-men Quantum Leap.It's one of the few mainstream company series where I actually got feels regarding some of the characters, since they could actually "kill them" by sending them home. And the mystery was good for the first part of the series. And they got to jump into a bunch of alternate universes that didn't have to be fully fleshed out and built up, just enough for that story and then they moved on. So your interest was peaked and left you wondering. And if you weren't familiar with series or teams or characters or whatever they did a good job giving you what you needed to know.
Squirrel girl is bad?
I never cared for Spurrier's X-Men Legacy. Legion is a garbage character.That run made me care about him :'(
Is Whedon's X-Men run any good? I'm hitting up a used bookstore tomorrow and want to grab some trades.
Secret Wars #2 was pretty cool.
Didn't help that I really disliked the art in this one
Convergence has eliminated the collapse of the multiverse in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths
CONVERGENCE SPOILERS: http://bit.ly/1ewjnfDspoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteConvergence has eliminated the collapse of the multiverse in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths
But...Infinite Crisis already did that. :dizzy[close]
Brainiac explains his origin — that he was basically created by all the DC reboots over the years, as he sought knowledge and traveled through time. "My body lost to the cancerous growths caused by exposure to the multiverse," Brainiac claims. "I wish to return to what I was."
Does this mean Batman '66 is canon now? :hyper
And Earth 2 is, predictably, back again. And no, that doesn't need to be spoilered.
And Earth 2 is, predictably, back again. And no, that doesn't need to be spoilered.
So basically DC is doing the opposite of what Marvel is doing and bringing back all the alternate realities. :lol
And Earth 2 is, predictably, back again. And no, that doesn't need to be spoilered.
Golden Age/Justice Society Earth 2?
Infinity Gauntlet was the surprise of last week.
Secret Wars #3 was good.
I thought Battleworld sounded awful, but I'm really liking what we got. It's far less gimmicky than I imagined, plus anything with Doom in a central role will be awesome more often than not.
Hickman writes Doom really well.
Justice League: Darkseid War started out ok, the focus on WW was weird since I don't read her book but fine. It really reminded me of Final Crisis which can be good or bad...That's what it is...it feels like Johns doing the ultimate battle with Darkseid part of Final Crisis. I couldn't put my finger on it.
God Emperor Doom is so amazing. It's really a wasted opportunity that we're only getting this kind of scenario for 8 issues. It should have been the default state for awhile.
And this was really just an extensively dumb way to end and then reboot the Earth 2 series. I'll have to look at Batman Beyond to see if Futures End's plotline is actually going to go anywhere. I really liked the start of that...and Earth 2...before they went all silly. I can't imagine the readership on Earth 2 was large enough to make them the central characters in Convergence, but maybe it was?
"The all-new Hulk ... this character is certain to cause debate," he said. "The same people who went crazy with female Thor will have a field day with this one."
There's also an entirely new Spider-Man. Alonso wouldn't say much more, but hinted that there may be more than one (and the image above would certainly confirm that).
"Will there be enough room for him and Peter Parker? Read and find out," Alonso said, adding: "Wolverine will return to the Marvel Universe (again, this will be something big). Who is Wolverine? You’ll have to read and find out."
why does the article call it a reboot, when they state that the history isnt changing?
marvel stays snuffing out the xmen. even wolvie cant make it on the banner. apologists where are u now???
why does the article call it a reboot, when they state that the history isnt changing?
Because it's still a 'reboot' regardless. :lol
marvel stays snuffing out the xmen. even wolvie cant make it on the banner. apologists where are u now???
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Marvel has hated the X-Men as a franchise since way before the MCU. This doesn't feel like the shaft though.How and why? What makes you say that?
Rereading The Planetary atm. It's so damn good and I wish there was more stuff like this out there.
Secret Wars #4 - Felt really short. Still loving the hell out of God Emperor Doom. Wish we could get like a year of this.
Really hopingspoiler (click to show/hide)Strange isn't dead.[close]
If I had to place bets, I'd say he has amnesia. We'll see.
I don't get the point of Snyder trying to build an entirely new status quo, and doing a decent job of it, only to undermine it from the start (Bruce was at the end of the first "Gordon as Batman" issue.) Seriously, what's the point? An easy escape button?
http://imgur.com/a/EPAyB (Justice League #42)
Geoff...
Read Grant Morrison's Fantastic Four 1234. I've realized at this point I just don't like Grant Morrison's comics. At least not his takes on Marvel characters. The pacing always feels bad, the plots border on nonsensical and half the characters are unlikeable dicks (see: 2001's Marvel Boy). I appreciate all the new stuff he brought to the New X-men refresh he did, but otherwise when I pick up a comic and it's written by Morrison I know to keep expectations low.
I feel like Marvel is using the "Secret Wars" label to try to wring some extra sales out of some otherwise obscure comics that few people actually care about.
I feel like Marvel is using the "Secret Wars" label to try to wring some extra sales out of some otherwise obscure comics that few people actually care about.
I think this is the only book that has pretty much zero connection to the rest of the event, though.
I feel like Marvel is using the "Secret Wars" label to try to wring some extra sales out of some otherwise obscure comics that few people actually care about.
I think this is the only book that has pretty much zero connection to the rest of the event, though.
where does it even take place?
Aren't some of the Secret Wars spinoffs just basically supposed to be potential new storylines in the post-Secret War "All-New, All-Different™" Marvel Universe?
Hail Hydra: Also interesting in that this may be the 616 version of Nomad (this version of Nomad is Steve Rogers' adopted son and Arnheim Zola's (sp) biological son from another dimension), who survived the incursion after hopping into some sort of dimensional elevator (I assume if this is true that this happened in the All-New Captain America series, which I didn't read) and is now in a Battleworld zone where Hydra has taken over everything and has essentially been in charge for decades.
No idea if it stated where. The jungle island they go to is in parts unknown and flashbacks show various groups of people, from all over the world, encountering the amazon trible throughout history. The tribe is also originally from a Scandinavian country IIRC. Basically just more stuff that makes it completely unrelated to Secret Wars. Unless some big reveal is going to happen, I don't understand why they even slapped the Secret Wars logo on these comics.
Exiles - Is there any point in reading this? It's a bunch of alternative world mini-stories that don't really mean anything in the Marvel Universe scheme of things, and feature a bunch of D-list characters and runs for like 100 issues. Plus the art is that ugly 90s X-related things art. Got through like 7 issues and was skimming by then, the marvel reading order guide says to read like 50 issues of this stuff, but I'm ready to bail.This is one of my favorite series of all time, for whatever that's worth.
Reading a bunch of stuff that I'm not sure how much I'm going to stick with:
Emma Stone 1-18 - Her origin story spin-off. Was fine and enjoyable but wish it went further into her character background.
I didn't bother with Spider-Man from that time period. I did get a TPB for "The Other" storyline and found it pretty stupid. I know there's a lot of people who don't care for Dan Slott as the writer, but when I did get back into Spider-Man a few years ago, I found myself actually enjoying it again like I used to before things got dumb in the mid-90s.
Most of the stuff that happens in what you're reading all gets retconned out with the whole "One More Day" thing, IIRC. When I started reading again, Peter worked for Horizon Labs, was not married to Mary Jane, and Aunt May didn't know he was Spider-Man. There's also a point a couple of years after what you're reading where Spider-Man reveals his identity to the world, in one of the Avengers comics, IIRC. This also gets erased with One More Day.
Those are...not good.
Gazunta! He comes maybe a once a year! He shills! He leaves! :PYeah, I had the same Gazunta reaction. But at least he's bringing creative fruits of his labors to show. It's not like Amazon Tony who loved us and left us.
LOL-tastic Marvel cosplay covers:
http://www.newsarama.com/25631-marvel-cosplay-variants-announced-for-october.html
The left-wing marxists have taken over comics now. The latest Batman issue spreads the lieberal myths all about a black criminal being gunned down by the heroic GCPD.
Not even our traditional conservative cultural icons are safe.
...does anyone in here read shit like Saga and the new Airboy limited series or is it just a bunch of nerding out over the same tired fucking spandex shit that's been written over and over again for forever? Cause I like comics but am over superhero bullshit. Anyone else or am I alone in this? I will scurry out of here and leave y'all alone but was just curious if anyone else is into non-superhero stuff. Would be cool to have someone to discuss it with is all.
I started reading Sex Criminals recently. It's fascinating
Secret Wars is feeling like an anticlimactic letdown. The last two issues have been pretty meh at best. Clearly there isn't enough time to do this story properly since Marvel wants to wrap things up and get All New, All Different going at full swing. It's a bit of a bummer since this is the culmination of more than two years of story, but whatever.
Secret Wars is feeling like an anticlimactic letdown. The last two issues have been pretty meh at best. Clearly there isn't enough time to do this story properly since Marvel wants to wrap things up and get All New, All Different going at full swing. It's a bit of a bummer since this is the culmination of more than two years of story, but whatever.
7. Mile Morales is now in 616 continuity, only with his own series not having started...we have no idea how he's living in his new universe.
was reading Providence by alan moore
its slow and interesting
issue 6 was ballsy as hell for a western comic though
read it and youll see what I mean
Teen Titans: Earth One Vol. 1
This was my first Earth One graphic novel, and it got me wondering if Batman and Superman got such drastic reinterpretations of their origins in their Earth One books. To put it lightly, everything is reimagined here, and for the most part it works pretty well. I don't have an issue with the origin being such a departure, far from it. It feels fresh. But it also backs the book into a couple corners that were obviously hard to write out of.
Basically, the "teen titans" (never called such in-universe, and only alluded to by being apart of the "Titans Program") are a deliberately diverse set of youngsters who don't even know each other (other than Cyborg and Terra, who are dating) when the book starts. When they do get to know each other, they chafe and argue as is the cliche for teens. To be honest, I'm not sure if it was lazy writing to have them fighting amongst themselves so much, or an accurate reflection of normal teenagehood. Reflecting on my own teen years, I can't remember being so brazen, but I also didn't have to deal with superpowers popping up out of nowhere.
Yeah, this book takes more than a few cues from the X-Men. Which is probably just as well, since DC repurposed the Teen Titans to rip them off with New Teen Titans in the 80's.
The teens are essentially all set up to have the same, connected origin story, which reminds me of the way Hollywood usually goes about its adaptations of these things. It works but oftentimes feels like a shortcut, a way of introducing all of them, showing how unique each character is, and bringing them all together in the same book. I can't blame them for that. However, I will blame the writers for some eyeroll-worthy plot contrivances (the main one being Starfire not only causing all their powers to activate at the same time, but directing them all to her telepathically since she's imprisoned Superman-during-Flashpoint-style.)
I was reading the IGN review for this and they seemed to say the only negative was how Deathstroke is portrayed, but I disagree. Like the rest of the book, I think it's a fresh and interesting take on the character. All these characters are. They come off a little like a grab-bag of politically-correct new-age character templates (this one's the one with the drunk parent, this one's the one with the gay dads, etc.) but I won't fault it for that since this book is aimed at kids/teens and I know how happy it is to see someone you feel represents you in a major book like this.
The book sets up quite a bit of dangling threads, like the "Blackfire initiative," Raven joining up with the main team, Starfire's entire character, and a vision-wall of potential future team mates (including, curiously, a bat symbol.) But mostly I want to see the team become a team. The characters here don't actually ever end up becoming a "team" or doing anything heroic. They haven't earned the book's namesake yet. If Volume 2 accomplished anything, that's the bare minimum.
3 / 5
I don't get how they're going to take out Doom, even with everyone combined. He's more powerful than The Living Tribunal in his world and has already one-shotted a cosmic tier character and Thanos. Plus it doesn't seem like he can be physically harmed by any means. I'm betting he realizes that his world is deeply flawed and abdicates his power.
Wait Teen Titans: Earth One #2 is out?? :hyperOh, no, sorry. I just came across it, didn't know it was from last year.
I really liked that book last year. :lawd
Wonder Woman: Earth One
Volume One (April 2016, story by Grant Morrison and art by Yanick Paquette, hardcover ISBN 978-1401229788)
Aquaman: Earth One
Volume One (2016, story and art by Francis Manapul)
The Flash: Earth One
Volume One (2016, story by J. Michael Straczynski)
I don't get how they're going to take out Doom, even with everyone combined. He's more powerful than The Living Tribunal in his world and has already one-shotted a cosmic tier character and Thanos. Plus it doesn't seem like he can be physically harmed by any means. I'm betting he realizes that his world is deeply flawed and abdicates his power.
They do this literally every year.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/01/22/dc-comics-to-relaunch-everything-with-1s-again-this-summer-with-a-filmtv-bent/
Sigh...
Betty tho. :noah
Betty tho. :noah
Yeah, but you could probably get that IRL if Billie Piper wore a brunette wig.
Betty tho. :noah
Yeah, but you could probably get that IRL if Billie Piper wore a brunette wig.
I probably could not. :fbm
First twist in House of M ending:spoiler (click to show/hide)That Pietro/Quicksilver was the one behind the whole thing and Magneto was just another victim. Was a neat twist and the scene where Magneto wakes up and kills his own son Quicksilver out of rage "YOU DID ALL THIS IN MY NAME?!?!" etc... was a pretty awesome finish for the event.[close]
The second twist that was sort of the cliffhanger twist:spoiler (click to show/hide)Was Scarlet Witch throwing a fit at her dad/Magneto for killing her brother and blaming mutants for everything and then "no more mutants" and the world is remade back to normal with 90% of the mutants losing their powers.[close]
Johns talks his past DC miniseries "Green Lantern Rebirth" and "The Flash Rebirth," which restored familiar elements to the Green Lantern and Flash mythos, while also moving the characters forward. "Rebirth" aims to do the same with the entire DC Universe, while also restoring more of a focus on a shared universe. "Rebirth" starts in "DC Universe Rebirth," an 80-page one-shot scheduled for release on May 25, written by Johns and illustrated by artists Ethan Van Sciver, Ivan Reis, Gary Frank and Phil Jimenez.
With "Rebirth," the mainline DC Universe titles will be renumbered with new #1s -- except for "Action Comics" and "Detective Comics," the two longest-running series in DC's lineup, which will return to their original numbering at #957 and #934
CBR spoke with Johns in-depth about "Rebirth," who said that the central element of what he's felt has been lost in the DC Universe is "legacy"
It started when [DC Co-Publishers] Dan [DiDio] and Jim [Lee] came to me and said that they wanted to end things at #52, and work build back to a shared universe and big stories. They wanted to take another look at everything. Dan mentioned the word "Rebirth" to me. I said, look, that word's incredibly important to me -- I feel some pride and ownership of that word. I said it means something extremely specific in my mind, so if we're going to do something with "Rebirth", it's important to me to understand what that means. And like everyone else, I'm skeptical of relaunches. So it had to be something that everyone put everything they had into it. That was special. That had a reason. And "Rebirth" to me is a reason. It's beyond the back-to-basics approach. It's not just going back to square one. It's much, much more than something that simplistic. We all need to do our best to get this right and everyone has come together to create a cohesive universe and terrific stories that work individually as well as together. We're also doing it by building on everything that's been published since Action Comics #1 up thru The New 52.
It started when [DC Co-Publishers] Dan [DiDio] and Jim [Lee] came to me and said that they wanted to end things at #52, and work build back to a shared universe and big stories.Was this before or after DiDio's plan/goal to eliminate the (poorly) shared New 52 universe with Convergence and wreck the point of Morrison's The Multiversity in the process.
(And then Convergence apparently eliminated Future's End.)
Oh, I forgot how Barbara was paralyzed for years AND then became Oracle for years, but now she's healed and is back as (an often brutal) Batgirl before slowly de-aging and the book becoming Hipster Batgirl's wacky adventures at University! (AND BOYS! :-[)
And this all fits into that five year time frame or whatever. And nobody mentions Oracle as once being at the information center of half the heroes in the DC Universe, and Black Canary was both not in and in the Birds of Prey and Justice League, while being a criminal, and...yet, refers regularly to her escapades with Babs.
Nightwing -> Grayson worked a lot better because they were kinda like "forget it" and I do like the increasing Grayson-Jason-Tim team-ups. Their obvious but still entertaining "three faces of Batman" shtick is fun.
What a great time to be alive.
esbian-turned werewolf
Quoteesbian-turned werewolf
She was a lesbian, but now she's a werewolf? Couldn't she be a lesbian werewolf?
http://joequinones.blogspot.jp/2016/03/batman-89.html?_sm_au_=iVV4TRr0fFjQbRNn
Quoteesbian-turned werewolf
She was a lesbian, but now she's a werewolf? Couldn't she be a lesbian werewolf?
DC Universe Rebirth by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Ivan Reis, Phil Jimenz and Ethan Van Sciver: A one-shot launching DC Rebirth; to be published in May
New costume designs for Superman, Supergirl, Black Canary, Superboy, Batman and Green Arrow (w/ goatee)
Batman Beyond by Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang, featuring the return of Terry McGuinness.
Blue Beetle by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins. Jaime Reyes and Ted Kord will both appear in the book.
Teen Titans by Ben Percy and Jonboy Meyers, featuring Damian Wayne trying to take over the Teen Titans.
Super Sons (no creative team announced) featuring Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent.
Titans by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Arsenal, Nightwing, Tempest and Donna Troy will all appear.
Superman by Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke and Patrick Gleason(Basically the Batman & Robin 2011 team.)
Batman by Tom King, David Finch and Jordie Bellaire (promo art features Jim Gordon with a mustache)
Detective Comics by James Tynion IV, Eddy Barrows and Alvaro Martinez (featuring Batman, Batwoman, Tim Drake, Spoiler, Cassandra Cain, and Clayface)
Nightwing by Tim Seeley, Javi Fernandez and Marcus To (featuring Nightwing in the classic "black and blue" costume)(Marcus To is the best comic book artist working today.)
Justice League #50 will reveal the Joker's real name.
All-Star Batman by Scott Snyder, John Romita Jr., Jock, and Sean Murphy. Paul Pope and Tula Lotay were also teased as guest artists.
New costume designs for Superman, Supergirl, Black Canary, Superboy, Batman and Green Arrow (w/ goatee)
Batman Beyond by Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang, featuring the return of Terry McGuinness.
Blue Beetle by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins. Jaime Reyes and Ted Kord will both appear in the book.
Teen Titans by Ben Percy and Jonboy Meyers, featuring Damian Wayne trying to take over the Teen Titans.
Super Sons (no creative team announced) featuring Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent.
Titans by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Arsenal, Nightwing, Tempest and Donna Troy will all appear.
Batman by Tom King, David Finch and Jordie Bellaire (promo art features Jim Gordon with a mustache)
Detective Comics by James Tynion IV, Eddy Barrows and Alvaro Martinez (featuring Batman, Batwoman, Tim Drake, Spoiler, Cassandra Cain, and Clayface)
Nightwing by Tim Seeley, Javi Fernandez and ]Marcus To (featuring Nightwing in the classic "black and blue" costume)
Some WTF news:
Justice League #50 will reveal the Joker's real name.
All-Star Batman by Scott Snyder, John Romita Jr., Jock, and Sean Murphy. Paul Pope and Tula Lotay were also teased as guest artists.
Is this a continuation of the Miller series??
Bye bye Lobdell, huh? Maybe I'll try this Titan stuff now.
Batgirl and the Birds of Prey by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, and Claire Roe (team will feature Black Canary and the Huntress)
Batgirl by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque. (Initial arc will feature Batgirl leaving Burnside and going on a training mission/backpacking trip)
Action Comics by Dan Jurgens, Patrick Zircher, Tyler Kirkham and Stephen Segovia. The book will feature the "pre-New 52" versions of Superman, Lois and Jon Kent seen in Jurgens' Superman: Lois and Clark book.
The New Super-Man by Gene Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic. The series will feature a new teen character from Shanghai who gets Superman's powers.
Supergirl by Steve Orlando, Brian Ching and Emanuela Luppacchino.
Trinity by Francis Manapul and Clay Mann
Superwoman by Phil Jimenez and Emanuela Luppacchino
Superman by Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke and Patrick Gleason
Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka, Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott. Alternate issues will feature a "Wonder Woman: Year One" storyline drawn by Scott.
Justice League by Bryan Hitch, Tony Daniel, Fernando Pasarin. Book will feature Green Lanterns Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz as well as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash and Cyborg.
The Flash by Joshua Williamson, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Neil Googe. The initial arc will feature the Flash training dozens of new speedsters. Godspeed (who greatly resembles The Flash TV show's Zoom) will be the main villain.
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps by Robert Vendetti, Ethan Van Sciver and Rafa Sandoval. The book will feature the Green Lanterns fighting to take back the universe from the Sinestro Corps. John Stewart and Guy Gardner will also be featured.
Green Lanterns by Sam Humphries, Robson Rocha and Ardian Syaf featuring rookie Green Lanterns Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz fighting the Red Lanterns.
The Green Lantern: Rebirth one-shot will be co-written by Geoff Johns and Sam Humphries and drawn by Ethan Van Sciver.
Cyborg by John Semper, Will Conrad and Paul Pelletier.
Aquaman by Dan Abnett, Brad Walker, Jesus Merino and Phil Briones. It looks like Tempest will appear in the series, as will Black Manta and Ocean Master. Aquaman will lead into Geoff Johns-plotted "The Rise of the Seven Seas".
Harley Quinn by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin and John Timms.
Suicide Squad by Rob Williams Jim Lee and Phillip Tan. Cover shows Harley Quinn, Rick Flagg, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Killer Croc and Katana.
Green Arrow by Ben Percy, Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreya
Red Hood and the Outlaws by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy.
The Hellblazer by Simon Oliver and Moriart.
Deathstroke by Christopher Priest, Caarlo Pagulayan, Igor Vitorino and Felipe Watanabe
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Superman finally looks like Superman. Would rather he had the red boots, though.
Don't really care for Damian, his old Robin costume was fine IMO. But he looks a bit older here so I guess it's appropriate for him to get a new costume.
Like the new Superboy's design. He looks so happy, lol.
Green Lantern with a gun, whaaaaat.
That Superman costume is atrocious, how can you like that?
Also after all the shit New 52 Supes has been through (getting de-powered, getting exposed as Clark Kent, having Jimmy die in his arms, etc.) it seems like they're bringing back post-Crisis Superman to be the "main" one in the new universe.
Which is awesome because he's the best version of the character (and is also married to Louis and has a kid with her, hence Super Sons.)
Superman #46 apparently. (http://io9.gizmodo.com/supermans-horrible-life-just-got-even-worse-1744787944) I'm way behind on DC stuff so I don't know much outside that. Still need to catch up on Convergence shit.
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it's the ol bait and switch
on the first page of #47 supes is all like "he's got a pulse!"
Cause he's a big dope.
...The fuck is that Cassandra Cain costume? :lolIt's the one she's been wearing in Batman and Robin Eternal.
So normally I acquire my comics through other means
So normally I acquire my comics through other means but recently I noticed a comic book store has open very close to me, so I decided to go inside and check it today. Now I'm not the type to go inside places without planning to buy something but I couldn't think of anything I really wanted, however I remember Empress came out today, so I bought that so I can support the amazing Stuart Immonen.
I'm glad I didn't remember Wonder Woman:Earth One was out today because would've asked for it and ended up paying more than my Amazon preorder. I'll try and support my LCS since I have one now plus it's near a Chinese place I frequent, so that helps a lot.
I've never been a huge comic person but I recently got and read all of The Wicked + The Divine digitally while it was on sale recently, and I bought Book 1 of Saga yesterday when I went to pick up the first issue of Black Panther. My friend's also told me to give East of West a try.
You guys cosign any of these? Anything else that you'd recommend?
So normally I acquire my comics through other means but recently I noticed a comic book store has open very close to me, so I decided to go inside and check it today. Now I'm not the type to go inside places without planning to buy something but I couldn't think of anything I really wanted, however I remember Empress came out today, so I bought that so I can support the amazing Stuart Immonen.
I'm glad I didn't remember Wonder Woman:Earth One was out today because would've asked for it and ended up paying more than my Amazon preorder. I'll try and support my LCS since I have one now plus it's near a Chinese place I frequent, so that helps a lot.
It's out? I thought that was next week.
I'm glad I didn't remember Wonder Woman:Earth One was out today because would've asked for it and ended up paying more than my Amazon preorder.
Merged my Comixology and Amazon accounts. Would NOT recommend it, none of my payments work now. What a shitshow. Literally can't buy comics.
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Amazon must have fired the competent engineers and shuffled the Fire OS team to manage the service. Bunch of fuckwits. Literally can't give them my money.
Merged my Comixology and Amazon accounts. Would NOT recommend it, none of my payments work now. What a shitshow. Literally can't buy comics.
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Amazon must have fired the competent engineers and shuffled the Fire OS team to manage the service. Bunch of fuckwits. Literally can't give them my money.
There's always other means breh.
As the writer of GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH and THE FLASH: REBIRTH, the word “Rebirth” has come to mean something very important to me. It’s not a brand or a marketing tool; it never has been. To me “Rebirth” is about how to approach mythology – about how to honor and celebrate the characters and their respective universes and embrace the values they embody. It’s about the past, the present and most importantly the future.
GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH wasn’t only about the return of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. It was building on a great foundation with tales like “Sinestro Corps War” and “Blackest Night” – stories that challenged our heroes, redefined their villains and introduced new threats and adventures built on the core essence of the Green Lantern myth.
And if we were going to do a “Rebirth” across the DC Universe, we needed to take a hard look at where it was now. And a -Rebirth” starts with bringing something back that’s been missing…
For the DC Universe, it’s about more than just the heroes or villains we might not have seen in a while: it’s about the intrinsic values of what DC Comics and its universe stand for.
That’s epic storytelling.
That’s legacy and honoring the past, while moving it all to the future.
That’s hope.
In a world of digital cynicism and perhaps justified skepticism, I hope you’re surprised when you read the books.
I hope you’ll feel the passion the creators have for the DC Universe within their pages.
But my greatest hope is that all our readers—old and new, returning and die-hard—get a sense of the entire universe as one cohesive, living organism built on the greatest heroes and villains in the world, honoring what’s come before while looking to what will come tomorrow.
“Rebirth” is the next chapter in the ongoing saga of the DC Universe, and I can’t wait for you to experience it.
After Johns had finished his presentation and the meeting had adjourned, one of the editors pulled the writer aside and proclaimed, “I wish I could forget everything you just said and read it as a fan.”
The sentiment was shared by many of the editors; they’d attended creator read-throughs before, but none had generated a buzz like this.
It’s Johns’ hope that he can convince fans to avoid spoilers and pick up DC UNIVERSE- REBIRTH with fresh eyes and open minds. He promises it’ll be well worth the effort for a story that’s going to fundamentally shake everything you know about the DC Universe right down to its very core.
“The themes of [DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH] divide into four chapters,” Johns explains. “The first one is about loss. It focuses on what perhaps has gone missing in our comic books, when it comes to the DC Universe. And historically what the DC Universe really is.
“The second chapter is about legacy. That’s the main thing I feel has been lost from the DC Universe from the New 52 reboot. We’re showing a kind of secret side of the DC Universe, where legacy comes into play again.
“The next chapter is love, and it’s all about the love that’s in the DC Universe…and that which has disappeared from the DC Universe. “The fourth chapter is titled ‘Life,’ which is about both the end and beginning of life.”
Detective Comics (1937) (https://www.comixology.com/Detective-Comics-1937-2011/comics-series/237?ref=c2l0ZS9saXN0L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9zZXJpZXNMaXN0&Issues_pg=20) = #1-881
Detective Comics (2011) (https://www.comixology.com/Detective-Comics-2011/comics-series/6647?ref=c2l0ZS9saXN0L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9zZXJpZXNMaXN0&Issues_pg=4) = #1-52
881 + 52 = 933
Detective Comics (2016) (https://www.comixology.com/Detective-Comics-2016/comics-series/71634?ref=c2l0ZS9saXN0L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9zZXJpZXNMaXN0) starts at #934. So I guess maybe the New 52 issues might be re-numbered? Haha. So glad to have the old numbering back. But this makes me wonder, pre-New 52 Detective Comics was the "main" Batman comic where most of the crossovers spun out of and most of the revered storylines took place in. In New 52 that's been the case for Snyder's Batman, not Detective Comics. Wonder if it's gonna flip back with the return to the old numbering.
/nerdy shit no one except me cares about
I did a fan edit of the logo too
mildly :nsfw
http://imgur.com/DLiHLZe
It'll be reversed in like two months anyway.
The cousin thing works for me. Otherwise you have two characters who are the same person in the same universe with the same powers doing the same shit. That's just not scalable long-term.
I didn't really care a whole lot for Wally but as a big Teen Titans fan it was a great moment all the same. My crew was always Tim/Bart/Conner.(http://static8.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/4/74546-9420-76637-1-young-justice.jpg)(http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/4/55184-9420-76640-1-young-justice.jpg)
Read the first volume of Preacher after watching the first episode of the TV adaptation. Answered most of my questions from the TV show. Otoh, I dunno if the series is for me. I like Ennis/Dillion's ultra fucked up dark violence in his Punisher run because it turns the Punisher into a cartoon ren & stimpy joke character of videogame violence that you laugh at, but in Preacher while it's also dark humor, the ultra-violence fucked up style is just kinda gross for me. Also because they basically answered all the initial plot mysteries in the first volume, there's not much of a hook. Preacher and crew go off looking for god for 9 volumes just doesn't sound that interesting to me, though I'm sure it's a good series since it's a critically well-received one.It's the journey more than the destination. It's about massive entities protecting their interests. It is about believing in one's self when things we idolized prove to have feet of clay. It's about the perseverance of love even when it's difficult, or against the individual's self interest. It's also about blood, gore, and absolutely toilet-tier humor. It's a horror show, but I loved it.
Read the first volume of Preacher after watching the first episode of the TV adaptation. Answered most of my questions from the TV show. Otoh, I dunno if the series is for me. I like Ennis/Dillion's ultra fucked up dark violence in his Punisher run because it turns the Punisher into a cartoon ren & stimpy joke character of videogame violence that you laugh at, but in Preacher while it's also dark humor, the ultra-violence fucked up style is just kinda gross for me. Also because they basically answered all the initial plot mysteries in the first volume, there's not much of a hook. Preacher and crew go off looking for god for 9 volumes just doesn't sound that interesting to me, though I'm sure it's a good series since it's a critically well-received one.It's the journey more than the destination. It's about massive entities protecting their interests. It is about believing in one's self when things we idolized prove to have feet of clay. It's about the perseverance of love even when it's difficult, or against the individual's self interest. It's also about blood, gore, and absolutely toilet-tier humor. It's a horror show, but I loved it.
The TV show is off to an OK start, but there is no way in the world they're going to stick with the story's actual ending. Some Timothy McVeigh type would drive a truck full of fertilizer explosives into Seth Rogen's house.
My only issue with Preacher is as you said:I've not read that part since its initial release, but I remember the "love triangle" only being about Cassidy being a horrible, abusive, needy, pathetic walking shitstain. It was on him; Cassidy used another person's addiction to get them addicted to him. If I had any empathy for Cassidy, that sequence destroyed it utterly.spoiler (click to show/hide)The entire love triangle arc and the whole sheriff stuff, which felt like filler before the actual end game. Cassidy is a piece of shit anyway as much as I love him, the whole love triangle thing wasn't needed to get them to fight and the whole sheriff thing didn't amount to anything.[close]
I love the comic, warts and all. But I can see where you're coming from. The show sucks so I wouldn't really watch it anyway.
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New to me.
Long, but good and thought-provoking.
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My only issue with Preacher is as you said:I've not read that part since its initial release, but I remember the "love triangle" only being about Cassidy being a horrible, abusive, needy, pathetic walking shitstain. It was on him; Cassidy used another person's addiction to get them addicted to him. If I had any empathy for Cassidy, that sequence destroyed it utterly.spoiler (click to show/hide)The entire love triangle arc and the whole sheriff stuff, which felt like filler before the actual end game. Cassidy is a piece of shit anyway as much as I love him, the whole love triangle thing wasn't needed to get them to fight and the whole sheriff thing didn't amount to anything.[close]
I love the comic, warts and all. But I can see where you're coming from. The show sucks so I wouldn't really watch it anyway.
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This is finally the book where I get to pay all that off and bring them forward. And I get to do it, also, side by side with Tim Drake, Red Robin, who is literally my favorite character that exists in all of comics. Every single issue of this run, I think, will show how much I really love the character, because he's right at the heart of what they're building here.
But the heart of Rebirth was the idea of reclaiming the past while building a new and powerful future. And that is right at the heart of this book.
I mean, we put Tim Drake back in a much more familiar costume!
Well that tells us a lot, thanks.
Are those two 'heroes' the ones literally calling themselves "Gotham?"
I'm more interested in the other "Batman" running around in Detective Comics.
What are some really good 4/4 A+++ non-Marvel/DC comics from like 5-10 years ago that are finished? I've read Y: The Last Man, The Losers, Preacher, maybe a couple of others but that's off the top of my head.Since all three of those are DC (Vertigo), I'll assume that's an exception. I didn't go back to see if you've read any.
Starman
The Sandman
What are some really good 4/4 A+++ non-Marvel/DC comics from like 5-10 years ago that are finished? I've read Y: The Last Man, The Losers, Preacher, maybe a couple of others but that's off the top of my head.Since all three of those are DC (Vertigo), I'll assume that's an exception. I didn't go back to see if you've read any.
Ones I liked, or thought were interesting enough to go through:
100 Bullets
DMZ
Ex Machina
Fables
Fallen Angel
Loveless
Lucifer
Queen and Country
Spaceman
Stray Bullets (technically started again after a decade hiatus)spoiler (click to show/hide)Starman
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his for dropping the uninteresting aspects for the less so relationships.Comixology had the trades on sale, and I loved v1 and 2, so I grabbed v3 and 4.
Lazarus (Ongoing) - This is sorta fun, the world is maybe more interesting than the ongoing plot, and they stick additional text at the end of each issue fleshing that out.
Wait, Fables ended?Wikipodium says July 2015. Time to re-read Ironwood.
Vol. 1 #1–37
Vol. 2 #1–30
Vol. 3 #1–11
Powers: Bureau Vol.1 #1–11
Vol. 4 #1–current
Can I say this is Linda Danvers? Of course I can't. However, it's pretty freaking obvious that it is.
The Adversary mystery/plot that forms the first third or so of the series is one of my favorites. It does go a bit downhill after that for a period as if Willingham never intended to go beyond The Adversary. I liked the Literals arc.I thought I had read more of the series than I did, if that's the first ⅓ of it. I've got 10 or so trade paperbacks, but some of them are miniseries. Willingham's novel, Peter and Max, was very good, too. As far as The Adversary, I was disappointed that it didn't turn out to be
DKIII: The Master Race #5 has the most legit hype as fuck last page. I'm not a big cape stan but even that got me. Also I read DK2 before DK3 and actually kinda enjoyed it, the coloring is the real weak link in the book, sometimes it works but I feel it mostly takes away from Miller's art. I expected something way worse but all I got was something silly,rough around the edges but okay in the end.
DKR is one of the most important, defining comics of the last 40 years.
DKSA is a master-level troll effort.
DKR is one of the most important, defining comics of the last 40 years.
DKSA is a master-level troll effort.
Except if you've read his other stuff you'd know it wasn't a troll.
Try Holy Terror sometime.
Heh, I thought you meant the artwork.
Heh, I thought you meant the artwork.
The artwork is too shitty to be on purpose.
There’s a new Iron Man. Well, Iron Man for now. She’s still working on the name. The events at the end of the comic book event series Civil War II will result in Tony Stark stepping out of the Iron Man suit and a new character, Riri Williams, taking over, Marvel tells TIME. (Note: Tony’s departure doesn’t mean you know the end to Civil War II yet.)(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/imvim2015_promo.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=814)
Riri is a science genius who enrolls in MIT at the age of 15. She comes to the attention of Tony when she builds her own Iron Man suit in her dorm.
Yup, Sam Wilson Cap has completely disappeared off the Earth. So has Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel as well.
Yup, Sam Wilson Cap has completely disappeared off the Earth. So has Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel as well.They are still being pushed.
So now, following the female Thor and female Wolverine, we have...female Iron Man. I like her design, but I gotta say, I'm starting to get tired of this. Can they not just make these characters into new superheroes instead of replacing existing ones with different genders/races/whatever?QuoteThere’s a new Iron Man. Well, Iron Man for now. She’s still working on the name. The events at the end of the comic book event series Civil War II will result in Tony Stark stepping out of the Iron Man suit and a new character, Riri Williams, taking over, Marvel tells TIME. (Note: Tony’s departure doesn’t mean you know the end to Civil War II yet.)(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/imvim2015_promo.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=814)
Riri is a science genius who enrolls in MIT at the age of 15. She comes to the attention of Tony when she builds her own Iron Man suit in her dorm.
Look at him, all smiles after frying his cat with his heat vision.
:what
Marvel is spoiling their own shit. In Civil War #3, there's a "major" character death:spoiler (click to show/hide)The Inhuman, who gets visions of the future, sees the Hulk going on a rampage, so Hawkeye takes a special arrow that Bruce Banner created for him and shoots Banner in the head with it.
...Which makes no sense, since Banner is no longer the Hulk-- That's now Amadeus Cho.[close]
:confused
But maybe this is what really gets the event going.
Civil War II also ties into several new limited series including: Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man, Civil War II: Choosing Sides, Civil War II: Gods of War, Civil War II: Kingpin, Civil War II: Ulysses, and Civil War II: X-Men, the one-shots: Civil War II: The Accused and Civil War II: The Fallen, and numerous ongoing seriesOh good, they're keeping up tradition then.
In June 2016, Marvel announced that "Civil War II" will result in a new status quo of Marvel Universe, which will be presented in the "Divided We Stand" storyline as part of the company's 2016 Marvel NOW! relaunch.(http://i.newsarama.com/images/i/000/173/504/original/3061358-inline-i-1-divided-we-stand-marvel-shell.jpg)
Didn't the first Civil War take a while to get to the "war" too? Maybe it just felt like it because of the ten thousand tie-in issues most of the "consequences" plot got shunted off into. (Then forgotten about or made incoherent.)QuoteCivil War II also ties into several new limited series including: Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man, Civil War II: Choosing Sides, Civil War II: Gods of War, Civil War II: Kingpin, Civil War II: Ulysses, and Civil War II: X-Men, the one-shots: Civil War II: The Accused and Civil War II: The Fallen, and numerous ongoing seriesOh good, they're keeping up tradition then.
Wait, they're doing another "relaunch" thing?
Superman (2016) #3
A robot eats a dog. This is the best comic running.
It's been so long since I read that storyline that I can't remember how it all plays out and if it was all worth reading. But it does lead to Dark Reign which is fun for a bit.
How does that Marvel app work? Does it give you all the related comics in a storyline in reading order? Might have to try it out for a bit if so.
Yeah Detective is easily my favorite super hero book right now. The team dynamic is just really well done.
i totally forgot to read that...and superwoman
some of rebirth is really fucked up from an editorial stand point but you only notice it if you're mainlining everything as it comes out
like, i like the individual superman components going on right...but which is happening in what timeframe and order, and include his justice league stuff in this, also can we stop fighting doomsday again and explain all the interesting stuff in Action?
and i swear to god, Old Lois has become Sue Storm from the 1960's, every issue in half the books is her worrying about her husband and how she can't bear to watch TV or let Jon see it...while in another book her and Jon are beating the living shit out of the Eradicator while Supes takes a nap
something similar with batman/detective is going on, but they're going to do that crossover so that will sync them up a bit
it's not a real problem or anything, but it's the same thing that sent the new 52 spiraling in random directions with no grand editorial oversight...and now that Johns is off doing the movies...
also, in retrospect, the rebirth issues themselves are fairly garbage, especially since nearly every #1 of the series proper immediately discards them to jump right into established plot (this good, rebirth issues mostly bad)
I've heard that Chinese Superman is pretty good. Is it?
Detective Comics #940spoiler (click to show/hide)And Tim Drake's record of being the only Robin not to die is brok-... wait, huh. Nevermind then.
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Ugh, I am not liking this Watchmen shit. So they bring Tim Drake back to Batman and co. only to remove him completely? :lol
Tim Drake is my favorite character in comics. This is the character that I grew up with. He was really my entry point to the Batman books in the late ‘90s/early 2000s when I started reading comic books when I was in middle school and high school. He, as a character, means a tremendous lot to me, and especially his view on the rest of the Bat-family. He is a brighter character who has a bit more of a utopian vision of being what a member of the Bat family can actually be.
In terms of the larger Rebirth story, this is the beginning of Tim Drake’s story. This is the first step toward really big, really cool stuff I am really excited for everyone to see.
The best way to describe it is having my cake and eating it too. We didn’t want to do the standard fake-out, okay the character’s dead and then three issues later reveal he’s alive. We wanted to show people right away that this isn’t something we did to shock readers, this is all part of a story. We wanted to make it clear that everything that’s happening with Tim is because we think he’s one of the most important characters in the DC Universe, not an expendable character that we’re going to toss on the fire to make all the characters cry. Now, at the same time, we get to use him to make all the characters cry.
This is all a bigger story. The fact that it is Tim, and Tim is central to all of this, that is relevant and important. You’ll be slowly discovering why over the next few months or years.
Tim’s a character who I feel like in the New 52 got brought over to the Titans side of the universe, and was sort of taken away from Gotham. Being able to root him as a crucial Gotham figure before sending him off into maybe the biggest story Tim has ever been a part of in DC comics history, that’s something that is important to me and makes me happy that we were able to do.
It's Tokyo Ghoul you fuckin' pleb :expert
It's Tokyo Ghoul you fuckin' pleb :expert
Tokyo Ghost is the white people comic series, you fuckin weeb.
Do they do stuff like this sometimes in comics to see how it sells and if it's popular then they come back and make a sequel series?In some cases, but in the case of Warren Ellis that's often just how he writes things. Ocean is very similar.
Finished my Trade volumes #1 read of comics I got from the last 2 years of Image modern created-owned comics. My thoughts:
East of West - Pretty solid Hickman apocalyptic tale. At this point I've read enough comics that nothing feels original and everything story-wise and character-wise and even scene-wise feels like I've already seen it somewhere (4 horseman, X-men Apocalypse; Death as vengeance anti-hero, Preacher; Post-apocalyptic sci-fi western, even bits of Hickman's other running Manhatten Projects, etc...), but it's pretty enjoyable pulp. Will continue reading this.
I think I already talked about how Warren Ellis' Injection was the shit, but I'll make another note here in case you haven't read it.
Jupiter's Circle - Apparently this is a prequel by Mark Millar to a different Millar series. Was ok.
Kaptara - Kind of generic sci-fi lost on another planet thing, but I do like the He-Man-esque feel of it a bit. Still not bothering past this volume.
Low - Rick Remender's underwater Mad Max. Gorgeous art, decently entertaining, will continue.
Nailbiter - Horror slasher film monsters True Detective mystery tale. Entertaining. Will continue.
No Mercy - Oh no, kids on an international trip are stuck in a dangerous area and will get killed off left & right battle royale-ish. Zzz
Nowhere Men - Suuuuuper similar to The Manhatten Projects about scientists who went wrong, but also about mutant astronauts X-men style. Was ok, but don't think I'll read more.
Ody-c by Matt Fraction about sci-fi Norse gods or something, idk the art and panel layouts were too psychedelic out that I thought it was miserable to read and bailed halfway.
Outcast was ok, I can see why they'd make a tv show out of it. Very slow paced and a bit boring. No interest in continuing.
Phonogram Kara got me into this. Wasn't hugely sold by Volume 1 since it felt fairly elitist UK britpop blogging in philosophical form, but love volume #2 which is just a fun comic about people having a good time at a club and how music effects them. Individual the club stories are fairly shallow, but together as a single piece the interwoven story is fantastic and the tracklist is great. One of the best comics I've read. Now I can't stop listening to Pull Shapes.
Satellite Sam - Noir television industry murder mystery. Kinda interesting, kind of boring. Probably not going to continue.
Shutter - Weird randomly super-violent w/furries action adventure? Sorta intriguing. Might check out volume 2+
The Fade Out - Another Noir television/movie industry murder mystery. Fairly entertaining like most Brubaker comics. Beyond that didn't really grab me, but might check out vol.2
The Wicked & The Divine - Enjoyed the first volume quite a bit since I like gods and mythology. Only bummer is they got rid of the most interesting character in volume 1. But definitely will check out 2+
Trees - Another neat Ellis' story. Don't like it anywhere near as much as Injection, it's also depressingly bleak view of people in a world post alien tree landings. But will grab volume 2 next image sale.
Velvet - More entertaining Brubaker action mystery thrillers. Fairly popcorn but fun. Surprised they haven't made a movie out of it yet. Will check out volume 2.
Virgil - "A Queersploitation Revenge Tale" the back cover says. Yup, that's exactly what it is. Fairly entertaining for that kind of genre. The setting in Jamaica was interesting.
Wolf - I had to check if this was written by the guy who wrote Fables. It isn't, but it's the exact same concept but darker. I like that kind of concept (personification of fable/myth characters). Will grab volume 2 next sale.
So yeah, some good stuff in there. Next time there's an image sale will pick up the next few volumes of a good chunk of them. Still need to read Saga and more of Fables, but since they're both lengthy been saving until I finished all the volume 1s. Looking forward to the next image humble bundle sale of new volume 1s to check out.
How do they explain terrigen mist killing mutants? haven't mutants been exposed to terrigen before?
If more money can have it be animated a bit better, then yes please.
Fifth Element is basically an Incal rip off anyway.
Apparently there's some author who has just quit twitter because she was harassed incessantly (http://www.cbr.com/mockingbird-writer-chelsea-cain-quits-twitter-due-to-harassment/) about her comic. This is a novelist, who had a successful series of million-selling novels prior to taking on comics, and "never blocked anyone on Twitter until she started writing a relatively low-profile comic book series."
Fucking fanboys, making both comics AND games hard to cheer for.
How about that Death of X #4 everyone? :dogespoiler (click to show/hide)Marvel is like fuck the Xmen, Inhumans is where its at (cuz they can be in the MCU) :jawalrus[close]
How about that Death of X #4 everyone? :dogespoiler (click to show/hide)Marvel is like fuck the Xmen, Inhumans is where its at (cuz they can be in the MCU) :jawalrus[close]
In case anyone is wondering:spoiler (click to show/hide)The big revelation in this book is that Cyclops died in the first issue. He was exposed to the terrigen cloud, got sick, and died quickly afterwards. Everything you see afterwards is Emma Frost mentally-projecting him and his "ideas" onto everyone.[close]
Marvel seems to have dialed it back with the Inhumans shit though. It's no longer a movie and is gonna be a TV show, right? But still, Inhumans blows and they are never going to replace the X-Men. Get over Fox already, Marvel, and stop shitting on the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. This crap is stupid.
Next up is Inhumans Vs. X-Men. Let's see how many more mutants they decide to kill off. :doge
Finally got to the controversial Spider-Man one more day arc after civil war & back in black. Not really sure how this can even work with the retcon because it basically changes the timeline for the entire marvel universe in a lot of ways that I guess will be apparent as I read the marvel comics from this point. Kinda a shame to see his back in black Kingpin beatdown retconned.
Having no idea what one more day was gonna be about, but having heard about it being the end to JMS Spider-Man and not really hearing anyone talk about Peter Parker arcs much after, I thought One More Day was going to be an arc where they kill off Parker and end Amazing Spiderman for good and someone else takes over as Spiderman. Not sure if that would've been better as it felt like some stuff was never resolved. Like now that they're retconning, are they dropping the entire Spider God Totem mystical greater will guiding Spider-Man subplot that never really resolved? Because that felt like an interesting direction to take the character and felt like it was building up to something big, but it just gave a few enemies and the never really explained the point of the mystical spider god.
Well when you talk about Spider-Man I figure you were talking about a non-Peter Parker Spiderman :p
I thought this Miles Morales guy I've heard about would take it over after Marvel killed Parker off, but yeah I was wrong about that.
If you liked Young Justice I would recommend Teen Titans, it is pretty Young Justicey.Of course they don't have this. I'll just get it from amazon or somewhere else.
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If you liked Young Justice I would recommend Teen Titans, it is pretty Young Justicey.
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This is the first graphic novel in the run I would recommend. I sort of liked the new 52 run of Teen Titans but objectively it was not that good so it is sort of difficult to recommend.
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Thank you :bow
All I've bought since my last post in here is the New 52 Justice League, but I'll definitely pick up some stuff from your list.
Midnighter is originally from The Authority/Stormwatch. The former of which he was in a homosexualist relationship with another hero raising a "daughter". He was saved from the pile of discontinuity for use in Grayson though.
52 is fucking amazing, but I think you need to have gone Grant Morrison obsession level with some of the canon to appreciate it to its max. It's the culmination of the fours (Waid/Morrison/Rucka/Johns) plus James Robinson's runs on Starman/JSA/Gotham Central/Checkmate/JLA/The Kingdom brought to a head due to Infinite Crisis to setup for Final Crisis. (And they may not have known it, but New Krypton. Also, because Morrison was involved there's all sorts of tiny setups for what eventually happens in The Multiversity.) The amazing thing is it does this with none of the major DC characters, Superman/Batman/Flash/etc. are all on the sidelines.
Final Crisis was poorly published and is still poorly collected, the entire thing, not just the main book events are the "final crisis" ending the main story arcs that Morrison, Rucka, and Johns had started much much earlier in other books, most of them in the Infinite Crisis tie-ins.
FC's central theme that evil wins, but it's pointless for them to win and thus end reality aka stories, so the multiverse self-reboots with its own literal deus ex machina to clear out the infection
is lost because it's spread all over the tie-ins and Morrison put half the plot in two other books. This also undermines R.I.P. and its own, later, conclusion.
What they should have done is not held back Blackest Night or have held back Final Crisis. Using the former could fix a weird plot hole in the latter and would tie together the lone arc that gets ignored because Johns had all these plans in motion for Green Lantern so they barely appear in FC. Nekron's goal and actions in Blackest Night make infinitely more sense (and would have more weight than suddenly coming out of nowhere) if he's taking part in conjunction with Darkseid, Superboy Prime and Vandal Savage/Cain's bringing about of the "final crisis" event.
Anyway, Booster Gold spins out of 52 and is sweet. All the Batwoman stuff is pretty fun too.
No Man's Land is Batman's and arguably DC's greatest story arc. Fight me about it.
Civil War 2 was the biggest crock of shit ever. I can't believe I spent money on this garbage event.
I don’t want it to be grim. I don’t want it to be superheroes arguing over something. Superheroes won’t be fighting superheroes.
:ohhh THAT'S what he was getting at? :lol That's not half bad but still.Morrison has for about twenty-five years toyed with the metafictional aspect of the reality in comics as stories and their integrated relationship with the readers and authors. All the way back to Animal Man. It's all over The Invisibles to an insane level. It's in Doom Patrol, it's in The Filth, Seven Soldiers is about this. The core idea behind The Black Glove and R.I.P. is that all Batman stories are true because they've been written, you can't just write them out of existing. Flex Mentallo came about entirely because he decided that old ad where the guy kicks sand on the weakling who then works out and beats up the bully is somehow comic canon. His New 52 Action Comics run is a nearly circular story which ties into both All-Star Superman and DC One Million BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS CANON even after we've rebooted the multiverse.
Never read Blackest Night/Brightest Day but always really wanted to considering how many people get brought back from the dead, haha.Almost all of the Green Lantern stuff after Sinestro Corps War is a good idea poorly executed and Blackest Night is definitely that to where it's really uninteresting or compelling in anyway outside of the concept. Brightest Day is kinda fun because it's such an anti-event, but it's the JLI reunion/OMAC sequel series that ran alongside it that has all the exciting stuff.
Flashpoint (2011)
If you've never quite "gotten" the Flash, this story will probably do it for you and is one of the few examples of a "darker alternate universe" done right.
Forever Evil (2013-2014)
I seem to disagree with the mainstream on this one, but this is the (only) crossover I think is truly great in the New 52. Focusing on Lex Luthor and a group of ostensible "super villains" as they battle evil alternate-dimension versions of the Justice League, the series served as a fantastic character piece for Lex and even got me caring about fucking Captain Cold and Bizarro. In a word, masterful.
Convergence (2015)
Or rather, certain miniseries of Convergence. I've never read the full thing or the framing story (about Brainiac and the multiverse and blah blah blah.) Convergence was fun and important because it brought back pre-New 52 stories and characters for the first time since it launched, opening the door to Rebirth.
The Long Halloween (which is my favorite non-canon Batman trade.)
All those Harley recs :kobeyuck
100% of bork's recs being busty females :dead
Just about anything by Conner/Palmiotti is worth reading.
I read new issues of some comics through comixology on my phone right now, but I'd rather not use such a tiny screen.
I said the recent series from those two were all female-lead. They're also all really good. Try reading them-- they're a lot better than shit like fucking CONVERGENCE. Their stuff stands out because so much other stuff from DC hasn't been that great as of late.
:ufup
What do you all prefer, physical or digital?
Beezy, get Batman: Odyssey.
Since y'all are giving Beezy recs, I've basically gave up on SH comics for three years but I'm curious about recent Batman runs that are worth looking up. Any suggestions? Keep in mind I don't like Scott Snyder's stuff for the most part.
Didn't say anything about the quality of the books (though I don't like New 52 Harley at all), it was just funny in the context of your avatar/busty VG char fetish. :lol
Hickman used way too many characters in Avengers though. Like why the fuck was Wolverine even around?
http://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-is-already-teasing-its-next-big-comic-event-1790914751
Is Marvel just straight up unending crossovers that bleed into each other now?
We are also shown events that will occur in the future. These are essentially ads for other books and are like covers done by different artists. :lol
-A bunch of giant monsters fighting each other in what looks like a destroyed (post-apocalyptic?) city. This is for an upcoming event storyline.
-Inhumans Vs. X-Men. This cross-over event is already going on.
-Spider-Man (Miles Morales) still standing over a dead Captain America (Steve Rogers) with something through his chest. This was the vision that kept coming up in Civil War II but didn't happen. My guess is that this is how the current storyline with the Hydra-brainwashed Cap will end.
-Ultron standing over some defeated Avengers. The big thing here is that it shows what appears to be The Hulk (Bruce Banner), Captain America (Steve Rogers) with his round shield again, and Wolverine...in his yellow and blue costume, which Old Man Logan never wears.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-is-already-teasing-its-next-big-comic-event-1790914751
Is Marvel just straight up unending crossovers that bleed into each other now?
What do you mean "now?" :P But I'm looking forward to this one since reality-warped-Hydra-Cap is awesome.
I'm happy he makes money when Hollywood does now, but I wish Kirby had been in on that cash cow as well.
I'm happy he makes money when Hollywood does now, but I wish Kirby had been in on that cash cow as well.
I have a recent-ish issue of Heavy Metal that features a bunch of artwork that Kirby did for the Lord of Light movie and it's really incredible, makes me supremely sad that it ended up getting cancelled.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-is-already-teasing-its-next-big-comic-event-1790914751
Is Marvel just straight up unending crossovers that bleed into each other now?
What do you mean "now?" :P But I'm looking forward to this one since reality-warped-Hydra-Cap is awesome.
It feels unfair to beat on them since I'm a DC guy but it just feels exhausting, non-stop shit even before Secret Wars (which felt like it took forever.) And their stuff runs through so many books.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but DC seems superior here. They have a big event every year or so (Forever Evil, Future's End, Convergence, Rebirth), but they're their own series/books and crossovers in ongoing titles are contained to an issue or two. Related characters have crossovers (like the Bat-family) but that feels a lot more natural and less strained.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-book-bundleI know this is late, but I do recomened Lasurus. It's action girl lead done well. The main female is written very well. Forever is never emotionless and the series is about her emerging agency. She's also pretty badass, but never over the top. She also looks the part. More Lucy Lawless than Lucy Lie. It also takes place in a corporate feudal world which is interesting.
So Humble Bundle is doing their yearly Image Comics sale. Being that this is the first year post me actually reading all the Image Comic stuff I got from previous bundles and then buying things in various sales, I'm good on the $15 & above tier. In the $10 and below tier though, there's a bunch of stuff I haven't read. I'm guessing at least a few of these are worth reading?
Lazurus
Limbo
Mirror
Casanova
Morning Glories
Prophet
Revival
Strange Talent of Luther
Throwaways
Romulus
Kill of be Killed
Moonshine
Black Monday Murders
Demonic
The Fix
Black Road
Cannibal
Horizon
The Discipline
Island
The Beauty
Surgeon X
Sons of the Devil
Rockstars
She Wolf
I mean $10 for #1s of all that is a no brainer, so I'll grab it, but anything you all recommend reading in that lot?
*edit* nm, only the bolded are vol.1s, everything $5 or under is just issue #1 bleh. Still worth it for $10?
*edit edit* actually on $15 tier there's a handful I don't have. Birthright, Drifter, Pretty Deadly, Roche Limit, Rumble, Spread. Probably worth another $5 for volume 1 of all those.
"Snotgirl?"
:confused
DC Universe: Rebirth Special #1
May 2016
Batman Rebirth #1
June 2016
Superman Rebirth #1
June 2016
Batwoman Rebirth #1when Batwoman has been in Detective Comics for over six months now :lol
February 2017
Justice League of America Rebirth #1
February 2017
Marvel Comics first announced the launch of Marvel NOW! in July 2012. Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso described it as "the next chapter in the ongoing saga of the Marvel Universe." Alonso further explained, "From October through February, we’ll provide at least one great reason for readers—old, lapsed or new—to go into a comic store each week: a new issue #1, featuring an exciting new creative team and driving concept, that’s an easy entry-point into the Marvel Universe." Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada stressed that unlike DC Comics' The New 52, it is not a reboot, but a shifting of the Marvel Universe following the events of Avengers vs. X-Men. Quesada explained that there will be "a lot of changes to the character status quos, alter egos, costumes, creator shifts, design shifts, the way that we do our covers, digital shifts and the way we start delivering our books"
In September 2013, Marvel announced a next phase of Marvel NOW! in the aftermath of the "Infinity" storyline, (which led into the "Inhumanity" storyline) called "All-New Marvel NOW!" which will see new series being launched and will also provide entry issue to existing series.
Marvel NOW! officially ended in May 2015 at the start of the Secret Wars storyline, which saw the end of the Marvel Universe. Following the conclusion of Secret Wars, the universe is scheduled to be relaunched again in All-New All-Different Marvel.[9] Alonso stated that the relaunches are reminiscent of the North American television season, explaining "I think that the comics industry -- certainly, we are -- slowly working into a season model that's not too unlike what we see in our favorite cable TV shows: a seasonal model that offers accessible entry points for new readers and is respectful of long-term fans. We did Marvel NOW! and All-New Marvel NOW!, which were both two very successful campaigns. And [All-New All-Different Marvel] is the latest campaign."[10]:dead
In May 2016, Marvel announced the return of Marvel NOW! following the conclusion of the "Civil War II" storyline.[11] Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort stated that the relaunch is timed to coincide with "Civil War II" as means to "refresh and revitalize" the titles explaining, "One of the things a big event story is judged on, rightly or wrongly, is what kind of an impact it has on the Marvel Universe in its aftermath. That just becomes a condition of these big event stories: what is it at the end that changes the landscape?"
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:neogaf
The actual event itself might end up fun. It's the build-up that was just... :dizzy :dizzy :dizzy. Although I did like the Steve Rogers: Captain America series that has led up to this. Asshole-Secretly-Evil Steve makes for some good reading.
Anyway, I'm glad that Marvel is going to take a break from all this MAJOR STORYLINE EVENT!!!!! stuff for a while after this one ends.
I'm triggered by bork's use of "John" instead of his actual name, "Jon."
Multiversity went from a planned major event to being a quality side-show to Countdown level garbage like Trinity War and Convergence.
Meanwhile, Johns had gotten the clout to also say screw it and ignore everything for Justice League which let him write an actual "scale" event that all the other books ignored despite being a far superior and logical vehicle for "rebooting" the universe than Convergence was. (Convergence's villain for six of the eight issues is still by far the most baffling thing I've seen in comics in decades.)
And this was the company that thought they had botched post-Infinite Crisis somehow when it has all the storylines everyone looks back fondly on now like 52, the New Krypton saga, Sinistro Corps and the explosion of the light spectrum, Hush/Red Hood plus Morrison's Batman, etc. :neogaf
I didn't know INVINCIBLE was still going, thanks for letting us know it's ending soon. I'll likely pick up the trade paperbacks and finish it off with a nice re-read of what I've got in-hand.It's ending with issue #144*. The last 12 issues are the final arc. There will be 12 Ultimate Collection Hardcovers. 24 Collected TPB's. Up to 10 and up to 23 are out respectively. Penultimate TPB just came out this month. There's also giant hardcovers called The Complete Library that collect like 24+ issues each but one hasn't come out in five years and that was up to #70.
Now for the dumbest part of this- The Kobik-altered past of Captain America is made further fucked-up when it is revealed that Steve was originally an agent of Hydra, trained since childhood, and that the Nazis won World War II. What changed things is that the Americans found the cosmic cube and used it to alter reality to win the war, making Steve think that he was a good guy. Steve, back in the WWII era, is taken to a super-duper-secret Hydra stronghold in Japan and shown visions of all of this and the 'altered' future. He is put into some magical pool that will prevent him from being completely altered and in the future he will be restored to his full-on Hydra self, which is where the story is now.
So what Marvel has done is basically retconned Captain America to have always been a super-villain from the beginning.
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Read that Secret Empire spoiler and went :mindblown :comeon :gurl :larry
How long until all of this is retconned.
Also is Tim Drake back yet or still imprisoned?
Two Superman? Nonsense. It's one Superman now - the best version. ;):hitler
Oh and the Superman Reborn rumor is basically what you'd expect.
They're erasing the New 52 sorta. It's just stuff that happened in everyones past...sorta. We're back to what time would have been had those years passed normally before Flashpoint.
And Superman did this...somehow because of his other son, you know the one he left in the Phantom Zone a decade ago?
And the semi-okay part:
Darkseid is back. He and the New Gods never died.
The Darkseid War was the real start of "Rebirth" after all. Just consider that entire run to be Justice League Rebirth.
Two Superman? Nonsense. It's one Superman now - the best version. ;):hitler
if that summary out of C2E2 is true
:jawalrus
Except Mister Miracle is alive meaning the anti-life equation can be resisted, and Darkseid can be killed (by Batman because natch) and then as a response try to take the whole multiverse down with him but Superman is Superman so of course he can survive the end of the multiverse and be able to wish for a happy ending.
Now they're basically doing for Superman what Morrison did with Batman originally. It's all canon. All of it. Somehow, in some way it happened. And now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if The Button is going to do that for The Flash since it sounds from having read the first Batman issue of it and piecing it together with Supes and this general idea like they might just be going back and erasing Flashpoint from having happened or at least from having been universe altering.
the Teen Titans keep refounding themselves and starting over in their relationships so they all hate each other to start and then randomly killing some new guy SO YOU KNOW THERE'S STAKES EXCEPT NOT FOR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS YOU KNOW AND OH WHOOPS WE'RE USING THESE CHARACTERS IN THE OTHER BOOKS CAN YOU HOLD ON A BIT.
I thought I had loved previous Titans nonsense but my favorite really was New 52 when they spun off The Ravagers and then that series just like ended in the middle of the story and then they rebooted the Titans series again and were like none of that stuff happened okay and forget what they all did in the other books too?
I kinda liked how they did the Titans -> Outsiders, Young Justice -> Titans swap way back in the day when they realized they needed to bump up both teams finally. Oh shit, that wound up collapsing into Countdown though, maybe Dick Grayson is the true villain of the DC Universe.
Long story short, JSA was the best, it's never coming back and neither is Checkmate, even though JLvSS referenced them both. They're dead benji. DEAD. REAL DEAD. (And they were too, Hal Jordan all let them age in Zero Hour and they mostly did die and haven't come back. And Mr. Terrific was so black they banished him to Earth 2 (and the future?) and made him randomly disappear in the middle of the plot, and none of the rest of the main cast of Checkmate was seen again except for Amanda Waller after Booster Gold ended. That was a good book too...man, Flashpoint, fuck you.)
Tho I kinda liked the "World of Flashpoint" which we could now put on one of those unmarked Earths in Morrison's map!!!!
ha looking at wikipedia to see who was behind New 52 i forgot all the stuff like how they couldn't tell George Perez anything about Superman's backstory (were the Kent's alive, what's his relationship with Lois, etc.) but expected him to write the character as if he'd been around for five years, fired and then rehired gail simone, had a bunch of people leave before their runs even started because editors wanted to change everything and then all the weird batwoman stuff that eventually left her non-canon until she came back with Rebirth in Detective Comics.
I wouldn't say "all of it," it's clearly just post-COIE stuff. The problem with Morrison is he was dredging up shit like Batman of Zur-En-Arrh and other stuff from the Silver Age literally no one except him cared about.After DC published the Black Casebook collecting these old issues (most of which i already had read or owned) with Morrison's commentary on them and I went back and through his run again I appreciated it and R.I.P. way more when in the moment it felt like a complete mess that doesn't make any sense. Even the Joker prose story and Joker's eventual role in the finale strangely works. There's supposed to be something about the grids and stuff that he's telling Bat-Mite but I never looked that up.
Aaaaand you lost me again. :lolJSA is really good and Earth 2 started with the same themes. I liked coming into it with Starman first. Aged heroes passing the baton to a new generation that goes heavier on the personal relationships since none of the characters have to run off to their own books like the JLA. And since they weren't important characters like Superman or whatever the writers were allowed to do what they wanted for a whole like 200 issue run unlike JLA which after Morrison left got thrown around and outside of the Elite era had zero sense of continuity. The same writer was doing Earth 2 but quit because editorial started interfering with Futures End deciding the fate of his world and characters before he could even start using them. Even though I think editorial stopped paying attention to Futures End after they did all the one-shot issues so they just send Tim Drake to fix the past and shoot him into the Batman Beyond book because why not then let Earth 2 Society pick up the actual strands of where Earth 2 wound up going.
Am I to believe the rumors that Marvel is about to make Magneto, Holocaust survivor, a member of Hydra all along, actually making him a NAZI?
Am I to believe the rumors that Marvel is about to make Magneto, Holocaust survivor, a member of Hydra all along, actually making him a NAZI?
They're trying hard to make it so that Hydra aren't Nazis now. :lol :-\
Am I to believe the rumors that Marvel is about to make Magneto, Holocaust survivor, a member of Hydra all along, actually making him a NAZI?
They're trying hard to make it so that Hydra aren't Nazis now. :lol :-\
If so, that's some of the most fucked up shit I've seen.
I was starting to think that way in Agents of SHIELD TV show as well, in that Hydra has been made to predate the Nazis and have a more lovecraftian goal than simple provide "order" to the world (on their terms, natch).
Am I to believe the rumors that Marvel is about to make Magneto, Holocaust survivor, a member of Hydra all along, actually making him a NAZI?
They're trying hard to make it so that Hydra aren't Nazis now. :lol :-\
If so, that's some of the most fucked up shit I've seen.
I was starting to think that way in Agents of SHIELD TV show as well, in that Hydra has been made to predate the Nazis and have a more lovecraftian goal than simple provide "order" to the world (on their terms, natch).
Are you caught up on Agents of Shield? If not don't click the spoilerspoiler (click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/agentsofshield/status/849451227620548608?lang=en[close]
Toxic comiclinity
I need to remember to unsubscribe from my Marvel Unlimited subscription before it renews another month. Someone gave me a free month, and I've been charged for three more months due to my inaction while arguing with myself that "I might read more next month."
It is the most personal and most epic, utterly mind-bending project I have ever worked on in my career.
It took my heart and soul over.
“We’re not going to do a story like this unless we one-thousand percent believe in it. It is all about the story; it is only about the story. There are no crossovers. No watered down one-shots or mini-series on top of this one. This is a standalone story. There is only Doomsday Clock.
After the human-robot traps everyone at a literal dinner table, the two sides of Secret Empire begin to go at each other verbally in lieu of using their fists. While both sides try to convince Pym-Ultron that they’re in the right, he ultimately shuts them all down by pointing out that literally all of them have spent the last couple of major story arcs and events fucking up in massively different ways.
Is it me or has Marvel's actual comics been shit for a while now?*spoiler (click to show/hide)*Can't say much about DC since I dropped it a few years ago too.[close]
You don't want something new, you want something different. You wanted something new you wouldn't be reading cape comics :smug
Isn't Renew Your Vows basically Superman: Lois & Clark/Superman Rebirth but not canon?
Civil War II was definitely bad. And largely pointless, except for one thing, which is Spider-Man (Miles) standing over a dead Captain America in D.C. It was supposed to be a vision from an Inhuman that never happened, but with Secret Empire, well...guess that's the ending.
What has been pretty good in Marvel, despite the absurdity of how it happened (check a page or two back; I summarized it), is Captain America being turned into the number one villain. The Steve Rogers Captain America books leading up to Secret Empire are worth a read. I've also been enjoying the Spider-Man and X-Men books lately, because they've been entirely self-contained and are almost being treated like mini-universes. Looks like they're about to start Secret Empire crossover shit, though.
The other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
Secret Empire is only on #3, but it already feels like it's just dragging on. I also hate how it just shows Hydra running America, Inhumans in camps, and mutants on a reservation of sorts, but gives us almost no details on how this takeover happened so easily. NYC is in some kind of big darkforce bubble, so most superheroes are trapped within, sure, but it's still a head-scratcher how easily this was pulled off.
I guess I like this series more than Civil War II, but I'm really tired of Marvel crossovers pitting heroes against each other and them just introducing younger rehashes of heroes. Do something fucking NEW already.
The series of Dark Knight one-shots debuts Sept. 20 with Batman: The Red Death #1, by writer Joshua Williamson and artist Carmine Di Giandomenico; followed Sept. 2y by Batman: The Murder Machine #1 by Frank Tieri and Ricardo Federici; Oct. 4 by Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1 by Sam Humphries and Ethan Van Sciver; Oct. 18 by Batman: The Drowned #1, by Dan Abnett and Philip Tan; Oct. 25 by Batman: The Merciless #1, by Peter J. Tomasi and Francis Manapul; Nov. 1 by Batman: The Devastator #1; and Nov. 15 by The Batman Who Laughs. The creative teams for the final two one-shots weren’t revealed.
I gotta catch up on Superman, I only read the first few issues, it was a bit too fruity for me.
So what are you guys exciting about these days?
- Retcons relating to a character's origins ("The Joker CHOSE Duke OMFG!!!!11" Fuck off.)
- Retcons relating to an entire universe ("Meta-humans come from this weird metal! Get it? META, META-L!" Fuck off.):crazy
- The Joker being "serious.":dead
- Retcons relating to a character's origins ("The Joker CHOSE Duke OMFG!!!!11" Fuck off.)
wutQuote- Retcons relating to an entire universe ("Meta-humans come from this weird metal! Get it? META, META-L!" Fuck off.):crazyQuote- The Joker being "serious.":dead
I haven't been reading most DC books since this year began. Now I'm not sure if I want to go back to them. :doge
Old Man Logan got a new creative team recently. I like what they're doing- Logan's wandering around in Canada and suddenly he's fighting the Hulk Gang, the inbred redneck hulks from his timeline. No idea how they're there, but they're being led by The Maestro, who is the evil older Hulk from another alternate timeline.I just caught up on my OML backlog, and what a great ride it has been so far, except for the very random Dracula story arc but it only lasted 2-3 issues :doge
The other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
Been checking out secret empire and WTF :lol
Hydra Cap is pretty awesome and a huge piece of shit.
Also even with this fucking shitshow happening they will never live down Hank slapping Janet :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolThe other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
hmmm this could explain it but we'll see.spoiler (click to show/hide)Hydra Punisher is hilarious to see[close]
Been checking out secret empire and WTF :lol
Hydra Cap is pretty awesome and a huge piece of shit.
Also even with this fucking shitshow happening they will never live down Hank slapping Janet :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolThe other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
hmmm this could explain it but we'll see.spoiler (click to show/hide)Hydra Punisher is hilarious to see[close]
Marvel's next big thing is "Legacy," which seems to be them going back to "the basics." Following DC, comics are going to switch back to their original numbering and there will be changes to characters making them (supposedly) more they used to be. For example, Spider-Man will be back at the Daily Bugle, although writer Dan Slott is teasing that it's in a different role. Speculation is that he'll own the Bugle or something. No more Parker Industries billionaire Peter Parker, though.
I still would really like to know how the hell they are going to get Steve Rogers back as a good guy after all this Secret Empire shit. I would love it if they had the balls to keep him as a villain.Been checking out secret empire and WTF :lol
Hydra Cap is pretty awesome and a huge piece of shit.
Also even with this fucking shitshow happening they will never live down Hank slapping Janet :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolThe other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
hmmm this could explain it but we'll see.spoiler (click to show/hide)Hydra Punisher is hilarious to see[close]
It's hard to tell if there's another Captain America now. It may just be that the scenes with the other Steve are all playing out in Steve's head. He's met up with two guys that appear to be similar in appearance to Rick Jones and Sam Wilson, and the the Red Skull popped up at the end of the last Secret Empire issue. But if it is Ultimate Cap...then it's gonna be incredibly easy to bring back him as a superhero.
I thought the other guy was Bucky but was thinking a similar scenario (That Steve not remembering his calling might just be his good persona still existing or whatever) until i saw you post about more Ultimate universe heroes appearing.
That Red Skull appearance might hint more at the former though since it seems awfully convenient for him to appear plus i would assume he would know which rogers hes trying to get revenge on.
Been checking out secret empire and WTF :lol
Hydra Cap is pretty awesome and a huge piece of shit.
Also even with this fucking shitshow happening they will never live down Hank slapping Janet :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolThe other thing that seems to be happening (unless it's some kind of comic book swerve and these guys are from elsewhere) is that characters from the Ultimate universe are coming back. That universe was destroyed/combined with the 616 universe in Secret Wars, with only Miles and his family/friends seemingly surviving. But now there's a group of Ultimates popping up (in Ultimates, IIRC, lolol), Jimmy Hudson (Ultimate Wolverine's son) in X-Men Blue, and another Steve Rogers in Secret Empire, wandering around a forest wondering what's going on. LMAO (and fuck off, Marvel) if they're just going to have Hydra-Cap die or stay full villain and have Ultimate Cap just replace him. There also may be Ultimate Thor back, but this other Thor is being referred to as "War Thor" and seems to be a different character.
hmmm this could explain it but we'll see.spoiler (click to show/hide)Hydra Punisher is hilarious to see[close]
petes punched a pregnant mj and thats already been forgotten. tony could shoot pepper and that shit would be forgotten by the next event. its been decades, and you still have characters talking about the slap somehow despite all the retcons and retools.
also there is some evil batman with his own bat family.
:comeon :comeon :comeon :comeon :comeon :comeon :comeon
“DC approached me and said, how would you like to take some of the stuff that you are working on with Sean [Murphy] and do it a new, prestige format? Instead of doing it monthly, why not do it in this format that would allow for it to be a bigger stage, both for Sean artistically, and to package the story in a new way and then allow every subsequent story that I was going to do with Paul Pope, with Afua [Richardson], with Lee Bermejo, be done in this format that really foregrounds the art – different paper size, different cut, the whole thing?
In that way, it seemed obvious and a perfect solution instead of having them work month-to-month on a normal-sized, conventional comic, we could be some of the first people to try driving in this new lane for DC. I’m really, really thrilled about it.”
Looks like the other Batmen are a group of evil Justice League types who all have a Batman motif. There also may be a Joker-Batman...?
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Which one is Jean Paul Valley?
Tom Macfarlane
Tom Macfarlane
:neogaf
That Punisher is War Machine thread on neogaf has already turned into a clusterfuck.
- Slayven pretending that War Machine was a major character ???
- People talking about The Punisher being some weird racist icon :doge .. I mean, considering how many times The Punisher has obliterated racist groups over the years in the various storylines :lol
I guess that yeah, the whole Skull Logo is popular with gun nuts Because of the concept of "vigilante showing no mercy to criminals", but all that merch you see for sales on ebay/flea market is unauthorized third party stuff..
Anyhow, the idea is pure nineties cheese, i'm not sure what Marvel is thinking these days
Is Titans 2016 worth a damn? I'm thinking of skipping it, catching up on Batman / Detective instead.
Is Titans 2016 worth a damn? I'm thinking of skipping it, catching up on Batman / Detective instead.
The art puts me off and I haven't kept up with it. I would suggest Detective if you're hard up for time.
Right now “fancy” covers are trying to cover a multitude of underlying problems with the actual core product. This is not the first time such a thing has been tried, and I still have vivid memories of the last time when the entire market almost collapsed when the customers woke up one day and said “this is shit, we don’t want this any more”. I wish I can remember who it was, but I remember talking to a retailer who told me they had built a literal chair out of the leftover copies of “Adventures of Superman #500” they had; with similar stories about just how many unsold and unsalable copies of “Turok” #1 were left over. Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it, and while I’m hopefully we’ve wised up as a class to not fall down that same rabbit hole again, when I see Marvel’s August plans, added to DC’s August books with foil covers (three), Lenticulars (two) and even a glow-in-the-dark cover I think “Damn, we’re there again, where greed and glitz has overwhelmed common sense.” That time of the crash and the few years after it was dire for comics, and this time is likely to be significantly worse, as we don’t have a core of books selling at 100k or more to keep things propped up.
Didn't he recently have a threesome with his sister or some shit?
Yeah, it was a thing for a little while there. It was like Erik Larsen just turned into a dirty old man.
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-Threesome with Angel, his step-sister (more than once)
-Angel has a baby and gives it to Dragon and Maxine to raise
-Tierra (the black chick), gets them to have a foursome, secretly films it, gets pregnant, refuses to abort, tries to sell the tape and fails, and then the baby bursts from her stomach, killing her and skulking off.
-Sometimes there was super-heroing going on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKbRIuWFio
Superman is consistently 10/10.
After doing some more reading and going over The Watchmen i'm now hyped for Doomsday Clock.
:rejoice
After doing some more reading and going over The Watchmen i'm now hyped for Doomsday Clock.
:rejoice
The comic, or IRL?
Marvel musings:
Amazing Spider-Man #31: The end of Parker Industries. You'd think it was the Superior Octopus that took them down, but nope:Next issue looks to be more Norman Osborne stuff...I'm just waiting to see what happens with Peter and the Daily Bugle.spoiler (click to show/hide)It was Spider-Man himself. Ock was going to seize control of all their data, so Peter issues a contingency plan he made that gets all the staff to erase everything and upload a virus that kills anything PI-related. This is a tie-in to Secret Empire (although it takes place in China, so no real Hydra presence), and at the end, we see Ock reporting back to Hydra, who congratulate him on PI being no more.[close]
Captain America #25: No more Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers books- it's just one single comic now. Sam Wilson is Captain America again and a big reveal is thatat the beginning of Secret Empire. And he has a plan to take down Steve.spoiler (click to show/hide)Namor found Bucky, assumed to be killed[close]
Secret Wars #8: Another "FINALLY, SHIT IS HAPPENING" issue. We see the shield around the earth come down so the heroes in space can join the fight. The dark force shield over NYC is removed. More heroes come together to go kick Steve's ass, basically. And then we get something incredibly stupid- a new Inhuman called Barf who can think of objects and then vomit them up. So they have him vomit up a cosmic cube fragment. :lol :dizzy
I still am not big on Secret Wars. This really should have been a year or even multi-year long event, kind of like Dark Reign, with books focusing on the various characters dealing with a Hydra-controlled USA. They should have taken their time with this one. But whatever; Marvel is already moving on as usual...Generations comics are already coming out.
We always knew Grant would be doing Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2. That’s been in production now for about six to eight months with Yanick. They’ve got about 40 to 50 pages of art done.
But Arkham Asylum 2 is something Grant’s been talking to us about for a while. It’s a story he’s been wanting to tell. He never thought he would, but he finally felt he got the right spin for it. It really is more of an extension of his Batman run. It’s not something that stands apart from the line — it actually makes sense if you follow the continuity he was creating with Batman and Damian back to #666.but are they going to let him do The Multiversity Too?!? that's what i want
he upcoming alternate universe mini series Nightwing: The New Order intends to do. Taking place in an alternative future, the story pits Dick Grayson against the super heroic community as the spearhead of an initiative to make metahuman abilities illegal, despite the potentially disastrous cost.
It takes place in the year 2040
So, at a certain point — and I don’t want to spoil too much — but Dick, during a big battle, made a decision and detonated a device the neutralized 90% of the world’s superpowers. He did this to save the world in that moment. Afterwards, though…that’s a slippery slope. Powers became illegal in the United States, so if you were in that 10% that still hand them, you had to register and go on inhibitor meds. And if the inhibitor meds didn’t work — super rare, but still could happen — you were put into stasis, until the doctors could figure out how to counteract the powers. So, again, very, very slippery slope.
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metroid_fetish • 6 hours ago
I haven't been this excited about anything since that time I took 4 Tylenol PMs.
the New 52i don't know her
I don't understand that blog post. What's the spoiler? What's the weird thing?
Dream has always been part of the DC Universe. He was in JLA when Morrison wrote it. Like half of The Sandman series takes place in the normal DCU. The ending arc especially. One of the main storylines was the impact of The Endless on the DCU, especially Dream's captivity.
The only thing is that Neil Gaiman has a magic special ownership of the character which means he can't be used without permission. Morrison got it, somebody else did for a one-off story, Gaiman's used him in his own regular DCU stories, now Snyder apparently has gotten permission.
edit: Comments annihilate the author for not knowing the background of Daniel :lol
Also:Quotemetroid_fetish • 6 hours ago
I haven't been this excited about anything since that time I took 4 Tylenol PMs.
the New 52i don't know her
the ads are in this weeks issues so not really any spoiler but they're going to finally reveal who mr. oz is in action
while tim drake can't wait for that and launches his own escape plan in detective
All the heroes attack cosmic cube powered Captain America and he wipes them out of existence and changes reality. He wins...for like five seconds. .... reality is restored and the changed history is erased, shit is pretty much back to normalThis is Infinity Gauntlet's battle and plot pretty much. Only they only needed four issues. :lol
Alexandru DG:badass
Alexandru DG
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I don't see how people can't realize that Darkseid wasn't playin' around at all. Do you see that guy becoming upset the instant he's like: You dare ?! ... YOU DARE ?! And he slams his fist against Batman, sending him through a pillar. Dude, Darkseid wasn't anywhere near in "holding" back. Darkseid went completely bollistic against Batman. And yeah, Batman have have hit his back first through the pillar. But how does that make his head not stop against hitting the ground ? Second more. How did that hit not crush the inner organs of Batman ? The armor may be strong, but it could not certainly be stronger than Darkseid's power. Please spare me the bullshit and think for a second here. If something like a force of a train hits your chest while you wear a powerful armor, do you really think you'd survive ? NO! The armor may be able to take the hit, but YOU are still vulnerable to the IMPACT. Plus, you then get grabbed and SLAMMED through a wall... Entire body wise. Without head protection. How do you expect to survive that man ? o_O Really you batman fans need to get your shit together. The hits Darkseid dealt here to Batman should've killed him. If you don't believe me, put on an armor, without head protection and stand in front of a train rail and wait for a train to hit you. Let's see how you survive that. I'd really love to be there with pop corn. Oh and also. When scrubs like you don't realize that what Darkseid says about Batman "killing his own kind" he doesn't speak about Batman's morality. Darkseid speaks of the perspective of all humans that they would kill to win battles. And it's so spot on true.
All the heroes attack cosmic cube powered Captain America and he wipes them out of existence and changes reality. He wins...for like five seconds. .... reality is restored and the changed history is erased, shit is pretty much back to normalThis is Infinity Gauntlet's battle and plot pretty much. Only they only needed four issues. :lol
Legacy is a rush-job. They can’t afford to take the classic characters off the table like that for so long but they also don’t want to piss off the new diverse audience they’ve been trying to court. They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too, and please all masters...
They’re bringing back the Ultimate line for the teen heroes. Miles will become Ultimate Spider-Man again. Siri becomes Ultimate Iron Man. X-Men Blue becomes Ultimate X-Men. Champions becomes the Ultimates.
Slott is off Amazing Spider-Man. They’re going to move him over to Friendly Neighborhood; the fear is he would sign exclusive with DC if they took it away from him completely. Plus he struggles with deadlines and there’s less risk with him off to the side. They can’t ignore declining sales anymore and it’s time for a refresh.
Marvel Comics Rumored To Be In Some Serious Trouble (http://www.screengeek.net/2017/09/02/marvel-comics-could-be-in-trouble/)
Surprise surprise, forcing minimum orders on retailers for normal issues to get the lenticulars/specials/etc. is backfiring hard, along with their stupid fucking plotlines and constant, tiring events.
And of course editorial is blaming the diversity push for it all. ::) Come the fuck on, Marvel. Even as a DC fan, you're better than this.QuoteLegacy is a rush-job. They can’t afford to take the classic characters off the table like that for so long but they also don’t want to piss off the new diverse audience they’ve been trying to court. They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too, and please all masters...
They’re bringing back the Ultimate line for the teen heroes. Miles will become Ultimate Spider-Man again. Siri becomes Ultimate Iron Man. X-Men Blue becomes Ultimate X-Men. Champions becomes the Ultimates.
:thinkingQuoteSlott is off Amazing Spider-Man. They’re going to move him over to Friendly Neighborhood; the fear is he would sign exclusive with DC if they took it away from him completely. Plus he struggles with deadlines and there’s less risk with him off to the side. They can’t ignore declining sales anymore and it’s time for a refresh.
Some good news at least?
I'm reading back through every Crisis and holy shit is 52 good. Why have I never read this before?
Was it not very successful? The long format style of storytelling seems very different than your standard cape stuff, but I'm really enjoying it and am surprised it isn't more prevelant in the age of TWD, Saga, etc
I'm reading back through every Crisis and holy shit is 52 good. Why have I never read this before?
Was it not very successful? The long format style of storytelling seems very different than your standard cape stuff, but I'm really enjoying it and am surprised it isn't more prevelant in the age of TWD, Saga, etc
I'm reading back through every Crisis and holy shit is 52 good. Why have I never read this before?It went in an entirely different direction than Dan DiDio and DC Editorial had originally planned, the much better lower key but dense way it did. They were expecting a huge crazy story of universe changing battles.
Was it not very successful? The long format style of storytelling seems very different than your standard cape stuff, but I'm really enjoying it and am surprised it isn't more prevelant in the age of TWD, Saga, etc
There's Batman: Eternal and Batman and Robin: Eternal which are 52 and 26 issues respectively, telling one long story in each.
So how does one read DC Comics anyway?
Torrents?
This is almost as dumb as Morrison trying to pass off the big villain of Batman RIP as Batman's father (he wasn't.)I don't think Morrison ever tried to do that, he had setup Hurt beforehand in the earlier issues, and neither Bruce nor Alfred or the Joker believed him when he claimed to be Thomas Wayne.
Secret Empire Omega:
OK, let's end this shitshow.
Good guy Steve visits bad guy Steve in a maximum security prison. It's supposed to be crazy hard to break in/out, but of course he waltzes right in wearing his hoodie. The entire comic is pretty much just the two of them having a conversation on their philosophies.
What we get from this:
-Good guy Steve rants that despite Stark spending millions to create a campaign to save Cap's name and explain that evil Steve is the one people should hate, his image is tarnished. He goes to save a kid and the kid pulls away in fear.
-Bad guy Steve is under the impression that he did nothing wrong. Says that the power was given to him (it was...but he planned it that way) and all the shit that led up to it, in previous crossover events, was not his fault. That part is true. But then good guy Steve points out that he's an evil asshole who killed Jack Flag, Rick Jones (not mentioned, but he also murdered the Red Skull), and bombed the shit out of Las Vegas, killing who knows how many people.
-Black Widow is apparently alive. They show a funeral for her and Hawkeye breaking down, but then Bucky is out doin' thangs and sees someone get killed by a sniper shot that only Widow could do or whatever.
-The Punisher, who was working for bad guy Steve (because he adores Cap), is back on the other side and is hunting down and killing the Hydra agents still around. They're back to looking more 'cartooney' again. Nick Fury is watching him.
-There seems to be plans to keep bad guy Steve around. At the end of the comic, good guy Steve escapes when an alarm goes off and guards rush in. One of them pins bad guy Steve to the wall and whispers "hail hydra" while restraining him.
And now they're off to push Marvel Legacy and Generations and all that.
I'm gonna guess bad guy Steve either ends up as the new Red Skull or Captain Hydra or whatever and becomes a minor villain, like evil Ultimate Reed Richards (The Maker) did.
I read the first issue of Loeb's Superman/Batman series. I liked it. Is the series as a whole worth reading? Andrex/Benji, please advise.Yes, though Loeb leaves it about sixty issues before it ends.
Why is current Marvel so bad? I havent been paying attention for the last 10 years (became a DC only reader) but over the last week have been scratching the surface and it's literally all shit. I mean I complain about DC like everyone else but their shit is minor compared to how bad the Marvel stuff I'm seeing is.It's not current Marvel. I mean, in terms of the process, I won't judge either way if it's bad or not as I float mostly outside it too.
Why is current Marvel so bad? I havent been paying attention for the last 10 years (became a DC only reader) but over the last week have been scratching the surface and it's literally all shit. I mean I complain about DC like everyone else but their shit is minor compared to how bad the Marvel stuff I'm seeing is.
I'm just happy the Supes x Wonder Woman shit is over.
It was called Hickman's Avengers and Secret Avengers. A pretty dense and super sci-fi comic that leads into secret Fantastic Four crossover Secret Wars.Why is current Marvel so bad? I havent been paying attention for the last 10 years (became a DC only reader) but over the last week have been scratching the surface and it's literally all shit. I mean I complain about DC like everyone else but their shit is minor compared to how bad the Marvel stuff I'm seeing is.
It really feels like House of M was the last time they did something interesting. After One More Day and Ultimatum I stopped actively trying to become a Marvel comics fan :yeshrug[/spoiler]
Also I don't think Buffy's revoking is gonna last, it was a necessary powerup and I think it'd be preeeetty dumb to undo 7's big finale twist.I think it'll last at least for a period in any potential future season. The last couple seasons have shown that most of them are just useless cannon fodder, the one they bothered with this season was just another one for Buffy to beat up.
Haven't messed with the Angel and Faith stuff, but heard it's really good.Angel must be better written in that because he's been boring garbage every time he's shown up in Buffy.
btw Tasty do you want to revisit your comment about Buffy and Nintendo being the two topics you "know" you can challenge me on :-*
Considering I've been keeping up with the comics this entire time, no. I stand by my statement.No one was asking or inquiring of you to do anything. Overly defensive much. :hitler
Also, lol, I'm at work so I can't really deep dive into all this shit. It's like asking someone to debate you in the politics thread. Brevity is the soul of wit, benji boy. Someday you'll learn that. ;)
WE PREFER AGE-ENHANCED KIDDOShit, that'd make me Weapon IX or something.
I ordered Dark Knight Metal also, sounds batshit so why not. Decided to skip on Marvel stuff, will keep an eye on Legacy but their current stuff isnt of interest to me.
Ordered Batman White Knight #1 yesterday, should be here next week by post :hyper
For the longest time I did (and still do). Bought a nice tablet, get comics digitally, but it's just not the same. I've enjoyed comics less since going digital so I'm going to try these new series in print. I enjoy reading physical manga more than digital also so there's some president.I ordered Dark Knight Metal also, sounds batshit so why not. Decided to skip on Marvel stuff, will keep an eye on Legacy but their current stuff isnt of interest to me.Ordered Batman White Knight #1 yesterday, should be here next week by post :hyper
Why not just download them or use comixology(inb4 it's not available in South Africa). Buying single issues and having them shipped to you must expensive.
so there's some president.Jeez, Momo always filling threads with the political jibber jabber!
Marvel musings:
Iron Man: Not sure if the plan here is to end the Dr. Doom Infamous Iron Man series and fold everything into a single book. The return to the legacy numbering starts off a new storyline where Tony Stark's body (he has been in a coma for months, with an AI version of himself running around instead) suddenly disappears. This has pretty much nothing to do with Doom, but in the middle of the book it's like someone took a page or two from Infamous Iron Man and just stuck it into this comic, so I guess there's going to be a "who will be Iron Man?!" thing happening at some point. The big points here are Tony's board of directors trying to take over the company and then a mysterious bald man waking up from some kind of chamber and putting on Iron Man armor. Maybe that's Tony or a swerve because Bendis.[/i]
Marvel musings:
Iron Man: Not sure if the plan here is to end the Dr. Doom Infamous Iron Man series and fold everything into a single book. The return to the legacy numbering starts off a new storyline where Tony Stark's body (he has been in a coma for months, with an AI version of himself running around instead) suddenly disappears. This has pretty much nothing to do with Doom, but in the middle of the book it's like someone took a page or two from Infamous Iron Man and just stuck it into this comic, so I guess there's going to be a "who will be Iron Man?!" thing happening at some point. The big points here are Tony's board of directors trying to take over the company and then a mysterious bald man waking up from some kind of chamber and putting on Iron Man armor. Maybe that's Tony or a swerve because Bendis.[/i]
Wasn't there something about his brother Arno returning? maybe its him? ???
Not super into comics but I've been reading Marvel's Darth Vader series (2015) since yesterday and it's quite good. They do a good job in tying the prequel stuff to the old movies without it feeling forced and I like how Vader has to prove himself worthy to the emperor again after the events of ANH. They certainly managed to make Vader entertaining again after the prequels.This is the Kieron Gillen run, yes? It's fantastic! I also like the "evil C3PO and R2D2" analogs. Vader's relationship with the smuggler-woman is also well-handled.
Kinda takes me back to the old Republic series from the early to mid-00s. Really enjoyed those issues back then.
Also I don't think Buffy's revoking is gonna last, it was a necessary powerup and I think it'd be preeeetty dumb to undo 7's big finale twist.I think it'll last at least for a period in any potential future season. The last couple seasons have shown that most of them are just useless cannon fodder, the one they bothered with this season was just another one for Buffy to beat up.
Plus, I just remembered, they had rewritten in the book last season how Slayers can come to be. :lol
Next week we finally get THE MAN WHO LAUGHS story. :whew
I’d bet money that The Batman Who Laughs is the Batman from the Killing Joke who murdered The Joker
Yeah, I almost clipped out from The Devastator where he's saying to his version of Clark:
"For the first time in a long time, I felt FREE of the love you had inflicted on me.
And it felt fucking GREAT."
As he's transforming into Bat-Doomsday and straight up murdering him.
The Justice League tie-in issue was fun too.
When Snyder first was talking about how he just wanted to take things for a one-off story and make them "fucking Metal" I thought it was going to be way too self-serious about it, but it's not, it's great. And he's actually managed to make most of the DARK BATMEN interesting characters despite only getting an issue to do it with. I imagine if this was what Morrison had done for The Multiversity (as it's got a lot of similarities which I assume is why Snyder threw the map in), then DiDio would have promoted it instead of completely ignoring it and shoving Convergence out early.
The best part is that he's done it all in canon too, it didn't need to be one-offed. Though I imagine that freed him to include a lot of this stuff.
Next week we finally get THE MAN WHO LAUGHS story. :whewspoiler (click to show/hide)Oh shit... what if Barbados is The Empty Hand. :omgspoiler (click to show/hide)For those who haven't and don't want to read The Multiversity:
The Empty Hand is effectively the ultimate evil for all comic books, as he is the destroyer of stories themselves (and possibly also the creator), he's already destroyed multiple multiverses and is now invading the DC Multiverse. His allies/lackies, The Gentry are horrors that come from a place "outside the Multiverse" which is "opposite of everything natural" and represent villain archetypes taken to their "ultimate horror" form. They have the power to rework all the aspects of stories themselves to make them into mindbending horrors which is what they're doing to the "Marvel Universe" in The Multiversity to build the counter to the Miracle Machine used in Final Crisis.[close][close]
Bendis got signed to an exclusive, multi-year deal with DC.
Guess that's the end of an era. No more Bendis "crossover" storyline events at Marvel! But I did like him on books like Spider-Man.
Who the fuck at DC looks at marvels sales the last year or two and says “You know, we need to be more like them!”
Edit: one thing I don’t like about Bendis is how timely his dialogue is. It’s very stuck in the time the comic was written and feels dated very quickly because of it.
Who the fuck at DC looks at marvels sales the last year or two and says “You know, we need to be more like them!”
Edit: one thing I don’t like about Bendis is how timely his dialogue is. It’s very stuck in the time the comic was written and feels dated very quickly because of it.
My favorite "dated" writing is from Chris Claremont. But maybe "dated" is the wrong word. He'd constantly use stuff like "caper" to describe events in the X-Men comics in the early 80s. I don't recall people talking like that.
shame Tim was hanging out with Mr. Oz instead of figuring this all out for the entire D.C. Universe like he did the last time Bruce was being dragged along a path against his will thanks to a Dark God...
the part where he calmly explains the entire situation to the Bat Family...spoiler (click to show/hide)just to suddenly gun them all down :whew[close]
Actually the most surprising thing of the issue was the ending:spoiler (click to show/hide)The Batman Who Laughs isn't relying on just his new Bat Family, he's decided to procure a whole bunch of Dark Multiverse versions of characters to bring through...which seems obvious but I didn't expect them to go that route and thought they'd instead keep it Batman-centric...
I liked how in the middle of all these nutty grotesque versions of DC Characters (like SPIDER-FLASH) is just a seemingly normal Martian Manhunter :lol[close]
Speaking of Bruce over in the non-Metal invaded DC Universe, Selina and Talia had their...catfight....and I like how Tom King mainly suggests the result and the purpose rather than actually having it be a regular comic fight. Also Selina and Talia's attempts at psyching each other out being the focal point of it as much or more than the swordplay part.
Also, King is so great at writing the whole gang, I love the way he portrays the unique Damien and Dick relationship and how Dick takes advantage of it specifically to irritate Damien. And Bruce's entirely unsubtle annoyance with anyone in the Family doing anything for him.
Just popping in to say im up to Mister Miracle #4 (of 12) and this is the best mainstream comic series I have read in a decade.
That's Detective Comics right? :leonBatman. Really all the books are ignoring METAL outside of the tie-in issues. Some are already set after it.
There is actually no metal shit over there? :lol :lol
Will this be the one that starts Doomsday Clock?
Marvel has been in a bit of a slump lately, with lagging sales, poor PR, and a lackluster reception to their Marvel Legacy initiative. But all of that is about to change in a big way, because Marvel has figured out the way forward, the solution to all their problems, and a way to revitalize their product line and reinvigorate interest in Marvel Comics: more variant covers.
In January, 21 Marvel comics will be graced with Avengers-themed variants to coincide with the start of Marvel’s Avengers super-mega-not-a-crossover event, No Surrender.
Metal is like Morrison if you swapped his obscure references for pure uncut cocaine.he already did that
Just hope Doomsday Clock is'nt going to be something corny like Superman has to convince Doc M that life is great and all that nice shit. But I can't really see Doc being a villain.
But I wont lie and say a return to the Watchmen world isn't interesting. It really is.
Just hope Doomsday Clock is'nt going to be something corny like Superman has to convince Doc M that life is great and all that nice shit. But I can't really see Doc being a villain.
But I wont lie and say a return to the Watchmen world isn't interesting. It really is.
Sounds like that's exactly what they are going for, especially with the dichotomy between the 2. Will see how they go about it or if it will work.
Also Doc is way too OP for anyone to do anything to him.
My biggest concern for Doomsday Clock is that all this buildup will have been like the buildup we got in the Countdown weekly series to Final Crisis. Countdown (and Death of the New Gods) ultimately had nothing to do with Final Crisis at all, which ultimately made Countdown even worse in retrospect.First, as an aside, I don't think Tim Drake was abducted by Manhattan just MISTER OZ but I haven't been reading DC books that aren't Tom King, METAL or Justice League related the last few months so anything Detective or Supes is more for Tasty to reply to.
The Button was to erase Flashpoint which wasn't supposed to reboot the DC Universe originally, but be more like Age of Apocalypse, where for a while the universe was different then it came back as before with minor changes that hung over. We just took a five year plus detour to do that. That's why the other appearances of Manhattan have been to do the same things to the New 52, like how he erased Pandora, who was the one who originally "combined the three universes" in the wake of Flashpoint and created the New 52.
Neonomicon:This temporarily caused a big hubbub when it came out collected as libraries were picking it up and then parents were seeing what the fuck was in it.
Nah, DC wanted to start over as a way to attract new readers. It also worked for a time, IIRC, as their sales increased line-wide. It wasn't a huge increase from what I remember, but it was enough that they considered it a success.Yeah, yeah, that's what DC Editorial wanted to do. But Johns hadn't originally written Flashpoint to do that, it was supposed to just "replace" the universe temporarily which is why the main book is so tightly tied to just The Flash with the rest of it all being fleshed out in the tie-ins. Flashpoint was the only event they had that they could change to do it in the timespan to do it. I guess the original idea started during Blackest Night but it was too late to change that or Brightest Day while Flashpoint was far enough out still. (The funny thing being that Brightest Day had already brought back to life a whole bunch of characters to set off on adventures just for the whole thing to get trashed months later.)
Neonomicon:This temporarily caused a big hubbub when it came out collected as libraries were picking it up and then parents were seeing what the fuck was in it.
I didn't realize Teen Titans: Earth One was released last month (http://www.newsarama.com/20701-dc-comics-announces-teen-titans-earth-one-for-2014-three-more-earth-one-ogns-in-works.html), and that DC had planned on continuing the Earth One line.
For those who don't know, Superman: Earth One (Volume 1) was released in 2010 to mixed reviews. Volume 2 and Batman: Earth One followed in 2012 and seemed to have gotten a better reception. Teen Titans: Earth One was released last month and it seems a lot of people love it. Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 3 of Superman, and Volume 2 of Batman are planned for 2015. (Earth One is a graphic novel series, hence the elongated release schedule.)
It seems like Earth One will be DC's take on Marvel's Ultimate line (a self-contained reboot updating old characters in a modern continuity), after the All-Star imprint went down in flames (for a variety of reasons, half of it being Frank Miller's insanity and the other half being the first two titles -Superman and Batman- didn't even exist in the same universe.) There's been some confusion that the Earth One titles don't exist in the same universe either (Teen Titans sets it up that they're not sidekicks and seem to be the only superpowered beings around, hence no Robin or Superboy), but I've heard Multiversity confirms they do.
In any case, there's hope that Earth One will turn out better than Ultimate if only because DC seems to be taking their time with it (they have to because of the graphic novel format.) Without the constant pressure to get issues out every single month, the universe will likely end up being smaller but more thoughtfully developed. That's my hope, anyways.
Teen Titans: Earth One Vol. 1
This was my first Earth One graphic novel, and it got me wondering if Batman and Superman got such drastic reinterpretations of their origins in their Earth One books. To put it lightly, everything is reimagined here, and for the most part it works pretty well. I don't have an issue with the origin being such a departure, far from it. It feels fresh. But it also backs the book into a couple corners that were obviously hard to write out of.
Basically, the "teen titans" (never called such in-universe, and only alluded to by being apart of the "Titans Program") are a deliberately diverse set of youngsters who don't even know each other (other than Cyborg and Terra, who are dating) when the book starts. When they do get to know each other, they chafe and argue as is the cliche for teens. To be honest, I'm not sure if it was lazy writing to have them fighting amongst themselves so much, or an accurate reflection of normal teenagehood. Reflecting on my own teen years, I can't remember being so brazen, but I also didn't have to deal with superpowers popping up out of nowhere.
Yeah, this book takes more than a few cues from the X-Men. Which is probably just as well, since DC repurposed the Teen Titans to rip them off with New Teen Titans in the 80's.
The teens are essentially all set up to have the same, connected origin story, which reminds me of the way Hollywood usually goes about its adaptations of these things. It works but oftentimes feels like a shortcut, a way of introducing all of them, showing how unique each character is, and bringing them all together in the same book. I can't blame them for that. However, I will blame the writers for some eyeroll-worthy plot contrivances (the main one being Starfire not only causing all their powers to activate at the same time, but directing them all to her telepathically since she's imprisoned Superman-during-Flashpoint-style.)
I was reading the IGN review for this and they seemed to say the only negative was how Deathstroke is portrayed, but I disagree. Like the rest of the book, I think it's a fresh and interesting take on the character. All these characters are. They come off a little like a grab-bag of politically-correct new-age character templates (this one's the one with the drunk parent, this one's the one with the gay dads, etc.) but I won't fault it for that since this book is aimed at kids/teens and I know how happy it is to see someone you feel represents you in a major book like this.
The book sets up quite a bit of dangling threads, like the "Blackfire initiative," Raven joining up with the main team, Starfire's entire character, and a vision-wall of potential future team mates (including, curiously, a bat symbol.) But mostly I want to see the team become a team. The characters here don't actually ever end up becoming a "team" or doing anything heroic. They haven't earned the book's namesake yet. If Volume 2 accomplished anything, that's the bare minimum.
3 / 5
All-Star only led to Morrison's Superman, nothing else was ever released from it, GODDAMN NOTHING.
JMS might not even be at terms with DC anymore at this point, and they may have just decided to not do another Superman book until one or two of the others catch up (namely Batman I assume), or else have people start the other characters and sit on Superman until they at least have a book for each of the Justice League going.
Justice League: Earth One would be some of the hypest shit.I don't know if I'd prefer them bringing all the Earth One Big Seven together or having some kind of a totally different Justice League for Earth One.
Really though...The one thing you got wrong is that New 52 started "five years earlier" than its launch date (aside from the flashback stuff like Morrison's Action Comics and the first arc of Justice League) it became ten by the time we get to Rebirth because it'd been another five years.
All you need from the Watchmen side is the original graphic novel.
From the DC side, you need the following facts:spoiler (click to show/hide)- The New 52 in 2011, launched in-canon by the Flashpoint storyline, rebooted the DC universe approximately 10 years earlier than it was set at the time. Things were shifted around in a reboot-y way, like both of Superman's human parents being killed at the same time by a car accident, but it was essentially the same DC. It did wipe out the Caucasian Kid Flash and Flash from the 90s-2000s (Wally West) and replace him with a black counterpart.
- The Superman from before the New 52 somehow survived with that reality's Lois Lane and his newborn son, Jonathan "Jon" Kent.
- Convergence led to that Superman, Lois, and Jon entering the New 52 version of the DCU right around the time the New 52 Superman died. They existed separately and in-secret during this time.
- The Superman Reborn storyline combined the pre-New 52 and post-New 52 Supermen and Lois Lanes into singular beings. Despite the new Superman taking most of his character and history from the pre-New 52 version, his parents' deaths remained the post-New 52 version (car accident at the same time.)
- Batman found The Comedian's button (from Watchmen) in the Batcave. He teamed up with The Flash in their crossover ("The Button") and discovered someone stole 10 years from the DC universe (AKA the New 52.)
- All things point to that "someone" being Doctor Manhattan.[close]
Benji spank me if I got any details wrong.
Batman's canon armor has allowed him to chug on during the whole period unchanged, even though he's the one who causes the most problems regarding the compressed time line with all the Robins, etc.
I don't think she's supposed to represent anyone we know, just one of the earliest of the Owls or one that effectively operates outside time/space to communicate with the trapped Bruce. Snyder's original "nursery rhyme"/scary limerick was about how the Owls are always watching and every other part of that rhyme has been used throughout his run.Makes sense, she just seemed to stand out as more for me for whatever reason, and yes I read all the tie ins, Nightwing stuff included, I was mostly finishing of Gotham city Resistance and then Lost since I was up to date with everything else. Had to go reread White Knight #2 as well, because :lawd
She could potentially be Keira...Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman as they're immortal...but I think she's just an Exposition Owl for lack of character name. Who was watching the start of the "war" and so could tell Bruce about this. I assume that the skeleton around her neck is a bat. I mention that because Vandal Savage in Return of Bruce Wayne has a noticeable necklace of bird skulls before he takes it off for sexy time with some ladies. And Exposition Owl is showing him what I think is the aftermath of that book's ending. (Defeat of Savage who gets kicked out of his clan, founding of Bat tribe and founding of Bird tribe. The staff with the giant Bat pelt she stabs into the ground was one Savage had claimed off of the Hyper-Adapter/Barbatos and Bruce used to cloak himself for the fight.)
If she means anything it'll probably be most likely explained in Hawkman Found. Part of the delays and scope expansion of this was that Johns signed off on letting Snyder bring those two back into the DC Universe finally free of their nonsense canon. One thing, since you mentioned reading the side stories (of which I kinda liked Gotham Resistance more than I assumed even if the explanation for the Nightwing stuff was months ago in his own book), is that for all of these and Lost we don't have just Snyder. But Tynion and Williamson are contributing. And I'm not as familiar with all their other stuff as Snyder so I can't tell you if she or some of these others have come from that stuff.
I still think she's just Exposition Owl.
Damian is fun, but I wonder where they can take him.This is another reason why I like Damian, his future isnt exactly obvious. His eventual stand alone will be either horrible or terrific.
This is another reason why I like Damian, his future isnt exactly obvious.Shots fired at Batman #666, #700, Superman/Batman #75, etc.
Wait people are actually offended or is this the usual bleedingcool stupidity? :neogaf
Marvel under Axel Alonso was the hottest of trash and I'm interested in giving this guy a year to see if he has any effect on the quality of Marvel's books, attacking him right off the bat for petty things seems counterproductive to the max.
Honestly dude should have gotten raked over the coals years ago when Bleeding Cool was first investigating itSure I can agree with this, but the fault seems to be more Marvel and their hierarchy, why are we pinning this squarely on one dude?
TIL morals and ethics are completely divorced from each other.they arent the same thing either mate. editorial ethics and morality are not the same thing, ethics are rules (which he broke - with consent seemingly) morals are something more
Everything about Secret Empire was hot garbage. It's only given a passing grade because it came after Civil War II and Inhumans vs X-men which were both far, far, worse.
https://twitter.com/Seanbabydotcom/status/935168936630349824
https://twitter.com/Seanbabydotcom/status/935170068144459777
Super Sons Annual warms my cold little heart:
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The Legion of Super Pets is back baby!
NINJA BATMAYNE COMING SOON :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wId8XY6y_HA
A number of the staff who worked on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are behind this...it's gonna be good.
:respect
Written by Akira Yoshida.
NINJA BATMAYNE COMING SOON :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wId8XY6y_HA
A number of the staff who worked on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are behind this...it's gonna be good.
Tim Drake gets the shaft again :philfixed for the real* Tasty?
Is white knight good? It looks interesting, but I didn’t pick it up.It's interesting, we're only two chapters in it's not immediately evident that it's something amazing like Mister Miracle has shown in the same time, however I really liked the harley quin business in chapter two, It could turn out to be the best thing ever or banana man given time.
Is white knight good? It looks interesting, but I didn’t pick it up.It's interesting, we're only two chapters in it's not immediately evident that it's something amazing like Mister Miracle has shown in the same time, however I really liked the harley quin business in chapter two, It could turn out to be the best thing ever or banana man given time.
Doing a quick skim of this page without any context was really something. All I can tell you with any certainty is that there's a comic featuring shitty anime fan artwork of Wolverine in Japan and apparently Krypto fucked a cow.
Read through Alan Moore's cosmic-horror-related trilogy of comics. Will spoiler in case someone wants to read them.
The Courtyard:
Short, two-issue story about an FBI agent working undercover to investigate a series of murders where hands (and heads, IIRC) are cut off around New England. The agent is an unlikable white supremacist-type who is only selected for the investigation because he is adept at putting together the pieces for cases where very little evidence or connections are available.spoiler (click to show/hide)Ends with him trying what he thought was a drug, but was actually him being put into a trance-like state and fed Lovecraftian language from a weird guy with a veil on his face and a lisp who is more than he seems. After this, the agent goes insane and commits the same type of murders.[close]
Neonomicon:
Direct sequel to The Courtyard. Four issues long. Two other FBI agents continue the investigation and try to talk to the first guy, but it goes nowhere. They then go undercover and infiltrate a weird sex cult.spoiler (click to show/hide)Except that the cult members are aware of who they are, kill the male agent, and then start raping the female as they have an orgy that summons a weird fish man like creature. They leave her with the creature, who rapes her repeatedly and then seems to understand that she wasn't there willingly and frees her. Ends with her lying to her superiors about what happened to hide that she has been impregnated. She goes to talk to the insane agent from the first story and starts speaking the same weird language. He then goes 'sane' and realizes that she is carrying what is implied to be a cosmic god of some kind and says that she is a goddess. They leave the asylum where he is committed, killing the guards.[close]
Providence:
Most of this 12-issue story is a prequel, taking place in the 1910s, but the last issue brings things back to the present and continues the story. This focuses on a newspaper journalist who goes off around New England to do research for a book he wants to write and gets caught up in all sorts of weird Lovecraftian occult stuff. H.P. Lovecraft himself is a character who shows up. This story is generally pretty straight forward, but has some weird shit happen that is never explained...which I guess is kind of the whole M.O. for cosmic horror.spoiler (click to show/hide)Lots of odd creatures and crazy events affecting time perception occur. The big theme that is slowly revealed is that all the weird shit people dream is real and is part of another world that was once part of the "real world." As it turns out, the main character is unknowingly playing a role of an information gatherer to set forth things that will bring the dream world back to reality. Lovecraft's part is that while he thinks he is writing fiction, it is all "real" information being sent to his mind and his published works get more and more people in tune with this other reality. The series ends back in the present with the dream world taking over and humans just going with the flow, since it is affecting their minds and they don't really notice what is happening. It gets all crazy and the female FBI agent has her weird baby, who goes off to do whatever and the people left ponder how they are going to live in this new existence.[close]
It was fun to read, but bits of the last series made no sense at all.
Yeah, maybe they could call it "We Are Robin." :dogeWell, Bruce has a type :shaqspoiler (click to show/hide)It always gets to me how all of them look so similar. :lol[close]
The second issue of White Knight actually turned me off it a bit after the first was hilariously so deliberate, the Harley stuff was fine and hopefully gets explained better, but I wanted them to play The Joker being wronged straight for longer. Him immediately contacting Gotham criminals is too obvious, we should have seen attempts by them to pull the same thing with varying degrees of success to continue to build the pressure on Batman first.
And I don't think he's being used as a social justice icon, the panels I clipped were from the obvious CONSERVATIVE PUNDIT side of that fake show, and I think the book is BOTH SIDESING the thing by how The Joker is totally playing that pre-existing card of a "BLM/cop accountability" stand-in group. Someone obviously mentally ill, who was easily treated when a mad vigilante, a corrupt police department and Gotham mental health program with decades of failure were removed from the equation and has seemingly been endlessly wronged and tortured into his crimes would rightly be held up as a victim by our society too. At least I hope we wouldn't instantly dismiss it. Unless Al Franken did it.
So mister miracle is good?It's fucking amazing so far. I never really paid much attention to new gods stuff so this wouldnt have even been on my radar if I didnt get a recommend, it's however the best thing I've read in at least a decade.
I may pick up some back issues, but I mean, it’s mister miracle.
So mister miracle is good?It's fucking amazing so far. I never really paid much attention to new gods stuff so this wouldnt have even been on my radar if I didnt get a recommend, it's however the best thing I've read in at least a decade.
I may pick up some back issues, but I mean, it’s mister miracle.
I assume you mean the 2017 series, right?Yup
https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/7hi79v/the_robin_boys/'I’ll say it again. DC needs to put out a team up book with these four. It’ll have fun relationship dynamic akin to TMNT, and that’s what I think is really missing in the DC lineup.' :ohhh :ohhhspoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/QfksLmD.png)[close]
When are you guys going to read White Knight #3? I wanna read your impressions :goldberg
Superman #36spoiler (click to show/hide)Superman accepts Darkseid's throne and becomes the new leader of Apokolips. :o
:rejoice[close]
Heil Hydra.:superman
1/3 done, Mister Miracle in 2 days :rejoicespoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/jDQ3gPN.png)
12/20
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The waiting :goldberg
I haven't read DC since Flashpoint because New 52 kinda turned me off, but Dark Knights: Metal looks kinda cool and I'd like to get back into it.Do it! And read Mister Miracle :uguu
Just realized the Disney deal hopefully means Marvel Comics will bring back FF and X-Men in force and stop being petty little bitches. Also hopefully kill the Inhumans or seriously sideline them.
In the 1990s, when Marvel was just starting out as a movie company, a licensing agreement gave control of the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises to Fox. Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion in 2009; the deal with Fox brings optioned characters, including the edgy Deadpool, back into the Marvel fold.
but lets not pretend it isnt exactly what i called it; a vapid mcdonald's movie that leaves you 5 mins after watching it.
Its cool that the universe is "whole" again and they can stop being fucking silly with the "no fantastic four because of reasons and lets push these godawful inhumans"
I like how you guys only read that awful Marvel crap.I'm only reading DC and indies currently
The joke was that you guys seemingly only read DC. Normally DC fan(atic)s get angry when you call it Marvel.I mean I dont think we're DC fanboys, I prefer DC yes, but the only reason I don't have marvel books in my rotation is that they've been complete shit for a while now (at least stuff that I care about) and not for NINTENDORKS SUX, SEGARULES stuff :trumps
The X-books have slightly improved but will continue to be shit as long as there are child X-men running around.
I actually like the Inhumans more than I thought I would. Reader is pretty cool actually.
There have always been X-kids running around. ???
There have always been X-kids running around. ???
I mean child and adult versions of the same character. That was a dumb storyline. And remains dumb. And the child version of all of the characters pretty much suck except for maybe Jean, who is sort of interesting because the adult one is dead. Also they all have Bendisy dialogue.
While I thin slott has made some bad moves on Spider-Man, I think I’ll still be somewhat sad to see him go, mostly because I suspect that it will be years before the book gets a stable creative team again. For the most part I like Slotts individual storylines but I hate how he has mucked with the status quo over the years.
The idea that spider man should be single was based on the idea that it was somehow holding his story back, but I just don’t see that looking back. Besides tge introduction of Carlie, who I think might be dead since she hasn’t been in an ASM book since before secret wars, the only other thing that being single allowed Spidey to do was fuck a midget.
you takin shots at the wrong boy bb :ufupspoiler (click to show/hide)I am Daniel - Castlevania reject :heh[close]
Also Sandman/Daniel is a Neil Gaiman thing from like 1987.oh we are so not doin this right now
and we can all read mister miracle tooYou cunts seriously need to do this, it's like the greatest :goldberg
we need more tom king praising tho
the war of jokes and riddles seemed off plotting wise, like it had an extra issue added or had a chunk of the plot removed but not replaced...or maybe it was the order
it also was a let down because Bruce has totally done worse things when he wasn't a newbie, Selina's straight up murdered people and before that didn't exactly put too much effort into saving people... there was no reason for this to be the thing he needed to confide in her first
arguably considering their past relationship and history it shouldn't be, DC writers seem to remember Bruce's memory wipe by Zatanna and the JLA still, they don't remember Selina's personality change or her daughter (nor that Bruce helped fake the death of both and Zatanna then wiped Selina's memory of her daughter...maybe that's a secret he should tell his fiance instead of that he nearly killed The Riddler? just spitballing)
Was it ever explained why some of the axis reversed characters are back to normal and some aren’t? Iirc, superior iron man was still evil when the worlds collided. But then after Secret Wars he’s just back to normal... but saber tooth is still good? Shit doesn’t even make sense using comic book logic.
I believe Havok is still very grumpy though at least, last time I saw him.
Unrelated to the Disney deal, Marvel announced another BIG CROSSOVER EVENT for next year. Despite them saying they would stop doing this for a while. :doge It's gonna be another Infinite story with Thanos. I assume this is also where the resurrected Logan is going to pop up?
And maybe that's a hint for things to come. Something they could easily do at the end of Avengers Infinite War Part 2 (which is what...2019?) is copy the Age Of Ultron story and have someone say something about how all the shit with the infinite stones has ripped holes in space and time, and who knows what this means, blah blah blah. Then have a post-credits seen added that has a bunch of street thugs trying to start shit with a guy, who we don't see, followed by a SNIKT noise. Roll credits and there you go.Its cool that the universe is "whole" again and they can stop being fucking silly with the "no fantastic four because of reasons and lets push these godawful inhumans"
They at least started bringing back the X-Men more over the past year or so (more books, anyway), but still have mostly kept them out of the spotlight with other Marvel characters. Hope that this deal will finally change all that.
What I don't get is the Fantastic Four. OK, shitty Fox FF movie #3 came out. I get it. But on the comics side, who cares? What does that matter? And all they really did was get rid of Reed, Sue, and their kids. The Thing is still there (was put with the Guardians Of The Galaxy, then became a SHIELD agent, and now is just doin' thangs) and Johnny Storm was with the Inhumans for a while and is (was?) a part of an Avengers team. And they gave Doom his own book (Infamous Iron Man). So...? ???
Inhumans TV being a huge flop was probably the nail in the coffin for them, but there's still AVENGERS all over the place. Shove those scrubs aside and bring the X-Men back where they belong, please.
DC turning future Tim into murder-happy Batman is no bueno. >:(
Even though I do like this crossover.
You only really need to know about the Scott Free x Orion kid swap deal and accept that Barda loves Scott as much as any person can love another, that's it.
minor spoiler - page 1 chapter 1spoiler (click to show/hide)It's almost better not knowing too much about how Scott is brought up so you can go through the emotional rollercoaster from the perspective of the viewer(odd word i know, but i use it for reasons), it starts with Scott trying to off himself and explores his mental and emotional state thereafter, it tells you what you need to know about why he's so fucked up as you need it.[close]
Also I wonder if his child with the Wasp will ever be brought up again.
I just read Secret empire #4 the other day and it just now dawned on me that I’m pretty sure neither intron/pun nor Nadia wasp ever mentioned anything about how they are related during that issue. I’m not even sure they have met before in a book.... you’d think it would rate a mention to meet your kid for the first time or to have seen them for the first time in xxxx months/years.
Edit: actually maybe Nads is with the other kids in the red room with Black Widow in this book. I can’t keep it all straight.
I liked Doomsday Clock #2 a lot more than the first issue. LOL if they end up making it so that Dr. Manhattan was masquerading as some other superhero all along. Please don't do this. PLS.I was sitting at my desk reading that like :crazy and Manhattan came off like a complete pussy for me :sabu but anyway, i liked it.
I liked Doomsday Clock #2 a lot more than the first issue. LOL if they end up making it so that Dr. Manhattan was masquerading as some other superhero all along. Please don't do this. PLS.
One more issue of Invincible left. :'( That was a great superhero book.
Phoenix Resurrection: The Return Of Jean Grey: Kind of a confusing book here with the X-Men getting Cerebro alerts and investigating weird phenomenon happening around the world. Dead characters are back and apparently not "human" like Hellfire Club minions and Wolverine (not the real one who recently also came back) popping up in the antarctic out of nowhere. The book ends with Jean Grey working at a diner, taking Banshee's (also dead) order and then going home to her (dead) parents and getting a visit from (yup...dead) adult Cyclops to go on a date.
??? ??? ???
Spider-Men II #5: The last issue of this mini-series is finally out. The focus here was really on the 616 universe Miles Morales, who was revealed to be older than the Ultimate U. Miles and was a retired criminal associate of the Kingpin living 'in exile' on the west coast. He hired the Taskmaster to help him with his goal, which was revealed to be getting a working portal to an alternate universe. Really, in sense the two Spider-Men were just annoyances here and while 616 Miles isn't exactly a good guy, he was just trying to get to the other universe so he could meet up with a still-living version of his dead wife. He succeeds in this goal in the last issue and it ends with them hitting it off at a restaurant she works at, which is then destroyed by...Ultimate Green Goblin fighting Ultimate (Peter Parker) Spider-Man. Then the Ultimates pop up with one change being that Ultimate Iron Man is a version of Riri Williams. This part of the book is drawn by Mark Bagley so even the visual tone is different from everything else. Fourth wall breaking stuff happens with Spider-Woman/Black Widow? (The female Peter clone) even winking at the reader. So basically Bendis decided to bring back the Ultimate Universe on his way out from Marvel. What was the point of destroying all the other universes and then combining stuff into 616 again?
:idont
I wonder if Miles and co. will end up going back to the Ultimate universe or if they'll just leave it be.
Savage Dragon #229&230: :nsfw More Dragon and family doin' thangs. I didn't say anything about 229 before because it was almost like a repeat of 228, right down to more fucking and...juice dripping from Maxine's nether regions into her mouth after she is blasted off Dragon's junk by a geyser of sticky stuff. This is referenced again in 230 by the characters saying that a comic book version of their lives exaggerates everything and blows it out of proportion. Uh...? Then we get a scene where they fuck in an elevator and a guy walks into it and slips and falls on a big puddle of cum. HAHA JOKES. Now Dragon's family are going to be reality TV stars and get paid for it! His brother Kevin has knocked up Maxine's mom! Maxine is also pregnant! Wait...this is a superhero book, right? I forget.
The only real development here is that back in Dimension X, Angel, her mom Jennifer, and Alex are all still trying to get home and fighting endless amounts of aliens. They're now fully-nude because Larsen is eager to say fuck you to whatever restrictions his book used to have, get captured by some aliens, and then are told that they will have to fuck them all (of course!) by a returning (and equally-nude) Rapture, who is Malcolm Dragon's mother.
It's good that Miles is seemingly going to stop being Spider-Man. He's just a pointless, redundant character now.
This is Tim Drake now?
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Marvel is canceling some books including America, Gwenpool, Generation X, and Hawkeye. A lot of people are labeling this as the "Social Studies Warrior cancellation fest." (Excluding Generation X). Heh.
EDIT: She-Hulk, Luke Cage, and Iceman are all canceled too.
Marvel is canceling some books including America, Gwenpool, Generation X, and Hawkeye. A lot of people are labeling this as the "Social Studies Warrior cancellation fest." (Excluding Generation X). Heh.
EDIT: She-Hulk, Luke Cage, and Iceman are all canceled too.
The fuck Marvel?
Lol Iceaman finally comes out. "CANCELLED!"
Red Goblin artwork is out there and he looks like an actual devil of sorts. Now there's speculation that this character is just Norman Osbourne after making a deal with the devil, I.E. a returning Mephisto. Which then fuels more speculation that all of this is going to lead to Dan Slott ending his run on Spider-Man by undoing One More Day. I doubt it but that would be pretty awesome.That’s interesting speculation. I remember shortly after Secret Wars ended there were a few mentions in Spider-Man and I think Spider-Man / Deadpool about OMD happening. But they’ve never followed up on any of those obviously.
Miles has been all about not being Spider-Man for a while now. I think there’s a real strong possibility that Bendis ends his Marvel run by giving him a new name and costume at this point.It's good that Miles is seemingly going to stop being Spider-Man. He's just a pointless, redundant character now.
Hard to tell if that's really going to happen or not- his on-going book is still...on-going AFAIK. And I think Bendis still has a few more issues left on it. :lol
Doomsday Clock 2Lex just be like 'the fuck is this Julius Caesar looking fucker' :lol
what the fuck? ???spoiler (click to show/hide)Nice to see the meetup people have talked about in what ifs, etc is actually happening :lol . Also Lex ethering the fuck out of Ozy for being a fucking idiot :lawd , but what the hell at the Comedian's return[close]
The sad thing is that under Hickman, Ultimate Reed was a really good villain.
He’ll take the black suit Spider-Man suit and move on from Gwen to MH.
The sad thing is that under Hickman, Ultimate Reed was a really good villain.
Miles has been all about not being Spider-Man for a while now. I think there’s a real strong possibility that Bendis ends his Marvel run by giving him a new name and costume at this point.
DARK NIGHTS: METAL #5 ON SALE 1/31More fuckery tomorrow :rejoice
MISTER MIRACLE #6 ON SALE 1/10
BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT #4 ON SALE 1/3
:rejoice
He’ll take the black suit Spider-Man suit and move on from Gwen to MH.
Sorry, who?The sad thing is that under Hickman, Ultimate Reed was a really good villain.
Definitely. He faded into obscurity after Secret Wars. Not just him...other villains who they made out to be "big name villains" like The Maestro are also barely there. The latter was in a storyline in Old Man Logan (who kicked his and multiple Hulk Gang crew asses all by himself) and that has been about it recently.
The story is about the team of U.S. Marines who extract an education activist from the strong-hold of the Taliban insurgentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarhead_3:_The_Siege
The film follows a group of Marines who must protect the US ambassador from a group of militants who attacked the embassy.
That backwards sentence in Batman 38 is amazing. I read it backwards like 4 times before my brain put it together and exploded.Those last two panels though :goldberg
the core premise of it, and the book, and Sheriff of Babylon is about the struggle between how we act and think between normal civilization and the inhumane civilization of warzones and how it warps our moral code while remaining entirely rational and logical in the momentAaah, I see. An ancient pattern that plays itself out everyday on 4chin boards all over the internet
in retrospect, i think this may have been part of what he was going for with the war between jokes and riddles arc
Though frankly I don’t think the whisperers was really that bad.It seemed like it was taking forever and going nowhere. They never felt like a legitimate threat, especially after the first meeting. And all the sideplots they were tying into it felt the same way. Really, the whole post-time skip era has felt like this aimless direction.
Spider men 2 sounds fucking dumb.
I'm going to read the entire new WW run later, this Darkseid stuff has me intrigued.Art and the reading order pissed me off so i quit.
As a real DC fan I am reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
I would have preferred to see some development of the rage the suit got from Lee Price sort of driving the Eddie and venom combo “mad” and turning him back into a Spider-Man villain.
Slott does like to throw people off.
I would rather have them undo one more day as part of legacy. :-/
Doomsday clock is interesting, but I’m having trouble following it. Maybe my ass is just dumb, but I don’t exactly understand how Rorschach got into DC
Slott does like to throw people off.
I would rather have them undo one more day as part of legacy. :-/
Doomsday clock is interesting, but I’m having trouble following it. Maybe my ass is just dumb, but I don’t exactly understand how Rorschach got into DC
Batman #39"I'm telling Clark you said that"spoiler (click to show/hide)Holy fuck i love how Wonder Woman is drawn :o
Not to get into pairing bullshit but Batman x Diana was always my thing, however in this run i really, really hope he marries Selena :'([close]
"Please dont"
:lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/7u07p1/although_its_pretty_insignificant_i_thought_it/
kinda cool (mister miracle)
was looking at the release list for next week, X-Men Red is getting eleven variant covers :lol
Is Johns out of ideas and that's why he needs two fucking months to write each fucking issue?i think he has it written, i think the problem is other books
Im reading Grant Morrison run on Doom Patrol.first time? don't get cut out of reality and be careful with your three wishes
Bendis is taking over my fave book Superman, not sure how I feel. :-\
I guess this means Gleason and Tomasi will just be sticking with Super Sons for now.
At least Tec is still trucking on.
Im reading Grant Morrison run on Doom Patrol.
I learned to enjoy life again.
:shaqc
:mjcry
:fbm
Nerf The Batman who laughs plsi liked that his triumphant victory speech, and attempt to get in her head, didn't break Diana but sent her to war with all her nightmare versions whether Kendra was coming or not
way too OP.
Trunks are coming back, but Bendis will make him talk like he's on that resetera board. you win some you lose some.I've been keeping in touch with Bendis a bit over the last couple of months and it seems like he stopped pushing identity politics in the last 2 - 3 months of his run at Marvel and actually tried putting the story first :idont
Animal Man -> Doom Patrol -> Batman R.I.P. -> Final Crisis -> The Multiversity are the tent poles of the arc he tells within the DC Multiverse
Full disclosure I dont like hawkman and hawkgirl, and them being a big part of this story is super meh to me and i mentally skip over their distinguished mentally-challenged bird asses.
Hawkman is the lamest fucking thing and he's easily the worst part of Metal.well, nobody does because outside of JSA (the best major DC series nobody reads), Hawkman was a disaster area to the point that DC explicitly told Morrison he couldn't use him for JLA and approved a literal angel as a character instead of letting Morrison discard the canon snarl
i didn't, it's in the parenthetical, but R.I.P., actually The Black Glove plot, is the one that directly ties into that component of his DC arc, which was establishing that all the Batman stories were canon, and in the Black Casebook, even things like Bat Mite and Batman of Zur-En-ArrhQuoteAnimal Man -> Doom Patrol -> Batman R.I.P. -> Final Crisis -> The Multiversity are the tent poles of the arc he tells within the DC Multiverse
You forgot Batman & Robin and Batman Inc. :ufup
Also no one's answered my question about how prevalent Beast Boy is in his runBeast Boy had ages earlier been moved out of Doom Patrol and into Teen Titans.
i didn't, it's in the parenthetical, but R.I.P., actually The Black Glove plot, is the one that directly ties into that component of his DC arc, which was establishing that all the Batman stories were canon, and in the Black Casebook, even things like Bat Mite and Batman of Zur-En-Arrh
i was going to include that in my news thing above about the delays but forgot, it's not an EW exclusive as DC put out the artwork as one of the upcoming changes lolNerf The Batman who laughs plsi liked that his triumphant victory speech, and attempt to get in her head, didn't break Diana but sent her to war with all her nightmare versions whether Kendra was coming or not
way too OP.
though i've always loved the Bruce/Diana relationship (in BvS/JL too, the JL trailer scene that got cut where they're talking about the team was one i wanted to see more of) that got truly introduced by Morrison but most writers either had to turn into crappy romance (like Bat/Zatanna) attempts or totally miss the things they share that the rest of the League doesn't get (but please don't tell Clark)
it's probably unintentional by comic Snyder but I'm going to read it as the Batman Who Laughs also unintentionally reminding her of their bond within the trinity after exploiting the one Bruce has with Clark earlier in the plot
Doom Patrol is about losers who have lost everything and keep going out of insanity (and deception), they have no time for his antics when there's unending madness and otherworldly psychological horror to confront.
Bendis is taking over my fave book Superman, not sure how I feel. :-\
I guess this means Gleason and Tomasi will just be sticking with Super Sons for now.
At least Tec is still trucking on.
Trunks are coming back, but Bendis will make him talk like he's on that resetera board. you win some you lose some.I've been keeping in touch with Bendis a bit over the last couple of months and it seems like he stopped pushing identity politics in the last 2 - 3 months of his run at Marvel and actually tried putting the story first :idont
Bendis wasn't responsible for Ultimatum or really for the Ultimate universe outside of Spider-man shitting itself.
shots fired at Sean Hannity out of nowhere in this weeks Justice League:confused
etoliate was right :brazilcry
White Knight #5spoiler (click to show/hide)LMFAO
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I feel like I need to go back and start reading savage dragon (again, for the first time since 98)
When did it start going off the damn rails? Erik Larsen has went insane somewhere along the way.
Savage Dragon #231:
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The titular "Sex Doll" on the cover starts the book out by screwing some dude and then murdering him after she clamps down so hard on his junk that it gets cut off. She then tosses him out the window and we get a lovely illustration of her dropping his severed cock out of her cooch.
.....
Nope...not surprised anymore. This issue continues to focus on Malcolm Dragon and family doin' thangs while being filmed by a reality TV crew. The issue also ends with Malcolm going out and fighting multiple "sex dolls" who beat the shit out of him and that's it his part of the story, AKA nothing matters there. What this story should be called is "Dragons everywhere."
Back in Chicago, we see a weird shark-like woman (female Mako!?) bust through a wall and beat up an old lady who is taking care of a baby. The baby is a baby Dragon (is this the same one that killed Malcolm's former classmate who he knocked up during one of his threesomes, after it burst through her stomach? Who knows!) and she calls it her kid...after changing back into Alison Summers, the evil Dart. OK, that's something new.
Then the rest of the book focuses on the nude trio of Alex, Jennifer, and Angel who are continuing to wander/fight in Dimension X. Last time they got caught by a bunch of big-dicked aliens and were put into a cage, only to be confronted by formerly-dead Malcolm Dragon's mamma Rapture, the electricity-wielding former prostitute, who tells them that there's a bunch of dead Angel and Jennifer corpses everywhere (wut), which I guess means Mr. Glum clones or maybe multiverse stuff. Can't tell. But it appears they're all dead from being fucked? I dunno, it's what I expect from the book now.
Suddenly one of the alien dudes starts taking out the others and punches Rapture out. He takes off his mask and it's...Malcolm Dragon.
:confused
A different Malcolm dragon, looking a bit younger. WUT
batman white knight - March 7
batman - Feb 21
mister miracle - Mar 14
Dark Nights Metal - Mar 14
:goldberg
Did I miss an issue of Mister Miracle it was it delayed? March feels like a long timepre-planned skip month for the artist
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Breaks? Comic fans know nutting about no breaks, have you ever heard of hiatus x hiatus? :snobspoiler (click to show/hide):goldberg[close]
And over in Detective, I hope the end of this issue means that Cass is on the road to becoming Batgirl again, what with ripping the thing off Batwoman's chest and all. I also hope it means Batwoman goes away soon. I've never liked Kate Kane and the whole military angle. Historically it's also always felt like she was entirely disconnected from the other Bat titles (until recently with her prominence Detective).
they sure let morrison run wild with wild hunt :lol
it's credited to the standard METAL tie-ins team of Snyder, Tynion and Williamson plus Morrison, but it's also obvious he probably wrote at least 90% of it :lol
And over in Detective, I hope the end of this issue means that Cass is on the road to becoming Batgirl again, what with ripping the thing off Batwoman's chest and all. I also hope it means Batwoman goes away soon. I've never liked Kate Kane and the whole military angle. Historically it's also always felt like she was entirely disconnected from the other Bat titles (until recently with her prominence Detective).
How did you get that from what Cass did?
Barb is still Batgirl I believe, that's the main issue right now. And she basically has her Batgirl costume just with more ninja and less S&M.
Just caught up on Metal after taking a break around November and I'm not sure what the christ just happened in Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt. I love me some Morrison but that's some comics ass shit.
I really want to just wait out Doomsday Clock now because I'm not sure I remember everything that happened earlier in this event.
MARVEL COMICS ANNOUNCES A LINE-WIDE OVERHAUL IN 2018 (https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-2018-refresh-reboot/)
...again?? :thinking
DC Comics Cancels Super Sons With #16 (https://search.app.goo.gl/jwbY)
:goty2 x 1000
You should be afraid.
Bendis was pretty trash at marvel over the last half a decade, showed moments of absolute brilliance in there though.
Bendis is taking two of my fave books away. I haven't even read any of his shit yet but FUCK HIM.
Also, now I'm really worried for Jon (and Lois.) Would have been hard to fridge them with Super Sons ongoing, but now? Ugh.
Fuck me, Batman & The Signal is awful. Writing sucks, art sucks, Duke sucks.
But mostly the writing.
And the art.
I really wanted to like Duke and waited and waited til they actually did something with him, but no... he's just a dumb character.
If Supes goes to shit I might take another couple years off of comics.
If Supes goes to shit I might take another couple years off of comics.
It's pretty bad when I feel Dectivite Comics is the best team book, but it's got everything I want from an X-men book.
Every new and relaunching series will start off once again at #1, making the decision to release months of titles with issue numbers in the multiple hundreds before reverting back look just as silly as it ended up being. In fact, some titles will feature two separate numberings, continuing the Legacy number and a new relaunched number for good measure. Which is... not confusing at all.
A Brief Guide to Marvel Comics' Four Relaunches—Yes, Four—Since 2015 (https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-brief-guide-to-marvel-comics-four-relaunches-yes-fou-1823281867)
There have been a few comics announced as part of the roster shakeup, however. There will now only be one Avengers book (by Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness), after years of multiple teams bearing the name, which will unite Black Panther, Thor (the Odinson version), Iron Man, Captain America, She-Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Ghost Rider.
Odinson will be reinstated as the God of Thunder in his own Thor series, by Jason Aaron and Mike Del Mundo.
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuña, will pick up on the thread first teased in Marvel Legacy #1 of there being a vast Wakandan Space Empire.
Following his death in Civil War (and his bizarre re-appearance in Secret Empire), Bruce Banner will be restored as the Hulk in Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’s The Immortal Hulk.
In another out-there announcement, multiplying mutant Jamie Madrox—a.k.a. Multiple Man, a.k.a. future Marvel movie star—is getting his own series as part of the relaunch, too.
A Brief Guide to Marvel Comics' Four Relaunches—Yes, Four—Since 2015 (https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-brief-guide-to-marvel-comics-four-relaunches-yes-fou-1823281867)Marvel actually did this before. In the early 2000s, when the books they had outsourced to Image came back from Franklin Richards pocket universe to Marvel, they started over as #1's for the second time in 14 issues and then had dual numbers on them. Thor, Fantastic Four, etc. were like #40 / #479
:crowdlaffQuoteEvery new and relaunching series will start off once again at #1, making the decision to release months of titles with issue numbers in the multiple hundreds before reverting back look just as silly as it ended up being. In fact, some titles will feature two separate numberings, continuing the Legacy number and a new relaunched number for good measure. Which is... not confusing at all.
:crazy
President Donald J. Trump is now the most powerful superhero in the universe and the leader of the greatest super team in history - but for how long? History is quickly being changed by something called The Mandela Effect; the universe is being Berenstained! All the things we remember are now slightly different - the way names are spelled, the way company logos look, and even scenes from Star Wars and James Bond movies! The Mandela Effect is the greatest threat our country has ever known, and only President Trump can stop it! Trump's Titans return in an all-new #1, because #4s are for losers!
also a reprint directors cut or something of this is out this week
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Ditto here like Thor. Also "Wakandans...iiiinnnn spaaaaaaace" doesn't seem like it's going to be a popular thing people will want after the movie.
If they ever do that DC/Marvel crossover that was kind of teased recently, I hope it has everything to do with Booster and Skeets snooping around the MCU
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Also, the cover to the next issue is some straight-up Silver Age cheese. :lol
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Is that Jim Lee art? What the hell happened there? His face is just off.he looks like Captain Shazam
Is that Jim Lee art? What the hell happened there? His face is just off.he looks like Captain Shazam
batman white knight - March 7:rejoice
batman - Feb 21
mister miracle - Mar 14
Dark Nights Metal - Mar 14
:goldberg
Momo you jackass Metal #6 isn't out until the 28th! :boloI got metal wrong? :goldberg
But you know what *is* out today?
:batman :batman :batman
aka Robin booty in yoga pants :batman
Shitstorm incoming?Incoming? Bleeding Cool already has a stupid article up, saw it this morning - https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/21/action-comics-writer-dan-jurgens-fat-people/ hopefully no one reads this shit blog anymore (saw it on reddit)
As the writer of Action Comics at DC, Dan Jurgens gives a voice to a superhero who represents the best of humanity, despite being an alien from outer space. But when Jurgens himself went up, up, and away for an airline flight, his tweets about a fellow passenger seemed to lack a certain compassion the big blue boy scout is known for.fatty triggered amirite lol
Of course, a First Class plane ticket can cost 10 times as much as a regular ticket, and even buying two regular seats can be expensive depending on the flight. And the problem with airline seating seems to be one of the airlines’ making, as airline seats have continuously gotten smaller and smaller, even as the average size of Americans has gotten larger, part of a general trend to cut costs and pack more travellers onto a single plane. Even for an average-sized person, a trip on most modern airlines is far from comfortable. For a person of above average size, it can be a nightmare.
Given all of that, reactions to Jurgens’s tweet were negative, accusing the writer of fat-shaming, lacking empathy, and contradicting the principles he writes about, amongst other things. But Jurgens followed up by doubling down.
It looks like Jurgens hasn’t yet reconsidered, even though several followers have responded by telling him he’s lost them as a fan. Maybe he’ll have a change of heart by the time he lands? Perhaps he even talked with the “immense fat guy” who was unfortunately seated next to him and gained a new perspective on the issue? If this were a comic book, that would be the ending we’d expect to see.
We’ll let you know if anything changes when the plane touches down.
Bernardo Marra Flinkman • 16 hours ago:trigger -gate suffixes :trigger
Also, the DC PR team must be breathing a sigh of relief that he just left AC before this whole FatGate thing probably explodes across the media.
By the end of Metal I didn’t really understand what was happening or why. The earth fell below the darkness or something because Batman got bukkakeed by 9 metals.
The only part I really found interesting were the tie-ins. The actual series sort of sucked. It was just too confusing, and not well explained.
Since I'm hopelessly behind on all things DC, I'm just going to read the entire Metal mini-series and its tie-ins rather than read up until the event starts. Doesn't really look like there's too many tie-in books anyway.The series/tie-ins reference events up to the start, especially Snyder's Batman run (which ended with New 52) and the Court of Owls. But it's not essential to the METAL story itself other than this, the Court's actions in an earlier plotline were not just part of torturing Bruce, but to set him up. Also, there's some tie-ins to DARKSEID WAR, when Bruce had Metron's chair he learned a bunch of stuff about the universe, that's why he has The Joker in a cell under the Batcave. (Also, this story is why Darkseid is a baby.) The tie-in issues also have references to prior events, almost all of these get enough of an explanation that you don't need to know the original, there's lots of "random thing before now means something" type stuff.
I liked Metal a lot, but man was that last issue rushed. It at least needed some extra pages, if not a whole extra issue.It was already an extended issue, 48 pages, and it's received at least three months of delays. METAL was supposed to be basically over by the time 2018 started, and Doomsday Clock would pick up the banner as the EVENT, except the delays to that are why we're getting NO JUSTICE.
With DC, I've always operated under the assumption that anything Justice League-related isn't actually happening because it almost always seems to take place within it's own little world. JL books or events never really bleed over or tie into the other books or series in a meaningful way. Metal and the whole No Justice thing seem to be continuing that tradition. I'm still eager to see where Justice League goes from here though. I just treat it like an Elseworlds thing.DC books have been for a couple months now been taking place "post-METAL" as there's been plenty of references to it in the past-tense. The delays were apparently not due to Snyder, so the storyline was known to the other writers but they didn't want to tip anything about it. Like Batman's proposal to Catwoman is the result of his coming back from METAL I believe. But King until recently couldn't outright say that was the reason.
By the end of Metal I didn’t really understand what was happening or why. The earth fell below the darkness or something because Batman got bukkakeed by 9 metals.Snyder wrote a Morrison Epic but he's not the level of writer to provide the density where re-reading makes it clearer, METAL basically doesn't get clearer on re-reads once we get to the events of METAL proper. It's by and large a loud mess and reveled in that batshit loudness until this last issue.
The only part I really found interesting were the tie-ins. The actual series sort of sucked. It was just too confusing, and not well explained.
By the end we're seeing Dark Wonder Women, etc. and some are drawn interesting on their own, but unlike the Dark Batmen, we didn't get their backstory which was way more effective than I thought. The story never grapples with The Dark Batmen, outside of one, not being servants of Barbatos, but instead trying to save their universes. Arguably for five pages of wanking about heroes and metal and hope as white swirls around, it would have been more effective for the heroes to re-emerge in the Dark Batmen, to reject Barbatos seeing what his endgame actually is, shattering Barbatos' hold on the nightmares and requiring him to fall back on the one who wasn't "broken" but chose willingly to "break" in The Batman Who Laughs.
This is also a way you can get to the deus ex machina of the "Tenth" Metal and do it all on panel. The first half of the series and the one-shots touch on it, but the story mostly loses it, WHY THE FORGE EXISTS and why it's in the Dark Multiverse, etc. And you can use it for the same reason. The ended stories are being destroyed in The Forge to provide the fuel to create new stories. A sacrifice of the other Dark Batmen to provide the fuel for Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to come back from within The Forge with the "Tenth" Metal that essentially ends Barbatos' plans and ties up the "metal" and Dark Batmen's plotlines. Something METAL doesn't actually do. Batman and The Joker still need to do the one thing that only they know, which is track down their counterpart, to end the backup plan, AND get The Monitor, who happens to know how to pull the Earth out of the Dark. But most importantly it shifts the deus ex machina to being one that actually deals with the concepts of The Dark Batmen and Barbatos, by defying him, they provide the fuel to return our heroes, it's an inverse of the start when our heroes are used to open the door to Barbatos and elevate the Dark. It also firmly plants METAL as a story about heroes/hope/dreams/aspiring vs. terrors/fear/nightmares/despair.
Superman #42
This book continues to be great. Thought this page was cute as hell:
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Best marriage in comics? Best marriage in comics.
The Bizarro stuff was a little hard to read at first but then I got into it. Looking forward to this arc.
Not much time left before "BENDIS IS COMING!!!!" :-\
Batman #43all y'all late y'all (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=32804.msg2402084#msg2402084) :snob
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I still can't understand how after all these years there hasn't been a DC/DBZ or Superman/Goku crossover
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I still can't understand how after all these years there hasn't been a DC/DBZ or Superman/Goku crossover
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I still can't understand how after all these years people would want a DC/DBZ or Superman/Goku crossover
I still can't understand how after all these years there hasn't been a DC/DBZ or Superman/Goku crossover
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I still can't understand how after all these years people would want a DC/DBZ or Superman/Goku crossover
So you can have an official Superman vs Goku battle to nerd-reference in that perennial debate. Otherwise, it would probably suck because I honestly don't know how you'd possibly mash those 2 universes together since they clash so much. I guess you could do it like Batman/Spawn and Spawn/Batman back in the 90's, where there's an Image version and a DC version... but then you wind up with the question of which is the official version or which counts more. Meh.
Although if you did it Metal style where you just sort of say 'fuck it all' and try to tell a silly, fun story, it could work.
BATMAN #45
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Action comics 1000 was a total waste of my time, fyi.
I don't think I particularly liked any of the stories. The bendis one left me not at all interested in seeing waht's next as well.
I still like Old Man Logan, even though they're clearly running out of steam creatively. Overall, I like Wolverine as a broken old man/Clint Eastwood archetype than the usual angry berserker murder machine.
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"This series is about the Original Five - Jean, Bobby, Warren, Hank and Scott," Brisson told Marvel.com. "Years ago, they were brought from the past to our present so that they could see how badly things went wrong with their older selves and, theoretically, fix it. They were only meant to be here briefly, but have stuck around for far, far too long and their presence is finally going to have some very serious consequences - not just for themselves and the X-Men, but for all of mutantkind."
I thought it was already confirmed they are alternate reality versions of the originals.
It was retconned that way and that altered - again - in a later arc. ugh.
How's Red Hood and the Outlaws?
Any recommendations for non-DC and Marvel comics y'all have read of late? If not, the good runs from either of em?
Looking to get back into comics and not sure what to pick up. Think the last I read was American Vampire.
There's a silly Japanese set series called Wayward, that was apparently originally a pitch to reboot Buffy for the 2010s (and this makes the characters make way more sense now as they're clearly gender split expy's for Willow, Angel, etc. lol), that features a girl powered by the spirits of stray cats and violent fox-girl and the one bad guy's threatening words to start his plotline are "tell me more about this 'internet'" and I'm not sure if I'm actually supposed to be taking it seriously or not. :lol
Any recommendations for non-DC and Marvel comics y'all have read of late? If not, the good runs from either of em?
Looking to get back into comics and not sure what to pick up. Think the last I read was American Vampire.
Any recommendations for non-DC and Marvel comics y'all have read of late? If not, the good runs from either of em?
Looking to get back into comics and not sure what to pick up. Think the last I read was American Vampire.
There's a silly Japanese set series called Wayward, that was apparently originally a pitch to reboot Buffy for the 2010s (and this makes the characters make way more sense now as they're clearly gender split expy's for Willow, Angel, etc. lol), that features a girl powered by the spirits of stray cats and violent fox-girl and the one bad guy's threatening words to start his plotline are "tell me more about this 'internet'" and I'm not sure if I'm actually supposed to be taking it seriously or not. :lol
Holy shit...I know the guy who does the art on this. Went to Japan for the first time with his brother and stayed at his apartment back in 2001. He was trying to get a career in manga going. Looks like he moved back Stateside, did some stuff, and is back over there now. Small world.
Also there was a rumor (semi-but-not-really "debunked" by Jim Lee and Snyder) that DC is going to do a full reboot soon (New 52 style) and that Bats' and Supes' marriages would be undone AGAIN.
But it's seeming like it won't come to pass. Even Didio isn't that dumb... is he?spoiler (click to show/hide)Gonna be honest, if that happened I'd probably drop comics altogether - for the first time since I started reading them.[close]
Also there was a rumor (semi-but-not-really "debunked" by Jim Lee and Snyder) that DC is going to do a full reboot soon (New 52 style) and that Bats' and Supes' marriages would be undone AGAIN.
But it's seeming like it won't come to pass. Even Didio isn't that dumb... is he?spoiler (click to show/hide)Gonna be honest, if that happened I'd probably drop comics altogether - for the first time since I started reading them.[close]
I can see the Batman/Catwoman marriage not lasting, sure. But not a reboot so much as a divorce or another character death. Doubt Superman/Lois is going anywhere unless Bendis decides to fuck something up.
A new era begins for Superman as a threat from his earliest origins reemerges to destroy the Last Son of Krypton. As Superman struggles to come to grips with what has happened to his wife and son, he must also face a new threat that’s determined to burn down Metropolis!
My guess is that Suberboy's age gets accelerated and he's a teenager. Then he can write him just like Miles Morales. :doge
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My guess is that Suberboy's age gets accelerated and he's a teenager. Then he can write him just like Miles Morales. :doge
The third, though, may be the most important: Tim Drake is beginning to understand the concepts of time and space that underpin the DC Multiverse. And if there is anyone in the DC Universe who can understand the forces at work, it's Tim. He's stepped out of the spotlight to solve this mystery for now, but when he returns... well, expect big things with Red Robin's name all over them.
Invincible Iron Man #700:
I'm just going to spoil the whole thing, because it's dumb and not worth reading. There's a bunch of artists on this one, so some pages are just awful art-wise, and full of inconsistencies like Tony having facial hair one page and then none on another.
This is the last Bendis-written issue and it opens with...Rhodey being resurrected from the dead, following his death at the hands of Thanos at the beginning of Civil War II. We get a Benis-monologue from A.I. Tony Stark that real Tony fucked around with his DNA or whatever which is what allowed him to come back from being "dead" and he figures he can do the same for Rhodey, who comes right back to life.
"Tony Stark is Tony Stark and will NOT be out Tony Stark-ed." -Quality writing from Bendis that you can look forward to in Superman!
Meanwhile, Riri Williams, who teamed up with some armor teens, has been brought before...Leonardo DaVinci. Yup, they're tying this back into the SHIELD origin story-thing. Leo is making a new version of SHIELD and he's got people like Blade and Miles Morales signed up.
Tony's real parents meet up (his mother,a former rockstar who worked for SHIELD, killed his father for being a double agent of Hydra, but surprise! He's back AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE FUCK THESE PEOPLE ARE SO WHO CARES :zzz)
The Hood and his crew of super-villains are threatening the one Stark Inc. board member who tried to take over the company while Tony was "dead" and then Doom and Doombots show up, followed by Tony and Rhodey. How did they find out what was going on? Who fucking cares. Doom fights Hood who turns into a monster and appears to be about to blast his face. I guess we're getting old villain Doom back?
Back with Tony's parents, MJ comes in and shoots him in the shoulder and Hydra goons come out and SURPRISE it's nu-SHIELD with Riri and Miles-Spidey and...Cable? WTF? Why is CABLE there? Who knows? Nobody is explaining anything! Tony and Rhodey pop up and the Champions also just come in from nowhere and Tony is interested in Nu-SHIELD too.
Doom, with a bloodied face, is back in the ruins of his castle and appears to be doing some kind of spell. Why did Doom decide to do a face-turn and be a good guy for all this time? WHO KNOWS! Bendis isn't telling. Thanks, Bendis.
And that's it*. Dumb, dumb, DUMB end storyline and I guess with everyone back, Dan Slott can just ignore all that shit and start fresh. Doom can go back to being a villain and fight the returning Fantastic Four. Nu-SHIELD...uh, sure. Whatever.
I've been reading that the whole "Social Studies Warrior Marvel" thing has failed big time, which explains why Tony is back as Iron Man, fem-Thor is dead and Odinson is back in the saddle, etc. Even Ms Marvel's sales have slumped to the point where they're getting rid of G. Willow Wilson. GOOD. Please go back to making better comics again, thanks.
(*There's 1-2 more pages, where a time-traveling mutant whose name I forget goes to the future to see Dr. Strange, and it's actually an older Tony instead. But this has nothing to do with Iron Man and is a "teaser" for an upcoming X-Men storyline that they're just throwing into random Marvel books as "end credit scenes.")
Meanwhile, Leonardo Da Vinci—the actual one, and, because this is Marvel, one of the original founders of SHIELD centuries ago—recruits Miles Morales and Riri Williams into his secret new organization designed to act in SHIELD’s place.
Savage Dragon from Image Comics is some fucked-up fun. I also really like the current Red Sonja series from Dynamite, which initially takes the character and Kulan Gath and puts them into the present day.
Would highly recommend Invincible from Image, written by Robert Kirkman of the Walking Dead fame. It recently ended and was just an all-around awesome superhero comic. Shits all over everything from Marvel and DC.
American Vampire was pretty dope, Snyder had such promise. I'll make a cliche big list of non-DC/Marvel that includes Vertigo even though it's DC because you lose some of the greats otherwise
Ended or Unofficially Officially Ended:
Planetary
DMZ
Fatale/The Fade Out
Irredeemable/Incorruptable
Invincible
Fables
Queen and Country
100 Bullets
Fallen Angel
Top Ten
The Manhattan Projects
Thief of Thieves
The Damned
Planetary
Planetary
Planetary
Planetary
Lucifer
Still going...though some may be on hiatus as indie books are more and more taking after Saga and publishing an entire storyline then taking off three or more months rather than trying to stick to monthly...
East of West
Injection
Jupter's Circle/Legacy
Lazarus
Powers
The Massive
If you mean "non-cape" books instead, some of these have superheroes, but they all play with the concept. Invincible plays things more "realistic" in terms of human impact and Irredeemable's hook is "what if Superman makes a mistake, kills millions, and decides to roll with it rather than trying to save the day?"
Alan Moore's Supreme is kind the pinnacle Superman examination freed from his DC constraints and so long ago too...
Speaking of, people either love or really hate Saga, both sides are probably right.
There's a silly Japanese set series called Wayward, that was apparently originally a pitch to reboot Buffy for the 2010s (and this makes the characters make way more sense now as they're clearly gender split expy's for Willow, Angel, etc. lol), that features a girl powered by the spirits of stray cats and violent fox-girl and the one bad guy's threatening words to start his plotline are "tell me more about this 'internet'" and I'm not sure if I'm actually supposed to be taking it seriously or not. :lol
I dunno, this is probably no help, what kind of stuff do you like Borealis? Other than American Vampire and Planetary of course.
I would highly recommend Southern Bastards and Moonshine. They are my two favorite on-going series at the moment. I've started reading Kill or Be Killed as well, seems like a pretty good series so far.
I don't know if having a print edition is important to you but Tyler Cross is very good but it's only available digitally. Co-signing Moonshine,100 Bullets,Kill or be Killed(which is ending in a few months),Southern Bastards(which has very irregular release schedule) and Deathbed(which is ending in a few months).
Justice League No Justice #3 - I'm still onboard for now, I wish they would give team Wonder more panels though.No Justice's art has been so bad :lol
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BECAUSE FLASH.
Thanks for the suggestions all. Think I might jump into a couple of the Image comic suggestions first. Also, is Transmetropolitan any good?Transmetropolitan is fun, it's oddly dated in a lot of ways despite being set in the 23rd Century.
Was reading Saga until about issue #30 I think, probably should get back to it. Went through Snyder's run of Batman around the same time, but honestly can't recall where I stopped (I think Zero Year, with Joker taking over the world?) and have no idea how his run concluded.
And yeah, kinda disappointed with how American Vampire's panned out after I caught up with it last week, can't believe the Second Cycle just ended 11 issues in :( There's barely any discussion on it online, no idea why there's another hiatus.
i have no idea where doomsday clock is headed at all
also tasty, don't read bendis' the man of steel, dooonnnn'tttt
Amazing Spider-Man #800 is out today and it concludes the Red Goblin storyline, but is not Dan Slott's final issue- that's #801. This one is like 80 pages long and is the entire finale; no extra "milestone issue!!!" crap here.
Enjoyed this a lot more than Invincible Iron Man #600. I still think this final Slott story is a bit on the weaker side, given the villain (the scope of things just never felt big enough), but you can tell that Slott actually cares about what he's writing, unlike Bendis's "I'm out, bitches" vibe.
Is there anything major that happens here? Yes, but nothing earth-shattering. There is a character death here but I get the feeling this character will end up returning later on because comics.
Spoilers:spoiler (click to show/hide)-The issue opens with Spider-Man and co. recovering after a Red Goblin beat-down. Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) comes to their aid and uses his man-made symbiote to heal everyone but Spidey with. Doing this drains his symbiote and you can see it visibly fading from his body. HINT HINT
-During the battle, Red Goblin reveals that all the little needles he has been shooting contain a kind of poison that will go through the nervous system and into the brain, killing the victim slowly and extremely painfully. He also tells Spidey that he's off to go kill his family and goes after Mary Jane first.
-Normie Osborne, Red Goblin's grandson, who got infected with the Carnage symbiote, goes to kill Aunt May. She is saved by Doctor Octopus (No more "superior name" although it's still him in a cloned Peter Parker body) and when Spidey comes in, Ock says he still has Peter's memories and couldn't bear to let anything happen to May, so Spidey says they're square and lets him go off to do whatever. (JJJ is also there in a remote-controlled Spider Slayer robot, but basically does nothing)
-A subplot here is that Norman is trying take over Alchemax (who bought Oscorp) from his son's ex-wife but this kind of fails due to all the shit going on. This is also when Normie starts getting turned back to a good kid again...maybe.
-J. Jonah Jameson is the smartest man in the world, because he figures out that Eddie Brock is Venom and calls him. He asks Venom to help. Venom goes to save Mary Jane and beats up the Red Goblin, who escapes after Spidey arrives.
-Brock tells Spidey he's too weak to go on but offers his symbiote to help. So we're back to black costume-symbiote Spider-Man for the first time in decades! Peter seems to accept this way, way too easily after all that's happened with that thing, but it is a changed alien I guess. The artist draws him kind of weird- the eyes are sort of popping off his face and it looks fucked up.
-Red Goblin reveals that the little needles he's been shooting people with are toxic and can kill people slowly and painfully whenever he wants. He's gonna go ahead and do that now, but then nothing happens. BECAUSE FLASH. Anti-Venom got the needles out of everybody. He uses the last of his symbiote to protect Spidey and suffers a fatal wound, then dies. :'(
-After more fighting, Spider-Man is defeated, but he gambles on telling the Red Goblin that it's not Norman Osbourne who won...but Carnage. Specifically Cletus Cassidy, the former human host, who I thought was dead, but apparently is part of the symbiote now. ??? ??? ??? Norman is full of himself and can't accept this.
-Both ditch their symbiotes and fight again. Spidey wins and the Carnage symbiote comes back. He uses an explosion to stop it and it shocks Norman so bad he turns into a babbling idiot.
-Flash has a funeral, words are said, etc etc. There's nothing saying he's coming back, but I get the feeling the whole "healing" thing with Anti-Venom means he'll pop back up later on in some form.
-We see Norman in jail and Spider-Man goes to see him. He had previously found out that Spider-Man was Peter Parker (again, since everyone who knew previously lost that after One More Day) but now calls him "Norman Osborne." Apparently his mind is now that of Cletus Cassidy and Norman is "gone." I kind of doubt this will stick, but OK.
-Harry decides to change his last name back to "Osborne" to do right by it and we get a hint that the symbiote is not completely gone from his son.
-In an "after credits" scene, Doc Ock has gone out to Cali to go accept a position at Horizon University, where Peter's old science colleagues are, including Anna, who he had a relationship with when he was Superior Spider-Man.[close]
i find it kind of dumb that they try to use Mary Jane to signify high stakes in Spider man post OMD.
She’s basically not even in Marvel Books anymore except for Renew your vows and maybe is in like one or two issues per year of Spider-Man since OMD ended usually only for a couple of pages.
For as much as Marvel editorial seems to think OMD was a great idea, they really haven’t capitalized on it in any meaningful way. There aren’t really any important supporting characters in Peter Parker’s life anymore and haven’t been since OMD, so when they want to introduce stakes to a story, they do it through his ex-girlfriend, who he broke up with like ten years ago, and only has any stakes associated with her because they were married in a story that was magicked out of existence a decade ago. In current continuity, Goblin going after Mary Jane should basically have as much stakes as him going after Carlie.
Did Mary Jane and Peter ever even have a baby in post OMD continuity? If so they never bring it up.
Because of the varied nature of the missions the Task Force would be employed on, and the versatility of the concept, various writers and artists were featured on this title. Up to issue #13 most writers wrote only up to three issues (even the series' creator David Michelinie only wrote the first three issues, although a misprint on the cover of issue #5 credited him with the story, but it was actually written by Denny O'Neil)yeah...because of the varied nature amirite
At the time the Justice League was featured in three separate series: Justice League America, Justice League Europe (JLE) and Justice League Quarterly (JLQ). Justice League Task Force was a spinoff of Justice League Europe, a series which ran from April 1989 to May 1993.These eventually spun out even further into EXTREME JUSTICE, which actually was the series that setup the event that had the UN disband the Justice League which they had oversight of since the late 80s, for it to reform as Morrison's version.
The amount of impotent nerd rage I'm about to spew over Lois/Jon is equivalent to Vesuvius.
Don't try it DC. :bolospoiler (click to show/hide):badass[close]
That Wolverine with burning claws article legit almost made me connect to my lcs's website to cancel my entire pull list and quit new comics
The last series I really enjoyed was All New Wolverine, and it was light hearted fun.
That Wolverine with burning claws article legit almost made me connect to my lcs's website to cancel my entire pull list and quit new comics
:confused
What article?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/dc-comics-is-relaunching-vertigo-with-seven-new-series-1826640933
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After a lengthy build-up to the big wedding of Kitty Pryde and Colossus in X-Men Gold #30, Marvel has spoiled the story’s major twist on the eve of release.
As revealed this morning by The New York Times, the two X-Men fixtures don’t actually tie the knot in the issue, by writer Marc Guggenheim and artist David Marquez. Instead, following a discussion with Colossus’ sister Illyana, Kitty gets cold feet.
That’s not to say there isn’t a wedding, however, as Gambit is inspired to propose to Rogue, which leads to the upcoming series Mr. and Mrs. X, launching in July.
Oh I thought X-men Red has been like the only good X-men book so far. Blue has solid character moments and some cool plot points combined with kind of dumb stories.
Iceman is also getting another solo book. Didn't they just recently cancel the last one because of low sales?Yes iceman had abysmal sales (and the comic was shit from the two chapters I hate read) They're trying to sell it as by 'popular demand' when in reality it's just because they caught shit from the usual suspects.
There are two key scenes, both fail.
Illyana talking to Kitty on the roof the night before. Kitty senses something is off with Illyana, and convinces her to say it. After some hesitation, Illyana says "I just think if you two were meant to be together...it would've happened by now."
THAT'S IT. That's NOTHING.
Second key moment is after Kitty leaves him at the Altar, he finds her later and asks her why. Her answer? "Marriage is hard. Hard enough with all this...stuff. It's just too much history. A lot of it good, yeah. But some of it bad. And all of it...messy. Not the foundation to build a marriage on."
What? She said seven sentences without saying anything at all. It's awful.
And then immediately after that, the couple with the MOST messy history gets hitched.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/x-men-wedding-its-not-what-you-think.50103/page-5
Well, this sounds awful.QuoteThere are two key scenes, both fail.
Illyana talking to Kitty on the roof the night before. Kitty senses something is off with Illyana, and convinces her to say it. After some hesitation, Illyana says "I just think if you two were meant to be together...it would've happened by now."
THAT'S IT. That's NOTHING.
Second key moment is after Kitty leaves him at the Altar, he finds her later and asks her why. Her answer? "Marriage is hard. Hard enough with all this...stuff. It's just too much history. A lot of it good, yeah. But some of it bad. And all of it...messy. Not the foundation to build a marriage on."
What? She said seven sentences without saying anything at all. It's awful.
And then immediately after that, the couple with the MOST messy history gets hitched.
Note that Kitty is the one who proposed to Colossus. :doge
I mean it's not that out of left field. Earlier in X-men Gold Kitty was hesitient to get back together because it felt like destiny. She didn't like that and wasn't for Peter's gung ho attitude about it. Eventually she bought into it but it was clear the writing had as a base her feeling like a romance was happening because that's been a part of thier characters.
For Illyana to say yeah if it was meant to it would already have been was probably pretty powerful as that's Perer's sister and a big part of his life.
At least that's probably what the writing was going for. Don't know if it was excuted well as I haven't been into Gold too much.
Too me the marriage felt out of left field because it didn't seem like the characters themselves wanted it which I guess was the point. Too bad this poorly reflects on Kitty.
Sad that ASM 801 wasn’t about Spidey hittin MJ with the stinger.
Sad that ASM 801 wasn’t about Spidey hittin MJ with the stinger.
Is The Shocker involved anywhere?
That was a sex joke. :teehee
Spidey hittin MJ with the stinger
The Shocker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(hand_gesture))
Sad that ASM 801 wasn’t about Spidey hittin MJ with the stinger.
Is The Shocker involved anywhere?
Nope. No villains at all, really.
I see it getting a lot of praise and while it's way better than Bendis's 'exit' issues, it's nothing special.
Tony Stark: Iron Man unsurprisingly gave me heavy Spider-Man vibes. Specifically the way Tony and co. are written just like how Slott wrote Peter and co. when he became a billionaire tech company CEO.
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Never heard that called "the shocker" before. :lol
They also "rebooted" Groot and now he can actually talk.
Flash War #3 ends with the creation of Sage Force and Strength Force to compliment the Speed Force. :lol
Flash War #3 ends with the creation of Sage Force and Strength Force to compliment the Speed Force. :lol
Flash War #3 ends with the creation of Sage Force and Strength Force to compliment the Speed Force. :lol
All three combine into the TriForce.
Flash War #3 ends with the creation of Sage Force and Strength Force to compliment the Speed Force. :lol
All three combine into the TriForce.
The answers to the questions are found in letters the couple have written to each other before their wedding day. Mr. Wayne’s correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss. “You’re not someone who can be figured out. Or solved. And never will be,” he declares. He also writes that he can be “more than a boy whose parents are dead,” that he can be “the man who loves you. Who will always try to love you better.”
Ms. Kyle’s letter lays out the truth as she sees it: “You’re still a child, Bruce. A hurt child.” Their happiness, she speculates, would kill Batman, who rescues everyone and turns pain into hope. “How can I do that,” she writes. “To save the world, heroes make sacrifices.”
In order to keep countless innocents safe, she concludes that she cannot marry Mr. Wayne. “My sacrifice is my life. It’s you.”
In the final moments of their story, the bride and groom end up at different locations in the early morning hours. In a silent page, Ms. Kyle sits on a rooftop, contemplating. She discards her veil and leaps toward the street. At the Finger Tower skyscraper, after an hour of waiting for his bride, Mr. Wayne realizes she is not coming. He throws off his tie and takes a similar leap, but in the opposite direction. Theirs is a story that is forever to be continued.
DC pulled a Marvel and spoiled Batman #50 in the New York Times already. :lol ::)spoiler (click to show/hide)Catwoman and Batman will not get married because Batman needs to unhappy to be a superhero.QuoteThe answers to the questions are found in letters the couple have written to each other before their wedding day. Mr. Wayne’s correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss. “You’re not someone who can be figured out. Or solved. And never will be,” he declares. He also writes that he can be “more than a boy whose parents are dead,” that he can be “the man who loves you. Who will always try to love you better.”
Ms. Kyle’s letter lays out the truth as she sees it: “You’re still a child, Bruce. A hurt child.” Their happiness, she speculates, would kill Batman, who rescues everyone and turns pain into hope. “How can I do that,” she writes. “To save the world, heroes make sacrifices.”
In order to keep countless innocents safe, she concludes that she cannot marry Mr. Wayne. “My sacrifice is my life. It’s you.”
In the final moments of their story, the bride and groom end up at different locations in the early morning hours. In a silent page, Ms. Kyle sits on a rooftop, contemplating. She discards her veil and leaps toward the street. At the Finger Tower skyscraper, after an hour of waiting for his bride, Mr. Wayne realizes she is not coming. He throws off his tie and takes a similar leap, but in the opposite direction. Theirs is a story that is forever to be continued.
LOL. Can we stop it with this wedding fake-out shit now in comics?[close]
:dead
DC Comics have a five-point explanation for spoiling Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle’s wedding in Batman #50 via The New York Times Sunday morning ahead of the book’s July 4 street date.
John Cunningham, Senior Vice President of Sales for DC Comics, wrote the following on a local comic shop retailer Facebook group:
“1. DC Sales strongly advocated getting the news out ahead of the OSD, so that the Moment of Realization did not occur hours before events began. We even did our level best to try and spoil it here on this page over and over again (and failed). The NY Times article was posted here at 630 a.m. PST not out of “Pride” — please — but to get you the information as soon as we could.
2. In the abstract, we believed the news would break on Monday morning, given the arrival time of physical copies in store and the reality that a copy or a scan would end up being passed to uncontrolled comic book outlets (much like Marvel’s wedding issue last week and every other major comic book event in the lat decade).
3. As mentioned here before, any discussion about financial remedies for problematic DC product must occur after the product is on sale.
4. While The Times piece is more fulsome that [sic] some might like, it does not spoil the shock ending of the book for fans. We’re working on getting this posted here for you.
5. I stand by my belief that BATMAN #50 is one of the best single issue periodicals of the last decade, that it is a special moment in comic book history, and that if it’s not the book we (think) we want, it’s the book we need.”
"War of Jokes and Riddles" needed to be half the length. And Bruce was being really a big baby about it. He's done far worse. Probably even to Selina herself. :lolYeah I didnt really dig that arc, but I'm okay with it cause it was a lot shorter than arcs in other books.
tasty post if you're okay after reading man of steel #6
Apparently the entire chapter has leaked? My buddy just told me he read it :/
Can someone explain the last page of Batman #50?spoiler (click to show/hide)Who is the woman in Arkham and why the hell is there another Batman (looks like the Thomas Wayne Batman from Flashpoint?) down there with Bane?[close]
Can someone explain the last page of Batman #50?spoiler (click to show/hide)Who is the woman in Arkham and why the hell is there another Batman (looks like the Thomas Wayne Batman from Flashpoint?) down there with Bane?[close]
Never mind, I'm sorry I asked.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/07/03/final-scene-batman-50-mean-tom-king-run/
:whatisthis
King’s Batman is great.
King’s Batman is great.
It is but this was lame. Both the “fake out” and the “Bane did it”.
King’s Batman is great.
It is but this was lame. Both the “fake out” and the “Bane did it”.
I haven't read any of this, but the CBR article also implies that the characters shown with Bane means that all their related storylines were them "acting" and going along with Bane's plan, which just sounds all kinds of stupid.
I guess destroying weddings is the new character death thing now. This one reminds me of the 80s X-Men Wolverine/Mariko wedding storyline, where Mastermind manipulated Mariko into not marrying Logan. :doge
Bane's obsession with Batman in King's run feels manufactured. Like yeah it was always a thing, but Bane doing some super Xanatos gambit to "break" Batman's emotions? Come on.That was Bane's original introduction into the comics. A year long plan to break the Bat physically, emotionally and mentally until he broke into Wayne Manor and literally "broke the bat" by snapping his spinal cord.
Even Sherif of Babylon which is set in the real world has a similar feeling of surrealness that his Batman does. It’s not for everyone. And while I do like King, even some issues of Batman annoy me. Like 48 and 49 which featured a bit too much of his style and created a situation that felt too unreal. I don’t like the way he writes the Joker.To add onto this, Sheriff of Babylon's "surrealness" was supposed to reflect the nature of limited information in occupied Iraq and King's feelings of general untrustworthiness towards everyone.
Yes benji, I know who Bane was when he was introduced. But he's become an actual character since thenYou ain't that slick.
Though now that I think about it I think King did say that Johns told him what his plan was, but that King wasn't going to be the one revealing it or using it in Batman as it was supposed to be part of something larger/outside like Doomsday Clock. So maybe...
Was Jor-El canonically alive prior to this? This seems sort of like bringing back Uncle Ben, like pretty fucking stupid just on its face.
And how is Jor-El going to criticize Superman as a parent? Supes should be like “fuck you dad, you sent me across the galaxy in a fucking spaceship when I was like a week old! You never even loved me!”
Jor-El was brought back in Rebirth as Mr. Oz,
Bendis can DIAF.Yeah no one asked for this shit lmao
Mephisto then changes history so that Peter and Mary Jane never married, and no one remembers whose face is underneath Spider-Man's mask. Peter wakes up alone in bed, once again living with Aunt May. He attends a party being held for his best friend Harry Osborn (previously thought to have died in Spectacular Spider-Man #200), who introduces Lilly Hollister and Carlie Cooper. Peter glimpses Mary Jane sadly leaving the party. The guests all toast to a "Brand New Day."
I wish I didn't have to hide my love of Rainbow Brite and Sailor Moon as a kid. :'(
I wish I didn't have to hide my love of Rainbow Brite and Sailor Moon as a kid. :'(
I watched OG My Little Pony, and I never told a soul. :shh
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:noah
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BENJI :lawd
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BENJI :lawd
More multiverse shit? Black label, though. :o
This fits as the synopsis was talking about Barbara, Jason, and Bruce and how they have been affected by the joker.
And mentions that there are panels where at least two jokers interact.... will be upset if this is presented as Joker being crazy.
As soon as I catch up on Tec I think I’ll be up to date enough for whatever non Batman shit DC Nation #0 kicked off. How’s No Justice, Man Of Steel? Bendis fuck up Supes yet?
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I felt the same way about No Justice as I did Metal in the end.
A cool premise with an actual story that went over my head man did nothing for me.
Savage Dragon #236:
Just going to use some choice panel selections to sum up this issue. Right-click and view at as a full image for all of thestuff with Dragon's wife being a total nymphowacky hi-jinx!
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I feel like Erik Larsen just fucking lost it sometime between 1998 and now.
Yo, Savage Dragon had a Trump issue?
Snyder was best as the anti-Morrison AKA the first half of his Batman run.
Anyone else trying to "channel Morrison" is going to fail because Morrison only really has done well a handful of times (Black Glove, Batman Inc, Multiversity.) When he's good, he's great, but he produces so many (failed) acid trip fests it's almost infuriating.
https://www.cbr.com/teen-titans-robin-damian-wayne-supervillain-solution-explained/
Hmm.
I like that neither looks 13. One looks about 17 and the other about 8.
Marvel and Brisson have billed the series as the end of the Old Man Logan saga.
"This is it. This is going to be the big, final Old Man Logan story," Brisson told Newsarama. "Logan's dying and still has a lot of unfinished business to attend to. Dead Man Logan will largely be Logan tying up loose ends - loose ends like Mysterio, the man who, in Old Man Logan's timeline, caused him to kill all of the X-Men. That's not a box that Logan's going to leave unchecked.
"We've got lots of big battles and some crazy stuff in store. With a title like Dead Man Logan, it's probably no surprise where we're going. This one's all about the journey."
The version of Wolverine now known as Old Man Logan was created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven in the original “Old Man Logan” story. That story was set in an alternate future where the supervillains had struck as a united front and finally defeated the heroes. Mysterio used his illusion powers to get Wolverine to kill the other X-Men. After that, Logan lived for years without popping his claws until the Hulk Gang murdered his family.
I thought X-man was cable... or something like that?
Also, no way that story doesn’t end with a bunch of time fuckery.
The first Exiles run was soooo good.
The mystery behind it all at the start and actually missing the characters as they came and went. :'(
I didn’t realize there was a new exiles.
I see the X-men continues to be all over the place :lol :lol :lol :lol
Given they are getting rid of these characters for the OG squad to return so when is Cyclops coming back :doge
What *has* Cyke been up to since AvX?
When the Phoenix attempts to return once again by bringing the adult Jean Grey back to life, it allows her to talk with what appears to be Cyclops' spirit, but after reading his mind about the events that led to his death, Jean simply expresses regret that she wasn't there to help him, the two apologizing for the way things ended before she and Scott agree that they belong dead. 'Scott' subsequently ages rapidly and dies in Jean's arms, Jean informing the Phoenix that all she wanted was to say goodbye to her husband.
I'm firmly on Team Cyke. Him killing Xavier was awesome. He was also totally right in AvX.
Prove me wrong.
I'm firmly on Team Cyke. Him killing Xavier was awesome. He was also totally right in AvX.
Prove me wrong.
I can't even remember what all the drama between Cyclops and Wolverine was about at this point. :lol
In defense against the combined assault of the Avengers and the X-Men, Cyclops kills Xavier and attacks Emma Frost, absorbing her portion of the Phoenix Force and elevating to Dark Phoenix.[94] In pitched battle, the Avengers and X-Men weaken Cyclops enough for Hope to absorb the Phoenix Force into herself. She undoes the changes to the world caused by Cyclops and she and the Scarlet Witch then spread out the Phoenix Force across the globe, causing thousands of people to become mutants. Cyclops is held captive in a ruby quartz cell and while guilt-stricken over killing Xavier, he is happy over the mutant race restarted and claims he would do it all over again.
Should I read Metal? I liked Snyder Batman take before the whole Court of the Owls BS
None of them could handle the Phoenix force. That was kind of the point of the whole story. IIRC there was backstory involving previous Phoenix force holders and Hope was supposed to be the current incarnation or whatever, but wasn't ready for it.
Also Xavier is already back.
:neogaf
None of them could handle the Phoenix force. That was kind of the point of the whole story. IIRC there was backstory involving previous Phoenix force holders and Hope was supposed to be the current incarnation or whatever, but wasn't ready for it.
Also Xavier is already back.
:neogaf
"the Avengers and X-Men weaken Cyclops enough for Hope to absorb the Phoenix Force into herself. She undoes the changes to the world caused by Cyclops and she and the Scarlet Witch then spread out the Phoenix Force across the globe, causing thousands of people to become mutants."
This is literally what Cyclops was telling them would happen. Scott didn't even want the Phoenix Force before he got it. (It should also be noted that even in a world where Cyke killing X was unjustified, Scott wouldn't be on the hook for it anyways since PF has a will of its own and corrupting people is kinda it's thang.)
Lo and behold.
No idea. :lol But it's probably the only marvel thing I care about. AvX is in the 1% of my Comixology library that's not DC. :lol
I also really liked Dark Reign. I don’t hear much love for it from anyone else, but i really enjoyed that whole thing.
Yeah but teen Iceman got outed but not adult Iceman right? How does that one work. :lol
young Bobby confronts his older self, who admits to being gay, having 'concealed' that part of himself so that he could have avoid being prejudiced against for another part of himself.
Should I read Metal? I liked Snyder Batman take before the whole Court of the Owls BS
Court of Owls was his first Batman storyline though?? :confused Unless you mean Black Mirror or Gates of Gotham.
That was literally just 1 of his 2 pre-Court Bat stories. :lol
I thought the Court of Olws was just Batman RIP with good art.
I thought the Court of Olws was just Batman RIP with good art.
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:thinking
No, you won't like it.
I see the X-men continues to be all over the place :lol :lol :lol :lol
Given they are getting rid of these characters for the OG squad to return so when is Cyclops coming back :doge
If not after Extinction, I bet he's back after Uncanny restarts. :doge
Does Betsy have the powers too now or not due to it being in that body you posted. :thinking
Race change body swap fuckery :dead
Marvel fuckery :dead
Combining the two :dead :dead
Does Betsy have the powers too now or not due to it being in that body you posted. :thinking
She has her powers, too- haven't read this yet, but the story is that she gets sort of psychically-absorbed into Sapphire Styx's body. Sapphire is a psychic vampire of sorts who absorbs souls. While in there, Psylocke encounters various souls including a part of Wolverine (as Patch) and the soul remnants join with Psylocke to give her a shitload of power. She then uses this power to burst free from Sapphire's mind/body/wherever and uses ions to recreate her original body.
So now we have kind of a reversal going on here of what has happened before, with original Betsy and Kwannon/Revanche now back in their bodies...so two Psylockes? Wonder if this is something that will be ignored, if we'll have two Psylockes on the X-Men, or if Kwannon will be a villain (again)? :thinking
Wolverine officially never shows up in any of these "Hunt For Wolverine" mini-series, but some of the revelations that have come from some of them could lead to some fun storylines if done right.
I would assume she becomes a villain since you would need an evil version for the BrotherHood or whoever will hire her plus it would cause some fuckery if certain people don't know she has been split.
Though it would be interesting if both were on the good side :thinking
Is he still roaming around with a goddamn infinity stone? :doge
I would assume she becomes a villain since you would need an evil version for the BrotherHood or whoever will hire her plus it would cause some fuckery if certain people don't know she has been split.
Though it would be interesting if both were on the good side :thinking
Them being on the same side and part of the X-Men is exactly what happened for a bit, in the early 90s, when Revanche was introduced. :lol Having two of the same character isn't any special nowadays anyway- look at how many Spider-Men and Wolverines there are, lol.
Is he still roaming around with a goddamn infinity stone? :doge
AFAIK, yup. Dunno if he's popped up in the currently big Infinite story going on right now (where Gamora is just killing bitches- Thanos and Adam Warlock are dead so far).
Anyone still read weekly/monthly comics? Use this thread to post what you're reading or recommend something that's worth reading.why did manabyte stop posting here?
Anyone still read weekly/monthly comics? Use this thread to post what you're reading or recommend something that's worth reading.why did manabyte stop posting here?
Nightwing got shot in the head.
So after 17 months of being Nightwing again he's amnesiac.
DC, I don't hate the decision, I'm just baffled... :thinking
Nightwing got shot in the head.
So after 17 months of being Nightwing again he's amnesiac.
DC, I don't hate the decision, I'm just baffled... :thinking
Grayson-style stuff again or no?
Nightwing got shot in the head.
So after 17 months of being Nightwing again he's amnesiac.
DC, I don't hate the decision, I'm just baffled... :thinking
$75 a year? :kobeyuck
Today DC announced that an annual DC Universe subscriptions will cost $74.99 while monthly memberships will be $7.99. For those fees, members will have access to all of the service’s new shows like Titans, Young Justice: Outsiders, and Swamp Thing in addition to hundreds of DC’s comics and much of Warner Bros.’ back catalog of comic book movies and TV shows.
Hundreds of comic books does not sound very comprehensive.
Managing a set of what's available and what's not always sounds like more work to me than just continuously adding to the catalog since most users won't use more than 10% of it probably anyway. And this applies to stuff like the similar programs from Microsoft or whoever. At least in that case there's licensing issues involved, DC owns everything they'll be putting up presumably.
What’s the comic selection look like? The whole thing is sort of weird.
Without all of the comics back to the beginning of time, I just don’t see the value. I feel like there’s not enough shows to make it otherwise worthwhile.
Is that Teen Titans show on it yet?
How bad is it?
I have never read No Mans Land, that’s the Batman story line from the late 90s, right? Is it worth going back to?Yeah, I think it stands up and is in many ways what every Batman EVENT will ever be chasing and trying to match in scope. It's 80 fucking parts across like 15 different books. The first trades left out half of the issues.
I have never read No Mans Land, that’s the Batman story line from the late 90s, right? Is it worth going back to?Yeah, I think it stands up and is in many ways what every Batman EVENT will ever be chasing and trying to match in scope. It's 80 fucking parts across like 15 different books. The first trades left out half of the issues.
There's sorta a thematic MAXI-ARC that begins in "Cataclysm"/"No Man's Land" then continues into "Officer Down" before finishing in "War Games"/"War Crimes" that spun out Gotham Central and was treated as this look at Gotham as an entity itself, and Batman as a piece of that and an unique piece who can be both savior and terror, and also the places for Jim Gordon and the GCPD who operate in a world where Batman and his team does so much of their jobs and can bend or ignore laws they can't. Catwoman's second series also begins to follow this path and is where the "conclusion" of the arc truly is. And unlike Snyder's similar attempt at this, it basically does little with Bruce Wayne, it does things with Bruce but mainly in his place as Batman, and control issues within the team and the city and not Bruce as a Wayne or whatever else. Like his main theme for the arc is Bruce's obsessive need to control events in Gotham, No Man's Land takes this away from him, and after "Officer Down" he tries to force a rebuild on it that culminates in "War Games."
This was sorta stuff (Bruce's obsessive need to control) Snyder explored especially in METAL of all things, but in this arc it's grounded in the real world. There's very very little superheroics of that kind of scope. The famous visit in No Man's Land has Superman come into the city to help and find that he doesn't understand Gotham on a level that allows him to use his powers for anything good, he's more effective as Clark Kent, the farmer in helping fix up a community garden.
NML is my favorite single storyline probably, but that huge arc formed from the multiple storylines and also spun-off into the two series of Gotham Central and Catwoman is overall my favorite take and "definitive" set of Batman/Gotham stories. The characters are fallible and have to deal with that for the most part. Especially in their relationships with others. Like Bruce and Jim. There's a moment where they argue and Jim snaps at Bruce for sending first Azrael and then Dick in as Batman (after Knightfall) while trying to play it off like they were the same person all along. And Bruce's recent pattern of generally not trusting Jim of all people. Gotham Central obviously explores Gotham from the view of the GCPD detectives and their views on Batman are all over the place. Catwoman uses its unique position of her "outside the law" in a way Bruce isn't to explore the consequences of that on other people in a way they can't with Bruce's side-characters since they can't just kill off Dick, Barbara, etc. or have them murder someone or whatever. They're tied together by existing in the same temporal place and events spinning off into them. The events of NML, lead to the rise of Black Mask in the vacuum and he never really gets brought down in the other books, it's Catwoman that winds up being the denouement for that plot as a result of the strands of plots that were in that book leading to that point.
So...yeah...check it out. No Man's Land that is, the rest is just some silly benji wank.
Yeah, so glad to see DC is being consistent with the character and is running the dude into the ground just like the Joker.
Yeah, so glad to see DC is being consistent with the character and is running the dude into the ground just like the Joker.
Well he is a version of Joker :doge
NML is ace but I always felt like I only ever got 20% of the picture. Is there a good maxi/omni for it?I think this FINALLY collects all 80 parts: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IBY05D8/ (comixology link, but you can click through to the TPB's)
shots fired at tasty's racism: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qva887/superman-shouldnt-be-white
@Tasty, I want our resident Robin stan's thoughts on Batman #54
shots fired at tasty's racism: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qva887/superman-shouldnt-be-white
OK...Superman shouldn't be black, either- he's an alien. He should be green or blue or some shit. :doge
DC already did a black Superman anyway.
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The entire chapter is just Dick, Bruce and Alfred, I think you're going to like it.@Tasty, I want our resident Robin stan's thoughts on Batman #54
Will read later. For the record, while Dick is awesome (:teehee) Timmy is the reason I love the Robin character. I've always preferred Dick as Nightwing (and Batman.)
Damian's been a good Robin too, just way different to what came before. :lol
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DC Universe is live and I'm in, AMA.
Thanks benji~
DC Black Label launches this week with Batman: Damned #1. Got it subbed and I'm looking forward to it quite a bit.
Thanks benji~
DC Black Label launches this week with Batman: Damned #1. Got it subbed and I'm looking forward to it quite a bit.
Hmm, I wonder why... :thinking
www.dorkly.com/post/87165/batmans-actual-dick-made-its-first-appearance-in-a-comic-this-week
I love the '94 Spidey but it goes through plotlines a mile a minute and you'd have to be into that sort of thing. I can still watch it and enjoy it, but I'm hesitant on recommending it.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/09/20/dc-alters-batman-art-to-remove-imagery-of-his-penis
It was just a big publicity stunt for first editions.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/09/20/dc-alters-batman-art-to-remove-imagery-of-his-penis
It was just a big publicity stunt for first editions.
But that’s not all. In the issue, Wolverine also briefly fights with a masked character who we learn is actually Omega Red. If you’ve been keeping up with the villain’s history, then you know that, last time he was seen, he actually died as well. Therefore, it stands to reason that he, too, would be in Hell.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/09/20/dc-alters-batman-art-to-remove-imagery-of-his-penis
It was just a big publicity stunt for first editions.
Batman’s Dick R.I.P.spoiler (click to show/hide)His penis got Omega Sanctioned.[close]
Doomsday Clock #9 (variant) by Gary Frank
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Yoooo
YOOOOOOO
Doomsday Clock #9 (variant) by Gary Frankwow stealing from Disney's Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War already
https://i.imgur.com/pj4gCru.jpg
Yoooo
YOOOOOOO
Dick Grayson/Nightwing was a cop for a while when he was in Bludhaven.
I’ve been reading the red goblin storyline and I like that the stakes are high but have complaints:
1) the red goblin design is just dumb looking. He has those old man eyebrows.
2) the red goblin has all of these extra powers that just don’t seem to make any damn sense with the established powers of either carnage or the green goblin. Like the goblin bombs that can chase people and talk? Originally, the pieces of carnage that he detached disintegrated after like 30 seconds and were not sentient. Though I guess maybe that American carnage story kind of added new powers from nowhere on top of just being a bad miniseries.
Seems like a dumb way to have to now find a way to bring one of them back.
After journeying into heaven to rescue nightcrawler, the bar on bringing X-men back is so low to barely even matter.
They could just have an issue where he steps off of the blackbird and everyone says “I thought you were dead!” And they srespond “I got better!”.
Looking forward to post-slot Spider-Man, but need to wait for unlimited to catch up.
They are definitely getting rid of the time displaced O5 X-Men-- that's what Extermination is all about!
They are definitely getting rid of the time displaced O5 X-Men-- that's what Extermination is all about!
So Jean is gonna die for like the millionth and one time :doge
I feel like old man Logan is sort of interesting in his solo book.
It was one of the few secret wars aftermath things that was well-handled, imo, at least
Where officially is reed richards and Susan Richards in present day marvel?
I don’t think that’s a bad explanation considering the things Reed was doing in Hickman’s Avengers.
And honestly in Secret Wars he had beaten Doom in a really as conclusive as comics can get way.
Frustrated with Ben's lack of focus, Reed explains that he and Sue were "done with being... super heroes," stating that the Fantastic Four "was supposed to be about being explorers, but it ended up being about putting out fires." Reed continues on to say that he and Sue wanted to show their children the multiverse and study the science behind it. Ben gets upset when Reed explains that he chose not to include him because of his disinclination towards the types of science Reed wished to pursue.(https://static2.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Marvel-2-in-one-11-4.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=738)
reed just slip slides down the pole to let ben down. these are terrible fucking excuses and considering the shit they went through in the multiverse, on top of his damn kids missing them, johnny and ben could have been useful. i mean you think more of victor than you do your actual family?I don’t think that’s a bad explanation considering the things Reed was doing in Hickman’s Avengers.
And honestly in Secret Wars he had beaten Doom in a really as conclusive as comics can get way.
This is after all that.
Turns out it's just CBR being fucking stupid and posting an article based on a preview.
Here's their first explanation:QuoteFrustrated with Ben's lack of focus, Reed explains that he and Sue were "done with being... super heroes," stating that the Fantastic Four "was supposed to be about being explorers, but it ended up being about putting out fires." Reed continues on to say that he and Sue wanted to show their children the multiverse and study the science behind it. Ben gets upset when Reed explains that he chose not to include him because of his disinclination towards the types of science Reed wished to pursue.(https://static2.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Marvel-2-in-one-11-4.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=738)
But then they posted that the issue also has Reed admitting that they wanted everyone to think that they were dead and he says:
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:confused
Deadpool killed Coulson in Secret Empire or whatever the evil captain America storyline was.
I don’t even remember how red skull died.
I’m guessing he came back something something psychic mutant powers from the X brain.
Speaking of bend is... how bad is Superman?you're going to make Tasty cry
DC still makes great shit unlike marvel
The difficult thing is I don't even know if it's good or not. I'm one of those fans that no longer cares about the actual quality of the work because of how he's treated my favorite characters.
I've become the worst kind of comic nerd. :(
Yeah I liked the ending, not sure which way I see it yet
lol yeah you kinda know what's up from early, the question really is what Scott does about it, in the end I feel like it's the right way to go and the audience can kind of make their own choices regarding what he did or didnt do. Dont want to get into spoilers at all it's worth taking this ride all by yourself.
The first two seasons of Arrow and the first season of Flash are genuinely pretty good. Season two onwards of Legends of Tomorrow is amazing and ridiculous
They're guilty, cheesy pleasures that are CW shows more than anything else.
Another note about Arrow- he's basically Batman. As in they even bring in Batman characters like Ra's Al Ghul and have a lot of storyline with his family, Lazarus pits, the league of assassins, and all that stuff. You'll also get a ridiculous amount of back story that gets to the point where it feels like a hundred people were on the island that Ollie was shipwrecked on before he became the Green Arrow. :lolThis actually happens to Green Arrow all the time in his book. Either one or the other. Before Ollie first died, it was lots of Batman villain imports to RAISE THE STAKES. Then especially after New 52 rebooted him back to the island it was basically like that to the point where they randomly revealed there was a whole military base and thousands of paramilitary troops hanging out on the island that Ollie just happened to never run into! Also, TURNS OUT that the Queen family OWNS THE ISLAND!
Bendis talking sense is starting to scare me. He’s saying all the right things. Tim/Kon/Bart/(Cass) is like the holy grail of teamups for me. The 90s run of YJ was so iconic and he seems to be treating them right. Uggghghhh
I thought he was dead/replaced by son Superboy
New 52:
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Superboy is introduced with an entirely different origin story. He first appears in Teen Titans #1, where he is the half-human half-Kryptonian clone creation of the mysterious organization N.O.W.H.E.R.E., which seeks to control the new generation of metahumans.
In the Superman/Supergirl/Superboy crossover storyline "H'El on Earth", he is attacked by a time traveling Kryptonian named H'El for being a clone, after which H'El delivers his body to Supergirl and Superman for execution. As clones were generally hated by Kryptonians, H'El believes this act will prove his loyalty to Krypton, but it instead triggers conflict between him and Superman, who doesn't wish to kill Kon-El. During the fight against H'El, Superboy and Superman come to know each other better and develop a feeling of friendship and understanding. Kon-El is surprised by Superman's heroism and is touched by it.
Following the "Forever Evil" Justice League storyline, the evil speedster Johnny Quick throws the Teen Titans forward in time. After he is separated from the Titans, Kon-El encounters Jon Lane Kent, the villainous future son of Superman and Lois Lane. Kon-El is actually a clone of Jon Lane Kent, created by Harvest (founder of N.O.W.H.E.R.E.) so that a cure could be found for Jon's illness. During their battle, Jon Lane Kent is seriously injured ,but then Kon-El falls through a portal and is transported to Krypton's Argo City in the past, days prior to planet's destruction. This leads to the 2013 Return to Krypton storyline. During the story, Kon-El uses the last of his powers to lift Argo City off of the dying Krypton, saving it so that a young Supergirl can arrive on Earth just as history records. He then dies with the planet, accepting himself as more than a "living weapon", in Superman #25.
Meanwhile, in Teen Titans, the unconscious and injured Jon Lane Kent is recovered by the Beast Boy and Rose Wilson of the future timeline. Despite being Jon Lane Kent, the future Beast Boy and Rose Wilson hide this and dress him in Kon-El's costume for their own purposes. The present day Teen Titans find Jon Lane Kent in Kon-El's costume—unaware of Jon Lane Kent's existence—and take him back to the modern day era where he pretends to be their version of Superboy. The Teen Titans are unaware that Kon-El is "dead" and that they have an impostor in their midst who intends to kill all of Earth's meta-humans, although Superman and Supergirl believe Kon-El is dead and have not told the Titans. It is later revealed that Kon-El is still alive serving a being called the Oracle, patrolling past, present, and future.
Kon-El's consciousness is pulled into a pocket universe (dimension) when Jon Lane Kent touches his Psycho Future Self with all other Kons and Jons of the multiverse. The Future Jon taps into all other Kons and Jons except this dimension's Kon and younger Jon. The younger Jon heroically sacrifices himself to destroy the elder Jon, obliterating them both through his TK, sending all the other Jons and Kons back to their respective timelines, dimensions and universes. Jon isn't erased from history, and his actions outside of the pocket universe are well remembered, but he is truly gone, leaving Kon-El once again as Superboy. Kon-El is later revealed to travel all across the world and train and practice various forms of meditation and inner peace of mind as indicated in Supergirl comics. He later joins the Teen Titans.
DC Rebirth
In DC Rebirth, the mantle of Superboy is held by Jonathan Samuel "Jon" Kent, the son of Kal-El and Lois Lane, with Conner seemingly having never existed. Conner Kent/Superman from the Titans Tomorrow timeline makes an appearance in Detective Comics #966, where he asks Tim Drake/Batman to return to the Titans. Tim is subsequently captured by Mr. Oz, but escapes with the younger present-day Tim Drake. Before sending the younger Tim back to the past, the older Tim asks his younger self to reconcile his friendship with Conner. The young Tim Drake responds that he doesn't know who Conner is, leading the older Tim to realize that time has been altered. Tim mentioned later mentioned that although he didn't know why, he felt Conner's name "tugging at my heart".[24] The New 52 Kon-El is also lightly referenced in Red Hood and the Outlaws when the Outlaws and the Suicide Squad explore a N.O.W.H.E.R.E. facility and Bizarro (whose brain chemistry was enhanced making him smarter) had Deadshot and Captain Boomerang accompany him to shut down the facility's main generator as he was aware that since it was designed to be protected against Kryptonians due to another clone (with Harvest and Kon-El seen in a flashback) and Bizarro knew he would die if he attempted to shut it down by himself.[25] When the post-Rebirth Superman reviews his own life story, which incorporates elements of the pre- and post-Flashpoint Superman, Kon-El is not mentioned as one of the “replacements” who arose following Superman’s death at the hands of Doomsday.[26]
The Titans of Tomorrow version of Conner later appeared in the Super-Sons of Tomorrow crossover where he along with his universe's version of Wonder Woman and The Flash travel back to the past to prevent their unhinged teammate Tim Drake (Batman) from killing Jon. He would later help stop Jons Solar Flare power from going out of control. Before they return to their time, Conner chooses not to disclose any information to Superman to prevent it from affecting the future.
Wonder Comics
It was announced at New York Comic Con that Conner would finally be brought back into continuity in the upcoming Young Justice title as part of DC's new Wonder Comics imprint.
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books/superman/278597/superman-7-reveals-big-changes-for-superboy
I knew this would probably come eventually but it just reeeeeeaaaallly fucking robs Jon of what made him feel special and his amazing relationship with Superdad. Now he's generic teen Superboy practically ripped from the Silver age. UUUUGHH BENDIS!!!!!!!
Ah, the New 52. I miss no-pants, anime-haircut Supergirl. :doge
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I think Wonderpants Woman was abandoned before it went to print. Dunno what the outrage was about lol, seems fine to me.
"Major X comes from a realm, another plane, called 'The X-istence.' It is populated only by mutants," Liefeld explained. "It's their special place. They're happy. They're living in harmony. The events that cause this portal to open, and for this 'The X-istence' to exist at all are subjects we deal with, and we answer. The absolute formation of The X-istence. Major X hails from there, and his home, the reason he's here encountering the current modern-day Marvel mutant landscape, is because The X-istence has been destroyed, and he is on a journey to restore his home."
The idea for Major X actually stems back from an aborted project Liefeld admittedly was reluctant to pitch back in 1992.
Cable was killed (by young Cable)
:what
What happened to Earth 2? I actually enjoyed the New 52 take on these characters and it sucks that they canceled the series. :-\Earth 2 -> Earth 2: World's End* -> Convergence -> Earth 2: Society
found some panels of Zoe Quinn's comic lol
(https://i.imgur.com/njykIj2.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/OYXKdO5.jpg)DIGITALLY MULTITASK IN THE ANALOG
What happened to Earth 2? I actually enjoyed the New 52 take on these characters and it sucks that they canceled the series. :-\Earth 2 -> Earth 2: World's End* -> Convergence -> Earth 2: Society
fork at World's End -> Future's End which portrays a reality in which Earth 2 survivors went to Earth Prime and became outcasts
Earth 2 "ended" because New 52 did...half the plots died in the books because the writers left and each new writer didn't want to pick it up, this was especially bad in one case because James Robinson, the original writer, had scripted out an extended plotline and not the incoming writers, but the editors wanted his plans throw out to try and make the book more friendly to Earth Prime readers which is why Power Girl and Helena/Huntress/Robin come back and there's more Batman and a Superman and etc.
Justice League 3000 is even more hilariously mistreated and drops nearly every plotline started, becomes rebooted as a neo-JLI that's setting up to be quite fun and then is left as a cliffhanger as they almost pencil in the margins "this plotline was resolved somehow at somepoint, now onto the next page"
*an agreement was made in which Darkseid was allowed to conquer one Earth in the multiverse, Earth 2
Hell, those Zoe Quinn comic panels I posted above has better art than many mainstream big property titles. And it's a comic that sells so few copies that it would get delisted from the tracking services except it's a limited series and so exempt. :lol
Exiles really started to suck once Chris Claremont wrote it.
I’d still be down for another go at the team (which will happen in 3 years I’m sure) but please don’t have the guy that doesn’t draw squirrel girl but draws just like the person that draws squirrel girl draw it.
Uncanny X-men 11 was fantastic. Best issue of X-men I've read in a long time.
After the Annual, I thought we were going to see Cyclops devolve into the boy scout leader. Throw out the rugged development as seen in the Whedon and Morrison runs. But in 11 that dosen't happen. He tells Cap to fuck off. So while he does want to be repentant for what he's done, he hasn't become the uncool floor mat he use to be. The scene where he teams up with Wolverine was great.
I don't know it just seems to be the start of an actual storyline that feels like actual things are happening.
So Cyclops really did come back :doge
Sounds like they are trying to have a balance which seems like the best option.
Also isn't Jean still doing stuff with her Xmen Red team?
I read the Tv Tropes on the Watchmen sequel/crossover thing and it sounds....really fucking dumb and confusing. I got to it from reading about the multi-multiverse, which is even dumber and more confusing. Each universe has 52 worlds, and there are infinite universes, but sometimes the 52 have their own little bubble universes or some shit? I thought DC had multiple crisis events to get rid of all these universes. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY UNIVERSES?
Smallville the TV Show has 8 different worlds. Arrowverse has 25.
The big problem with the multiple worlds is when they invade main continuity.
Like, I sort of like the Batman who laughs storyline going on... but it doesn’t really make that much sense.
Metal didn’t really make sense either.
Morrison’s X-men is one of my favorite things ever. Read it as young teen and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Few times have cape comics ever felt as cool as that. I think it holds up despite some wonky story mechanics.
I’m at a con right now and met Nick Spencer.
He tried to cover his true feelings on Dan slott by saying he’s a good guy, but I got him to admit that Dan Slott is just a loser who went through a bad divorce and is now anti-marriage. Also, he thinks that redheads have a weird must smell.
Anyway, Spider-Man and MJ are getting married again.
Weird thing about Comic cons these days. Big titty Cosplay chicks have lines like 10X as long as legit comic creators who have drawn big name books and have a lot of history in the industry.
Like Mark Bagley just was sitting there with no line. But Jessica, a cosplayer with enormous fake tits has like a 30 minute wait.
Edit: also weird to me now how comic culture is no longer about comics. Like I was talking to some people and it’s clear they know the characters and the movies but have never read any of the comics and don’t know anything about them.Ask a few questions about DC and you will clearly see they are mostly garbage MCU fans
1995 Teeny Excess 39: Bleeding Nymphos (Video) (as Kristina Jossa)
1999 Private Black Label 6: The Uranus Experiment 1 (Video)ooh a trilogy
1999 Private Black Label 7: The Uranus Experiment 2 (Video)
1999 Private Black Label 8: The Uranus Experiment 3 (Video)
A lot seem to be doing a con almost every weekend. Talking to a bunch of dorks about their favorite team dragon ball character for 8 hours 3 days a week probably fucking sucks, honestly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-h4xVwmeQ
Morrison’s X-men is one of my favorite things ever. Read it as young teen and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Few times have cape comics ever felt as cool as that. I think it holds up despite some wonky story mechanics.
Didn’t get into his Batman as much.
I’m at a con right now and met Nick Spencer.
He tried to cover his true feelings on Dan slott by saying he’s a good guy, but I got him to admit that Dan Slott is just a loser who went through a bad divorce and is now anti-marriage. Also, he thinks that redheads have a weird must smell.
Anyway, Spider-Man and MJ are getting married again.
:neogafWeird thing about Comic cons these days. Big titty Cosplay chicks have lines like 10X as long as legit comic creators who have drawn big name books and have a lot of history in the industry.
Like Mark Bagley just was sitting there with no line. But Jessica, a cosplayer with enormous fake tits has like a 30 minute wait.
Jessica Nigri? I mean, she'd be way the hell more popular than some comic artist, because cosplayers like her are all over social media, plus TITS. People need to queue up to get a photo and drool, then go back home, get on REEEE, and say how gross half-naked wimmenz are. :doge
I really wasn’t aware of Jessica Nigri.
But after doing some important background research into the culture of cosplay women on Instagram, I realized that most of these chicks hustle a lot. A lot seem to be doing a con almost every weekend. Talking to a bunch of dorks about their favorite team dragon ball character for 8 hours 3 days a week probably fucking sucks, honestly.
I do wonder how many actually make their own costumes. My guess is not that many, and that most of them are just the pretty face in the costume.
They are also basically just smarter Instagram thots though, they just found a better angle to work. Many of them seem to sprinkle in you basic boudoir photos with their cosplay stuff.
My wife has a friend that dresses up for cons that is pretty hot. My wife thinks they look like sisters so I can ogle her pics and say “she really do look like you though”. My wife is technically probably prettier, but she also don’t dress up like a slutty Wednesday Adams.
I’m at a con right now and met Nick Spencer.
He tried to cover his true feelings on Dan slott by saying he’s a good guy, but I got him to admit that Dan Slott is just a loser who went through a bad divorce and is now anti-marriage. Also, he thinks that redheads have a weird must smell.
Anyway, Spider-Man and MJ are getting married again.
:neogafWeird thing about Comic cons these days. Big titty Cosplay chicks have lines like 10X as long as legit comic creators who have drawn big name books and have a lot of history in the industry.
Like Mark Bagley just was sitting there with no line. But Jessica, a cosplayer with enormous fake tits has like a 30 minute wait.
Jessica Nigri? I mean, she'd be way the hell more popular than some comic artist, because cosplayers like her are all over social media, plus TITS. People need to queue up to get a photo and drool, then go back home, get on REEEE, and say how gross half-naked wimmenz are. :doge
I'm unaware of this Nigri character…
:nsfw
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMzEu-g-Ah/
:nsfw
I'm in. Completely support this kind of thing. What…?
I really wasn’t aware of Jessica Nigri.
But after doing some important background research into the culture of cosplay women on Instagram, I realized that most of these chicks hustle a lot. A lot seem to be doing a con almost every weekend. Talking to a bunch of dorks about their favorite team dragon ball character for 8 hours 3 days a week probably fucking sucks, honestly.
I do wonder how many actually make their own costumes. My guess is not that many, and that most of them are just the pretty face in the costume.
They are also basically just smarter Instagram thots though, they just found a better angle to work. Many of them seem to sprinkle in you basic boudoir photos with their cosplay stuff.
My wife has a friend that dresses up for cons that is pretty hot. My wife thinks they look like sisters so I can ogle her pics and say “she really do look like you though”. My wife is technically probably prettier, but she also don’t dress up like a slutty Wednesday Adams.
Pretty sure most of them make their own costumes. There was (still is?) even a reality show about it on one of the cable channels, complete with manufactured drama. Really made that Yaya Han chick (Asian cosplayer with huge fake tits) look like a real bitch. :doge
Tasty, post if you're okay, just read what bendis has been doing with your superboy on earth 3 :goldberg
superboy on earth 3
yeah it ignores previous earth 3 canon completely, Bendis man.superboy on earth 3
:mindblown
So Bendis is making him unstable by having his bizarro father ultraman imprison him while mentally ruining him by showing up to the prison and just being a weird fucker and crying and raging about shit, he then escapes and has to fight his bizarro mom superwoman/Louis lane and you can tell it's warping his shit mentally
Don't read Thor personally, but I thought she was fake Thor
When the Avengers just aren't enough to protect Earth, it's time to call in Marvel's own version of the Justice League. But the new Squadron Supreme couldn't look more like an exact copy of DC's greatest heroes if they tried. The only difference? This new team is made up of trained killers that make Batman v Superman look like a day at the park.
Since the team made a surprise appearance as a team handpicked and assembled by Agent Phil Coulson himself in Avengers #700, they have kept their presence in the Marvel Universe quiet. Now that their secrets are out, they are too: leaping into action as "D.C.'s greatest heroes!" Defenders of America's capital, hence the name. But the comparisons to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the League go far deeper than a simple joker. The new Squadron Supreme of America is a dark, bloody, and sinister creation of Agent Coulson's. And their idea of handling an invasion... is turning the invaders into a pile of blood and bones. We can't imagine DC is going to like this one.
Comics Coulson sounds awful. :(
Wait didn’t Deadpool kill him during Captain Hydra?
I really wasn’t aware of Jessica Nigri.
But after doing some important background research into the culture of cosplay women on Instagram, I realized that most of these chicks hustle a lot. A lot seem to be doing a con almost every weekend. Talking to a bunch of dorks about their favorite team dragon ball character for 8 hours 3 days a week probably fucking sucks, honestly.
I do wonder how many actually make their own costumes. My guess is not that many, and that most of them are just the pretty face in the costume.
They are also basically just smarter Instagram thots though, they just found a better angle to work. Many of them seem to sprinkle in you basic boudoir photos with their cosplay stuff.
My wife has a friend that dresses up for cons that is pretty hot. My wife thinks they look like sisters so I can ogle her pics and say “she really do look like you though”. My wife is technically probably prettier, but she also don’t dress up like a slutty Wednesday Adams.
Pretty sure most of them make their own costumes. There was (still is?) even a reality show about it on one of the cable channels, complete with manufactured drama. Really made that Yaya Han chick (Asian cosplayer with huge fake tits) look like a real bitch. :doge
>io9 not even once. they're about to die so not even ever
And the current dumbest controversy in comics awards goes to...
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-this-weeks-darth-vader-comic-is-causing-controversy-1834311320
https://twitter.com/PoeHotDameron/status/1121154475173933056
(see thread)
Fangirls are mad that there's a comic where an unstable Vader fangirl is treated as unstable. Because I guess implying the downsides of pop culture fanaticism is... bad?
this is like when conservatives cape for tiki torch racists because they see themselves in it :lolAnd the current dumbest controversy in comics awards goes to...
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-this-weeks-darth-vader-comic-is-causing-controversy-1834311320
https://twitter.com/PoeHotDameron/status/1121154475173933056
(see thread)
Fangirls are mad that there's a comic where an unstable Vader fangirl is treated as unstable. Because I guess implying the downsides of pop culture fanaticism is... bad?
:rofl
"THIS IS HOW YOU SEE *US* ISN'T IT?!?!"
:social
Uh...no...? But you apparently see yourself as obsessive and psychotic? :doge
marvel nerds explain.
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Marvel has been looking for a home for Conan outside the context of the main series, and the publisher has landed on the idea of the Avengers. Avengers: No Road Home set up the status quo of Conan in The Marvel Universe relatively well, and his story continues in the pages of Savage Avengers #1. Readers are treated to the return of Infinity Wars creative team Gerry Duggan and Mike Deodato Jr. Each member of the creative team does a great job doubling-down on the irreverent bliss of the tone from Infinity Wars. The meat of the issue takes place towards the middle when Conan greets Wolverine with a brutal fight sequence. The battle between the two characters utilizes blocky characters and sound effects to portray an impressive level of violence. The sparse and chaotic dialogue evokes the carnal nature of Deodato’s artistic contributions to the issue incredibly well. The core flaw in the book is just how muddled and confusing Deodato’s work can be at times. It is difficult to logistically understand where some characters’ anatomy ends and other limbs begin. Deodato’s figures are so amorphous that it appears to be difficult for him to draw the same figure the same way twice. If Deodato’s superhero pencils were to work in any one ongoing series, it is hard for me to find a better fit for him than in the context of Savage Avengers. These more violent, muscle-bound heroes seem like a solid fit for his work.
Duggan does not get too far into the premise within this issue, but he does establish a strong relationship between the cast members. Readers only get to see the different cast members in the issue briefly. The story also does not clearly craft a mantra aside from being a title mostly focused on the adventures of present-day Conan. While the title does have an endearing, goofy nature, Duggan needs to integrate more character and personality into the scripts surrounding the cast members in the issue. Wolverine and Conan’s playful friendship and huge battle sequences are best from a scripting standpoint. The scene also depicts a strong lighthearted and naive side of Conan. If Duggan can craft more relationships like this in future issues, the book could potentially be onto something special.
Deodato’s artwork is concerning. The penciller uses massive, hulking figures with odd anatomy. These gargantuan characters don’t leave room for much for detail in panel backgrounds. The illustration for several team members include faces that look flat and emotionless. Deodato still does a great job creating a sense of movement in a couple of the action sequences. While Frank Martin tries to give Deodato’s work an appealing color palette, the oddly bright shimmer and hues of certain pages stick out for the worst. There has to be a better, more streamlined set of colors to make Deodato’s confusing art slightly less difficult to interpret. Deodato seems like he has a good time playing off Duggan’s physical comedy and action sequences. The layouts here are not quite as experimental as I have seen in other titles featuring Deodato’s pencils.
Despite clumsy artwork, Savage Avengers #1 is a solid way to kick off a new Avengers team. The fight sequence between Wolverine and Conan is almost worth the price of admission. I would recommend the title to anyone following or interested in the new direction for Conan in the context of the greater Marvel Universe. Savage Avengers is an amusing new direction for a few of Marvel’s most beloved anti-heroes.
Final Verdict: Savage Avengers #1 is a STRONG BROWSE that can fall in the buy or browse category at any moment going forward!
Lots of "big name" people want to write a Batgirl version be it Barbara or Cassandra or whoever.
Writer Jonathan Hickman, who takes over the X-Men franchise with July's House of X #1 and Powers of X #1, says that the "entire line" of X-Men comic books will be canceled to coincide with the launch of the two biweekly titles.
“I didn’t feel like just doing a new number one was enough. I also didn’t think that if we were serious about what we were trying to do we should have a mixed message in the market about what an X-book is,” Hickman explained of the decision to ComicBook. “So I argued for cancelling the entire line: Why it would work, why it was a good idea, and most importantly, why it was what we needed to do narratively to return the X-Men to their rightful prominent position in the Marvel Universe.”
“We needed to sell the idea that this is what we’re going to be doing for the next few years. So if you want to read X-Men books during the run from late-July through September, House of X and Powers of X are the only new X-books available and everything that’s going to follow is based on them,” he continued. “We wanted to be clear to the fans, to the stores, and just as importantly, to the creators who are going to be staffing these books in the future. We wanted the message to be very clear: This is a whole new era for the X-Men. This is what we’re doing now. And so, POX and HOX is how we’re starting. It’s a solid plan, I think.”
House of X and Powers of X (to be read "Powers of Ten," like the Roman numeral) will run for 6 issues each over three months, with each title publishing on an alternating weekly schedule.
Following that, Hickman says Marvel plans to relaunch the X-Men line, with some "traditional" titles, and some new ideas - including a new core flagship X-title which Hickman will write. What's more, it's all part of a multi-year, multi-wave plan to revamp the X-Men. More information will be unveiled at Comic-Con International: San Diego in July.
“At the conclusion of our 12 weeks of HOX and POX, we'll be launching an entire new universe of X-books,” Hickman revealed. “Some will be traditional fare, some carry through on ideas presented in HOX and POX. Some books are completely new concepts. I, personally, will be writing the ongoing flagship X-book.”
“Now, we're already in production on all of these 'Wave 1' books and our plan at this moment is to introduce the titles, creative teams, and publishing details around SDCC, which is a week before HOX #1 goes on sale. We also just finished our plans for our 'Wave 2' books that will debut in 2020 and we're getting ready to hire talent for those.
when are they bringing back Fantastic Four? :gopnik
As Wolverine makes good on last issue’s promise to leave the X-Men behind, the team teleports off to confront the Marauders, who they believe are responsible for another Morlock massacre, in a subway tunnel.
Though the Marauders protest their innocence of the attack – “If we did this, I’d be proud,” says Harpoon – but the X-Men still lay-on.
Finally, in the middle of the melee, Blockbuster surrenders, saying they’ll give up if the X-Men accept their innocence of the Morlock murders. Cyclops accepts their surrender – but Chamber, who was living among the Morlocks during the recent massacre, lashes out anyway, scorching the Marauders with his intense power.
As the Marauders are reduced to literal cinders, Harpoon’s last act is to stab Chamber in the back – mortally wounding him. “He’s gone. His energy just… Went out,” laments Jamie Madrox as Chamber dies in his arms. Hope finishes Harpoon off with a shot to the head.
With Chamber and the Marauders all dead, the X-Men return to their makeshift headquarters only to find it engulfed in flames thanks to Mr. Sinister, who says he’s taking revenge for the death of his Marauders.
Sinister fights the X-Men to a standstill, duplicating his body hundreds of times before combining all the duplicates into a colossal version of himself. Seemingly without options, Havok unleashes nearly his full power.
The blast reduces Sinister back to his normal state, and he surrenders to the X-Men - though some think the win is “too easy.” Thanks to his exertion, Havok is left partially intangible from molecular destabilization, and is confined to a hospital bed while Sinister is taken into custody. Karma reveals that she’s built a new X-Mansion, donating it to the team before departing apparently for good.
In the aftermath, Havok and Cyclops argue over what happened to Chamber and the Marauders – and over the identity of Emma Frost, who know one but Juggernaut seems to have any memory of. In the Hellfire Club headquarters, Emma Frost and Mystique scheme against the X-Men – while Mystique suddenly receives a phone call from Scott Summers.
This would have been a prime opportunity for King to bolster the sometimes ham-fisted central message that you are not alone with an even more important addendum to seek help from a mental health professional, but the dialog instead leans hard into the idea that community and a sense of belonging are somehow all Wally needs to be cured.Babylon does the former but totally goes straight for the everyone is self-destructing path and every character rejects "help" from the non-sufferers because they're broken beyond repair
Jussie B Privileged • 2 hours ago
In an article earlier today, Ava played the PC victim card and said studios aren't letting her direct "genre films".
Sounds like she's directing this movie, a comic book movie, which is a genre.
Perhaps she is not aware that comic book movies are a genre. Someone needs to tell her. Maybe one of her staff can let her know if she doesn't. After all, her Net worth is 60 MILLION dollars. I'm sure she can hire someone to inform her of "genres".
She acts like she doesn't get any work, and that she's being discriminated against. When you're a multi millionaire (which she is), you are not struggling, and it's obvious studios are hiring her.
Self righteous tool.
burner accounts trashing people on Hollywood sites is always fun:Signed off with his real name. :wtfQuoteJussie B Privileged • 2 hours ago
In an article earlier today, Ava played the PC victim card and said studios aren't letting her direct "genre films".
Sounds like she's directing this movie, a comic book movie, which is a genre.
Perhaps she is not aware that comic book movies are a genre. Someone needs to tell her. Maybe one of her staff can let her know if she doesn't. After all, her Net worth is 60 MILLION dollars. I'm sure she can hire someone to inform her of "genres".
She acts like she doesn't get any work, and that she's being discriminated against. When you're a multi millionaire (which she is), you are not struggling, and it's obvious studios are hiring her.
Self righteous tool.
I haven't read X-Men maybe in 10 years, but I was in a comic store a few days ago and saw some recent issues.
Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane) died, and Banshee returned. But I thought he died?
Can anyone explain why/how he's back?
I haven't read X-Men maybe in 10 years, but I was in a comic store a few days ago and saw some recent issues.
Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane) died, and Banshee returned. But I thought he died?
Can anyone explain why/how he's back?
IIRC, he was brought back by the Apocalypse Twins in Uncanny Avengers as the horseman of death and after that storyline, he went away for a while before being brought back as kind of a zombiefied version of himself on the X-Men.
Read through Brubaker's Kill or Be Killed over the last couple nights. Like all his stuff its a pretty well-written fast paced exciting thriller with twists and turns and very enjoyable. The ending is kinda weak though, some of the plot points are left kinda unresolved. Still a good read, I saw the rights were optioned by the John Wick director. I think it'd make a better couple season tv series than a movie but it could work as a movie.I think he does resolve it effectively enough for the world created by the book by showing that it transferred. At that point, its reality doesn't matter.
One of the twists I liked wasspoiler (click to show/hide)I liked the concept of there's this DEMON that tells him to kill people and he starts doing it and within 2 volumes he realizes oh shit it was all in my head because my drug dealer wasn't giving me the my anti-psychotic meds but valium instead, but now he's stuck in a cop/mouse/russians chase and has to try to find his way out.
But didn't like that they kept bringing up the IS IT REAL OR NOT with the demon and then never really resolve it. I think they should've just left that part alone for the 2nd half because as a thriller that's a good setup and that's all it needed to be.[close]
Late to this, but I think the big mistake everyone is making here is to listen to every nerdgirl imaginable instead of reasonable complaints. It's something the industry learned a looooong time ago with manchildren. It's why you suddenly have an abusive relationship like Joker/Harley turn into Harley as a power fantasy for every teen girl in a phase and a psychopathic murderer's one true love.Harley's own explanations of their relationship is so dumb now that it's hilarious. The only believable thing she's done regarding the Joker since Rebirth is stop him from dying from a virus. Nobody seems willing to write her without her going into a diatribe of excuses for the Joker's abuse because they know it has to be "addressed" at this point if you're stupid. She's no longer just a character who exists vis a vis the Joker, she's been in the Gotham City Sirens, worked with the Birds of Prey, has all of the Suicide Squad stuff, she has other relationships, but nobody can just ignore her original one and get on with it. Tom King is one of the few who managed this by having Batman realize the value of her medical skills and relationship with Ivy (and Selina) to grab her essentially out of a crowd of Gotham regulars.
I'm so glad Brubaker seems to be ready for tv/film splashes. Love his work but I think a lot of it is wasted on comics. For what he does and how well he does it, I think he could be better on screen.
Is Jubilee still a vampire? She should team up with zombie Banshee
After Monet falls under the influence of her brother, Emplate, and attacks the school, she fights Jubilee and takes away the medallion she uses as protection from sunlight. Monet then threw her out of the school and as the sunlight began burning Jubilee, Quentin Quire sacrifices the shard of the Phoenix Force he carried within him to save her from certain death, curing Jubilee of her vampirism and restoring her mutant powers in the process.
"I don't want death to be used to boost sales or to use as a shock value so people go 'Oh my God, Johnny Storm is dead!' or 'Wolverine is dead!' knowing that they're going to be coming back," the editor said at a comic convention in Sweden. "If we choose to do it now, we're going to add a little more weight and permanence to the decision."
Also the more I think about it the more I kinda dig the ending of Heroes in Crisis... it's a shame the in-book dialog seems so dreadful and on-the-nose, though...I love Tom King's writing tbh with you, both when he's super abstract and blunt as fuck, I feel he knows where to use certain writing styles /fanboy
Also I might have to start getting back onto Dc. They seem to have a lot interesting books out now. What’s good now?
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/10/rob-liefeld-predicts-the-collapse-of-dc-comics-soon/
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Also I might have to start getting back onto Dc. They seem to have a lot interesting books out now. What’s good now?Read Mister Miracle :maf
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/10/rob-liefeld-predicts-the-collapse-of-dc-comics-soon/DC in disarray but not Marvel? :kek
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Also I pretty much hate IDW with a passion, they're up for sale for a reason, mostly cause their books have been trash for a long time, sales have evaporated and their creators are toxic as fuck on twitter lol
I'd usually be a good person to ask but Bendis has kinda ruined my parade...Good news, guess who gets to be in charge of the next big company wide crossover?
Even better, he's reviving Morrison's Leviathan organization but changing it to be a Superman villain! With Talia replaced by someone "close" to Clark.
:punch look at total this fucking 90s villain with his fuckin 90s gun :gun
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Even better, he's reviving Morrison's Leviathan organization but changing it to be a Superman villain! With Talia replaced by someone "close" to Clark.
I'd usually be a good person to ask but Bendis has kinda ruined my parade...Good news, guess who gets to be in charge of the next big company wide crossover?
Even better, he's reviving Morrison's Leviathan organization but changing it to be a Superman villain! With Talia replaced by someone "close" to Clark.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
Arguably the funniest thing is that the Helspont/Daemonite plot, which at the start of New 52 is in all kinds of books and he gets his own monologue issue to Superman and everything making it seem like it'd be some big crossover at some point, then he totally disappears, he's the final bad guy in Red Hood and the Outlaws before DC YOU kicks Starfire out, and he just randomly gets blasted by one of his own weapons and is vaporized. He even says something like "the Daemonite thing went nowhere, my new plan is better" when he shows up. :lol
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18682802/jj-abrams-bad-robot-warnermedia-att-apple-netflix-streaming-wars
Potential bad news DC fans!
Bad Robot already had a deal with Warner's on TV, this is for its films. Plus Warners already paid $400 million to Greg Berlanti to keep him in their house.
Bad Robot already had a deal with Warner's on TV, this is for its films. Plus Warners already paid $400 million to Greg Berlanti to keep him in their house.The Arrowverse is coming to an end really, with Arrow ending Flash not being too far away, Legends being not to tied in and Supergirl being well Supergirl, idk why they are even doing this new Batwoman show.
JJ isn't the worst but his two lackies he assigns things he gets bored of are fucking terrible
Bad Robot already had a deal with Warner's on TV, this is for its films. Plus Warners already paid $400 million to Greg Berlanti to keep him in their house.The Arrowverse is coming to an end really, with Arrow ending Flash not being too far away, Legends being not to tied in and Supergirl being well Supergirl, idk why they are even doing this new Batwoman show.
Momo, guess who!!
https://io9.gizmodo.com/j-j-abrams-is-writing-a-spider-man-comic-1835689544
Wow, that cover is... really bad.
Even if DC gets worse, it never gets near Marvel level trash :trumps
Even if DC gets worse, it never gets near Marvel level trash :trumps
Excited for Hickman X-men though.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/22/removing-vertigo-ink-zoom-dc-comics/
Didio straight up admitting they're gonna censor books now that the Teen+ (15+) rating is gone leaving just "DC" (13+.) Some of the republished Teen+ books may hit Black Label unaltered, but the majority are going to have to deal with a lower age rating.
Fantastic. I don't see this backfiring at all.
Man, Batschlong really fucked things over. And I don't even know why. Who cares if an explicitly 17+ gated book shows a dong? And for that matter, why care whose dong it is.
Edit: also weird because dc’s market share had went up a good amount over the last few years, so the current t strategy seems to be working.I suspect this is mostly since Axl Alonso fucked up Marvel and people jumped ship, DC changing this shit up is weird yeah, Marvel is still out there clowning, DC is writing the better books so I dunno why. Havent checked the sales numbers in a good few weeks though so there might be a clue there.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/30/her-name-is-rien-and-shes-wolverines-daughter/
Another one!? :dizzy
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That's Valkyrie/Fhor/zatanna lip girl. Blandest design ever
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To be fair, that is an amnesia suffering Batman who just before tried to get Lois Lane to bang while dressed as Batgirl instead of preparing for the massive fight he starts with that motorcycle. :lol
It's good to see that Robert Kirkman was feeling the same way about the series in his essay in The Walking Dead #193, that hero worship of Rick is lulz. He should have tied that original ending in to one of the time skips.
Still think the prison and not say, Negan or worse, the Whisperers, was the peak of the series. Invincible similarly out ran the plots, and at least there half the people weren't all drawn the same way.
It's good to see that Robert Kirkman was feeling the same way about the series in his essay in The Walking Dead #193, that hero worship of Rick is lulz. He should have tied that original ending in to one of the time skips.
Still think the prison and not say, Negan or worse, the Whisperers, was the peak of the series. Invincible similarly out ran the plots, and at least there half the people weren't all drawn the same way.
Those who have been following Bendis's changes to the Superman line of comics may have also been able to guess (perhaps cynically) that after turning Superboy from a child to a teenager, the Legion will now show up to remove him from Lois and Clark's world completely.
Neil Gaiman
"Well, your description sounds exactly like the description of Twilight I got from Alan one afternoon in 1986, so I'd assume it's the same thing."
Dave Gibbons
"I've had a look at the Twilight file and have no hesitation in declaring it the real McCoy. I can't recall if I ever actually read it way back then or if Alan told me about it (which amounts to the same thing, content-wise!) in one of our three-hour phone calls. I vividly remember the bit with Dollman in the vivarium!"
Chris Miller
"I have no idea where the original was obtained, but I have an Nth-generation photocopy courtesy of a friend in CAPA-alpha. It's 39 pages long, and definitely genuine Moore. He proposed it circa 1986, right after Watchmen. He worked out everything in tremendous detail, including merchandising possibilities, a springboard for a (then-nonexistent) John Constantine series, and even a very clever time bubble idea that would have 'opened up' DC's single-earth continuity without actually undoing the effects of the Crisis."
Firstly, as I see the commercial side, taking into account what Paul was kind enough to pass on to me, the perfect mass crossover would be something like the following: it would have a sensible and logical reason for crossing over with other titles, so that the readers who were prompted to try a new title as a result of the crossover or vice versa didn't feel cheated by some tenuous linkage of storylines that was at best spurious and at worst nonexistent. It would provide a strong and resonant springboard from which to launch a number of new series or with which to revitalize old ones again in a manner that was not obviously crassly exploitative so as to insult the reader's intelligence. With an eye to the merchandising that Marvel managed to spin out of Secret Wars, I think it's safe to assume that if it were possible to credibly spin role playing games, toys, "Waiting for Twilight" posters and T-shirts and badges and all the rest of that stuff from the title, then that would be a good idea too. Ideally, it might even be possible, while appealing to the diehard superhero junkie, to produce a central story idea simple, powerful and resonant enough to bear translation to other media. I mean, I know that I'm probably still intoxicated by the Watchmen deal, but it never hurts to allow for these things as a possibility, does it?
At some point during his unwanted stay in the future, Rip Hunter has met a twenty-years-older version of John Constantine, who, as ever, seems to be a prime mover behind the scenes in the events going down in this world. Prior to Hunter's escape, Constantine circa A.D. 2000 has told Hunter that he must find and enlist the aid of John Constantine circa 1987, who will help him in alerting Earth's super-people to the possible danger waiting in their future and thus avert it. This Constantine and Hunter proceed to do, crossing over into a couple of current books in the process, or merely making phone calls and writing letters if a guest appearance was too much trouble for the various creative teams involved--they could also talk to a few people in the pages of Twilight itself, this narrative providing the stuff that makes up this linking/framing device, as the two prophets of doom meet different reactions to their tale of a nightmare future waiting to claim the world. The mechanics of this as a crossover device, as explained above, allow all the creative people involved to do or not do whatever the hell they please while still directly or indirectly involving them in the concept of Twilight as a whole. Think how much mileage the Thor writers have got from the idea of the Norse Gods trying to do something to prevent Ragnarok, or fearing that Ragnarok was about to come upon them and I'm sure you'll get the possibilities.
The world of Twilight is not a world where the superheroes have deliberately taken over, but one where they have inherited the Earth almost by default as various social institutions started to crumble in the face of accelerating social change, leaving the superheroes in the often unwilling position of being a sort of new royalty. Even though government and civic authority has all but disintegrated, the various areas of America each have their own coteries of protecting superfolk to look after them, and the superheroes have thus tended to group into clans, each looking after a certain province. There are numerous "Houses" of this nature dividing America up into a kind of feudal barony system effectively, in terms of politics if not in terms of technology, which is as advanced as one might expect by 2000 A.D.
At the time in which our central Twilight storyline takes place, there are eight "Houses", each containing a different superhero clan, scattered across America, although as we shall see some of these are pretty well abandoned or non-functioning in any active sense. I'll deal with these one at a time, and introduce our main characters along the way, House by House.
House of Steel
This is one of the two most powerful clans, and it dominates the eastern seaboard around New York and environs. Alternatively, if I change my mind it could be outside America altogether and set in the Arctic Circle, based around a new Fortress of Solitude. This is because the House of Steel consists of the clan founded by Superman--we have Superman himself, a morally troubled figure who doesn't know what's best to do about the chaos he sees surrounding him, but who has come to accept that the Houses provide the only real permanent structure in a destabilizing world and are thus important to maintain. Superman has married and raised a couple of kids, and the person that he has married is Wonder Woman, who has had an identity change to Superwoman to accommodate her new stature--we see the genuine and powerful love between these two in the face of the perils of the world surrounding them and the desire to do what's best. They are also troubled by their two offspring--one of these is a new Superboy, and he's about eighteen when the story opens, and he's real bad news. The other child is a less delinquent Supergirl, a new one who, like Superboy, has been born of the union between Superman and Wonder Woman but who is much kinder and gentler, more her mother's child. Having three members in the Superman class and Wonder Woman (Superwoman) herself, they are obviously a clan to be reckoned with.
House of Thunder
The House of Thunder is the other major power, and possesses members with power in the same class as that of the House of Steel. The House of Thunder is composed of the Marvel family, plus additions. Captain Marvel himself is the patriarch, and is if possible even more estranged and troubled by the state of the world than Superman is, perhaps because the Marvel family are having to come to terms with the difficulties of having human alter egos along with everything else, a point I'll return to when I outline the plot. Alongside Captain Marvel, there is Mary Marvel, who the Captain has married more to form a bona fide clan in opposition to that of Superman than for any other reason. There is also Captain Marvel Jr., now an adult superhero every bit as powerful and imposing as Captain Marvel in his prime, but forced to labor under the eternal shadow of a senior protégé. To complicate things, Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel are having an affair behind the Captain's back, Guinevere and Lancelot style, which has every bit as dire consequences as in the Arthurian legends. The other member of the Marvel clan is Mary Marvel Jr., the daughter of Captain and Mary Marvel Sr. Mary Jr. is fated to be part of a planned arranged marriage to the nasty delinquent Superboy during the course of our story, in order to form a powerful union between the two Houses. Peripheral to all this but perhaps interesting, somewhere in the House of Thunder (which rises up from the middle of Los Angeles over on the west coast, by the way) there are quarters occupied by those characters from the Fawcett universe who can no longer cope with life in an increasingly realistic and difficult outside world. These include a sad and aging Mr. Tawky Tawny and perhaps even Mr. Mind. Please don't laugh... I think I can make it work. The Houses of Steel and Thunder face each other across the country, with the various minor Houses and constellations gathered somewhere in between, vying for the power that's left over after the two major Houses have had their share.
House of Titans
One of the two foremost clans making up this collection of lesser Houses is a clan composed of the remains of the Teen Titans, now grown up and a hell of a lot grimmer and more frightening than they ever were in the past. They are led by an adult Nightwing ...
Okay, so that's about it for the Houses. Not all the superheroes, however, are actually members of clans. Those who aren't in clans are almost totally inactive, and for the most part inhabit one of the rundown barrio areas of either Gotham or Metropolis, both cities transformed beyond anything we've seen previously by the passage of time and change. The way I see it, the scenes in the barrio will take up much of the book and will probably be some of the livelier ones. The barrio is a superhero slum where all the old heroes come to die. As I see it, almost every passerby, shopkeeper and incidental background character there used to be some sort of super character or other twenty years ago. A lot of them are drunks, some of them are hookers or panhandlers; the majority eke whatever living they can out of dead end jobs, while there are a few who have actually adapted to their changed circumstances quite successfully and certain others who still actively carry on their own personal vendettas against injustice, albeit secretly. I'll list these various characters one at a time, mainly because I have fairly specific ideas about all of them that I'd like to get across so that you'll know who we're talking about before I get on to the actual plot. Most of the following have been altered almost beyond recognition, so this is fairly necessary.
And that's it. I hope you can see how it's meant to fulfill all the requirements mentioned earlier. There are opportunities for new characters to get a springboard, old characters to get a shot in the arm and all the merchandising you can handle in terms of games and stuff, at least as I see it. The warring Houses idea sounds ideal for role-playing games, or maybe even a video game. The overall continuity is hopefully enhanced without being damaged in any irreversible way, and I think we might get a damn good yarn out of it in the bargain. Anyway, I seem to have gone on far longer than I intended, so I better wrap this up. I'll be looking forward with interest to hearing what any of you have to say about all this when you've had a chance to read it. If any sections are incomprehensible and need clarifying then please give me a call.
Ellis didn't even miss too many deadlines on The Wildstorm, I think he had much of it pre-planned/written since it was always supposed to be a limited series.
Trying to integrate Wildstorm into the New 52 was a hilarious disaster, especially Stormwatch.
Superman is hitting Doc so hard his comic is being shunted further into the future in real life
apparently this whole thing may actually be Johns fault, as there's been very few rumors about Gary Frank's art being this far behind, one rumor was that when Doomsday Clock #1 came out, Johns hadn't yet cracked what would be happening in #3 and #4; the rumors weren't too well sourced but if you go back and look at the issues you can see there's a TON of time being killed on the Marionette and neo-Rorschach in those issues and that the issues after Manhattan finally showed up in #7 have totally ignored all these characters
The Button was hilarious, literally nothing happened
Oh well, I guess I should take solace in the fact they aren't trying to rewrite and rebuild the characters as ever so slightly different every other year like Superman or Diana or even the extended Bat Family (Drake, Batwoman, etc.). :lol
Yeah, that was probably some of the best stuff in the series so far.
I do wonder how many of those references to Crisis, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Flashpoint, etc. went over people's heads since the series is selling to more than us hardcores. That issue was based entirely around Manhattan staying static as the DC universe kept rebooting itself and moving forward in time in the real world owing to his confusion. I quite liked the part where he kept getting confused about Clark's birthdate jumping forward every thirty years.
One thing I think has gotten totally dropped is that in Rebirth and The Button, the whole thing was that "somebody stole ten years" except we're clearly far beyond that with what Manhattan is going to do or has done already.
Captain Atom exploding himself is most of what I know about the character. :lol Him and Firestorm, seems like that's all they do sometimes.
Yeah I dig how they ended up using the Forever Evil people, killing some of them off is easy but I always like when a previous major storyline has a major impact on a newer one. #continuity
For a handful of heroes, Earth-1 is that proverbial unknown of the Multiverse. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Teen Titans may be household names to us, but rest assured, these are not the seasoned veterans with storied histories we’ve come to know and love.(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/2f/34/8b2f348b5c9bbb1780098be8855e2a90.jpg)
On the newly formed Earth-1, these heroes are just starting out. They’re untested, raw and prone to rookie mistakes. They’re learning on the job. Sounds rough, right? Not entirely. They also have a tremendous drive to protect those who can’t protect themselves. As a result, they have the courage to emerge as the first heroes of this infant Earth.
Will they succeed? Their futures are blank slates, where nothing is certain. Remember, no one said being first was easy.
For generations, life on Earth-8 passed like it does on our world. Largely uneventful, and when problems did arise, they were handled easily by the world’s large population of super heroes. Until a day finally arrived like no other, and Earth-8’s strongest heroes were forced to unite against a common threat. The Retaliators were born!
Not quite what you were expecting? Perhaps that’s the best way to describe this world, populated with heroes such as the patriotic power soldier known as American Crusader, the lightning-charged warrior god Wundajin, the massively-morphing, quick to anger monster known as the Behemoth and the scientifically-minded, elementally-powered foursome known as the Future Family. Alongside such figures as Machinehead, Ladybug, Stuntmaster and the “neo-human” heroes of the G-Men, they keep their world safe from threats like the destructive Lord Havok and the Extremists.
On Earth-8, a life of heroism often comes at great sacrifice to the man or woman behind the mask. Faith in heroes is in short supply and mistrust can run rampant. Perhaps the people of Earth-8 should talk to some of their alternate world counterparts, who turn out in droves for movies featuring the very heroes they’re shunning.
A rich world vibrant with culture, community, art and commerce. Earth-7 shared a similar history and development with Earth-8, down to its numerous heroes. Many of Earth-7’s greatest protectors had close counterparts on Earth-8. While the differences between the two were subtle, the potential held within this world was great.
Therefore, it should be seen as nothing less than tragic that Earth-7 was the first to fall to the Gentry. Billions of people and hundreds of super heroes perished, the world surviving as a mere shell of what it once was. Where there was intelligence and vibrancy, now only madness and death remains. The laws of physics shattered, Earth-7’s reality has been twisted and corrupted.
The sole survivor of the cataclysm was Thunderer, a powerful hero who was saved by the last of the Monitors and sent to the House of Heroes to rally help.
They really nailed it with Morrison's Multiverse map. That should honestly have been the status quo for 30+ years or something. There's no reason big Crisis events can't mess with all the worlds within it, because the structure itself is flexible to narratively support that.
Fucking Didio.
They just need to turn the reins over to bendis so he can fix it :phil :cody
tbh, i hopped off the doomsday clock shit a while back, around 4 or 5, shit just isnt for me (he says knowing this will fuck all the chars I love).
Does fake rorschach ever find Batman's coco pops? :thinkingtbh, i hopped off the doomsday clock shit a while back, around 4 or 5, shit just isnt for me (he says knowing this will fuck all the chars I love).
Shame, it picks up around then and gets preeeetty good.
Though I say that without knowing the conclusion.
The X-Men find themselves in a whole new world of possibility… and things have never been better! Jonathan Hickman (HOUSE OF X, POWERS OF X, SECRET WARS) and superstar artist Leinil Yu (NEW AVENGERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA) reveal the saga of Cyclops and his hand-picked squad of mutant powerhouses!
Mutantkind has always been special…as has their relationship with the world—or WORLDS—around them. As this new era dawns, a new connection forms between mutants and the magic of the world… and that of Otherworld! Can the new Captain Britain forge a new way through the chaos with her companions Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Rictor…and Apocalypse?!?
Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared!
The classic New Mutants (Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Mirage, Karma, Magik, and Cypher) get together with a few new friends (Chamber, Mondo) to seek out their missing member and share the good news… a mission that takes them into space alongside the Starjammers!
X-Force is the CIA of the mutant world—one half intelligence branch, one half special ops. Beast, Jean Grey and Sage on one side, Wolverine, Kid Omega and Domino on the other. In a perfect world, there would be no need for an X-Force. We’re not there… yet.
Did they ever explain why havok is no longer grumpy?
Does fake rorschach ever find Batman's coco pops? :thinkingAlfred made him more pancakes. Also he got some more at Arkham.
Chamber is still getting promoted to top tier teams randomly? He's such a weird choice for a once Generation X character to continue being popular. Didn't he melt away the rest of his body at some point and not just his jaw? I take it he got better.
I have a soft spot for the Phalanx Covenant because it started out as such a fun idea for a "new status quo" with basically no explanation of how things got to that point before it got trashed and then swamped by the Age of Apocalypse.
IIRC, the regular X-Men characters are barely even in the storyline until Cyclops and Jean show up to save the day with Wolverine at the end.
Plus that version of Sabertooth was in retrospect a clear test run for the AoA Sabertooth who led into the Exiles Sabertooth who is the only official canon Sabertooth imo.
Speaking of which, where's Blink? Does this mean there's a new Exiles that won't suck? I'll take another hundred issues of that please, thanks Marvel. (No, I refuse to look up anything regarding "new" Exiles since that second failed relaunch.)
What do you mean? The Phalanx had been introduced as a big threat already at that point and the backstory is them having infiltrated the X-mansion and replaced nearly everyone except for the few who are the initial focus of the story. I really enjoyed that storyline, too. It was a lot of fun. :)IIRC, the plot just kinda came out of nowhere. Like prior issues were end of a regular X-Men storyline, then BAM next issue turns out everyone's actually a Phalanx replacement and they've gotta escape. And even in the spin-off books it's all side characters suddenly.
and on a completely unrelated note, Ellis The Wild Storm is pretty, pretty good.did you read Michael Cray?
and on a completely unrelated note, Ellis The Wild Storm is pretty, pretty good.did you read Michael Cray?
also he's going to do Wildcats starting at the end of August
What do you mean? The Phalanx had been introduced as a big threat already at that point and the backstory is them having infiltrated the X-mansion and replaced nearly everyone except for the few who are the initial focus of the story. I really enjoyed that storyline, too. It was a lot of fun. :)IIRC, the plot just kinda came out of nowhere. Like prior issues were end of a regular X-Men storyline, then BAM next issue turns out everyone's actually a Phalanx replacement and they've gotta escape. And even in the spin-off books it's all side characters suddenly.
I haven't looked this up, this is just how I recall it from 1994 or whenever this happened. I was much more prone to missing issues back in those days though.
The story in House of X #1 seems to kick off roughly six months after the current X-Men run, and it reveals that the resurrected Charles Xavier has apparently established a mutant nation. This is centered on a living island in the Pacific named Krakoa, and he's planted embassies all over the world - and even a couple offworld. Humanity has been persuaded to accept this because of the offer of Krakoan plants that have helpful health effects on humans, including miracle drugs. But is everything what it seems to be?
House of X #1 opens with one of the strangest sequences in X-Men comics to date. The first two pages see a mysterious figure standing in a Krakoan growth. Pods open, and mutants emerge - including one who's recognizable as Cyclops, because of the crimson energy shimmering from his eyes. The mutants are all naked, and they crawl across the ground towards the black-clad, helmeted figure, who's clearly pleased with his work. "To me, my X-Men," the man says, a line famously associated with Charles Xavier.
Throughout House of X #1, the X-Men feel strangely out-of-character.
Looked at through a critical eye, it's clear that there is something badly wrong with the X-Men. They appear to have embraced the isolationist ways of Magneto rather than the integrationist dream of Charles Xavier. The scenes with Jean Grey feel strange, not least because she sees Wolverine playing with the kids. This is reminiscent of one moment in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run, where Wolverine's mind was being manipulated. What's really going on?
In Excalibur #31, Nightcrawler found himself stranded on another Krakoan island. There, he learned that the first Krakoa had absorbed the genetic codes of every being it encountered. The Krakoa encountered by Nightcrawler had fashioned pods in which it created exact duplicates of the X-Men as servants. These pods are identical to the ones shown in House of X's introductory sequence, strongly suggesting that the world isn't dealing with the X-Men at all. That would explain why Cyclops has both eyes, why Jean Grey is in the Marvel Girl costume she wore when she first crossed paths with Krakoa, and why a number of characters are back from the dead. They're all mutants who've encountered a Krakoa before. Meanwhile, notice that "Professor Xavier" never takes off his helmet, suggesting he has something to hide.
It's looks as though Jonathan Hickman's X-Men reboot is a fake-out; that this isn't an X-Men relaunch at all, but an invasion by Krakoa.
:mindblown if true, holy shit. But looking ahead it seems like this also may not necessarily be the case. :thinking
:mindblown if true, holy shit. But looking ahead it seems like this also may not necessarily be the case. :thinking
bringing back dead x-men and ignoring chunks of continuity because they're krakoan clones barely even registers as a 'wut' in x-men backstories tbh
Glad Hickman is cleaning up X-men continuity. Someone had to do it.
... I honestly don’t really like Hickman that much. Imo, his avengers run was some confusing galaxy brain shit and I still don’t know what a blue white or Red event is.
I think my problem with Hickman is more of a symptom of how modern comics are presented and how I consume them the underlying story.
Modern comics no longer have narrators, seldom have any internal dialogue, and are written in more conversational tones. It’s more like “reading a movie” than an” illustrated book”.
As a result, I think it can make complex stories difficult to write cleanly and thus difficult to follow there’s a lot more reading between the lines just to understand the basic plot.
Whereas comics from 20 years ago, normally the character and/or narrator would just plainly say what was going on.
And since I tend to read comics in bed while my wife is pegging me (with questions) I get lost in more complex stories.
Also reminds me how many people used to think Claremont was the best comics writer ever. I find his books damn near unreadable today.
Claremont did have a bunch of Marvel meddling that progressively undermined his work, that's why he kept leaving and coming back, they'd promise him freedom then be all like "on second thought..."
In that one instance for New Exiles they told him he couldn't use any villains he didn't invent himself, which is like kinda stupid for a series that's supposed to play with all Marvel stuff. :lol
Also reminds me how many people used to think Claremont was the best comics writer ever. I find his books damn near unreadable today.
I mean, dude has the highest-selling comic of all-time. That's gonna give you some influence.
Claremont did have a bunch of Marvel meddling that progressively undermined his work, that's why he kept leaving and coming back, they'd promise him freedom then be all like "on second thought..."
In that one instance for New Exiles they told him he couldn't use any villains he didn't invent himself, which is like kinda stupid for a series that's supposed to play with all Marvel stuff. :lol
But his Exiles run was trash even with that limitation
"So you can use literally any What If version of any supe, go fucking wild... oh you want to use Kitty Pryde and Psylocke because you're fucking obsessed with Kitty Pryde and Psylocke"
And dialogue stuck decades in the past, like "Don't worry chum! We're about to embark on this caper- hey, nice lookin' frail!"
\And dialogue stuck decades in the past, like "Don't worry chum! We're about to embark on this caper- hey, nice lookin' frail!"
"Gasp! That... that voice... that costume... Can it really be my beloved teammate Kate, somehow back from the dead, for when last I saw her she was trapped in a projectile rocketing away from earth, its substance somehow rendering her powers futile, and with escape impossible, we had no choice but to assume the worst? Maybe this will be my chance to make amends for the many wrongs I have done her! But perhaps this is not her after all, but through some strange circumstance merely a curious facsimile"
"Oh, Hi Kate"
Also reminds me how many people used to think Claremont was the best comics writer ever. I find his books damn near unreadable today.
I mean, dude has the highest-selling comic of all-time. That's gonna give you some influence.
I think that was way, way more Jim Lee and it being a new #1 X-Men comic- that was very much the start of artists (Lee, McFarlene, Liefeld, etc.) being super-popular and comics being the next big "rare" collectible thing with tons of new #1s, special editions with foil covers, trading cards, and all that shit.
I believe XMen #1 was the beginning of the variant cover trend.
You should tank him for saving the failing Superman.
https://screenrant.com/xmen-reboot-marvel-comic-fake/QuoteThe story in House of X #1 seems to kick off roughly six months after the current X-Men run, and it reveals that the resurrected Charles Xavier has apparently established a mutant nation. This is centered on a living island in the Pacific named Krakoa, and he's planted embassies all over the world - and even a couple offworld. Humanity has been persuaded to accept this because of the offer of Krakoan plants that have helpful health effects on humans, including miracle drugs. But is everything what it seems to be?
Spoilers:spoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteHouse of X #1 opens with one of the strangest sequences in X-Men comics to date. The first two pages see a mysterious figure standing in a Krakoan growth. Pods open, and mutants emerge - including one who's recognizable as Cyclops, because of the crimson energy shimmering from his eyes. The mutants are all naked, and they crawl across the ground towards the black-clad, helmeted figure, who's clearly pleased with his work. "To me, my X-Men," the man says, a line famously associated with Charles Xavier.QuoteThroughout House of X #1, the X-Men feel strangely out-of-character.QuoteLooked at through a critical eye, it's clear that there is something badly wrong with the X-Men. They appear to have embraced the isolationist ways of Magneto rather than the integrationist dream of Charles Xavier. The scenes with Jean Grey feel strange, not least because she sees Wolverine playing with the kids. This is reminiscent of one moment in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run, where Wolverine's mind was being manipulated. What's really going on?QuoteIn Excalibur #31, Nightcrawler found himself stranded on another Krakoan island. There, he learned that the first Krakoa had absorbed the genetic codes of every being it encountered. The Krakoa encountered by Nightcrawler had fashioned pods in which it created exact duplicates of the X-Men as servants. These pods are identical to the ones shown in House of X's introductory sequence, strongly suggesting that the world isn't dealing with the X-Men at all. That would explain why Cyclops has both eyes, why Jean Grey is in the Marvel Girl costume she wore when she first crossed paths with Krakoa, and why a number of characters are back from the dead. They're all mutants who've encountered a Krakoa before. Meanwhile, notice that "Professor Xavier" never takes off his helmet, suggesting he has something to hide.QuoteIt's looks as though Jonathan Hickman's X-Men reboot is a fake-out; that this isn't an X-Men relaunch at all, but an invasion by Krakoa.[close]
:mindblown if true, holy shit. But looking ahead it seems like this also may not necessarily be the case. :thinking
it’s retconned at the end back to the previous status quo
:drudge Batman #77 spoilers https://i.imgur.com/AkLY3Qx.jpg
Welp.
I have heard that Bendis ended his current Superman story with some bullshit pulled from his ass?
is this true :lol
Superboy is the best worst character ever
I also like that all this shit is happening before Doomsday Clock, which was supposed to be in the future, has ended, and there's already contradictions. :lolSnyder's already ignoring it because he's working on 2020's crossover that's a sequel to METAL.
superboy primeSuperboy is the best worst character ever
:rage
I also like that all this shit is happening before Doomsday Clock, which was supposed to be in the future, has ended, and there's already contradictions. :lolSnyder's already ignoring it because he's working on 2020's crossover that's a sequel to METAL.
I can't believe there's still two issues left and we don't know when the last one will come out yet. Year of the Villain and Leviathan (both projected to end in November) might be done by the time it comes out lol
Also how DC tried to go "oh no it won't just end with Superman fighting Doctor Manhattan" but it's a fucking recurring scene in every damn issue.
They should just go ahead and announce the JSA series or whatever Johns is going to do after it like they have Legion. They could even start putting it out before Doomsday Clock finishes. :doge
It's funny that you can find pretty much no explanation for the delays on the internet. The only thing is the artist, Gary Frank, said he wasn't behind. Which is usually the case. So is Johns still fucking writing the thing? What could he be rewriting at this point? The entire thing has been so fucking decompressed, it could have really been six issues and not lost anything like Adrian and them running around thinking he's sick for eight issues. All the crap with the villains in the sewers for five issues. Why was the Joker even in this? (And which of the THREE JOKERS IS IT?!? Find out in 2027 when Johns completes that.)
superboy primeSuperboy is the best worst character ever
:rage
The hot gossip coming out of comic book shows this weekend from a number of prominent sources, is that in the summer of 2020 leading into 2021, DC Comics is planning to bring us a black Batman. Not Bruce Wayne, but someone else donning the cowl and cape.
Who this new Batman will be, I don’t know. All I have been told is that it won’t be Duke Thomas, the young man previously teased as taking on the role of Robin and Batman to come.
They mess with Batman too often. Like every third year we have a new Batman.
They mess with Batman too often. Like every third year we have a new Batman.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I say mess with him more often, until Dick gets back in the suit. :rejoice
I don't know what Snyder was thinking with Robo-Gordon... maybe hoping DCYou would be the status quo for more than a hot second??
As in, stop replacing Bruce Wayne with someone else every few years.
I feel like robo bats just sort of ended kind of abruptly. They didn’t really leave Gordon in the suit all that long.
I feel like robo bats just sort of ended kind of abruptly. They didn’t really leave Gordon in the suit all that long.
Weeeeelllllll the messaging for Rebirth may have been a little murky if anyone other than Bruce Wayne wasn't made front-and-center as Batman.
(https://i.imgur.com/xtHpUmM.png)
Would have seemed pretty out of place here for example. :lol
Aren’t they releasing the all of dc to be kid friendly next year or something like that?
Absolute Carnage #1-2
I was expecting a disaster but it's actually fun!
Just finished reading Preacher Book 1.
Fairly entertaining, if a bit edgelord at times. I went in completely blind. I expected some sort of story about a preacher doing around killing bad guys, like a religion Punisher, but turns out it's a super crazy ass story of God, demons, serial killers, vampires featuring a cameo by John Wayne. I think I'm going to order the rest of the books.
If I wanted to get back on Comics, should I stick with a couple of books, or an area? Last time I read regularly, it was SAGA, and the Hickman runs on F4.
Yes, it ends at the conclusion of the farm arc. I'll check out the other books then.Just finished reading Preacher Book 1.
Fairly entertaining, if a bit edgelord at times. I went in completely blind. I expected some sort of story about a preacher doing around killing bad guys, like a religion Punisher, but turns out it's a super crazy ass story of God, demons, serial killers, vampires featuring a cameo by John Wayne. I think I'm going to order the rest of the books.
Book 1 ends up at the Louisiana farm ? It's actually somewhat of a slow start (at least the whole first half setting up the premise) believe it or not, it really gets going after that. There's a noticeable dip in quality in one specific late storyline which really feel like filler but it ends up strong. It's well worth seeing it to the finale. It's crazy nineties edgy but it's never to the detriment of the characters.
DOOM COCK.
If I wanted to get back on Comics, should I stick with a couple of books, or an area? Last time I read regularly, it was SAGA, and the Hickman runs on F4.
pretty much standard advice is follow authors not characters, especially returning to things where you're not invested in seeing where a universe is going or anything.
If I wanted to get back on Comics, should I stick with a couple of books, or an area? Last time I read regularly, it was SAGA, and the Hickman runs on F4.well, I guess the main thing to do is decide mostly what kind of thing you want, cape books, a completed story, works more like Saga, etc.
An alternate version of Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake’s love interest and the fourth Batgirl, also calls him Drake.what, alternate?
Yes, it ends at the conclusion of the farm arc. I'll check out the other books then.Just finished reading Preacher Book 1.
Fairly entertaining, if a bit edgelord at times. I went in completely blind. I expected some sort of story about a preacher doing around killing bad guys, like a religion Punisher, but turns out it's a super crazy ass story of God, demons, serial killers, vampires featuring a cameo by John Wayne. I think I'm going to order the rest of the books.
Book 1 ends up at the Louisiana farm ? It's actually somewhat of a slow start (at least the whole first half setting up the premise) believe it or not, it really gets going after that. There's a noticeable dip in quality in one specific late storyline which really feel like filler but it ends up strong. It's well worth seeing it to the finale. It's crazy nineties edgy but it's never to the detriment of the characters.
DOOM COCK.
I also checked out the first episode of the tv show and :kobeyuck what a weird take on the story.. I mean, people are doing their best but it's pretty far from how I imagined the characters when I read the book. The Preacher feels super weak (but I guess he's gonna get back his balls when he gets possessed) and the way Cassidy is introduced felt off in tone. Same thing with Tulip. In the comics, shes knows how to fight but she's pretty much forced to do the hit job but in the pilot she's acting like Hit-Girl, kicking asses, using catchphrases and acting all sassy and witty.
Draaaake? Draaaaaaake?
I like the hard reboot one, DC is hiding a complete reboot of their entire line without it leaking. Based around a comic that still does not have a scheduled date despite November solicits already being out. :lol
DC rebooting again? Is Wally back at least?you get two of them now
DC rebooting again? Is Wally back at least?you get two of them now
Wally and Wale?
Kent has ‘all of the wisdom and intelligence of the Kryptonian race would be an exciting new dimension. He really sort of developed as a little floating Buddha, someone who when he wasn’t even a toddler yet was speaking in full sentences and had an understanding of events that surpassed anybody else’s. He’s the most magical member of the family.’
https://www.newsarama.com/46940-superman-to-reveal-his-secret-identity-to-the-world-this-fall.html
Bendis
:neogaf
Legendary artist Ivan Reis joins writer Brian Michael Bendis as they introduce the biggest change in the Man of Steel’s life ever!Not marrying Lois? Not moving to Metropolis? Not DYING and coming back? Not DYING again and merging with some multiversial self of his? Not having a son?
https://www.newsarama.com/46940-superman-to-reveal-his-secret-identity-to-the-world-this-fall.html
Bendis
:neogaf
Can't wait for the next story arc where Superman makes a deal with Lucifer Morningstar to save Pa Kent (who was targeted for assassination by Deathstroke) at the cost of his highly popular marriage to Lois Lane.
The issue opens with the arrival of The Five: five mutants whose powers work in tandem to resurrect other mutants. Goldballs (previously thought to be worthless, his balls are actually the eggs), Proteus (basically inseminates the eggs), Elixir (gives life to the egg), Tempus (can make the inhabitant of the egg any age), and Hope (amplifies the other four mutant's powers). We then see the same 2 page splash page from House of X #1 with the X-Men coming out of the pods...so that particular scene was a flash forward. The whole team of X-Men who died in the previous issue are resurrected using a combination of the Five's power, the collected DNA from Sinister's library, and a mental backup from Xavier's Cerebro...basically Cerebro scans every mutant every week and uploads a backup of their memory to be implanted in the regrown husk body. Storm declares Cyclops' resurrected team the "heroes of Krakoa"
Xavier and Magneto's grand plan is revealed: they plan toresurrect as many mutants as possible using Krakoa, the Five, Cerebro, and Sinister's library. It is explained how this would work, but it will take hundreds of years to bring back all 16 million mutants. This explains how certain previously deceased mutants are back. This seems to be the plot point of the upcoming X-Force book.
The UN votes...Emma mind controls enough of the Ambassadors to ensure the vote passes. Xavier promises she will be rewarded (a hint to the direction of The Marauders book). Some major countries reject the deal.
The issue ends with every mutant villain arriving on Krakoa to join the X-Men. Krakoa seems especially pleased to be reunited with Apocalypse.
QuoteSo those who died in space actually stay dead, and from this point on the living ones are just clones with memories? Sorry, I’m just confused whether it’s resurrection or cloning.The word "clone" is completely avoided...it strictly uses the word "resurrection."
Also, how do people like Banshee and Esme have their memories if they died years before Cerebro uploaded their minds? Or has Cerebro been doing this since the beginning?
The memory copy thing has been Cerebro's primary purpose all along. It's tracking system is secondary.
QuoteAh okay, fair! I kinda see why they want to do more with Pryor now then since there could be an interesting discussion about whether she is also actually Jean, just sans-Cerebro. Likewise it brings into question about how souls and the afterlife and such work now in Marvel; for example, would Nightcrawler who died go to heaven and then be ripped from it into this cloned body, or does this Krakoa/Cerebro Nightcrawler have its own soul, separate from the original?When Jean is reborn she tells Storm that she's the only Jean that ever was. Seems like a reference to Pryor.
Is it ever suggested why nobody ever figured out Cerebro’s original purpose, especially when it’s been rebuilt so many times (and often without Xavier’s input)?
No, it's not referenced why no one knew about Cerebro. Magneto does mention that the resurrection process puts the soul back into the person though.
https://screenrant.com/dc-leviathan-identity-manhunter-spoilers/
Hmm...
House Of X #5 spoilers::ospoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteThe issue opens with the arrival of The Five: five mutants whose powers work in tandem to resurrect other mutants. Goldballs (previously thought to be worthless, his balls are actually the eggs), Proteus (basically inseminates the eggs), Elixir (gives life to the egg), Tempus (can make the inhabitant of the egg any age), and Hope (amplifies the other four mutant's powers). We then see the same 2 page splash page from House of X #1 with the X-Men coming out of the pods...so that particular scene was a flash forward. The whole team of X-Men who died in the previous issue are resurrected using a combination of the Five's power, the collected DNA from Sinister's library, and a mental backup from Xavier's Cerebro...basically Cerebro scans every mutant every week and uploads a backup of their memory to be implanted in the regrown husk body. Storm declares Cyclops' resurrected team the "heroes of Krakoa"
Xavier and Magneto's grand plan is revealed: they plan toresurrect as many mutants as possible using Krakoa, the Five, Cerebro, and Sinister's library. It is explained how this would work, but it will take hundreds of years to bring back all 16 million mutants. This explains how certain previously deceased mutants are back. This seems to be the plot point of the upcoming X-Force book.
The UN votes...Emma mind controls enough of the Ambassadors to ensure the vote passes. Xavier promises she will be rewarded (a hint to the direction of The Marauders book). Some major countries reject the deal.
The issue ends with every mutant villain arriving on Krakoa to join the X-Men. Krakoa seems especially pleased to be reunited with Apocalypse.[close]
Comments/speculation:spoiler (click to show/hide)QuoteQuoteSo those who died in space actually stay dead, and from this point on the living ones are just clones with memories? Sorry, I’m just confused whether it’s resurrection or cloning.The word "clone" is completely avoided...it strictly uses the word "resurrection."
Also, how do people like Banshee and Esme have their memories if they died years before Cerebro uploaded their minds? Or has Cerebro been doing this since the beginning?
The memory copy thing has been Cerebro's primary purpose all along. It's tracking system is secondary.QuoteQuoteAh okay, fair! I kinda see why they want to do more with Pryor now then since there could be an interesting discussion about whether she is also actually Jean, just sans-Cerebro. Likewise it brings into question about how souls and the afterlife and such work now in Marvel; for example, would Nightcrawler who died go to heaven and then be ripped from it into this cloned body, or does this Krakoa/Cerebro Nightcrawler have its own soul, separate from the original?When Jean is reborn she tells Storm that she's the only Jean that ever was. Seems like a reference to Pryor.
Is it ever suggested why nobody ever figured out Cerebro’s original purpose, especially when it’s been rebuilt so many times (and often without Xavier’s input)?
No, it's not referenced why no one knew about Cerebro. Magneto does mention that the resurrection process puts the soul back into the person though.[close]
Crazy Hickman-retconning/re-writing going on here.
Is major x some future reality Deadpool? Because he sure looks like he’s supposed to be.
The only thing missing are the bomber jackets with pushed-up sleeves. Remember when that was a thing and the early 90s idea of updating a character design was just throwing a brown jacket over their costume? Throw in a mullet and a five o'clock shadow for the guys. :dogeIt's not missing at all. U.S. Agent literally has all of these when he's off-duty. :lol
somebody should use this mid-90s art style for one of the animated movies
really they missed a chance with Captain Marvel to give characters jackets and pouches everywhere
Can anyone think of another artist than Liefeld who was massively popular in his day, but later clowned and reviled for the same work people previously loved?
Like Jim lee was also popular around the same time, but generally people still think his art doesn’t suck ass.
I kind of forgot about Greg Land. 😂 god I hate his art. I probably hate it more than Liefeld. Is he even still around?
I always had a hard time putting my finger on exactly what I hated about it though.its bad in a much more subtle way.
Now all that I’ve mentioned is pretty atrocious, but here’s where it gets unbelievably worse. Observant comic fans have noticed that a lot of his references appear to be directly taken from porn films. There isn’t an argument more convincing than this picture(https://i2.wp.com/media.insidepulse.com/old/columnImages2007/image36860.jpg)
I don’t remember the Liefeld backpack, but I was like 10 when he was popular. I’m pretty sure his books sold through well though, so some people didn’t hate it.
Is that like...self parody
Has Liefield ever acknowledged the mockery his art gets? I know Jim Lee and some of the other Image founders have admitted they drew/made some bad stuff in the 90s.
You are producing work that is consumed and judged by the public and with today's social media and the 24 blogosphere, you better put on your big boy pants when you go outside. You are going to get poked. At some point, some where the worm will turn, it's not a promise it's a fact. Give me any one of your comic book sacred cows and I'll show you the blog, the thread or the review that tears them a new one. It's all in how you apply your perspective.
[...]
In the late 90′s, the magazine formerly known as the Wizard came after me strong and hard, I was the brunt of jokes for an entire staff of angry fanboys, as much as can be poured on was poured on. But I kept focus as anyone in that situation should. Just because one tribe piles on you, take shelter and continue to work towards your next goal, your next project. Don't be discouraged and remember that there are many fans of your work rooting for you to succeed.
[...]
I was drawing the third issue of a sold out comic book featuring characters that had not carried their own title in 20 years, do I let these attacks get to me? Sorry, I have no time and I have deadlines to meet, and arguing with any of these bloggers would accomplish nothing. DO NOT EVER send a negative comment or engage a negative review, its pointless and takes up valuable time. I advocate moving forward and servicing your fan base.
Laugh at yourself. it's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap boobs.
Ah, yeah, I had thought he had at least commented on that Cap picture once.
It's funny that at some level he understands, and even more than most people explain exactly the specific things they hate about his art, but he still falls back on "haters/fanboys" reasoning. Liefeld gets it most because it's just his style is so forever representative of the era. Jim Lee stopped drawing the same way as the trends (and his skills) changed. Even McFarlane changed and he was the other posterboy of the era.
Frank Quitely might be the most highly regarded artist I actively dislike most of the time. I don't know what Morrison and Millar see in him. Although Millar seems to do something to make him draw "different", Jupiter's Legacy/Circle isn't as awful for example.
House and Powers Of X are now completed.
Was a satisfying story to read overall, but I still think that this didn't "feel" like X-Men. The way a lot of the characters acted just didn't fit how they've been depicted before. Will let Moira slide since this story retconned pretty much everything about her. I guess that also explains why characters came off differently, too, because OF Moira changing things, but still. I expect things to go back to normal when the new X books start.
I think it kind of leaves you with as many questions as when the story started, but it was still a good way to end this prologue for the upcoming relaunch that starts next week. This really was a huge reboot for the whole series.
Am assuming that the Red King is going to bespoiler (click to show/hide)the Red Queen and will be Kitty Pryde based on the Marauders book coming out.[close]
Dawn of Xspoiler (click to show/hide)Apparently Logan is chilling with Scott's Family along with Jean and their rooms are connected to each other :phil[close]
Shosta- Yes!Dawn of Xspoiler (click to show/hide)Apparently Logan is chilling with Scott's Family along with Jean and their rooms are connected to each other :phil[close]
:exxy
The Batman Who Laughs series was great Snyder nonsense. The Tales From The Dark Multiverse rewrites of past DC events are pretty amusing too, I particularly liked the Death of Superman one where Lois goes unhinged.
The Umbrella Academy - Hotel Oblivion was one hell of an extended setup, Gerard, you better have the next part coming quicker than Young Animal's non-schedule or you're in time out until you finish it.
There's been no delays on the last part of Doomsday Clock yet. Six weeks. Is Johns going to actually make it this year AND pull off the story?!?
Everything else I've got on my table is old stuff... oh wait, I read Heroes In Crisis, that was pretty stupid :lol
I read the first Umbrella Academy and then bought the 2nd and 3rd but never read them. So for me it'll be like Doomsday Clock is the fresh new thing when I eventually grab it.Oh, you've got Dallas? If you liked Apocalypse Suite at all, definitely check it out when you have time. You can probably wait on Hotel Oblivion since it's the first part of two. Dallas works as a standalone aside from the stuff that continues throughout the entire series.
There's been no delays on the last part of Doomsday Clock yet. Six weeks. Is Johns going to actually make it this year AND pull off the story?!?
There's been no delays on the last part of Doomsday Clock yet. Six weeks. Is Johns going to actually make it this year AND pull off the story?!?
Would be pretty crazy if they timed the release to the finale of HBO's Watchmen. :awesome Which I think is 4 weeks away.
DC's mega-event "Infinite Crisis" saw the destruction of the Trinity, the rise of Alexander Luthor and Superboy-Prime, and the rebirth of the Multiverse...but it all started with Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, who saw it all coming and died with secrets that could've saved the world. But...things happened differently in the Dark Multiverse! Not only does Blue Beetle survive- he thrives! And after killing Maxwell Lord himself, Ted sets off a chain of events that irreversibly alters the lives of the Justice League and his best friend, Booster Gold. In trying to prevent a crisis, Blue Beetle becomes the Crisis...and the Dark Multiverse will never be the same.
Marvel released a piece of teaser art on Monday for "the most dysfunctional X-Men team you could possibly imagine," with the promise that a member of the team will be unveiled on the official Marvel Twitter account each day this week, beginning on Tuesday, December 3 at noon ET.
New X-book coming next year. There's another one or two titles also in the works. Havok and Psylocke (Kwannon now) are also both former villains, so all 'bad guy' line-up?QuoteMarvel released a piece of teaser art on Monday for "the most dysfunctional X-Men team you could possibly imagine," with the promise that a member of the team will be unveiled on the official Marvel Twitter account each day this week, beginning on Tuesday, December 3 at noon ET.
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The storyline has stayed pretty interesting and they keep teasing that shit is gonna go down with some of the "former" villains living on Krakoa and possibly with Krakoa itself. Apparently in a callback to the original storyline that introduced the island, it is revealed that Krakoa still needs to "feed" on at least a couple of mutants each year to sustain itself. Rather than outright 'eat' them, it is sapping small amounts of their energy while they stay on the island. Some of the other psychic-vampire types like Selene are also doing this.
Tasty, Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Infinite Crisis ;)
Guesses:
Wild child
Bishop
Warlock
Cyclops dad
If it's consensual and necessary for survival... :idont
Can't see this not ending with Krakoa turning on them all and the X-Men back in the mansion at some point.
Guesses:
Wild child
Bishop
Warlock
Cyclops dad
Could be Wild Child on the top, yeah. Wondering if it's Sabertooth, Emplate, or maybe even Lady Deathstrike, though. Bishop and Corsair are featured in other X-books already and don't fit the description. Warlock is kinda-sorta back already in other books.
QuoteCan't see this not ending with Krakoa turning on them all and the X-Men back in the mansion at some point.
Yeah, everyone knows this is coming. And reversion to the status quo takes a lot of the dramatic wind out of comic book plotlines in general. I started enjoying comics on two levels to compensate:
1. Enjoy the plotline on its own, as self-contained as possible. Some great runs by great writers and artists fall easily into this mold. Ignore the mess of plots/characters before and after the run you're reading, and try to ignore any connective tissue to other books/crossovers in the book itself.
2. Enjoy the ongoing comics universe as a pulped up version of soap operas, which similarly never seem to end. So like, the current season of DC ain't doing it for me, but maybe next year when Helena Cassadine comes back as the ice queen? :idont
Are these largely good? I’ve seen em at the shop and thought about grabbing one.I quite liked the Death of Superman one, Knightfall was pretty meh, I haven't seen the other one (Blackest Night?) that's out yet
Somehow, this makes me more confident in my Wild Child guess.
Writer Zeb Wells and artist Stephen Segovia are the creative team on Hellions, a new X-Men spinoff series that brings together mutantkind’s most dangerous outcasts -- Wild Child, Nanny, Orphan Maker, Empath, and Scalphunter -- with the X-Men's Psylocke and Havok, all under the leadership of Mister Sinister.
yeartwothree years of nonsense
Somehow, this makes me more confident in my Wild Child guess.
You win the prize!QuoteWriter Zeb Wells and artist Stephen Segovia are the creative team on Hellions, a new X-Men spinoff series that brings together mutantkind’s most dangerous outcasts -- Wild Child, Nanny, Orphan Maker, Empath, and Scalphunter -- with the X-Men's Psylocke and Havok, all under the leadership of Mister Sinister.
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Will read through all of Doomsday Clock now that it's done, but what the hell happened at the end there? ???spoiler (click to show/hide)Are they also acknowledging that The New 52 is now a separate multiverse?[close]
I don't think any of those were supposed to be actual planned DC events, The Multiversity references a bunch of fake crossover events too.
Spider-Woman gets another costume. Much better than the last one, but I don't like the Spider-Man influence on the top half. Reminds too much of Miles' costume, too.
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:nope
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:ohyeah
Do we have an indie thread as well? I saw one and no activity for a bit.I just post about them in here. Thread's not crazy active enough that they get lost in the DC/Marvel stuff anyway. At least for me.
I am reading house/powers of x and don’t understand how Moira’s power works. She reincarnates, ok. But how it every body else like basically the same age when she has Grown to adulthood like 4 times?
The whole world resets every time she is reincarnated?!
Now that it’s established, it guarantees there will be eventually be a really bad crossover relying on her powers resetting the world.
According to Destiny, Moira's reincarnation cycle is finite. When she encountered Destiny during her third life, she was informed that she had "10, maybe 11" lives in total
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/02/25/what-is-dc-comics-5g/
Tasty come back and help me figure this out
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https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors
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"Her power is the ability to eat more ice cream than anyone on the planet."
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Those two look more twincesty than quicksilver and scarlet witch
DC's next big Crisis event and the sequel to METAL is going to be...
DEATH METAL
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This series tries to connect the Thorn and H20 timelines and makes and even more convoluted, stupid mess of a story :rejoice
Chaos Comics Halloween 1-3 (2000-2001)
This series tries to connect the Thorn and H20 timelines and makes and even more convoluted, stupid mess of a story :rejoice
modern superhero comics :juicy
I fucking love cape comics. I just think the current era is trash. I think there are a lot of awful indie comics as well.modern superhero comics :juicy
Comic snobs :social2
Cape comics are nerd soap operas. We've accepted this.
I still can't believe they gave Bendis Superman...
Halloween: One Good Scare (2003)
This was a tie in for the 25th anniversary stuff, set in the H20 timeline, about Dr. Loomis' son who also becomes a psychologist at Smith's Grove, where he becomes obsessed with new patient Lindsey Wallace, who swears Michael is still out there and coming for her. Loomis Jr. succumbs to the obsession that drove his father nuts, and then Michael indeed does show up to kill Lindsey as Loomis Jr. is too scared to help her. Michael then leaves a broken picture of the Loomis' to let him know he knows who this guy is and left him alone on purpose so he'd live in fear of what was coming for him.
And then it never got a follow up due to rights issues. It was planned for 7 or 8 issues and would have followed Loomis 2 living in fear or some shit. The art is disgusting
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:yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
Oh there was another Halloween one I read yesterday, about a photographer who like....finds purity in death pictures or some bullshit and basically stalks old man Loomis in 1993 (it's set in the H20 timeline but Loomis looks exactly like he does in 5/6) until Michael pops up and plucks the guy's eyes out and puts film reels in the sockets. It was also supposed to be a 7-8 issue series and also stopped at one.
I started another one from 2008 and it was also trash so I think my mental affair with these tie in comics are done for now.
Diamond going bust and other distributors being allowed into the game would probably be the best thing that ever happened to physical comic book stores tbh.
Its crazy their monopoly is allowed under 'well technically not a monopoly because other books exist' rulings.
That has to be a shopped panel. Benji plz confirm
https://www.gamesradar.com/brian-michael-bendis-wrapping-up-his-superman-run/
God might exist 🙏🏻
When asked about the comments by a Twitter user in reference to Newsarama's June 9 article (see below), the DC-exclusive writer told the comics retailer Jetpack Comics on June 10 "It’s sooooo far away. Kind of a non headline. Don’t even worry about it today."
I don't know what kind of response you should give to someone you used to be close with and don't think you did any wrong by, but they obviously do and are airing their grievances in public demanding a statement :idont
if he really believe that he did nothing wrong he shouldn’t have write an apology because it sounds fake as hell coming from him, since he always been one with strong opinions. Or write a genuine apology if he knows he fucked up and actually wants to mend. Or, just lawyer up and don’t say shit in both cases.
He is not dumb. He chose the lawyer and PR friendly option while lawyering up, the kind of stuff he usually calls BS.
Whatever he did something wrong or just being just labeled a predator, I honestly expected more.
Oh, I forgot, the writer of Stormwatch Team Achilles got himself cancelled for a... unique... reason. Micah Ian Wright (also writer of a whole bunch of video games and on The Angry Beavers) claimed he was a former Army Ranger who served in the invasion of Panama when he would have been 15 years old. :lol
Despite outrageous story arcs and many artist collaborations, the popularity of the book dwindled to the point where Wildstorm decided to blow up the entire team with a 6-megaton bomb (Gen¹³ vol. 2, #76, June 2002). This served as the catalyst to revamp the series with a new first issue written by Chris Claremont with pencils by Ale Garza. This title featured an all new team mentored by Caitlin Fairchild, and spawned a spin-off series titled 21 Down. However, this title was cancelled after barely a year. The final issue of the series revealed that the original team was, in fact, still alive, and that the new series had taken place in an alternate dimension which had in some fashion crossed over with the known continuity.
Invincible is like almost nothing but HUGE TWISTS one after another, it has one of the few BIG REVEALS in anything that actually makes me upset to think about really because Kirkman had to keep pushing them since they're the only hook he would build anything around, TWD is mostly better about this despite its own set of problems. Both of them start to lose their punch after a while.
Speaking of, the Wildcats that comes After The End of the World (Version 5, version 4 being a single issue written by Grant Morrison) was like that. Especially when it changes authors midstream and the second author completely ignores everything of the prior 18 issues, then has to kill all his own plots because the New 52 happened. Also, eventually the Wildstorm books had interchanged so many characters the titles are nonsense, like half the Authority is in Wildcats, half of Stormwatch eventually are in The Authority when the Carrier leaves the planet, some characters randomly died or had other major events off panel because people forgot about them, etc. Wildcats just becomes the Earth-based book left, The Authority runs into space, Stormwatch blows up their base so all the characters have to go to another book or disappear, etc.
I have no idea if I will even attempt to read the other Wildstorm things like Gen13, etc. I'm kinda leaning towards getting back into some Wonder Woman, especially with the movie with my man Maxwell Lord constantly getting delayed. I've only really ever read the embassy days and the New 52 series, so I can go all sorts of directions on that before even coming back to the Rebirth series. Morrison's Earth One series is kinda stupid though, I have read that in recent times.
Caitlin Fairchild was briefly a thing in the New 52 (she created the new Superboy, created a second Teen Titans team, etc.), but the only one that had any lifespan really was Midnighter. I guess The Engineer and Grifter got a weekly maxiseries (Futures End) to be a key part of after they got mostly dumped from the New 52. But I think Midnighter was the only one still running around by the end of the New 52.
Everybody else were completely available for Ellis to reuse by the time The Wild Storm came about.
I have no idea if I will even attempt to read the other Wildstorm things like Gen13, etc.
Which ended with "WildCATS coming soon!" and then the book never got released.
:neogaf
I remember Helspont was briefly a Superman villain, too-He was going to be the first BIG BAD of the New 52 initially which is why he and the Daemonites showed up in Superman and even got an annual devoted to them. They had almost entirely fallen out of favor by Forever Evil.
nu52 was so bad it made me bounce off comics completely for however many years its been since Nu52
The two spider-girls shoot webs from their naughty bits.
"Greta, watch the kids while I take Pumpkin-Seed into the other room and utterly destroy her."
Monday's WarnerMedia layoffs have affected a significant number of high-level figures at comic book powerhouse DC, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Among those said to be losing their positions are editor-in-chief Bob Harris, senior VP of publishing strategy and support services Hank Kanalz, VP of marketing and creative services Jonah Weiland, VP global publishing initiatives and digital strategy Bobbie Chase, senior story editor Brian Cunningham, and executive editor Mark Doyle, who oversaw the rollout of the Black Label graphic novels.
Roughly one third of DC's editorial ranks are being laid off, according to sources.
Insiders also say the majority of the staff of the streaming service DC Universe has been laid off, a move that had been widely expected as WarnerMedia shifts its focus to new streaming service HBO Max.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-comics-dc-universe-hit-by-major-layoffs-1306743QuoteMonday's WarnerMedia layoffs have affected a significant number of high-level figures at comic book powerhouse DC, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Among those said to be losing their positions are editor-in-chief Bob Harris, senior VP of publishing strategy and support services Hank Kanalz, VP of marketing and creative services Jonah Weiland, VP global publishing initiatives and digital strategy Bobbie Chase, senior story editor Brian Cunningham, and executive editor Mark Doyle, who oversaw the rollout of the Black Label graphic novels.
Roughly one third of DC's editorial ranks are being laid off, according to sources.
Insiders also say the majority of the staff of the streaming service DC Universe has been laid off, a move that had been widely expected as WarnerMedia shifts its focus to new streaming service HBO Max.
Comicbook.com reports that AT&T, for reasons inexplicably unknown, is looking to bring in a general manager “from the world of esports” to replace this lost editorial talent, indicating a grim prospect for the publisher, even as it continues to mine its decades of work for new film and TV properties.
BUT WAIT
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O.G. Dragon is back
WILL HE ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING OR JUST JOIN IN WITH THE FUCKING? FIND OUT IN ANY NUMBER OF MONTHS!
But I don’t even know what fandome isJust a "virtual convention" because of COVID. Normally these trailers and announcements would have been shown at Comic-Con panels but can't really do that this year.
Also has anyone here been keeping up with the X line? How have the other titles like Hellions, Cable, Wolverine, and so on been? I kind of just want to trim my pulls to very few titles if I would continue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/ja2k9r/danny_devito_should_play_wolverine_in_the_mcu_you/
They also retconned the symbiote origins (again) and made it so they've been around for a long time. Beowulf was a symbiote dragon. Symbiote suits were used in the Vietnam war and went haywire. So of course Nick Fury called in the one man who could stop them...Logan. Gotta have Wolverine pop up in everything!
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Of those, I've only read Fear Agent, Chew, Happy! and I Kill Giants and they're all pretty good.
Based on borks posts :donot to Savage Dragon
Right now I'm in the middle of reading the comic event Annihilation Conquest which is like the first formation of Guardians of the Galaxy and yeaaaah, it's pretty rough. I heard Guardians comics were pretty much trash until the films came along. I wonder if post-films the comics are actually good and just copy the tone of the movies from that point forward.
Secret Invasion is kind of lame, but it leads to Dark Avengers, which is way better than it has any right to be
There's so much weird 70s LSD induced pseudo-religious space gods fuckery around adam warlock I'm not that surprised nobody really knows how to approach it.
...but then one of the upcoming actual being released movies is Eternals, sooooo.... :idont
They teased Adam Warlock in a post-credits scene at the end of the second GoTG movie, but nothing since.James Gunn has said he's planned to be part of the third movie.
I'm reading Ultimate Marvel for the first time (other than some of Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates once some time back) and The Ultimates 3/Ultimatum is amazing. Jeph Loeb is a master storyteller. How did nobody stop this? You really have to see it, reading reviews doesn't quite grasp it. "DO YOU THINK THIS A STANDS FOR FRANCE?" is so seemingly small in comparison to The House of Ideas™ that Loeb sets up and drops into just ten issues. And then Bendis just writes around it like nothing happened and as if no key characters were killed.
Actually, the worst part is what is seemingly Bendis' insistence that the entire Ultimate Marvel storyline across all the books takes place during a single year with like a six month time skip for Ultimatum.
That said, the idea of Ultimate Marvel even as it fell into backwards is an interesting one, but it should be like an ongoing thing. Say, every 15 years, with a definitive ending. Then you wait a few years and restart the line again set in the present day. I'd like something like DC's Earth One to have an ongoing anthology type series, like Earth 2 was, rather than just graphic novels on no set timeline of how often they come out. And like The Ultimates and the many Ultimate [mini-series] served as. Anything would just be nice to have one of these universes actually age and develop people again, so like Reed Richards doesn't have to constantly be updated into what war he supposedly was in, just set it and forget it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb91-j861DI), then end the whole thing after 10-20 years and reboot. Just don't do it to your main universe, keep stretching those out until they collapse. Otherwise you have people like me snarking on how Batman went through five Robins in five years because you stupidly thought "oh yeah everybody is set to five years 'old' now but we won't toss out any of the canon for... Batman... and Green Lantern and..."
One thing Marvel could do that DC couldn't (because they already did it) is jump back and set a Marvel Universe that "starts" in the 1980's
One thing Marvel could do that DC couldn't (because they already did it) is jump back and set a Marvel Universe that "starts" in the 1980's
Probably didn't help with the comics sales that when the MCU had a new wave of fans looking to buy more content about Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, you know, like in the movies, Captain America was a black dude, Thor was a woman with cancer and Iron Man was a teenage girl
I stopped reading a whole bunch of stuff around then, not because I have a problem with replacing characters in concept, but because most of those replacement books were just really shitty.
Thats the problem with big sweeping changes - same reason I bounced hard off DC with nu52 too - if you upend the status quo, the new status quo at least has to be more interesting than what it replaced
Basically DC has been unchanged since Crisis except there was a four year blip where briefly the New 52 existed, the only major character who was changed significantly was Wonder Woman
And then... BENDIS
DC only reset once, a decade ago with New 52. Convergence/Rebirth in 2015 was just undoing the New 52's limitations and restoring the entire post-Crisis canon. The status quo since then has been unchanged and what Morrison/Waid/etc. advocated for years and that's that everything is canon if you want it to be. Doomsday Clock, METAL, etc. have just been restoring things that New 52 wiped out, they haven't reset anything.
Basically DC has been unchanged since Crisis except there was a four year blip where briefly the New 52 existed, the only major character who was changed significantly was Wonder Woman (and Wally West who fell through a plot wormhole), and Death Metal was about restoring everything to her (and Wally West) as canon again. The trappings of the New 52 didn't even apply to some characters who aged up through it like Barbara Gordon.
The only reason Crisis still matters is because they really did rewrite almost everything back in the 80s and you can't go back before it because DC had no hard canon before it like Marvel did, but most everything has been written into the post-Crisis canon, even the pre-Crisis stories "happened" just not necessarily the way they were portrayed before Crisis. Unless you specifically are looking for that kind of DC... whimsy... that pre-Crisis stories contain you can always start at Crisis. Or you can start at New 52.
Actually. Or you can start at Rebirth. The idea was that if you had fell out with the New 52, you could just ignore it. The Rebirth stories were supposed to let you come back like nothing happened. Aside from having to wrangle Superman back into a single canon or things like the promoting Harley Quinn to AAA-lister most of the New 52 was ignorable if you wanted it to be. The exception to this is Batman Family and Green Lantern Family. Because they were never rebooted, they continued through Flashpoint into New 52 into Rebirth basically unchanged except for stuff like how Tim Drake was ALWAYS Red Robin now (except for when he wasn't) or whatever. This actually could be considered tradition because Batman went through Crisis unchanged too, his stories continued right from where they left off before the Universe disappeared. Green Lantern similarly was "most unchanged" by Crisis because like Batman he had already been "rebooted" during the 70's.
Great Moments in Comic Dialogue Part LXVII:
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Great Moments in Comic Dialogue Part LXVII:
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I'm partial to Part LXVIII:Why does he have so many ears?
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Quoth Timothy Drake. :lol
Is this Claremont?Yes, in the intro essay to the Masterworks he admits that his early Uncanny X-Men issues are "significantly overwritten" with the hindsight of 20 years.
When I think of his writing, I think of the word "caper" being used way too much. :P
Most of those animated movies are better than the live-action ones. :doge
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-year-of-boom-studios-books
Are any of these good? I've never heard of Boom comics or any of these comics but I've enjoyed a lot of random stuff from the Image comics bundles.
There's an old issue of (I assume) Fantastic Four I saw a few years ago where PASTE POT PETE attacks Sue Storm and shoots glue all over her sticking her to the floor and it looks like well, you know...
There's an old issue of (I assume) Fantastic Four I saw a few years ago where PASTE POT PETE attacks Sue Storm and shoots glue all over her sticking her to the floor and it looks like well, you know...
There's an old issue of (I assume) Fantastic Four I saw a few years ago where PASTE POT PETE attacks Sue Storm and shoots glue all over her sticking her to the floor and it looks like well, you know...
I love how in continuity paste pot pete is such a shit name that even after he rebrands as the Trapster everyone still calls him paste pot pete :lol
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Seems like the kind of thing people are just going to pretend never happened a few years down the line, like Dick Grayson getting raped or Hal Jordans statutory rapist affair with Arisia.
We get a lot of questions about this one, both on our message board and via email. "Hal Jordan is a pedophile" is our own little meme, like "Superman is a dick" or "It sucks being Sue Storm!" Of course, just like those, ours has a real basis in the comics.
It started with the character of Arisia, a 13-year-old GL with some serious daddy issues. She developed a crush on Hal, and in Green Lantern #205 and 206, she used her ring to physically mature her body so Hal would like her back. That link has a better analysis of the situation than we could manage, so go enjoy. Anyway, the story ends with Hal dry-humping this girl in a cave about an hour after he notices the change. Big hero.
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left, Arisia in her first appearance; right, Hal grinding on her
Several writers kept this relationship alive, which means that Hal knew Arisia was actually still a child, but carried on a serial relationship with her anyway. It's recently been retconned that "13" on her home planet is equivalent to our "240," but that sure as hell wasn't the case when the character (and the concept) was introduced.
A more recent example comes from The Brave and the Bold #2, where Hal is flying in space with the new Supergirl:
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I don't care how hot the girl is, normal people don't need to remind themselves when someone is underage. Especially not with such... fervor. I mean, come on, the guy works side by side with Black Canary - where's the comic that spends pages and pages on him reminding himself that she's married to Green Arrow?
Although, in Hal's defense, Supergirl did eventually end up dressing like this (http://www.oafe.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/GLpedo3.jpg) for him, so... wait, I forget how that was supposed to be mitigating. He was still forced to remind himself that she was underage. Let's face it: Hal Jordan is a pedophile.
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spoiler (click to show/hide)Council of Reeds, like "Council of Ricks"?
That's really lame. I mean, sure, it's a natural fit. But the only lower-hanging fruit than that is Rick Sanchez' scrotum.[close]
:mindblown.gif
Thanks for the correction! Seriously!
They just did it again with Mephisto and introduced "The council of reds." :P
They just did it again with Mephisto and introduced "The council of reds." :P
I liked the idea of Mephisto + a few other characters (like Mojo) being multiversal constants (theres only the one version of them you deal with from any dimension) so I don't like that idea in principle, along with the fact that Mephisto by his nature isn't going to work well as a team :(
There's a new LGBTQ superhero on the block, but DC Comics readers already know him well.
The latest issue of Batman: Urban Legends, a monthly anthology series, revealed that the Caped Crusader's longtime sidekick Robin, specifically the Tim Drake version of him, is bisexual.
Okay, don’t freak out. Don’t freak out. All right, fine, you can freak out, but please freak respectfully. As of August 10th, 2021, your headcanon is real: Tim Drake dates boys.
And now DC Comics has sold out of the comic in question, decided that there may be more demand, and has sent Batman: Urban Legends #6 to a second printing. No cover revealed yet, but odds are it will have Tim Drake and Bernard Dowd on the cover…
The comic’s writer, Meghan Fitzman, told Polygon that they’re deliberately not putting a label on the character’s feelings as of yet. “I wanted to pay tribute to the fact that sexuality is a journey,” Fitzmartin said. “To be clear, his feelings for Stephanie have been/are 100 percent real, as are his feelings for Bernard. However, Tim is still figuring himself out. I don’t think he has the language for it all… yet.”
I was excited when they announced that work had been done on Fell and they were going to finish it off, but then the publisher remembered that warren ellis is #cancelled and now so is fell
I was excited when they announced that work had been done on Fell and they were going to finish it off, but then the publisher remembered that warren ellis is #cancelled and now so is fell
The ball is also on Ellis given how horrible has mismanaged the whole ordeal has become. I don’t think being a pervert creep merits cancellation, but I expected more that “I’m going to wait a year to all this blow over. Oh shit, they remember. I’m going to apologize again”. I think that group of women are full of shit when they are saying that “they just want to heal and to him to improve” but is cringe his solution was “wait a year and pretend it didn’t happen”.
I finished reading Matt Fraction/David Aja's Hawkeye run. It was alright. Kind not as good as people hype it up to be.
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Now the only Fraction-led stuff I've read are this and Sex Criminals, so I'm basing this off a very limited amount of his work. But Sex Criminals was fun and quirky for a few volumes and then it got kind of dumb and pointless and going nowhere and I bailed around vol.4-5 or something.
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990-95) - The original team! Has basically nothing to do with the movie versions. Although sorta similar characters did show up in Vol. 2. The most similar character is Yondu. Who is similar in both this and the movies in that he's blue.
But this was fun. At one point it gets really 90s including horrible inhuman looking art. But I liked its world building of a Marvel universe a thousand years in the future. It was apparently inspired by and came about because of the success of Star Trek: TNG. Ends with a bunch of dangling threads because it was cancelled rather abruptly. The backstory for this team goes back to 1969 and is spread over some random ass books like The Defenders and stuff like Marvel Two-In-One and it seems like you're missing a lot if you haven't read those but ultimately I don't think it matters it's just kind of this backstory you didn't actually read. I had read some of it coming across other Marvel stuff, like The Defenders, and I felt like I was missing something, but not really, it's just the way it was written to include all this stuff as some kind of canon to the team when it was obscure stories from decades earlier.
Also literally nothing about any of the time travel in the series makes any sense. The part where they ventured outside the multiverse (!!!) and deal with a cosmic paradox makes more sense than any of the time travel. Overall I liked it, though some of it was really dumb and also like I did not see what the writer saw in one of the eventual main characters on the series but he totally seemed to love this stupid character when I was sorta hoping he'd go away like others. (Nope, he stays with the team for the remaining 40 issues being awful the entire time!)
The furry cat guy? :lolYes, Talon. He was awful but it was fine. But then they made him worse by turning him first into Dr. Strange BUT MORE POWERFUL, then revealing he's the "last" Inhuman and then making him push to become the leader of the group. (Even though for most of the series the group never had a leader but operated by consensus.)
I just remember it drawing back to so many 20th century things that it was ridiculous- Sure, they could only go with what they had to work with at the time, but even the writers had to realize how dumb it was for so much of the 31st century 'culture' they were creating to be drawing from one point in the 1980s/1990s, lol.Oh, yes, this. Time froze for a thousand years around 1989 apparently. Most of this problem was because they kept going back to Earth. Earth was the least interesting place in the galaxy, but they kept going back to it. It was cool to go the first time, just to find out what it was like, but after that they practically lived there for 20 issues or so before going back out to the galaxy before then coming BACK to Earth for another long period.
I remember there being a spin-off book that didn't last too long- The Galactic Guardians or some shit? With an aged Wonder Man (Hollywood!), Ghost Rider, Phoenix, and some other characters.Yeah, just four issues, and all the ongoing plots came from and then continued on in the regular book. I actually liked the idea of them setting up multiple teams. It would have been cool to bounce back and forth among the teams and you could easily explain it away as the other teams having down and travel time to get to the next adventure worth popping in on.
After like THREE OR FOUR YEARS of getting through all the Marvel comics between Civil War (2006) and Secret Invasion (2008) I finally finished the list:
https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/marvel-comics-from-civil-war-to-secret-invasion/
And started on Secret Invasion. Been a while since I read a big event. It's pretty exciting although I'm finding it weird because reading Marvel from like the 1990s to 2008, Skrulls were always a joke and then Secret Invasion starts and they are like terrorist attacking the whole world and shit is super violent and dark.
It kind of just seems like a re-tread of Civil War though? Like "you can't trust each other" so the superheroes fight each other. Like...that was Civil War just one event back!
I'm very curious how Disney will adapt this with Sam Jackson as a light disney+ comedy series since uhhhhh, the comic event is very much not that!
After like THREE OR FOUR YEARS of getting through all the Marvel comics between Civil War (2006) and Secret Invasion (2008) I finally finished the list:
https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/marvel-comics-from-civil-war-to-secret-invasion/
And started on Secret Invasion. Been a while since I read a big event. It's pretty exciting although I'm finding it weird because reading Marvel from like the 1990s to 2008, Skrulls were always a joke and then Secret Invasion starts and they are like terrorist attacking the whole world and shit is super violent and dark.
It kind of just seems like a re-tread of Civil War though? Like "you can't trust each other" so the superheroes fight each other. Like...that was Civil War just one event back!
I'm very curious how Disney will adapt this with Sam Jackson as a light disney+ comedy series since uhhhhh, the comic event is very much not that!
Paper Girls isn't really that good I don't think.
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What's Rat Queens about? The art turns me off and I had an ex into it to the point of annoyance so I never gave it a shot out of bitterness.
If you guessed DC was planning the bigger Pride Month celebration and not the publisher whose parent company recently failed to speak out against an awful anti-LGBTQIA+ bill in Florida, congrats.
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DC Pride: Tim Drake Special
This will collect the recent, fan-favorite stories published in Batman: Urban Legends series, in which the third Boy Wonder embraced his bisexuality and began a romance with his longtime friend Bernard Dowd. Although it’s only a one-shot comic, it’s 64 pages long, and will also include a new story which “sees Tim teaming up with his former Young Justice teammates and the Batgirls!” It’s coming June 14.
Read Gaiman's Eternals run. Was surprising how close a lot of the movie stuff was. Definitely a lot was changed but the movie is basically an adaptation of this run. Prefer the movie plot/characters tbh, only thing I liked better in the comic is the deviants.I liked Gaiman's turn on Miracle Man, after Moore's work. I'd like to re-read those all.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/supermassive-heavy-metal-books
Thoughts on this line up?
I've been buying a heap of these DRM-free bundles of late starting with Rebellion's one, one of the few way's now.
Did Ted Kord getting a bullet in the fucking head get retconned? :dogeTed came back during the New 52.
Yeah, I have always been baffled by American Gods' success, as it felt like Gaiman just wanted to re-write Season of Mists but without Morpheus.
Yeah, I have always been baffled by American Gods' success, as it felt like Gaiman just wanted to re-write Season of Mists but without Morpheus.
Can't say I'm always huge on the art style in the comic though. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's just really ugly. Very 80s style. Not my thing.
Spawn Origins Collection Vols. 1-20
Astro City (1995-1996) Vol. 1: Life in the Big City: New Edition
Battle Chasers Anthology (2019)
Savage Dragon Issues 1-102
Cyber Force Vol. 1: The Tin Men of War
Shadowhawk Chronicles Vol. 1
The Darkness Issues 1-41
Witchblade Issues 1-61
The Savage Dragon: Baptism of Fire
Spawn #124-#216
The Darkness #40-#100
Savage Dragon #103-#178
Witchblade #62-#153
The Mice Templar Vol. 3: A Midwinter Night's Dream
Berserker vol 1
Brit Vol. 1: Old Soldier
Jack Staff #1-#20
Long Hot Summer
Strange Girl Omnibus
The Darkness/Pitt
The Mice Templar Vol. 2: Destiny Part 1
The Mice Templar Vol. 2: Destiny Part 2
Invincible Vol. 1: Family Matters
Kane Vols. 1-6
Phonogram Vol. 1: Rue Britannia
Ant Vol. 1: Reality Bites
Bastard Samurai Vol. 1
Battle Hymn: Farewell to the First Golden Age
Capes Vol. 1
Fear Agent: Final Edition Vol. 2
Magdalena vol 1
Rising Stars: Compendium
The Mice Templar Vol. 1: Prophecy
The Last Christmas
Fear Agent: Final Edition Vol. 1
Midnight Nation
Ministry of Space
The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Read some shits:
Jessica Jones (Alias - The Pulse - Jessica Jones): I liked this but I'm still not sure Bendis has ever heard actual human beings talk to each other, his internal monologues are fine but his dialogue often feels like his concept of what people talking to each other must sound like based on his reading of Buffy spec scripts. When aliens invade they're going to ask us to justify our existence with a single task, writing a dialogue, and they're going to pick Bendis to do this and we'll be wiped out. The last series contains an absolutely hilarious extended sequence where Sue Storm explains the wonderfulness that is having children and it may be the worst thing ever put in a Marvel comic book, no, not even Jeph Loeb could have conceived of something so horrific.
I don't keep up with DC at all anymore- they are doing another Crisis and adding even more multiverse shit...AGAIN?!No, this is just the continuing fallout from when they made everything canon a few years ago, now they're bringing back stuff that got previously shunted out of the canon with the first Crisis.
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I also think it's really funny (although I think this is from New Avengers rather than from Alias) that Jessica Jones and Peter Parker both went to the same high school, and Jessica Jones was an even bigger loser than Peter Parker was, and had a massive crush on him and he didn't even know she existedThis was in one of the issues I read, forget which. I also discovered that it's the source for the meme image of the girl masturbating, Jessica was masturbating to a picture of Johnny Storm. :lol
""""""""""Final"""""""""" CrisisIt's the last one I recognize. :hmph
:crowdlaff even at the time
Its kind of surprising how much mileage The Midnighters gotten out of essentially being a Batman expy way back in Stormwatch.
Dunno if it was just my preference for DC, but Marvel had like the worst style in the 00s. Ultimate was cool tho.
Then the New 52 hit and lordy, that took the crown for some of the worst art I've seen in a major ongoing.
Btw Tim Drake: Robin #1 kicks things off with an... atypical art style. Feels like I'm reading a French comic almost.
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It was a shock at first but I'm getting used to it. My big complaint is Tim Doesn't look like Tim, especially with some slicked-down buzz cut.
The writers finally realized fans liked the idea of Tim being queer, when will they also realize a big part of that was his beautiful flowing locks?? Dick has his booty, Tim has his hair, and that's law in fan circles.
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But now I'm just fanboying over Marcus To's art again...
Is Terry Moore stuff any good? Never heard of him.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/black-friday-encore-ultimate-terry-moore-collection-abstract-studios-books
Tim has been living on a boat—he's got his own place. We've not seen a marina in Gotham, but it makes sense that there would be a marina because it's surrounded by water.
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It was really fun when I was talking to my editor about coming up with this marina space. It's fun to explore a different part of Gotham with Tim and making this space his own.
Which version of Tim’s backstory are we using? The New 52 established that his parents were alive in the witness protection program, but it seems like we’re going back to him being an orphan. What’s the status of Tim’s parents?
They're not alive. We have enough history with the parents. They are no longer with us, and he is adopted by Bruce. That is the timeline at present.
We’re not doing the drama of “you left our date to fight crime” or other stuff we see from teenage heroes?
Exactly! We're not doing that. I think Bernard is a very understanding person who is like, "This is fine, whatever, I trust you, I love you, whatever this is, I'm fine with it." I think Tim is more like, "WHAT?! What does that mean? Does he hate me?" And Bernard is like, "At no point did I say any of those words."
You mentioned new enemies. What kind of enemies are we talking about?
Tim Drake at his core is a detective. Every detective needs a Moriarty. I think that's sort of what we're going for right now.
What are the dynamics of sharing the Robin name with Damian?
Damian is living his best life. Well, it's not his best life. He's living his life right now and it is a disaster in a different way than Tim's is a disaster. I think that's part of the question that Tim is currently facing—he's the Robin who's held the title for the longest, so what does that mean for him? What are the next steps for him? Are there next steps for him? Should he stay or should he go, like the way that the song goes?
It is a question I think that he is having to face with himself. And that's part of the identity search that I think he's going through. Now that I have realized these pieces of who I am, how do I move forward? What do I do now? I think that is the core of this particular run of Tim Drake. I have some ideas on where I want to take it, but ultimately, I'm very feelings-led and I'm very Tim-led. And so, part of that is just feeling out what Tim wants and how he's going to get there.
Tim WOULD live on a boat.
I know, it's actually kind of perfect. This is sort of pulled from life because sometimes I live on a boat.
Going through his appearances during the Bill Willingham Robin run, I was surprised to see all the hints to Bernard’s sexuality…
Like I said, there's so much that you can go back to and go, "Oh, okay, that's why."
…like in Robin #122 Bernard threatens to sneak into Tim’s room at night to bound and gag him.
He was in a pain cult...so I mean...
Continuity!
How does Bernard fit into this new present, and what kind of relationship will he and Tim have?
I mean, every hero needs a damsel and Bernard is a perfect damsel. I definitely want to have Bernard around. I think it's important for him to be around.
During the DC Pride: Tim Drake Special #1 there is a moment where Tim and Conner Kent are holding hands. So, the question is, are you trying to electrocute Twitter?
(laughs) I mean, who doesn't love setting a fire under Twitter? That's definitely something that I've heard about and am aware of and it will be more of a discussion point in later issues of certain comic brands that are happening right now.
Pay at least $1 for these 3 itemsIn the case of Saga this is all the pre-hiatus volumes, there is only one more collecting it since it came back this year. But some of these bundles (not necessarily Image ones) have in the past only included like half of the collected volumes even when they're quite old. (And never put the rest in another, later, bundle even.) I don't want to look up all this shit or buy it for other stuff, like one of the throwins after reading and find out it's not all of it.
Copra Round 1
Shirtless Bear-Fighter!
Super Dinosaur Vol. 1
Pay at least $15 for these 18 items
AD: After Death
Alex + Ada Vols. 1-3
Happy!: Collected Edition
I Hate Fairyland Vols. 1-4
Injection Vols. 1-3
Isola Vols. 1-2
Killadelphia Vols.1-2
Luther Strode Vols. 1-3
Man-Eaters Vol. 1
Moonstruck Vols. 1-3
Motor Crush Vols. 1-2
Revival Vols. 1-8
Sex Vols.1-6
The Autumnlands Vols. 1-2
Zero Vols.1-4
Pay at least $25 for these 28 items
Saga Vols. 1-9
Curse Words Vols. 1-5
Ice Cream Man Vols. 1-5
Nailbiter Vols. 1-8
Sex Criminals Vols. 1-6
SPAWN 202-326
WITCHBLADE 154-185
SAVAGE DRAGON 179-262
Sea of Stars Vol. 1: Lost In The Wild Heavens
Also really dislike Savage Dragon and Spawn being distributed by issue in these Image bundles.So there will be like 100 individual issues to download for Spawn? Last I knew you couldn't batch download only certain parts of these. :lol
Also really dislike Savage Dragon and Spawn being distributed by issue in these Image bundles.So there will be like 100 individual issues to download for Spawn? Last I knew you couldn't batch download only certain parts of these. :lol
Just announced at Entertainment Weekly, two of the comic book industry’s most innovative and exciting creators are teaming up to reshape the Marvel Universe as you know it! This June, join writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Bryan Hitch in ULTIMATE INVASION, a revolutionary four-issue saga that presents a surprising new chapter for Ultimate Comics and bold new strides for Marvel’s iconic heroes.
Launched over twenty years ago, the Ultimate Universe provided a contemporary take on classic Marvel characters and storylines. Known for its edginess and explosive action, the Ultimate Universe was home to some of Marvel’s most talked about and thought-provoking series of the 21st century. The Ultimate Universe reached its cataclysmic end in 2015’s SECRET WARS, but nothing stays buried in Marvel Comics for long. Is it time for the Ultimate Universe to make its grand return? The Maker seems to think so, and the Illuminati must form once again to stop him from his plans to destroy—or perhaps rebuild—the universe, with Miles Morales at the center of it all!
"Lousy fans" ruined the latest shocking Spider-Man story, Dan Slott said.Consumers should not warn others to avoid bad purchases?
This was the shocking event Marvel's editors and PR machine couldn't stop shouting was going to make readers hate the creators on the book.
twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1658525080119279626
"Lousy fans" ruined the latest shocking Spider-Man story, Dan Slott said.Consumers should not warn others to avoid bad purchases?
This was the shocking event Marvel's editors and PR machine couldn't stop shouting was going to make readers hate the creators on the book.
twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1658525080119279626
Holy crap, Hawkgirl #1 is utter crap. it starts out fine and then all of a sudden there's weird blue haired bimbo and then there's a lesbian and then it ends with blue hair girl being lesbians with some chick. And of course Hawkgirl sees her olld college roommate and she's a tattooed up divorcee that's now a lesbian who claims she might not actually be a woman with a political protest wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt in the next panel. Good Lord, endless gay leftist agenda stuff in these books. Communists ruin art. I won't be getting anymore Hawkgirl. Taking this book back to the comic shop and getting something else.Should have looked up the author before buying, it was never going to be anything else breh:
KAPLAN: One aspect of the experience of being a trans woman or a trans girl that I haven’t seen touched on very often (in the few examples of media that feature us) is hypervisibility. Was it important to include this aspect of the trans woman experience in Galaxy: the Prettiest Star?
AXELROD: I transitioned in my 30s, so I was not a trans teenager. I did a lot of research into trans teenagers’ personal narratives, watched a lot of YouTube videos of people talking about their experiences. One thing that came up again and again, is that hypervisibility of shifting from being someone no one noticed, perhaps even because you try to keep from being noticed because you’re uncomfortable in your skin, to being someone that everyone can see and everyone can look at and point at and that that’s extremely difficult.
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AXELROD: Yes, it’s been really incredible. One thing that was really important to me writing it was that it be unapologetically queer and unapologetically trans and to not have any qualifiers with that. To not present being trans as negative, but also not to present being trans as neutral. To not show it as something that it’s just like being cis because it’s not.
I wanted to show being trans is beautiful. I wanted to show being queer is beautiful and how queer love is transformative. We don’t get to see trans being beautiful. We see beautiful trans people.
We don’t see media so often, even if we have beautiful trans actors playing these roles, being trans is something that is never shown as something that is glorious and I really wanted to do that. That, I think more than anything, is what people are responding to. We were so starved for that, not just representation, but celebration.
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AXELROD: Yes. That was the impetus in a very real way because as I said I didn’t transition until my 30s, and part of that was I’ve read old journals of myself when I was a teenager. There was definitely gender questions in there, but the representation of trans people in media was not something that resonated with me because it was all done by cis people. We were always a joke or something tragic or a big narrative trope – which is less now, which is great, but certainly then – was this idea that a trans woman is a failed man.
I had too much success at being a boy to be a girl. Part of that was I was working so hard to be a boy. The struggle was real. I really wanted to create an antidote to that and to help out the eggs who might be reading it and say, “you don’t have to fit in a specific box in order to feel this way.” These are just feelings and again, that’s where the sci-fi metaphor really, I think shines.
Jadzia Axelrod (also known as Jared Axelrod) is an author, an illustrator, and a world changer. Through out her eventful life she has also been a circus performer, a puppeteer, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that she’s lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it. But that “writer” business, that seems to be one she keeps coming back to.
She is not domestic, she is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
Holy crap, Hawkgirl #1 is utter crap. it starts out fine and then all of a sudden there's weird blue haired bimbo and then there's a lesbian and then it ends with blue hair girl being lesbians with some chick. And of course Hawkgirl sees her olld college roommate and she's a tattooed up divorcee that's now a lesbian who claims she might not actually be a woman with a political protest wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt in the next panel. Good Lord, endless gay leftist agenda stuff in these books. Communists ruin art. I won't be getting anymore Hawkgirl. Taking this book back to the comic shop and getting something else.Should have looked up the author before buying, it was never going to be anything else breh:
https://twitter.com/planetx/status/1685070568251355137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLGcsWpRMiQQuote from: https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-jadzia-axelrod-jess-taylor-on-galaxy-the-prettiest-star/KAPLAN: One aspect of the experience of being a trans woman or a trans girl that I haven’t seen touched on very often (in the few examples of media that feature us) is hypervisibility. Was it important to include this aspect of the trans woman experience in Galaxy: the Prettiest Star?
AXELROD: I transitioned in my 30s, so I was not a trans teenager. I did a lot of research into trans teenagers’ personal narratives, watched a lot of YouTube videos of people talking about their experiences. One thing that came up again and again, is that hypervisibility of shifting from being someone no one noticed, perhaps even because you try to keep from being noticed because you’re uncomfortable in your skin, to being someone that everyone can see and everyone can look at and point at and that that’s extremely difficult.
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AXELROD: Yes, it’s been really incredible. One thing that was really important to me writing it was that it be unapologetically queer and unapologetically trans and to not have any qualifiers with that. To not present being trans as negative, but also not to present being trans as neutral. To not show it as something that it’s just like being cis because it’s not.
I wanted to show being trans is beautiful. I wanted to show being queer is beautiful and how queer love is transformative. We don’t get to see trans being beautiful. We see beautiful trans people.
We don’t see media so often, even if we have beautiful trans actors playing these roles, being trans is something that is never shown as something that is glorious and I really wanted to do that. That, I think more than anything, is what people are responding to. We were so starved for that, not just representation, but celebration.
...
AXELROD: Yes. That was the impetus in a very real way because as I said I didn’t transition until my 30s, and part of that was I’ve read old journals of myself when I was a teenager. There was definitely gender questions in there, but the representation of trans people in media was not something that resonated with me because it was all done by cis people. We were always a joke or something tragic or a big narrative trope – which is less now, which is great, but certainly then – was this idea that a trans woman is a failed man.
I had too much success at being a boy to be a girl. Part of that was I was working so hard to be a boy. The struggle was real. I really wanted to create an antidote to that and to help out the eggs who might be reading it and say, “you don’t have to fit in a specific box in order to feel this way.” These are just feelings and again, that’s where the sci-fi metaphor really, I think shines.https://www.jaredaxelrod.com/(https://www.jaredaxelrod.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Website8-768x768.jpg)QuoteJadzia Axelrod (also known as Jared Axelrod) is an author, an illustrator, and a world changer. Through out her eventful life she has also been a circus performer, a puppeteer, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that she’s lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it. But that “writer” business, that seems to be one she keeps coming back to.
She is not domestic, she is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.[close]
Marvel just seemingly killed off nearly all the mutants (again).
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Marvel just seemingly killed off nearly all the mutants (again).
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They're just gonna shunt them all off to their own alternate universe where the only supes are mutants as the finale to the krakatoa stuff, aren't they?
Which conveniently also sidesteps the issue of how come no mutants in the MCU
Tefe was originally introduced as the daughter of Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing Vol 2 #90 in 1989.This is hilarious, they don't mention at all that she became the titular Swamp Thing later on. Tefe's only relationship ever in the comics was with a woman. And making her non-binary is a complete rejection of the only story she ever had, why would Pamela work with someone choosing to murder all plant life for humans if this is Tefe's choice now? :lol
Ortiz is best known for their role as Jim, the fan-favorite non-binary pirate in Our Flag Means Death, so it's no surprise Tefe is non-binary in Harley Quinn. While Tefe uses she/her pronouns in the comics, the character is confirmed to be bisexual.
Let's not forget Harlequin is gay now despite decades of relationships with men from Joker to Dick Grayson.
Let's not forget Harlequin is gay now despite decades of relationships with men from Joker to Dick Grayson.
OK, so she's bi. None of this really matters. It's just a way for them to get attention and drum up sales. Whether or not this is actually doing any of that, I have no idea. I also don't give a shit about 'muh romance' in superhero comics no matter what the characters' sexual orientations are- the wedding issue with Cyclops and Jean Grey was just as boring as the wedding issue with Northstar and his boyfriend.