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horsepeen posted:I wonder if Grant Morrison would ever write for Doctor Who. Aside from the Dalek-like Metaleks and the Multitude Angels, the whole finale was pretty timey-wimey. He did. http://www.comicvine.com/grant-morrisons-doctor-who/49-23422/
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I'm going to out myself as a dumb retard baby here but I have no idea what happened in Action Comics this month, nor indeed many of the months prior. Just none of it made any sense to me at all.
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Mar 20, 2013 17:58
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Aaaaand, Diggle's just tweeted he's off Action already. He says it was for professional reasons which reads to me like editorial interference.
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Mar 20, 2013 18:16
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Shameless posted:Aaaaand, Diggle's just tweeted he's off Action already. He says it was for professional reasons which reads to me like editorial interference. redbackground fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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Mar 20, 2013 18:20
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redbackground posted:Amazing. And TD is writing now, too? DC needs a talent influx, stat.
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Mar 20, 2013 18:43
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Shameless posted:Aaaaand, Diggle's just tweeted he's off Action already. He says it was for professional reasons which reads to me like editorial interference. Or it could be a contract from Marvel, however this is DC so its most likely editorial interference
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Mar 20, 2013 18:43
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Shameless posted:Aaaaand, Diggle's just tweeted he's off Action already. He says it was for professional reasons which reads to me like editorial interference. I guess someone at DC got around to reading Shadowland.
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Mar 20, 2013 18:44
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If Daniel is really taking over then I wonder when this decision was made because I'm pretty sure he's been talking up how he wants focus on his art for a while.
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Mar 20, 2013 18:47
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Oh man, we're really entering a Superman dark age here.
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Mar 20, 2013 19:04
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Oh man, we're really entering a Superman dark age here. The Snyder book should be good.
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Mar 20, 2013 20:58
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:I'm going to out myself as a dumb retard baby here but I have no idea what happened in Action Comics this month, nor indeed many of the months prior. Just none of it made any sense to me at all. I was very fine hanging on to the loopdy loop until right this moment. All the 5D craziness has been rocking my poo poo the last few issues, the crazy angels being revealed as a manifestation of an other dimension harpoon attack and all that, but this is gonna require a clearer head than I have right now. Yowza.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:03
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Yannick_B posted:The Snyder book should be good. If he is not taken off it before the first issue.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:05
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Space_Butler posted:Wait, Tony Daniel is gonna be writing too? loving Christ, no. No, no no. Dropped. I was gonna give Diggle a shot but I KNOW Daniel is a poo poo writer. I'll pick it back up if/when they change creatives again. Yeah, I was going to at least give Diggle an issue or two, but if that's all he's doing, it hardly seems worth it.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I was very fine hanging on to the loopdy loop until right this moment. All the 5D craziness has been rocking my poo poo the last few issues, the crazy angels being revealed as a manifestation of an other dimension harpoon attack and all that, but this is gonna require a clearer head than I have right now. Yowza. Nevertheless, that was a great last page. And Fisch's backup was pretty awesome, and fitting, as well.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:57
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Read the latest issue of Action Comics at a diner, and wrote my name backwards on my cellphone. Loved all the silver age callbacks. It's sad we won't see any more of Morrison's Superman besides whatever will be in Multiversity.
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Action Comics: So I think I got the symbolism of the ant, and I enjoyed the implication that Superman's greatest potential weakness is that he's owned by DC. But what was the symbolism of the lion besieged by arrows? Also it was interesting that Superman gave up more time with his parents to save the lives of the Martian colonists from a few issues ago. A perfect little moment of pure heroism mixed with meta winking at past continuity. These final issues really made me appreciate Morrison's run. It was uneven at times, especially the art and pacing, but there was a freshness and drive behind the whole thing that will be hard to top. I hope the end of his long Batman run is just as strong.
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bobkatt013 posted:If he is not taken off it before the first issue. He is one of their star writers, on a book with the co-publisher. Its pretty unlikely.
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Yannick_B posted:The Snyder book should be good. Not if you don't care for Jim Lee's art anymore.
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Mar 20, 2013 23:32
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Or Snyder's overuse of textboxes and overly decompressed storytelling.
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On that note, I laughed out loud at Threshold #3's recap/news/whatever page having an ad for decompression specialists.
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I swear to God, did Rags Morales just google "old Scottish dude" and dress Morrison up like him for no reason? That hat! Those glasses!
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Yannick_B posted:The Snyder book should be good. It'll start with an eleven issue arc (plus crossovers) about who was really behind the destruction of Krypton.
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Rhyno posted:Not if you don't care for Jim Lee's art anymore. I do, so its GREAT NEWS for me!
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I liked the drawing of Rags writing on his hand, because it looks like it's actually done from the perspective of the person drawing the book. Like, the artist himself is reaching into it. I phrased that badly, but maybe you get what I mean.
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Shapiro posted:I liked the drawing of Rags writing on his hand, because it looks like it's actually done from the perspective of the person drawing the book. Like, the artist himself is reaching into it. I totally get what you mean, and it's really cool.
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Is one of the heads of the Vyndktvx hydra Pa Kent? Who are all those heads? Just different dimensional aspects of Vyndktvx?
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:I'm going to out myself as a dumb retard baby here but I have no idea what happened in Action Comics this month, nor indeed many of the months prior. Just none of it made any sense to me at all. I got about... half of it? And really enjoyed those parts. Maybe I'll go over the other parts with a fine tooth comb later and go "Oooooohhhh" as everything clicks together for me, or maybe I'll just accept that I enjoyed the pretty pictures and move on. Basically what I'm saying here is it's okay man, you're not the only dumb baby out there.
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I got $7 that Superman Unchained starts with "My Father told me"
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^burtle posted:I got $7 that Superman Unchained starts with "My Father told me" I hate you so much. Now there's no way that poo poo doesn't happen.
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Rhyno posted:I hate you so much. Now there's no way that poo poo doesn't happen.
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That was like 4 bets ago, stud.
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^burtle posted:That was like 4 bets ago, stud. I bet a customer that Marvel wasn't stupid enough to cast a wrestler in a major role and the loser had to drink a bottle of tobasco sauce. loving Batista.
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Despite the symbolism and allegory, I thought the message in Action Comics was pretty clear-cut! Superman is a perfect trick - an individual designed never to lose. The trick has been challenged, is being challenged and will be challenged (and, in the case of Action, the challenge comes from spite and, well, vindictiveness at the audacity of such a trick existing), but the challenge was futile from the get-go because victory is hard-coded into Superman. It's classic Morrison, and I'm glad that he kept his unique touch for the story.
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CBR has a preview up for Action Comics #19 and... it's not terrible? Daniel's art is definitely on the more tolerable side here compared to his 'Tec run, and Diggle is doing a decent job of getting people's voices right. Certainly a lot more than Lobdell is.
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Space_Butler posted:CBR has a preview up for Action Comics #19 and... it's not terrible? Daniel's art is definitely on the more tolerable side here compared to his 'Tec run, and Diggle is doing a decent job of getting people's voices right. Certainly a lot more than Lobdell is. It hurts knowing this will only last for a few issues
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goldenoreos posted:It hurts knowing this will only last for a few issues One issue.
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He might do okay working under the arc's outline. You can do it Tony!
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The Action stuff that has been going on lately has been really confusing, but it's about fourth dimensional midgets so, I guess that's a given. I like that the bad guy is all like "Mr. Mxyzptlk is actually just an idiot. I'm not saying poo poo backwards." Someone linked me to some costume redesign thing today about making superman look more "alien", and all I could think of was that I've seen an issue where some alien villain of the moment tries to convince superman that he actually does look like an alien and he's really just fooling everyone. I've been googling in vain all day and I can't remember what issue that was, can anyone else remember that or did I just hallucinate it?
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Wow, Action 19 was exceptionally good. It's been a while since I've read a good "Luthor as a mad scientist" story. I'm glad that between a pre-burned Luthor and a single Lois, we're getting some crucial backstory filled in that has been otherwise lost in the vanilla Superman book by taking place in modern day. It's not as mindbending as what Morrison did, but it's a solid Superman story nonetheless. Even the art was stellar, I don't think I've ever seen Daniel do as good of work as he's doing here. The superb coloring certainly helped out, at least. I'm now pretty damned mad that DC drove Diggle off, because if this is what we could've expected from his run, we'll have missed out on some fantastic stuff.
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