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Teenage Fansub posted:Every month I buy How the hell are you still at 24 DC books? Are you including Vertigo?
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Soonmot posted:How the hell are you still at 24 DC books? Are you including Vertigo? Nope. The Wake and Truillium are the two Verts. Action Comics All-Star Western Animal Man Batman Batman & Robin Batwoman Constantine Earth 2 Forever Evil Green Arrow Green Lantern Green Lantern New Guardians Harley Quinn Justice League Justice League 3k JLD JLA Pandora Phantom Stranger Red Lanterns Supergirl Superman Wonder Woman Swamp Thing Wonder Woman I think Constantine and Pandora are the only legit bad comics which I'll probably drop after the Dark crossover. Forever Evil is bad on it's own but I'm enjoying JL side stories, so it's really just for keeping up. JLA is bland, but Lemire's about to take it, so it wouldn't stay dropped. I think everything else is very decent. SORRY!! e: Oh yeah. 'Green Lantern' is really dull, but I enjoy the new status quo from Jordan and Soule's book, so that's sort of just tagging along too. Rhyno posted:God drat do you read some bad comics. SORRY!! Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Jan 26, 2014 06:33
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God drat do you read some bad comics.
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Jan 26, 2014 06:41
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Teenage Fansub posted:Nope. The Wake and Truillium are the two Verts. As much as everyone here thinks DC is the worstest thing ever and can only suck, there are some choice titles there (like Wonder Woman, Batman and Swamp Thing). That being said, the DC titles I am reading is Batman, Animal Man (soon to be cancelled), Suicide Squad (soon to be cancelled), Harley Quinn (I know I am a terrible person, Rhyno), Talon (though I might drop this soon if it isn't cancelled soon as well), Aquaman. I have been following Swamp Thing and Wonder Woman via trade, though due to DC's trade policy that means I read one trade per year of those. I do Trillium and Wake from Vertigo. edit: I also picked up JL 3000 on Comixology thanks to some recomendation from these forums and I loved it.
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Jan 26, 2014 06:49
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Madkal posted:As much as everyone here thinks DC is the worstest thing ever and can only suck, there are some choice titles there (like Wonder Woman, Batman and Swamp Thing). It's certainly not all bad, don't get me wrong. There are good books. I've just always been on the fringes of DC readership and Nu52 (along with the bizarre behavior to follow) was enough to erode what investment I did have in the line. Dial H was my last holdout, and that at least lasted longer than I expected, which was a pleasant surprise.
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Jan 26, 2014 08:29
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Madkal posted:My DC intake has declined due to cancellations. My Marvel intake is about to decline due to runs ending too (looking at you Daredevil). My image intake has increased though thanks to comixology. DD isn't getting cancelled really. It's just going digital only for a month before getting a new number one because marketing reasons. Teenage Fansub posted:I think Constantine and Pandora are the only legit bad comics which I'll probably drop after the Dark crossover. Even in the face of whining posters. Never compromise.
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Jan 26, 2014 11:36
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Who's starring in Green Lantern right now? Baz?
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Jan 26, 2014 11:47
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Dan Didio posted:Who's starring in Green Lantern right now? Baz? Good ol' Hal. I really liked when the comic was focusing on Baz and I hope he gets a place now that JLA is over and he ain't gonna be in Lemire's team. All of the new GL writers have been ignoring him. It stinks. He's got a gun and a squirrel buddy. Who doesn't want to write that comic?
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Jan 26, 2014 12:24
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I actually end up buying a ton of Boom comics. All the Adventure Time and Regular Show stuff plus Stephen Universe when that starts coming out. Mostly just because they're all being done by artists I like! I think my only DC comics at this point are Wonder Woman and Animal Man (and some vertigo stuff like Sandman and Brother Lono but those are just limited series) because of cancellations and whatever. My only marvel book may be Wolverine and the X-Men for reasons I don't really understand at this point. It's cool when I'm enjoying a comic and then for two months it's just a bunch of crossover stuff with books I don't read and have no interest in reading.
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Jan 26, 2014 15:21
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Wizard, always on top of who is the hottest around.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:38
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It's weird how every big DC fan I know hates the company, their current books and their business practices. My wife has been reading Wonder Woman since she was a kid. She has a complete run from George Perez up to now. She never had the slightest interest in the Superman/Wonder Woman book and she's even growing bored with the main relatively good book. I was on a panel discussion about DC at a local scifi convention last year. I had a stack of index cards three inches tall with every gaffe they've made since the New 52 dropped so that I could poo poo talk then. The other panelists claimed to be apologists. They ended up poo poo talking DC worse than I did. I don't know how they can be making any money. I suppose they're intent on flooding the market with poo poo so they can keep their head above the water. I can't imagine it's sustainable, but that's probably for the best. What they should be doing is something more along the lines of what Valiant is doing; a small group of heavily curated books that only delve into natural crossovers. If a book isn't working get a new creative team.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:38
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:It's weird how every big DC fan I know hates the company, their current books and their business practices. My wife has been reading Wonder Woman since she was a kid. She has a complete run from George Perez up to now. She never had the slightest interest in the Superman/Wonder Woman book and she's even growing bored with the main relatively good book. This is interesting, because for me, Wonder Woman is the only thing DC is publishing that I care about at all.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:54
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Just because you don't care about what DC is putting out does not mean that it isn't still selling. Batman still outsells just about everything else as far as I know.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:59
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:
there are a lot of really stupid comics nerds, man like it's cool that this panel of yours happened, but while that was going on I guarantee you that some guy, somewhere, walked into his LCBS, started raving to the owner about how epic Blackest Night was, and bought a hundred dollars worth of Geoff Johns Justice League trades. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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Jan 26, 2014 23:56
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Senor Candle posted:Just because you don't care about what DC is putting out does not mean that it isn't still selling. Batman still outsells just about everything else as far as I know. Remember, BSS is not representative of fandom. As a whole, people love a lot of the books, artists and writers we despise while not paying any attention to the books we love.
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Jan 27, 2014 00:07
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"People on the internet" is a tiny sampling of actual comic fandom, "people on SA" is a smaller sampling of that, and "comic fans who are on SA and are bothered by DC and say something about it" is barely perceptible.
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Jan 27, 2014 00:11
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Waterhaul posted:Wizard, always on top of who is the hottest around. Jesus,
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Jan 27, 2014 00:46
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I like how everyone else looks like the most 90's of nerds and there's Ostrander who looks like a college professor's About The Author picture.
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Jan 27, 2014 01:28
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Waterhaul posted:Wizard, always on top of who is the hottest around. So many porn-staches.
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Jan 27, 2014 02:21
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Adam Hughes is leering at me. 
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Jan 27, 2014 04:55
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Adam Hughes is leering at me. And Jeff Smith is offering you some candy
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Jan 27, 2014 05:46
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Having Frank Miller in there twice makes me think I'm looking at a memory matching game.
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Jan 27, 2014 05:49
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Looks like that awfulyearbook.jpg pic that gets posted as a reminder that goons are creepy, especially to goon girls.
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Jan 27, 2014 05:51
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Vincent posted:And Jeff Smith is offering you some candy While Fabian Nicieza is negging you pretty hard.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:04
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John Byrne looks like he's about to cry.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:10
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GorfZaplen posted:John Byrne looks like he's about to cry. Because he knows his career is over.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:12
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Waterhaul posted:Wizard, always on top of who is the hottest around. What the happened to Lobdell in what, ten years?  Is amusing to see how Capullo used to look given than he could snap me like a twig nowadays  I'm late to the buy chat but I buy few books these days: Larfleeze Batman Lil' Gotham Scribblenauts Unmasked Nightwing Red Hood x3 I'm buying all the local printed books though: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, JLA, Injustice, Flash, Batman/Superman and TMNT.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:24
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I'm late to the buy chat but I buy few books these days: You paid cash for that? Yikes.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:29
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It looks like Gaiman's pic was taking for some kind of band promo. Meanwhile most of these pics should be heartwarming to comic geeks. Look comic geeks, we are just like you.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:29
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Rhyno posted:You paid cash for that? Yikes. The artwork is cute and filled with easter eggs and the story while kind of shallow is just dumb fun 
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Jan 27, 2014 06:33
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If there's one thing we don't need in our modern comics, it's fun.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:50
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Mimir posted:If there's one thing we don't need in our modern comics, it's fun. Tiny Titans was cancelled due to lack of limb trauma.
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Jan 27, 2014 08:42
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:What the happened to Lobdell in what, ten years? More like 20+ years.
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Jan 27, 2014 09:45
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Waterhaul posted:Wizard, always on top of who is the hottest around. I'm assuming that by "hottest" they mean "biggest sellers" in this case, right? This is from, what, 1994? 1995? It mentions Sovereign Seven, which was Claremont's first DC work. Was that a big deal when it happened, Claremont going to work for DC?
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Jan 27, 2014 12:56
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It was his first regular series gig since X-Men, so yeah.
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Jan 27, 2014 13:18
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It's actually kind of weird seeing Claremont and Byrne listed in the top writers of the mid-1990s. They did their best work in the 1980s so that's the decade I've always associated them with. Then again, guys like Brian Michael Bendis and Geoff Johns are still indisputably top tier and they've been in comics for about fifteen years.
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Jan 27, 2014 13:46
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Metal Loaf posted:It's actually kind of weird seeing Claremont and Byrne listed in the top writers of the mid-1990s. They did their best work in the 1980s so that's the decade I've always associated them with. It seems like artists/creative types are generally recognized as great after having completed their greatest works, doesn't it? Once they're done, you can look back and say "drat, that guy's awesome", even if his actual skill has declined since the peak of his abilities. 
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Jan 27, 2014 13:48
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prefect posted:It seems like artists/creative types are generally recognized as great after having completed their greatest works, doesn't it? Once they're done, you can look back and say "drat, that guy's awesome", even if his actual skill has declined since the peak of his abilities. I think part of it is is the "Superstar syndrome" where writers seem to facefault as soon as they become big names. Maybe it's that editors stop reigning in their worst successes, maybe it's that they're put on (or get the swagger to choose) big-name projects they aren't suited for, maybe they buy into their own hype, or maybe the assistant editors start poisoning their coffee with hallucinogens. Whatever the case, very few writers seem to make to the top and come out intact. I picked up Goldfish during a holiday sale, and it helped reminded me of why Bendis was a big deal once. It's really groundbreaking and thoughtfully done, and... well... when was the last time he did something you'd call "groundbreaking?" Ultimate Spider-Man, maybe? It's just kind of a bummer to think of all the promise a writer showed early on and look at their output now, all too often.
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Jan 27, 2014 14:29
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You can also see how they considered more important. Notice how the artists are listed first, not the writers.
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bobkatt013 posted:You can also see how they considered more important. Notice how the artists are listed first, not the writers. Well, let's just be honest, art is probably slightly more important. Yes, it shouldn't be that way, but we all know of books that have terrible writing but good art and survive on that alone, whereas there's not as many that do the opposite.
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