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I lost interest in Buffy season 9 about halfway through, but Season 10 looks pretty cool. Can I get a quick summary of what happens at the end of Season 9 so I can fully know what's going on in Season 10?
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I hope this is a cool place to ask about tracking down a comic whose title I can't recall. Basically, it was a one-shot graphic novel about a guy (a writer?) who somehow travels back to his childhood make-believe world and some manner of war has broken out there. All these goofy animal people are in rebellion of some evil tyrant that's appeared and is trying to take over the guy's personal, imaginary Narnia with a lot of violence and bloodshed. In the end, it turns out the tyrant was actually an evil twin of his? A twin he absorbed in utero? It all was kind of demented and the book belonged to my boss at the time, so I read it once and have since lost any memory of what the title or author was and no amount of googling turns out anything. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 02:24 |
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Sounds a lot like Joe the Barbarian, except that's about a kid who's hallucinating. And I never finished the story, but that ending sounds a bit much for it (though the author did do that twin part in New X-Men). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Barbarian Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 25, 2014 |
# ? Mar 25, 2014 02:48 |
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It also sounds like an arc of Sandman (with the Cuckoo) and Stephen King's The Dark Half, but not quite for both.
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 02:55 |
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With a lot of Return to Oz mixed in.
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 04:42 |
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Yeah, I thought of the Cuckoo at first too, wondering if I was just misremembering the storyline, but I also have very vivid memories of a part where the evil twin is proving he's been inside the guy this whole time by spilling nasty secrets about him, like how getting hugged by his aunt turned him on as a kid or how he slept with a girl in college who might have been a little TOO drunk to be having sex. The whole thing was kind of a hosed up affair that left me a little grossed out, but I want to find it again just to know what it was. I also remember it because I read Rice Boy online as a palate cleaner right afterwards. Maybe I'll ask other coworkers at that job if they read it too (it was a game studio art department, so we had a ton of art books and weird comics floating around for references/inspiration and I guess that was one the boss brought in) so I can make sure it wasn't some fever dream I had at work.
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 06:53 |
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Duke of Flies posted:I hope this is a cool place to ask about tracking down a comic whose title I can't recall. Pretty sure this is 'Kingdom of the Wicked', my old comic store owner was nuts for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Wicked Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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HOLY poo poo THAT'S IT! You found it! Jesus, thank you so much. I was increasingly worried I imagined the whole thing. You are the best, goons are the best.
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 23:22 |
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Can anyone tell me if Geoff Johns's JSA was ever the best-selling overall series during its run?
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 00:25 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Can anyone tell me if Geoff Johns's JSA was ever the best-selling overall series during its run? JSA #1 came out in June 1999 and was #13 on the sales charts with 69,000 copies sold. That was pre-Johns. Johns came on with JSA #5 which was 26th on the charts with 50,000 copies. A year later it had dropped to 38th with ~40,000 copies sold (JSA #17 October 2000) It started picking up ground so that it was 35th with 45,000 copies (JSA #29 October 2001) October 2002: JSA #41 = 31st, 45,000 copies October 2003: JSA #53 = 30th, 43,000 copies October 2004: JSA #66 = 40th, 41,000 copies Septebmer 2005: JSA #77 = 39th, 53,000 copies (last issue of Johns's run) It's impressive that the book maintained that sort of audience (and spiked towards the end, but that was probably because it was tying into Infinite Crisis) but it never came anywhere near #1 best selling book, either overall or just for DC. The closest it probably came was with the relaunch as Justice Society of America #1 in 12/2006, where 103,000 copies was enough to get #6, ahead of every DC book except two issues of Justice League of America. A year later it was still selling around 90,000 copies, by 2008 it was around 70,000 copies, and bottomed out around the lower 60s until Johns's last issue spiked up to 81,000 and got into the Top 10 one more time. This is better than any Justice Society book has done in the past twenty five years, but it was never a #1 selling book.
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 05:16 |
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I ought to have mentioned, I asked because I was checking out the omnibus on Amazon and the product description claims it was number-one when Johns was writing it, and that didn't strike me as being particularly likely.
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 09:31 |
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Metal Loaf posted:I ought to have mentioned, I asked because I was checking out the omnibus on Amazon and the product description claims it was number-one when Johns was writing it, and that didn't strike me as being particularly likely.
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Metal Loaf posted:I ought to have mentioned, I asked because I was checking out the omnibus on Amazon and the product description claims it was number-one when Johns was writing it, and that didn't strike me as being particularly likely. Amazon posted:Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. Johns is the author of The New York Times bestselling graphic novels Aquaman: The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War, Justice League: Origin, Superman: Brainiac and Batman: Earth One which hit #1 on the bestseller list. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. They do have it up for presale for 53% off, which is a good deal. It is a really good run.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 02:15 |
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I made a mistake; it's the page for volume two on the UK site.amazon.co.uk posted:Known for his groundbreaking work on Green Lantern, over a decade ago Geoff Johns brought Justice Society of America characters rooted in the Golden Age of comics back to the forefront of comics. Mixing younger, edgier characters with the elder statesmen of superheroes, Johns brought the JSA back to the forefront of the comics in what became the industry's best-selling comic series. Collected here is the second and concluding volume on Johns' now-legendary run on the original JSA. Looks like they're leaving out the Hawkman crossovers, and probably a bunch of other stuff as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they amended the contents closer to the release date like they did with the first one. I've actually pre-ordered vol. 1 from SpeedyHen, because it's only £48 there while it's £95 on Amazon.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 02:37 |
Volume 2 is up for pre sale before 1 is even released? Strange. I see what you mean about "bestselling" though.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 03:54 |
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How was Johns' JSA run? Is that omnibus going to be a good read?
Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:How was his Johns' JSA run? Is that omnibus going to be a good read? Overall it's pretty good. It suffers from some crap art here and there but for the most part it's enjoyable. The reboot into Justice Society of America is pretty poo poo from the first issue though.
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Rhyno posted:Overall it's pretty good. It suffers from some crap art here and there but for the most part it's enjoyable. The reboot into Justice Society of America is pretty poo poo from the first issue though. You gotta love family massacres. I a trying to think has Bendis ever done a mass slaughter on a John's scale? bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:How was his Johns' JSA run? Is that omnibus going to be a good read? Relatively good superhero books. If you ever found anything by Johns enjoyable then you'll probably like reading it.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 06:27 |
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bobkatt013 posted:You gotta love family massacres. I a trying to think has Bendis ever done a mass slaughter on a John's scale? I don't think so.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 06:37 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:How was Johns' JSA run? Is that omnibus going to be a good read? I like it a lot and I'd recommend the omnibus. It was the first DC comic I was really into. James Robinson wrote the first half dozen or so issues and I understand there's a lot of Starman influence in the series which is retained after he leaves (I've not read much Starman, but that's the comparison I often hear). One thing I've never been quite as sure about is the extent of the contribution David S. Goyer makes. Even when he's credited as co-writer it seems like an all Johns show. bobkatt013 posted:You gotta love family massacres. I a trying to think has Bendis ever done a mass slaughter on a John's scale? I guess there was Alpha Flight, but that happened off-panel. To be honest, I'm not really sure why Johns has such a predilection for violence for a guy who's so enamoured of the Silver Age. It seems lke something he only started doing... after Goyer left! I've answered my own question!
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 10:15 |
Metal Loaf posted:I like it a lot and I'd recommend the omnibus. It was the first DC comic I was really into. You should read Starman.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 14:46 |
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sleepingbuddha posted:You should read Starman. I've seen Starman mentioned as one of the best comics ever a million times. Which run is that? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Thanks, I'll finally check it out. Unmature fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Unmature posted:I've seen Starman mentioned as one of the best comics ever a million times. Which run is that?
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 15:33 |
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sleepingbuddha posted:You should read Starman. Oh, I've certainly been meaning to, but it looks like you can only get the first half of the omniboo in paperbacks and the second half in hardcover, and I'd prefer to read them all in the same format. I'm hoping DC will re-collect it in some form at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later (though I guess there's probably not much demand if they only did the first two in paperback). It is kind of odd how it always shows on lists of the best superhero comics of all time, but with the exception of The Golden Age, the rest of James Robinson's stuff seems to provoke mixed reactions at best.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 15:59 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Oh, I've certainly been meaning to, but it looks like you can only get the first half of the omniboo in paperbacks and the second half in hardcover, and I'd prefer to read them all in the same format. I'm hoping DC will re-collect it in some form at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later (though I guess there's probably not much demand if they only did the first two in paperback). Catch-22 is a classic novel, but Joseph Heller's other books never had even a sliver of that popularity.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 17:31 |
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I believe the popular story is that Heller was challenged by someone who said he'd never written anything as good as Catch-22, and his response was, "Who has?"
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 17:37 |
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Okay, so a friend of mine recently discovered a Blue Lantern whose internet nickname is 'Hope Corgi' (and like Dex-Starr, might be an actual earth dog selected by a Blue Lantern ring). But I know that in the most recent Green Lantern event Lights Out, the Blue Lantern Corps was wiped out to a man. Can anyone confirm the death or survival of Hope Corgi?
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 03:17 |
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Looking at this http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hope-corgi, it not having any actual panels and not remembering a dog Lantern at all, I'm guessing the internet made it up. e: Why didn't they name it Dog Walker? Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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Hope Corgi is not a real thing. It should be a real thing. (pulled this off tumblr)
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 03:48 |
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I think it says a lot about the current state of comics that I took a made up joke at complete face value without a second thought.
Cornwind Evil fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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No, superhero comics should be completely ridiculous so I don't see an issue with that.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 13:42 |
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Cornwind Evil posted:I think it says a lot about the current state of comics that I took a make up joke at complete face value without a second thought. Marvel has introduced two awesome dogs into their comics in the last couple of years, and due to that you should have assumed that DC would not do the same.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 13:44 |
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bobkatt013 posted:Marvel has introduced two awesome dogs into their comics in the last couple of years, and due to that you should have assumed that DC would not do the same. Pizza Dog would totally be a green lantern. Motherfucker has will to spare.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 15:03 |
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We've still never gotten Dex-Starr vs Krypto. EDIT: Wow. This hope corgi thing has a lot of fan art, and it's all pretty adorable. Throw him on the All New Legion of Super Pets with Krypto and Batcow, and we have ourselves a hit. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Mar 28, 2014 |
# ? Mar 28, 2014 23:10 |
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Is Ultimate Peter coming back or is it just some anniversary issue he's appearing in soon? I keep seeing pictures of him pop up places that look new, but I'm usually too busy to or forget to investigate.
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# ? Mar 29, 2014 08:18 |
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USM 200 is going to have a tribute to his life or something. There's apparently a SHOCKING ENDING, but if Peter is getting resurrected it's not apparent from what we know about the Ultimate relaunch. They're going to do a Spider-Men sequel if you'd like to see Miles interact with a Peter Parker.
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# ? Mar 29, 2014 08:53 |
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It's also going to introduce a mysterious Scarlet Spider. I doubt it'll be Peter though, possibly a clone but probably someone else entirely
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# ? Mar 29, 2014 12:53 |
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I hope Peter never comes back. He's on of my favorite characters in comics history, but I've never seen anything like it in comics. They killed the flagship character of an imprint and let a black kid take over. That's amazing. Also Miles is the best. I love that kid.
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# ? Mar 29, 2014 16:53 |
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The solicits for the new ongoing make it sound like Norman is coming back again.
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