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The first few pages of Unwritten Apocalypse 12 are up for preview on Comics Alliance. Get hype, son. http://comicsalliance.com/tom-taylor-takes-his-final-bows-in-the-unwritten-apocalypse-12-preview/
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Jan 28, 2015 08:05
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Taking brutal advantage of time zones, I just finished it. It ended very much as I expected, as Mike's stuff often does. I think I'm pretty much his ideal reader, though.
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Jan 28, 2015 16:02
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Jedit posted:Taking brutal advantage of time zones, I just finished it. It ended very much as I expected, as Mike's stuff often does. I think I'm pretty much his ideal reader, though. That was loving perfect.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:52
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I don't know if anyone else has been reading those CMYK books they've been putting out, but it pisses me off so much that they put an ad on the back of them. They would have looked so much better with just a solid color.
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Jan 28, 2015 20:15
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krakagar posted:That was loving perfect. Yeah, I'm with you. That was a loving masterpiece.
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Jan 28, 2015 22:46
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Anyone try Effigy today?
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Jan 28, 2015 22:51
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cptn_dr posted:Yeah, I'm with you. That was a loving masterpiece. I might have had tears in my eyes after finishing it. Incredible.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:28
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Picked up the first few TPBs of Fables after finishing The Wolf Among Us since the game's setting seemed quite interesting to me. I liked Legends in Exile, but holy god does the right-wing poo poo pop up fast after that. Goldilocks might as well have been from Oz with how much of a strawman she was. Does the unrest at The Farm get brought up again or was Animal Farm the long and short of it? I hope not, because how that was handled didn't sit well with me at all. Also,  at "The War of Yankee Aggression - which those of low education continue to call the American Civil War."
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Jan 29, 2015 10:00
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I've been binging on Hellblazer recently, just finished Ennis' run. Was there a change in censoring around the time? Only everyone in his run says frig and frigging all the time. It really distracted me as it just highlighted how much he relies on swearing to emphasise things and without it the dialogue didn't ring true at all. Stark contrast to the next arc by Jenkins where people are saying gently caress freely, but not nearly as often. It works a lot better. Leaving aside all the issues with Dillon's samey art, Ennis's run felt a bit...off. Maybe it's because I read Preacher, and I felt like I'd read it all before. Another minor quibble: how come Ennis, an actual Irish man, writes terrible Irish people?
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Feb 16, 2015 22:18
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Nemo07 posted:Picked up the first few TPBs of Fables after finishing The Wolf Among Us since the game's setting seemed quite interesting to me. I liked Legends in Exile, but holy god does the right-wing poo poo pop up fast after that. Goldilocks might as well have been from Oz with how much of a strawman she was. Does the unrest at The Farm get brought up again or was Animal Farm the long and short of it? I hope not, because how that was handled didn't sit well with me at all. Coincidentally I'm going through a friend's TPB of Fables while dog-sitting and it's simply incredible. I think Rachael Maddow nailed it when she described it as a misanthropic right-wing comic. There are some really good ideas here but just steeped in awful scummy characters and odd preachy personalities. Goldilocks is a joke and her wanting to gently caress all the animals and orcs/ogres she sees is really awkward and telling of Bill. When she sees the ogre hobbes and wants to screw him I just shook my head and laughed. If she was a more interesting character and the the farm/monstrous fables were better written there might have been a good story about the hypocrisy between the empire pushing out the fables and the fables doing the same to the non-human ones, but Bill ain't that clever.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:31
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Mowglis Haircut posted:I've been binging on Hellblazer recently, just finished Ennis' run. Was there a change in censoring around the time? Only everyone in his run says frig and frigging all the time. The Irish say "frig" more than "gently caress", that's all.
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Feb 16, 2015 23:37
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I'm pretty excited about Fables ending so I can finally stop buying it. Does anyone remember when Vertigo was the place to go for awesome, mature, thoughtful groundbreaking comics? Now that Unwritten is over, they really haven't got much to offer, although I guess it was obvious that when Berger went it was in its last throes. Thank goodness for Image comics, I guess.
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Feb 18, 2015 12:57
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They're putting out new series at a pretty decent rate recently. I've only been following Bodies and The Kitchen (as well as continuing American Vampire) so can't talk to Effegy, Wolf Moon and all that, but I like those a whole lot. e: Of course Sandman and Astro City aren't brand new ideas, but they're sure not nothing. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 13:42
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krakagar posted:I'm pretty excited about Fables ending so I can finally stop buying it.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:37
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Mowglis Haircut posted:Another minor quibble: how come Ennis, an actual Irish man, writes terrible Irish people? Because he has first hand experience of how terrible Irish people are, of course. Serious answer: he's from Northern Ireland.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:41
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Endless Mike posted:You realize there's a much easier solution to this you could have implemented years ago, right? Shooting Bill Willingham is hardly easy.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:46
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Good interview with Carey and Gross after they finished up The Unwritten: http://comicsalliance.com/mike-carey-peter-gross-unwritten-exitinterview/
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Feb 18, 2015 16:05
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Mowglis Haircut posted:
That's impressive as his Hellblazer run ended in 94, and Preacher started in 95.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:26
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bobkatt013 posted:That's impressive as his Hellblazer run ended in 94, and Preacher started in 95. But he read Preacher first and then felt that Ennis' Hellbalzer run was similar enough that it was nothing new to him? I don't get what your problem is.
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Feb 19, 2015 06:06
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Red Mundus posted:Coincidentally I'm going through a friend's TPB of Fables while dog-sitting and it's simply incredible. I think Rachael Maddow nailed it when she described it as a misanthropic right-wing comic. Aw, well that's unfortunate that it basically stays lovely like that. I was hoping the comic would have been closer to the game, but I guess that's not the case.
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Feb 21, 2015 21:58
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Nemo07 posted:Aw, well that's unfortunate that it basically stays lovely like that. I was hoping the comic would have been closer to the game, but I guess that's not the case. I would actually recommend the two Cinderella limited series that were spun off from Fables. They weren't written by Bill Willingham (actually I just realized they're written by the guy who did iZombie), and they were both fun James Bond parodies. I really enjoyed both of them.
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Feb 21, 2015 23:13
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Chairman Capone posted:I would actually recommend the two Cinderella limited series that were spun off from Fables. They weren't written by Bill Willingham (actually I just realized they're written by the guy who did iZombie), and they were both fun James Bond parodies. I really enjoyed both of them. Jack of Fables was pretty fun up until the Great Fables Crossover I finished that and just kind of stopped paying attention to both it and Fables only catching up to them in trade form from the library. Someday I'll get the rest of Jack and the main series. I think I got to the early 100's before I just stopped caring.
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Feb 22, 2015 01:13
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Fables shits on everything it touches. The crossover with The Unwritten was the absolute nadir of an otherwise great series, and I don't mean Fables.
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Feb 22, 2015 02:15
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Jedit posted:Fables shits on everything it touches. The crossover with The Unwritten was the absolute nadir of an otherwise great series, and I don't mean Fables. It was better than the best Fables, and worse than the worst Unwritten.
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Feb 22, 2015 02:30
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cptn_dr posted:It was better than the best Fables, and worse than the worst Unwritten. I would have read the poo poo out of Fables if the battle with Mr. Dark was going like that.
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Feb 22, 2015 03:37
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krakagar posted:I'm pretty excited about Fables ending so I can finally stop buying it. Every few years people talk about how good Vertigo used to be. I think they still put out great titles, but it seems with every title that reaches an end people will start saying "this is it, Vertigo is going to die now." One thing I think has taken away from Vertigo though is the resurgence of Image. Before, Vertigo used to be the place the place to go for more mature titles away from the superhero fair, but now Image is becoming that place.
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Feb 23, 2015 18:42
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I think DC editorial trying its best to get rid of Vertigo as a line is probably the main reason Vertigo is doing poorly.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:29
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They should just follow the lead of FOX's Lucifer and have every Vertigo comic property become a cop book.
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Feb 24, 2015 06:51
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goldenoreos posted:They should just follow the lead of FOX's Lucifer and have every Vertigo comic property become a cop book. 
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Feb 24, 2015 07:59
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Benny the Snake posted:That had better be a joke Nope. http://io9.com/fox-is-simultaneously-greenlighting-and-ruining-the-luc-1686815107 
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Feb 24, 2015 08:18
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cptn_dr posted:Nope. 1o9 posted:The pilot will be directed by Underworld's Len Wiseman and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, so at least we know the series has the real Satan's blessing. Edit: Hail Satan 
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Feb 24, 2015 08:22
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goldenoreos posted:They should just follow the lead of FOX's Lucifer and have every Vertigo comic property become a cop book. Definitely this. Swamp Thing: Park Ranger, Buddy Baker: Animal Welfare Man, Shade the Undercover Man... poo poo writes itself
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Feb 24, 2015 10:06
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Y: The Last Cop
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Feb 25, 2015 04:34
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Fables: The Wolf Among Us edit: TransMetropolitan Police Department
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Feb 25, 2015 10:25
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cptn_dr posted:Fables: The Wolf Among Us Magical truthsaying Cop Spider. "Don't move, new scum!"
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Feb 25, 2015 20:18
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To be fair, let's be real, Lucifer could never be a television show. I don't want to see battles in the Silver City and the creation of a universe with TV-quality computer animation.
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Feb 25, 2015 20:45
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New Vert editorial stuff coming out of the DC move. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/03/molly-mahan-moves-coasts-for-dynamite-to-dc-comics/  They don't look miserable! Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Apr 3, 2015 22:10
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I finally got around to finishing The Unwritten today. I'm not sure what I expected out of the ending but I enjoyed what I got. Although it left me wanting more the assholes.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:26
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The Kitchen can't actually end, right? I need 5 seasons of it on AMC.
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Len posted:I finally got around to finishing The Unwritten today. I'm not sure what I expected out of the ending but I enjoyed what I got. Although it left me wanting more the assholes. God, it was so good. I'm angry that you've reminded me that it ended I'm currently re reading Lucifer though. It's pretty great guys!
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