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I'm gonna be nice and not pre-judge a modern Dan Jurgens comic cause I want Bat-Mite to be okay. The great recent Multiversity Guidebook has a section on a Kamandi featured Kirby Earth. Batman's in it too. Tiny android Chibi Batman. e: Two Batmans, actually. The other's a spaceman cowboy Batman. 
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Cuchulain posted:I dropped pretty much every DC book like a rock several years ago and those Superman: Domestic Violence edition teaser images had me deciding to steer clear of DC for this dumb reboot too but uh Going by this interview, it seems Kamandi will only be shown as one possible future for the DCU.
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All I know is I'm buying the trade of it once it's collected. I loving love Kamandi. He was the inspiration for the greatest CoH character I ever played, his comics were some of the first ones my dad gave to me as a kid, I mean look at this thing it's the apex of comics. This map is actually in that teaser page. I'm actually going to buy a comic book as it comes out for the first time since high school. Cuchulain fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 07:49
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'm gonna be nice and not pre-judge a modern Dan Jurgens comic cause I want Bat-Mite to be okay. The great recent Multiversity Guidebook has a section on a Kamandi featured Kirby Earth. Batman's in it too. Tiny android Chibi Batman. I have never ever liked Dan Jurgens and he basically single-handedly kept me from reading Superman for years.
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Cuchulain posted:I dropped pretty much every DC book like a rock several years ago and those Superman: Domestic Violence edition teaser images had me deciding to steer clear of DC for this dumb reboot too but uh Yo for real, anyone making this decision based on the fact that Superman looks grumpy and buzzed his hair, please loving reconsider. Greg Pak is writing what is probably the best Superman run since Up, Up, and Away and has been writing Clark with a huge heart and unshakable humanity. Not only that but Gene Luen-Yang is a man known for a string of critically acclaimed and sensitive takes on cultural identity and racial stereotypes. Neither of them are going to write Superman as some fratboy douche who goes around beating up gays outside of bars.
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Cuchulain posted:Is that a loving Batman Beyond x KAMANDI: THE LAST BOY ON EARTH book? Because I'm vigorously mashing fistfuls of dollars into my keyboard.
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lotus circle posted:I wouldn't be too optimistic, because there's a good chance that the Batman Beyond of the book is going to be Tim Drake instead of Terry McGinnis. Someone at the offices had the brilliant idea of introducing a fan favorite character into mainstream continuity for the first time ever...and then killing him off and having a different character take on his name. This is a joke right?
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:This is a joke right? So far it's sound like it might be true.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:29
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Tim Drake would be awesome as Batman Beyond if they didn't already introduce Terry. Because Terry is the best Batcharacter, period, and replacing him like that just sucks so much.
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To be fair, Future's End whole point was to retcon Terry's future so is still possible that he's resurrected after Convergence. I don't understand how the gently caress was he killed though, one panel he's fine and the next Jokerborg is claiming victory. 
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Mar 24, 2015 06:21
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I don't understand how the gently caress was he killed though, one panel he's fine and the next Jokerborg is claiming victory. Jokerborg was one of the most ridiculous things in that series and that's the same book that had robo spider legs Superman and Black Canary's head stitched into Frankenstein's chest in like, the first issue.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:27
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Road to Convergence sale https://www.comixology.com/Road-to-Convergence-Sale/page/5884?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL2xhcmdlQ2Fyb3VzZWw Futures End, Earth 2: World's End, CoIE, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis (no Superman Beyond, of course) and Flashpoint. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:
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*enters thread scratching arms, twitching* Look man, I know Futures End was no good for me, but uh, what about World's End? I need a hit, man, don't take this from me... For what it's worth, to anyone like me who couldn't sort out Final Crisis to save their lives back when it was released, Multiversity has done a great job of tuning me to Morrison's combination of silver age concepts colliding in a postmodern narrative, and FC reads much more clearly to me today (years of mainlining superhero comics helped, as well). Zero Hour is the only older event in the sale I haven't read, how is it? And please, I trust the Daily Planet way more than that Bugle rag. It's like they're reporting news from a completely different city! (Give me Perry White hating on DC's weeklies. That will break the cycle. Yeah, man... just one more hit...)
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Space Fish posted:Look man, I know Futures End was no good for me, but uh, what about World's End? I need a hit, man, don't take this from me... Have you been reading Earth 2 to the point where it started? It's pretty much more E2 in the Tom Taylor apocalyptic variety. On the whole I've liked it better than FE. It doesn't have the highs of the Frankenstein/Amethyst/Atom sections, but there's nothing as awful as the Grifter/Fifty Sue stuff. I really like some of the characters like their pacifist Superman, techno god Jimmy Olsen and Bat-dad. They seem to be the main characters of Convergence, so if you're going in for that main series you might as well. It's cheap! (Unless you also gotta go buy a bunch of Earth 2 monthly to get there.) e: The E2 monthly's mostly turned into pretty crap filler during the weekly, so you don't have to worry about those. Space Fish posted:Zero Hour I tried when I was getting into DC, catching up on Criseses, and remember it being incomprehensible as a stand-alone story. Seemed to exist only to shift status quo and continuity of the time (e: Much like any Crisis, I guess, but I sure got the least enjoyment out of it.) Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Convergence prediction: Watchmen is totally going to be involved somehow and it's going to be the worst thing ever. e: I stopped reading World's End after about issue 8 or so. I don't really agree that it continues in the vein of Tom Taylor, because he used his abilities of "pacing" and "good dialogue" to make the whole thing not-bad. Without him...well, it's something of a slog. I think I gave up after the third or fourth "Earth-2 Superman is back!" fakeout, which for me just kind of highlighted how stale the whole thing had become. vegetables fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Road to Convergence sale Don't know how I never realized there were 52 tie-ins to Flashpoint...
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So, I've been slowly reading my way through the New 52 since I got access to essentially unlimited comics via a friends shop (and the internet when that fails me), and with at least a years worth still ahead of me I stumbled across the news of them killing it off just now. As someone new to the beginnings and ends of comic series', does this mean they're retconning it all again or are the new/continuing series taking place in the same universes as the New 52? Are they going to be all under this Convergence/Divergence "brand" like all of the New 52 had that plastered on the top of every comic? I ask because I find it hard to keep track of what's come out and so forth. That said, if anyone knows of a site that lists comics as they're enwly released I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Verranicus posted:So, I've been slowly reading my way through the New 52 since I got access to essentially unlimited comics via a friends shop (and the internet when that fails me), and with at least a years worth still ahead of me I stumbled across the news of them killing it off just now. As someone new to the beginnings and ends of comic series', does this mean they're retconning it all again or are the new/continuing series taking place in the same universes as the New 52? It's the same New 52 continuity (Maybe with exceptions. I'm not sure there'll be a teen girl president in any other book than 'Prez') but it's half the line being cancelled at once and replaced with new books and big status quo shifts for much the returning stuff. Basically, they wanna do what Batgirl did in #35 across the line and freshen the place up. The New 52 brand is gone. 'Convergence' will be plastered on books related to the two-month Convergence event. 'Divergence' will be the title of the preview comic they're putting out for free comic book day. No idea if that'll be badge going forward like "the New 52!" was. For following releases, companies will release 'solicits' every month giving descriptions, cedits and cover art for comics about four months ahead of time. They get put out across various comic news sites, but are usually collected here, in the general Marvel thread, etc. The major North American comic distributor, Diamond has a list of everything they put out for the week http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/952 That gets reposted at the start of the week in this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3617711&pagenumber=1 with people listing what they're buying. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's the same New 52 continuity (Maybe with exceptions. I'm not sure there'll be a teen girl president in any other book than 'Prez') but it's half the line being cancelled at once and replace with new books and big status quo shifts for much the returning stuff. Thanks for this. That previewsworld site, every comic listed on that page is being released tomorrow? And they do it on a week by week basis? So I won't have to worry about scattered releases throughout a week?
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Verranicus posted:Thanks for this. That previewsworld site, every comic listed on that page is being released tomorrow? And they do it on a week by week basis? So I won't have to worry about scattered releases throughout a week? Yup. Digitally, on https://www.comixology.com DC releases about 6 hours earlier than everyone else, though. No idea why. e: Aphrodite posted:DC also has a few digital comics that release throughout the week. Oh yeah. https://www.comixology.com/DC-Comics-Digital-Firsts/list/429 This stuff. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 04:33
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DC also has a few digital comics that release throughout the week.
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I gave in to the call of Zero Hour, which is a huge reset button of an event with the minimum amount of character/motivation needed to keep a story propped up. At least it had Waverider and the Linear Men, a set of characters I met as a kid via World Without A Superman and always wanted to see again but secretly didn't in case their main series/appearances sucked. Anyway, a few interesting pages caught my eye, specifically as cues for what would happen in comics to follow, like Starman, Futures End/Convergence, and multiversal concepts in general...    DC needs more rainbows in its cosmic events, colored rings notwithstanding.
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The cascading versions of characters and events they're using in their ads was also used in Infinite Crisis. Knowing what's on the horizon, I don't think I've ever been this excited for a stupid mega event.
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Zero Hour was kind of a crisis crisis that brought a bunch of dangling threads together, like Monarch being not-monarch due to time trickery! It was one of my few TPBs as a kid and I mostly liked it thanks to Waverider and watching time fall apart and also evil Green Lantern. 0 Hour was such a limp, wet thpppppbbbppht that the most exciting thing about it was the last 10 pages (where Hal demakes the universe and gets shot by Ollie and then everyone relives the universe' birth) and the 'altered' timeline at the end with a bunch a DC errata. Well, that and the JSA getting punked like the old farts that they are. Heart attacks for everyone! Things that happen during it that mean something maybe I guess? LEGIONAIRRES become REBELS! Power Girl is power pregnant (and gives power birth). Batman ripped apart by TimeGoatse , gets to chill with Joe Chill. The Flash from the future dies running straight into a time anomaly. Hawkman supermerges into POSSIBLY A GOD (no relevance to the ZH plot at all). Guy Gardner gets red Bloodlines armor and a gun grows out of his arm and now he's Guy Gardner WARRIOR because he's actually a half Vuldarian supersoldier. Some teen (Blaster or Boomer or MAX DAMAGE is hyped to hypesville, turns out to be a plot macguffin then no one cares about him ever again). Stuff that actually mattered: Half Jordan, as Parallax, dies while trying to reboot the multiverse.
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Cuchulain posted:I dropped pretty much every DC book like a rock several years ago and those Superman: Domestic Violence edition teaser images had me deciding to steer clear of DC for this dumb reboot too but uh This is the definition of "judging a book by its cover". Superman books have been fantastic lately.
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How long is Sensation Comics/WW supposed to go on for?
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There is nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover.
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redbackground posted:How long is Sensation Comics/WW supposed to go on for?
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Solid week this time. Sinestro keeps being amazing, Secret Origins was worth the price for utterly fantastic telling of Constantine's story, Red Lanterns had a fitting end (am I wrong or they implied that Guy became a Blue Lantern at the end?), Worlds End was entertaining. Future's End was good and it really show that they should've culled plots from it and focus more on the Batman Beyond plot. JLD was acceptable even if the end felt forced same as Aquaman. Batman & Robin was FANTASTIC, my favorite issue of the week in fact. The only stinkers were Eternal and Flash. Now I'm ready for Convergence.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Red Lanterns had a fitting end (am I wrong or they implied that Guy became a Blue Lantern at the end?), It was clearly leading into Charles Soule's Futures End issue, which itself is a solid goodbye to Soule's run on the character. VV E:I think he did about as good as you could do in a 3 issue run where all the loose ends had already been tied up. He made it a small personal story with just Guy and no other Reds and foreshadowed a bunch of stuff that would show up in Soule's FE issue since that issue had already done the conclusion to Guy's arc. AFoolAndHisMoney fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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I feel bad that Landry Walker got 3 issues to do something, but it was perfectly serviceable, nothing great, but what can you do with 3 issues.
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I haven't read the new RL yet, but I thought these closing issues have been horrible.
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As publicity for Convergence DC put one quiz about "which universe would you live?" Is pretty cute.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:As publicity for Convergence DC put one quiz about "which universe would you live?" "An almost comically large sword-gun-thing". Heh, I like this.
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Edit: Never mind, just realised who I was trying to convince.
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FilthyImp posted:Things that happen during it that mean something maybe I guess? LEGIONAIRRES become REBELS! quote:Power Girl is power pregnant (and gives power birth) quote:Half Jordan, as Parallax, dies while trying to reboot the multiverse.
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Edge & Christian posted:L.E.G.I.O.N. (the 20th century team run by Vril Dox) become REBELS, the Legion of the 30th century gets rebooted by Mark Waid (the first time) LEGIONNAIRES was basically young clone versions of the LEGION, right? Or something? quote:Was this covered by Zero Hour? I thought it was part of Gerard Jones's post-Giffen/DeMatteis run on Justice League __________. quote:He doesn't die, and is back the following month for Zero Month. He doesn't 'die' until Final Night a few years later. As a young teen with no disposable income, who couldn't follow storylines of the era, it looked like they had offed Parallax there. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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FilthyImp posted:Ok, I see the LEGION reboot being important. I love the Legion but trying to figure out all the different versions is a gateway to madness.
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FilthyImp posted:Ok, I see the LEGION reboot being important. Pre-ZH, the LEGIONNAIRES book featured the Legionnaires or SW6 Batch team, who may or may not have been the clones, while LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES featured the adult team. Post-ZH there was a full reboot from start for the 30th century and, while both books continued, it was the same (young, just starting) Legion and the story moved from book to book, so you would read LSH #whatever and then the next part was in Legionnaires #whatever, then LSH #whatever+1, etc etc. It was annoying as hell and eventually they added extra numbers on the cover so readers could keep track more easily.
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