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Yeah, that was a really inconsequential issue. Getting real tired of Baphomet's poo poo. Thankfully the art for next issue looks fantastic. So that's what Supreme Blue Rose looked like? I'll have to check it out. The surprise post-letters page was nice, though. Makes me think this could be the actual last we'll see of Inanna.
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Jul 1, 2015 21:25
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Yeah. Not much happening except confirming deaths. 
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So I found out about Spurrier's new book, The Spire, purely because someone in the weekly shipping thread pointed out that they didn't know it was coming out. Grabbed it on the virtues of the cover alone, and I really enjoyed it! Cool art and interesting worldbuilding. It's a scifi/fantasy hybrid murder mystery and I'm real interested to see where it goes. If you didn't realize it was happening either, it's worth checking out!
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Jul 2, 2015 03:44
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Late to the Sejic is off Rat Queen's boat. I really like his art, particularly his facial expressions, which were perfect for Rat Queens. Glad to see that the book won't have a big hiccup, but I wasn't 100% sold on Fowler after the Braga side issue. I'm willing to give her a chance though. I hope Sejic gets some luck with Death Vigil. That book is a fun take on Cthulhu-style horrors.
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The Spire was pretty fantastic, I'm definitely looking forward to more. We Stand on Guard was pretty, but I'm not totally hooked like I expected to be. Skroce's art doesn't communicate movement very well, and I felt like the issue could have used a little bit more time to get going. Hopefully the next issue will be a bit more bigger-picture.
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Jul 2, 2015 23:21
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Brian K. Vaughan is writing a electronic-only issue of The Walking Dead. So I guess The Walking Dead is going to finally get a good issue.
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Jul 2, 2015 23:46
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The cover image for the new Brian Lee O'Malley thing has me thinking he should probably just always draw his own stuff, because that poo poo's gross in a naturalistic style.
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Agreed on We Stand Guard. Could have used a double sized #1 or something. Still, cant wait to get more murder of Americans though. 
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Gaz-L posted:The cover image for the new Brian Lee O'Malley thing has me thinking he should probably just always draw his own stuff, because that poo poo's gross in a naturalistic style. I think that he and Hung want the allergies the main character has to look gross, it would look too cartoony and cute in O'Malley's art style.
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Really excited for 2 (!!!) books by Ron Wimberly announced yesterday  After Aaron and Stewart got the rights to The Other Side from Vertigo (great comic, by the way), I hope he republishes Prince of Cats on Image too.
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Jul 3, 2015 14:37
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I'm personally very excited for Black Magick by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott, and also fairly surprised that the premise isn't actually one for an existing urban fantasy series because it's perfect..
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fatherboxx posted:Really excited for 2 (!!!) books by Ron Wimberly announced yesterday Never heard of the guy but I'm in based on that promo image alone. Edit - Oh wait, he did a couple of issues of the recent She-Hulk run, right? Those were grand.
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I'm really excited to see where We Stand On Guard goes. I don't really dig the token Francophone whom everyone else automatically understands, though. I don't like having to expend the effort to translate what might be informative/important dialogue. I don't like how it's used by Vos in Transformers, or Doop in X-Men, either. It's just a device that bugs me. Make him swear in French (ie every third word is some derivative of Tabernac), make him snarky that nobody else in the group bothered to learn French past grade 7. Those would be better for the average reader not from Quebec, NB, or Ottawa, imo, not to mention provide more opportunities to inject a bit of humour in. I liked the idea of the bilingual American drones with awful French, though. Anyone here a Franco who can tell me just how bad it is? Like Google-Translate-level, I'm assuming. WicDiv and Deadly Class were both sorta filler issues this month. I liked both, though (albeit not keen on the WicDiv art). You gotta slow down a bit after the big holy-gently caress moments while setting up the next ones.
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The untranslated French kind of bugged me, too, but I ended up ignoring it and letting it be part of the ~IMMERSION~ like I did with the Esperanto in Saga.
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Sentinel Red posted:Never heard of the guy but I'm in based on that promo image alone. He also did part of the WATXM issue that was like a eulogy for Wolverine. His bit was siiiiiiiick. Dude has a great style.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Stjepan Sejic is off of the world's unluckiest comic, Rat Queens. gently caress! Well i hope the next artist is also good.
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I finally started to read Sex Criminals, and it is so much better than I ever would have guessed, especially given the title and concept. It's hilariously funny, but so warm and heartfelt and honest about sexuality and relationships. And I love how well Zdarsky's art works with the dual narrators, and all the little gags and details he puts into everything. It's such a creative and clever series, and now I'll definitely have to pick up the second TPB. Is it continuing after these two existing TPBs? I certainly hope it does, assuming it stays this good.
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It's continuing, but it comes out slow. Fraction and Zdarsky both have a lot on their plate.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Is it continuing after these two existing TPBs? I certainly hope it does, assuming it stays this good. It is, but with Zdarsky achieving such popularity (and writing three other books) and Fraction's new television deal, I'm worried the series is going to fall by the wayside.
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I have the eightball complete hardcover series coming in from amazon tmrw and I am too excited. This leads me to a general question, what are some of your favourite alt comics? And who might be local to your city that I might not know about? I live in Toronto and some of the best from here include: Micheal Deforge (Ant Comics), Jesse Jacobs (And You Will Know Him), Kate Beaton (Hark, A Vagrant) and Chester Brown (I Never Liked You)
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Is Cerebus an alt-comic? I liked that until it went insane. In Columbus we have Drew Toothpaste.
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Shitshow posted:It is, but with Zdarsky achieving such popularity (and writing three other books) and Fraction's new television deal, I'm worried the series is going to fall by the wayside. What's Fraction doing TV wise?
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hadji murad posted:What's Fraction doing TV wise? Sex Criminals  (among others, including Wicked+Divine, apparently)
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Jul 8, 2015 09:59
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New Rob Liefeld comic is about a Deadpool analogue searching for his stolen penis - rendered lovingly on the splashpage closing the issue. Glorious.
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After browsing through that at the comic shop I'm just going to assume Rob Liefeld's never actually seen a human penis. That book looked all kinds of bad. As for alt comics, Evan Dorkin's Dork! And Johnny Ryan's Hate were staples of my teenage years, along with David Lapham's Stray Bullets, tho that last one couldn't really be considered alt I guess.
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GrandpaPants posted:I just finished reading the first Lazarus HC, and while I liked it, it comes off like a sci-fi/post-apocalyptic Game of Thrones, although I suppose "competing groups vying for control" isn't exactly the most original setup in the world. But having a pair of blonde incest twins in each is just a weird thing to throw in there. That being said, I still enjoyed it and I like the art a lot, but one minor question was why Forever (Vol. 2 minor spoilers) let the guy run off with the bomb-making chemicals without doing a thing to stop or track him. Wasn't she on the rooftop of the shed that was being stolen from? Did the trade have all the back matter text about the different houses and their histories?
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Soonmot posted:Did the trade have all the back matter text about the different houses and their histories? Yeah, it did. I didn't delve too deep into it yet since I kinda wanted the worldbuilding to be a bit more organic and through the story etc, but it's there.
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Neat! Joelle Jones' Lady Killer book is getting a second mini from Dark Horse. I really liked the sort of campy 50s-sploitation vibe of the first run. Basically, imagine if June Cleaver was La Femme Nikita. But with possible Nazis involved.
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GrandpaPants posted:Yeah, it did. I didn't delve too deep into it yet since I kinda wanted the worldbuilding to be a bit more organic and through the story etc, but it's there. There's a lot done through the story, but outside of a prequel series, I dOubt we'd ever learn most of what the text portions were about. I'll be picking up the trades then.
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Soonmot posted:There's a lot done through the story, but outside of a prequel series, I dOubt we'd ever learn most of what the text portions were about. I'll be picking up the trades then. Note that I don't know if the softcovers have them, since I picked up the HC.
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Gaz-L posted:Neat! Thats great news. I really enjoyed the first mini. Joelle Jones is the bees knees.
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So I just read God Hates Astronauts #6 on a whim with no info about it and I have no idea what's going on. It had: - Admiral Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger (that is not a description, it is a proper name) - A Rhino with a mustache called Dr. Professor - A giant (time travelling?) Robot Giraffe called Time Giraffe - Some kind of Green Lantern squadron looking equivalent called Star Bears flying around with star rings - Mr Whorecules Like is the whole thing like this? Is it a piss take or just monkey cheese throughout, or is it supposed to make sense at some point?
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Scaramouche posted:So I just read God Hates Astronauts #6 on a whim with no info about it and I have no idea what's going on. It had: The closest parallel I can think of would be if the gang from Always Sunny in Philadelphia were superheroes and episodes didn't end with a return to the status quo, so characters like Cricket or the milk brothers became something more than one-offs.
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Scaramouche posted:So I just read God Hates Astronauts #6 on a whim with no info about it and I have no idea what's going on. It had: I read the trade, and the whole thing's mostly like that.
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God Hates Astronauts is a beautiful and completely batshit insane book. I've read and loved every issue since I was introduced to it months ago but I have no idea what I've read at all. I just know it's completely off the rails in a way that makes me smile and that's enough.
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Scaramouche posted:So I just read God Hates Astronauts #6 on a whim with no info about it and I have no idea what's going on. Did you press <START> with your mind-finger as directed before beginning? If not, you may be reading it wrong.
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Someone asked about the bad French in We Stand On Guard earlier. It's not Google Translate bad. There's more effort in it than that actually. It's bad in the way an Anglophone who had to take French in high school is bad.
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Deadpool posted:God Hates Astronauts is a beautiful and completely batshit insane book. I've read and loved every issue since I was introduced to it months ago but I have no idea what I've read at all. I just know it's completely off the rails in a way that makes me smile and that's enough. Sounds like my experience reading Prophet.
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dik-dik posted:Sounds like my experience reading Prophet. Hah! I read and liked (contemporary) Prophet, in that it seemed to actually be building toward something. GHA is like something else entirely. Part of it is the breathless pace I think, this stuff just piles up and up over 4 page spans broken up by in-house ads for Mintz. I'm still not sure if I like it or not, but thanks for the feedback guys. As for We Stand On Guard, I understood all the French in it and I'm an anglophone who took French in high school so that summary may be apt.
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