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I'm a bilingual Ottawan and I loved the horrible robot French. Also the rest of the book. Except for the part where my neighbourhood blew up.
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Just read the first volume of Nailbiter and while it starts off super cheesy it has me pretty hooked.
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Sigma-X posted:Just read the first volume of Nailbiter and while it starts off super cheesy it has me pretty hooked. Is quite good. I really like Joshua Williamson. Birthright is a good read as well so you might want to check that out from image as well. His first issue of Red Skull that just came out was fun to, and I'm really looking forward to his new marvel work age secret wars is done.
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Yeah, Birthright is great stuff. I don't normally like that kind of book but I checked out the first issue and it was one of the better first issues I've read in a long time because it really hooked me.
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I think I liked Arclight. 
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From Image's October solicitsquote:BLACK MAGICK #1
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Dunbar posted:From Image's October solicits
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Wait holy poo poo Stokoe is doing another Godzilla book and the first issue came out TODAY? And it's about Godzilla going to Hell? Holy poo poo how is this the first time in hearing about this??? quote:Taking cues from Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski,, Dante Alighieri and Ricardo Delgado, Godzilla in Hell #1 is a silent dose of the beautifully surreal. There are 10 words to Stokoe's dialogue here, and three of those are “Godzilla in Hell”. The remaining 7, the classic “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” are summarily destroyed by Godzilla in the issue's opening pages; cementing the entire ethos of this miniseries.  Yeah I'm buying the hell out of thisEDIT: God drat, Stokoe is only doing the first one. Each issue gets a different creative time to showcase the different layers of hell. Still sounds fun as all hell. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 15:23
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What happened to The Manhattan Projects? Did that end/get cancelled? Because man, that is kind of an unsatisfying ending.
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GrandpaPants posted:What happened to The Manhattan Projects? Did that end/get cancelled? Because man, that is kind of an unsatisfying ending. If that's the case I finally feel vindicated for having ignored it for the art.
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GrandpaPants posted:What happened to The Manhattan Projects? Did that end/get cancelled? Because man, that is kind of an unsatisfying ending. "Manhattan projects: Sun beyond the stars" is the relaunch
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TheQat posted:"Manhattan projects: Sun beyond the stars" is the relaunch That relaunch needs a relaunch.
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Oh man was Crossed +100 #6 such a gnarly loving book. Probably one of the most haunting stories I've ever read. It's what gives people who already live in the apocalypse nightmares. I kinda wish Alan Moore continues with the story, or at least delves back into this world. Not many writers or artists can handle a book like this. Most of the ones out there are terrible. Ennis and Burrows on the first book and the first badlands arc were probably the best because both the story and art delt more with the horror of the situation than by focusing on the carnage. And as much as I love the guy, David Lapham's arcs have been wide misses for me. The one with the bikers was kinda goofy, but psychopath was just gross for grossness' sake. The least said about Crossed 3-D, the better.
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So was Wolf #1 the start of Ales Kot's new FablesxWicked+Divine fanfic? It was a nice beefy #1, but it felt so phoned in, both the writing and the art, past the opening pages. If #2 has more of the same shtick of giant paragraphs of rambling text, I can't see myself sticking with it. e: Power Up, on the other hand, was a lot of fun. BOOM! is knocking it out of the park with these bright and cutesy comics lately. Bonus that they're refreshingly progressive. Baron Fuzzlewhack fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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So I finished the second trade of the Wicked+Divine....I really did not see that coming..
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Alhazred posted:So I finished the second trade of the Wicked+Divine....I really did not see that coming.. I just finished it and am holding down vomit and buying the next issue on Comixology I guess e: finished up #12, and while it definitely was filltertastic, I think I enjoyed the art a lot more than most other people here. Maybe just because, as much as I love McKelvie, I'm generally excited to see other stylistic takes on the characters 
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It's a series about the gods of various different cultures reborn, it needed to be multi-artist from the getgo.
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Angry Walrus posted:It's a series about the gods of various different cultures reborn, it needed to be multi-artist from the getgo. I disagree. McKelvie's art really sells it in a way that I don't think would work with a whole bunch of artists. I didn't love the latest issue, art or storywise, but that's just one issue and its pretty much all been golden so far. I think part of that is also wondering who the story is going to focus on next after having such a solid core cast for so long. I guess Baphomet is the closest we have to a good PoV character now? But, I'm looking forward to seeing the other guest artists take on the world, and am super stoked for Brandon Graham's issue. Also, next issue: loving Tara!
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dik-dik posted:If that's the case I finally feel vindicated for having ignored it for the art. manhattan projects owns sun beyond the stars #2 is out next week i think i hope yuri doesn't gently caress his dog
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Just read the latest Crossed 100. I love that Beauregard Salt is obviously based on Hari Seldon from Foundation and his training of the Crossed is a hosed up version of Asimov's Psychohistory. I've liked the miniseries from the start, but the last issue or two, it's really gotten good. This may be a dumb question, but... are any of the other Crossed stories worth reading at all, or are they all just an excuse for shock ultraviolence? I have read the very first miniseries, but that's it. Also just read the second Providence. It's strange, but also a bit interesting, that it's kind of like a parallel Lovecraft... it's obviously using stuff inspired by Herbert West, Shadow Over Innsmouth, and Dreams in the Witch-House, but not directly. I guess so Moore can merge it with his own interests/ideas on occultism. I kind of liked it better when it was just the primary not-Lovecraft character going around listening to people talk about mysticism, rather than actually encountering an occult thing, but still enjoyable so far. I've also been reading Southern Cross, and am not really enjoying it at all. I was going to definitely drop it, but the psychedelic vision from the end of the latest issue convinced me to give it one more issue. Though I doubt that will really convince me.
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Chairman Capone posted:Just read the latest Crossed 100. I love that Beauregard Salt is obviously based on Hari Seldon from Foundation and his training of the Crossed is a hosed up version of Asimov's Psychohistory. I've liked the miniseries from the start, but the last issue or two, it's really gotten good. This may be a dumb question, but... are any of the other Crossed stories worth reading at all, or are they all just an excuse for shock ultraviolence? I have read the very first miniseries, but that's it. Ennis, Spurrier, Christos Gage, and Kieron Gillen have all done interesting stories in the Crossed universe, but I can take or leave just about everyone else who's worked on the series. Lapham is very much in the "excuse for shock ultraviolence" camp, David Hine isn't much better, Daniel Way screwed the pooch, and Justin Jordan's arc is filler. Just look at the writers on a given TPB and buy accordingly.
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Chairman Capone posted:I've also been reading Southern Cross, and am not really enjoying it at all. I was going to definitely drop it, but the psychedelic vision from the end of the latest issue convinced me to give it one more issue. Though I doubt that will really convince me. I enjoy it a lot because I am a sucker for working class horror in space like the original Alien.
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I mean, I get that it's heavily influenced by Alien and Event Horizon, and feels a bit of the 2000AD comic Leviathan, but it doesn't really seem to be doing anything or going anywhere clear in terms of plot or characterization.
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krakagar posted:I disagree. McKelvie's art really sells it in a way that I don't think would work with a whole bunch of artists. I didn't love the latest issue, art or storywise, but that's just one issue and its pretty much all been golden so far. I think part of that is also wondering who the story is going to focus on next after having such a solid core cast for so long. I guess Baphomet is the closest we have to a good PoV character now? But, I'm looking forward to seeing the other guest artists take on the world, and am super stoked for Brandon Graham's issue. I havent even read it yet but gently caress Tara
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SynthOrange posted:I havent even read it yet but gently caress Tara I'm intrigued to see exactly what the problem everyone has with Tara is when we already have Woden. TBH if all the gods hate her that much, then I'm inclined to wonder if perhaps she's actually that bad at all.
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Based on the series so far I just put Tara in the box of "truly insufferable artist type," like some unholy mix of Lady Gaga and Gwyneth Paltrow. But yeah, at this point how much worse could she be than the other gods?
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The Bryan Lee O'Malley sex criminals cover is loving hilarious.
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Consummate Professional posted:The Bryan Lee O'Malley sex criminals cover is loving hilarious. It took a lot of willpower for me not to just post a picture of the Goomba last night.
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Chairman Capone posted:Just read the latest Crossed 100. I love that Beauregard Salt is obviously based on Hari Seldon from Foundation and his training of the Crossed is a hosed up version of Asimov's Psychohistory. I've liked the miniseries from the start, but the last issue or two, it's really gotten good. This may be a dumb question, but... are any of the other Crossed stories worth reading at all, or are they all just an excuse for shock ultraviolence? I have read the very first miniseries, but that's it. Speaking of this, I picked up the latest two issues of Crossed: Badlands today, #80 and #81, and really wish I hadn't. It's Mike Wolfer in full gross-out mode.
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Alhazred posted:So I finished the second trade of the Wicked+Divine....I really did not see that coming.. Even knowing that something was going to happen, I didn't quite realize that it was that. That's...certainly a thing. Although I suspected something was about to go down when Ananke was really laying on the "HEY BAPHOMET, you know what you shouldn't do? Kill the other gods because you'd live longer! Don't do thaaaat!" schtick. It just made it so blatant that that character should not be trusted.
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Yeah jeez. I wonder if the whole recurrence is not a whole fake construct and she could bring up gods at any time to feed off but just bringing them in dozens every once in awhile.
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah jeez. I wonder if the whole recurrence is not a whole fake construct and she could bring up gods at any time to feed off but just bringing them in dozens every once in awhile. Yeah, my operating theory is that Ananke is the great darkness that she spoke of, and that she's pretending to be their guide so that she can feed off their energy. Maybe after they get charged with followers first? She probably wanted Baphomet to attempt to murder someone so that she has reason to kill him, like how she was probably the one to set up the chain of events that led to Luci dying. It might also explain why those last gods from the last recurrence killed themselves, rather than die by her hand. More, MOOOOORE.
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Wanderer posted:Speaking of this, I picked up the latest two issues of Crossed: Badlands today, #80 and #81, and really wish I hadn't. It's Mike Wolfer in full gross-out mode. I would like to see Negan from the Walking Dead catch the Crossed virus. (late edit) Also you probably are not going to want to read Crossed #82. scuba school sucks fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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krakagar posted:Wicked & Divine 13 spoilers: poor loving Tara That two page spread is maybe the hardest thing to read in the whole series. I haven't seen a comic be this outright angry at the poo poo that's thrown at women since Bitch Planet #1. And Tula Lotay loving nails all of it. What a great loving comic.
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W+D.  Also what the gently caress is Ananke up to!? 
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Ahahaha We Stand On Guard #2 is the best. Seeing the elderly couple's home chock full of "ironic" nostalgia was tops!
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Ahahaha We Stand On Guard #2 is the best. Seeing the elderly couple's home chock full of "ironic" nostalgia was tops! Ya I really enjoyed the issue. I really like where the story is going. BKV has never done me wrong (admittedly the only other thing of his I've read is Saga, and one volume of Y). I've been reading about Paper Girls which debuts in October and it sounds cool as gently caress too.
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ElNarez posted:That two page spread is maybe the hardest thing to read in the whole series. I haven't seen a comic be this outright angry at the poo poo that's thrown at women since Bitch Planet #1. And Tula Lotay loving nails all of it. What a great loving comic. I know right. That must have been a tough page to write too. It was a great issue. And I was right in that Tara makes all the other gods look even worse by comparison. I guess they maybe didn't know what she was going through because she kept her self separated from them, but this issue makes me have less sympathy for all of others. Even Laura didn't like Tara (Although she didn't know her). This was a great issue and yeah, Lotay's art was fantastic. Also, a lot of parallels between Tara and Cassandra\Urdur here. Both characters frustrated that poeple wont liste to what they really have to say, both people who create or write there own work, and both characters with an invested interest in gender politics. Ananke was right when she said it was a shame the two didn't get to meet. SynthOrange posted:W+D. This is what's keeping me awake at nights. WicDiv isn't necessarily my favourite comic coming out ta the moment (although it's up there0), but it is the one I think about the most. The obvious answer that Annake is stealing the gods power so she can live longer seems too obvious, an has a few big holes in it. For one, she has plenty of opportunity to off the gods whenever she likes. She could get them whenever they emerge, for example and bypass a lot of hassle. Something to do with power, perhaps? Lucifer and Tara she killed both when they were likely to be the most hated by the public, so that could have something to do with it, and that was her justification for killing Luci. Killing Laura was maybe because she knew too much or was getting too close to something? Or just because she wasn't one of the 12? (She looked loving furious after she did that) But also she sent Baphomet after Innana, she didn't kill him herself. And she certainly could have done more to help Tara instead of just popping her head like a grape It seems like she's trying to divide the group, but I don't know why. One theory I have is that something has happened to her, to 'change' her since we first met her. Or maybe there are two of her? Or an imposter? Ugh, I don't know.
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