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catlord posted:God drat, Dan Didio, what is with you and Kamandi? He seems to really want to make Kamandi a thing and hasn't managed to yet. If he wanted a home-run Kamamdi book he would've accepted Paul Pope's pitch.
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catlord posted:Those sound interesting, I'm intrigued. A little confused about why it needs to be a new imprint, but ok. Didio loves anything by Kirby, and the Metal Men. Despite all his bullshit, I have to give him the maddest of props for this Kamandi series. Who else would gather such a varied group of creators for a Kamandi book?
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Dan's never going to stop trying to revive Kirby stuff, no mater how little it sells. If you're gonna concede admiration for the guy over anything, it should be that.
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TwoPair posted:I think everybody who's ever seen that map of Kamandi's world has wanted to try to make Kamandi a thing if only so they can write a story set in the Kangarat Murder Society.
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So. I gave Omega Men my best shot. Eh. I can kind of understand who the target audience for this kind of story is supposed to be, but I can't really see the appeal myself. It's very...pretentious. Dunno how else to put it. I don't like the characters, I don't like the situation, I don't know why I should, and it's been ten issues of the same. I find King's work on Vision much more interesting and accessible. And unless Kyle's newfound hyper-religiousness and Spanish-fluency is some Nu52 New Guardians thing I missed, I'm gonna assume King just pulled it out of his butt.
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# ? Apr 8, 2016 09:34 |
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Take a look at the Darkseid War GL one-shot he did. If King got to write Green Lantern it might star the Pope. Rolling Stone interview with Way on Young Animal. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gerard-way-talks-new-dc-comics-imprint-im-here-for-the-long-haul-20160407?page=2 quote:You've found a lot of ways to fuse your background in visual art with your music career, but how does it feel to finally focus your energy primarily on your love for comics?
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# ? Apr 8, 2016 09:47 |
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AV Club reviews WW:Earth One.
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BrianWilly posted:And unless Kyle's newfound hyper-religiousness and Spanish-fluency is some Nu52 New Guardians thing I missed, I'm gonna assume King just pulled it out of his butt. That is something he lifted from Winnick's run (specifically from the Ion arc) where he revealed that Kyle's long lost father was a mexican guy working for the CIA. That being said, the way King is handled this semi-retcon (New Guardians showed Kyle's father to be a mechanic with no allusion to his nationality) is slightly irritating. Kyle was never shown to be particularly religious and suddenly become like that just after recovering his mexican heritage implies King has a poor understanding of the mexican culture as whole. These days the only truly religious people around are people who grew during the 70's or earlier, as times changed religion stopped being a pillar for the average mexican. The exception to this of course, are those who were raised on small towns relatively isolated from the big cities where they haven't been so influenced by modern society. Anyways, DC has released a colored version of the Superwoman cover and the filename identifies the character on it as Lois. http://www.newsarama.com/28746-lois-lane-takes-flight-as-superwoman.html
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That's not all that surprising. There have been plenty of Lois Lanes who are some version of Superwoman. I know there is a section of the internet who has been rallying for a Lois Lane led book, though with her as a reporter as opposed to a superhero. I imagine this is the best they will get of their wishes for now and getting Jimenez on it is as good as getting Rucka on Wonder Woman.
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I'm betting in the next two issues of Justice League, the Crime Syndicate Superwoman/Lois Lane will become a good guy and get a more Superman-like costume. This prediction is based on .
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DT, no bullshit, please keep offering commentary on anything and everything related to Mexican history and culture in comics. Is Lois fleeing from the Decepticon seekers...or leading them?
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:That is something he lifted from Winnick's run (specifically from the Ion arc) where he revealed that Kyle's long lost father was a mexican guy working for the CIA. Thanks for the insight, this is actually really interesting. (Both as someone with only a passing familiarity with the GL books, and even less familiarity with mexican history & culture.)
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Yeah, I was trying to stop just short of saying "Not My Kyle Rayner," but...that's what it is, basically. This ain't any Kyle I know. I think my break point is that they spent ten whole issues building and leading up to Kyle getting his ring back, and now that he has it back it's completely weaksauce and doesn't even do anything that simple blasters and blades can't do anyway. Even the greenest Lanterns haha get it should be able to wipe the floor with any army with any ring, and Kyle's got the most powerful of them all, but now he's all uuueehggh I gotta rest eughghggh this is so haaaaard. It's frustrating. His new suit is pretty great though.
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Squizzle posted:DT, no bullshit, please keep offering commentary on anything and everything related to Mexican history and culture in comics. Genetic Toaster posted:Thanks for the insight, this is actually really interesting. (Both as someone with only a passing familiarity with the GL books, and even less familiarity with mexican history & culture.) Glad you guys found my ramblings informative I don't mind when people takes artistic liberties when depicting Mexico or its culture but it really puts me in a bad mood when they try (openly or implicitly)to pass off those liberties as a proper depiction of my country and its people. BrianWilly posted:Yeah, I was trying to stop just short of saying "Not My Kyle Rayner," but...that's what it is, basically. This ain't any Kyle I know. I bailed from the book after the third issue but it was hard to ignore how Kyle was so incompetent to allow most of the plot to happen. I mean, I understand as White Lantern Kyle is pretty OP but I'm sure there are better ways to handle it than making Kyle hog the idiot ball all the time. Anyways the preview for RH/A 11 has been released and goddamn, Roy looks loving awesome here I will miss Roy and Jason working together, they have such a great chemistry. At least the new outlaws will have a good artist.
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There's some of his Irish mother's influence in that Catholicism too, apparently. (I haven't read early Kyle and apologize if there's an explanation that nullifies that link)
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Anyways the preview for RH/A 11 has been released and goddamn, Roy looks loving awesome here
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Whoa apparently this happened yesterday and I missed it. Gerard Way Doom Patrol is now OFFICIAL along with a whole new line of Mature reader books curated by Gerard Way. Is this part of Vertigo or replacing it? quote:DOOM PATROL – This September, in the spirit of Grant Morrison's legendary run on the series, along with other classic incarnations of the characters, writer Gerard Way and artist Nick Derington will put their unique stamp on the world's strangest heroes taking on the universe's strangest villains. Now DC's speaking my language Alucard Nacirema fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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It's posted twice on the last page dude
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:
this bit made me do something between a barking laugh and an allergic reaction
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Picklepuss posted:Why is Speedy wearing a baseball cap? It's his #brand.
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HitTheTargets posted:It's his #brand.
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Picklepuss posted:Is he back on heroin? He looks like trailer trash. In Titans he's an alcoholic again. I don't think Lobdell has implied he is in the Lobdell-verse but then again that hat is a sign something has gone horribly wrong in Roy's life.
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TwoPair posted:It's posted twice on the last page dude Sorry. But you have to admit its really exciting!
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dan's never going to stop trying to revive Kirby stuff, no mater how little it sells. If you're gonna concede admiration for the guy over anything, it should be that. That's one of the best, raddest things about DiDio. The fella has some sort of commitment to keeping DC's non-superhero/ancillary properties alive. I don't think we'd have gotten the multiple war/soldier series in the new 52, Dial H, a bunch of loving Metal Men projects, Swamp Thing, a long-rear end run of Jonah Hex, Prez, Omega Men, and a whole raft of other interesting comics if not for DiDio steering the DC ship. I dislike a lot of what I think DiDio's management has done and continues to do, but his love of DC's weird concept katamari endears him to me as a comics-person.
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DrProsek posted:In Titans he's an alcoholic again. I don't think Lobdell has implied he is in the Lobdell-verse but then again that hat is a sign something has gone horribly wrong in Roy's life. Roy has been an alcoholic since the start of the N52. In fact, Killer Croc is his AA sponsor
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Roy has been an alcoholic since the start of the N52. My bad; in Titans he's actively drinking again, in RHaA, he's a recovering alcoholic. I know he's been a alcoholic for a while now (apparently since the start of N52), but when I said "he's an alcoholic again" I meant he's drinking again in Titans (which is inaccurate since a recovering alcoholic can still be called "an alcoholic").
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DrProsek posted:My bad; in Titans he's actively drinking again, in RHaA, he's a recovering alcoholic. I know he's been a alcoholic for a while now (apparently since the start of N52), but when I said "he's an alcoholic again" I meant he's drinking again in Titans (which is inaccurate since a recovering alcoholic can still be called "an alcoholic"). Yeah, Roy drinking again on Titan's Hunt is one of the things it killed my interest on the series. For five years Lobdell has written Roy as someone that while still struggling with the temptation still has enough will to remain sober. On Titan's Hunt not only Roy's will is trashed, it also feels like Abnett just did it for cheap drama.
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Killer Croc really gets around in the new 52.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Yeah, Roy drinking again on Titan's Hunt is one of the things it killed my interest on the series. For five years Lobdell has written Roy as someone that while still struggling with the temptation still has enough will to remain sober. If someone thinks that a person can stay sober on just willpower alone they really do not understand alcoholism or have a very very bad view of it.
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Hope Larson, future Batgirl writer has a new comic out this week with a Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy preview in it. Just thought you might like to know! http://www.newsarama.com/28754-goldie-vance-gets-her-first-chance-in-1-preview.html
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Squizzle posted:That's one of the best, raddest things about DiDio. The fella has some sort of commitment to keeping DC's non-superhero/ancillary properties alive. I don't think we'd have gotten the multiple war/soldier series in the new 52, Dial H, a bunch of loving Metal Men projects, Swamp Thing, a long-rear end run of Jonah Hex, Prez, Omega Men, and a whole raft of other interesting comics if not for DiDio steering the DC ship. I dislike a lot of what I think DiDio's management has done and continues to do, but his love of DC's weird concept katamari endears him to me as a comics-person.
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I'm sure nobody was expecting GI Zombie to hit and last very long. Maybe get a bit more cult acclaim than it did. I dunno who would flippantly put Scott Hampton on a comic. It was a good book! e: and lasted nine issues Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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It was also written by Didio's old running buddy, and like Jonah Hex it got some really nice artists. Maybe Palmiotti is just a super cool dude to work with, or maybe another sign of dubious management on the part of Didio and co is that they throw money at Cooke/Hampton/Bernet/Garica-Lopez/Noto/etc. to draw underperforming/underpromoted fringe books?Dark_Tzitzimine posted:That being said, the way King is handled this semi-retcon (New Guardians showed Kyle's father to be a mechanic with no allusion to his nationality) is slightly irritating. Kyle was never shown to be particularly religious and suddenly become like that just after recovering his mexican heritage implies King has a poor understanding of the mexican culture as whole. These days the only truly religious people around are people who grew during the 70's or earlier, as times changed religion stopped being a pillar for the average mexican. The exception to this of course, are those who were raised on small towns relatively isolated from the big cities where they haven't been so influenced by modern society. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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I need the Hickman on JLA rumors to be true.
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Edge & Christian posted:The cynic in me says that he's doing that a) because he is struggling to find a breakout hit and b) someone's got to try to make use of those trademarks and IP. Didio is absolutely willing to "try stuff", it's just that outside of Jonah Hex for some reason (possibly because again, his close friend of 20+ years he broke into the business with was writing it) Jonah Hex is the only one of these projects that seemed to last much more than a year. There's also a difference between loving old properties and wanting to do right by them and basically going "awww gently caress I guess we need to do a GI Zombie story? Someone use that name and come up with a GI Zombie story. Whatever. We'll publish it for six issues and then replace it with *flips through pages* Forever People, I guess?" Didn't he write or co write Forever People? He's also written OMAC and the Metal Men. Going by what he puts his name on, Dan has some good taste. Also, I have to say that Wonder Woman Earth One was wonderful. Absolutely gorgeous.
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I've recently heard that DiDio is apparently disliked by Transformers fans. Is that true? If so, why?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've recently heard that DiDio is apparently disliked by Transformers fans. Is that true? If so, why? http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dan_didio Would seem to answer it.
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Haha, I didn't think to check the TFWiki. That doesn't seem so bad. I like the caption on the photo.
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Die Laughing posted:idn't he write or co write Forever People? He's also written OMAC and the Metal Men. Going by what he puts his name on, Dan has some good taste.
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Edge & Christian posted:Also this seems like a strange generalization to make when like half a million people turned out in Mexico City to see the Pope. Were they all isolated small towners? All old people? Mass hallucination? Hipsters in it for the Pope fame but not actually religious? Old people is the majority of the population in the country for a significant margin. And while Francisco got a lot of people, is a lot less of what Juan Pablo II gathered back then.
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