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If I was Alan Moore right now I would be reaching out to DC with an offer to take the reins and do and actual Watchmen sequel. Loads of conference calls and virtual meetings and plans. Then when the courier delivers his hand typed manuscripts to Dan Didio's office he opens it in excitement to find 300 pages Moore carefully took the time to squat over and SHIIIIIIIIT.
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Red Hood is just a lovely action hero knockoff that sometimes drags better characters down with him. There I solved it.
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May 30, 2016 06:12
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Yea, what is it with them just wanting to keep loving aroun with Watchmen. It's just like MONEY or what. Oh wait yeah its MONEY. I'm pretty sure Alan Moore doesn't care or it just justifies his hatred of them further. Honestly, the comic industry basically just broke Alan Moore as a person it seems.
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May 30, 2016 06:33
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Since the solicits for this issue were released we knew Duela would be part of the series until it end so everything in issue 11 was just a fakeout since the start. And as I said, a constant on Lobdell's take on Jason is that he doesn't kill unless is to save his friends' life or his own. You are even more delusional than I imagined if you think solicits should tie into how a story reads. You do not write a story and pull fakeout garbage with the justification of "If people read the solicit they'd know it was a fakeout ahead of time instead of us backtracking stupidly on this Waffle made manifest."
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May 30, 2016 07:40
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So I got caught up on Titans Hunt, and...it isn't that bad? I can see how it comes across pointless and sloggy if you have to wait weeks and months for this story, about a bunch of people doing nothing but talking about how they don't remember things, to go anywhere...but as a straight read-through it was pretty entertaining. I had a genuine spittake at Donna and Garth going medieval at each other with Dick caught in the middle. It evoked some of the better issues of Abnett's GOTG stuff. Still, it does read like it was stalling for time or something. Definitely did not need eight issues and some fights with cyborgs. And I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp on Titans history but I have literally no knowledge of..."Gnarkk"...whatsoever.
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May 30, 2016 10:40
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I know this was mentioned a while back but Dan Abnett's Earth 2 is actually a HUGE improvement over all the garbage that came before it, its biggest problem is that it's stuck picking up the pieces after the mess that it's had to work with. That interview with Abnett for Aquaman mentioned that he wanted to take a Rebirth approach to Earth 2 even though it wasn't technically part of Rebirth and I hope that means he basically gets to throw out all the previous crap and take it back to the more optimistic tone of the Robinson era with all the worldbuilding and cool Golden Age references that involved.
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May 30, 2016 12:17
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Rhyno posted:If I was Alan Moore right now I would be reaching out to DC with an offer to take the reins and do and actual Watchmen sequel. Loads of conference calls and virtual meetings and plans. Then when the courier delivers his hand typed manuscripts to Dan Didio's office he opens it in excitement to find 300 pages Moore carefully took the time to squat over and SHIIIIIIIIT. Watchmen 2 is just a photocomic starring trolls from Providence, big hairy dicks and all
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May 30, 2016 12:58
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Rhyno posted:If I was Alan Moore right now I would be reaching out to DC with an offer to take the reins and do and actual Watchmen sequel. Loads of conference calls and virtual meetings and plans. Then when the courier delivers his hand typed manuscripts to Dan Didio's office he opens it in excitement to find 300 pages Moore carefully took the time to squat over and SHIIIIIIIIT. Alternatively: Moore spends a month painstakingly researching and plotting a Watchmen sequel, posts it off to DC's offices, and the next day gets a note that reads, "Great stuff, Alan, but can you rewrite it to make Jason Todd the main character?"
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May 30, 2016 15:51
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Jason needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine
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May 30, 2016 18:00
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Jason Todd needs to have a skateboard and do an ollie over Dr. Manhattan as he shoots him in the dick.
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May 30, 2016 18:52
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Really he should just be allowed to return to his home planet and never spoken of again.
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May 30, 2016 18:55
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I hope his Earth-3 Owlman-affiliated version of called Red Hoot. Also his Justa Lotta Animals version. Also replace the normal DC version with a pet owl.
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May 30, 2016 22:08
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Do not engage Dark Tits Anime. He is exactly as dense as you think he is.
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May 31, 2016 00:13
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Alaois posted:do you have an actual reason that you think Jaime sucks or is it just "BLUH BLUH ISN'T TED KORD" He's an unnecessary character, a ripoff of spider man, they killed off a perfectly good character just so didio can have a NY times article on how diverse DC is with their new Latino hero!, Neither of his series have been that great and consistently sold near the bottom.
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May 31, 2016 00:15
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Travis343 posted:Red Robin really feels like a last-minute decision. Like you're a DC comics editor, you've just heard Grant Morrison is turning Dick and Damian into Batman and Robin and that's great but you realize you've still got to put out a book starring Tim Drake every month and you need to make a decision right now, um um ok, um what if we call him Red Robin? poo poo, I guess that'll work until I can get an actual writer on the phone - oh gently caress whoops, went to print. gently caress, now it's seven years later and he's still Red Robin. gently caress. Wasn't Jason Todd originally Red Robin and then later they gave it to Tim? I wasn't reading the Bat comics at the time so I have no idea how they explained that one. Should have just done it the way Waid intended for Dick to graduate to Red Robin leaving the Nightwing mantle for someone else or better yet not make red robin canon at all.
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May 31, 2016 00:19
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Alucard Nacirema posted:He's an unnecessary character, a ripoff of spider man, they killed off a perfectly good character just so didio can have a NY times article on how diverse DC is with their new Latino hero!, Neither of his series have been that great and consistently sold near the bottom. ... How is he a ripoff of Spider-Man beyond being a teenage hero? Spider-Man is defined by being an orphan raised by his aunt who gets powers and learns with great power comes great responsibility after he screws up and his uncle dies. From there he goes on being half wish-fulliment half-realism with a heavy focus on his dating life and day-to-day struggles and he's known for being particularly quippy. His powers are spider-themed and he fights a lot of animal-themed enemies. None of this applies to Jaime who (at least in his non-lovely series, I don't know about Nu52) is largely about being a regular kid with a regular family who gets an alien power suit that has all kinds of complexities to it and gets pulled into a world he's unprepared for but doing his best in. There's not really much similarity to them beyond the similarities you'd get between any teenage hero and the vague bug/spider/beetle thing. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 00:24 on May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 00:21
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I don't think they killed Ted for him either. I am confident that was just to sell Max's heel turn.
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May 31, 2016 00:23
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It's amusing to imagine him giving the same rant when Hal Jordan was replaced by Kyle Rayner. Or John Stewart. Oh, god, this is what a HEAT member sounds like, isn't it?
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May 31, 2016 00:25
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Hopefully Dr Manhattan builds a wall to keep Jaime Reyes OUT!
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May 31, 2016 00:28
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Gaz-L posted:It's amusing to imagine him giving the same rant when Hal Jordan was replaced by Kyle Rayner. Or John Stewart. You can just ask Johns at the next convention he attends if you want to know.
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May 31, 2016 00:30
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ImpAtom posted:... How is he a ripoff of Spider-Man beyond being a teenage hero? He means he's a ripoff of Miles Morales, because he's a Latino legacy taking over for a wisecracky white guy.
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May 31, 2016 01:15
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Miles came years later. Like five years later.
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May 31, 2016 01:22
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Alucard Nacirema posted:He's an unnecessary character, a ripoff of spider man, they killed off a perfectly good character just so didio can have a NY times article on how diverse DC is with their new Latino hero!, Neither of his series have been that great and consistently sold near the bottom. His first series is one of the best teen series of all time. It's great and one that I highly suggest to any reader.
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May 31, 2016 01:25
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bobkatt013 posted:His first series is one of the best teen series of all time. It's great and one that I highly suggest to any reader. Don't read beyond #25.
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May 31, 2016 01:34
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Rhyno posted:Don't read beyond #25. 26 as its the Spanish issue
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May 31, 2016 01:40
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bobkatt013 posted:26 as its the Spanish issue #25 is where the book ends as far as I am concerned.
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May 31, 2016 02:23
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Alucard Nacirema posted:He's an unnecessary character, a ripoff of spider man, they killed off a perfectly good character just so didio can have a NY times article on how diverse DC is with their new Latino hero!, Neither of his series have been that great and consistently sold near the bottom. Ted Kord is pretty much Spider-Man as an adult. Read his introduction in Crisis on Infinite Earths, and tell me that it doesn't read like Spidey. Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes are both awesome. Being like Spider-Man is almost never a bad thing.
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May 31, 2016 02:31
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When I think legacy character I think Spiderman.
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May 31, 2016 02:47
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Madkal posted:When I think legacy character I think Spiderman. There are more Spider-Man inspired heroes than frigging Batman inspired heroes at the moment to be fair.
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May 31, 2016 02:51
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Madkal posted:When I think legacy character I think Spiderman. I mean, he did invent the modern teen superhero, so...yeah, kinda?
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May 31, 2016 02:54
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Is Gotham Academy good?
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May 31, 2016 03:03
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Toxxupation posted:Is Gotham Academy good? Ya. Especially the initial run before the 'yearbook' issues, which are a bunch of short stories from various people of varying quality. The art is stunning. e: Obviously, it's aimed at a younger audience, if you can dig that. It's going to have a miniseries crossover with Boom's Lumberjanes this year. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 03:13 on May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 03:10
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Be aware that it does minorly cross over into Batgirl as well. (More that the Academy is important to a running plot in Batgirl than the other way round)
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May 31, 2016 03:11
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So what's the recommended read order then?
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May 31, 2016 03:12
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Toxxupation posted:So what's the recommended read order then? Just pick up Academy #1.
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May 31, 2016 03:14
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Is the Lumberjanes thing still a mini? Because the synopsis on Comixology makes it sound a lot like a one-shot.
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Alucard Nacirema posted:Neither of his series have been that great and consistently sold near the bottom. Jaime's pre-52 series was my first exposure to the world of "cancellation limits," and I was upset how the sales were dropping from month to month. Back then, selling below 50,000 was considered risky! For DC, that number's shifted closer to sub-30,000 these days, right?
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The Big 2 threshold I've always seen was below 20k was basically living on borrowed time. 30k and critical buzz would normally be OK. 50 would be considered a breakout hit, especially if it wasn't a title featuring an existing 'Name'.
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Yeah, 50K hasn't been anywhere near the cancellation threshold since I started paying attention to these things a decade or so ago.
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