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The Flintstones is the best book on the stands, full stop.
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Semper Fudge posted:The Flintstones is the best book on the stands, full stop. Full stop at the F section because you didn't get to the M's where Mockingbird sits.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:22
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Rhyno posted:Full stop at the F section because you didn't get to the M's where Mockingbird sits. Well, technically A-L. But honestly, I wasn't feeling Mockingbird last month, it kinda petered out instead of slam-dunking.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:45
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Gaz-L posted:Well, technically A-L. But honestly, I wasn't feeling Mockingbird last month, it kinda petered out instead of slam-dunking. There's better books than Flinstones in A-L! Green Arrow for God's sake!
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Aug 11, 2016 16:49
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Gaz-L posted:There's basically three places you can go for the 'traumatic emergence of super-powers' arc for a kid. Death of an animal/pet, injury/death of a friend or fear/ostracization when showing off. Superman's origin story almost always has the last, so that leaves the other two for Jon. So you're saying you'd prefer he broke his little girlfriend's arm while playfully pushing her away?  Max loving Landis can write this stuff better. Think about that.
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Aug 12, 2016 00:23
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Max Landis wrote a better comic than almost anybody, though.
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Aug 12, 2016 00:27
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Equilibrium posted:
Both are really very good. I like reading good comics, it makes me happy.
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Aug 12, 2016 00:33
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Superman is very very good, because Peter Tomasi is a very very good writer who writes Father/son relationships incredibly well.
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Aug 12, 2016 00:37
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Yeah, everyone is all over Superman but I read the first two, hated the cat murder, and basically just don't care. It's well written and pretty but I just can't really get into it. Maybe it's because I don't have a kid so father-son heartwarming doesn't resonate as strongly with me. Compared to Detective and Green Arrow and Wonder Woman and even Flash I think Superman is middle of the pack for Rebirth books.
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Aug 12, 2016 01:32
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Well for the record, I don't have kids and I had an abusive shithead for a father, I just think it's really good Superman stuff. It's not that it's particularly resonant to me personally. I just have a Superman in my head and the Superman in that book hits it almost dead-center.
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Aug 12, 2016 01:50
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I like the current Superman series more for Jon than Superman himself. I find him to be a pretty interesting kid superhero, more so than I ever found Damian to be.
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Aug 12, 2016 01:53
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Roth posted:I find him to be a pretty interesting kid superhero, more so than I ever found Damian to be. Faint praise.
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Aug 12, 2016 01:57
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I like Damian, outside of the animated movies where he just learns the same lesson every movie and makes stories that should be about other characters about him.
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Aug 12, 2016 01:58
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Roth posted:I like Damian, outside of the animated movies where he just learns the same lesson every movie and makes stories that should be about other characters about him. The animated movies are uniformly terrible, don't feel too bad. I really like Damian but he is a character that can easily be written very badly.
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Aug 12, 2016 03:10
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Read Superwoman and I think it's interesting the polarizing opinions there are. Personally I'm calling fakeout on the ending, because the only reason we thinks it's legit is because it's so similar to the way N52 Superman died. It seems too easy and it's the kind of cliffhanger designed to get people to pick up #2.
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Aug 12, 2016 04:32
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I hope you're proud of yourself, Dark_Tzitzimine, because I've been sampling several of the #1 issues of Rebirth, and your posting about RHATO helped convince me to give it a shot... and it may reach guilty-pleasure status. The series has now made $2.99 more than otherwise; up until now, I've trade-waited through my library. Somewhere deep beneath the earth, demons bellow with laughter.
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Aug 12, 2016 04:45
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I really like New Superman, he is lovably stupid. Also I love fat Chinese Bat-Man and his BUV(bat utility vehicle)
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Aug 12, 2016 05:15
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greatn posted:I really like New Superman, he is lovably stupid. Also I love fat Chinese Bat-Man and his BUV(bat utility vehicle)
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Aug 12, 2016 07:03
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Space Fish posted:I hope you're proud of yourself, Dark_Tzitzimine, because I've been sampling several of the #1 issues of Rebirth, and your posting about RHATO helped convince me to give it a shot... and it may reach guilty-pleasure status. The series has now made $2.99 more than otherwise; up until now, I've trade-waited through my library. ...Mods?!
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Aug 12, 2016 15:47
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RHATO has a fun concept and I'd read it no problem if someone else was writing it. I've given Lobdell multiple chances since he can occasionally write a good character moment and has some good plot kernels but that boy just cannot write in the long-term and every single plot point and character arc fizzles out by the next issue.
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Aug 12, 2016 16:03
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Lobdell is a bad writer and I wish you guys would stop supporting him.
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Aug 12, 2016 16:20
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New Super-Man was so much fun. Huge improvement from issue #1. Probably the first Gene Luen Yang book I've really liked and finally seen his potential as an important get for DC. This was a great week.
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Aug 12, 2016 17:05
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I really hope there is a fat Batman spin off, and I really want to see him meet Batman classic.
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Aug 12, 2016 17:47
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I wish fat Batman didn't have visible muscles. I mean...he isn't fat!
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Aug 12, 2016 18:50
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You can be muscly and fat.
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Aug 12, 2016 18:52
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greatn posted:You can be muscly and fat.  The actual strongest people are muscly and fat! People who are all muscle are more about presentation and winning Mr. Galaxy competitions or whatever.
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Aug 12, 2016 20:26
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New Super-Man #2: I am delighted that The Great Ten are acknowledged as still existing in some capacity.
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Aug 12, 2016 23:54
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The Great Ten are a cool idea that is filled with weird dumb stuff. But then that's comics.txt in a nutshell.
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graybook posted:New Super-Man #2: I am delighted that The Great Ten are acknowledged as still existing in some capacity. They featured in that Final Days of Superman storyline, along with Dr. Omen.
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Aug 13, 2016 02:26
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Ahhh, the issue whose speculator value tanked when New Super-Man's writer confirmed that that isn't Kenan Kong in there...
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Aug 13, 2016 03:40
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Chortles posted:Ahhh, the issue whose speculator value tanked when New Super-Man's writer confirmed that that isn't Kenan Kong in there... Not before I had a single customer buy every copy he could get from us. He tried to return them last week.
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Aug 13, 2016 03:43
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Comic speculators are dumb and I can't believe they exist to this day. Have we learned nothing from the 90s!?
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Aug 13, 2016 03:52
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WickedHate posted:Comic speculators are dumb and I can't believe they exist to this day. Have we learned nothing from the 90s!? Yeah, I have to wonder what sort of success rate they have? It can't really be profitable can it?
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Aug 13, 2016 03:52
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Funny thing is, the visor design actually made Kenan's characterization work even better for me as a character by more-explicitly indicating that his arrogance and self-importance are deliberately a parallel with the Monkey King(spoiler in case it's a future plot point).
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I have to wonder what sort of success rate they have? It can't really be profitable can it? Any time there is a hyped issue I see the same clowns come rushing in trying to buy every copy. Batman #40 was hitting $20 the day it dropped and I lost count of the douche canoes trying to buy 10 copies. Most recently Uncanny Inhumans #11 blew the gently caress up and there were like 12 copies in the whole city.
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Aug 13, 2016 03:55
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I have to wonder what sort of success rate they have? It can't really be profitable can it? You know ImpAtom, I'm not gonna tell you that these sealed Red Hood and the Outlaws #1s are gonna increase in value, or even hold their current value. The truth is, you bought'em cause you like'em. They have value to you. That's what matters.
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Aug 13, 2016 03:57
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I don't think most speculators realize that the reason those famous comics are so much is because people like them weren't around preserving every copy they could get their hands on.
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Aug 13, 2016 04:14
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Roth posted:I don't think most speculators realize that the reason those famous comics are so much is because people like them weren't around preserving every copy they could get their hands on. These days a comic flipper considers a $10 profit a success.
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Aug 13, 2016 04:21
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Rhyno posted:These days a comic flipper considers a $10 profit a success. That's hilariously sad.
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I did briefly consider picking up a couple copies of the holographic version of the Joker's Daughter comic because my local comic store had like, three copies and they were going for like, $40 on eBay, but the whole idea felt weird to me. And also did I really want to be known as the person who bought several copies of Joker's Daughter?
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