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Rhyno posted:Many of the SW minis were better than the books they replaced. There's some wonderful irony in us getting an actual good version of Civil War as a minor tie-in to the event a year before Civil War II.
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CapnAndy posted:That's why it's rubbing me the wrong way, though. It seems to be tossing years of character development (that Bendis wrote himself, for fucksakes!) to revert her back to Alias state, because that's how she was in the TV show and the TV show was popular. Let us not forget that the same month JJ 1 was released, he was writing happy, bantering couple Luke&Jess in Spider-Man. I have the hardest time giving this book a fair shot because this split between them doesn't anywhere near as earned as when they got together. On top of that, Gaydos is not bringing his a-game here. Until she said her name, I thought the woman interrogating Jessica was an alternate Jessica since, aside from the hairstyle, she looked exactly the same!
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WickedHate posted:I liked Spellbinder... Inque was ownage, she had several great episodes and was incredibly spooky. The best member of Terry's original rogues' gallery, I think. I'm sure most people remember the one with the prison guard who frees her because he wants to "be like her", and gets turned into a deformed gelatinous blob for his trouble. The one with her daughter is really good as well. Oh, and Shriek is great, too. They're both characters with some element of personal tragedy or essential flaw which has driven them to scary extremes of villainy, and that's what you really need for a good Batman villain. Blight I think is decent but amongst the back of the crop. He's only in the first season, and is just a sort of starter nemesis to motivate Terry before he's completely committed to being Batman. He's not bad, but he's the type of character that has a shelf life.
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Lurdiak posted:I highly doubt you can prove that. irlZaphod posted:Infinity and Secret Wars were both great.
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Roth posted:Mad Stan was by far the best Batman Beyond villain hi is it too late to post this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduM0SCXlqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TbmcgGsXyU
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As I grow older, I find myself sympathising with Mad Stan's ideas more and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFpE_iNtWAo&t=106s
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I have a friend who shoots a video series primarily on local events and businesses, but he wanted to do a Christmas special, so he had me write a short film for the show. It is about Santa Claus fighting a werewolf. It was made on a budget of zero dollars, so it's not a Star War, but I think it came out all right. Give it a watch if you are so inclined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjBZlVvwVY
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Benito Cereno posted:I have a friend who shoots a video series primarily on local events and businesses, but he wanted to do a Christmas special, so he had me write a short film for the show. It is about Santa Claus fighting a werewolf. It was made on a budget of zero dollars, so it's not a Star War, but I think it came out all right. Why?
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I thought it was cute.
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The Vision, Omega Men and Sheriff of Babylon are on sale. Have yourself a Tom King Christmas. https://www.comixology.com/Massive-Marvel-Sale/page/13566?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL2xhcmdlQ2Fyb3VzZWw https://www.comixology.com/DCs-Best-of-2016-Sale/page/13563?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL2xhcmdlQ2Fyb3VzZWw (Prez's one and only trade is too. Poor Prez.) Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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The nice thing about having friends who live around the world is that you always have a couch to crash on when traveling, the not nice thing is that when there is a terrorist attack and you got to worry about said friends living in the part of the world that was just hit.  Teenage Fansub posted:The Vision, Omega Men and Sheriff of Babylon are on sale. Have yourself a Tom King Christmas. All worth it.
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 New Comic book reader: I like Captain Marvel gonna start reading a strong female protagonist... oh... where do I start? I guess never mind. (also other captain marvel peaking out at the bottom)
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trashbuilder posted:New Comic book reader: I like Captain Marvel gonna start reading a strong female protagonist... oh... where do I start?
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If you like Captain Marvel and want to read good stories about her, the answer is None. (Okay maybe the last one, I didn't read that.)
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I like Carol a lot, but the DeConnick stuff was underwhelming. The 2nd collection listed there (In Pursuit of Flight) is probably the best of the bunch. If you're looking for Strong Female Protagonist, I'd probably recommend Soule's She-Hulk over all of those. Or something along the lines of Batgirl or Batwoman, if you're not adverse to trying some DC.
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I really wanted to like Captain Marvel because Carol is great and the costume is one of the best designs in the last thirty years of comic books but honestly they are all mediocre to actively bad. She deserves a lot better.
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We're making a big push and relaunch for Earth's Mightiest Avenger so let's take her to space.
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purple death ray posted:I really wanted to like Captain Marvel because Carol is great and the costume is one of the best designs in the last thirty years of comic books but honestly they are all mediocre to actively bad. She deserves a lot better. Carol's never really been great. She had the potential to be, but she spent her superhero career in a coma, drunk, angrily yelling, getting worried Dr. Doom calls her fat, murdering people, supporting fascism, getting raped by her own son... and throughout none of that is she particularly likeable as a character. I mean, there are no bad characters, only bad writers, but Danvers has yet to have her breakout role under a good writer. Sure as hell wasn't KSD.
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I was being sarcastic, I was more pointing out how there is now indication which comes before which
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They're actually in order, not that it makes that clear.
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You've never seen a Bible thumper with a sign before?Soonmot posted:they're all listed as vol 1, too It sells better that way obv
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Can I just say congratulations to whomever the Marvel employee was that saw Westworld and immediately started getting Nick Fury vs SHIELD ready for release on Unlimited.
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site posted:You've never seen a Bible thumper with a sign before? I don't live in a big city. Where I live everyone is a bible thumper so signs are not needed. 😇
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Those are beautiful. I'm putting 'em in the Good Art thread.
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irlZaphod posted:I like Carol a lot, but the DeConnick stuff was underwhelming. The 2nd collection listed there (In Pursuit of Flight) is probably the best of the bunch. DeConnick is not a very good writer so that explains that.
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I found DeConnick's Captain Marvel pleasant, but not outstanding. The most recent volume was pretty much torpedoed by Civil War II. The tie-ins were actually pretty good (made more sense than the main series, anyway), but overall the event was a big "Hey, you wasted your time with this series!" signal lighting up the sky. I think Carol and I are going to take a break for a while.
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Aw the father of the owner of the comic shop I went to growing up passed away. He worked at the shop after retiring and I thought he was the owner for a long time since he was always there. Sad. 
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We recently lost our former comic shop owner too. He sold it to his nephew who changed the name and location, but it'll always be Bobs Comics to me.
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When did Planetary start? I've been slowly going through New Mutants through X-Force and I'm on issue 102 of X-Force volume 1. It's Warren Ellis and it's basically Planetary with Pete Wisdom in the Elijah Snow role and some stuff about science cities and transdimensional travelers and such. This is may 2000 issue. EDIT: Also, what the gently caress even happened between 101 and 102? 101 is about all mutants losing their powers and now suddenly, every one is in black, thirty years old, and working for Wisdom. I was waiting for the reveal that this was an alternate reality all issue. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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X-O posted:DeConnick is not a very good writer so that explains that. Aphrodite posted:They're actually in order, not that it makes that clear. Soonmot posted:EDIT: Also, what the gently caress even happened between 101 and 102? 101 is about all mutants losing their powers and now suddenly, every one is in black, thirty years old, and working for Wisdom. I was waiting for the reveal that this was an alternate reality all issue. irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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Soonmot posted:EDIT: Also, what the gently caress even happened between 101 and 102? 101 is about all mutants losing their powers and now suddenly, every one is in black, thirty years old, and working for Wisdom. I was waiting for the reveal that this was an alternate reality all issue.
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Soonmot posted:When did Planetary start? The initial preview came out in mid-late 1998, #1 came out in early '99.
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Three issues in it flashes back and reveals what went down. I think I was just getting back into comic books around this time, but I wasn't getting any Marvel or non-Vertigo DC.
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redbackground posted:The initial preview came out in mid-late 1998, #1 came out in early '99. And the final issue (#27) came out in 2009.
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muscles like this! posted:And the final issue (#27) came out in 2009. Which never ceases to make me laugh.
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Hey, what the gently caress happened to Miracleman? They get two issues away from being all caught up and then just... stop? There are two issues to still reprint, it's not even like they're waiting on new content yet! Was the whole thing just an elaborate troll?
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