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I bagged on the issue a lot, but there are honestly some cool moments in it, particularly art-wise. There's a page where Batman spits his blood at Thawne's forehead, and the little drop of blood on that yellow costume -- with Thawne doing his little evil grin -- was clearly evocative of the Watchmen logo. I read that and was like, ah, that's the sort of clever dipshittery from writers that I enjoy.
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Eh Thawne dies all the time. A version of him who time traveled a bit into the future will show up eventually.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:57
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MonsterEnvy posted:Eh Thawne dies all the time. A version of him who time traveled a bit into the future will show up eventually. Oh yeah no doubt.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:59
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Got caught up on the first three issues of The Wild Storm and liked it a lot even if I wasn't totally sure what was going on 100% of the time. Is there anything from the past I can read to help give context?
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Apr 20, 2017 01:05
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Not narratively, but it might help to just Google what the previous incarnations of the characters were about. There was also a couple of months of back matter before the first issue where Ellis lays out the world a bit.
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Apr 20, 2017 01:39
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Who here is reading Supersons? It is seriously the cutest series I have seen out of DC since Gotham Academy. Damian and Jon just being brats to each other  Also looks like it's finally caught up to where its first issue started off on.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:09
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man, the button starting off strong
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Apr 20, 2017 02:23
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lotus circle posted:Who here is reading Supersons? It is seriously the cutest series I have seen out of DC since Gotham Academy. Damian and Jon just being brats to each other I really dig it. I love the art.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:26
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Blockhouse posted:man, the button starting off strong drat right it dide. All covers are sold out at Diamond too. DC is gonna have gangbuster April/May sales numbers.
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Apr 20, 2017 04:10
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Wow, every DC comic I bought this week was really strong. Granted, I forgot Odyssey of the Amazons, but whatever.
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Apr 20, 2017 04:15
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Everyone should forget Odyssey of the Amazons
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You all know I'm a big ho for the Amazons but I have zero interest in that series anymore. I've read worse, mind you, it's just that this is a particularly uninteresting sort of uninteresting story, and the art is just actively unappealing.
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So throwing away the Legends of Wonder Woman lady for the co-creator of the Underworld movie franchise didn't work out?
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Rhyno posted:drat right it dide. All covers are sold out at Diamond too. DC is gonna have gangbuster April/May sales numbers. I couldn't bring myself to spend the extra dollar on the special cover. Plus I'm a sucker for the Sale covers.
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pubic works project posted:I couldn't bring myself to spend the extra dollar on the special cover. Plus I'm a sucker for the Sale covers. No judgement my man. We have a standard two per person limit on every comic unless you order ahead of time. Well since we loaded the hell up we decided to count each variant as it's own book so I had about a half dozen people buy two of all four covers today. It was bonkers how many people grabbed them up.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:16
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I got the lenticular cover because the comic shop I go to saved one for me. 
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Apr 20, 2017 05:18
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I put them back for every preorder.
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I heard on a comic shop's new releases video that you could just treat this as a #2 issue to the Rebirth Special, but I'm delighted to see that a poor new reader will need to go look up Flashpoint. Or more likely just assume that Bruce's dad was also a Batman.
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That's a pretty fair assessment. I'm wondering if they're going to announce the actual Rebirth #2 at C2E2 since all the rumor guys were positive it was gonna hit right when the 25th issues drop.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I heard on a comic shop's new releases video that you could just treat this as a #2 issue to the Rebirth Special, but I'm delighted to see that a poor new reader will need to go look up Flashpoint. Or more likely just assume that Bruce's dad was also a Batman. I assumed that was Bruce's dad appearing from some timeline where he had survived and become a Batfather due to dimensional hopping timeline fuckery. I've never even considered looking for backstory to explain it, or any other weird visions since they happen to basically everyone in comics, I just figured if it was important it'd become clear in time. Was Flashpoint good? I've never really been excited by the Flash or any of his stories, though The Button 1 has got me a little more into the idea.
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Shovelmint posted:I assumed that was Bruce's dad appearing from some timeline where he had survived and become a Batfather due to dimensional hopping timeline fuckery. I've never even considered looking for backstory to explain it, or any other weird visions since they happen to basically everyone in comics, I just figured if it was important it'd become clear in time. It was not good.
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Shovelmint posted:I assumed that was Bruce's dad appearing from some timeline where he had survived and become a Batfather due to dimensional hopping timeline fuckery. I've never even considered looking for backstory to explain it, or any other weird visions since they happen to basically everyone in comics, I just figured if it was important it'd become clear in time. The main series would have been an ok Flash story if not for DC blowing it up into a big crossover and then reboot justification.
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It had a few fun alt-universe ideas but wasn't great overall and really didn't feel like the kind of story that should end / launch an entire universe.
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Shovelmint posted:Was Flashpoint good?
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Is the Rebirth one-shot worth reading if I don't actually care too much about the old universe. Here's my synopsis of what happened, this totally works for me: All the superheroes in the world reach up towards a light and bam, have some new series. If I need more backstory, I'm always happy to read comics, but the Batpeople and the Superpeople are punching baddies, and the details don't seem too important.
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 quote:That’s why DC Comics’ newest line of comic books, Dark Matter, is teaming up superstar artists with equally superstar writers — on a bevy of brand-new characters, to boot. In the video above, some of DC’s top creators describe the thinking behind the line. http://ew.com/books/2017/04/20/dc-comics-superstars-unite-for-new-dark-matter-line/
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Shovelmint posted:Is the Rebirth one-shot worth reading if I don't actually care too much about the old universe. Here's my synopsis of what happened, this totally works for me: I think it's worth reading. It's a great launching on point for everything. Doesn't really touch on pre-New 52 stuff aside from Wally West and the button.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:
Getting a serious bloodlines vibe here. Hoping for an young animal level of good side books.
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https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/855111657646956545
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DC really diggin' deep for talent there.
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I guess kudos to DC for trying something different, but this is one of those things where regardless of the creative teams, you start taking bets for whether they'll reach 10 issues or not. Also, my favorite quote:Greg Capullo posted:the promo I did was Batman holding two battle axes, so this is the kind of crazy stuff we’re gonna see in this. What madmen!!
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Pumped for Snyder writing something non-Batman. Interesting to see Justin Jordan back. Didn't he quit? edit: And interesting the see that the promo video is 100% about these 80's/90's art dudes over any writers. I wonder if this is them pouncing on that Marvel guy's "Artists don't move the needle" comment. ee: Full descriptions here: http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/04/20/artists-take-center-stage-as-dc-introduces-dark-matter quote:THE SILENCER Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Silencer's costume is literally all pouches. This is peak 90s.
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JRJr promoting his comic in the video: "The process hasn't changed much for creating characters. Maybe that's good, maybe it's not." Maybe talk about how you've made a new badass female action hero or something, ya dope. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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glitchwraith posted:Silencer's costume is literally all pouches. This is peak 90s. Also, one of the characters on Rocafort's book is named Killspeed.
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I'll give everything a three issue test at least. New Challengers, Silencer, and Metal seem neat, but this isn't the most exciting announcement in the world.
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This all looks extremely hilarious but will any of it be good?
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 Is he cool? Listen, bud. He's got an arrow pointing at his junk. Look out! Here comes the Sideways-Man. edit: And, hey! BS on not getting a female "master" in there. Jill Thompson or something. ee: I'll definitely try a new Tynion 4 comic, but this is hilarious. 
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Most of that art looks like some mashed grimdark and the 90s together to make Xtreme D4rk.
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Honestly out of all of those only New Challengers sounds like fun, and also has a creative team I can get behind. Most of those title's premises just seem instantly dated.
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