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Man I totally missed this thread. Fuckin' September. Anyway, going through six pages, Batman is my favorite expy (Shadow), and I buy new comics digitally and some occasional trades/hardcovers, and have been doing that for awhile. I have zero desire to return to paper. I currently read on a 12.9" iPad Pro which is just about the perfect size to read two pages in landscape. Previously, I was using an iPad Air, which was good for a single page in portrait. Double pages were just a little too small to read comfortably. In not good news, my parents are staring down a hurricane and don't seem to be in any hurry to evacuate. They're not in evacuation zone, but it might still be bad. I think my hurricane instincts have dulled since I moved out of Florida.
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I got a bunch of free Marvel digital trades from buying print books on Amazon or something, and I picked up the first volume of Ennis's Punisher. I just finished the first 4 Vietnam issues and Jesus Christ--is his entire run this good?
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Sep 8, 2017 02:45
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Rhyno posted:I've had a few inquiries about it so we ordered more than initially. We recently bought a collection that had a high grade original Mister Miracle #1 and there was a feeding frenzy over it the day we displayed it. We ended up selling it for $15 more than I had priced it at because we had so much interest and people in the store were arguing over it. Rightly so, Mister Miracle is loving great.
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Sep 8, 2017 02:49
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A Strange Aeon posted:I got a bunch of free Marvel digital trades from buying print books on Amazon or something, and I picked up the first volume of Ennis's Punisher. More or less. There's parts that aren't as good as other parts, but it's pretty solid all the way through.
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Sep 8, 2017 02:53
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Punisher 2099 is totally intentionally over the top. Pat Mills definitely used his tenure to make an even more nutty Dredd and push it to the max. Al Ewing did a good job picking up that ball and running with it by putting Punisher 2099 in Contest of Champions. X-Men 2099 is interesting but just kinda...there. They really kind of did their own thing roaming the deserts and trying to find a safe haven for mutants. It never really crossed over with the other 2099 titles much and since they're in the wastelands a lot, it's missing the dystopian sci-fi setting the other books have. Ghost Rider 2099 was pretty neat and doesn't get much attention either. It was full on Neuromancer cyberpunk and had some great art by Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, and Ashley Wood. Unfortunately, the inker seemingly struggled mightily with handling Wood's art and many of those issues look like someone just poured black ink all over the page.
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Sep 8, 2017 03:21
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Tato posted:Punisher 2099 is totally intentionally over the top. Pat Mills definitely used his tenure to make an even more nutty Dredd and push it to the max. Al Ewing did a good job picking up that ball and running with it by putting Punisher 2099 in Contest of Champions. quote:Ghost Rider 2099 was pretty neat and doesn't get much attention either. It was full on Neuromancer cyberpunk and had some great art by Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, and Ashley Wood. Unfortunately, the inker seemingly struggled mightily with handling Wood's art and many of those issues look like someone just poured black ink all over the page.
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Sep 8, 2017 03:50
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A Strange Aeon posted:I got a bunch of free Marvel digital trades from buying print books on Amazon or something, and I picked up the first volume of Ennis's Punisher. Skip volumes 2, kitchen Irish, and volume 8, widowmaker. Pick up the tbp From First to Last or alternatively find the one shots, The Tyger and The Cell
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Sep 8, 2017 05:12
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site posted:Skip volumes 2, kitchen Irish, and volume 8, widowmaker. Pick up the tbp From First to Last or alternatively find the one shots, The Tyger and The Cell Nah, those are good too.
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Sep 8, 2017 05:19
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Skwirl posted:Nah, those are good too. They Are not
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Sep 8, 2017 05:23
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My shartlo cosplay costume for New York Comica is mumbling along nicely, Estherban. Just need to finger out how to keep the glasses in place and it's groove sailing from here on out.
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Sep 8, 2017 05:25
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site posted:They I at least appreciate Kitchen Irish because it's a Punisher story where everything would be the same if Punisher never showed up
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Sep 8, 2017 05:26
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Gavok posted:My shartlo cosplay costume for New York Comica is mumbling along nicely, Estherban. You better not film any curséd VHS tapes while you're there.
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Sep 8, 2017 05:28
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Lurdiak posted:You better not film any curséd VHS tapes while you're there. Like you have any beige enough hardware.
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Sep 8, 2017 05:30
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Skwirl posted:I at least appreciate Kitchen Irish because it's a Punisher story where everything would be the same if Punisher never showed up That's actually one of the reasons why it sucks balls. It's Garth venting about The Troubles featuring a fairly racist charicature in maginnty and is a story that has nothing to do with Frank castle at all. Widowmaker, similarly, is a good idea in theory, how would the family of someone killed by the punisher react to them being murdered?, but (imo) is poorly written, the villains are (again) bland and uninteresting and the plot literally depends on Frank sitting in a bed not doing anything for entire arc because he chooses not to break the cuffs (which is shown to be a conscious choice) until the last three pages of the book, which if he had cared he might've saved a woman from suicide. It's really loving dumb
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Sep 8, 2017 05:36
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Oh, I forgot the expy theme. I suppose my favourite expy is Zorro, who's an expy of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Sep 8, 2017 10:33
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Gavok posted:My shartlo cosplay costume for New York Comica is mumbling along nicely, Estherban. how you gonna keep from trippin' over all those loose percent signs
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Sep 8, 2017 12:17
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Grant Morrison sale on Comixology
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Sep 8, 2017 15:27
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TenCentFang posted:Punisher 2099 is a meme and everyone seems to like Spider-Man 2099, but no one ever talks about X-Men 2099, which I really liked. Or at least I seem to remember liking, I could be wrong, I've liked terrible things in the past. It was all right. It was nice that it didn't have the sprawling, convoluted continuity of Original Recipe X-Men, but the characters weren't very compelling.
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Sep 8, 2017 23:30
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Was Ghost Rider 2099 the same demon that caused the normal Ghost Riders? Curious for any connections between that setting and the mainstream Marvel one.
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Sep 9, 2017 00:13
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Ghost Rider 2099 was entirely unsupernatural. He was a hacker who's mind got uploaded to the future internet and got a  cyborg body with a chainsaw fist. It ruled.
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Sep 9, 2017 00:23
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I remember X-Men 2099 having a character who turned into a green-glowing skeleton and I thought he looked loving awesome and wanted him to be in all the comics. Google says the characters name is Skullfire. That is just the best name ever, and now I am even sadder that he wasn't in all the comics. Madkal fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 9, 2017 00:34
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He was such an awful character.
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Sep 9, 2017 00:44
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Ghostlight posted:He was such an awful character. OTOH flaming green skeleton!
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Sep 9, 2017 00:58
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There's always Blight from Batman Beyond.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:00
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TenCentFang posted:There's always Blight from Batman Beyond. You mean Norman Osborn.
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Lurdiak posted:You mean Norman Osborn. My favorite Batman is Spider-Man and vice versa. Hot drat that show was good.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:07
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TenCentFang posted:There's always Blight from Batman Beyond. Dang, forgot about him. Also Dr. Phosphorous. Green-glowing skeletons just make awesome looking villains.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:13
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My friend was telling me about the newish Batman series and he mentioned Gotham Girl but I thought he said Goblin Girl and that made me wonder if Green Goblin ever had a female teenage sidekick named Goblin Girl.
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A Strange Aeon posted:My friend was telling me about the newish Batman series and he mentioned Gotham Girl but I thought he said Goblin Girl and that made me wonder if Green Goblin ever had a female teenage sidekick named Goblin Girl. That will be the handle of the osborne/gwen stacy love child that pops up for the next spidey event in two years
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Sep 9, 2017 02:42
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A Strange Aeon posted:My friend was telling me about the newish Batman series and he mentioned Gotham Girl but I thought he said Goblin Girl and that made me wonder if Green Goblin ever had a female teenage sidekick named Goblin Girl. The closest to that was Menace, one of the many ill-advised and forgettable villains during Brand New Day. She was in her 20s, though.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:10
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Lurdiak posted:The closest to that was Menace, one of the many ill-advised and forgettable villains during Brand New Day. She was in her 20s, though. Goblin Girl is a great name for a character like that--maybe we'll see her someday.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:32
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A Strange Aeon posted:Goblin Girl is a great name for a character like that--maybe we'll see her someday. Eventually all of the Spider-Man villains will have quirky teen girl anti-hero versions of themselves.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:35
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Guy Goodbody posted:Eventually all of the Spider-Man villains will have quirky teen girl anti-hero versions of themselves. Aunt May will turn evil and become Lady Vulture.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:43
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TenCentFang posted:Aunt May will turn evil and become Lady Vulture. But then they'll bring back the "real" Aunt May from Peter's memories and she'll defeat Lady Vulture herself in the epic crossover One More May.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:54
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Well there is Goblin Queen who might as well me Gwen Stacy to add some confusion into whoever the gently caress Madeline Pryor was.
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Sep 9, 2017 04:42
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Have they made her more complicated than a Jean clone?
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Sep 9, 2017 04:49
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Guy Goodbody posted:Eventually all of the Spider-Man villains will have quirky teen girl anti-hero versions of themselves. Are there any of those? Gwenpool doesn't count because Deadpool has never really been a Spider-Man villain.
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Sep 9, 2017 04:53
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Girl Venom.
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Skwirl posted:Are there any of those? Gwenpool doesn't count because Deadpool has never really been a Spider-Man villain. That's apparently gonna change soon since they plan for Deadpool to do a heel turn and it's going to turn their team-up series to Deadpool vs Spider-man, unless that was a rumor.
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Zoro posted:That's apparently gonna change soon since they plan for Deadpool to do a heel turn and it's going to turn their team-up series to Deadpool vs Spider-man, unless that was a rumor. That's not related to what I said at all, kinda interesting though.
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