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Open Marriage Night posted:Daredevil: Yellow is very good too. There’s a Fantastic Four appearance in there that’ll make you wish that team did a book about them. White was delayed because Loeb and Sale were having a tiff and Loeb clearly didn't give a poo poo by the time they patched things up.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How's his Excalibur? It depends on what you're looking for. It's not really in the same vein as Claremont or Davis Excalibur. It's a bit closer to what I have read of Planetary. It's not bad, but it's not my favourite.
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Rhyno posted:I haven't checked but good money says they're remastering the original series for re-release as well. I believe they're doing two lines of Epics (the Dark Horse releases?) and an Omnibus line (the old Marvel releases?).
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How's his Excalibur? It's a bright spot in latter-day Excalibur, though that's damning with faint praise a bit. I wouldn't go out of your way to read it but if you're looking to muck around in the blind alleys of post-Davis Excalibur, it's a good little run to check out. That book went some weird places after Davis leaves. There the bits where it's holding close to the other X-books and then sometimes it reads like it was never touched by an editor before publication.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:When did Ellis write it? Is it good? Excalibur: His first act was to add a hard-bitten, hard-drinking, chain-smoking, caustic Essex man named Thor: Much of the story centers around a hard-bitten, hard-drinking, chain-smoking, caustic Englishman named The twist in Hellstorm is that the lead character wasn't British, he was just a hard-drinking/chain-smoking rear end in a top hat who thought superheroes were dumb and stupid and childish and had a really hot industrial/goth girlfriend. In Ultraforce, the twist was that it was an older hardcore cool dude who all of the chicks loved, like Jarvis except more badass. In Doom 2099 the twist was that basically all of the characters that weren't Doom were this.
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when Counter X started, the first thing Ellis had happen in X-Force was Pete Wisdom showed up and convinced the team to let him replace Domino as the team leader because he could show them how the world really worked
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Look, if he didn't have a lot of wisdom, how come he was called Pete Wisdom, huh? It all checks out to me.
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Rhyno posted:Marvel did it first back in the 90's. Why not do it again? Look how they handled Miracleman. Terribly?
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Well I meant how they repackaged it.
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Re: Hulk’s ball & chain in today’s new issue 
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Edge & Christian posted:People were talking a lot about whether or not Terry Long or Kenny Kong or whomever were Mary Sue/Self-Inserts but if you want an idea of how early Warren Ellis work for hire went: So what you're saying is Ellis has a small crush on John Constantine.
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I vaguely recall a post from years back that said there was an issue of Excalibur pitched where Ellis said, "Issue 28, Kitty Pryde gets hosed." and Editorial said, "Alright but make it classy."
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Edge & Christian posted:People were talking a lot about whether or not Terry Long or Kenny Kong or whomever were Mary Sue/Self-Inserts but if you want an idea of how early Warren Ellis work for hire went: Stuff like this is the reason why I found it fascinating that Castlevania s2 treats being a Warren Ellis archetype as a state of being emotionally stunted that the protagonist needs to grow out of by helping people
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I feel like that's been a thing for a while, because Karnak had its share of "see he's an rear end in a top hat to everyone and now he's alone drinking a glass of water and being really sad about it"
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maybe he got old and realized being a chain smoking rear end in a top hat is a lovely way to live in the long run
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^burtle posted:I vaguely recall a post from years back that said there was an issue of Excalibur pitched where Ellis said, "Issue 28, Kitty Pryde gets hosed." and Editorial said, "Alright but make it classy." quote:I called Bob Harras and said, “Excalibur #90, Kitty Pryde gets hosed.” He went deadly silent, then he said, “Just try and keep it tasteful.” There is another great Ellis quote from the middle 1990s where he poo poo all over the concept of computers because REAL FUCKIN' MEN write on typewriters, can you imagine goddamn Ernest Hemingway pecking away at a "Mac"? Show Charles Bukowski as "word proccessor" and he'd crack a loving lager bottle over your skull. Don't trust computers! TYPEWRITERS OR BUST!" Obviously Ellis's views have evolved on that topic, and I imagine they've evolved on how wonderful it would be to live life as a more cartoonish version of John Constantine. Though the computers remembered, which is assume why he lost all his work on all of those projects that never finished/got severely delayed over the course of a decade or so.
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Has Ellis written anything for more than 10 issues since that Freak Angels web comic?
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Skwirl posted:Has Ellis written anything for more than 10 issues since that Freak Angels web comic? Two of his creator-owned books at Image (Injection and Trees) hit 15 and 14 issues respectively over the course of a couple of years, no idea if they're done or just delayed at this point, neither has had a new issue in over a year. His James Bond comic (which hinges largely upon the definition of "Eidolon" being a big dramatic reveal) ran for twelve issues.
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Edge & Christian posted:That was probably me, it's a gem from an old interview: There we go. Too bad Injection died on the vine, I got the sense Shalvey thought this was going to be his breakout work ala Saga and bailed on the gigs Moon Knight would have got him and has just kind of been around in the meantime.
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^burtle posted:Too bad Injection died on the vine, I got the sense Shalvey thought this was going to be his breakout work ala Saga and bailed on the gigs Moon Knight would have got him and has just kind of been around in the meantime. According to Ellis's newsletter, it's because Jordie Bellaire's Redlands ended up being more popular than expected, so her time's been at a premium, and Shalvey ended up on a signing tour that's taken up a lot of his year. Shalvey's also done a lot of incidental work for Marvel in the meantime, like the Deadpool vs. Old Man Logan mini. As a result, the between-arcs break they'd always planned on ended up extending to the entirety of 2018, and they're planning to finish Injection in 2019.
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The other Hulk comic out today is part of a mini event? Not a standalone in other words.
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Synthbuttrange posted:The other Hulk comic out today is part of a mini event? Not a standalone in other words. Yes. It’s a reunion of the defenders and it has a nice banner
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes. It’s a reunion of the defenders and it has a nice banner
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^burtle posted:I vaguely recall a post from years back that said there was an issue of Excalibur pitched where Ellis said, "Issue 28, Kitty Pryde gets hosed." and Editorial said, "Alright but make it classy." In fairness to Ellis, when Kitty and Pete do get together it was treated with class. Like it was done In a mature manner that most fiction misses when two characters finally getting around to hooking up.
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I feel like (aside from Hulk, of course), this wasn't the most exciting week of releases, but drat, if that X-Men X-Mas special wasn't just what I wanted from it.
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Conan's crossing over into the next Avengers weekly series. https://www.cbr.com/marvel-no-road-home-conan-the-barbarian/ 
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I don't care about Conan but I'll read this for the uhh tugs collar for the articles
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Is there a Deja Thoris series that exists? Seems like her and Red Sonja would be a good sword and sorcery series and team up.
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Yup Dynamite still does that stuff.
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site posted:I don't care about Conan but I'll read this for the uhh tugs collar for the articles I’m definitely in for Conan and I don’t mind cheesecake art generally but... this is a bit odd considering it’s Marvel and not the 60s anymore.
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Gatts posted:Is there a Deja Thoris series that exists? Seems like her and Red Sonja would be a good sword and sorcery series and team up. She's going to be in Kelly Thompson's Barbarella series.
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Jordan7hm posted:I’m definitely in for Conan and I don’t mind cheesecake art generally but... this is a bit odd considering it’s Marvel and not the 60s anymore. It's a variant
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site posted:I don't care about Conan but I'll read this for the uhh tugs collar for the articles gently caress yeah, Belit is awesome! Reading the original Howard stories, there's a lot less misogyny than you'd expect from the genre and especially the time period. The stories where Conan is part of her crew are pretty interesting. The crew is all men and they all follow her orders without any compunction, even Conan who actually respects her. The crew is either mixed or all black, which would be cool as well, but one of these stories takes place in Hyperborean Africa where there are literal monstrous dark skinned cannibal ape-men. So, that kind of ruins things.
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Soonmot posted:gently caress yeah, Belit is awesome! Reading the original Howard stories, there's a lot less misogyny than you'd expect from the genre and especially the time period. The stories where Conan is part of her crew are pretty interesting. The crew is all men and they all follow her orders without any compunction, even Conan who actually respects her. The crew is either mixed or all black, which would be cool as well, but one of these stories takes place in Hyperborean Africa where there are literal monstrous dark skinned cannibal ape-men. So, that kind of ruins things. To be fair, there are cannibal *insert cultural stereotype here* men in basically every part of Hyborea.
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I just got caught up to Immortal Hulk, so drat great. Is the skin sniper Jigsaw from Punisher? I've only seen him in that PS2 game. Is the Best Defense shaping up to be something good? e: Bushwhacker not Jigsaw, I got my PS2 Punisher villains mixed up Kikkoman fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Dec 8, 2018 |
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Isn't Jigsaw's thing just a stitched up face, not malleable flesh? I've only seen him in Punisher Warzone, though. edit: He's Bushwacker https://comicvine.gamespot.com/bushwacker/4005-11932/
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site posted:I don't care about Conan but I'll read this for the uhh tugs collar for the articles That lady looks like she showed up to make Maika Halfwolf's life miserable so I'm gonna guess this is a Takeda cover? Love her work, even if this looks like something I'd need to be wearing a trenchcoat to purchase.
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Diet Poison posted:That lady looks like she showed up to make Maika Halfwolf's life miserable so I'm gonna guess this is a Takeda cover? Love her work, even if this looks like something I'd need to be wearing a trenchcoat to purchase. Yes, that’s a Sana Takeda cover. The team on the book is Tini Howard and Kate Niemczyk. I’m not familiar with Howard but I’m seeing the name pop up in a number of books I’m interested in lately.
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It's a loving crime barely anyone reads monstress cuz takeda is easily one of the best artists working today and she's hardly talked about anywhere
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