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Monstress: I still barely have any idea what's going on, and it's still so drat beautiful that I don't care.
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IUG posted:So I was just looking at the Image solicits for September because I never did, and I was hoping October's was going to be out. No, it finished at 193. The last issue is listed as being in Compendium 4, Omnibus 8 and Volume 32, so I'd guess it's just a typo.
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Andrigaar posted:Looks like Paper Girls ends in a week. I only have the trades on Comixology, so I'll be 5 issues behind when that lands.
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So I just got the Archie Unlimited app and went through through all of Afterlife With Archie and The Married Life. Dang, they really got me. Especially the ending of The Married Life. I think they even foreshadowed it as far back as Issue #11.
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I briefly talked about this in the general thread, but... I'm not wholly sure the current Archie vs Predator 2 is well-written (the dialog didn't feel like it flowed to me), but it's certainly ambitious--it actually ties in to the Married Life comics, and others, via the multiverse, with Betty and Veronica seeking to undo the Predator's kills via Memory Lane, which was the plot device for creating the Married Life series. They also acknowledged all the other weird bits of Archie comics like the time Betty summoned the devil, or Sabrina being a witch. Also, I wonder if Archie Comics is planning something weirder than usual--I noticed that 4 of their ongoing titles all deal with some threat to the Archie Multiverse at large.
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I'd be shocked if they're doing some sort of crossover thing, but I also wouldn't be shocked if that's the crux of AvP2, specifically.
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Yeah, issue 1 came out a week or two ago. Same writer, art by Robert Hack. It's a lot weirder than the first one, if you can believe it.
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I mean if it’s a direct continuation of the last one which ended with a really hosed up turn then I’m all for it but I’m curious as to how they follow up Archie being a loving predator
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Aug 14, 2019 18:10
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I mean if it’s a direct continuation of the last one which ended with a really hosed up turn then I’m all for it but I’m curious as to how they follow up Archie being a loving predator
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Aug 14, 2019 18:31
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Kieron Gillen's Once & Future is an extremely Kieron Gillen book, but I think it's the first comic I've read that's specifically about an sf/f take on Brexit.
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Anyone else read Coffinbound? I got some strong Kirby vibes from the art, and the story was extremely weird.
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End of Life of Toyo Harada is good. I wondered how Dysart was going to wrap this up without eliminating Harada, a boring preservation of the global status quo, or making the entire setting unrecognisable. He managed something in between which works. I hope he returns to writing Peter Stanchek. Obviously Stanchek and Harada are paired narratively, and Harada is obsessed with him, I think in large part because he has an emotional need for the the acceptance of Stanchek. The only other god-tier psiot in Valiant endorsing what Harada's done would allay Toyo's misgivings about the very immoral things he's done in pursuing good ends (again, Harada is a great anti-villain). But Peter's not been developed to where he's intelligent and mature enough to be taken seriously by readers as on a par with Harada (unsurprising given at the start of the Harbinger stuff he was a homeless kid with substance abuse issues and now he can't be much older than 20). I'd like Dysart to be able to do that.
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Android Blues posted:I was a little kid at the time (like, really small, and even then it was re-runs I think?) but I liked Venus. Her whole thing was that she'd trained under Splinter's mystic pen pal and learned shinobi magic, and I thought it was cool that there was a) a girl turtle and b) a magic turtle. In retrospect, though, her character design was really awful. The fact that she has weird shell boobs is just very silly. Going back a bit, but just caught up on the thread, and sadly, this is a Thing I have Opinions on. The big issue with Venus, in my view, is actually two things: One, the show was clearly squeamish about having a female character taking part in fights, hence why she had the magic powers so she could shoot fireballs and stuff at the Foot, instead of fighting them like the boys did, which is already a red flag of "why are you even doing this when you clearly don't get why it should be done?"; and two, her characterisation completely plays at odds with the core concept of the TMNT, which is that the turtles are teenage boys AND ninjas. I'm also way behind on the IDW book (I get the omnibuses digitally) but I always felt if you were going to do the female turtle concept, at least in a similar 'there was actually five turtles in the ooze and one got separated' vein as The Next Mutation tried, then actually lean into the teen concept and have her growing up in a different borough, or across in Jersey and have that be a running bit with the inter-city/state rivalry. Give her an actual weapon, like a kusarigama or something. Have her and April bond over being the only girls in the group, or liking the same music or fashion. Don't be afraid to actually have the character being feminine but also don't make that a thing that stops her participating in the action. (I actually think the best way to do this in a reboot is to split Michaelangelo into two characters: Mikey and Angie.) Like, there's a million ways to do it and that Fox show did almost literally the worst version of it.
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Gaz-L posted:Going back a bit, but just caught up on the thread, and sadly, this is a Thing I have Opinions on. The big issue with Venus, in my view, is actually two things: One, the show was clearly squeamish about having a female character taking part in fights, hence why she had the magic powers so she could shoot fireballs and stuff at the Foot, instead of fighting them like the boys did, which is already a red flag of "why are you even doing this when you clearly don't get why it should be done?"; and two, her characterisation completely plays at odds with the core concept of the TMNT, which is that the turtles are teenage boys AND ninjas. Probably because the only motivation was making sure they had a new toy to sell at Xmas
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Probably because the only motivation was making sure they had a new toy to sell at Xmas LOL, making a toy of a girl character for a boy show - Toy executives, 1950-present
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My main problem with Venus was that the boys were all named after important Renaissance artists and she was named after a work of art. I know male artists are more prominent in our pop culture but it's not like there weren't any important female artists from that period.
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i posted the interview in the gen chat thread a few days ago, but now that im actually reading it, yeah looks like uber may never get finishedquote:Nrama: You've got Die ongoing right now, Once and Future out this week with Dan Mora, are there any other creator-owned projects that you're working on now that we might find out about soon, or do you have any updates on Ludocrats or Uber Invasion?
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Aug 19, 2019 18:11
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What the gently caress. (I assume it's something to do with Avatar.)
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Aug 19, 2019 18:43
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That's insane if Uber is never finished.
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Once and Future was a very "gently caress YEAH!" comic for me, so I'm looking forward to more of that, at least.
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i asked kieron if he could just release the scripts (bottom post first). turns out uber isnt a creator owned project
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Aug 19, 2019 19:25
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Goddammit Avatar.
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I don't read Uber, but why is that "goddamnit Avatar"? Sounds like he's the one holding it up.
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Towards the Uber hiatus the issues would be delayed, advertized, delayed again, not show up on comixology, not show up at all, have more huge delays, then a huge relaunch effort with a dozen new covers and rereleases that didnt actually turn up. Sheer idiocy.
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Avatar does gore-porn/actual porn, dunno how surprised I am that they’re terrible businessmen. I really want to see Über end though.
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IUG posted:I don't read Uber, but why is that "goddamnit Avatar"? Sounds like he's the one holding it up.
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site posted:i asked kieron if he could just release the scripts (bottom post first). turns out uber isnt a creator owned project Well that sucks. Oh well. From the sounds of it we might at least get to see an outline of what was going to happen, contra where litigious companies sit on rights, preventing creators from doing absolutely anything (looking at you, HBO, still pissed about Carnivale).
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Picked up Pretty Violent hoping itd be more I Hate Fairyland but with superheroes. The detailed gore makes it more like Invincible the cartoon show tho. Like it goes for spilled guts and internal organs rather than the simplified but still detailed cartoon injuries in IHF.
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Did anyone else check out Strayed? It's about interplanetary colonization through the use of an astral-projecting cat named Lou which was enough to get my money. The first issue is promising so I'll follow along for now.
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So is Rat Queens still cursed or did Weibe abandoning the title and giving it to a completely new creative team absolve it of its sins? IMHO it was poo poo after Upchurch was fired and Sejic got sick (which is a shame because it felt like he was put on this earth for that book), then started to recover under the last few issues of Tess Fowler's art, then she and Weibe had a fight. I popped in for the first three issues with Owen Gieni but it was just... boring, like Weibe was so scared of where the book was going before that he had to expunge all tone other than frat humor. I'm mostly wondering if it's still a title that would result in people dogpiling me or mass unfollows if I post funny panels from it on social media.
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I had no idea there were new issues of Rat Queens. Signing up to draw that book is like signing up to be the drummer for Spinal Tap.
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Skwirl posted:I had no idea there were new issues of Rat Queens. Signing up to draw that book is like signing up to be the drummer for Spinal Tap. Choking to death on someone else's vomit is very Rat Queens, I'll give you that.
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Fool me once, shame on you. I'm just wondering how it's going to fall over again this time.
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Finished reading Godshaper and... hmm. I mean the love and detail in the book is great. Tons of queer content, deep setting, real world parallels, etc. but when you throw in such a huge thing into ‘our world but X happened’, in this case everyone gets a god, theres a lot to ask of suspension of disbelief. For me, why shapers are so hated and persecuted is the big mental hurdle that I just couldnt jump. And my grounding of earlier American music is pretty shaky so i guess that didnt help. I did appreciate it tho.
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Me, a trans lady reading Die #6: *incoherent hollering*
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Kieron Gillen announced in his newsletter that Once & Future was not ongoing. But now it is!
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You know what's not ongoing anymore? WICDIV dang its weird using everyone's normal names.
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Synthbuttrange posted:You know what's not ongoing anymore? So Gillan has both DIE and Once and Future, but I need a monthly shot of Mckelvey.
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McKelvie's working through some health issues so he may but be working as much
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