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Skwirl posted:https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-digital-releases-to-continue-diamon-shutdown-coronavirus/ "All our data shows the digital consumer and the physical consumer are two different audiences." That's interesting, I never knew that. I guess I'm a rare hybrid, though rapidly going digital.
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Hey can you guys do me a favor? Can you go to the Wikipedia page for Aunt May, and look at the picture, and then explain to me what the gently caress is going on?
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If you’re talking about the arm, she’s taking off a rubber cleaning glove. If you’re talking about everything else, that’s Humberto Ramos.
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lifg posted:"All our data shows the digital consumer and the physical consumer are two different audiences." It makes sense, at least for floppies. If you’re going digital, you’re probably fully digital outside of the rare special release or collected edition.
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Mr. Maltose posted:If you’re talking about the arm, she’s taking off a rubber cleaning glove. Ahh, OK. I thought she didn't have bones in her arm Mr. Maltose posted:If you’re talking about everything else, that’s Humberto Ramos. He just drew a standard babe and then drew three extra lines on her face so you can tell she's old. The absolute coward. If you want Aunt May to be both old and a babe at the same time, have the courage to draw her like Dr. Kureha 
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Continuing February 1996 with an intentionally short post. I thought this time I'd hit the new series that started in February 1996. See if you can spot a theme! Black & White #1 - Oh boy, a revival of one of the most incoherent series of 1994. Let me contain my enthusiasm. To remind you what this was about, future Comicsgater Art Thibert has the story of former superspy Black who hangs out where violent heiress/CEO White and they shoot things. In their previous series, they fought White's uncle in one of the most confusing stories out there because no plot element was carried forward more than a few pages. Not Indiana Jones is making his way through a Mexican jungle on the run after selling an artifact. He's looking for someone named Juju who he was supposed to have met already. Did that just trigger an alarm bell in your head? Good, because it's exactly what you're thinking. Juju is a woman of African descent with pink hair wearing one of the more improbable dresses I've seen in comics and a lot of jewelry with skull motifs. Does she use voodoo? Why would you even have to ask? Anyway, when Juju shows up, she's the person he was running from even though he just said that he wanted to see her. So we're getting into the completely incoherent storytelling quickly. She wants the artifact but it was stolen from his tent. So Juju uses her Vaudun to summon a bunch of snakes and kills Not Indiana Jones. We finally get some chunks of exposition that make some sense out of the previous series: the city that Black and White live in is called "Maltese", though the back up strips they were in before identified the city as New York. Of course, calling a city "Maltese" makes absolutely no sense and just makes me think Thibert has no idea that Malta is an actual place and "Maltese" is an adjective describing things related to that place. Anyway, in the city of Maltese, White is still a wanted criminal and she's hiding out with Black, reading a newspaper about how the artifact people are looking for is the key to the Garden of Eden. Grey, Black's valet, give White backstory on Black's father which is completely different from the backstory we got on Black's father from previous stories. Also, White says Black never talked about his father even though they had a whole adventure that involved that. The new backstory is that Black's father took a bullet for the queen as she was doing a JFK style convertible drive through London. Then she goes and hits a small robot with a stick for a couple of pages. Black's in London and as he arrives at his hotel he's attacked by spies who shoot him. But they're there to recruit him for a job. His former boss blackmails him over the knowledge that Black is half of Black and White. Not that anyone would know who Black and White are. Black calls White and Grey to tell them he's been pulled back in and is going to use the job for his own agenda, which makes White demand that he return at once. Black heads out to pay his respects at his father's grave and then zombies come out of the ground and attack. White and Grey show up, though, and have brought his costume which looks pretty much identical to the clothes he was wearing before. But there's a lot of zombies coming out of the ground and it's too be continued. But the joke's on Thibert, this is the only issue of the second Black & White series! I don't have to ready any more of this poo poo! There's a cover for Black & White #2 at the back of the issue, but that's all that exists of the comic. Well, there's one more thing. There's also a send away coupon for Black & White pogs. I even found an eBay auction for autographed ones that will end right about the time that I post this with zero bids; if they weren't $30 for the minimum bid I might have gotten them to give away to someone in this thread because I'm a monster. Lethal #1 - Remember Lethal? The female sword-carrying assassin that appeared in a few issues of Brigade toward the beginning? No? Well that's probably because she never did anything in the series so I barely mentioned her. Well, she has her own series now. Total fairness to the book here, it's got a fun opening. Lethal has been stuck in an alternate timeline for years and is getting fed up with all of the minor changes in the world like the months being spelled differently so on Febuary 31st she finally flips out and causes chaos. Except the universe she's in is a utopia so there's no one to take her aggression out on and the most she can do is trespass until a robot ninja cop shows up. The robot ninja cop isn't there to fight, just make strong arguments to dissuade her behavior. But first it has to subdue her with small talk. That's where the fun ends, sadly. After Lethal destroys the robot, its master Kayo, another former Brigade member, decides to convert the roboninjas to combat models. He's building a time machine so that he can change history at a whim. Those new ninjarobos go after Lethal and she cheerfully defeats them with the assistance of an assload of butt shots. Using parts she's salvages from the robots, she's built herself a supercomputer that can hack the evil corporations and discovers their time machine testing schedule. So off she goes to their place, breaks in, and fights more ninjabots. Lethal gets to the time machine and then realizes that if she uses it to travel back and put her timeline right again, the evil corporation can just it themselves to do whatever she wants. Should she use it for personal benefit or protect the timeline? As Lethal is making up her mind, she's attacked by a woman and it's to be continued. Whoops! This is the only issue of Lethal that exists! Another cliffhanger that will never be resolved. After that fun opening, it really goes downhill fast since it just leans into the robots saying "wacky" things as humor. I wouldn't have minded Lethal sliding from earth to earth and trying to deal with the mundane differences with violence. Oh well, it feels like this was turning into something less interesting so I can't say it's a great loss. Avengelyne: Deadly Sins #1 - The comic who false claimed to be made in February 1995's proper time has finally come. Avengelyne left behind the city of angels for sin city (there's zero chance that they avoid that line in the comic) and will fight the seven deadly sins. Which one will get the most screen time? I've got a sneaking suspicious it might be Lust... Avengelyne and Peter get off the bus in Las Vegas after leaving Los Angeles by car. Don't worry, there's a helpful editor's not that explains the events of a car breakdown in between issues just haven't been shown yet. The sins are already active in Vegas where Green and Envy manipulate some people in a casino to kill each other. Lust gets a man to abandon his wife and daughter for a prostitute while Gluttony is going to eat his kid. Pride convinces a white tiger to attack Siegfried and Roy (whoops) while Wrath just soaks up the panic this causes. Sloth is in a misty cemetery and raises an army of the dead. Avengelyne and Peter have made their way to the home of Peter's sister and she shows them the news as they come in. Everyone is going crazy on the strip and Avengelyne immediately recognizes the handiwork of the deadly sins. We get some backstory about Peter's dad hating that he's a priest and Avengelyne explaining that the Seven Deadly Sins are invisible demons that make people do bad things. She's going to go out and fight them and Peter insists on coming along. In the ruins of the strip Lust takes over Peter and makes him get grabby with Avengelyne. She just knocks him out with one punch. More of the seven move in and Avengelyne is badly wounded by Sloth's undead army. She stumbles into a hotel looking for a place to hide and lick her wounds, but it's the headquarters of the seven and they're all in the lobby waiting for her. This one is actually an improvement on the previous Avengelyne series. I think it's because there's some active villains in this one instead of guys sitting around talking about how evil they are. The deadly sins have some pretty nifty visual designs even if they don't necessarily always work or are clear on what they do (Envy steals people's faces, but it wasn't obvious that's what he was doing until the last page when he talks about taking Avengelyne's). Having a nasty villain that's portrayed a threat instead of a speedbump is a radical departure for these comics. I kind of want to see what weird, messed up thing happens in this story next. It's a two parter so I'm prepared to be disappointed when it gets cut short, though. If I'm dishing out the complements, John Stinsman's art in this issue is pretty good. I had to go back and check and Stinsman's been the artist on all of the Avengelyne comics so far, but I haven't been super impressed. He's been kind of middle of the road, but it feels like his visual storytelling is improving in this comic. There's a denser, more complex panel structure that probably helps and a much better sense of place and action in his art. Maybe it helps that there isn't a lot of people sitting around a table talking about how evil they are this time around.
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https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1244976191582453763 Marvel's out, at least for a while.
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Dawgstar posted:https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1244976191582453763 truly amazing that the direct market is still capable of exerting this kind of power in 2020
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Barry Convex posted:truly amazing that the direct market is still capable of exerting this kind of power in 2020 I don't know if they have power, but imagine the ill will they'd get if they didn't do this. If they did release their comics digital only (basically), it would probably screw over my comic store. If they helped lead to end of my comic shop, I would probably stop buying Marvel comics. (I don't know if Image has stated the same thing yet, I forget which publishers are still to announce something.)
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Yeah, it'll kill most shops.Hell this is killing my previous employer. I did a curbside order for a bunch of stuff and my old boss told me things are looking really bad.
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Rhyno posted:Yeah, it'll kill most shops.Hell this is killing my previous employer. I did a curbside order for a bunch of stuff and my old boss told me things are looking really bad. Don't worry everything will come back!
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Mr Hootington posted:Don't worry everything will come back! Silver Lining: I worked with a real worthless piece of poo poo and outside of a comic & game store he's terminally unemployable. So I at least get to satisfaction that his life is going to be hell for a time.
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well, not that it was ever likely to play out otherwise, but it sure looks like "nobody publishes anything at all while they wait for DM shops to reopen" isn't going to be tenable for very long https://twitter.com/chrisarrant/status/1245002752796827648
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i was reading a thread yesterday and how not publishing comics digitally while this is happening might kill the pubs themselves by cutting off cash flow for themselves and all the freelancers they employ and killing all the books they had in production e: of course i found it immediately after posting https://twitter.com/ChaseMagnett/status/1244723273868414976
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site posted:i was reading a thread yesterday and how not publishing comics digitally while this is happening might kill the pubs themselves by cutting off cash flow for themselves and all the freelancers they employ and killing all the books they had in production but gently caress if i can find it it seems pretty clear to me that digital-only, while by no means risk-free, is going to be the least bad option for publishers/creators for the next few months and that the DM business model as it currently exists is doomed regardless of what they do or don't do with digital, but who knows what it'll take for publishers to put their needs ahead of the DM
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That's just hilarious. Any other time outside of this pandemic, you miss payments to Diamond? They don't care about your excuses, get caught up ASAP or you don't get product. It's not surprising at all that they don't have the cash to operate for two weeks without getting the money from the direct market.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:55
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Mr Hootington posted:Should have put money into savings for just an emergency. You should always have three months worth of expenses saved up. If they didn't, it's their own fault they're in this situation
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I am extremely bitter about my time in comic retail and what it did to me. If Diamond is going under? gently caress Em.
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Rhyno posted:I am extremely bitter about my time in comic retail and what it did to me. I don't know how that could happen. From everything I've seen comic shops are the delightful workplaces of joy and happiness. And you meet all the finest people as you work there. No one can hate nerds as much as nerds can because we are the only ones who know how truly awful nerds are...
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Maybe if Diamond hadn't spent so much money on avocado toast and lattes.site posted:i was reading a thread yesterday and how not publishing comics digitally while this is happening might kill the pubs themselves by cutting off cash flow for themselves and all the freelancers they employ and killing all the books they had in production Of course one of the first replies is a comicsgater.
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Random Stranger posted:I don't know how that could happen. From everything I've seen comic shops are the delightful workplaces of joy and happiness. And you meet all the finest people as you work there. My dude, I can't even tell you about how much insight have into how much I used to loathe myself and that was 100% from being at that job for so long. And the worst part is I didn't even realize how much I hated myself and my job. gently caress em all man.
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Mr Hootington posted:Should have put money into savings for just an emergency. This pandemic is pretty much showing how badly run every single "successful" business is. "Look how much money we are making" "You need to close down for a few weeks, maybe a month or two" "We need a bailout!!!!! We have no money!!!"
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Random Stranger posted:No one can hate nerds as much as nerds can because we are the only ones who know how truly awful nerds are... The Eltingville Paradox
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Skwirl posted:Maybe if Diamond hadn't spent so much money on avocado toast and lattes. HASHTAG PENCILS DOWN. As somebody else who worked in comics retail for nearly a decade, Diamond can also go take a long walk off a short pier. I'd say it was feast or famine with them but you never actually got a feast.
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Madkal posted:This pandemic is pretty much showing how badly run every single "successful" business is. I mean, not to go too deep on this but, while that's all true, it's a systemic problem in our economy. If all your competitors are riding the bleeding edge and all your downstream revenue is leveraged to the hilt, then if you want to stay in the game, you are almost forced to do the same. It's a bigger problem than just pointing at the companies that are getting hammered (except those who have been making gently caress YOU money and using it for buybacks and dividends instead of paying down their corporate debt and building a cash reserve, those guys can loving burn).
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I don't want DM comic shops to be driven out of business, but I absolutely do want the DM to lose all of its power to dictate how publishers are allowed to distribute digital comics, and if there's any silver lining to COVID-19 blowing up the business model that the comic industry has adhered to for the past 40 years or so, hopefully that's a large part of it. completely ridiculous in 2020 and frankly it's been holding back the medium
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I’ve gotten pretty disillusioned with my local shop over the last six months or so. The impeachment proceedings were a hot topic around there, and reaffirmed that a lot of the customers have terrible opinions about politics as well as comic books. It’s a depressing look at why all this Punchline crap in Batman is selling like crazy, while minority and LBGTQ+ books are still struggling for acceptance. The employees are cool, but they just don’t care about being progressive, or trying anything new with the place. Except for one guy, who is also a DJ for a local rock station, who I’ve talked with about taking the place over if the opportunity arose. I haven’t done enough comic retail to hate it, but I know if I did it full time I’d probably burn myself out trying to make the place appeal to more than just the old men and the speculators.
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Toshimo posted:I mean, not to go too deep on this but, while that's all true, it's a systemic problem in our economy. If all your competitors are riding the bleeding edge and all your downstream revenue is leveraged to the hilt, then if you want to stay in the game, you are almost forced to do the same. It's a bigger problem than just pointing at the companies that are getting hammered (except those who have been making gently caress YOU money and using it for buybacks and dividends instead of paying down their corporate debt and building a cash reserve, those guys can loving burn). None of us are celebrating the death of actual local businesses.
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For me going to the comic shop isn't just about getting comics. I created a routine around Wednesday centered around going to the shop. I requested later start times for my shift on Wedesday; I take a nice long bike ride to get to the shop; I sometimes go to the second bookshop next door to the shop to scope out some cheap graphic novels after I get my comics; I bike to the diner 5 blocks up from the shop and get "my usual"; I take a nice scenic bike ride to work. Now I could do all of this if there wasn't a comic shop to go to first, but it just wouldn't be the same Wednesday morning routine without it.
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I've been wanting something to come along to push the entire industry hard into digital only, but this way sucks. It's just a bunch of stupid people in power exerting their power and helpless people paying the price. There's no silver lining to this at all no matter the outcome.
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Barry Convex posted:I don't want DM comic shops to be driven out of business, but I absolutely do want the DM to lose all of its power to dictate how publishers are allowed to distribute digital comics, I don't know poo poo about DM. Is this true? How's does that work?
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lifg posted:I don't know poo poo about DM. Is this true? How's does that work? it's not a matter of them directly controlling digital distribution, it's that they publicly go into conniptions every time publishers consider doing anything that might conceivably incentivize consumers to switch to digital-only, which is why (AFAIK) none of the comics previously scheduled to be released as floppies tomorrow are going to be available on comiXology even though there is no other way at the moment to get comics into consumers' hands and almost certainly won't be for months X-O posted:I've been wanting something to come along to push the entire industry hard into digital only, but this way sucks. It's just a bunch of stupid people in power exerting their power and helpless people paying the price. There's no silver lining to this at all no matter the outcome. anything that involves small businesses going under does suck and of course I'm sympathetic to anyone losing their jobs and livelihoods, but it's hard to imagine whatever business model emerges from this not being an improvement so I disagree that there's no silver lining Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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Diamond absolutely sucks and the only way for the monopoly to break is to completely reinvent the direct market. If the only impact of Covid was to destroy the direct market, even if it hurts my local shop, I think stores would recover eventually, and it would be a net positive. Obviously that's not the only impact, so this sucks for all involved.
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And this is the last of the Feburary 1996 comics from Extreme/Maximum. Glory #0 - Finally, the secret origin of Glory. Maybe. It feels like the comic has been dancing around her past but getting derailed by crossovers (guess what happens next month) so maybe this is the story they've wanted to do. Glory has arrived at the Isle of Paradise, home of the amazons. The amazons are gone, but spirits have come to reside on the island. Also Nyx, who narrates the comic. I can't call it a story because there is no story here. It's mostly montages of people doing things. We see amazon life, what they used to do on earth to support the arts, demons being assholes, Glory's mom and dad getting together, Glory learning to fight, and amazons getting frozen. Then Glory stabs Nyx just because. The end. The only actual story page in the the long exposition is a hippie getting jumped by a catwoman resulting in Vandal, Glory's sidekick, being born. I can't say I thought much of this issue. An issue long montage has to be pretty good to make up for the fact that nothing is happening. This one is boring and doesn't tell us anything new. It doesn't even make a good jumping on point for new readers. Chapel #5 - The cover of this issue tells me that Chapel fights Spawn. Again. Again again. I'm wishing that Chapel could go off and find himself a different arch-enemy since neither of them will be allowed to have an actual effect on each other. Demon Lord Chapel breaks free of Mount Saint Helens. I didn't know he was down there, but he was. In New York, Chapel is stalking Spawn just because. They find each other and then have it out in four consecutive double page spreads where they're just punching on another. Then they fall of the building and land next to old wizard and Spawn buddy Cagliostro who goes, "Hey dumbasses, Demon Lord Chapel is out and is going to take over the world. Why don't you go punch him?" To be continued. Seriously, that was the entire contents of this issue. There's six double page spreads and three splash pages so there's no room for actual story. It's a nothing book in the Extreme style I haven't seen in a while. It looks like the story continues next issue, though I won't cry if it moves over to Spawn and I skip over part of this. Prophet #4 - Prophet missed last month but they made up for it with two issues this month. It's been a while since the last proper issue of Prophet so as a reminder, Prophet saved his best buddy Kirby and then Kirby shot him in the back as Wells said that he would reveal everything. This one opens up with telling us Kirby was saving Prophet by shooting him. Prophet is dying and Wells and Kirby are trying to save his life. As Prophet is unconscious, he dreams he is a samurai killing a ton of people, drawn at one-third his size for some reason, while a masked figure called War-Raven watches. The dreams are real, though, and are affecting him physically as Wells and Kirby work on Prophet. Then we get something really, really, really stupid. Prophet had been programmed to kill Wells by Omen, the bad guy who was making terminators but according to this series is something more. So Wells brainwashed Prophet back, scattering him to live violent lives throughout history and then reviving him after each one. And to give him morality, Wells used "the one thing thing I knew would give him all the answers he required: the bible." Which I guess is why Prophet's a psychotic lunatic. Anyway, the solution to Prophet dying is an injection of nu gene which Wells says is just now arising on the planet. Given that we're talking about time travelers in a millions of years old base, I don't know when he means but it's definitely not in the present day Extreme universe since we know it's been proliferating and then getting culled for thousands of years. They just had a crossover last month all about that. Kirby goes to the super high tech NewMen headquarters and abducts Bootleg to get some nu gene. The NewMen follow in their high tech superjet that they definitely have along with their high tech base. While the NewMen fight some drones outside, Prophet gets his nu gene and it works. Wells tells him that he made Prophet at the behest of Omen. Prophet demands theological answers and Wells doesn't have those. Then the New Men burst in and after a page of fighting Bootleg ends it. They depart on friendly terms and Bootleg thinks about how much she wants Prophet as they depart. This was a strange issue. The NewMen crossover is set six months ago, which does make it seem like the six month delay in this series starting was not part of the plan. Will there be Prophet crossovers with other books that are similarly delayed? Also, the NewMen don't seem like the NewMen in their own book with their secret base and super jet. Its like they thought they were just the X-Men. Prophet #5 - The cover to this issue features Captain America, Wolverine, Mr. Fantastic, and the Hulk. Not parodies of those characters, it's explicitly those characters. I guess it's good for Extreme that Marvel was going bankrupt right now since they could have added another lawsuit to the pile. A spiky meteor falls to earth and is recovered by some guys in hazmat outfits. On a streetcorner in a city, an exchange is made for a diamond the size of a man's fist. The buyer who was offering a mysterious box is shot by a mysterious figure in a trench coat with a giant gun. A prostitute gets handed the box and diamond and she's looking for "some john named Youngblood" because somehow she doesn't know the most famous celebrities on earth. Her friend is grabbed by trenchcoat man who is a cyberassassin so she runs to her pimp. That leads to the cyberassassin killing everyone there and taking the box and diamond. Omen was the one who sent the cyberassassin because he wants the meteor. The reason he wants is that the meteor has power and he wants all the power (seriously, that's explicitly the reason given). Prophet is dreaming that he is War-Raven and killing a bunch of guys to conclude his training. Kirby wakes him up because cohabiting realities is bad for him and Prophet decides to take some time off in the city. Kirby drops him off next to the cyberassassin who attacks and is immediately defeated. Then more cyberassassins attack and Youngblood is called in. They're effortlessly beaten. Then the box pops open and an alien squid monster grows out of it. Prophet explodes it with one punch. The end. That wasn't a story, that was a series of events. And not especially interesting events, either. The action was so poorly portrayed in this comic I couldn't tell what was happening and since the Battlestar Galactica: The Enemy Within #3 - I think this is as far forward as Maximum's Battlestar Galactica books go and the rest of the books are flashbacks. So this issue is the end of the saga. It cannot be as bad as the finale of SciFi Channel's version, right? So the guy who was blown up last issue and was a robot that they were going to repair was Wilker and I guess he was someone from the show and that was supposed to be a twist because this issue opens with characters talking about how circumstances led to Wilker putting his mind in a robot body. Apollo is suspicious of Ares and not just because Ares is loving his sister. The cylons know that the Galactica is vulnerable now and are on their way. They get an image of Ares attacking the robot man out of robot man's brain so everyone goes off to arrest Ares. Ares blows out a window into space, escapes, and then blows up the launch bay for good measure. The crew intercept Ares talking to Lucifer, the boss of the cylons not the boss of Youngblood, and learn of the immanent attack so the Pegasus sets out to ambush them in return. At the same time Ares goes off to put a bomb on something that will make the Galactica go boom and irradiate everyone on Earth which raises the question of why didn't he do that first? Starbuck and Apollo head off to stop him and in the fight it turns out Ares is a terminator. Apollo gets the bomb but Ares can just blow himself up, which he would be doing with the bomb anyway so why didn't he do that first? Apollo has to cut the red wire or the red wire and he stalls a lot until he chooses the red wire with one Okay, as a send off to characters I don't care about, it's fine I guess. It feels like it's only an ending for Apollo and Starbuck, though. The cylons are still out there being faceless mooks blown up by spaceships. Ares didn't really make a whole lot of impression as a villain, either, making him killing the hero not have a lot of weight. Humble Bundle's ginormous Covid fundraiser has the first Spawn trade in it and I was really tempted to do the first six issues of Spawn tomorrow...
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I'm consistently astounded by how the indie darling of the 90s comic world was just some scheme to file the serial numbers off of existing properties. By all accounts the books have as much consistency as those Superdickery tales, but there's this aura of "we're really telling stories and making something important" there that's astounding.
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