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Skwirl posted:(for clarification, my comic shop ordered it, the owner just wasn't given any, was told he should get it today, but I don't have time to go until Wednesday. He's been hosed around on shipments so much I'm pretty sure he's literally counting the days until he can start ordering Marvel comics from Penguin). Dang, do you shop at my store??? Diamond has definitely been getting worse lately, but it is absolutely the worst time for them to do so. Two weeks ago we were shorted a 50 pound box and the way that situation was handed definitely eroded a lot of what good feeling still lingered. Who knows of PRH will be any better when it comes down to it, but yikes.
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Penguin has a poo poo ton of experience delivering small runs of paper media to small stores.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:51
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What did Black Cat annual have to do with the Infinity bearer business? It was a good story and I would love more Tiger Division, but I feel like I missed something.
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Jul 3, 2021 16:13
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Cartridgeblowers posted:What did Black Cat annual have to do with the Infinity bearer business? It was a good story and I would love more Tiger Division, but I feel like I missed something. Okay good, it wasn't just me. The only thing I could think of was whatever juiced up that guy's possession power was the mind been but then he died.
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Jul 3, 2021 16:26
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They way they had it set up when I came on board is that some issues would have the stone characters and some wouldn't- I guess the idea being to preserve some sense of mystery as to who had a stone and who didn't (there being more annuals than stones being an indication of that). All of them have a part of the Fury story though, which is directly related to a struggle for the stones. Edit: that is to say, no, you didn't miss anything, Black Cat didn't have any stone hosts in it.
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Jul 3, 2021 16:49
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Edit: that is to say, no, you didn't miss anything, Black Cat didn't have any stone hosts in it. Did you come up with all Tiger Division?
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Jul 3, 2021 17:06
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Most of them. Luna Snow and White Fox were already there, and GUN-R II is a sequel character to the deceased GUN-R from Al's Contest of Champions where White Fox joined 616 officially, but Taegukgi came from Taskmaster, created by my and Alessandro Vitti. When they asked me to do a Black Cat team up (or fight, whatever) with White Fox, I though it would be fun to revisit those characters and fill out the rest of the crew so Joey and I put them together. Mr. Enigma is the tribute to the indestructible (at least until the end of the movie) tough guys of Korean cinema, Auntie Ante uses magic Go-Stop tiles (I used to play a lot of Go-Stop in Korea with my friends) and the General is a living jangseung totem.
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Jul 3, 2021 17:20
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I caught up with the last few issues of Black Cat this week and I'm loving it so much. The book does a little narrative thing I really like that I think really lends itself to a serial form like the superhero comic. The Black Fox has been a one note character for decades, which has never been a problem because it's honestly a well-crafted and fun note. And he shows up in Black Cat, the note is chimed very well, and the reader enjoys him-- and then, bam, a second note. It's like if your favorite pair of comfy slippers pulled a gun on you one night. And again it's so perfectly suited to the way cape comics' seriality and intertextuality work-- we're so accustomed to the basic grammar of a Grey Fox story that we get tricked by MacKay's seeming fluency at that kind of story that it's a blindside, despite the red flags, when it turns out that an entirely different kind of story is being told. I just really like that sleight of hand, that Thunderbolts-esque legerdemain that leverages the way comics often treat history and repetition in order to flick the wrist and suddenly offer up something brand new.
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Jul 4, 2021 03:56
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I love when people who have never read a comic loudly declare they will never buy another comic. https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1411552517226307585?s=20
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Jul 4, 2021 06:12
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Skwirl posted:I love when people who have never read a comic loudly declare they will never buy another comic. I love that most of Cap’s history post Stan and Jack has him as a guy who constantly doubts the “American Dream” and doesn’t trust the government, but these people just assume he’s the living embodiment of AMERICA gently caress YEAH The Englehart run is as anti-American government as it gets, and even Gruenwald spends a large portion of his run showing how Cap isn’t afraid to fight the government and its corruption. Christ, he portrays Reagan as a senile doofus who acts as a puppet who gets turned into a literal snake. But idiots gotta idiot, I guess.
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Jul 4, 2021 13:25
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Currently reading some of the major events of the 2000’s - I’ve read Disassembled and Secret War so far and am getting ready for House of M. Currently reading the Claremont X-Men stuff (2004) but I much prefer the Whedon stuff from what I’ve read. Is this poo poo important? I’m sure I can skip right to House of M but does this Claremont run add anything?
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Jul 4, 2021 15:14
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bemusedchunk posted:Currently reading some of the major events of the 2000’s - I’ve read Disassembled and Secret War so far and am getting ready for House of M. Currently reading the Claremont X-Men stuff (2004) but I much prefer the Whedon stuff from what I’ve read. I haven't actually read the 2004 Claremont stuff, but I have read House of M and I'm pretty sure the Claremont stuff adds nothing. It's not an Event, but I definitely recommend reading at least the first run of New Avengers after House of M.
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Jul 4, 2021 15:20
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Skwirl posted:I haven't actually read the 2004 Claremont stuff, but I have read House of M and I'm pretty sure the Claremont stuff adds nothing. Breakout was an event, actually! Kind of, anyway.
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Jul 4, 2021 15:23
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Skwirl posted:I haven't actually read the 2004 Claremont stuff, but I have read House of M and I'm pretty sure the Claremont stuff adds nothing. I might slog through a few more issue and then drop it from my reading list. New Avengers (and young avengers) is on my reading list.
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Jul 4, 2021 15:48
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bemusedchunk posted:I might slog through a few more issue and then drop it from my reading list. New Avengers (and young avengers) is on my reading list. Young Avengers vol 1 is dece, Young Avengers vol 2 is loving amazing, but you sorta need to read the Gillen Journey Into Mystery first and if you're doing the chronologically you're a ways off from that (it spins out of Siege).
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Jul 4, 2021 16:20
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Skwirl posted:Young Avengers vol 1 is dece, Young Avengers vol 2 is loving amazing, but you sorta need to read the Gillen Journey Into Mystery first and if you're doing the chronologically you're a ways off from that (it spins out of Siege). Please just clarify that you mean Young Avengers by Gillen. Because there was Young Avengers: Children's Crusade which should be avoided at all costs.
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Jul 4, 2021 16:50
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Codependent Poster posted:Please just clarify that you mean Young Avengers by Gillen. Because there was Young Avengers: Children's Crusade which should be avoided at all costs. Yeah, I meant Young Avengers by Gillen, that's Volume 2. Children's crusade is a separate mini.
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Jul 4, 2021 18:32
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lol https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1412487101648719886 https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1412488384774344714
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Jul 6, 2021 21:51
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Maybe they feel duped because they saw the name Christopher Cantwell and bought the book sight unseen?
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Jul 7, 2021 00:50
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Nazi sympathizers have been making those complaints since 1941.
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Jul 7, 2021 01:05
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God drat it, Jason Aaron. After really liking Heroes Reborn you return to Avengers with both character and literal assassination of two minor characters I liked. World War She Hulk? A bridge too far. IK edit: If you're going to talk about books that aren't out yet, even obliquely, use spoiler tags please. Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Jul 7, 2021 01:12
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howe_sam posted:Maybe they feel duped because they saw the name Christopher Cantwell and bought the book sight unseen?  Goddamn.
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Jul 7, 2021 01:47
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Lord_Hambrose posted:God drat it, Jason Aaron. After really liking Heroes Reborn you return to Avengers with both character and literal assassination of two minor characters I liked. seriously dude use some drat spoiler tags for books that haven't even come out yet
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Jul 7, 2021 01:57
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site posted:seriously dude use some drat spoiler tags for books that haven't even come out yet how else is he gonna remind people he works at a comics store and reads the books before we do
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Jul 7, 2021 01:59
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Alaois posted:how else is he gonna remind people he works at a comics store and reads the books before we do Sometimes you just gotta post.
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Jul 7, 2021 03:24
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As someone whose first exposure to Captain America was the back half of the DeMatties run, I got a kick out of seeing Sinthea go back to the old Mother Superior look, though for some reason I never clocked onto the fact that the two characters were the same.
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Jul 7, 2021 15:18
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The America Chavez series is really quite good. I didn't like the twist from last issue, but the art is great. Also, that Spider-Man annual was fun. Ripley Ryan is the villain he deserves.
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Jul 7, 2021 17:58
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This month's Trials of Ultraman isn't very good. But it did set up the last issue to be an all-out three way kaiju battle. But considering how loving bizarrely reticent this series has been to have cool battles between Ultraman and kaiju, I'm not getting my hopes up.
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Jul 7, 2021 20:56
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cant cook creole bream posted:The America Chavez series is really quite good. I didn't like the twist from last issue, but the art is great. That's what, the 5th Midtown High alumnus to become a hero or villain?
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Jul 7, 2021 21:06
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I think the new America Chavez origin frankly sucks
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Jul 7, 2021 21:52
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Wait they're doing another origin for her? Why?
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Jul 7, 2021 21:56
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Wait they're doing another origin for her? Why? parents weren't normal enough I guess because her entire from-another-dimension backstory is bullshit!
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Jul 7, 2021 22:00
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Wait they're doing another origin for her? Why? Two moms is a bridge too far?
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Jul 7, 2021 22:00
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Two moms is a bridge too far? That's like the one thing which stayed constant.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:02
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It's just so loving boring and shows a lack of imagination that I can only guess comes from being a television writer.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:19
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Blockhouse posted:I think the new America Chavez origin frankly sucks it's such a woefully misguided retcon and I have no idea what anyone involved was thinking, maybe someone decided that she was appropriating Latinx identity because she wasn't from Earth I have a hard time imagining it'll stick, at least
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Jul 8, 2021 03:22
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Yeah I can't see America's new origin sticking. It's a bad retcon that will probably be done away with sometime down the road.
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Jul 8, 2021 03:38
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It is disheartening that both bad retcons were made by Latina writers; feels like Marvel setting them up to fail by going back to retconning the origin, instead of just letting America be a superhero.
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Jul 8, 2021 03:42
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It does give her a villain of her own, which isn't nothing, although I'm not sure what's gained by undoing the whole Utopian Parallel thing.
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I don't know that "cookie cutter old rich white guy" is actually anything of note tbh
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