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Chainsaw Man definitely sticks the landing.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 01:37 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 14:00 |
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Congrats Endless Mike!
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 01:43 |
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Endless Mike
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 02:14 |
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Congratulations to Endless Mike and Endless Spouse.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 14:48 |
Congratulations!
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 15:05 |
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Madkal posted:Technically Elvis copied his look from Captain Marvel so it counts! UM ACTUALLY it was Captain Marvel JUNIOR. And congratulations to Endless Mike!
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 21:38 |
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Gripweed posted:I read Chainsaw Man 9 today. I know there's two volumes left and you can't judge a series until you get to the end but I'm willing to plant a flag here and say Chainsaw Man is the greatest comic book ever.
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# ? Feb 5, 2022 02:55 |
Endless Mike posted:I got married yesterday Gratz!
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# ? Feb 9, 2022 06:41 |
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https://twitter.com/hayleyglyphs/status/1490588861113667584?s=20&t=7qRlYr8zQvLHuVjkA96NIQ It's a mattress commercial, but it's also Milo Manara, so you judge if you wanna watch it at work.
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# ? Feb 9, 2022 14:28 |
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With Netflix losing their Marvel shows in two weeks (and giving people very little advance warning), should I finally get around to watching them? I saw the first season of Daredevil and Jessica Jones and meant to get around to the rest eventually...
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 15:07 |
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Random Stranger posted:With Netflix losing their Marvel shows in two weeks (and giving people very little advance warning), should I finally get around to watching them? The first half of the first season of Luke Cage is also quite good. The rest is skippable.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 15:15 |
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The parts of the second season of Iron Fist that didn't have Iron Fist in them had promise. I'd say the Punisher show is decent if you have interest in the character.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 15:51 |
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Random Stranger posted:With Netflix losing their Marvel shows in two weeks (and giving people very little advance warning), should I finally get around to watching them? Of the series you haven't seen yet, Punisher S1 is the only I would recommend wholeheartedly. Punisher S2 is solid as well, but not a must-watch. Luke Cage is really good if you tune out once the second villain joins the central cast, and Daredevil S2 is really good if you fast-forward past the Elektra bits. I never got around to Jessica Jones S2.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 16:32 |
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Only thing I haven't seen is JJ season 3 and I just don't know if I can be bothered
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 16:42 |
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Punisher season 2 can be skipped, just watch an action scene compilation on Youtube.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 16:45 |
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I liked Punisher season 2.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 16:47 |
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punisher s1 very good punisher s2 very meh
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 16:50 |
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Opopanax posted:Only thing I haven't seen is JJ season 3 and I just don't know if I can be bothered I genuinely didn't know there was a third season of Jessica Jones.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 18:41 |
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Gripweed posted:I genuinely didn't know there was a third season of Jessica Jones. It came out after they'd all been cancelled IIRC so there wasn't a lot of fanfare.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:32 |
Opopanax posted:It came out after they'd all been cancelled IIRC so there wasn't a lot of fanfare. I also did not know it existed, and I watched S2 of JJ, and reading the synopsis indicates that it really kinda just sounds like S2 again but with adoptive sister drama instead of momma drama.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:40 |
Are they going to d+ or just vanishing into the ether?
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:02 |
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Sandwolf posted:I also did not know it existed, and I watched S2 of JJ, and reading the synopsis indicates that it really kinda just sounds like S2 again but with adoptive sister drama instead of momma drama. If we finally got Patsy Walker: Hellcat I might have to give that a look
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:07 |
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iirc it is very much not like you are imagining
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:12 |
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Soonmot posted:Are they going to d+ or just vanishing into the ether? No announcement on what happens next, but Netflix partially owns the shows and is in direct competition, so I doubt they just said, "Sure you can have them."
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:38 |
Gonna be great to never watch those shows again. Guess I can
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:44 |
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They just reused D'onofrio and Cox there's no chance whatsoever that they don't put it all on D+/Hulu.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 22:02 |
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Random Stranger posted:No announcement on what happens next, but Netflix partially owns the shows and is in direct competition, so I doubt they just said, "Sure you can have them." as far as I'm aware, Netflix never actually owned any part of the shows themselves, they only held the exclusive distribution rights. Since the rights are seemingly about to expire (that, or Disney bought them out early), I think it's pretty unlikely that they won't simply go to Hulu/Star next month (due to content, I think it's unlikely that they'll be made available on Disney+ proper in the US)
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 18:40 |
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In case you're one of the 10 people total who was stil waiting on Uber... https://twitter.com/kierongillen/status/1493569769550880771
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 08:47 |
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Vincent posted:In case you're one of the 10 people total who was stil waiting on Uber... What the hell is going on at Avatar Press anyways?
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 08:59 |
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more titty covers and proabbly a plan to get into NFTs somehow
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 14:41 |
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Whatever it is, it's apparently not "publication" which is a thing you'd think a comic book company would want to do, but what do I know? So yeah, I assume NFTs.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 15:07 |
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drrockso20 posted:What the hell is going on at Avatar Press anyways? In the next tweet, Gillen says Avatar is too busy fulfilling and sending kickstarter tier products or somethng, and because they are a small operation, that takes all of their time. Gillen currently has a work relationship with them, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:02 |
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drrockso20 posted:so I restarted once again my Marvel chronological reading project once more and I figure to give me more motivation I'll post some basic thoughts* on each issue here, with this first post covering the first five issues in the order I'm following; drrockso20 posted:onto the next set of issues; drrockso20 posted:continuing yet again with my Marvel readthrough, some big stuff this time around; drrockso20 posted:and now for the next set of comics; drrockso20 posted:back for yet more early Marvel comics, this one is going to be a bit painful; drrockso20 posted:once more into the breach with the next block of early Marvel comics; drrockso20 posted:more Marvel Comics time; drrockso20 posted:just realized that it's been the better part of two months since I last did one of these posts, so back to my project of semi-chronologically reading through all of Marvel from Fantastic Four #1 onward with another five or so issue dump of my inane opinions; drrockso20 posted:been a while so might as well do another one of these, this one is going to be a bit special as it's going to be slightly bigger than my previous ones(six issues/seven stories instead of the usual 5 issues) as I'm very close to hitting the 50th story in the CMRO list, also we're going to be seeing two special debuts this time around, first as a bonus the covers for the first 40 issues I've read for this project so far covering the first 43 stories(as the CMRO list covers) in it; so last year I had restarted a project where I'd be reading through the main Marvel 616 continuity in order from Fantastic Four #1 onward(the first 50 stories are recapped above) and posting my thoughts on them, thanks to various RL stuff(a move and all the headaches that ensues, various family things, me getting a new job, getting distracted for much of the past four months between said new job and my new laptop) that had gone into a hiatus, well I figure I might as well get back to it since the thread is otherwise quite dead right now, so here's my next five issues; Tales to Astonish #41: this one is a pretty fun one to start things with, a variation on the classic "villain kidnaps a bunch of scientists to build him something evil with science" plot with the villain being a warlord from another dimension and Ant-Man having to figure out how to communicate with the "ants" of that world in order to defeat him, interestingly this might be the first story in 616 continuity(in the CMRO order I'm using for this that is) where the hero intentionally kills the villain of the story rather than it being an accident or "not technically killing them but might as well be", though to be fair to Ant-Man it was either that or be crushed with a hammer so one can argue it was self defense, a very strong showing for Ant-Man overall and a good way to kick things off The Amazing Spider-Man #1: the debut of Spidey's own book, and I'll say this much, man is the writing so artificial in this first issue in setting up the whole "Peter Parker is constantly broke and trying to make money while being hated by everyone as Spider-Man" status quo(which I've honestly always hated, I'm of the opinion that Parker Industries was pretty much the only good thing to come out of the Superior Spider-Man era and Marvel were a bunch of cowards to get rid of it) that it drags the first story in it down to a surprising extent(funny thing is this is actually my first time actually reading this issue), like the whole story is just a complete downer and pretty dull in both writing and art to boot, the second story isn't really much better honestly(plus we see the first time Stan Lee makes the "Peter Palmer" goof), though we do see Spidey start to come up with some new tricks with his webbing, but again the second story just ends on a complete downer, in retrospect it's kind of obvious why most people focus on Amazing Fantasy #15 over this one as it's a much better story overall, like even though some of the other stories I've covered are technically worse(like say most of the Hulk stuff so far), this might be the issue I dislike the most so far on a personal level Journey Into Mystery #91: the parts dealing with Donald Blake & Jane Foster are still a festering plot tumor that I will be more than glad to see gone eventually, but the rest of the issue is pretty fun, Sandu made for a great enemy of Thor's(shame he won't appear again for the better part of 50 years) that got beaten in an interesting manner, a good palate cleanser Strange Tales #108: this one was overall pretty a pretty fun Human Torch story as it's villain Wilhelm Van Vile is an entertaining ham with a good gimmick(having access to magic paints that bring what he draws to life, but he himself is a mediocre artist), though the ending is a tad nonsensical(like you can tell Stan Lee had no idea how to properly end the story), the other story in this issue that was included in the order I had to dig around for a reprint from 1970 to find, nothing fancy just a story about Merlin The Amazing Spider-Man #2: this story(at least the first one with Vulture) I actually had read before but like a decade ago so worth reading again, and yeah it's a massive improvement over the first issue in both art and writing even if the parts where Peter interacts with people his own age is still rather bleh(though in the second story Peter does give a decent burn back to Flash Thompson), the second story is just weird though, him having a "thwart an alien invasion" story this early is something that feels somewhat out of place for someone like Spider-Man, though on it's own merits it's otherwise a decent story and the covers for this set of issues; overall a good set of issues, even if I was unpleasantly surprised by how mediocre Amazing Spider-Man #1 was
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once again time for more Marvel with the next five issues; Fantastic Four #13: on the one hand the Red Ghost And His Indescribable Super-Apes is an incredibly goofy concept even by Silver Age standards, on the other the introductions of both the Blue Area of The Moon and of The Watcher are just absolutely well done, all in all a really fun issue Tales to Astonish #42: "Voice of Doom" is a really fun story for Ant Man dealing with a unique villain(yet another of those guys who appears once early on then doesn't appear again for a couple decades) and beating him in a clever manner, also a surprisingly funny gag about people getting hypnotized into eating dog food Tales of Suspense #40: in retrospect it's kind of funny how both Hulk and Iron Man were gray in their debut stories but switched to more vibrant colors for their second and onward stories, though Iron Man's golden version of his first costume is mostly forgotten these days outside of being the costume he wore in Avengers #1, overall much of the story is dedicated towards both explaining Tony Stark's situation in general(brilliant patriotic scientist, handsome millionaire playboy, and of course being Iron Man and needing an electric chest plate to keep his heart going) and setting up him deciding to change his costume's color(by having him realize that between it's large bulky appearance and gray coloration it makes him look a bit too much like a monster), which leaves the actual conflict of the story(random US town taken over by a super powered Neanderthal with mind control powers named Gargantus) a bit underdeveloped and ending a bit weirdly too(Gargantus turning out to be a robot built by aliens), overall though a reasonably entertaining story(much of said entertainment coming from how ridiculous all of Tony Stark's "transistor" based technology is) Journey Into Mystery #92: a fun little issue where Loki steals Thor's hammer and until he gets it back Thor just keeps making new hammers to solve his problems much to Loki's frustrations, a very Silver Age story in the best way Fantastic Four #14: another really good issue(aside from some old timey sexism here and there), with the return of the Puppet Master(who is still at this point the creepiest villain in Marvel and it's biggest rear end in a top hat too) and some really good fights between the Fantastic Four and Namor, Jack Kirby clearly had some fun with the various sea critters Namor made use of in this issue overall a very entertaining set of issues, and here's the covers;
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drrockso20 posted:Tales to Astonish #42: "Voice of Doom" is a really fun story for Ant Man dealing with a unique villain(yet another of those guys who appears once early on then doesn't appear again for a couple decades) and beating him in a clever manner, also a surprisingly funny gag about people getting hypnotized into eating dog food Take a good look at "the Voice of Doom" and you might work out his actual identity: it's a caricature of Orson Welles.
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# ? Mar 7, 2022 06:16 |
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Random Stranger posted:Take a good look at "the Voice of Doom" and you might work out his actual identity: it's a caricature of Orson Welles. Hmm I can see it, there's definitely a couple panels where Don Heck drew him with a lot of Orson Wells energy, also Heck is probably the best artist Marvel has at this point when it comes to drawing people, at least when it comes to the Superhero stuff, though Ditko and Kirby are definitely catching up
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# ? May 30, 2024 14:00 |
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A friend of mine and one of my best former customers opened a new comic shop here in town on Saturday. It's pretty great, hits all the right notes and he's running with all the ideas he and I used to shoot back and forth when I still worked at the old shop. Swung in for the grand opening and met his crew and business partner. Took less than 10 minutes for them to offer me a job and I've never felt more like I should run away screaming then in that moment. I declined the offer.
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