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In mainline comics: Batman vs. Robin went full anime and there's an obviously awkward conversation between Supergirl and Power Girl (which is especially amusing given that the front end of Action Comics has literally everyone else from the Superman Family)
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Space Fish posted:This is killing me, because when the issues were originally coming out I saw nothing but "Tom King does True Grit" reactions, and I guess the pendulum has swung the other way with people's no-context confusion. Oh wow well yeah, that’ll do it. Wait all of you thought this was bad? I thought everyone thought it was good? Why did I read it then?!?
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Xelkelvos posted:In mainline comics: Batman vs. Robin went full anime and there's an obviously awkward conversation between Supergirl and Power Girl (which is especially amusing given that the front end of Action Comics has literally everyone else from the Superman Family) Power Girl even got a jacket! How can she complain if she got a jacket like everyone else? But yeah, I thought that was funny too. Everyone is on the cover but her, then her being excluded is brought up in the comic itself.
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Feb 28, 2023 23:56
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I mean I think King has talked about how he wants to tell certain stories and he kind of half assedly puts superheroes on top. Which I don’t get the point of doing that. At this point he could probably just write those stories independently if he wanted
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Codependent Poster posted:Power Girl even got a jacket! How can she complain if she got a jacket like everyone else? Even Kong is there and he's not even a Kryptonian!
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean I think King has talked about how he wants to tell certain stories and he kind of half assedly puts superheroes on top. Because DC pays him to do it, he wins Eisner awards for it, and gets to work with some of the best artists in the field. James Gunn also seems to like his work, so he’ll be slapping super heroes into whatever western/war/noir stories he wants to write for a long time.
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Mar 1, 2023 00:27
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean I think King has talked about how he wants to tell certain stories and he kind of half assedly puts superheroes on top. But "I want to re-do True Grit" is a weird thing to want to do without superheroes, because then it would just be redoing True Grit. Also wow, I did not realize how many Eisners Tom King has won (two Best Writers, two Best Short Story, two Best Limited Series), that is... not surprising exactly, but something. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Mar 1, 2023 00:57
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Wait is The Human Target series good? I have the first volume of that too because it was recommended but I’m, as I said, hot and cold on King. Just reading a bunch of comics that are on “best-of” lists from the past couple years. New YA librarian and I’m trying to improve and modernize our GN collection after not reading many modern comics for uhhhh 6 six years. If you think there’s other better stuff I should check out please tell me. I have also read and enjoyed (in the DC world) Taylor’s Nightwing, Adams’s Flash, Ram V’s Swamp Thing.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:Wait is The Human Target series good? I have the first volume of that too because it was recommended but I’m, as I said, hot and cold on King.
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I do like it a lot, but it is absolutely worth it for the art alone for sure. I mean, if you already own it just give it a read and see which camp you will fall into!
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Mar 1, 2023 03:02
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I don’t own it, I’m a librarian who takes advantage of the amazingly robust inter library loan system in place at the NYPL! You should too kids! (If you’re in NYC) (Honestly NYPL has such an incredibly deep well of TPBs and GNs, you can find pretty much anything you’d ever wanna read in there comics-wise)
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Mar 1, 2023 03:43
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The art is great in Human Target, but it's just a standard noir tale. And a noir just leans into the worst of his habits when it comes to writing women where they're manipulative and unlikable and "oh you thought I was good and innocent but actually I can be a liar and cruel!" thing
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Mar 1, 2023 03:53
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Read what you want to read and don’t let opinions sour you on it before you give it a shot. Not just King stuff, but anything. Do what ya want!
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Edge & Christian posted:
Pulled a Best Short Story Eisner with Ace the Bathound.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I don’t own it, I’m a librarian who takes advantage of the amazingly robust inter library loan system in place at the NYPL! You should too kids! (If you’re in NYC) (Honestly NYPL has such an incredibly deep well of TPBs and GNs, you can find pretty much anything you’d ever wanna read in there comics-wise)
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Edge & Christian posted:Why are BPL and NYPL separate systems and which of the various Crises/universal reboots would be the best model to merge them and just let me have one library card? Ask the higher ups. We are not fully separate, we’re like the Flashes of Earth 1 and Earth 2, pals operating in similar fashions. You should actually be able to merge your card even tho it’s two different systems. Just gotta ask. It’s a lil complicated (I haven’t had to do it yet) but insofar as I’ve been told, it can be done. You just can’t return books from one system to the other one.
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I haven't tried in awhile but mostly I just wish I could get every requested hold from NYPL delivered to my local BPL but also I haven't really tried since before the pandemic so I could be working on assumptions build 3-4 multiversal reboots ago. Back on topic and speaking of reboots, I do kind of love how Nightwing/Titans/JLA right now is built on the following assumptions: 1. During the Dark Crisis, the Hall of Justice was wrecked and the Justice League was presumed dead 2. After the Dark Crisis, the Justice League's confidence is shaken by this and they ask the Titans, who endured the Dark Crisis with aplomb and only some of their roster dead/presumed dead to take point, since the Hall of Justice was destroyed. 3. Dick Grayson builds a new Titans Tower in Bludhaven, because the last Titans Tower in New York was destroyed during the Dark Crisis too. And was mostly destroyed right before Dark Crisis. And the new Titans Tower is built out of a private prison complex that got blown up. And the very next issue is built around the mystery of a corpse found in the last Titans Tower that just got blown up. 4. Superman builds a Steelworks skyscraper that is meant to be another symbolic tower of justice that is blown up and leveled shortly before its opening ceremony. 5. The Justice League can't just continue to be the Justice League now that their headquarters is wrecked!
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I don’t own it, I’m a librarian who takes advantage of the amazingly robust inter library loan system in place at the NYPL! You should too kids! (If you’re in NYC) (Honestly NYPL has such an incredibly deep well of TPBs and GNs, you can find pretty much anything you’d ever wanna read in there comics-wise) Sup fellow library working person. Like you I too work in a library, but unlike you I cannot take full advantage of ILL for graphic novels. I work in an academic library and all requests have to carry some academic purpose and sadly my supervisor in ILL won't allow "I just wanna see what happens in Batman:No Man's Land" count as an academic purpose. Adding to this woe is that the public library, while having a robust GN collection, won't do ILL for graphic novels for some reason. I am stuck not knowing how Batman: No Man's Land goes.
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Edge & Christian posted:I haven't tried in awhile but mostly I just wish I could get every requested hold from NYPL delivered to my local BPL but also I haven't really tried since before the pandemic so I could be working on assumptions build 3-4 multiversal reboots ago. Steelworks is more Steel's than Superman's I'd say, but still. There's also Arkham Tower that was built in the middle of Gotham. Didn't get blown up iirc, but got shut down and now is being converted into something else by a branch of the Arkham family Lex's building has also been changed into a Superman tower and that's 100% gonna get blown up.
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Honestly how can you be a superhero team without a headquarters?
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There are tons of abandoned warehouses/playgrounds in every major city of America. If it's good enough for the villains it's good enough for the heroes.
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Action Comics was definitely great this week; the Superman line really seems to be one of the strongest corners of DC right now. And yet...despite that...is it just me or has Metallo become so very tired as a device? I can't actually remember the last time he showed up to be messy and unhinged about things...and yet, watching it here, it feels like I'd just seen it the other day.
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Funny new motive for Freeze in 'tec. He's essentially doing cold tech research because his wife hates him and he's under the belief that it's because the unfreezing process cause brain damage.
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Endless Mike posted:Honestly how can you be a superhero team without a headquarters? It’s the 21st century bro, no one needs office space anymore, we can all do it remotely. Batman calling in from the Batcave in full costume while everyone else dials in from bed, on mute so he can’t hear that they’re watching telly while he’s talking.
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Sentinel Red posted:It’s the 21st century bro, no one needs office space anymore, we can all do it remotely. Batman calling in from the Batcave in full costume while everyone else dials in from bed, on mute so he can’t hear that they’re watching telly while he’s talking. The Batcave is a headquarters for Batpeople!!!
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Endless Mike posted:The Batcave is a headquarters for Batpeople!!! Note: Batman currently does not have a Batcave.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I don’t own it, I’m a librarian who takes advantage of the amazingly robust inter library loan system in place at the NYPL! You should too kids! (If you’re in NYC) (Honestly NYPL has such an incredibly deep well of TPBs and GNs, you can find pretty much anything you’d ever wanna read in there comics-wise) Chicago Public Library as a similarly vast collection of TPBs and GNs along with an excellent interlibrary loan system and it rules (I'm a librarian, too, but work for an academic library). Unfortunately, there are a hundred people in line to check out Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands right now. I am surprised people in this thread are so down on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Read it recently and thought it was superb, but perhaps the fact that I'd never read a Supergirl comic before has something to do with it. The True Grit influence is rather blatant, though Supergirl isn't Rooster Cogburn, so that plus the planet-hopping conceit was enough to allow the book to stand on its own for me. Also, I enjoyed the dialogue/narration throughout and Bilquis Evely's art is glorious. My main criticism is that the the Blues/Purples allegory is pretty ham-fisted. Rental Sting fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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So if I like noir, don’t care for the JLI and dislike Guy Gardner, will I enjoy Human Target?
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radlum posted:So if I like noir, don’t care for the JLI and dislike Guy Gardner, will I enjoy Human Target? I'd say there's a good chance. Pun not intended.
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radlum posted:So if I like noir, don’t care for the JLI and dislike Guy Gardner, will I enjoy Human Target? Yeah most likely
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Sentinel Red posted:It’s the 21st century bro, no one needs office space anymore, we can all do it remotely. Batman calling in from the Batcave in full costume while everyone else dials in from bed, on mute so he can’t hear that they’re watching telly while he’s talking. iirc there's a part in one of the Injustice comics that makes a joke about this (in reverse). Batman's doing a meeting over the computer with all his resistance fighters over the internet and when it ends the camera pulls back to show that he's just in his underwear with the cowl on. idk maybe it wasn't Injustice but I'm like 99% sure I read something like this in an actual DC comic and not a webcomic making the joke
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TwoPair posted:iirc there's a part in one of the Injustice comics that makes a joke about this (in reverse). Batman's doing a meeting over the computer with all his resistance fighters over the internet and when it ends the camera pulls back to show that he's just in his underwear with the cowl on. Sounds like a Harley Quinn cartoon gag
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I talked to Dwayne McDuffie about that after he finished his JLA run. It’s the first thing I’d do if I pulled a Vulpes and took over a comic companies lead super hero team. There’s enough DC characters from Detroit you could make a super hero team out of it.
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radlum posted:What’s Wally West’s current status? I think he's the Flash
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Wally is the Flash for Earth stuff while Barry is the Flash for multiverse stuff. Wallace, "Ace," is Kid Flash while Bart remains as Impulse.
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radlum posted:What’s Wally West’s current status? Best Flash
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Codependent Poster posted:Best Flash Flash Facts. The Flash ongoing is a really solid title right now. The writer realizes Wally is Best Flash and is at his best when he runs fast and loves Linda (and now the twins).
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