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The Button was really dang good this week. Also Superman. Also Green Lanterns.AllNewJonasSalk posted:Hey guys. This week I decided to read some new books. At the moment, I'm reading Superman, Deathstroke, Titans, Teen Titans, Super Sons, and a bunch of poo poo from Marvel. Anything from Rebirth that I'm missing and should be reading with my eyeballs? (It's Blue Beetle. Don't read that)
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May 3, 2017 21:31
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You should definitely be reading Detective and probably Batman too. I just realized Damian is on his way to being in more books every month than his dad.
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May 3, 2017 21:39
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Roth posted:I think the first comic I ever started getting and wasn't something that my parents had as kids was the Ending Battle arc of Superman. If you want to know how it ends: Superman comes home from his terrible no-good day of being screwed with from every angle to find Lois dead in their apartment, with Manchester Black gloating over her corpse. Black's been fuming over the end of What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way, and has finally come up with this as a retort: you're only so self-righteous because you live a perfect little life, so I ruined it for you and capped the whole thing off by torturing and murdering your wife, let's see how goody-two-shoes you are now. Superman is enraged and beats the holy hell out of Black, but refrains from killing him, preparing instead to bring Black into custody. Black says he'll just get free and do it again, Superman says no you won't, because I'm going to dedicate my life to keeping you in jail, but I won't kill you, no matter what. At this, Black finally realizes that Superman isn't self-righteous, or pretending, or deluding everyone -- he really is that good. Black reveals his motives -- he was basically pulling a Killing Joke, giving Superman one bad day to prove that he wasn't any better than Black. But Superman instead proved the opposite. Disgusted with himself, he waves off everything he's done; releasing the villains from his control, removing the knowledge of Superman's secret identity from Luthor's memory... and revealing that Lois is fine, and the corpse was a psionic illusion. While Superman is distracted by this reveal, Black slips away. Later, by himself, Black reflects that Superman is a true hero and that he, Manchester Black, has become just another supervillain. Unable to live with this state of affairs and apparently unwilling to change them, Black instead puts a finger-gun to his own head and uses his powers to kill himself.
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May 3, 2017 21:55
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:Hey guys. This week I decided to read some new books. At the moment, I'm reading Superman, Deathstroke, Titans, Teen Titans, Super Sons, and a bunch of poo poo from Marvel. Anything from Rebirth that I'm missing and should be reading with my eyeballs? Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Detective Comics, Batman, Justice League of America, Kamandi Challenge, Doom Patrol, and Cave Carson.
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May 3, 2017 21:57
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Mr Hootington posted:Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Detective Comics, Batman, Justice League of America, Kamandi Challenge, Doom Patrol, and Cave Carson.
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May 3, 2017 21:58
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Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys. I totally blanked on the fact that I'm also reading Batman and it's fantastic. I'm gonna check out all those other books though. It's a good time to be a DC fan. Also, Damian is on his way to being in more books than his dad and I for one love it. The little jerk is actually starting to grow on me.
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May 3, 2017 22:02
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys. I totally blanked on the fact that I'm also reading Batman and it's fantastic. I'm gonna check out all those other books though. It's a good time to be a DC fan. I think part of the reason I love Damian so much is that he's actually a bigger jerk than Bruce. Used to be Batman was the Bad Cop and Robin was the Good Cop. When Dick was Batman they switched this up, suddenly Dick was a friendly, cheerful Batman who asked cops how their families are doing, and Damian was a snotty, violent Robin. But when you put Bruce back as Batman suddenly they're both Bad Cops and Bruce gets to experience what all of his friends and allies have been going through working with him all these years. He's proud of his son, of course, but you can sort of see times when Bruce has to be saying to himself "jeez, dial it back a little, kid".
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May 3, 2017 22:12
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Oh man. I was looking up some stuff on the DC site and managed to stumble upon the cover of an upcoming issue of Superman and it spoiled who the villain of this arc is. So maybe don't look at the cover of any future issues if you don't want to know. It was not anyone close to what I was expecting and if accurate I like where this story is heading. So don't ruin it for yourselves.
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May 3, 2017 22:28
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CapnAndy posted:Oh man, Ending Battle. That's my pick for most criminally underrated Superman story -- the single issue where Lex has found out Superman's secret identity and just has a polite conversation with Superman about it is the highpoint, but the whole thing is great, I think. Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/03/dc-comics-reveals-mystery-superman-big-bad-possibly-mistake-spoilers/ I actually thought that might be the case after seeing the name in your spoiler, and an hour later it came true!
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May 3, 2017 22:29
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Teenage Fansub posted:Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously.  right now at the news.
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May 3, 2017 22:34
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Teenage Fansub posted:Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously. See they shouldn't have put it out so easy to find. I kind of hate they did that.
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May 3, 2017 22:37
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purple death ray posted:I think part of the reason I love Damian so much is that he's actually a bigger jerk than Bruce. Used to be Batman was the Bad Cop and Robin was the Good Cop. When Dick was Batman they switched this up, suddenly Dick was a friendly, cheerful Batman who asked cops how their families are doing, and Damian was a snotty, violent Robin. But when you put Bruce back as Batman suddenly they're both Bad Cops and Bruce gets to experience what all of his friends and allies have been going through working with him all these years. He's proud of his son, of course, but you can sort of see times when Bruce has to be saying to himself "jeez, dial it back a little, kid". Batman probably be trying to sit back and relax while making up some plans for taking down all his friends but can't because Damian wanna go punch some bad guys in the balls. Very hard being a single Batdad.
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May 3, 2017 22:50
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Batman #22: I can't be the only one disappointed that Thomas didn't migrate over to the main universe
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May 3, 2017 22:55
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:Batman probably be trying to sit back and relax while making up some plans for taking down all his friends but can't because Damian wanna go punch some bad guys in the balls. Very hard being a single Batdad. He walks in on Damian concocting plans to take out all of the Teen Titans, just in case. A single tear leaks from beneath his cowl. He gives his son a thumbs up and walks away. Alfred finds him in the cave later, working on a contingency plan to take out his own son, after realizing with pride that the old Damian contingency wouldn't be enough.
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May 3, 2017 22:55
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Teenage Fansub posted:Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously. Booooooooooooooooooo! Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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May 3, 2017 22:56
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purple death ray posted:He walks in on Damian concocting plans to take out all of the Teen Titans, just in case. A single tear leaks from beneath his cowl. He gives his son a thumbs up and walks away. Alfred finds him in the cave later, working on a contingency plan to take out his own son, after realizing with pride that the old Damian contingency wouldn't be enough. Batman: Alfred, that boy may one day become our world's greatest threat. Alfred: I'm sorry that he's become such a disappointment, sir. Guess we'll send him back to his mother. Batman: Send him back to his mother? No. You misunderstand. I'm promoting him. He's Batman now. AllNewJonasSalk fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 23:02
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Teenage Fansub posted:Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously.
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May 3, 2017 23:04
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I like how the entirety of this issue of THE BUTTON can be summarized by Barry Allen explicitly like on panel going "so uh the Cosmic Treadmill travels through time, and not through dimensions... but I guess we're in the Flashpoint dimension now?" "Wait no no, Flashpoint wasn't even an alternate dimension, it was OUR universe overwritten by time travel so uh I really don't know the gently caress we're here." "Actually like... how does any of this make sense? Like, I watched Thomas Wayne die and like the world was about to explode when I switched things back, none of this makes any sense, I have no idea why we're here, uh......." "Hey Bruce and Thomas, have an awkward moment together I guess?" "Okay bye, story over. OH RIGHT WE WERE CHASING THAWNE, poo poo."
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May 3, 2017 23:36
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The arc is literally called "Black Dawn" guys. I think most people called this last issue.
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May 3, 2017 23:54
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/co/ has been calling Black Dawn's villain for a while.
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May 4, 2017 00:12
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Well, ain't they smart.
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May 4, 2017 00:42
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Teenage Fansub posted:Funny you mention that character. DC just accidentally spoiled the end of the current Superman story. Don't click if you don't want to know, obviously. Wasn't he in that New 52 Teen Titans comic, too?
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May 4, 2017 00:56
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KaosMachina posted:Wasn't he in that New 52 Teen Titans comic, too? It was the DC You one with the Rocafort art. I barely even remember what he did in that, and it's really not worth a read even if you're the world's biggest fan of that character.
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May 4, 2017 01:02
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It was something like, he was a STAR Labs employee who tried to manipulate Tim into letting him run the TTs.
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May 4, 2017 01:06
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Flintstones was good this month Hipsters move into Bedrock and Gazoo is called back so the Neighborhood Watch Association can determine if Earth is a threat or not, if it is, blammo. Gazoo is against this, due to the ethical issues of judging a civilization that's so young and still finding its way. Eventually he agrees to the scan but asks if he be allowed to choose who gets brain scanned. He chooses Dino. Also Barney carves a statue of himself and Fred to be friends forever. 
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May 4, 2017 04:52
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I'm glad Barney takes his influence from roughly Part 3/4 Araki
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May 4, 2017 15:18
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Trojan Kaiju posted:I'm glad Barney takes his influence from roughly Part 3/4 Araki yeah that statue has his uniquely chiseled features in the design
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May 4, 2017 17:25
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Trojan Kaiju posted:I'm glad Barney takes his influence from roughly Part 3/4 Araki
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May 5, 2017 00:58
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Furedo Furinsuton and his terrifying Stand, Rolling Stone!
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May 5, 2017 02:58
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Reminder, the Allreds start a New Gods related comic this week 
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May 5, 2017 03:15
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Pebbles is into glam rock (rock glam?).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpA-7dNuobU
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May 5, 2017 04:26
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https://twitter.com/VKMarion/status/860317752224923649 Pretty cool
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May 5, 2017 06:53
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Anyone know if Denny O'Neil's Batman work is totally collected on Comixology anywhere? I see there's three volumes of "Illustrated by Neal Adams" which has a lot of it I imagine, but I don't think he illustrated everything O'Neil wrote.
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May 5, 2017 07:20
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SMP posted:Anyone know if Denny O'Neil's Batman work is totally collected on Comixology anywhere? I see there's three volumes of "Illustrated by Neal Adams" which has a lot of it I imagine, but I don't think he illustrated everything O'Neil wrote. Last I checked there were chunks missing, but I don't know specifics and could be wrong.
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May 5, 2017 07:25
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Teenage Fansub posted:Reminder, the Allreds start a New Gods related comic this week Tell me more, my friend.
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May 5, 2017 07:46
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SMP posted:Anyone know if Denny O'Neil's Batman work is totally collected on Comixology anywhere? I see there's three volumes of "Illustrated by Neal Adams" which has a lot of it I imagine, but I don't think he illustrated everything O'Neil wrote. I don't know if there's a better solution but the colouring in those is all modernized and terrible.  They've since put out Batman artist collections that are far more faithful to the old art, so I hope they reprint like that. Dan Didio posted:Tell me more, my friend. http://www.comicsbeat.com/preview-your-first-look-at-the-newest-young-animal-bug-the-adventures-of-forager-1/ edit: \/Oops. Replaced with a preview\/ Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:24 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 08:19
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That's showing me the wrong comic, but I looked it up and Bug! looks cool as gently caress. I'm down.
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May 5, 2017 08:21
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Teenage Fansub posted:I don't know if there's a better solution but the colouring in those is all modernized and terrible. Good God. Nevermind.
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May 5, 2017 09:21
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Teenage Fansub posted:edit: \/Oops. Replaced with a preview\/ Powerfully good. I'll definitely be picking that up.
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SMP posted:Good God. Nevermind. Yeah I got an old version of the birth of the demon trade which contains the old art
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