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Was Taters posted:That cover is gorgeous. I wish I'd liked 100 Bullets more. I loved the first two graphic novel collections, but after that the plot seemed to me to collapse under its own weight.
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Mister Roboto posted:The Boys works if you hate a lot of Superhero tropes and cliches. Otherwise it'll come across as trying too hard. Honestly, I hate a lot of Superhero tropes and cliches, and The Boys still seems like it's trying too hard. I enjoy a conspiracy of superheroes, and I also enjoy the idea of normals defeating superheroes (although the Boys left "normals" behind a long time ago), ala Stormwatch: Team Achilles. But I just get tired of The Boys always turning things up to 11 (what if Superman wasn't just evil, but also Raped Dogs!).
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Personally, I think 100 Bullets is maybe the best comic book of the past 25 years so I'll be that dude who tells you to stick with it. Eh. I love the first 7 trades and the original pure conceit of "100 Bullets to do anything you want." After that I think the series runs off the usual conspiracy rails and collapses under its own weight.
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Endless Mike posted:Gonna nab Ex Machina and The Losers and maybe Sweet Tooth. Ex Machina has the most naive view of politics I think I've ever seen in a comic book, which is saying something.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Ooh Ooh. Comic book smackdown. I'll have to go back through and reread to call out everything in particular, but in general we see that Mitchell Hundred is that rare straight-talking politician who has positions that both parties hate and yet is able to pull everyone together through Being Right. It's a pretty common fantasy that somehow things don't get done in politics because there is a Great Man missing, rather than because people have fundamental disagreements about core issues.
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