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chukamok posted:Thanks all for the recommendations. I've bought and enjoyed Prophet, Glory, and Godzilla Half Century War due to this thread. When I was looking up Rachel Rising (which I'm probably going to get) on Amazon, I saw Revival. Is it any good? I like Revival quite a bit, but I have a lot of time for Tim Seeley. He's reined in a lot of his more irritating habits from Hack/Slash and Witchblade and the result's very readable.
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I don't know if anyone else is interested in Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore's LEAVING MEGALOPOLIS, but the book's apparently at the printer and Calafiore put up a ten-page preview on his website. I'm a sucker for a good apocalypse so I'm at least somewhat interested.
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Daniel Way is the writer on the new arc of Crossed: Badlands. It is a perfect storm of terrible.
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Jan 12, 2014 04:28
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"Next issue: Shut the gently caress up, Gary!" Rat Queens is still great.
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Jan 16, 2014 00:07
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About that. Is Kirkman okay? Like, did he just have a really bad breakup or something? I paged through the new Invincible today and this is... troubling.
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May 22, 2014 00:20
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onefish posted:Okay, this is what I needed to hear. I *am* a Gillen/McKelvie fan, but the hype for this one had seemed so ridiculous I was worried. Now I'm happy and excited to pick this up. Remember to do a ska-walk.
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Jun 18, 2014 20:46
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fatherboxx posted:I don't have the problem with smug cynical bastards in Ellis' comics as I do with Brian K. Vaughan and Joss Whedon - maybe the context, ideas and action help to skip around the edges. One of the prevailing characteristics of Ellis's stock cynical bastard, I think, is that it's often a shell. Most of them seem to be frustrated idealists who are numbing the pain that frustration somehow, often through vices and behavior, but one of the beats of the story is often the point where they recapture their idealism and use it to motivate themselves towards making a positive change. Elijah Snow's the easiest character to point at as an example, since he's a grumpy, cynical douchebag, but the whole point of the Planetary organization is to investigate, stockpile, and use the strange and weird facets of the world to the world's benefit. You could make an argument that Ellis's opening arcs of Authority are about that transition stage, where Jenny in particular shakes off her years of malaise in favor of going out and just doing something. The cynical bastard when encountered in other works, conversely, often doesn't have quite as well-earned a cynicism, nor are they as willing to discard it when it's no longer of use. Ellis's problem is overuse of the archetype, but when he uses it, he at least uses it quite well.
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Aug 4, 2014 01:46
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The guy credited as the editor for Lazarus is former BSS mod David "hermanos" Brothers, in case anyone wasn't aware.
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Aug 9, 2014 23:59
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Revival, Trees, Witchblade now that Ron Marz is back, Archer & Armstrong, Atomic Robo. I also pick up Crossed: Badlands whenever there's a writer I trust on the cover (Ennis, Gage, Spurrier).
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Sep 1, 2014 17:51
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krakagar posted:I haven't heard of this, bit I'm also a Carey sucker, what's it about? Dude reminded me it existed, so I spent my holiday afternoon getting caught up. It's difficult to summarize, but basically, a cop in California discovers that all the super-villains plaguing the world seem to be traceable back to these two guys who are "selling" super-powers, so he pays them a visit to see what's going on. Then things go a little nuts.
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Sep 1, 2014 22:31
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/15/avatar-press-announces-crossed-100-an-ingenious-future-set-series-by-alan-moore-and-gabriel-andrade/ We now live in a world where Alan Moore will write an arc for Crossed.
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Sep 16, 2014 23:05
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Garth Ennis's mini Caliban wrapped up yesterday. It's a horror/sf book from Avatar, so that tells you a lot about what you're getting from the start, but there's a lot about Ennis's writing I enjoy for its own sake. I wouldn't be surprised if this started as a film pitch; it's got a feel to it like he's already hoping it'll get optioned.
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Oct 9, 2014 17:18
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onefish posted:Okay, so does it end well? Worth checking out in trade? (I like Ennis when he's "on," generally hate Avatar art, but am at base definitely into space horror as a genre.) It's a Lovecraftian space opera, so with that in mind, it ends about as well as could be imagined. It's also not as bad about grue for grue's sake as some of the Avatar go-to guys, so there's that. Ennis does okay with endings. It's not like Ellis where a lot of his books just stop.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:14
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SalTheBard posted:I feel the same. I'm not really sure what the hell is going on. We are 8 issues in and I don't feel like there has really been any sort of plot progression until this issue. We got a bunch of adventures of a kid learning art, a war in Africa, a scientist in Antarctica and something in England. I expected the build up to "What the hell are the Trees?" to be slow but I expected something to have happened by now. I got the impression that the Trees themselves aren't terrifically important to any of the plots besides the Antarctica scientists'. They're a change agent more than anything; they're the sudden intrusion of the otherworldly and the story is in how they force people to react. It's kind of an alien-abduction story in reverse, and what got to interest me about the book was how it was not actually science fiction most of the time. A lot's happened--the Trees' effect has been uncovered and there's at least one survivor that knows about it, Chenglu's been destroyed, the Italian girl killed her crime-boss boyfriend and took over--but it's all been setup and slow burn.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:12
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I'll tell you what's weird; this Robyn Hood book from Zenescope is actually a pretty good urban fantasy comic.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:28
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Goatmask posted:I liked the reference to Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Reference to what? ...oh. Hedrigall posted:Talking of Ellis, I recently saw a hardcover collection of both Ocean and Orbiter in one volume, are either or both of those comics good? They both come out of his near-future SF period, where he was talking about stuff that was ten minutes into the future then, much of which comes off as slightly dated now. Ocean's all right, but Orbiter feels like the first book of something that never quite materialized. Great art on both, though.
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May 20, 2015 06:36
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Moore took his drat time getting to it, but the issue of Crossed +100 that came out today is really creepy.
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Jun 10, 2015 18:38
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Speaking of Top Cow, I guess they're ending the Witchblade/Darkness universe this year. Kind of a mercy kill at this point, I suppose. I feel like it fell apart after Artifacts. Gaz-L posted:I imagine Sejic's deal has something to do with how well Sunstone's sold. Didn't it set some record for Top Cow? Bleeding Cool is saying that it's the most-ordered comic in the history of Top Cow's catalog, which surprises me. It's not quite my thing, but you can see a lot of pages from it on Sejic's Deviantart and he's surprisingly good at comedy.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:53
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Chairman Capone posted:Just read the latest Crossed 100. I love that Beauregard Salt is obviously based on Hari Seldon from Foundation and his training of the Crossed is a hosed up version of Asimov's Psychohistory. I've liked the miniseries from the start, but the last issue or two, it's really gotten good. This may be a dumb question, but... are any of the other Crossed stories worth reading at all, or are they all just an excuse for shock ultraviolence? I have read the very first miniseries, but that's it. Ennis, Spurrier, Christos Gage, and Kieron Gillen have all done interesting stories in the Crossed universe, but I can take or leave just about everyone else who's worked on the series. Lapham is very much in the "excuse for shock ultraviolence" camp, David Hine isn't much better, Daniel Way screwed the pooch, and Justin Jordan's arc is filler. Just look at the writers on a given TPB and buy accordingly.
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Chairman Capone posted:Just read the latest Crossed 100. I love that Beauregard Salt is obviously based on Hari Seldon from Foundation and his training of the Crossed is a hosed up version of Asimov's Psychohistory. I've liked the miniseries from the start, but the last issue or two, it's really gotten good. This may be a dumb question, but... are any of the other Crossed stories worth reading at all, or are they all just an excuse for shock ultraviolence? I have read the very first miniseries, but that's it. Speaking of this, I picked up the latest two issues of Crossed: Badlands today, #80 and #81, and really wish I hadn't. It's Mike Wolfer in full gross-out mode.
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Jul 30, 2015 02:20
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zoux posted:I picked up on the Image sale based on glowing reviews and recommendations but what is it, like a slice of life deal or are there genre comic book elements to it? It's a rural Southern crime drama based around family, poverty, and the undue importance of high school football, and is so god drat dirty that every panel looks like you're reading it through a window that hasn't been cleaned in seventy years. No "genre elements" are involved.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:35
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Ror posted:
Dorkin tweets a lot, so I'm not going back to look for it, but he had a long series of tweets a few weeks ago that were seething with barely suppressed rage about Jill Thompson apparently preferring to do anything other than work on Beasts of Burden, and washing his hands of the whole thing. Apparently he caught up with her at NYCC and there might be something else happening there, though.
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Oct 18, 2015 18:46
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I feel like Monstress is just Sana Takeda being taken off the leash for 70-odd pages. In many ways, it's mad scenery porn.
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"I am offended by your ham, sir." Injection's new issue is oddly comedic.
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New Beasts of Burden coming soon, and Dorkin wants your letters: http://evandorkin.tumblr.com/post/138558669948/hey-folks-the-good-news-is-that-were-putting
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Feb 2, 2016 22:32
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I almost tweeted to Gillen specifically to call him names after I saw those last few pages.
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Feb 4, 2016 01:05
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The new Injection took me by surprise and I got a good solid laugh out of it. HAIL DONGZILLA
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Mar 16, 2016 18:52
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Letter 44 would almost make a better cartoon, if only for the sake of the effects budget.
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Apr 5, 2016 06:42
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Oh, cool, more We Can Never Go Home. That was one of those books I was always forgetting about, but it was a lot of fun when I remembered it was there, if that makes any sense.
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Apr 26, 2016 22:40
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4 Kids Walk Into A Bank is like the weird collaboration between Gordon Korman and Robert Cormier that never happened. It's giving me weird flashbacks to all the kid-lit I read when I was 12 or so.
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Apr 28, 2016 02:42
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Picklepuss posted:Does anyone know if the cover of Renato Jones is anything like what's inside? This might sound silly but I don't want to read it if the book's some kind of creepy, misogynist snuff fantasy. I wouldn't call it specifically misogynist, but it's definitely the same sort of violent cartoon as Andrews's Iron Fist run, and there are several women killed. It's as if a post-2001 Frank Miller was instead way, way too into Occupy Wall Street.
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May 7, 2016 23:31
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Kwyndig posted:Is John Rogers even doing anything right now? He works on "The Librarians" on TNT.
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May 16, 2016 17:44
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I found Moore's issues of +100 interesting enough, and then issue #4 or #5 flips it and recontextualizes the entire thing. Spurrier hasn't done anything near as good with his tenure, and I think I'm done with it for now. I might go back and try reading again once it's done, since apparently +100 is meant to have a conclusive ending somewhere around issue #20.
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May 18, 2016 19:50
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Ennis's last couple of arcs have actually been comparatively restrained, although Avatar keeps doing these utterly repulsive "incentive" covers. David Lapham's the one who started going truly apeshit with it, and unfortunately, a lot of the guys who came after him have been trying to raise the stakes even higher. I usually like Christos Gage, but the arc he's doing right now is downright nauseating. I'm not sure how much of it is down to the artist, though.
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May 18, 2016 20:48
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I'm playing the new Mirror's Edge game, and it's getting downright weird how much its background resembles that of Lazarus: a post-economic collapse future where old-money families sit at the head of a corporate-led United States and enforce a brutal caste system. It's even got one of the family heads showing up with his extremely competent female bodyguard.
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Jun 7, 2016 04:18
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Somehow Ennis got to do a sequel to Red Team at Dynamite, called Double Tap, Center Mass. It's a pretty straightforward cop drama, if you're into that sort of thing, although it'll probably start getting very dark very fast if the original's any indication.
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Aug 2, 2016 00:00
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Speaking of gore, is anyone but me still reading Spread? Only when I notice a new issue, which isn't often. At this point I may be trade-waiting by default.
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Aug 17, 2016 20:02
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I picked up a couple of issues because Ron Marz was writing it, and they were all right. I could probably stand to see a trade of that, and Dejah Thoris is nowhere near as ridiculous in the interiors as she tends to be on the covers.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:36
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It always felt to me like somebody managed to boil down the first twenty years of Heavy Metal magazine into a single unit, somehow. It's got that sort of "well, why not" feel to it a lot of the time.
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OldMemes posted:It's like someone going a bad impression of Garth Ennis. Is this meant to be serious? It looks like Bennett is hanging an entire issue or two off of the somewhat-well-known "OH HOLY gently caress" montage sequence from the first issue of Animosity, since it's running at about the same ratio: some animals are angry at humans, some are still pretty fond of them (or are actively in love with them), and some have other agendas entirely. The book's sort of half-serious, with most of the comedy coming from how sentient animals are just as likely to be goddamn idiots as humans are, like a humpback whale picking a weird moment to make Pokemon jokes.
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