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East of West #1 is out this week. It's Hickman, Dragotta, 38 pages and only 2.99. Completely worth it. It's a sci-fi western following the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the way to kill the president of future America. Hickman brings his usual thing but I think Dragotta really knocks it out of the park with the character design and "action" set pieces.
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We'll see each other again, won't we  It was a perfect end to the series.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:13
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This is the shittiest move by Apple and hilarious given the fact that they had no problem putting up any other issue of Saga which had sex in it, but y'know since it's gay sex. For those that buy this from Comixology you can still buy the issue from their website and then sync the app without issue or buy direct from Images site if you want to.
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Apr 9, 2013 20:12
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Don't really see how it's much worse than seeing full on male+female penetration when they were on Sextillion or the earlier mentioned "shoot it in my twat".
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Apr 9, 2013 22:03
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Hedrigall posted:Question: how come Saga has 12 issues and is already slated for a Volume 2 paperback in July, while Prophet is up to 14 issues and there's no sign of a Volume 2 yet? Is it a sales thing? I ask this as someone who almost exclusively buys in paperback rather than month to month. Trades don't have set number of issues in them and trade departments can be weird but I would presume that Prophets arc hasn't ended yet so there's no point putting out a trade which is only 80% of an arc. Prophet is a weird case though since the first TPB only included one of the short stories in it.
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Apr 10, 2013 12:53
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Having read the book now it's kind of hilarious how much it's been blown out of proportion as it's just two small images of dicks. It as a really good issue as well, controversy aside, and I'm surprised at how much they seem to have upped the "everybody starts to meet". EDIT: Bringing the controversy talk to the Derailed thread as poo poo just got more interesting. Waterhaul fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Apr 10, 2013 |
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Apr 10, 2013 18:59
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Image announced a poo poo load of new books yesterday and a lot of them look great! Basically every body who is or was big at Marvel for the last few years that isn't named Bendis has books coming out. Probably most psyched about Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, but Brubaker is reteaming up with Steve Epting and Remender has multiple books coming out. The Dean White colours on it look amazing as expected. Also JMS is going to poop all over some great Sienkiewicz work. Waterhaul fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 13:12
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The Millar line is just Millar being Millar, according to him Jupiter's Legacy is his Watchmen, whatever that's supposed to mean. I think the best news about the Image stuff is more good Fraction and Brubaker work, I think both had been pretty restrained working Marvel style and both of their current output is way better since they've stopped. Waterhaul fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 15:49
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The worst thing about Jupiter's Legacy is that Quitely isn't even bringing his B game.LtKenFrankenstein posted:Man a lot of those books look really drat cool. I've been stoked for Satellite Sam since I heard about it, I'm not even that big on Fraction but it looks like a return to old-school, good Chaykin, and I know Fraction's a big fan of Black Kiss so I trust him to do it justice. I thought it was good. Chaykin was great, really washes the stink of his recent Marvel stuff away, and the book feels like it could become something really interesting depending on how far they decide to push things.
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Jul 3, 2013 20:57
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I wouldn't say the art is bad just the whole second issue half of the issue seems ridiculously rushed. Just lacking the detail which makes the bonus content and first half fun. In fact the entire thing feels very rushed. The bit with kids getting beaten up and called fags or naked evil stripper ninjas being called bitches felt a little out of place too. Harsher than what should be in a fun comic. I did appreciate that Lex was basically just Alexis Krauss.
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Aug 12, 2013 07:27
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I dunno. I'm fine with harsh language and violence, as far as favorite writers go Ennis is up there, it just felt tonally out of place for the rest of the story. Maybe because it took away some of the camp value of it, I expected something more in tone with Miami Connection or a Jason Eisener piece and this didn't scratch it.
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Aug 12, 2013 20:40
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Sex Criminals was good but it was the most Matt Fraction book possible that I'm curious if it will manage to maintain as the book continues. Also it's weird to have a character quote Lolita at a girl and it not being played as him being a creep.
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Sep 26, 2013 20:17
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Yeah I really liked Three. Gillen is great when he gets really angry and passionate about things and the creative team all just flow together so well. Jordie's name should always be on the cover because she's pretty drat great and I've bought books just knowing she's colouring them.
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Oct 9, 2013 20:18
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PenguinBob posted:Pretty Deadly comes out tomorrow and I think it looks Pretty Sick. It's really really good. I was psyched for it since it was announced but the book and in particular Rios' art still managed to blow me away. The character designs are also top notch stuff.
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Oct 23, 2013 20:14
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onefish posted:I love the art and concept on Pretty Deadly. The first four preview pages are boring. I assume stuff actually happens in the issue? First issue is very dreamy world building. At the very least it is worth 2.99 and a few minutes to read.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:10
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Part of me wonders how much is actually Apple noticing and how much is Comixology pre-empting and making a scene as they did with Saga a few issues back.
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Nov 6, 2013 14:23
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404GoonNotFound posted:Speaking of the web store, the first issue is free today. Now nobody has any excuses! Well now it really doesn't look like the entire thing was just a publicity stunt.
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Nov 6, 2013 20:37
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bobkatt013 posted:Can you get Lost Girls on Comixology? On the app (where things are either being banned or not submitted) no. Neither is Crossed or Prison Pit or the issue of Multiple Warheads with the porn reprint. Nobody is just trying to make a big fuss about those.
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Nov 14, 2013 19:05
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RevKrule posted:I think there's a couple reasons this is getting more play. People are just hyping to get more book sales is all. Issue #1 had low enough sales and issue #2 were even worse. Like it's a bigger deal because Sex Criminals is an ongoing book but I don't know how Fraction is a more recognizable name than Alan Moore.
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Nov 14, 2013 22:04
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onefish posted:Rover Red Charlie, #1 of 6 in Garth Ennis's new miniseries from Avatar, released this week. Yeah I finally read this and it was good. I'm not crazy on the art, it's a bit too Avatar for the concept but Ennis really knows how to bounce from sad to violent to funny ridiculously well.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:12
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Hakkesshu posted:I like Scott Pilgrim (even the movie, too!), but I don't think it's a high bar, either. It's a good comic, but not a classic by any means. I would certainly hope it's not the best thing he ever does. As someone that didn't really care for the book and hated the film I'd call it a classic. It perfectly managed to encapsulate a generation and the recolourings are actually improving and diversifying and already good cast.
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Dec 24, 2013 11:01
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Zachack posted:Just because it has Darick Robertson and swearing doesn't make it an Ennis book. I thought Happy was pointless and uninteresting with poor plotting and dialogue that managed to make four issues feel like two too many, but if you can defend it then by all means I'd love to read how it's some hidden genius. Yeah Happy may have been Morrison doing A Very Garth Ennis Christmas but it was a ridiculously poor attempt at doing Ennis missing a lot of the stuff that makes Ennis great. Especially when Ennis/Parlov are churning out Fury Max, which is easily a high point in both of their long careers.
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Jan 13, 2014 17:24
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StumblyWumbly posted:Happy felt a lot like a guy writing something he thought people wanted. Reading it was really painful. Yeah Happy felt very much like Morrison looking at what the "big" indie books were at the moment and trying to fit in while sprinkling around some surreal imagery to pass it off as unique.
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Jan 13, 2014 21:37
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Pretty Deadly is such a gorgeous book that I would really love if it was Emma Rios doing both writing and art. It took till issue 4 for the book to finally settle into what it's be and you can see the issues that plague Captain Marvel cropping up a lot too. But man I would easily buy a dialogue free of the book.
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Jan 24, 2014 13:08
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Kull the Conqueror posted:What issues are those? The main things are the opening issue which tonally does not match the rest of the book and making things far more complicated then they need to be. The pacing is all over the place too which is weird as her mini's have been better. With Captain Marvel I don't know how it was originally conceived but Pretty Deadly was originally just a Western with Ginny taking the role of The Woman With No Name, going from town to town rather than what it is now. Now it's basically Gods vs Monsters, which Emma Rios is drawing the hell out of but is really at odds with the first issue. There's also the fact that issue 2,3 and 4 were a very messy and overly complicated way of shuffling around the characters in 1 to match presumably how the series is going to go forward.
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Jan 25, 2014 14:31
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Kull the Conqueror posted:To be honest, the disarming narrative was part of what really drew me in, lending to this pastoral, ethereal quality of tone to the story that turned the thing into some kind of Jodorowsky/Leone lovechild. I've been in love with it the whole time, but at this point I'm very curious: what's the premise of the story as a series? I mean, we're already on the verge of our heroes facing down Death. Yeah part of me wonders how long they intend for the series to last, I know it's an ongoing but with the change in pace and Emma co-writing stuff with Brandon Graham and Kelly Sue taking up more books I wouldn't be too surprised if it didn't last the year.
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Jan 25, 2014 17:43
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Wait what about someone drawing the next arc? From looking up I did see that at the moment they are aiming to do roughly 12 issues, maybe more depending on work schedules.
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Jan 25, 2014 23:40
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Was going through my stack and got Genesis by Alison Sampson and Nathan Edmonson which was really good. Sampson's style reminds me a lot of Travel Foreman and just does such great work with the architecture of the page. She has some preview pages up on her tumblr but the stuff in the book manages to be even better.   It's a done in one story about a guy who gets the power to create whatever he wants and plays out as an interesting fable. Edmondson manages to be just what it should and keeps things dream like enough but also explains just the right amount that you want from the book, really good stuff.
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Apr 20, 2014 19:28
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Given that Glory is done and Prophet is ending soon Image are rolling along with a new reboot/relaunch/reimaging/re-whatever of another old Liefeld property. This time it's his an Alan Moore's old book Supreme but with Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay doing it. Ellis is Ellis and I've really liked what I've seen from Lotay's stuff. Should be good. quote:You are not dreaming. I'd guess it will follow Diana Dane the Lois Lane stand in?
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Apr 21, 2014 20:17
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Yeah Avatar very clearly has a pretty ugly style that you'll notice as soon as you see it, not to mention the disgusting promotional tactics they've used around Crossed but they have some good books every now and again in spite of it all.
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Jun 10, 2014 13:35
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StumblyWumbly posted:I'm pretty sure Rob Liefeld came to Graham and asked him to do a thing and then stayed the gently caress away or something. So Liefeld has good taste and sounds like a pretty good boss. Yeah Image went up to a bunch of creators and said "here are some books do whatever you want" and on top of that Graham is a pretty big Liefeld fan.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:18
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Ellis, Shalvey and Bellaire have my money no matter what they do. Good to see them decide to take the effort they put into Moon Knight creator owned. Also From Under Mountains is going to be great. Not familar with Claire Gibson but Marian Churchland and Sloane Leong are pretty drat great.
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Jul 24, 2014 09:24
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pugnax posted:I'm just an unabashed Brian Wood fanboy and I'm okay with that. Uhhhh good luck with that.
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Aug 31, 2014 21:06
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Unmature posted:I'm as SJW as a privileged white american male can be and even I think people are overrating Bitch Planet because of its feminist message. I found the twist of the issue cool as a one off Twilight Zone-y kinda thing, but have no feel for the characters except a couple broad cliches (brassy fat lady). The world is cool, but if you've read like ANY scifi it's really nothing special except the actual Bitch Planet stuff. I was kind of the same though I'll give issue 2 to see how it holds up without the first issue twist. None of the characters are really compelling but maybe issue 2 will flesh them out a bit more to where they can carry the book.
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Dec 14, 2014 15:19
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As someone who is anxiously waiting the next issue of Orc Stain I would have bet good money that NonPlayer just wasn't going to continue it at all after he got a well paying job. But good for him, I'll gladly buy another issue of it whenever it eventually does come out.
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Dec 15, 2014 21:31
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Nah that's straight up true. I like the book and it has a nice mixture of character beats and shock moments but without Staples design or being able to bounce between sweet and gross the book wouldn't be getting as much of an impact given all the delays.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:07
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The Image Expo announce that Paul Jenkins is taking over from McFarlane while he does a new creator owned book so the Wood thing ain't gonna happen.
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Jan 18, 2015 14:31
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I liked it and I'm down for the long haul if it doesn't meander too much. I eventually tapped out of Morrison's Batman but Lovecraftian horror will keep me interested a bit longer. Burnham kills it on art.
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Baron Fuzzlewhack posted:What's the deal with Marian Churchland's and Brandon Graham's upcoming projects Arclight and Island? Are they starting this week/this month? Arclight starts this week and everybody has been raving about it. Island starts on the 15th and looks glorious and is oversized.
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