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My year has started off wonderfully with a friend arguing on facebook that married heroes don't sell books, so it was okay that DC didn't let Batwoman get married. When I countered with the FF, Spider-Man (pre OMIT) and Superman (pre nu52) he responded that all those books dropped readers after the marriage. Does anyone have actual numbers for this? He did concede that MAYBE Batwoman would have bucked this trend after I pointed out that it's one of the most high profile LGBT books being published.
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omg chael crash posted:Since the holiday and being out of town I haven't picked my books up in two weeks and I'm thinking of taking this occasion to purge most of my purchasing habits. Maybe dropping down to just Hawkguy and 1 or 2 really good image/independent books. I did this for DC when they did villain month and it was wonderful. There really aren't many, if any, Marvel books I'm reading out of habit instead of enjoyment, though. Same with Image and the other indies except, maybe, Walking Dead.
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Jan 2, 2014 10:21
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/08/30/faceless-rose-tyler-doctor-who-the-idiots-lantern-cosplay-picture/ Someone in the last thread was asking about how to go about making a good faceless Question mask a while back. This doesn't show instructions and is Dr. Who, but that looks a hell of a lot better than a nylon stocking.
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Jan 3, 2014 06:45
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Well, Nova is poo poo and Young Avengers, while great, is a love it or hate it kind of book. Now, if he hates Hawkguy then there's no hope. \/\/\/I tried Nova again with the issue 100 special after seeing a bunch of stuff in the Funny Panels thread. It is still bad and I hate the art. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jan 7, 2014 06:11
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I'm... I'm sorry. Maybe try Saga or East of West? Or is he one of those people who only read super heroes? Sci-Fi Romeo & Juliet with tits and swears or Post Apocalyptic Alt-history Western are pretty interesting premises?
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Jan 7, 2014 06:29
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Nope, that single issue hit a different annoying teen hero trope on every page. It's fair to say that I'm still annoyed that Dick Ryder is in limbo with this new kid flying about and the Nova Corps no where to be found, but I gave it an honest shot based on the FP thread and goon acclaim. It's probably not as bad as the Loeb issues (I didn't even give those a shot), but it is still not good.
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Jan 7, 2014 08:47
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Being a Wildstorm fan around 1998-2002 is the bummerest experiences I had as a comic fan, because it was seeing so much potential rise... and then die on the vine shortly after the sale to DC. It made me a lot more jaded about things like cancellations and mismanagement. A lot of it wasn't necessarily the fault of the people involved - it was a hard time for comics - but it was hard to see a company doing some groundbreaking stuff in the world of capes and then be reduced to The DC Try Out Book. There so much good stuff coming out of Wildstorm at the time. Wildcats 3.0 remains one of my favorite comics. I'm going to have to dig them out and reread.
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Jan 25, 2014 00:41
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Teenage Fansub posted:Every month I buy How the hell are you still at 24 DC books? Are you including Vertigo?
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Jan 26, 2014 06:25
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Senor Candle posted:Just because you don't care about what DC is putting out does not mean that it isn't still selling. Batman still outsells just about everything else as far as I know. Remember, BSS is not representative of fandom. As a whole, people love a lot of the books, artists and writers we despise while not paying any attention to the books we love.
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Jan 27, 2014 00:07
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irlZaphod posted:As much as I criticise it, what he did with Avengers was pretty amazing. It's not groundbreaking in the sense that it wasn't anything particularly new, but it was really fresh (for a time, at least), and really generated interest in what was an incredibly flagging series for years (I suppose arguably the Busiek/Perez run did the same thing, although to be honest I flipped through the first issue of that a while ago and it didn't really grab me). Bendis Avengers was the first time I ever felt like I "needed" to read the book.
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Jan 28, 2014 22:04
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My Planetary omnibus just arrived today when Amazon had previously told me it wouldn't be here until Thursday. WOOOOO!
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Jan 28, 2014 22:51
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Waterhaul posted:Honestly I don't think they are any other great messageboards out there anymore but maybe other people will disagree. BSS isn't going anywhere and while our community number increases and decreases at various points I think we have a healthy community of people who get on with each other and just like talking about comics. I'd hope other people feel the same with regards to that. I've got to agree. Outside of whatever is going on in GBS, what's the cause of all this "sky is falling" nonsense?
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Jan 31, 2014 11:38
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RevKrule posted:I believe he did Young Avengers, he also did redesign of Ms. Marvel (the new one). True, but they can make those face display so much more emotion and expression than most other comic artists, so I'm okay with it.
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Feb 16, 2014 18:57
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,2259309.story Harold Ramis is dead. Maybe this means Bill Murray will get onboard for Ghostbusters, now?
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Feb 24, 2014 20:33
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Soonmot posted:http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,2259309.story MWahahahahahhaha http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c..._medium=twitter
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Feb 27, 2014 08:51
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Edge & Christian posted:
Worked out pretty well for Sunspot and Cannonball.
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Mar 1, 2014 15:58
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Don't do it, man. We're here for you if you need to talk.
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Mar 17, 2014 09:33
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Sundowner posted:Already chock-full of Judge Dredd and 2000 AD books in general lately, so I've got those covered. I guess I mean more Mad Max, Fallout 3/New Vegas or even like Cholly and Flytrap if you have read it. Small settlements of people and the weird poo poo they get up to. Noted the films though, I'm actually surprised I haven't seen A Boy and His Dog yet. It's book, not comic book and I actually recommend getting the audiobooks, but the Deathlands series is my guilty pleasure. Post apoc setting, mutants, secret science conspiracies and lots of fun violence. There's over 100 audiobooks for it. The first bunch are a bit gun porny, not anywhere near as bad as patriot fiction, but I pretty much don't need to know how much the guns the protagonists are using weigh and poo poo. The sex scenes are pretty laughable too, thankfully those drop away as the books go on. They're trash, but they are fuuuuuuuuun trash.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:51
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Rhyno posted:The Captain America movie was what, 15 years prior? I did forget the Thomas Jane Punisher film though. Everytime someone mentions the Punisher movies, I forget about the two recent ones and remember the Dolph Lundgren one instead. I'm happier this way.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:14
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Waterhaul posted:Double post. Dancing baby returns.
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Apr 2, 2014 09:53
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That and breakin spines was Shadowhawk's whole deal.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:40
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Lurdiak posted:For every bit of progress we've made in the last 15 or so years, there's been an equal and opposite reaction from people who are violently attached to the status quo. I can guarantee there's people that are going out of their way to exclude women from nerd hobbies and make sexist jokes to "compensate" for what they see as a disproportionate amount of space given to women in these circles. And shirts like this are for those people. And that reaction is something I just cannot wrap my mind around. I'm coming up on 40 and I would love if more women in my age group were into all the nerd poo poo I am. On a purely selfish level, as a straight dude, you should drat happy that comics/video games/ D&D/ whatever is no longer a total boys club.
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Apr 23, 2014 10:24
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Madkal posted:Well it is a well known fact that people who hate coffee (and women) are terrible people and should be avoided, so this shirt is pretty much a flashing siren of stupidity. Coffee is terrible though. I've also avoided morning almost my entire adult life, though.
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Apr 23, 2014 22:53
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Gavok posted:Then I guess I rule Apokalips.  Evil feels well rested without abnormal cravings or withdrawal symptoms.
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Apr 23, 2014 23:49
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Sundowner posted:I just read the Batwoman Annual and holy gently caress that was a miserable excuse for a comic book. Of the ~6 issues this new creative team have made since JHW3/Blackman left, this Annual is the worst one yet. The art was fine if a little spotty (sometimes very spotty) and the writing can be extremely obtuse(spoilerish). You should have left with JHWIII, I'm much happier having done so.
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May 2, 2014 04:29
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, Batwoman is the only superhero book I actually have a vested interest in.
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Literally The Worst posted:So your argument is that you don't know what you're talking about. Cool. Stop talking about it. Literally The Worst. It's the digital age, there is no reason not to mirror when translating to a culture that reads from a different direction.
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May 11, 2014 05:56
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All I know is that your animes suck and you should go back to ADTRW. I have however many volumes of Lone Wolf & Cub sitting here that have been flipped for translation and somehow I am still able to appreciate the story and art. Are you saying your precious tentacle rape comics have more artistic integrity than LW&C?
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May 11, 2014 06:39
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Literally The Worst posted:Wow is it 2004 and all anime slash manga that isn't what I like is tentacle rape porn again? gently caress off dude. So why can it not be mirrored?
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May 11, 2014 06:44
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Literally The Worst posted:Are you going to discuss or are you just going to dismiss people who disagree as being into rape porn? Don't answer that, I already know. I gave an example. Is Lone Wolf and Cub artistically corrupt for being translated and flipped. Hell, was it even flipped? I read it once a year, but never noticed anything odd. Maybe i am just a stupid gaijin, unable to understand the superior nipponese way of reading funny books. Tell me, has Lone Wolf and Cub been damaged by translation to Western standards?
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May 11, 2014 06:50
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Literally The Worst posted:Make this argument again but without the stupid insults that imply that I have to be a basement dwelling weeb to disagree. You've made no actual arguments, just a series of insults that end with "prove me wrong" and nah son. So there's no reason not to flip except to exclude people from enjoying a story. Thanks.
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May 11, 2014 06:55
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Literally The Worst posted:So to recap, you dismissed my actual arguments by being a smug rear end in a top hat about how clearly I'm a weeblord who wants it ~pure~ and reads tentacle rape porn, then invented an argument for me. And you're calling me an rear end in a top hat for it. My straw man is that Lone Wolf & Cub, a manga widely acknowledged as being not just good, but great, is translated and flipped for western readers without affecting the artistic integrity. Your argument is "no u".
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May 11, 2014 07:02
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Thank you, Alien Rope Burn.
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May 11, 2014 07:18
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Wow, I was a huge rear end in a top hat last night. Sorry gang.
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May 11, 2014 18:44
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Lurdiak posted:Comics will never have another Steve Gerber. And we are poorer for it.
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May 12, 2014 20:22
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If it was Netflix, I'd be optimistic, but Playstation? Huh.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:29
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Oh, okay. So they've actually made other shows before this, then?
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Jun 10, 2014 05:36
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So, I went looking at other comic book forums while we were down and, holy poo poo, they really do all suck!
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Metal Loaf posted:Ultimatum was better. sleepingbuddha posted:Countdown to Final Crisis is the greatest comic series there ever was and ever will be.
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I enjoy the ASM movies specifically because of Garfield and Stone. I'm wondering how much I'll the next one.
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Aphrodite posted:Just get one of those Coke machines with the 500 flavor combinations, but put Mountain Dew in it too. They installed these at the movie theater I go to when they did a big remodel a few years back and the only thing better is the comfy recliners they replaced the seats with.
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