Squidster posted:

Isn't Invincible already a misery parade of eyeball shrapnel? I'm sure this next gritty onslaught of violence will totally be shocking and invigorating.

Lurdiak posted:

I strongly advise against looking into the storage practices of basically anything you might consider valuable television or film history. Or video games, for that matter.

Lurdiak posted:

All I know about whatever's going on is that GBS went from a place where people yell at each other over news items, praise Macklemore and finance hot dog carts to a place that's funny as hell and that bad posters are afraid to touch. I had no idea there was a downside to this.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRiX5Mh2YCo&t=101s

Thanks guys, I appreciate that. And really, of I would throw a fit everytime things don't go my way I'd become an hermit since a long time ago, and I'm also stubborn as gently caress

Sanschel posted:

He did a one-shot with Chris Claremont called X-Women, about the titular X-Women having some weird adventure (Rogue inherited a yacht or some nonsense). Not much in the way of plot or story, it was clearly just Claremont setting up Manara for cheesecake panels, and all the women having the exact same face with different hair and skin tones got distracting.

Sundowner posted:

So the moral of the story today is that my Spawn books are really only worth $1... right??

Metal Loaf posted:

It's the gold chain that does it.

Madkal posted:

Anyone here going to ECCC this year?

Lurdiak posted:

Which one of you guys did this to me?

Sarchasm posted:

I'm gonna go ahead and bet that you telling us why you want to know about Batman's figure skating ability is more interesting than any answer you're going to get on the topic.

Also, for what it's worth (and because I appreciate that you've put this image in my head), I vote no. No, Batman can't figure skate. Nightwing, possibly.

CzarChasm posted:

Thanks, but I really don't need assistance pissing away more of my cash. (Seriously, I just checked ebay and was disappointed with how few cards I saw there.)

Sundowner posted:

I want to read more creator owned works. Are there any stellar ongoing or new series starting up and are there any must-read books I should catch up on? I think I'm going to catch up on Snyder's The Wake. I guess what I really mean is creator owned works from the likes of DC and Marvel writers because chances are if it's a legit indie writer then I'll be more inclined to look in to their book regardless, whereas I guess DC/Marvel folk do creator owned stuff a lot less frequently so I don't know what to look out for.

Sundowner posted:

Any recommendations for any good post-apocalyptic or rebuilt society type stories? I've been writing my own thing lately but I'm kind of running flat on inspiration and now I'm just in the mood to read some good post-apocalypse stories that really sell the setting and the different kinds of people or factions that form.

Read the first book of Cholly and Flytrap and I really liked that so I'm definitely going to pick up more of that.

Waterhaul posted:

And God said unto Noah gather two of every kind of pouch and wear them at once.

qntm posted:

Arrest Batman? How?

Sundowner posted:

I just found out about this book: http://www.dccomics.com/comics/robin-rises-omega-2014/robin-rises-omega-1

Is this going to be a comeback for Damian or do you think they're going to create a whole new Robin?

Karma Tornado posted:

Waterhaul posted:

Awww cheer up little buddy, you'll grow up to be Nightwing some day.

Karma Tornado posted:

CharlestheHammer posted:

I guess I am the only one who hates it and thinks it looks dumb.

Makes him look fat.

Madkal posted:

What other celebrities are huge comic book fans?

Waterhaul posted:

A lot of the "real scoops he gets" as Edge & Christian highlighted just comes from breaking embargos and stuff like that and playing them off as breaking news or being one ahead of others. He also has a habit of constantly name searching and scouring message boards like this, taking posts out of context and re-purposing them as "anonymous sources". I wouldn't call him the closest thing to an actual journalist when the likes of Tom Spurgeon exist who actually report on issues and don't make judgements or posts without facts.

Archyduke posted:

It's the year 2014, "rape jokes aren't cool" should in no way be a controversial or contrarian position. Jokes about sexual violence are a lovely way to get a laugh and Ennis has a history of leaning on them heavily, and that's absolutely a valid critique of his work, and something that you need to grapple with when talking about Ennis. He's written some good things, ok, but we shouldn't sweep the grossness-- a lot of which is foregrounded in The Boys-- under the rug, or give it a pass.

Waterhaul posted:

Identity Crisis is one of those amazing stories that no matter how terrible you think you remember it there is always something more horrible waiting under the surface.

WickedHate posted:

Everyone talks about bad states and never mentions Arkansas. I can only assume this is because it's so bad, if you don't live here, it retroactively erases itself from your memory.

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Identity Crisis was a good comic and a terrible comic, because it depends entirely upon your definition of 'good.'

Like, it's impossible to argue that Identity Crisis did not fulfill its remit; it was a Big Event by an Actual Novelist who had a longtime love of comics (I remember reading one of Meltzer's novels and being tickled that three supporting characters were named Ollie, Dinah, and Roy; it's the kind of thing that's meaningless to most but is a nice bonus for savvy readers). It got people talking about DC at a time when there wasn't much to talk about at DC. It looked pretty, it sold like hotcakes, and it brought interest from a bunch of places that hadn't had interest before - not to mention the fact that, as lovely as the ending turned out to be, it still kept enough people guessing to get them to keep buying the book. By those lights, it was a success - to DC, it was a good comic.

That said, the mystery was resolved in the cheapest, laziest way imaginable; it was full of scenes that looked great and yet fell apart the moment you stopped to actually think about them; it involved several 'heroes' acting despicably and set the tone for some of the laziest grimdark comics we've ever seen in the post-Chromium Cover age, while the few bits of decent plot material that could have been mined from it were inevitably ignored. It was lovely. It was just plain lovely hackwork.

It was a good gimmick, but that doesn't mean it was a good comic... unless you're not really invested in the medium or you work for DC. It was a classic example of the kind of short-term thinking that has plagued DC for decades - make the books sell now, who cares if it fucks us six years down the road?



To put it another way... Identity Crisis was kind of like Barry Bonds' winning the season Home Run record in baseball. It was interesting to look at and to a casual fan it was very compelling, but to most actual baseball fans - who get that there's more to the game than hitting home runs, which is one reason his team didn't make it to the postseason that year despite having inarguably the best hitter in the majors on their roster - it's not the be-all, end-all.

zoux posted:

Well she had the original clown suit and then ???



America's not ready for a gay Batman.

zoux posted:

I like that it's ok to sometimes just talk in the funny panels thread