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Madkal posted:From what I remember about the event from the two books I read (Detective Comics and Robin), he took c-list villains and upped the power levels so superhero status. Isn't he why Scarecrow was some kind of Scarebeast at the end of War Games? If not, can someone tell me why Scarecrow was some kind of Scarebeast at the end of War Games? redbackground fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Dexie posted:Random question. I promise to write you an effort-post later tonight!
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Dexie posted:Random question. Vampirella has had 3 major publishers over the years: Warren, Harris, and Dynamite. The Warren era was when she was more of a "horror" character, it was all black and white, and she was always dealing with vampires (duh), cults, monsters and other occult poo poo like that. Archie Goodwin was integral in making her as popular as she still is today, and Jose Gonzalas was *the* Vampirella artist of the 70s. His work was detailed, gothic, and gorgeous. There is a Best of the Warren era trade out there if you want to just get a good look at what was going on back then. I've been prepping a 3-volume Vampirella hardcover set of the Harris comics years (1991-2009) so this is the era I know the most about. Here's a reading map of the entire publication era for reference of the issues mentioned below. The Harris people definitely pushed a Vampirella-as-superhero mentality, and they also kicked up the violence, 90s Bad Girl art stylings, and often placed her in more sci-fi scenarios. Things came back around to more..."grounded" storylines later on, before Dynamite eventually took the character over. - Sad to say, I've never read the earliest b/w Harris issues written by Busiek (Morning in America). They are very hard to find these days, and can still go for more money than I care to spend. I don't know if they're available digitally, but they are well-regarded if you can get a hold of them. - "The Dracula War" was the initial launch of Harris going monthly, but it petered out at issue 5. It's Busiek again teamed with Jim Balent on art as she fights um, Dracula and poo poo. It's pretty good, actually! - Harris tried again with a monthly Vampi comic with Vengeance of Vampirella. It is peak 90s comics, and until Amanda Conner comes on at the very end with #25, the art is nothing to write home about and is often quite ugly (bad 90s coloring + bad 90s art = ehhhh). Lots of fighting blood monsters, fantastic beasts, dudes with guns, that kind of stuff. I would skip it, but the covers are mostly pretty great. She does gain an actual arch-nemesis who ends up playing a huge role in: - Death and Destruction & Vampirella Lives. These are pretty drat solid. Basically it's the death and rebirth of Vampi, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Warren Ellis writes it, and Amanda Conner is on art. Conner is easily one of my favorite Vampirella artists. If you've seen any of her Power Girl/Harley Quinn artwork, her art on Vampirella fits right in that mold. Blood Lust was a prestige two-part series that fills in some blanks during that period illustrated by Joe Jusko and it is quite stunning. - Vampirella: The New Monthly kicks off with Morrison/Millar/Conner in charge, and are pretty fun and continue where D&D/VL left off, including bringing back her arch from earlier. They're quite action-y. Whether you would want to keep reading V:TNM after they all leave is up to you, but this is when the space stuff begins and an alternate, non-canon version of Lady Death eventually becomes the Big Bad of the series. What a time! There is a lot of Nazi time travel that may or may not be up your alley. - Mark Millar and Mike Mayhew relaunched Vampirella's monthly after all that crazyness and it's a very pretty comic when Mayhew is on art duties, which he is until I think #13. Amanda Conner pops back in to do the covers, but the series kind of dies off slowly. The stories are back down to "street level" for the most part. - Palmiotti and Conner write and draw a fantastic little short story in the Halloween: Trick & Treat one-shot. One of my favorites by far. - Revelations was pretty solid, and completely self-contained, same with The Second Coming. - Vampirella is doing some cool stuff with Dynamite now, but her longer runs under that publisher that started around 2010 or so, to me, are just super bluh. The interior art is often terrible, and the stories did nothing for me. - The only Vampirella that Alan Moore wrote that I know of was a story in a 3-part Vampi/Dracula anthology one-shot called The Centennial. Worth checking out, as Ellis wrote one of the other stories, and Moore was teamed up with Gary Frank. - There is a Dynamite "Li'l Vampi" one-shot that is adorable. - I am a terrible monster, but I really liked Aliens/Vampirella, sue me. Hopefully this has been of a modicum of use! redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Lurdiak posted:Brainiac's fine. I just don't think he's an appropriate or interesting villain for the Injustice universe. He's basically just doing what he always does. I was honestly surprised that he was in fact, the end-all boss at the end of the day. I kept thinking, oh, there's always somebody else behind the whole thing as a last-second swerve, but nope, Brainiac from beginning to end. Kind of let down.
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Endless Mike posted:Bubba the Cave Duck was pretty terrible tbh He didn't HAVE to give you that extra energy slot! 
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Jun 19, 2017 04:16
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OhFunny posted:Huh I didn't know The Dark Phoenix Saga, Kitty Pryde's first appearance, and Days of Future Past were all back-to-back with each other. The Crossing/Onslaught/Heroes Reborn 
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joehonkie posted:Wait, there's a separate 616-native Miles? I can't tell my friend about that. He'll never pick up another comic. Well, we're going to find out together. His name only appeared at the very, very end of Spider-Men. 
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Jun 20, 2017 21:51
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Er, I think you accidentally posted a shot from the end of Spawn instead.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Nope, that's from this scene: thank goodness you arrived to over-explain my lovely joke
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