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Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Jordan7hm posted:

The whole King was in the CIA thing is really weird, they�re not wrong about that part of it

�I used to run agents in terrorist networks and had a bounty on my head� doesn�t sound like the kind of thing someone would say only 10 years out from having done so. But then again Fleming made bank off of the mystique of being a spy, and that lent extra credibility to his characterizations. So who knows.

He knows what he�s allowed to talk about, and isn�t shy about it. I give him credit for saying that Trump acts like someone who�s being worked by foreign agents.

His Word Balloon interviews are really good. Super nice guy.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 01:51

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:14

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Let�s not pretend that Tom King didn�t win an Eisner with an Ace the Bathound story, and knock a Batman/Elmer Fudd special into the stratosphere.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 09:48

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Good writer writing a crappy event? I feel like this happens several times a year.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 18:06

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Points for using Gemworld. Is Amethyst joining Young Justice?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 09:54

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I was so distracted by the classic characters and Teen Lantern, I didn�t even notice. With the popularity of Steven Universe and She Ra, it�s a good time for Amethyst.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 13:07

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Bart seems like he�s aware he�s in a comic doesn�t he?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2019 10:05

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Why are we mad about Shining Knight?

# ¿ Jan 16, 2019 01:26

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Oh, they said they�re killing Shining Knight?

# ¿ Jan 16, 2019 02:49

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Booster Gold�s arc has been fine. He�s in over his head, and now Beetle is helping him while he�s on the lam.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2019 20:14

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Teenage Fansub posted:

It only takes two months after your largely acclaimed series for the world to forget you ever wrote a good comic.

Tom King is still my favorite comic book writer right now, even while Morrison is on Green Lantern.

I liked this latest issue of Batman with Professor Pyg. It was weird as hell, but it was an interesting look inside Batman�s head space.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 18:54

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Endless Mike posted:

I say this so often that I'm convinced everyone here just reads comics for the sole purpose of complaining about them.

We were the misery porn all along.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 13:34

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Jordan7hm posted:

These were all very good.

Cancelled my sub for Catwoman (I was on it for Joelle Jones cartooning, not Joelle Jones writing) and Terrifics (I've been buying and not reading it for months). My DC sub list is now down to 0 books again. It seems to always go in cycles, though, so I'm sure I'll come back to them at some point.

I think I�m done with Catwoman too. I�m down to Batman, Green Lantern, Shazam, and Young Justice. King, Morrison, Johns, and Bendis. Solid line up, I think.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 01:54

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I know of someone who has every He-Man figure ever. Curious to know if he�ll pick that up.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 09:57

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Just read it. Should give you all the info you need in the first three pages.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 22:28

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Teenage Fansub posted:

Raises blue dong.
Loved the last one, but that was a bit of a break in the series, being a Superman issue, and the team's pretty good at those.

Yeah, the Superman and Black Adam stuff has been good.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 23:32

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Covok posted:

I just got caught up with Green Lantern.

It's...a little awkward. First off, this is like the third time the DC Earth has been shrunken and stolen in the last twelve months. Secondly, "tough cop shoots and kills unrepentant murderer" has always been iffy to me because of, well, real life socio-politics. Also, since when is Green Lantern so full of technobabble?

That�s my favorite part. It�s a pretty straight faced sci fi police procedural. You can see shades of this in the Green Lantern parts of Final Crisis. The �Thousand years of super powers, and then I eat the Earth.� was a good lampoon of climate change, and I�m always a sucker for any story featuring a Sun Eater.

This is exactly what I was hoping for.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 03:41

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Comic stores often get a week lead on collected editions. Recently noticed this with Donny Cates Venom.

I�m picking up the Barnes & Noble edition of Mister Miracle. Different cover, intro by Tom King, and full script to issue 1.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2019 16:13

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Shame on the fools that don�t know Jimmy Olsen is one of the best low key characters.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 09:23

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Drakyn posted:

Unless he once seduced a horse in order to cheat a giant mason out of his wages for building Valhalla for the norse gods I don't think he's topping the original.

Jimmy married a gorilla.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2019 03:35

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

The.crossover is a Heroes in Crisis tie in and isn�t really part of the larger Batman narrative. Tom King�s run is going to issue 102 instead of 100 because of this.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2019 17:17

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Edge & Christian posted:

Batman Who Laughs II: Make America Laugh Again.

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I�d read it.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 09:19

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Some other space junkie. Some high as gently caress Starro infecting people would be wild though.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 00:35

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Xelkelvos posted:

The only story I hate from it is the Tom King one. There's a bunch of weird issues like how there's an entire group of characters and for half the pages they're all off panel, but with nothing to indicate who's talking other than limited context. The panel with Tim and Steph here annoys me a lot

It doesn�t really matter who�s saying what for most of that dialogue. It�s just banter. Tom King always does a good job writing the Bat family.

I really liked Snyder�s story. I�ve been waiting like twelve years for a detective club. In my head it was Flash instead of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, but everybody else was spot on.

All the stories were pretty good. Even the Johns/Jones story was alright for the sheer weirdness of it.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2019 03:49

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Terse is a better name than Orphan. Snarky is probably a lateral move for Hunteess.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2019 16:10

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

It�s based off the logo from Tomasi�s Batman and Robin run.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2019 17:37

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

People also didn�t like Bendis having Bucky claim he killed Hitler.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 03:46

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

It�s because Bendis was writing their top selling book, and the idea that the Winter Soldier killing Hitler is bad as gently caress. The Golden Age Human Torch was such a non entity it didn�t really matter.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 06:10

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

All three look great! I was worried about Young Animal for a minute there.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2019 01:21

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Ralph and Sue were in the Detective Club in �tec 1,000.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2019 05:01

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I liked the Superman line in the last issue. �I love being Superman, but I hate that I have to be Superman. You hate being Batman, but you love that you have to be Batman.�

They�re really laying all the trauma out there as we move into the third act.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 11:53

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I think Tom King just takes death threats more seriously because he got plenty of them at his old job. Dude left his old job to get away from that poo poo. Who the gently caress sends death threats to a guy that worked for the CIA?

That bodyguard he had at a con was a friend of his or something, I forget.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2019 02:56

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I feel like Hickman had some massive manuscript ready for the LoSH, and then DC told him he had to wait until after Doomsday Clock, and gave a bunch of notes on what to include, and other titles he had to interact with. And while he grew frustrated, Marvel start dangling X-Men in front him, saying he could do whatever the hell he wanted.

# ¿ May 9, 2019 20:17

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

My guess is that they actually go through with the wedding this time.

# ¿ May 15, 2019 10:18

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

The second volume of the Grant Morrison Batman omnibus comes out next month. It covers the whole Dick Grayson Batman era and Return of Bruce Wayne.

# ¿ May 16, 2019 05:04

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

I can believe it. Someone up top probably wanted him to change the ending after this far into the story, and things just broke down from there.

If it�s true, you can see why Hickman went back to Marvel. He probably wanted assurances that DC wasn�t willing to give. DC won�t even change that ugly rear end Batman logo, of course they�d get cold feet about fundamentally changing the character.

# ¿ May 22, 2019 16:25

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Yeah. It was a planned hundred issue mega story that�s ending after eighty. Just cutting it off at the beginning of the third act.

We�ll never see Kite Man become the head of Gotham�s organized crime. Hell no.

# ¿ May 22, 2019 18:09

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

ElNarez posted:

From previous interviews, the big finish was at #85 or thereabouts, with the last 15 being a coda to that, plus four to make up for tie-ins.

I think you�re right. They could be giving him a new title to wrap things up in. Maybe they want to give Bendis the main Batman title or something.

Editorial would have known King�s Intended conclusion for a couple years now. Unless this is some sort of Batman Damned style poo poo storm or something. I have no clue, I could speculated all day.

# ¿ May 23, 2019 00:33

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

TwoPair posted:

Batman isn't quippy like Spider-Man or Luke Cage or any other street hero though.

But whatever I'll track down his Wal-Mart comic and eat crow, I guess

Collection is in October, I think. I read the first couple chapters, and it was fun with great art. Batman deserves to be described as fun sometimes.

# ¿ May 23, 2019 01:06

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

It�s like booting Morrison off Animal Man before he brings back Buddy�s family.

I also wonder if this has anything to do with them wanting a younger looking Batman if the Robert Pattinson rumors are true.

# ¿ May 23, 2019 19:07

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:14

Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

Covok posted:

Oh, I get ya now, fam.

I actually read some Cain Batgirl. Kind of hate they took away her spider-sense and let her talk 4 issues in.

Her having to be retrained by Shiva, and their fight to the death was pretty good though.

# ¿ May 23, 2019 20:15

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