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I like John Allison a lot, he's one of the few male writers who actually writes well for female characters. I'm only really familiar with Bad Machinery and the mystery teens, but it's delightful and I'm looking forward to reading more of his work. Thanks, OP!
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Saoshyant posted:
I see the Riddler has become the Wriggler Digging the little red Snufkin lulling Susan to sleep Edit: the little details are so great in Allison's work, like the box of Egg Puffs, and that the Penguin is a literal penguin with a hand gun Powerful Katrinka fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 15:09
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CoolCab posted:pocket billiards is slang for jerking off, for our american friends We call it Pocket Pool
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Mar 17, 2022 16:36
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Is that it? The drunk guy was the vandal 147? I hope there's more, this is kind of disappointing
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Mar 29, 2022 18:01
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Saoshyant posted:The story isn't over yet, but this should be all we'll see about 147. This is primarily a Giant Days story. They don't get more "exciting" than that. It's just a fun time of wacky stuff, word play, and the cast solving the plot in their own way. Yeah, I got that. It's disappointing compared to Allison's other works, is all. It's not much of a mystery if the culprit is named almost immediately and the detective is almost as quickly shown to be completely correct. Takes all the tension and fun out of it
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Mar 30, 2022 18:06
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, it was a guy who threw chalk dust and engaged in petty vandalism. you weren't supposed to take him very seriously. The problem isn't that it's light-hearted or silly, it's that there's no tension or mystery; it ends so fast that there's no buildup to the conclusion. The culprit is correctly guessed with no detective work, the confrontation is extremely short, and the conclusion is unsatisfying. It's not even especially funny or fun. Compare it to, for example, "Tina, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," an episode of "Bob's Burgers" with an equally silly and low-stakes mystery. There's at least some detective work and effort by Tina and Louise, there's conflict between the girls as they work on the case, the bad guy isn't revealed in the first half, and you get a sense that Tina is emotionally invested in figuring out who the mole is. This just feels like, John Allison wanted to draw Batman and half-assed a story to justify it. The thing is, I like John Allison's other stuff. It's more interesting, including silly stuff. Is it just how "Giant Days" is? Anything that didn't make the cut for "Steeple" or "Bad Machinery" gets used in "Giant Days?"
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Mar 30, 2022 20:55
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How Wonderful! posted:Nah usually they don't solve mysteries, they just have lowkey college plots. I think part of the friction here is that he's plopping these characters down in a genre they're not used to. So if you like the characters, it's fun to see them running around interacting with a superhero and doing stuff on the margins of a campy supervillain plot. If you don't have any investment in the characters, sure, it probably does just feel like a not especially compelling supervillain plot. I'm glad to hear that, because it'd be a shame if "Giant Days" was just a lackluster "Bad Machinery." My issue isn't the characters, it's that the story is very short and boring, and John Allison knows how to write a fun and engaging mystery/caper so this is a disappointment. It feels like he lost his nerve partway through the comic and rushed to finish it before DC could hear about it and shut him down mid-story. And/or he was taken with the idea of his characters meeting Batman, couldn't come up with a good story, and did it anyway. Like he drew the cover and came up with a plot to go with it
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Mar 30, 2022 23:40
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Scaramouche posted:To me the point of the story wasn't much to do with villains and comeuppance but more so Daisy et al can get some good zingers in on Batman and Alfred. Like that's the joke imo, the zany Allison verse colliding with Batman grim n gritty and not much actually happening. I don't have a problem with that premise either, it's just that he wrote what I feel is a sub-par comic for John Allison, partly because it's pretty short and partly because I thought it was just Okay
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Mar 31, 2022 02:08
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Lottie's eyeliner game in on point
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Apr 14, 2022 00:54
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Claire looks pretty unhappy about Charlotte being there, and I don't blame her. Lottie is great, but I feel like she should understand depression and anxiety the least of all the former Mystery Teens
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May 4, 2022 14:22
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Poor little Claire, never learned the invaluable lesson of disappointing your parents early on, so everything afterwards is a pleasant surprise
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May 13, 2022 13:13
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His Divine Shadow posted:That's the sandman: Incredibly adorable, I'm having children just so they can watch this
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Jun 28, 2022 02:06
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Good god, Claire, just get out of your seat and go stand with that cute boy
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Aug 20, 2022 00:19
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Yvonmukluk posted:I must admit that confused me too. Why'd his mind go there of all people (not that Tura Satana isn't an individual to be proud to be compared to, she's just not someone I'd ever associate with Lottie)? Lottie's got the hair, the spunk, and the dangerous curves
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Aug 31, 2022 03:45
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I like that Shauna's tattoos are a combination of anchors and the symbol for Woman/Venus
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Dec 19, 2022 18:54
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I would go halves on an ice cream van with Little Claire. She has a good head on her shoulders
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Jan 18, 2023 19:13
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Mildred is still my favorite Mystery Teen, but Claire is probably my favorite Mystery Twenty-Something
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Jan 20, 2023 21:23
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Aww, Lottie's first stupid boyfriend! Bless, the little late bloomer
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Feb 9, 2023 01:39
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Bimmi posted:You can’t convince me that any of the stories being told in Solvers (and I use the term “stories” generously here) needed to be told. It’s been an aimless bore from the get-go, and Lottie as the main character just isn’t working for me. I agree, Lottie isn't an especially good main character. But if this is setting up a Little Claire story with Lottie relegated to the background, it'll help redeem "Solvers"
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Feb 19, 2023 22:37
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I gotta be honest, I don't have high hopes for this story, considering how lackluster the Batman comic was
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Apr 10, 2023 03:49
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I take back everything I said about this story, I love it
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Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (February 17-21, 2005) What did they do to that poor girl's feet?
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