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Gripweed posted:I read the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier. I know "It's like Harry Potter but good!" is a total hack thing but drat it really is like Harry Potter but good. The worldbuilding is super strong, the magic system makes sense, the way the world is magical is whimsical but also really practical, and the separation between witches and regular people is super clearly something the story is going to deal with a lot in the future. Our lead character is a little generic but she has skills of her own from her backstory and she actually maintains her underdog status instead of immediately being given a safe full of gold. Unless you're looking for new recipes, Kitchen isn't all that necessary. It really is just recipes buffered by Qifrey and Olruggio making food and the girls enjoying said food. But yeah, Atelier is excellent. Can't recommend it enough. The best book about artistic growth I've ever read, and it's beautifully drawn.
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Minister of Sound posted:Unless you're looking for new recipes, Kitchen isn't all that necessary. It really is just recipes buffered by Qifrey and Olruggio making food and the girls enjoying said food. Oh to be clear, Kitchen sounds exactly like what I want. I love comics like that. What Did You Eat Yesterday? is the best gay comic I've ever read. I have been very vocal on my position that Today's Menu for the Emiya Family is the mainline entry in the Fate/Stay: Night franchise and everything else is side stories. Witch Hat Atelier is merely a happy discovery on my way to reading Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen
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Gripweed posted:Oh to be clear, Kitchen sounds exactly like what I want. I love comics like that. What Did You Eat Yesterday? is the best gay comic I've ever read. I have been very vocal on my position that Today's Menu for the Emiya Family is the mainline entry in the Fate/Stay: Night franchise and everything else is side stories. Gotcha. Cool! I hope you enjoy it. Have you tried out Drifting Dragons?
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Minister of Sound posted:Gotcha. Cool! I hope you enjoy it. Yes! I'm like 8 volumes in. It's still good, but they've added all this plot stuff like the guy's backstory and the whale exterminators, and I feel like that's drawn a lot of focus from cooking and eating dragon meat.
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Gripweed posted:Yes! I'm like 8 volumes in. It's still good, but they've added all this plot stuff like the guy's backstory and the whale exterminators, and I feel like that's drawn a lot of focus from cooking and eating dragon meat. I'm on volume 15, and I'm afraid those trends continue. More backstories, more worldbuilding, etc. I think it's the best book on the shelves, but I can see why one would be frustrated by the shifting focus.
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Minister of Sound posted:I'm on volume 15, and I'm afraid those trends continue. More backstories, more worldbuilding, etc. I think it's the best book on the shelves, but I can see why one would be frustrated by the shifting focus. I need to read the most recent volume but the fight in volume 14 was the closest I’ve ever seen a comic get to an honest to god JRPG boss battle. It ruled
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Just did an inventory of all my trades and GNs and after a little bit of weeding got the number down to 540.
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I'm going to have to "weed". I hate the thought of dealing with ebay or whatever to get rid of my stuff, so I think I'm going to put some of the books in the little libraries around town. It'd be worth trying to sell some of the bigger omnis and the like, though.
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I reread All-Star Superman (masterpiece, really) but I could have sworn it ended with time looping back around, like Earth becoming a new Krypton or something and sending off their own version of Superman. Am I insane or am I thinking of another comic?
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I reread All-Star Superman (masterpiece, really) but I could have sworn it ended with time looping back around, like Earth becoming a new Krypton or something and sending off their own version of Superman. Am I insane or am I thinking of another comic? Sounds like Red Son.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Sounds like Red Son. That'd be it, thank you!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Sounds like Red Son. Morrison allegedly gave Millar the ending of Red Son, so it’s understandable how someone could be confused.
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And I think Morrison got that idea because it was initially one of the ideas for Superman's origin before Siegel and Shuster settled on Krypton.
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Happy new year, BSS.
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They’re doing a Kickstarter for a new edition of Shi. You guys are old enough to remember Shi, right?
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Man the end of Red Son is cool. I was hooting and hollering reading that the first time.
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I think someone in this thread recommended Do A Powerbomb! It rules hard and made me cry so thanks.
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I don't know if it was me, but it was probably my favorite series of '23. I also really liked Love, Everlasting but I'm a few months behind on that one. The Crimson Cage is another wrestling based book from last year I liked. It's a retelling of MacBeth based in the early 80s New Orleans wrestling scene.
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Lucifunk posted:I don't know if it was me, but it was probably my favorite series of '23. I also really liked Love, Everlasting but I'm a few months behind on that one. I am powering my way through the second Love Everlasting trade and it's a bit of a tearjerker. I'm enjoying the title quite a bit though and will probably get the trades as they come out.
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My local con just added Gina Carano with about a month to go, over a month since they otherwise finalized the list. Scummy af
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Vancouver FanExpo, I remember them pulling the same poo poo with Sorbo in Toronto a couple years ago.
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Opopanax posted:My local con just added Gina Carano with about a month to go, over a month since they otherwise finalized the list. Scummy af I just saw this. It was gonna be my first con in a while. I generally avoid the celebrity stuff anyway but still not impressed
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Opopanax posted:Vancouver FanExpo, I remember them pulling the same poo poo with Sorbo in Toronto a couple years ago. Ever since FanExpo took over Orlando MegaCon, they bring out the same comic guests every year with minimal deviation, but all the budget and marketing goes to big celebrities. Carano was one of the most recent additions: https://fanexpohq.com/megaconorlando/celebrities/ Even though I usually go to MegaCon anyway, I can't attend this year because my wife is having surgery a few days before it. I would have liked to meet Arthur Adams (again) and Peter Snejbjerg, but I need to be available to her. But I am hoping to go to this event in a few weeks, the weekend before MegaCon: https://www.oa-expo.com/ Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Air Skwirl posted:Is Carano even a big draw, she hasn't been in Star wars stuff for years and she wasn't in it that much before she got poo poo canned and no one has likely watched the lovely movies she's been doing for Daily Wire's studio. Legitimately the only people who want to see her nowadays are chuds
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Air Skwirl posted:Is Carano even a big draw, she hasn't been in Star wars stuff for years and she wasn't in it that much before she got poo poo canned and no one has likely watched the lovely movies she's been doing for Daily Wire's studio. Judging from comments on Facebook (I know I know) a lot of people who don't even live near to Vancouver are excited that she will be there. So basically online trolls who weren't going to the event anyway.
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Watching Echo and I think to myself "It's cool that a newer Daredevil character has her own series! I remember her first appearance!" I look it up....the "new" character is almost 25 years old. I am an old gently caress.
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I was looking through the miscellaneous M section hoping for a misfiled issue of Marneus Calgar (no luck) but I did find this. What is this, it looks awesome
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Medullah posted:Watching Echo and I think to myself "It's cool that a newer Daredevil character has her own series! I remember her first appearance!" Sorry gramps, characters are only "new" if they're from the 2000s. This will continue to be true next year, when they are also 25 years old. 
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Gripweed posted:I was looking through the miscellaneous M section hoping for a misfiled issue of Marneus Calgar (no luck) but I did find this. What is this, it looks awesome It's First Publishing's Meta 4, OP
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Jesus, Orlando MegaCon is now hyping the cast of Entourage. It has strayed so far from its roots. Even with Arthur Adams coming, I don't feel bad about missing it this year.
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https://toiletcomix.gumroad.com/l/willie?layout=profile I got this collection of comix featuring Steamboat Willie the other day. It's magnificent. Sorry this photos kinda dark. If you guys wanna see more of the art I can take some pictures later tonight. 
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When the gently caress is the next volume of Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu coming out?! Volume 10 came out 2 years ago! Japan is like six volumes ahead! Goddamnit! I’m so loving mad about this!
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Gripweed posted:When the gently caress is the next volume of Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu coming out?! Volume 10 came out 2 years ago! Japan is like six volumes ahead! Goddamnit! I’m so loving mad about this! Honestly, looking at Udon's site I wonder if they didn't drop it. It's got only nine hits showing up out of ten volumes, with three sold out and volume 9 MIA entirely.
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claw game handjob posted:Honestly, looking at Udon's site I wonder if they didn't drop it. It's got only nine hits showing up out of ten volumes, with three sold out and volume 9 MIA entirely. To go that far with the series just to drop it is morally despicable. Surely Udon is making enough money from Street Fighter Sakura swimsuit cover variants to float a couple cult classic series!
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Opopanax posted:Vancouver FanExpo, I remember them pulling the same poo poo with Sorbo in Toronto a couple years ago. I'm pretty sure someone in booking and social media at fan expo is/are giant chuds. I used to go to Denver Comic Con from before it was bought out and it was a good time and even after I left the state, it was my one "travel to" show. Then they were bought out by fan expo and the show turned to poo poo. I can't remember if it was this past one or the one before that they started adding Carano but my wife asked some questions about it on their social media and got absolutely dressed down and shat on by their social media in response. At that point we both decided to find another show to go to. We don't seem to have missed much. Every thing I've heard basically indicates they've made the whole show a terrible experience.
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I'm iffy on cons anyways because I don't think there's anyone I'd pay $100 to get a picture with, but we like to wander through the crafts and stuff. We skipped this for the last few years with covid and if I didn't already have travel and stuff booked this would have been enough to get me asking for a refund
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UwUnabomber posted:https://toiletcomix.gumroad.com/l/willie?layout=profile  From a Ninja Turtles parody from the same publisher. A kids imagination as he plays with the 80s action figures his uncle gave him.
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