Yea just saw a bunch of posts about this on Twitter. Dude was seriously incredibly talented. This is such a shame
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Yea just saw a bunch of posts about this on Twitter. Dude was seriously incredibly talented. This is such a shame
I think the Big 2 have been trying to find a solution, but if nothing is found within the next month or so they'll just release digital and then try to get the backlog sent to stores once they are able.
Every time I check Pitchfork, some 70 or 80 year old Jazz legend I've never heard of has died of it (also the Fountains of Wayne guy, who was only 56) :/
He doesn't show up until around issue 8 but from there he's consistently awesome. Initiative Tasky is a nice mix of unusually cruel and unusually pleasant but he strikes a good balance
RIP to my fellow Argentine. The response down there has been about as good as I could hope it would be, but the virus doesn't care who it takes.
Coke Zero is only good in cans, in bottles it goes flat and then it's bad.
Woah his stuff is great! How am I only now learning about him? RIP.
I finished DC One Million! I surprisingly don't have many thoughts about it. Cross-over events typically go a lot of placed, but wow did DC One Million go a lot of places. Dozens of characters, each with their own one-shot. It was ... a lot. But in terms of events, it wasn't so bad. They all just had fun with the future playground, or in some cases had fun with a future hero in the modern era, and then didn't have to worry about putting the toys away since the future could just be ignored afterward. It's definitely one of my least favorite Grant Morrison stories, I will say that. I really didn't see anything notable or special in his individual work. But I have pretty high standards for Morrison.
Ultimately, glad to have read it. Glad to have it on the shelf. Ready to read something else.
edit: backlog rng has picked Umbrella Academy. I've got both vol. 1 + 2 here to read.
Ultimately, glad to have read it. Glad to have it on the shelf. Ready to read something else.
edit: backlog rng has picked Umbrella Academy. I've got both vol. 1 + 2 here to read.
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I think GMo's big achievement in that was simply directing a billion books and their creatives for a month.
Also, JLA is him doing an intentionally mass market vanilla book, so it wasn't really all that tricky.
edit: JLA Classified #1-3 is where he starts doing the big conceptual stuff with the JL, which leads into Seven Solders, Final Crisis, and Multiversity.
Also, JLA is him doing an intentionally mass market vanilla book, so it wasn't really all that tricky.
edit: JLA Classified #1-3 is where he starts doing the big conceptual stuff with the JL, which leads into Seven Solders, Final Crisis, and Multiversity.
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In that regard, it was definitely a success. It was impressive how every story fleshed out the future in interesting ways.
anything with artificial sweeteners is absolutely disgustingLies.
Yeah, I hate anything fizzy if it isn't in a can tbh
Coke Zero tastes like real Coke. Diet Coke is a twist on the New Coke that everyone despised. Go figure that Diet Coke has such a massive following. My wife is a huge fan. It tastes like aspartame incarnate. Absolutely disgusting.
I'm reading the Dark Nights: Metal storyline and it's...something. Halfway through and it feels like it's supposed to be consequential but isn't. I can't imagine any other outcome than a return to normal. Which, in a way, summarizes every single comic book event I've ever read. Comics...
I'm reading the Dark Nights: Metal storyline and it's...something. Halfway through and it feels like it's supposed to be consequential but isn't. I can't imagine any other outcome than a return to normal. Which, in a way, summarizes every single comic book event I've ever read. Comics...
It did have consequence. It'll be at least four years later when we have a chance of being free of the laughing Batman.
eh i like coke zero but i don't think it tastes like original coke
That's...exactly what it's designed to taste like. It tastes like it to me, but in fairness I don't drink any regular sodas to know the difference at this point.
I'm an expert because I have type 2 diabetes and I love Coke.
I work at a convenience store and a customer asked me if Mountain Dew Zero Sugar was the same as regular Mountain Dew. I had to then somehow explain to them all the different kinds of Mountain Dew, being someone who only drank non-diet Mountain Dews, and who the last time I did drink Mountain Dew I drank Black Label because it was the only kind that didn't just taste like syrup and tasted like an actual flavor. I don't drink soda really anymore. Nothing with caffeine. Fucks with my epilepsy.
She-Ra is some good shit. Unironically using the sentence "You can hack the planet" is the sign of a good show. Also S5 in May.
My man
She-Ra is some good shit. Unironically using the sentence "You can hack the planet" is the sign of a good show. Also S5 in May.
Or, and hear me out:
This is correct. No average reader looking to read some X-Men comics is going to go, "wow all right so I'll google what happened there." No. They just want to read a story about some superheroes beating the shit out of some supervillains without having to do homework. Having to do homework is literally the stereotype of the medium and why people make fun of comics and don't want to get into it.
This can't be real logic
I remember it being really popular when I was in middle school 1) because of it's name and we were adolescents and 2) because it has an insane amount of over caffeine.
That's some real top tier shit. Not like that GreatValue Netflix show.
The Duggan run. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you're just looking for one story.
There's a Chose Your Own Adventure Deadpool mini by Immortal Hulk's Al Ewing, so that's probably alright.
www.comixology.com
edit: Looking at the preview pages, it seems to really take advantage of reading digitally. Is there even a print trade?
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Yep! It's Deadpool. They wouldn't leave that money on a table!
Not to excuse the shambolic response in the US and other places in the West but South Korea and other countries in the region experienced SARS in the early 2000s and learnt from it. Look at Taiwan's response to it. One would hope that the US, UK and other countries now facing COVID-19 learn from the experience so the response is better should something else come along.
Yeah, Duggan's deadpool run is great, and Kelly's is also real good but there's only 4 issues out right now.
For light hearted funny stuff check out Squirrel Girl!
This one was really fun!! lots of different pathways and the decisions you made would affect the paths you could take in later issues.There's a Chose Your Own Adventure Deadpool mini by Immortal Hulk's Al Ewing, so that's probably alright.
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So, like, in a regular print comic it looks like a regular comic with pages with several panels and stuff, but since flipping through pages is harder on digital, they made it so each panel was a page and that way when they say "go to panel 47" you just travel to page 47 and thats it.I mean, here's one of the 96 'pages' of an issue:
Here is a good one: https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/guide-part-4-house-of-m/
The main event is just collected in House of M. Everything else is tie ins that are for only if you are interested.
Also, the lead up to this event is in Avengers Disassembled. Which is Avengers issues 500-503, and Avengers Finale #1.
I was just about to post this. It looks amazing and it's in need of my money once comics come back.
i want this book
you'll rue the day, covid-19, that you came between me and my books
I know it's a full week after the fact, but I just realized something about X-Men/Fantastic Four #3:
Wolverine is going to have to get thrown into the hole after this. He won't, but he broke one of Krakoa's core laws and has no defense.
Wolverine is going to have to get thrown into the hole after this. He won't, but he broke one of Krakoa's core laws and has no defense.
I dunno, but I would really like to see him return to those characters. Omega Men was by far my favorite of the King books.
Plus, we could all use more Kyle love!
Krakoa's """laws""" are just whatever the council decides. They aren't real.
Yeah I'm actually not sure where Omega Men 2 will go if it actually happens. Omega Men already showed that it is cyclical, the rulers have become the tyrants they replaced. Maybe it can go in an "actual good change" direction but I feel that will undermine the message of the first
So I finished Talon and boy was that a wild book. The weakest point being that Guillem March leaves and the art that replaces him is not as strong. It's dark, moody, angsty, twisty, and full of all the scumbaggery, but it's got some good classic superhero shit. It never feels needlessly hopeless or edgy despite being as dark as it is, and that's what I appreciate about it.
My biggest problem with it is that at one point Bane gets an offer from Pennyworth of Earth 3 to join The Society, which is set up for Forever Evil: Arkham War (a super fun book, by the way). This burns his relationship with Sebastian Clark, so a scene happens in which Bane appears to kill him, but apparently not because Clark appears perfectly fine later to go on to the end of the book. Obviously this means Bane didn't kill Clark and the panel is technically ambiguous, but it still bothers me.
That said I love Calvin and his whole supporting cast. Calvin's a classic 00's emo superhero, but never so overbearingly so that it feels like an annoying cliche. He still has a sense of humor and a bright enough sense to reign in the whole self-destructive "you don't understand the danger I bring" mentality to keep it from getting painful to read. His gimmick as an escape artist expert is refreshing, as opposed to an acrobat or martial artist or street punk. The focus on the Court of Owls only shows how much mythology this one addition to the DCU has really brought because honestly they could develop the shit out of this. There's a random one-shot collected that's about a Talon written by Marguerite Bennett that has nothing to do with the rest of the book. It's a good one-shot, but it's relevance is a zero so I'm not sure why it's there.
Anyways I'd recommend it and I hope these characters show up again. Maybe in Tynion's Batman since it's Tynion. Maybe in Nightwing since the Parliament of Owls is so frequently involved with Dick. Who knows.
My biggest problem with it is that at one point Bane gets an offer from Pennyworth of Earth 3 to join The Society, which is set up for Forever Evil: Arkham War (a super fun book, by the way). This burns his relationship with Sebastian Clark, so a scene happens in which Bane appears to kill him, but apparently not because Clark appears perfectly fine later to go on to the end of the book. Obviously this means Bane didn't kill Clark and the panel is technically ambiguous, but it still bothers me.
That said I love Calvin and his whole supporting cast. Calvin's a classic 00's emo superhero, but never so overbearingly so that it feels like an annoying cliche. He still has a sense of humor and a bright enough sense to reign in the whole self-destructive "you don't understand the danger I bring" mentality to keep it from getting painful to read. His gimmick as an escape artist expert is refreshing, as opposed to an acrobat or martial artist or street punk. The focus on the Court of Owls only shows how much mythology this one addition to the DCU has really brought because honestly they could develop the shit out of this. There's a random one-shot collected that's about a Talon written by Marguerite Bennett that has nothing to do with the rest of the book. It's a good one-shot, but it's relevance is a zero so I'm not sure why it's there.
Anyways I'd recommend it and I hope these characters show up again. Maybe in Tynion's Batman since it's Tynion. Maybe in Nightwing since the Parliament of Owls is so frequently involved with Dick. Who knows.
All of the actual Omega Men are alive according to Andreyko's Supergirl
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