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COMICS!!! |OT| April 2020 | We weren't gonna talk about comics anyway.
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Wow, I didn't hate the old TV series. Brotherhood was like 1000 times better for sure, but the old series was fine for what it was.
The character interactions and drama that comes from them in '03 is far superior to Brotherhood.
Everything is sadness and angst and miseryguts and that's equally as boring as Brotherhood's fairy tale happiness and unwillingness to inflict any kind of meaningful pain onto its cast. They're two extreme reactions to each other.
Awwww yeah. Found the Yoko Kanno Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell soundtracks. That good shit.
Bebop had so many good songs it's ridiculous, though. Even stuff that doesn't get a lot of fuss like Green Bird and Elm are fantastic tracks.
Still own the Cowboy Bebop OST cd set. Like 3 or 4 discs. So good.
Elm is stupid good. Jet was the unsung hero of the whole series.
I haven't watched it in years. I should get on that.
I own a ton of them. I always used to buy physical media of the anime and game soundtracks I really liked. All the way up to as recently as stuff like Nier Automata and Octopath Traveler. As far as Bebop, I have the first soundtrack which I got with the DVD box set, as well as No Disc, Blue, Vitaminless and the movie soundtrack.
You know what track I've always loved? Space Lion.
Space Lion and Blue are like the one two punch of the whole OST.
Fuck now I definitely have to rewatch Cowboy Bebop.
Looking forward to it. I just started my free trial yesterday. I'm up to episode 8 of season one.
Oh, you're right where Season 1 hits its highest points. E1-7 were certainly good, but 8-13 are when the show really showed its teeth to me.
His Nightwing is tops, including his Nightwing Year One storyline that happens later. I do believe there's a deluxe edition of the Year One storyline coming out within the next couple months. Anyways his Nightwing run pretty much is what made Dick Grayson my favorite character ever when I was younger. This run is dope as fuck. Like, one of my favorite runs ever. The worst part about it is that the art switches from McDaniel to Land, but it's 90s Land so it's fairly tolerable.
Robin Year One and Batgirl Year One, though both cowritten with Scott Beatty, are some top tier comics 100%. Like, arguably the best Dick Grayson story and the single best Barbara Gordon story and Batgirl story. Period.
The Tim Drake Robin solos, collected in Robin Vol 1: Reborn, Robin Vol 2: Triumphant, and Robin Vol 3: Solo, are all super aces. Defines the character, makes you love Tim Drake, and is some good ol' fashioned superhero comics. Gave me this sequence which I love:
Chuck Dixon is not afraid to have grown ass adult men genuinely attempt to murder teenagers.
His Birds of Prey, considering he created the damn concept, is super good though it definitely shows Dixon is not exactly the best feminist. Wouldn't pass the Bechdel test given how many of the stories revolve around Black Canary falling in love with some guy (roughly four). But it's a dope action comic with really good stories that has one of the most bonkers outgoing finale arcs (race to find the ultimate medical cure on a time-traveling prehistoric island). It's a lot of fun.
His Huntress solo mini with Netz on art is terrible. Bane Conquest, which was a 12 issue maxi from around 2017 (?), was super boring. Dropped it after 3. His short Nightwing throwback story in the Robin 80th anniversary was dope.
People can say what they will about Snyder's writing, but the man fucking loves DC superhero comics.
Finished Umbrella Acadamy Vol. 1. Thoughts tomorrow. But I did want to mention briefly how happy I am with the quality of the book. It's a perfect size with great thick pages. No gutter loss. And the art is perfect and well-deserving of the over-oversized format. Really happy to have these books in this format, even if they're just 6 issues per. Highly recommended.
Okay. There is one big negative. It's 85 degrees here and this book has a smooth black surface. Fingerprints galore.
Okay. There is one big negative. It's 85 degrees here and this book has a smooth black surface. Fingerprints galore.
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Reading Hickman.
The first volume of his New Avengers is great with all the Illuminati and Incursions stuff.
And then his Avengers book... the first two volumes of it are just confusing, weird-ass, nonsense. He introduces way way too many different things without explanation in only a handful of issues.
The first volume of his New Avengers is great with all the Illuminati and Incursions stuff.
And then his Avengers book... the first two volumes of it are just confusing, weird-ass, nonsense. He introduces way way too many different things without explanation in only a handful of issues.
Never. I just bought New Mutants #1-7 and Strange Academy #1 from the BOGO sale.
I too bought comics. Gillen's X-Men, and the Dawn of X trades(with BOGO and on sale I may as well).
Plus a Bunch of the Marvel freebies like Waids Black Widow(1-6).
This was after I picked up all of Zdarsky's current Daredevil run, which I'm working my way through.
Man, that Marvel announcement from yesterday probably means the Nebula mini (that I might be the only who's reading) is probably never coming back. It's a good book and now I'll probably never see how Nebula + Midnighter's fight computer + memory loss resolves itself.
I think since it's a mini, you might be in luck as it might already be finished, just not released yet. At worst, it will probably get a quiet digital release
Finished reading Akira v1 yesterday night. Damn, such a good comic. Very Wide Screen™ and the pacing was like an action movie storyboard, constant forward momentum. It did mean it did not have that tense claustrophobic feel that Domu gave you but there was a little bit of that in the showdown at the warehouse. Looking forward to the next volume. Will have to see if Otomo can maintain the momentum for 5 more volumes.
(All of Ellis' newer work is asymptotically approaching this style I feel. Almost to the extent of aping it.)
(All of Ellis' newer work is asymptotically approaching this style I feel. Almost to the extent of aping it.)
His Batman adjacent stuff was usually good, particularly Year One for Robin and Batgirl.
Birds of Prey was fun when he wrote it. It became better when Gail took over, however.
Romita Sr. is probably my favorite ASM artist with Ditko. Love his work.finished ASM 116, 117, and 118
this fucking guy
also romita sr. da gawd
Oh wow, thank you. I grabbed the first 2 Nightwing tpbs, and the first Birds of Prey. I thought there was a complete collection for his Nightwing, but I guess they havent dont one yet.His Nightwing is tops, including his Nightwing Year One storyline that happens later. I do believe there's a deluxe edition of the Year One storyline coming out within the next couple months. Anyways his Nightwing run pretty much is what made Dick Grayson my favorite character ever when I was younger. This run is dope as fuck. Like, one of my favorite runs ever. The worst part about it is that the art switches from McDaniel to Land, but it's 90s Land so it's fairly tolerable.
Robin Year One and Batgirl Year One, though both cowritten with Scott Beatty, are some top tier comics 100%. Like, arguably the best Dick Grayson story and the single best Barbara Gordon story and Batgirl story. Period.
The Tim Drake Robin solos, collected in Robin Vol 1: Reborn, Robin Vol 2: Triumphant, and Robin Vol 3: Solo, are all super aces. Defines the character, makes you love Tim Drake, and is some good ol' fashioned superhero comics. Gave me this sequence which I love:
Chuck Dixon is not afraid to have grown ass adult men genuinely attempt to murder teenagers.
His Birds of Prey, considering he created the damn concept, is super good though it definitely shows Dixon is not exactly the best feminist. Wouldn't pass the Bechdel test given how many of the stories revolve around Black Canary falling in love with some guy (roughly four). But it's a dope action comic with really good stories that has one of the most bonkers outgoing finale arcs (race to find the ultimate medical cure on a time-traveling prehistoric island). It's a lot of fun.
His Huntress solo mini with Netz on art is terrible. Bane Conquest, which was a 12 issue maxi from around 2017 (?), was super boring. Dropped it after 3. His short Nightwing throwback story in the Robin 80th anniversary was dope.
People can say what they will about Snyder's writing, but the man fucking loves DC superhero comics.
Im going to try and go through No Man's Land before.
I know I'm late on this but his Tim Drake Robin miniseries is legit great. Probably my favorite Drake Robin story and I don't remember it having any of the gross stuff he wrote later. I should probably get his Nightwing.
I started TMNT from issue 1 which I somehow missed. I guess I started it around 15-20. It's crazy how the quality was right there from the beginning and now I finally know why things with Raphael were weird. Some of the early art is pretty bad but I know it gets a lot better even before Sophie takes over.
I may check out the Robin mini.
Been thinking about what are my favorite solo character on-goings lately. The more second tier books, as in books that arent Batman or Captain America. Need to start making a list of all the books I want to get to during this quarantine.
Been thinking about what are my favorite solo character on-goings lately. The more second tier books, as in books that arent Batman or Captain America. Need to start making a list of all the books I want to get to during this quarantine.
I'm wondering if this isn't over by next month, if we shouldn't just make the next OT the only OT until comic releases resume.
Thats what I would do unless we hear otherwise before the end of the month. Just name is the Corona OT, and then you can have a May OT if comics resume.
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