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COMICS!!! |OT| August 2020 | I mean, I'll read it... but I'm gonna complain about it!
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It was over 90° for one day yesterday here where I live in the UK and that was bad enough.
Try doing a completely different hobby for a while and leave off the reading for a bit.
I now struggle to play video games for some reason because I get bored fast.
But i'm fine reading. These things are cyclical.
The internet has ruined you. I read on my phone via the kindle app and I can concentrate. Though I ain't gonna lie. I still stop every 15-20 minutes to check the internet real quick. It's the cost of having all this convenience so close and easily accessible.
Sometimes if it's over 100°, even the AC has a bit of trouble keeping up.
Grant Morrison really needs to write Doctor Strange.
I instinctively think it would be amazing.
I instinctively think it would be amazing.
No, but looks new too, so I might give it a read then. Just want something a bit different from the titles I mentioned cause they all feel like the standard shonen hero action. XD Which is why I wanted to consider SpyXFamily too for something a bit different.
That good huh? I cant really tell what its about just going by the synopsis, so I cant tell if its something I would enjoy.
Im reading Atwood's The Testaments now. The follow up to her The Handmaid's Tale.
I think you will. I've only read the first chapter but it was very promising. The artwork is terrific. Gives me Kaoru Mori vibes
I dunno if its the translation from Japanese to English, or if the translator just threw his own spin on it, but some of the accents in Hellsing are rough lol. Think im on the second or third volume, where you are first introduced to the Vatican, and man I can barely make out what they are saying half the time. Sometimes ill realize what was said a page or two later lol. Like, I get it, they are Irish or Italian, or whatever. I just want to know whats going on.
I temember doing The Handmaid's Tale in school and not enjoying it.
Talking word type books, I just started Charlie Kaufman's novel Antkind. He's the guy that wrote all those weirdo Spike Jones movies. I think this is his first book.
720 pages whee.
I'm just on the introductory chapters where the protagonist is introducing himself and he's a middle aged self absorbed misanthropic butthole film critic who describes his beard in detail and is smugly proud that he has an African American girlfriend.
I think the author is purposefully trying to put the reader off 😂
720 pages whee.
I'm just on the introductory chapters where the protagonist is introducing himself and he's a middle aged self absorbed misanthropic butthole film critic who describes his beard in detail and is smugly proud that he has an African American girlfriend.
I think the author is purposefully trying to put the reader off 😂
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I think we got what a Dr. Strange take by Morrison looks like in Seven Soldiers.
Dr. Strange would be a little too on the nose for Morrison. If you want to give him something at Marvel, there's loads of potential in him writing Thor.
The stretch from 2099 to now were pretty meh, though there were some good moments. It's really picking up right now though, it's looking like essentially a Death of Jean DeWolff/Return of the Sin-Eater part 3 (which I need to reread). And the marriage is coming up in a big way.
Well, the big Superman 2000 pitch (I think that's the one) was going to have their marriage sold to Mxyzptlk. And then it got erased with the Nu52. So his marriage has been in the crosshairs a few times despite the fact that I've never seen anyone that actually dislikes the marriage.
Marvel's big mistake was giving the job to JMS and then letting him write some of the best relationship stuff ever put in a big 2 comic.
I avoid this site for a day and there's actual discussion I'm interested in smh
hopefully Zdarsky can defeat Cates in 1vs1 combat and get the book once Spencer's done. I need to catch up on DD but I see he's shown up so much i get the impression Zdarksy still wants to write Peter. also naming a story One More Day... the maniac.
hopefully Zdarsky can defeat Cates in 1vs1 combat and get the book once Spencer's done. I need to catch up on DD but I see he's shown up so much i get the impression Zdarksy still wants to write Peter. also naming a story One More Day... the maniac.
It's a character-focused dark fantasy series with some heavy worldbuilding. It's not really a traditional fantasy though. Rather, certain people simply have an innate power to channel energy from the earth. Only, instead of the Avatar-style Earthbending type magic, it's more of the... these people terrifyingly powerful and struggle to control their own powers so they're greatly feared to the point of being hated by everyone else and basically enslaved/hunted by the powers that be.
The story starts with one such powerful woman who has managed to hide, start a family in secret. She's never told her husband, even knowing her own children are guaranteed to have the power, too. And... things go horribly wrong. Both on a small scale and from, well, the biggest scale.
It's sad and profound and touching and excruciating and so, so good. Some have called it grimdark, if you know that subgenre, but it isn't brutal for the sake of being brutal. But its going to tear up your insides. And it'll probably make you look at the real world differently afterward, too.
Oh nice, that sounds good. I love her work on her comic and it got me wondering if I should check out her actual novels lol. Guess Ill get the first one and see how it goes from there.
That Dreamblood Duology sounds really neat too
I struggle to finish even a single issue unless I'm in bed but by then I'm too tired to make it more than a couple issues. I definitely understand. It sucks. I can still read countless chapters of Shonen Jump though lol
I think out of anyone here you'll dig it. It's a very fun read. Really good art.
I wouldn't mind a Cates ASM but I think he's pretty awful for it. Zdarsky is my forever number 1. Same with FF. I would love a Zeb Wells run though.
Here in Phoenix we have been at 115 to 118 the last few days. If my AC died I'd have to bring the family to a friend's house or hotel as it is almost im possible to tolerate without AC.
That seems cruel and primeval. Even from GA, I will say Miami was the most miserable humidity I ever suffered through.
Ant Man and Wasp is on in the background and even though I've seen it a few times now, Wasp would be so cool in the main MCU Avengers.
Did you buy the Deluxe Volume 1 Hardcover Hellsing version?
Many translators throughout the years have given Anderson their own take on his accent. I've seen a few different ones in the last two decades or so. The Hardcover version might take a moment or two to figure out what he's saying at times but it's usually easy enough to sort it out.
lol. I was whinging about the lack of a/c on the phone with my mom, she called me weak. (I had no a/c growing up. In towns with 110+F summers and 65F+ winters.)
People always joke about moving to Canada or wherever, but if the heat keeps getting worse and worse each year, im out. Ive got family in Manchester, and id sleep on their couch if I had to to get away from this heat.
Get myself a righteous teapot
Get myself a righteous teapot
Yea it is. Tried finding an example online, but could only find fan translations without the accents.
Its like a movie.... In your mind.
i'd marry into a Canadian citizenship right about now, for sure
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God this is so accurate.
All that's missing is the return of black suit Spidey.
It's mostly fan translations out there that have been going since the earlier 2000's, like I said, seen both versions with and without the accent. It was one of the things that had me wondering how this would go.
In certain places probably. Here in NM you need AC (90°-100°+ summers) less you're somehow fine with being roasted.
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