If I could go back in time and un-buy Jim Lee X-Men, I would. Especially if it meant comics would not exist in 2021.
Shonen Jumps are okay tho
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COMICS!!! |OT| January 2021 | This is the first time i've realised how big it is!
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Shonen Jumps are okay tho
then, buying jim lee x-men. now, buying shonen jumps. you're just repeating your bad choices, freeza.
Only if buying manga makes them become more like Western comics. 🤮
Same. I need to reread all of it. I'm still waiting to sell my floppy of #1 because I was so stoked for it to come out. Maybe when there's a movie or tv show but it'll be hard.
I owned X-men #1 but it was probably years after it came out. 90's were all about Spidey for me, X-Men second. I remember being obsessed with the show and definitely was into them before that. I still have my VHS of Pryde of the X-Men.
I'm seeing some anti comic sentiment in this thread.
2021 has just started and already you are faltering in your resolve.
2021 has just started and already you are faltering in your resolve.
So which superhero secret identity has the least improbable chance of working IRL. (Not counting Mystique type powers of course). Daredevil?
I think anything that has such a large part of the face exposed would be prone to facial recognition tech.
Bud, we're days away from Yara Flor. We're days away from entering the true golden age of comics. Anyone not pumped about funny books atm doesn't know what's going on.
This actually happened in a Superman book.
One of Luthor's scientists face matched Superman to Clark Kent.
So of course Luthor fired her as he couldn't believe a being like Superman would ever have a secret identity. Let alone want to live a normal working life.
It was a brilliant piece of story telling in my opinion.
Did they really need facial recognition tech to figure out that Superman was Clark Kent? lmaooooooo
It's worth engaging the suspension of disbelief for a good gag.
The point you are missing, is that most people (Luthor included) don't believe Superman has a secret identity full stop.
What if the best secret identity was Rorschach's all along! You just see the face you want to see!
Literally this. A secret identity makes no sense for Superman.
Bendis should have had a Frank Grimes type character in Metropolis constantly pointing out how people were obviously missing something fishy about Clark and then being driven to insanity when Superman reveals his identity and people are genuinely shocked.
It makes sense for the comic because his civilian life is a giant GREAT part of his story. Superman comics wouldn't be nearly compelling without the Clark/Kal duality.
edit: And even though it's not a secret identity any more, I'm sure the life he built at the Daily Planet is still going to inform the comics.
It makes sense for the comic because his civilian life is a giant GREAT part of his story. Superman comics wouldn't be nearly compelling without the Clark/Kal duality.
edit: And even though it's not a secret identity any more, I'm sure the life he built at the Daily Planet is still going to inform the comics.
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Over the past couple days I've read Jim Zub's Samurai Jack series and Strange Skies Over East Berlin by Jeff Loveness/Lisandro Estherren.
I didn't know there was a Samurai Jack series (let alone one by Jim Zub) until I was looking though the year end sales on CMX, but as a huge fan of the show I went ahead and grabbed the complete series. A variety of artists work on the book but it keeps a visual consistency with the show, and Zub has a great voice for Jack and his world. Aside from the last issue (which was a flash forward), the whole series felt like it could have been lost episodes from the show, it all fit that well. I'm probably super late to the party here, but if you're a fan of Jack and haven't read this, definitely check it out.
Strange Skies Over East Berlin is a four issue mini from Boom from 2019 that I've had my eye on the awhile, it was also on sale so I finally picked it up. The story is set in Communist era East Berlin in 1973 and focuses on a stassi agent who witnesses a UFO crash and then is pulled into the state investigation. The sci-fi aspects are really just a framing device for a much more personal story about the choices we make in life and ideas of redemption. The setting is quite honestly perfect for this kind of character study as there was so much state sponsored spying in East Berlin at the time (literally everyone was spying on everyone else), it lets Loveness really dig in. The art is stunning and appropriately moody to match the story and setting. My only real complaint is that it's only four issues long, I think there's enough there to have gone five or six. That said I really enjoyed it and am glad I finally bought it.
I didn't know there was a Samurai Jack series (let alone one by Jim Zub) until I was looking though the year end sales on CMX, but as a huge fan of the show I went ahead and grabbed the complete series. A variety of artists work on the book but it keeps a visual consistency with the show, and Zub has a great voice for Jack and his world. Aside from the last issue (which was a flash forward), the whole series felt like it could have been lost episodes from the show, it all fit that well. I'm probably super late to the party here, but if you're a fan of Jack and haven't read this, definitely check it out.
Strange Skies Over East Berlin is a four issue mini from Boom from 2019 that I've had my eye on the awhile, it was also on sale so I finally picked it up. The story is set in Communist era East Berlin in 1973 and focuses on a stassi agent who witnesses a UFO crash and then is pulled into the state investigation. The sci-fi aspects are really just a framing device for a much more personal story about the choices we make in life and ideas of redemption. The setting is quite honestly perfect for this kind of character study as there was so much state sponsored spying in East Berlin at the time (literally everyone was spying on everyone else), it lets Loveness really dig in. The art is stunning and appropriately moody to match the story and setting. My only real complaint is that it's only four issues long, I think there's enough there to have gone five or six. That said I really enjoyed it and am glad I finally bought it.
That's not what I was arguing. In other words: there's no reason for anyone to think he has a secret identity when he's got the powers of Superman.
They did such an amazing job restoring and remastering it into HD
I agree, it's like watching it for the first time. The horny Timm character designs also hold up Really well.
Nice. I'll jump on that after I finish Cobra Kai and Sabrina.
I have never seen a group of people so determined to fuck their entire country in its own asshole.
I would say either way you're getting the content.
I like it, but sometimes the Cajun or deep southern is a little over done and it hurts my head. Same with Harley Quinn.
I support this to an extent. I think we need more alternate Earth books (Earth 3 got me hype and I want an Earth 11 book last week), but also I want a lot of those characters interacting with the current DCU. There's no reason Stargirl and STRIPE and Allen Scott and Jay Garrick and Wildcat shouldn't be in the main continuity now. Plus Earth 2 would need a reboot. I wouldn't mind them going back to that Earth, but I was really bummed out at the direction Abnett took it in.
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Trade deals. I'm in Ireland. The UK voted to leave. As of yesterday there are different rules re import tax shipping into the EU from the UK.
Oh shit, I forgot about UK --> EU tax, was only thinking about my friends complaining about tax while importing into the UK now.
Can't you order from bookdespoitory or cheap-comics?
Does anyone even remember what the motivation behind Brexit was in the first place? It was probably something racist.
Earth 3 is a weird book. They should do Earth-11 because that's the wave at the moment, people would love it. But they should also do an Earth-2 book. None of that "Seven Wonders" junk. Classic 1980s Earth-2. Give them back Commissioner Wayne.
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Book depository are in the UK.
I realised yesterday that ist now ships by fed ex to Ireland and that's 50$ up to 400$ worth of books. So that's much cheaper given ists prices. Gonna go back to ordering from them.
Racism.
That and the brexit party sold lies to the people and abandoned them.
But definitely racism
Like I support it, but also I genuinely enjoyed the concepts and ideas and characters from New 52/DCYou Earth 2, so then I don't. The twists they had on those characters and storylines were awesome. It was just such a mess of constant switching between writers that it lacked direction and ended up a giant nothing. Shame, really.
But also I support more alternate Earth books so fuck it let's do it
Wasn't there a thing where the UK wasn't going to charge vat or w/e on digital goods (aka CMX comics) this year?
I can't take credit. That's the way Newsarama cropped it for a Red X article. 😂
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