I saw it and it made me sad :(Tyrant Rave I will be positively glum if you don't see my above reply to you.
I saw it and it made me sad :(Tyrant Rave I will be positively glum if you don't see my above reply to you.
You'll never hyperlink troll me again.
I hope the Red Hood Outlaw stuff is just temporary, or he at least gets his red helmet back. I want to keep reading and get caught up eventually, but im still not sold on his new look.
I was gonna say, he's very prolific but doesn't seem to get a lot of actual love. His Wonder Woman and his Joker do and even then.
It was mostly Azzarello if I recall. That's why I never gave Timm as much flak for it, because it never felt like it was so much of his thing. Having Bruce and Babs as a thing? Definitely Timm. Banging on a rooftop and all that? I dunno. Weird as he is, it always seemed odd even for Timm.I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Dude just has such a massive chip on his shoulder and it made me wonder why he even bothered to come on the podcast. Clipped, terse responses to every question.
I liked 100 Bullets and his New 52 WW run even though I prefer a more traditional WW setup. To his credit he also is the one to actually give Constantine a boyfriend on panel I believe, rather than just alluding to John's bisexuality. But so much of his recent work has just been awful. Damned was fucking terrible except for the art. Birds of Prey seems to also be terrible. He really shouldn't be writing superheroes anymore, he's Ennis-tier edgy with them, and it's mostly just to shock and titillate.
He and Bruce Timm did not handle that backlash well at all.
I only know the page where Joker rapes a dude's wife as paybackI've only read Azzarello's Joker comic and I thought it was okay when I first read it. Haven't read it in forever though, so it might be worse than I remember.
Well good news for you, Red Hood and Arsenal is basically Power Man and Iron Fist, but DC and worse.If you can remove or set aside the stuff with Starfire, New 52 Red Hood is actually really fun, at least so far. Im happy to see Lobdell is putting his own spin on Red Hood's origin for the New 52 and I hope it sticks in Rebirth. And the banter between him and Arsenal is great. Like a buddy cop movie but with deranged comic book characters.
Feeling like reading Secret Six again, or anything Gail Simone wrote really. I need to get around to her WW run fully sometime.
That twitter thread she made recently was really damn good.
Good decisions, the lot of you
I would love the next X-Men movie to be Utopia era Cyclops. "Mommy what's he doing?" "Well honey he's apparently forming what's called a hit squad and they're going to assassinate a psychotic religious cult and what's this rated again?"And that's why latter era Cyclops is that dude.
In no world should mutants, who've gone through at least three genocides that the other heroes have done less than nothing, kowtow to them. Stuff their bullshit, Cyke.
Good choiceGot all in my feelings and bought the Gail Simone WW Omnibus lol.
Yup, I agree with this. Thanks for putting it a way I couldn'tIve tried to write a response for a couple days but the words just won't come out. This is the best i could do.
I read Daytripper at the start of the quarantine and really liked it a lot.
I dunno. Did it need some kinda connecting thread besides the theme? Life doesn't need a connecting theme, it doesn't need some grand meaning, all your different experiences don't need to be somehow connected. They're just.... that. Things that happen. Things that could happen. I don't feel like the book needs any kind of bigger narrative to it, some form of awareness from Bras or anything. He did what he did in each of those occasions for the same reasons anyone would have, with the same knowledge. Idk.
I also don't feel like they could have prolonged the story forever with more and more mini stories and what ifs and alternatives. Borrowing this from wicdiv but: Life goes on... until it doesn't. Life isn't infinite or goes on forever, at some point it ends. Blas' life ended after 10 issues. And making issues about every possibility and opportunity just... isn't the way. You won't remember all those chances, all those times. Just a couple important ones. You don't know how many that will be. You could die at any moment. So cherish those important moments, those special events, because any one of them could be your last. And you don't know how many of those moments you will have. Maybe they will be enough to fill out an omnibus. Maybe they'll just barely fill out 10 issues. Who knows. It may be very long, or very short, but in the end?
I probably went off the rails like halfway through but fuck it, i barely post anymore, im allowed to say some dumb shit every once in a while
I like Power Man and Iron Fist lol, but I believe youWell good news for you, Red Hood and Arsenal is basically Power Man and Iron Fist, but DC and worse.
Your right lol, the new logo is just a mask!It was interesing at first and I didn't even mind the mask/good combo too much, but now that the status quo if you will is back he needs to go back to the helmet.
Worst part of the Outlaw look is the logo just being a fucking mask lol
Oh god so it is worse than I remember.I only know the page where Joker rapes a dude's wife as payback
I don't want to read that book.
I like Power Man and Iron Fist lol, but I believe you
Your right lol, the new logo is just a mask!
Did you read the Winick Lost Days story? If you did, does it play any role, or has it been basically replaced with the New 52 and Rebirth continuity?
It's a very tonally weird book, because it goes from something edgier to this weird hop n bop superhero book where they're going around on like goofy board game maps across the world and shit. It's super comedy heavy. But not
can I just skip to that?
If you want to be happy
Did you feel the need to just waste $10?So I bought and downloaded and am reading Azzarello's Birds of Prey.
5 pages in this is the worst dialogue.
I read this and enjoyed it. Real sleazy so go in knowing you'll feel grimey at points. But that's the overall tone it's going for. Good little crime story. Often leaves you like "GEE WHO COULD THIS BE ABOUT????"Oops. Dunno how that happened.
I meant to link to this
Hard Case Crime: Peepland Reviews
Scored a 8.8 Rating Based On Reviews For 5 Issuescomicbookroundup.com
There was also that incident with Orion that was pretty creepy.I think Azzarello's Wonder Woman was the last thing of his that I read. I didn't pick up any weird vibes from that one.
I haven't read much of his stuff over the years. I didn't love his run on Wonder Woman (I know many did) so I dropped it about 10 issues in. 100 Bullets, I suspect, is his best regarded work but I've never read it.I've only read Azzarello's Joker comic and I thought it was okay when I first read it. Haven't read it in forever though, so it might be worse than I remember.
I've been watching Cartoonist Kayfabe after their video was posted last page, and they aaaalmost sold me on a DC Absolute.
I hadn't considered for a moment getting a four issue Absolute, but getting a comic twice over with one version in newsprint paper/colouring, and another in it's graphic novel version is amazing nerd shit.
Good thing my local booksellers didn't have it 😆
Nice to know about the channel. I appreciate hearing actual comic workers nerding out on books instead most oridinary jaded fandom hosts.
If your still considering it, I would start there. It seems like pretty much everyone recommends too. I just really liked the Rocafort art in the New 52 omni. The Starfire stuff might be a bit too much for some tho lol.
Did anything new come out this week? CMX barely updated its new comics page.
Did anything new come out this week? CMX barely updated its new comics page.
DC is back on a mostly regular schedule that started yesterday. Marvel is just doing collections this week. I'm guessing everything else is so pared down CMX just doesn't really bother lol
have to know for myself
I've been buying all the 2020 stuffMan, Iron Man 2020 really got the shaft during this whole ordeal. Not that anyone really cared about the event lol. I do kinda want to go back and read some of the tie ins, like Force Works 2020. But it just got its last issue and the main event book still has like 2 more to go.
Yo this is the truth. Artemis in general honestly. I really hope she shows up more outside (hah) of that book.
Yo this is the truth. Artemis in general honestly. I really hope she shows up more outside (hah) of that book.
remender is king for putting out all his image books in that size. also why absolutes are fucking amaaaazzing.About to wrap Black Science HC 1.
All this time I thought Omni was the superior format. But now I have experienced an even larger trim size, I feel like I have been living a lie!
Remember when Azz's BP was supposed to be an ongoing? If it's that bad maybe someone higher up put the kibosh on that but they decided to just release what had already been made. It was supposed to be the first Black Label ongoing too lol
Released to comic shops so I guess a week delay for CMX
I don't think that Azz was ever a good fit for this. When BoP works it works because you care about the characters and enjoy their interactions together. Dixon and Simone made it so that how BP, Oracle, and Huntress felt about each other was important and meaningful. We cared not just about them but about their camaraderie. None of that is something that's in Azz's wheelhouse, IMO. Other than Simone I'd be curious to have Mariko Tamaki or Tynion take a shot at it.Remember when Azz's BP was supposed to be an ongoing? If it's that bad maybe someone higher up put the kibosh on that but they decided to just release what had already been made. It was supposed to be the first Black Label ongoing too lol
What? Isn't far sector a maxi? It's the only reason I am not buying it month to month and waiting for the collection insteadShe also replied to Tim saying that more Far Sector depends on sales, though, so I don't feel like it's all because she doesn't wanna.
i don't think she was implying that she'd be writing it.She also replied to Tim saying that more Far Sector depends on sales, though, so I don't feel like it's all because she doesn't wanna.