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COMICS!!! |OT| June 2020 | How are you going to adapt that into a thread title?
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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
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 only know the page where Joker rapes a dude's wife as payback
I don't want to read that book.
Well good news for you, Red Hood and Arsenal is basically Power Man and Iron Fist, but DC and worse.
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?"
Good choice
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 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?
I mean they basically amount to just fun stories leading up to the events of Under The Red Hood. Doesn't really factor into Lobdell's stuff but they're enjoyable on their own. Keep in mind it's UTRH era Jason and not the more loveable outlaw Jason of New 52 and Rebirth.
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
The Rebirth series is where it's all clicked.
If you want to be happy
Like I joke, but New 52 RHatO Vol #1 and Red Hood and Arsenal #1-6, which I read of each, were not enjoyable at all
Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016-, the Rebirth series) Vol.1-4 is some of the most purely enjoyable comics I've read.
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So I bought and downloaded and am reading Azzarello's Birds of Prey.
5 pages in this is the worst dialogue.
5 pages in this is the worst dialogue.
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 Issues
comicbookroundup.com
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 Issues
There was also that incident with Orion that was pretty creepy.
Also, it's too late for me. I already have it at my doorstep.
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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 of most ordinary jaded fandom hosts.
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 of most ordinary jaded fandom hosts.
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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.
In terms of RHaTO - yes, skipping to Rebirth is fine. It is designed to be a starting point and it works well without a need for previous knowledge about the characters.
yeah it's a fun channel, especially when Tom Scioli is there too. I quite liked their Akira videos
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.
Dexter Soy, the artist on the Batman and the Outsiders, did most of the art on the Rebirth Red Hood book, which I really enjoy also.
But I also picked up the New 52 Deathstroke Omni (for $30) lol, so I obviously dont have the best taste lol.
Man, 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.
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 stuff
Yo this is the truth. Artemis in general honestly. I really hope she shows up more outside (hah) of that book.
DC Legends (mobile game) added her and Circe this month. I'm jazzed.
So that one review touches up mostly on the racist aspects of Azzarello's Birds of Prey, and they are certainly there. Personally I like the idea of the three main gang members if they were more stylized and not just three people wearing leather combat suits and face paint. Like if they went all in on the Dia de los Muertos look with the face paint I'd dig it, but the face paint keeps making me thing of El Diablo and also doesn't excuse the racist bits.
However this book is also just bad.
The action sequences are great though, because Lupacchino.
This is a bad superhero comic, a bad Birds of Prey comic, a bad Black Canary comic, a bad Huntress comic, a bad Renee Montoya comic, and a bad Harley Quinn comic.
It's a bad comic and without a doubt the worst comic I've read in recent memory.
However this book is also just bad.
I'm not against vulgar language, but it feels like it very rarely is used in anything in here other than "look I can do swears now!" The wrong spellings and words get used (like "effecting" gets used instead of "affecting"). I also don't know where Azzarello's understanding of Dinah comes from, but this one pisses me off the most. All of them do really, but at least Harley and Helena are older points in their characters. Helena's much more comfortable watching gang members just kill each other and Harley is much more unstable. It's not pretty or comfortable to read, but his understanding of the characters is clearly just outdated and not "wrong." Montoya and Dinah however, are terrible. Montoya basically becomes allies with Helena to have her track and go after gangs off the books. A gang member ends up dead and Helena informs her Montoya says "Good job." Meaning Montoya is happy with the idea of Helena killing a gang member for her. Dinah leaves a friend to OD on drugs while she takes two guys home from a bar and is generally a terrible person. Also it's like some of these characters never associated with each other.
The action sequences are great though, because Lupacchino.
This is a bad superhero comic, a bad Birds of Prey comic, a bad Black Canary comic, a bad Huntress comic, a bad Renee Montoya comic, and a bad Harley Quinn comic.
It's a bad comic and without a doubt the worst comic I've read in recent memory.
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
Released to comic shops so I guess a week delay for CMX
current highest bid looks like it's Bryan Hill. can trust he'll do what's right with that. good man.
remender is king for putting out all his image books in that size. also why absolutes are fucking amaaaazzing.
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*chef's kiss* perfect. I really hope we get a chance to see his meltdown over this.
I'm almost done with the Waid/Samnee Black Widow. Very impressive book, probably my favorite BW thing I've ever read. Samnee is so damn talented, those fight scenes are amazing.
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.
*pats the dogo-san* there there, buddy. im sure there's crime comics on the horizon for us to look forward to.
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.
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 instead
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