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COMICS!!! |OT| March 2020 | According to Ireland, St. Patrick threw all the snakes out of ComicERA. He missed some.
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Gotham Central is a beautiful book. Or Batman and Robin by Tomasi and Gleason is top tier Batman.
It probably will, sounds like a bunch of them just announced today and im sure others are discussing it and trying to figure out how to get everyone set up for the online only classes. Plus, theres not even a confirmed case in my state yet, so this was not expected. Sounds like Summer classes will probably be the same.
Xavier's the idealist and by comparison I feel like Apocalypse is more pragmatic. He's not as much of an idealist as Xavier, but he clearly he as a vision of Krakoa. He's more of a pragmatic person. Magneto is constantly establishing the superiority angle because he knows what humans are capable of so he's scaring them and going "make a move. I dare you. We'll fuck you up." Apocalypse gives zero fucks and is just doing his own thing.
But to that end, he's also somehow the least shady, minus whatever's going on with Arakko and Excalibur. Magneto just comes off as so full of shit and Xavier is such an idealist as to be ignorant of the problems.
Oh no
I bet Orlando would make a really good Quicksilver book
This is true
Shade the Changing Girl/Shade the Changing Woman was 2016-2018. Boy is that a trip
Colossus and Domino
Dope.
Remember how Dick was just supposed to go into a coma and Tim was supposed to be Nightwing while he healed? I'm upset.
I miss this. This was Tim Seeley right? Man this was so cool. Man quick someone needs to pull the pitched concept art for Blade's daughter because that was fucking cool.
I just picked up Gail Simone's Wonder Woman and it is gooooooorgeoussssss
And also an outstanding run of superhero comics. One of my absolute favorites and I only read it for the first time this past Christmas season. Legit top 5.
Yeah that's what I mean, it was a comic first. Huh.
Next you'll tell me Road to Perdition was a comic...*sniff*
I'll have class all day on the day it releases unless my college closes in the next month due to the virus.
Noted thanks!
That one looks great and is a consideration.
The Losers was another comic no one remembers that they made a movie out of.
I, Frankenstein is based on a comic
Mantera
The Room
Mantera
Diana leads a squad of gorilla soldiers to fight Nazis
Losers was great! Jock did the art on the book.
Batman!
Goes to IST and looks at price.Diana leads a squad of gorilla soldiers to fight Nazis
$43.50
Hhhmmmm
Oh You'd like to believe it was anything that wasn't what I'm 90% was an Albanian college student's film class final project that somehow made it on to Netflix
Not on there anymore though
All done with Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1. the final third of the book was definitely the least interesting of it. Very thin on interesting changes or additions, plus a clear trend toward moral lessons over pulpy action and mystery. Very formulaic, which is to be expected and probably only gets worse through the rest of the golden age.
Scarecrow was added toward the end of this book, which was fun. He was a book-loving teacher who was teased for his shabby clothes. He decided to threaten and kill people for more money for more books, scaring them with his Scarecrow guise. Meanwhile, a fear toxin did crop up but not related to Scarecrow. Joker also dropped a riddle. Seeds for ideas that will crop up in the future.
Batman didn't get any new tools in this final bit of the book, but he did trade in his normal car Batmobile (which swapped between red and blue issue to issue) for a silly-looking new Batmobile with the traditional batwing-like flares on the back and a big Batman face on the front. Just like the Batplane (that could turn into a boat!). Batman even mostly stopped using the choking gas pellets from his toolbelt.
The book heavily suffers from the most recurring villain being just generic mobsters. There's no depth to these characters or their motivations. They rob banks, do protection rackets, and constantly plot to steal jewels and stock and shit from the rich. And apparently breed like rabbits. The only thing worse than them is the racist caricatures, mostly of Asians. I don't think there's been a speaking role for a black character yet. Incredibly sad stuff to reflect on.
One thing I am surprised by is the continued deaths. Mobsters and rich victims die in quantity book to book. Batman himself is rarely directly involved in the deaths any more (tho he does still punch dudes off buildings/trains/etc. from time to time). I keep waiting for this stuff to stop, but maybe it stays through the Golden Age?
Really interesting overall, given I know very little about this era from comics. I'll admit I've found I have less emotional sentimentality for it than I expected, though. I mentioned in a different post about the book how much I genuinely care about and enjoy early Spider-Man. Not so much Batman, I guess.
edit: backlog RNG has picked the Brubaker Criminal Deluxe Editions! oh shit yes.
Scarecrow was added toward the end of this book, which was fun. He was a book-loving teacher who was teased for his shabby clothes. He decided to threaten and kill people for more money for more books, scaring them with his Scarecrow guise. Meanwhile, a fear toxin did crop up but not related to Scarecrow. Joker also dropped a riddle. Seeds for ideas that will crop up in the future.
Batman didn't get any new tools in this final bit of the book, but he did trade in his normal car Batmobile (which swapped between red and blue issue to issue) for a silly-looking new Batmobile with the traditional batwing-like flares on the back and a big Batman face on the front. Just like the Batplane (that could turn into a boat!). Batman even mostly stopped using the choking gas pellets from his toolbelt.
The book heavily suffers from the most recurring villain being just generic mobsters. There's no depth to these characters or their motivations. They rob banks, do protection rackets, and constantly plot to steal jewels and stock and shit from the rich. And apparently breed like rabbits. The only thing worse than them is the racist caricatures, mostly of Asians. I don't think there's been a speaking role for a black character yet. Incredibly sad stuff to reflect on.
One thing I am surprised by is the continued deaths. Mobsters and rich victims die in quantity book to book. Batman himself is rarely directly involved in the deaths any more (tho he does still punch dudes off buildings/trains/etc. from time to time). I keep waiting for this stuff to stop, but maybe it stays through the Golden Age?
Really interesting overall, given I know very little about this era from comics. I'll admit I've found I have less emotional sentimentality for it than I expected, though. I mentioned in a different post about the book how much I genuinely care about and enjoy early Spider-Man. Not so much Batman, I guess.
edit: backlog RNG has picked the Brubaker Criminal Deluxe Editions! oh shit yes.
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I don't think they could have cast three actresses I hate more.Don't forget the The Kitchen movie.
Vertigo movies are cursed.
I couldn't remember this movie even coming out last year. Which says enough on what this movie is.Don't forget the The Kitchen movie.
Vertigo movies are cursed.
The shit is thisDon't forget the The Kitchen movie.
Vertigo movies are cursed.
...huh
Bruv. What you got against Peggy? She's fantastic in The Invisible Man.
Edit: and everything else except for maybe DCVertigo's The Kitchen.
I read the first issue of the comic years ago and didnt see the movie, but I think it's basically about three mob wives in the 70s taking over when their husbands get locked up.
Spose the movie was a worse version of Widows.
It's about 3 women living in 1970's Hell's Kitchen and something involving mobs.
I refuse to believe either of those actresses can do that. But the same thing got said about Heath Ledger playing the Joker over a decade ago.
Also Love is Blind is killing me and I should read comics, but I can't stop watching.
Also Love is Blind is killing me and I should read comics, but I can't stop watching.
McCarthy was good in that movie where she's forging famous letters. Kitchen's problems were probably on the script and direction if I had to guess.
VanWinkle in live action:
I used to read comics fast once upon a time. Sometimes I still do, but lately I've been in a rut.
It inspires me to finish my 12-issue Booster Gold HC that I've been reading for the last two months.
You don't read comics. Only collect them
It's been my head canon for all these years and hasn't changed
I don't even do a good job collecting them. Haven't made an IST order is two months.
Will say this, though. I just counted my DC omnis, of which there are 45, and I've only not read 4 of them. 65 DC deluxe editions and haven't read three of them.
Now, Marvel, I have 22 omnis and haven't read 8 of them.
As someone who has met Tommy Wiseau twice, I think this is very funny. That's exactly how I described him. An alien.
Me, too. Like 4 months or so now.
Hahaha. I say this probably like once a week and have for a long time, and it's all because of Greg.
that's pretty good. pretty pretty good. i wish my backlog was below 20. my reading's already booked for 2020, i'm pretty sure.
It sounds good, but when it comes to trades I have dozens and dozens yet to be read.
My friends made me watch Over the Garden Wall like 3 years ago and it's now permanently in my regular lexicon.
Did anyone bother picking up Hickman's new #1, Decorum?
I'll probably never read half of mine. 🐍
I enjoyed it way back when, but I haven't kept up with the new ongoing. I liked Fatale, too. Which was basically Criminal with a supernatural twist.
So wait if Illyana's Soulsword isn't with her then what sword that's all blue and glowy and summoned on command is she using
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