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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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I love this theory. The Leader reveal had some hints in hindsight, but I never saw it coming until the very end
Immortal hulk was crazy
Just reread some of the issues and... oh lord the foreshadowing.
I read old comics all the time, and while this may be blasphemous, I don't think the color is worth the effort either. Collections don't sell in the tens of thousands unless they are Spider-man and Batman. So if we get it, I'm just glad.
Also, color quality is about technology as much as it is artistry. I know they optimized and were super creative with old print comics as best they could but it's still a muddy mess. I wouldn't want faithful colors all the time. I'd rather have a full recolors.
But to contradict myself they are fucking up horror collections, like Tomb of Dracula because they are so bright. But it's either that or no collections.
i agree with the heart of what you're saying, canucked. that it's better to have these collections at all than to expect them to be "perfect." but i do love that classic newspaper coloring and texture a whole lot, too, so it does make me sad that it isn't being fully redone.
Oh yeah, I've been a fan since Manhattan Projects launched. Although I did bail pretty early on that book he did with Layman, Leviathan I think? That didn't do a whole lot for me.
At the very least I'm glad Harper's LGBTQ+ representation, but beyond that even the idea of Harper just feels like Jason + Tim + a sibling. And that's not really interesting to me. What makes Tim interesting to me is that he's one of the few Bat family members without a tragic past. He didn't come from the hood, he came from a wealthy family, with good parents. He's a Batman fanboy who became Robin to help Batman. He wants to be a detective and is both a forensics and tech prodigy (which since the New 52, they've only ever played up the tech part and never the detective part). Yes his mother was killed in a hostage situation and his dad was hurt, but the whole death of his father didn't come until years down the line and that, while I didn't read it, was dumb.
Like, everyone else is tragic or from the hood or a shitty life as far as origins go aside from Barbara:
Dick: parent's killed before his eyes
Jason: deadbeat dad abandoned him. Mom ran off and murdered. Fended for himself in the ghetto.
Damian: Son of Batman. Bred by assassin mother and grandfather to kill his dad and be the perfect assassin.
Stephanie: Criminal abusive father, barely holding it together mom, lives in the ghetto
Harper: deadbeat dad, murdered mom, takes care of her younger brother, lives in the ghetto
Cass: Dad's an abusive assassin who raised her to be a murder machine. Mom's a
Master assassin who abandoned her. Both tried to kill her.
Helena: Mobster family slaughtered in front of her. Raised by assassins who were sent to prison. Taken in by more mobsters.
Duke: Okay honestly I don't remember. I haven't read We Are Robin, Snyder's Batman, and I don't remember nor did I finish The Signal.
Azrael: Brainwashedby a psychotic religion to be a murder machine/the "perfect Batman," depending.
I know I'm forgetting some, but I doubt they're good.
That about sums up his backstory right here. First shows up in Zero Year I believe.
Look all I know is he's the only Bat family member that's a meta and right now he's kind of being a baby backed bitch in Outsiders.
I don't really care that much about Duke. I feel like I'm an old man about the Bat family. Like Harper and Duke are two characters I just do not give a shit about.
Eh. They'd basically just have to adjust the pallet once. Even adding a paper grain texture shouldn't complicate things too much once you're happy with it.
They just think people want it flat and clean on bright white paper.
If it were up to me, they'd just print archival scans of the actual comic pages.
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i like how much detail went into xavier's frown.Jesus, Doom. I know he's got revival protocols, but GOD DAMN
I always forget Duke is a meta. No one does anything with it, ifaik.
I think that's plausible. There was definitely SOMETHING up with Green Scar - they didn't pull the trigger at the end of the issue, like I expected them to, but he's definitely under the influence of someone, and it being Brian would make sense.
And I think you nailed it on the Leader. There's this big unexplained gap between "abandoning my physical form to ascend to a higher plane of existence" and "I'm back doing villain stuff" in his history, so filling that gap with the TOBA would be the sort of continuity porn that Ewing really loves.
Would be kind of funny, though. Like, Leader was disguised as Brian and is piloting Rick, while Brian was disguised as Green Scar trying to pilot Bruce.
And I think you nailed it on the Leader. There's this big unexplained gap between "abandoning my physical form to ascend to a higher plane of existence" and "I'm back doing villain stuff" in his history, so filling that gap with the TOBA would be the sort of continuity porn that Ewing really loves.
Would be kind of funny, though. Like, Leader was disguised as Brian and is piloting Rick, while Brian was disguised as Green Scar trying to pilot Bruce.
Jesus, Doom. I know he's got revival protocols, but GOD DAMN
Krakoa can't stop getting blown the fuck out I'm this book can it
Hill is right now. Duke got his powers altered. Now he can also emit darkness? He's Blackbeard now.
I.... ugh. How can a book I dropped continue to underwhelm me?
For anyone curious about "that thing" Hulk did in today's Immortal Hulk and why it was said to have happened before
Incredible Hulk 372
Not only is it a cool visual, it also ties into it narratively, as issue 372 also featured the return of
Incredible Hulk 372
Not only is it a cool visual, it also ties into it narratively, as issue 372 also featured the return of
"Classic Hulk" after an extended absence
I'm sorry but Doom can go fuck himself with that talk.
And I'm surprised that people actually agree with him like
"fuck mutants, they got uppity now they deserve whatever is coming to them"
like the decades of horrible shit that happened to them suddenly never happened
And I'm surprised that people actually agree with him like
"fuck mutants, they got uppity now they deserve whatever is coming to them"
like the decades of horrible shit that happened to them suddenly never happened
I haven't read it (since it's a mini, I'm only getting it when it's finished), but Doom's big talks are usually him self-projecting all over the place that can also maybe apply to the one he's talking down to, so I assume this time it's something similar
it does say a lot, but it's also very doom, that he'd reject something that'd make all of his people's lives better over what's really a matter of pride
Oh HELL NO! Not on my watch lol. I need to make an alt Facebook account or something and spam those jerks at the Omni collector group lol.
Happy to see Marvel is for sure offering the Scottie Young Variant cover on the New Warriors omni.
Looks like the Venom OHC Vol. 2 skips all the Absolute Carnage issues, and picks up directly after. So if your collecting these OHCs you should grab the Absolute Carnage omni as well I guess. Something to consider.
EDIT: Damn, the Thunderbolts omni wont be out until middle of January.
Looks like the Venom OHC Vol. 2 skips all the Absolute Carnage issues, and picks up directly after. So if your collecting these OHCs you should grab the Absolute Carnage omni as well I guess. Something to consider.
EDIT: Damn, the Thunderbolts omni wont be out until middle of January.
all who test positive for omnibusvirus are welcome to self quarantine on OmnibIsle, where the books are thicc and the binding is sewn
using our social distancing time to catch up on some comics. been out of the loop a bit for a while.
Read Last Knight on Earth. I love a good post apocalyptic superhero setting, so I dug a lot of stuff in it, like the GL/Mogo angle. But I really had a hard time getting past
I read it twice, and enjoyed it more the second time once I got past it, but it takes the whole thing down a bit for me.
Sometimes Snyder's out there ideas don't quite take hold as well as, say, Morrison's out there ideas.
Read Last Knight on Earth. I love a good post apocalyptic superhero setting, so I dug a lot of stuff in it, like the GL/Mogo angle. But I really had a hard time getting past
how Luthor turned the world against superheroes and got Superman killed. Or that calculating, logical Batman would open the doors.
I read it twice, and enjoyed it more the second time once I got past it, but it takes the whole thing down a bit for me.
Sometimes Snyder's out there ideas don't quite take hold as well as, say, Morrison's out there ideas.
Where the shelves are sagging and the backs are thrown out.
my fucking billy shelves can't handle all that jelly
my kallaxes tho, mmmmm yeah that's the good shit. gravity gonna have to come knocking if they want that sag
Just stopping by to say HOLY FUCK IMMORTAL HULK
There's like six pages that actually made me go "yo what the fuck!?!?". I read six other comics and I don't get one of those.
seminal run of comics rn tbh
There's like six pages that actually made me go "yo what the fuck!?!?". I read six other comics and I don't get one of those.
seminal run of comics rn tbh
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I'm warming up to the art on Hellblazer, I felt it's more fitting for this issue that the previous one. Some pretty big relevations is this issue too
Clarice being alive: Good, she has always been my favourite supporting cast of his
Map being dead: Fuck, this stung more than I thought it would
This book remains great at balancing humour and the expected Hellblazer stuff. I'm glad tommy is staying
Clarice being alive: Good, she has always been my favourite supporting cast of his
Map being dead: Fuck, this stung more than I thought it would
This book remains great at balancing humour and the expected Hellblazer stuff. I'm glad tommy is staying
If this is gonna be the last week for a while, at least it was a damn good one.
when even Hulk's like "wait, wtf" you know you've seen some SHIT
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I have a sneaking suspicion that Marvel and DC are gonna keep publishing digitally. I dunno why.
I warned y'all for years to abandon floppies. Now y'all gotta do it cold turkey.
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