I just read Hellions and oh my God I fucking hate the Council ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
also it was good
also it was good
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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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That's on you. People have been singing its praises for a while now.
I want to play the hell out of that game. Have a few friends that said they'd play co-op when I eventually get it, but my comp sucks, and I don't wanna be sad about that while playing.
Dressrosa was a bit slow, but I agree that it read better all at once. Ever since it's been gold. I love Wano so far.
I tried the first one, but I'm about 90% sure at this point that CRPGs just aren't my jam. I've also tried Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera to no avail.
This quarantine needs to end. I read comics today.
I caught another 20 some-odd tarantulas tonight and paid off my 550,000 bell loan completely. 😂
I learned that you can actually catch tarantulas head-on without them charging at you if you hold the net at the ready and inch forward very slowly, a tiny bit at a time. I am now a world-class tarantula-wrangler.
It totally picked up after I was done with Dressrosa. It's so awesome to see One Piece finally return to the highs of pre-time skip. Never seen such a long ongoing comic retain such quality. I can't believe Oda can still introduce new characters to a series this late in the game that we care about. Such a talented guy.
I think it's the fact that you've done this in a Nintendo game is what's really getting me with this one.
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It doesn't seem like the big two are standing creatives down yet. Here's Mitch currently working on Strange Adventures #4.
e: Also Phil Jiminez is still being ridiculous on that KSD WW Black Label comic.
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Met Mitch and Tom very briefly once. Lovely people. Hearing Mitch talk at length is nice, because he seems like a radical, sweet guy.
DC gonna release them all at once. Take advantage of that TKO model.
Yeah, I would assume this is the case until we hear otherwise.
Seriously considering throwing $15 at this. I think its all of WItchblade, including the Sejic stuff.
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I don't think creatives are gonna be made to stand down, because, for the most part, the books are gonna come out anyway, and if they don't, AT&T and Disney can more than afford to pay for comic books that are never gonna come out, it's a long-standing tradition. I still think that, as a way to make good with direct market retailers, releases are gonna slow way down, as a way to keep big releases for after this is over in order to drive business back up.
He still has his light powers, but he also now has shadow powers.
I was expecting Thunderbolts, so I'm not too far off.
What even is Ravencroft?
"You're ALL Bill Paxton to me."
Hahaha, Ravencroft is growing on me.
What about internet girls?
I mean I do that but whatevs
I don't think we watched/read the same YYH
It's Arkham Asylum for Marvel, except with even more karmic horrors beneath because of Kingpin's past crimes.
No like I know what Ravencroft the place is. What's the book?
Yeah, considering CBC's recent post:
It makes me think they'll just go ahead with digital in the meantime and heavily discount the soon-to-be-behind floppies as a form of continued relief for shops.
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DCBS sent out an email today saying that they were told publishers are still assessing their ability to print comics.
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An epilogue for Absolute Carnage and a story about Kingpin's sins, mostly
i dont understand this perspective. why would the stores care? they're all closed down. they can't do anything except wait until afterward and then hope there's still demand for comics. there's no better way to maintain demand for comics than to keep putting them out and then do something cool once physical issues become available again through diamond. trying to shut down digitial, creating a scene where no one's getting comics for 2-4 months is a great way to actually kill the direct market.
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Stores were able to do curbside or shipping out books. Now they have nothing but inventory. I'm sure they will be delighted to lose customers to Comixology or just flat lose customers who never come back as they won't be able to get the 4 batman comics they didn't print.
If nothing else this week has shown that Marvel and DC have no interest in doing something cool for comic stores or trying to help them. At some point DC is going to issue a statement to retailers right? They'll get right on it.
Listen to John Hendrick on off panel this week discussing what his store has been told. It's embarrassing.
Because people who dont normally buy digital comics will probably do so if they are available, and might not end up buying the actual physical book. Unless your a hardcore collector, or speculator, there wont really be any reason to go back to the store after already buying the book once, unless there is a massive discount, or its free with the digtial purchase like Higgins wants.
Just my theory anyway.
It's either gonna be readers having a gap in issues, having to wait to catch up, or buying a pile of issues at once to get current. None of those are prospects that owners can be sure their customers will put up with.
Most would probably be happiest for everything to pick up where it left off when they're able to open.
edit: Imagine getting these months of held issues all at once when you open the store back up and trying to figure out pull lists. That's a nightmare to deal with.
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this is happening either way. it's a nightmare scenario for comic stores. but keeping 2020 comic momentum is still better for them than everyone not having any access to comics period for four months. nevermind stopping comics would also harm the entire creative side of the industry in major ways. we'd lose a ton of great people to other industries forever.
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So stores just got cut out of it to keep the momentum going? Diamond literally cut them out. Big Bang were literally doing foc for titles meant to ship next month this week. Diamond are still taking order sheets for books they have no idea they can deliver. Its insulting.
I'm sure DC is gonna put out a statement eventually right?
i dont see how it's insulting that the decision that's best for them get made. it's not just an ambiguous "COMIC MOMENTUM." it's sales when comic stores reopen. if comics stop, they'll massively drop in sales when they return, period. if they keep going, it's still the best of two shitty decisions. the idea that industry should just fuck itself for the sake of fucking itself so everyone industry-wide comes out worse in the end makes absolutely no sense.
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Those people won't come back for those issues. Stores already have a horrible time trying to get people to pick up their held books or a book that's been on the shelf for a week. Now imagine it's Batman that's been on Comixology for 4 months.
I don't believe that anyone can "make" Amazon do anything. Even Hachette has caved to Amazon's demands.
So CMX is also having a sale called DC Teamwork. I bought:
Geoff Johns' Teen Titans Vol. 1-3
New 52 Justice League Vol 6
Darkseid War Essential Edition
Darkseid War one-shots collection
Justice League by Christopher Priest Deluxe Edition
Teen Titans by Adam Glass Vol 1
Geoff Johns' Teen Titans Vol. 1-3
New 52 Justice League Vol 6
Darkseid War Essential Edition
Darkseid War one-shots collection
Justice League by Christopher Priest Deluxe Edition
Teen Titans by Adam Glass Vol 1
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I think it was Marvel who asked Amazon to stop, after getting all the negative backlash from the retailers. Make probably isnt the right word, sure, but they definitely appealed to Amazon in one way or another to get it to stop lol.
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