Don't tell anyone, but every single day I spend some time reading books with words and no pictures.
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COMICS!!! |OT| May 2021 | How Can It Be Porno If It Won An Eisner
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I tried Jujutsu Kaisen this morning. First I read the chapters in Vol. 0 thinking it was the first chapter, then I realized what happened and started enjoying it more.
But I thought it was going to be like a regular battle manga, but with parasites or something. Its not at all what I was expecting.
I bought it on a whim at my shop solely based on the amazing art but the noir-ish story was definitely my shit.
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Yea the shonen app put it first lol
like I clicked on an image on the homepage that said start from the beginning.
Vol. 0 is a prequel story. Some people recommend that you read it before Vol.1, others say after the first flashback scene.
Ah. Robin reading the romance manga was meant to inspire the reader to branch out.
I see your trick, Big Gleb. No dice!
just beat Biome 3 of Returnal in 2 tries. am I a pro gamer?
really the "grenade launcher" weapon in that game is super OP.
really the "grenade launcher" weapon in that game is super OP.
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It wasn't a DLC weapon, it was just an early unlock. It does make things easier if you have it in the rotation early game.
Vol 0 happens before everything else but only becomes relevant around volume 9 yeah
Yea Jujutsu Kaisen is just not for me. Once they introduced the curses and the ghosts I was done. Feels like ive already read that story.
Gunna try Spy x Family next.
Plus ive still got 50 chapters of Seraph of the End. Always surprised to see that book is still going.
Gunna try Spy x Family next.
Plus ive still got 50 chapters of Seraph of the End. Always surprised to see that book is still going.
Legion and Blindfold are so cute together.
But I know it will more than likely end in tears. 😭
But I know it will more than likely end in tears. 😭
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Spy x Family is a delight.
I'd recommend taking some more time with JJK, though. It doesn't really play out exactly how you'd expect from the elevator pitch.
They're actually fucking rad when written by Ian Flynn. Well there's this like 20 issue dive in quality but once the reboot hits (oh yeah, there was a continuity reboot in Archie Sonic) it just becomes a knockout comic every issue. I'm actually quite nettled the reboot got cancelled.
No. Like I thought it was just a regular martial arts shonen battle manga, but with a dude with a weird parasite coming out of his hand lol.
No that was years later. Ian Flynn took over in early 2006 and wrote the comic until its cancellation, and in 2013 the Penders lawsuit happened so the entire existing continuity and all but a few of the previous original characters were jettisoned starting with issue 252. You know how IDW TMNT and Boom! Power Rangers use a bunch of disparate elements from different continuities and tie them all into one narrative? The reboot Archie continuity was like that and most everything was available, so you'd get the unused villain from Sonic SatAM Season 3 (who was a major fixture in the comics but got spared the reboot as he wasn't an OC) showing up as the brother of the villain of the Game Gear spinoff Tails Sky Patrol and a one-off character from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was established as a media mogul and crime boss in Casino Park running a fighting tournament for self promotion, which featured previously unused Sonic the Fighters character Honey the Cat.
The story of Ian Flynn getting the job is hilarious because he was a fan of the comic who used to send fanmail, some of which got seen in the letter column, and after graduating with a writing degree he started sending unsolicited pitches over and over until Archie offered him some backup stories and at the same time Ken Penders quit so Ian Flynn was just handed the entire comic. The dive in quality I mentioned mostly came about at a point in time where it felt like the comic was become crushed by the weight of its own continuity and a constant rising tension of grim, bleak stories where the heroes lost all the time and everyone was angry and miserable, so I was particularly happy for that to get thrown out for globe trotting adventure where Sonic and friends have their own SHIELD helicarrier to fly them around the world doing good.
I have to catch up. I think I was around chapter 120 or so when I fell off. I don't dislike it, it's fine. But I just have a hard time seeing how this thing is setting the world on fire.
Part of it's just that the adaptation is very good. That's what tends to do it these days, more than anything else. But idk, I like the characters, I like the worldbuilding, the monsters and powers are cool, and it's got some fantastic fight choreography.
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This is a slippery slope my friend.
One day you'll turn around and be crushed by a freak accident involving a scale model of the RX-78-2 Gundam.
I'm not taking part in this conversation. I mean, Bii really missed the golden age anyway. Between 2012 and 2016/17, there was some really great stuff coming out. There's significantly less good stuff now unless you really, really like Fate/GO.
We're friends?! 😊
Which ones some are really amazing. Like this
I'm still considering that Prime 1 MHA of Midoriya, Bakugo and THE BEST TODOROKI. But also might consider HEX Collectibles' Madara and the eventual First Hokage:
Any good ones from Nocturne?
Thankfully my bedroom doesn't have any statues. lol
If you're hell-bent on walking this dark path, I would strictly limit purchases to franchises you genuinely enjoy, and not stuff that just looks neat.
I need that next chapter of Spy X Family right now. Yor is superhuman and I love it
Fantastic!Goddamn this Legion series has some cool as fuck covers.
Nothing new unfortunately. The FuRyu line is the best but they're all second hand now.
Gillen breathed new campy life into Mister Sinister.just found out that Kieron Gillen, who I know from the recent (fantastic) Eternals book, wrote Uncanny X-Men from which this famous page comes from:
which explains a lot as this is one of my favorite pages ever. Maybe there is something to Mr.Gillen.
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