The last decent thing I remember reading from him was Batman/Superman.
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She licks the ball of gas and Xandra when she's a ball of light. I think it's a joke that dogs like licking balls.
Freezasaurus did you pick up that Nexomon game for the Switch? Looks like one of the original Pokemon games. but made for modern consoles.
Yeah Nine Men's Morris is sooo bad. there's one strategy to win, and it relies on the AI messing up. You can put it on the hardest difficulty and play over and over doing exactly the same thing, and the AI has a chance to do a bad move and then you win, get the achievement or whatever and never have to play it again. It's like Noughts and Crosses but less fun!
I liked the Mancala game, it was different to how I played it as a kid, I was hoping there'd be some kind of alternate rulesets but to be fair, the rules I was playing by as a kid were probably nonsense rules haha. The way I remember it, you didn't take the opposite tub of beads at all, but when you land your last bead in a tub with beads already in it, you pick up that whole tub and keep going. so you'd do a lot of calculation in your head in advance about where you'd end up.
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I'm interested to see how Empyre wraps up.
As Marvel events go, it's been pretty good
I think Batman/Superman was the end of good Loeb. It's sad but you can kinda make the argument that it went off the rails and never recovered after his son died.
Are we finally going to finish that Shazam story arc this week that feels like it's been going on since time immemorial.
Loeb's Sam Nova was the last thing I read of his that I genuinely enjoyed. I feel like a lot of the hate that the book got was more about people just complaining that Rich was being replaced lol, and not the actual quality of the book. Plus, Loeb was only on it for the first arc or two, then handed it off to Duggan who did an even better job with it.
Empyre is the first Marvel event I've enjoyed in ages, but I'm definitely gonna have to reread 1-5 because I don't remember anything outside of
Jen being dead and Hulking being fake
The delay for the tie ins to catch up killed the pacing
I feel like this is the last Johns issue? The solicit info seems all wrong though
Sen rocks. A Japanese lady who's obsessed with Captain Marvel just makes me smile.
When this arc finally finishes I want to go back and reread. Because I can barely remember what happened at the start.
I have not. Pokemon-style games have never really been my thing. I think the only exception was the original Ni No Kuni.
sunday is a day for lists, okay
WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEYRE DEAD #1
BANG #3
DIE #13
LOST SOLDIERS #2
SEX CRIMINALS SEXUAL GARY SPECIAL
BLACK WIDOW #1
CABLE #4
EMPYRE #6
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #6
BATMAN #98
DREAMING WAKING HOURS #2
HELLBLAZER RISE AND FALL #1
JUSTICE LEAGUE #52
SHAZAM #14
STRANGE ADVENTURES #5
YOUNG JUSTICE #18
WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEYRE DEAD #1
BANG #3
DIE #13
LOST SOLDIERS #2
SEX CRIMINALS SEXUAL GARY SPECIAL
BLACK WIDOW #1
CABLE #4
EMPYRE #6
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #6
BATMAN #98
DREAMING WAKING HOURS #2
HELLBLAZER RISE AND FALL #1
JUSTICE LEAGUE #52
SHAZAM #14
STRANGE ADVENTURES #5
YOUNG JUSTICE #18
Can you really put a price on playing Connect Four with your internet buds?
I'm happy to share my Switch friend code, but only if we're playing good games.
LISTS!
Batman 98
Hellblazer: Rise & Fall 1
Shazam 14
Strange Adventures 5
Black Widow 1
Cable 4
Empyre 6
Fantastic Four 23
Miles Morales Spider-Man 18
New Mutants 12
Wolverine 5
We Only Find Them When They're Dead 1
I'm grateful for a lighter week than the past few, because free time has dwindled since I started grad school a couple weeks ago. I'm way behind on a bunch of books.
LISTS!
Batman 98
Hellblazer: Rise & Fall 1
Shazam 14
Strange Adventures 5
Black Widow 1
Cable 4
Empyre 6
Fantastic Four 23
Miles Morales Spider-Man 18
New Mutants 12
Wolverine 5
We Only Find Them When They're Dead 1
I'm grateful for a lighter week than the past few, because free time has dwindled since I started grad school a couple weeks ago. I'm way behind on a bunch of books.
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Rewatched Spiderverse. Easily my favorite marvel movie.
kind of makes me want to try picking back up my amazing spidey read from the start again after I finish this classic Batman run
Speaking of both books Gerry Conway has had a hell of a career eh? I've made it to the Conway era of Batman books and have been enjoying it.
Just finished Wolfman's main Batman run. It had a good Ra's arc send off but the funniest thing in the whole run is almost every issue is Robin making an appearance, asking Batman to have a good talk, and Bruce just finding any excuse to not have said talk about Dick dropping out of college. The arc ends and the talk never happens!
kind of makes me want to try picking back up my amazing spidey read from the start again after I finish this classic Batman run
Speaking of both books Gerry Conway has had a hell of a career eh? I've made it to the Conway era of Batman books and have been enjoying it.
Just finished Wolfman's main Batman run. It had a good Ra's arc send off but the funniest thing in the whole run is almost every issue is Robin making an appearance, asking Batman to have a good talk, and Bruce just finding any excuse to not have said talk about Dick dropping out of college. The arc ends and the talk never happens!
look as long as it's easier to read than Homeric verse I'm all in
lol. I am usually a fan of that style of writing but it didn't work for me at all in ODYC.
Man, they were setting up this awesome showdown for the Goblin Queen finale in Mutant X, but then ended it in such a rushed unsatisfactory way lol. They even had all this awesome setup where the Goblin Force as it was called ate the Phoenix Force and became this awesome power. Then Doctor Doom took over the entire world's armies for this epic World War 3. If it had just one more issue showing some of the actual war, I think it would have been much better. But still really neat and im super excited for whats to come. Havok still sucks, but hes way more interesting in this series than anything ive read of him so far.
What happen to that book Fraction was doing with Annie wu
then again it took several years for Adventureman happen with Dodson
When people said the adults in Amethyst were assholes, they weren't kidding holy shit. But there's so much to resolve with just one issue to go. I wish DC could have given the series some more issues to give it more space. But that's the nature of book sales these days, huh.
Wonder Woman is beginning to lose me here. The art simply isn't nearly as good as the last team. Also:
Spider-Man Noir continues to be a wonderful book with good art, an intriguing mystery and interesting reimaginings of characters.
Power Rangers goes back to doing what it does best: upping the stakes with ideas that should have been used in the series but didn't have the footage.
Chu 2 already ups the stakes in it's just begun.
List:
Fantastic Four #23
Strange Adventures #5
Shazam #14
Black Widow #1
Transformers: Galaxies #9
Wonder Woman is beginning to lose me here. The art simply isn't nearly as good as the last team. Also:
Wouldn't Wondey's lasso protected her from the mind control? I need an explanation for that.
Spider-Man Noir continues to be a wonderful book with good art, an intriguing mystery and interesting reimaginings of characters.
Power Rangers goes back to doing what it does best: upping the stakes with ideas that should have been used in the series but didn't have the footage.
Chu 2 already ups the stakes in it's just begun.
I had a feeling the twin was going to die, but in 3 issues? Yikes.
List:
Fantastic Four #23
Strange Adventures #5
Shazam #14
Black Widow #1
Transformers: Galaxies #9
For some reason there's something extra distasteful about taking the time to draw stylish sneakers on an exploding lady 😂
The Lasso can break mind control as part of it's power
Don't know about the context of the spoiler though
Wonder Woman is under the influence of hallucinations from the use of a selfie app along with some other people. I know it's related to Max Lord and she couldn't break his mind control of Superman in the pre-52 ere, so that might explain it but we haven't gotten gone that far into the story.
The last issue was from what seems will be the series fill-in artist. Janin is returning for an issue or two and then they're popping up again.
The next main artist is Steve Pugh from HQ: Breaking Glass/The Flintstones.
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It was with Fraction and Zdarsky. I'd imagine that's gonna take years. She also announced her own image book right and there's been nothing about that for a good while. Something like Dead Detective Agency.
Speaking of events, rereading all of Jason Aaron Thor(which is 100+ issues!) made me really appreciate war of the realms now that I can see who whole context of it. It feels like a natural big climax to the run, with a simple three act structure. All the armies of all the evil realms coming together To invade earth, the heroes regroup after losing with all the good realms, run it back with The heroes and Team Thor. It feels really good to get all four Thors back, for Odinson to accept his unworthiness, to finally smack Malkeith in the face with that Mjolnir. And Russell Dautermann and Matt Wilson's colors are just doing the lords work, I mean just incredible superhero storytelling artists. The two wrap up issues in Thor 17/18 were really good too.
so basically if you're gonna do an event comic it helps if you've been building to it for like seven years and have lots of character arcs and certain themes to draw to a conclusion with a fantastic art team. Simple!
so basically if you're gonna do an event comic it helps if you've been building to it for like seven years and have lots of character arcs and certain themes to draw to a conclusion with a fantastic art team. Simple!
The 2nd Hunger Games book is a lot more different from the film than I expected. it starts out the same, but after the Victors Tour, theres like 6 months before the 75th Hunger Games. Katniss plans on running away after realizing that her and Peeta didnt do enough to quell the rebelions. Then changes her mind after Gale gets whipped, and decides she wants to start an uprising in District 12. Where the films made it seem like she was completely indifferent to the idea until getting whisked away to District 13.
Still cant stand the love triangle thing lol. But I guess thats the point.
Still cant stand the love triangle thing lol. But I guess thats the point.
LIST!
Whoa Nelly, it's a big week.
Batman #98
Black Widow #1
DCEASED Dead Planet #3
Die #13
Harley Quinn: Black, White & Red #11
Monstress #30
Strange Adventures #5
We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1
Whoa Nelly, it's a big week.
Batman #98
Black Widow #1
DCEASED Dead Planet #3
Die #13
Harley Quinn: Black, White & Red #11
Monstress #30
Strange Adventures #5
We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1
Wait, you understand the three act structure? You should write a book or something.
So I've been trying to give DC a new chance since I've been hearing a lot of good stuff has come out since the New 52 died.
I started with Titans hunt since the New Teen Titans were my first DC book ever. I loved it and plan on checking on Titans Rebirth soon.
I then jumped backwards and I just finished Convergence. I really liked most of the two issue miniseries but found the main story to be pretty week.
What should I jump to next to continue?
I started with Titans hunt since the New Teen Titans were my first DC book ever. I loved it and plan on checking on Titans Rebirth soon.
I then jumped backwards and I just finished Convergence. I really liked most of the two issue miniseries but found the main story to be pretty week.
What should I jump to next to continue?
looking at the comics releasing this week and I'm reminded that there are "people" that will buy a spider-man omnibus with one more day on the cover
The "Superman: Lois and Clark" miniseries, and the "Superman" Rebirth series carry on from Convergence, and they're great.
Aw shucks I guess
I think this is why a lot of Geoff Johns' and Hickman's events, and why Absolute Carnage and a couple others do so well is because they're the big climax to a storyline. The counterpoint is of course something like Axis. Empyre is such an oddity because it's so isolated
Or is it?
Oh you actually liked Titans Hunt? Oh then by all means, read the shit out of Dan Abnett's Titans. He's on for a loooooong time. Well, 2 years, but it's a lot of issues.
Do people not like Titans Hunt? I mean it was flawed in several places but it was still nice to see the Titans together again (though I hated that Cyborg was mentioned as the 10th Titan and then having it be doubled down on with a prelude story that makes no sense with any version of continuity)
I mean I thought it was bad, but I don't like Dan Abnett as a writer in general typically.
Honestly part of my like for that book came from the ending of the stupid Rick Grayson stuff and retconing Omen from that stupid as fuck Culling storyline.
Edit - Did some research and Dan Abnett apparently helped write the Culling. But he also helped write the Death's Head II limited series.
I'm conflicted. I hate Legion Lost and the Culling specifically. But the Death's Head II series was one of my favorite books as a kid. I even have a paper mache mask of Death's Head II thst I made as a kid.
And he wrote to Doctor Who Seventh Doctor audio dramas that I like.
Edit - Did some research and Dan Abnett apparently helped write the Culling. But he also helped write the Death's Head II limited series.
I'm conflicted. I hate Legion Lost and the Culling specifically. But the Death's Head II series was one of my favorite books as a kid. I even have a paper mache mask of Death's Head II thst I made as a kid.
And he wrote to Doctor Who Seventh Doctor audio dramas that I like.
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