Baron von Loathsome
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COMICS! |OT| September 2014. Means well, but is easily distracted and can get lost.
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FUBAR McDangles
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gf just came in and told me to give her a Batman TPB to read. Any that I wanted.
Gave her Long Halloween. It's my favorite Batman story and I cannot wait to see her reaction.
Gave her Long Halloween. It's my favorite Batman story and I cannot wait to see her reaction.
Rrongfield
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Rrongfield is short for Felipe
KoruptData
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BATMAN ETERNAL #23 $2.99
BATMAN FUTURES END #1 $3.99
INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE FUTURES END #1 $3.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED FUTURES END #1 $3.99
NEW 52 FUTURES END #19 (WEEKLY) $2.99
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #8 $3.99
SHELTERED #11 $2.99
MS MARVEL #8 $2.99
BATMAN FUTURES END #1 $3.99
INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE FUTURES END #1 $3.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED FUTURES END #1 $3.99
NEW 52 FUTURES END #19 (WEEKLY) $2.99
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #8 $3.99
SHELTERED #11 $2.99
MS MARVEL #8 $2.99
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Yeah they all call me Gian-Carlo except for a few who call me GC.
And I was sadly spoiled on one of the reveals at the end of Animal Man, but luckily that was it. Everything else is going to be a complete surprise to me so I'm looking forward to reading more!
Don't forget to cover your chest in oil
whatsinaname
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Whats all this talk about names?
Just finished reading the first tpb of She-Hulk (Dan Slott). Nothing mind-blowing but quite
good fun.
Just finished reading the first tpb of She-Hulk (Dan Slott). Nothing mind-blowing but quite
good fun.
Confusion Illusion
Banned
Reading Velvet just makes me want another No One Lives Forever game. That sure as hell ain't happening though.
GrandHarrier
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I'd assume it has something to do with voodoo dolls or summoning / binding circles.
Dreams best forgotten, bro.
I'm pretty sure I know which reveal it is you're talking about, and I'm pretty sure I also had that spoiled, but I wouldn't even worry about it. There's so much other crazy stuff that you'll have plenty of surprises left.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
The answer is always Heroes Con. Everyone go there.
I sympathize more with villains though.
Liiiist!
Batman Eternal #23
Batman Futures End
East of West #15
MPH #3
Magneto #9
Batman Eternal #23
Batman Futures End
East of West #15
MPH #3
Magneto #9
Football*
I didn't want to correct him
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Yikes.
I think they felt Black Library should do it.
And I think Black Library, somewhat wisely, felt that most of their efforts had been a bit shit and discretion was the best part of valour.
(Darkblade excepted, but that's WFB, not 40k.)
Serpentine
Banned
List?!
Copperhead #1
Judge Anderson #2
All New Ultimates #8
New Warriors #9
Edge of the Spider-Verse #1
I thought I was supposed to be buying less books this month, wtf
Copperhead #1
Judge Anderson #2
All New Ultimates #8
New Warriors #9
Edge of the Spider-Verse #1
I thought I was supposed to be buying less books this month, wtf
Supermanisdead
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its sunday, you heathens. posting comics lists on the day of the lord. smh...
Freezasaurus
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I'll tell you the truth. I like Image books much more than anything else. I buy Uncanny X-Men just to keep up with the story. I kind of feel obligated to since I read All-New as well. There are probably a few shitty books I could drop if not for my desire to keep up with the story. Then you have things like Original Sin, which are mildly enjoyable during the course of the event, only for the final issue to come along and make me realize that was a waste to begin with.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
I never know what to say when I meet people.. Joe Mad was petty cool though, he held the line up talking to me a little while. It was cool as hell I was eating lunch at one and Mark Waid and Devin Grayson sat with us and I was all OH shit.. kinda freaking out because I loved his Flash so much it got me back in comics with Supergirl and Aquaman that were out around the same timeblah blah and he was cool about it and they signed a napkin and gave it to me, haha. and Steve Lieber I was just wandering around the tables and I'm not so talkative but I'm glad he pulled me over there. I think he was showing me stuff for like 40 minutes, drew me some things, talked me into buying his books ...BUT I"M GLAD, because they were awesome(Whiteout). Greg Rucka is super damn nice..I was dorking out with him a little. One I was most excited for was Peter David and that one kind of crushed me. One of my favorite comics ever is his Supergirl and I got nervous when I got to him and he got all wierd on me, I was just trying to tell him how awesome it and Atlantis Chronicles were and he probably hears it all the time but blah he goofed on me or something I don't even remember, but I was really disappointed..sad..he's still one of my favorites though. ooh big post.. sorry, I'm depressed or something, gonna go play Diablo maybe
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
yea, its whatever you want to buy
Freezasaurus
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Post whatever you want.
KoruptData
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This is a OT discussion thread with the moderation of a community thread. Feel free to tell us how your day is going.
I'm cleaning right now and it's an awful way to spend a Sunday.
It's a nice sunny day actually. I'm probably gonna hang out with a friend in an hour, if she remembers. So far it's an enjoyable Sunday before I go back to class tomorrow.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Normally I'd do a Moment of Miller on Sunday, but instead I want to quickly recommend a non-Big Two book ya'll might enjoy called Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
Beasts of Burden is about a group of talking dogs(and one cat, natch) that investigates paranormal events in their suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. If this sounds a bit like Hellboy, that's ok cuz its from the same publisher and they actually team up with Hellboy in a stupidly adorable fashion later on.
The book stands in opposition of the popular mode of decompression for genre comics in the past decade or so, where every single page really counts. There is more joy to be found in the first 8-page story than most $3.99 22-page books can muster. Evan Dorkin's plots and scripts are stupidly delightful, keeping a tone of fairy tale whimsy and morality despite the dark and horrific places the Beasts explore. Its a harder than you think blend of charming absurdity that never undercuts the drama of the supernatural events. Its wry, good-natured cast of characters are quickly drawn and easy to like. Jill Thompson's painterly images are always in service of the story and its characters, the craft working towards accessible, dense storytelling and never obtrusive showy innovations. Her look completes the book's lighthearted haunted house atmosphere, equally adapt at playful asides of humor or the dramatic crazy events. Her attention to detail is impeccable, always mindful of the various dogs' established characterization from panel to panel, scene to scene, page to page.
I guarantee you will like this book, its too heartfelt and hilarious to hate. Its like $15 books for a bunch of stories, give it a shot.
Beasts of Burden is about a group of talking dogs(and one cat, natch) that investigates paranormal events in their suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. If this sounds a bit like Hellboy, that's ok cuz its from the same publisher and they actually team up with Hellboy in a stupidly adorable fashion later on.
The book stands in opposition of the popular mode of decompression for genre comics in the past decade or so, where every single page really counts. There is more joy to be found in the first 8-page story than most $3.99 22-page books can muster. Evan Dorkin's plots and scripts are stupidly delightful, keeping a tone of fairy tale whimsy and morality despite the dark and horrific places the Beasts explore. Its a harder than you think blend of charming absurdity that never undercuts the drama of the supernatural events. Its wry, good-natured cast of characters are quickly drawn and easy to like. Jill Thompson's painterly images are always in service of the story and its characters, the craft working towards accessible, dense storytelling and never obtrusive showy innovations. Her look completes the book's lighthearted haunted house atmosphere, equally adapt at playful asides of humor or the dramatic crazy events. Her attention to detail is impeccable, always mindful of the various dogs' established characterization from panel to panel, scene to scene, page to page.
I guarantee you will like this book, its too heartfelt and hilarious to hate. Its like $15 books for a bunch of stories, give it a shot.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I like the nervous excitement permeating your post. Is all of this from Cincy con too?
Normally I'd do a Moment of Miller on Sunday, but instead I want to quickly recommend a non-Big Two book ya'll might enjoy called Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
Beasts of Burden is about a group of talking dogs(and one cat, natch) that investigates paranormal events in their suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. If this sounds a bit like Hellboy, that's ok cuz its from the same publisher and they actually team up with Hellboy in a stupidly adorable fashion later on.
The book stands in opposition of the popular mode of decompression for genre comics in the past decade or so, where every single page really counts. There is more joy to be found in the first 8-page story than most $3.99 22-page books can muster. Evan Dorkin's plots and scripts are stupidly delightful, keeping a tone of fairy tale whimsy and morality despite the dark and horrific places the Beasts explore. Its a harder than you think blend of charming absurdity that never undercuts the drama of the supernatural events. Its wry, good-natured cast of characters are quickly drawn and easy to like. Jill Thompson's painterly images are always in service of the story and its characters, the craft working towards accessible, dense storytelling and never obtrusive showy innovations. Her look completes the book's lighthearted haunted house atmosphere, equally adapt at playful asides of humor or the dramatic crazy events. Her attention to detail is impeccable, always mindful of the various dogs' established characterization from panel to panel, scene to scene, page to page.
I guarantee you will like this book, its too heartfelt and hilarious to hate. Its like $15 books for a bunch of stories, give it a shot.
I'm one of like 5 people that bought the Dark Horse One-Shot from like 3 years back. Love these dogs.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I'm gonna go to Chipotle and buy a burrito on Wednesday and maybe some comics
TheDarkKnight774
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I endorse your post ViewtifulJC, beasts of burden is excellent reading. Jill Thompson is amazing. I'm watching football with the redzone channel. Dreading when the cowboys show up and ruin everything
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
Who does this belong to?
I always get Chipotle or Panda Express to go with my comics. :3
I never got to the store this past Wednesday. Had to go get a new muffler for my car instead. Everything I picked up was digital :/
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Normally I'd do a Moment of Miller on Sunday, but instead I want to quickly recommend a non-Big Two book ya'll might enjoy called Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
Beasts of Burden is about a group of talking dogs(and one cat, natch) that investigates paranormal events in their suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. If this sounds a bit like Hellboy, that's ok cuz its from the same publisher and they actually team up with Hellboy in a stupidly adorable fashion later on.
The book stands in opposition of the popular mode of decompression for genre comics in the past decade or so, where every single page really counts. There is more joy to be found in the first 8-page story than most $3.99 22-page books can muster. Evan Dorkin's plots and scripts are stupidly delightful, keeping a tone of fairy tale whimsy and morality despite the dark and horrific places the Beasts explore. Its a harder than you think blend of charming absurdity that never undercuts the drama of the supernatural events. Its wry, good-natured cast of characters are quickly drawn and easy to like. Jill Thompson's painterly images are always in service of the story and its characters, the craft working towards accessible, dense storytelling and never obtrusive showy innovations. Her look completes the book's lighthearted haunted house atmosphere, equally adapt at playful asides of humor or the dramatic crazy events. Her attention to detail is impeccable, always mindful of the various dogs' established characterization from panel to panel, scene to scene, page to page.
I guarantee you will like this book, its too heartfelt and hilarious to hate. Its like $15 books for a bunch of stories, give it a shot.
Viewt, you are the quiet storm of this thread. Always the best picks.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
glad we already got some fans here and I'm not talking crazy.
Cowboys always mess up, I feel its their superpower.
I always love hearing stories like these. Thanks for sharing!
I cleaned yesterday. Scrubbed the floors for two hours. As awful as it should've been, I kinda enjoyed it.
I'll take this opportunity to go completely off topic then:
I just watched the first episode of Meet the Press with Chuck Todd as the moderator which aired this morning. I really, really enjoyed it. He's more of a political junkie than he is a TV personality, so even though he doesn't do all the TV stuff perfectly right (for example, a number of times he started mumbling as he neared the end of his sentences), he comes off as a genuine person with a genuine interest in politics, which is really refreshing.
Besides that, I read Five Ghosts vol. 1 today as well as a couple issues of Conan, so that was fun.
Oh, and I used this sweet database to make walk sheets (lists of names narrowed down by demographic for door-to-door canvassing) for the guy running for congress in my district who I'm volunteering for.
It's always good when we dig up some deep cuts for the lurkers. It gives people an idea all the different corners this hobby can turn. My vote is to get people to read Dinosaurs vs. Aliens:
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
oh, no. Orlando forever ago
lol, some Grimm Fairy Tale Variant this week...but I like Jenny Frison..
Normally I'd do a Moment of Miller on Sunday, but instead I want to quickly recommend a non-Big Two book ya'll might enjoy called Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
Beasts of Burden is about a group of talking dogs(and one cat, natch) that investigates paranormal events in their suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. If this sounds a bit like Hellboy, that's ok cuz its from the same publisher and they actually team up with Hellboy in a stupidly adorable fashion later on.
The book stands in opposition of the popular mode of decompression for genre comics in the past decade or so, where every single page really counts. There is more joy to be found in the first 8-page story than most $3.99 22-page books can muster. Evan Dorkin's plots and scripts are stupidly delightful, keeping a tone of fairy tale whimsy and morality despite the dark and horrific places the Beasts explore. Its a harder than you think blend of charming absurdity that never undercuts the drama of the supernatural events. Its wry, good-natured cast of characters are quickly drawn and easy to like. Jill Thompson's painterly images are always in service of the story and its characters, the craft working towards accessible, dense storytelling and never obtrusive showy innovations. Her look completes the book's lighthearted haunted house atmosphere, equally adapt at playful asides of humor or the dramatic crazy events. Her attention to detail is impeccable, always mindful of the various dogs' established characterization from panel to panel, scene to scene, page to page.
I guarantee you will like this book, its too heartfelt and hilarious to hate. Its like $15 books for a bunch of stories, give it a shot.
oh wtf I love Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson too
That's such a unique idea for a comic. I love it.
I would pick it up, but I fear the fact that I'm not really an animal lover (not like I hate animals, my family just never had pets since we're all allergic to cats and dogs, so I never really became an animal person) will make the book more mediocre to me.
I do really, really want to read that Hellboy team-up though. That sounds brilliant.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Chipotle then comics has become a weekly ritual for one of my friends and I. So good.
Duty calls sometimes. One week I bought my books digitally because I didn't feel like going to my car
Serpentine
Banned
I've heard of Beasts of Burden but I always assumed it was about monsters or some shit but it's actually dogs so hell yeah I'm interested
As for my day, work is about as busy as you'd expect from a video store in 2014. I've got this weeks comics right here though so it's pretty cool
As for my day, work is about as busy as you'd expect from a video store in 2014. I've got this weeks comics right here though so it's pretty cool
Normally I'd do a Moment of Miller on Sunday, but instead I want to quickly recommend a non-Big Two book ya'll might enjoy called Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
JC, thank you sooo much for this post. You just helped sell another person on this book. You'd think I'd get enough of animals at work, but I am such a sucker for comics revolving around our four legged friends.
Since we're talking about our Sundays, I made breakfast for the Mr. and I, played a little of Layton vs Phoenix Wright, and am now getting ready to go to my nephews birthday. Let me tell you guys, trying to curl your hair and post in this thread at the same time is no easy feat!
KoruptData
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I'm watching the Bengals with my wife and my dad. I yelled at my dad already today because he picked up my Multiversity page one handed with his thumb pressing into the page. I watch as the paper started to buckle in horror. Luckily it's ok. Lol. I'm such a dork.
Shin Johnpv
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I'm jealous of you guys that have smaller cons close to you. NYCC has gotten so out of hand. I don't think there's one in NJ, NJComicGaf we should start our own con!
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