COMICS! |OT| September 2014. Means well, but is easily distracted and can get lost.

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SpiderJerusalem said:
oh I just read that wierd Harley comic with her flinging poop everywhere and got it on Didio's new 52 thing...well the widow but I know what it meant!



wtf wierdass Harley comic
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I ordered the Harley trade....i'm starting to think i'm going to hate it though and this was a horrible purchasing decision from dcbs.
 
kd-z said:
I read the first two issues of Deadly Class today. So far it's awesome. Dark, compelling, merciless and stylish as hell. And that moment when Marcus goes to school for the first time and immediately hates everyone. Year of Remender indeed.

Do I remember correctly that Low has already started and Tokyo Ghost will debut before the end of the year?
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Low is two issues in, but I'm not sure about when Tokyo Ghost drops.

Also, issues 4,5, and 6 of Deadly Class are absolutely incredible, so the quality's only going up from where you are.
 
Filthy Slug said:
Low is two issues in, but I'm not sure about when Tokyo Ghost drops.

Also, issues 4,5, and 6 of Deadly Class are absolutely incredible, so the quality's only going up from where you are.
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That's good to know, I'll read 3 through 6 tomorrow. Zero volume 2 on Sunday or maybe even later, I'm not sure if I'm in a mood to be emotionally abused and philosophically challenged by a comic.
 
kd-z said:
That's good to know, I'll read 3 through 6 tomorrow. Zero volume 2 on Sunday or maybe even later, I'm not sure if I'm in a mood to be emotionally abused and philosophically challenged by a comic.
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Volume 2 can easily be classed as abuse. Much more brutal than the first.
 
kd-z said:
I read the first two issues of Deadly Class today. So far it's awesome. Dark, compelling, merciless and stylish as hell. And that moment when Marcus goes to school for the first time and immediately hates everyone. Year of Remender indeed.

Do I remember correctly that Low has already started and Tokyo Ghost will debut before the end of the year?
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Tokyo Ghost isn't due until July 2015.
 
Messi said:
They should let Nocenti remake Batman Beyond for the new 52 era.
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I could see them making Batman Beyond ongoimg part of the mainline DCU since he has been introduced. It's pathetic if this character and universe is not around and Tom Taylor's gibberish is still being sold like communist propaganda.
 
Boogiepop said:
On of these days I'll check IST and those last two Hellboy Library Editions will be in and ready to ship to me. One day...

Also, wish that coupon from that paypal thing that popped up a few pages back would come in so I could go ahead and use it on an order to get me all the Transformers stuff I'm missing. Just to confirm, does the current continuity start with Last Stand of the Wreckers? I have that and the first volume of More than Meets the Eye (plus volume 4 of Robots in Disguise and Dark Prelude, but I'm pretty sure I need to catch up before reading those), so maybe I should check those out to get a feel for the series before going all in. Would that be a good idea to get a taste?
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You can just start with MTMTE or RID volume 1. That's pretty much what I did and I've had no problems. I wouldn't skip out on Wreckers though (which I read much later after having already started MTMTE/RID) because it's really good.

Here's something a bit more detailed: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...03136-idw-transformers-g1-reading-orders.html

You can skip the spotlight issues from those reading orders if you want. I don't remember there being anything essential in any of the ones I read. Death of Optimus as well you could skip but I think that's in the first volume trade of MTMTE.

There's a nice new Phase 2 hardcover collection which you can jump onboard with. Only trouble is the releases for those will be way behind the standard TPBs.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Batman Beyond's over?

That sucks as I did not even realize that Batman Beyond was happening.
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Don't worry, this past run by Higgins hasn't been that good. There's a good four trades of great Batman Beyond stories by Adam Beechen. Go get those, they're a lot of fun. I just wish Higgins' run had been on that level.

Filthy Slug said:
Agreed. Kyle Higgins just ain't a good writer.
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Yup, he basically killed the book for me. Which sucks because Beechen did such a great job. It wasn't an amazing or ground breaking book, but Beechen knew the characters and had some good stories.
 
I read the first 5 issues of James Robinson's Invaders.

Oh my gosh this is dumb.

Spoilers to protect the innocent:

So the Kree find out about a machine that controls gods, from yet another of Cap's forgotten WWII adventures. Cap gets the Invaders together instead of just using the much more powerful Avengers because...nothing.

They find the original WWII Vision, who is like a magic martian or something. He can teleport them to the Kree home world, but needs smoke to do it. So they blow up a multi-million dollar Quinjet, because this is somehow the best way that strategic mastermind Captain America can come up with to create a lot of smoke. Despite having a Human Torch on his team.

They arrive on the Kree home world and the villain finds them in two panels and has them surrounded. Uh oh, cliffhanger! Robinson skips what happens next and eventually tells it in a flashback - they found them in "0.002 seconds" because it is the cosmos' most heavily secure planet of space warriors. Okay. So what do they do?

The secure space warriors bring them all directly in front of the Supreme Intelligence. Without removing any of their gear or placing them in any kind of restraint. Predictably, this ends with the not-so Supreme Intelligence getting a shield through his face. Did you know that Captain America's shield is laced with nano-machines encoded with a "super virus" that works against "computers"? Including those running on intergalactic proprietary operating systems? Well it is now! And the delivery system for this computer virus is...physical contact with the computer screen. Because USB slots are so 2013. I wonder if Obama has still-armed captured enemy combatants brought in front of him to gloat? Okay, no I don't.

The fourth issue opens with a flashback to a WWII Invaders team captured by Nazi super villains on a beach. Luckily Namor saves them with an Aquaman move of summoning a crashing wave of giant sea creatures. As far as I know he doesn't actually have this power, but whatever.

Also, it turns out the Norse gods made themselves immune to the thingy. So the Kree use it on...Ikaris of the Eternals who is "totally like a god." Like, they have this cosmic space empire and a weapon that controls gods and they couldn't come up with anyone else other than an Earth sorta-demigod? But whatever.

So Bucky escapes and stealths around the planet. I guess the Kree turned off the super-secure find-you-in-.002-seconds machine. He frees old Vision and then...

...Robinson kind of doesn't bother with a climax. Makkari, the hermes-analogue Eternal showed up, flash-ed his way around the planet, and found the machine. At least, that's what we're told.

So yeah. It started out alright, with some fun old-school fight scenes, but this is still the guy who thought Cry for Justice was a good idea. I have a soft spot for the Eternals and he plans to keep using them so I almost want to keep reading for that reason alone but...nah.
 
B-Dubs said:
Don't worry, this past run by Higgins hasn't been that good. There's a good four trades of great Batman Beyond stories by Adam Beechen. Go get those, they're a lot of fun. I just wish Higgins' run had been on that level.



Yup, he basically killed the book for me. Which sucks because Beechen did such a great job. It wasn't an amazing or ground breaking book, but Beechen knew the characters and had some good stories.
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Beechen still that Joe Chill bullshit. I dropped when Higgins and Gage came on board, came back for Justice lords. Fuck this company if these Arrow and Flash comics and Injustice comics are around.
 
Spike Spiegel said:
Confirmed.

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Ted Kord is my favourite character ever. I was patient when his death happened because it was a good story (other than the "everybody hates Ted" angle) and I thought that it would be undone sooner than later. Turned out to be later, despite a few teases. I've drifted away from comics a lot over the past year or so, but I'll definitely check that out.
 
So I haven't followed much in a while besides Batman Eternal and just reading the jist of the other ongoing Batbooks.
is Future's End set in the actual New 52 universe, or is it an alternate timeline world?
If its actual New 52 Earth,
Cass Cain
existing in some form in universe as minor as it is makes me extremely happy.
 
Rafa=FedKilla said:
Beechen still that Joe Chill bullshit. I dropped when Higgins and Gage came on board, came back for Justice lords. Fuck this company if these Arrow and Flash comics and Injustice comics are around.
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Honestly I didn't have much of a problem with that. It expanded Terry's world, added a new ally and created the option for some kind of redemption down the road. Higgins completely wasted that potential so he could create a rift between Bruce and Terry again.
 
Razgriz-Specter said:
So I haven't followed much in a while besides Batman Eternal and just reading the jist of the other ongoing Batbooks.
is Future's End set in the actual New 52 universe, or is it an alternate timeline world?
If its actual New 52 Earth,
Cass Cain
existing in some form in universe as minor as it is makes me extremely happy.
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It's Batman Beyond travelling back to the past to avoid a dark future by destroying Brother Eye in the past (yes, it's the plot of Terminator). He wins up 5 years in the future from the present New 52 DCU.
 
I've been flipping through that Marvel Magazine off and on throughout the day, and that's a pretty decent book for the price of free.

I still have not read Velvet yet though, Destiny has taken over my life. I even called out from work today to play.

In other news, GH and I heard eachother today.
 
I haven't bought anything from IST in a few weeks. Feeling the need to change that. I'm probably gonna grab the Winter Soldier Complete Collection that came out this week along with all five volumes of L'il Depressed Boy. I'm in a mood for some slice-of-life stuff. Might as well catch up in time for the new series.
 
Why do we read Zero?
Every time he let's us get attached to something he destroys it. He is an emotional blackmailer :(. I just want happiness
 
Read the Futures End Grayson story and that was an interesting read. I talked to Seeley about it at the con, just commenting on the polarizing reviews and he said that it was all Tom King. Tim did not think it was a good idea but Tom fought for it. I'm happy he experimented with the narrative structure for the gimmick month book, why not?
 
Jae Lee Earth 2: Worlds' End cover for #11 (and December solicits)

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KoruptData said:
Read the Futures End Grayson story and that was an interesting read. I talked to Seeley about it at the con, just commenting on the polarizing reviews and he said that it was all Tom King. Tim did not think it was a good idea but Tom fought for it. I'm happy he experimented with the narrative structure for the gimmick month book, why not?
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I thought it was great! I knew there was a "hook" to it but didn't know what it was. So when I read it, and it "clicked" I was down with it. Very solid.
 
KoruptData said:
Read the Futures End Grayson story and that was an interesting read. I talked to Seeley about it at the con, just commenting on the polarizing reviews and he said that it was all Tom King. Tim did not think it was a good idea but Tom fought for it. I'm happy he experimented with the narrative structure for the gimmick month book, why not?
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I think it's a ballsy mainstream book, but then again, I think they only let it slide because it's a gimmick month throwaway ish. Honestly, as the story went on, I became fucking enthralled with the structure, and connecting every single piece of the issue together.

Seriously, I can't stop thinking about how smart of an issue that was.
 
I'm glad Shutter was in the dollar bin at a local shop or else I would have never known how great this series is. One of the best surprises to come out of the $1 purchases this year. Also, I'm hoping to drop Death Vigil in the coming weeks after I convince my girlfriend it's no longer worth a spot on our list -- Death Vigil #3 was not fun to read and made me roll my eyes a few time at how cliche it is.
 
Caspel said:
I'm glad Shutter was in the dollar bin at a local shop or else I would have never known how great this series is. One of the best surprises to come out of the $1 purchases this year. Also, I'm hoping to drop Death Vigil in the coming weeks after I convince my girlfriend it's no longer worth a spot on our list -- Death Vigil #3 was not fun to read and made me roll my eyes a few time at how cliche it is.
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You could have listened to us about Shutter.
 
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