LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Kim & Kim is amazing. Has some similarities with Giant Days, for sure, but it's way more trashy. Hot mess describes it perfectly. Also, the art got way better in the new series.
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Kim & Kim is amazing. Has some similarities with Giant Days, for sure, but it's way more trashy. Hot mess describes it perfectly. Also, the art got way better in the new series.
Tess Fowler is doing great work on covers too. Happy for her.
Same artist too. Nice.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Yep, her covers are bomb, and the artist is still the same. She's improved a significant amount!
Aizo
Banned
Could you elaborate? Hot mess doesn't sound good to me. It's so expensive. 13 bucks for 4 issues in a volume?
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
If it doesn't sound good to you, why are you interested? :^)
The author describes it as "Cowboy Bebop meets Broad City." Hot mess is congruent with that.
As for the price, $13 is the MSRP vs. the $15+ MSRP on Big Two trades or similar prices on non-introductory trades from Image.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Er... SOLD!
Aizo
Banned
Because hot mess was vague and doesn't tell me anything about the comic. :^)
What do you like about it? I'd like to hear more.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
There are a few things I think it does really well. The dialogue and writing in general is part of it. The writer channels part of herself into the characters and it comes off as being very genuine. The two Kims are both LGBT - Kim Q being transsexual and Kim D being bisexual; the writer is transsexual herself and began writing the book when she began transitioning. There are a lot of hijinks and overall the first series is a lot of fun, as opposed to the second one which is that and has a little more emotion behind it. Apart from that, there's a lot of clever world-building, because they have a blank-slate to create whatever kind of universe they want for the characters; the ideas that they present are interested and relatable.
Simply put, it's just a lot of fun to read the kind of space-faring hijinks these characters get into.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Having actually read Batman #26 I just wanna say Repairmanjack is a crazy person. That was excellent.
Aizo
Banned
Thank you! Added to my wishlist.
LordOfLore
Banned
My 5 comics:
Doom Patrol
Green Lanterns
Superman
Gwenpool
The Wild Storm
Doom Patrol
Green Lanterns
Superman
Gwenpool
The Wild Storm
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Just finished Black Road by Brian Wood and the whole thing just felt kind of pointless. Do not recommend.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Like Alien Defiance then?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Probably. That was a Wood book too right?
LordOfLore
Banned
X-Men printed money. Marvel wishes comics like ASM sold as well as a random X-Men related issue from back then.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
The 90s were a crazy time for the X-Men brand.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I don't hate character work, I just didn't realize that the book was bi-weekly.
whatsinaname
Member
Finished reading the 4 issue Catwoman/Wildcat crossover. Damn, this was super violent. Might have worked better as a slightly shorter arc but still decent fun.
I understand. Are you enjoying it?
LordOfLore
Banned
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I am. I liked the heist stuff in the a plot. Kuder did work in The Collector's museum.
The Gamora issue was all right, but I don't like Frazier Irving as much as others do.
This last issue was good. I love
the radio signals as time travel
BKatastrophe
Member
God I hate that Catwoman design. Always will.
RedHoodedOwl
Member
It's ugly, so ugly.
Marc Andreyko and Paul Dini write Harley/Ivy and Betty/Veronica crossover mini with art by Laura Braga.
(BC was right. There will be DC/Archie crossovers.)
(BC was right. There will be DC/Archie crossovers.)
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
messi, are you ok
RedHoodedOwl
Member
Will this be darker than Archie versus The Predator? That comic was basically a horror comedy.
Why would it be dark lol? The premise is already goofy.
LordOfLore
Banned
Those covers give me life.
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I'm working my way through Ehko and kinda wondering why I'm reading it. The art is fucking gorgeous, but the plot ranges from Meh to Fuck These Guys. Legit spoiler:
there's a scene of less than consensual sex with no consequence
they murder the guy later
I'm thinking it's going to be a love story though.
Poodle will be pleased to hear this.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Yes it was. Great start that gradually went down hill.
That wasn't aimed specifically at you more the "If this tv show was 2 episodes shorter is would be perfect crowd." Those who don't like spending time in a world with characters. They also then complain that characters are 2D. WHAT DO YOU WANT!?
my name is ed
Banned
Amanda Conner is too good. It's a shame that she wastes her talents on doing only covers.
the fact that Blue Beetle was basically doing a Defenders riff is probably why I couldn't drop the book, subconsciously
She has a medical reason for not drawing interiors
LordOfLore
Banned
Still sad
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I remember hearing she hurt her hand or something. A big shame but at least her covers are just as great. She's so good.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I know what you mean. There's been a bit of drama about The Adventure Zone podcast, which took a couple of months to give backstory (that wasn't strictly necessary) right before the final confrontation.
Some people want them to get right to the end, but I love the show because I love spending time with the characters and the people that play them. I don't want them to rush to the end.
Here's a compilation of pages and panels from the current volume of Champions. This is the kind of Waid you'd get on the post-Secret Empire, "we swear he isn't a nazi anymore, now let the country heal" story arc of Captain America. Do not, even for a moment, think that you wouldn't, because it will hurt that much longer when you will.
Samnee can't salvage that, because it cannot be a straightforward action book. Not in that context and not in these times.
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The one thing I love more than anything else about the new Twin Peaks is that it's teaching people to luxuriate again. To stop, smell the roses, and meditate on the things you're seeing. Just enjoy the moment, the place and the people therein, because life is short and Evil is coming. Fuck a wiki, fuck a recap, just enjoy this. Feel, for fuck's sake.
Samnee can't salvage that, because it cannot be a straightforward action book. Not in that context and not in these times.
e:
The one thing I love more than anything else about the new Twin Peaks is that it's teaching people to luxuriate again. To stop, smell the roses, and meditate on the things you're seeing. Just enjoy the moment, the place and the people therein, because life is short and Evil is coming. Fuck a wiki, fuck a recap, just enjoy this. Feel, for fuck's sake.
She broke her non drawing wrist in Italy and only got it out of a cast/sling in the past few months. She tripped on a curb
But apparently she has other problems in her drawing hand that means she can't do that much drawing for interiors. I'd love to see her work slowly and do one of the DC premier books that are coming. Have her do a Harley one.