Archer and Armstrong is one of the dopest things this year of dope stuff has brought. Turns out Fred Van Lante is good at writing comics. WHO KNEW (i did kind of)
Archer and Armstrong is one of the dopest things this year of dope stuff has brought. Turns out Fred Van Lante is good at writing comics. WHO KNEW (i did kind of)
When you're observing it back to back to THAT PORNSTAR CHICK FACE AGAIN, something like leaving in pencil shading strokes and other quirks really makes you appreciate the craft behind actually fucking drawing a comic book. I'm genuinely baffled as to how Land keeps getting hired at this point.
When you're observing it back to back to THAT PORNSTAR CHICK FACE AGAIN, something like leaving in pencil shading strokes and other quirks really makes you appreciate the craft behind actually fucking drawing a comic book. I'm genuinely baffled as to how Land keeps getting hired at this point.
So Cyclops is going to butt in and start acting all anti-hero? That's Wolverine's schtick. Isn't that going to alienate the fans who adored Cyclops' boy scout persona? Gotta steal what works I suppose.
No. It's far past time Cyclops stopped playing with those suckas marks and fools and took off the kid gloves and showed them what a real fuckin Mutant does with motherfuckin eyebeams in the dark, like whuuuuut? *buzzer and bomb explosion laser sound effects*
Cyclops was right. And if they're smart, they'll show him as not being quite in the wrong, but being an almost completely sympathetic fundamentalist where modern society and modern compromises show the rest of us might be in the wrong. We went on and allowed Mutants to be oppressed, when any one of us had the possibility for a mutant gene, and we were ok with it. We shirked our responsibility to our fellow citizen and our brother mutant and for that, we should own up to it. Mindfuck the readership a bit.
And Alfred is sitting at the kitchen table enjoying a cup of tea, while Joker lies bound and unconscious at his feet. Because Alfred, being the astute English gentleman that he is, quickly recognized that the emaciated psycho clown's obvious weakness is his now skinless face, and poked a gloved finger into the sensitive, inflamed, and infected tissues there until Joker sobbed like a baby and collapsed in a heap.
Why are you so compelled to insult me and work directly?
There's no mountains of critical and financial success to be jealous of. It's not like people in the thread like me more than you. (If this were true, no one would ever interact with you after the shit you say about me.)
I'd say that for the most part, Comics-GAF sticks to bagging on artists who have achieved notoriety and wonder why/how that happened. You just talk shit about me (an artist with no notoriety) without even explaining yourself. It'd be a lot easier to understand if you unpacked it a bit.
And Alfred is sitting at the kitchen table enjoying a cup of tea, while Joker lies bound and unconscious at his feet. Because Alfred, being the astute English gentleman that he is, quickly recognized that the emaciated psycho clown's obvious weakness is his now skinless face, and poked a gloved finger into the sensitive, inflamed, and infected tissues there until Joker sobbed like a baby and collapsed in a heap.
Why are you so compelled to insult me and work directly?
There's no mountains of critical and financial success to be jealous of. It's not like people in the thread like me more than you. (If this were true, no one would ever interact with you after the shit you say about me.)
I'd say that for the most part, Comics-GAF sticks to bagging on artists who have achieved notoriety and wonder why/how that happened. You just talk shit about me (an artist with no notoriety) without even explaining yourself. It'd be a lot easier to understand if you unpacked it a bit.
It's called trolling and by getting butthurt over it you just make him stronger. Try flinging some back instead of being such a fucking pacifist all the time. Here I'll help.
TTOB you don't really have any ground to stand on picking on someone who just draws a dumb webcomic for fun when you're a wageslave who couldn't draw his way out of a dinosaur coloring book.
No. It's far past time Cyclops stopped playing with those suckas marks and fools and took off the kid gloves and showed them what a real fuckin Mutant does with motherfuckin eyebeams in the dark, like whuuuuut? *buzzer and bomb explosion laser sound effects*
Cyclops was right. And if they're smart, they'll show him as not being quite in the wrong, but being an almost completely sympathetic fundamentalist where modern society and modern compromises show the rest of us might be in the wrong. We went on and allowed Mutants to be oppressed, when any one of us had the possibility for a mutant gene, and we were ok with it. We shirked our responsibility to our fellow citizen and our brother mutant and for that, we should own up to it. Mindfuck the readership a bit.
It's called trolling and by getting butthurt over it you just make him stronger. Try flinging some back instead of being such a fucking pacifist all the time. Here I'll help.
TTOB you don't really have any ground to stand on picking on someone who just draws a dumb webcomic for fun when you're a wageslave who couldn't draw his way out of a dinosaur coloring book.
Did anybody else actually make it all the way through Fraction's Defenders? I need some second opinions on it. I feel a little cheated by the ending which basically altered a minuscule event in order to basically wipe out the entire book. Seems like a real cheap out and I'm not sure if Fraction's idea for the book was just bad or if there was some behind the scene cancellation that made him had to shorten what would have been a bigger, better idea. As it seems you could probably just read the first and last issue and basically get the whole story. All the stuff with Prester Whats-his-face and the engines and the superbeings was just a lot of hot nonsense.
Did anybody else actually make it all the way through Fraction's Defenders? I need some second opinions on it. I feel a little cheated by the ending which basically altered a minuscule event in order to basically wipe out the entire book. Seems like a real cheap out and I'm not sure if Fraction's idea for the book was just bad or if there was some behind the scene cancellation that made him had to shorten what would have been a bigger, better idea. As it seems you could probably just read the first and last issue and basically get the whole story. All the stuff with Prester Whats-his-face and the engines and the superbeings was just a lot of hot nonsense.
I think, yeah, he clearly had to tie it up quicker than he'd have liked, but I get the sense that's where was headed all along. It did lead to the Prester stuff feeling really abridged though.
It was rushed, but yeah, clearly that was where this needed to go. Everyone you loved died, the universe broke and all that. And I think the book was clear enough about the important parts of the thing, regarding what the Concordance Engines were for. Took me a couple of readthroughs, but everything was there.
Did anybody else actually make it all the way through Fraction's Defenders? I need some second opinions on it. I feel a little cheated by the ending which basically altered a minuscule event in order to basically wipe out the entire book. Seems like a real cheap out and I'm not sure if Fraction's idea for the book was just bad or if there was some behind the scene cancellation that made him had to shorten what would have been a bigger, better idea..
Definitely a Sandman Simms job. EiC probably said wrap it up, and he had to handroll the flag and run with it.
My biggest disappointment was how weird the Red She Hulk was written. In the Hulk book she was sexy and hot spicy cinnamon candy. The kind that cuts your tongue when you suck on it. In this book, it's like she was a mishmash of different ideas, without one ever touching ground or taking over to resemble some kind of personality.
I liked the weirdness and the humor, and the strange stuff written in the margins. I don't mind a bit of Twin Peaks in with my Mahvel Excelsior, but that book was kind of failing. That said...I read em all.
Definitely a Sandman Simms job. EiC probably said wrap it up, and he had to handroll the flag and run with it.
My biggest disappointment was how weird the Red She Hulk was written. In the Hulk book she was sexy and hot spicy cinnamon candy. The kind that cuts your tongue when you suck on it. In this book, it's like she was a mishmash of different ideas, without one ever touching ground or taking over to resemble some kind of personality.
I liked the weirdness and the humor, and the strange stuff written in the margins. I don't mind a bit of Twin Peaks in with my Mahvel Excelsior, but that book was kind of failing. That said...I read em all.
I don't read a lot of Hulk books but that sounds way more weird than anything in Defenders. In Defenders she just struck me a generic bruiser. It's all incidental though because the only thing that really matters is Strange in the end. All the rest of the characters were window dressing.
Looks like shit, and Cyclop's whole X face thing just looks utterly stupid. It's like when they designed this they forgot where humans eyes rest on the face or something.
And Alfred is sitting at the kitchen table enjoying a cup of tea, while Joker lies bound and unconscious at his feet. Because Alfred, being the astute English gentleman that he is, quickly recognized that the emaciated psycho clown's obvious weakness is his now skinless face, and poked a gloved finger into the sensitive, inflamed, and infected tissues there until Joker sobbed like a baby and collapsed in a heap.
There were just so many little things in there that just worked really well, Cap decapitating Truman, the newspaper cover (from the Daily Bugle no less), the hobo with the monster claw, the improv everywhere quip (those guys suck sometimes)....it's a dumb book with layers. I hope it keeps the same level of quality.
There were just so many little things in there that just worked really well, Cap decapitating Truman, the newspaper cover (from the Daily Bugle no less), the hobo with the monster claw, the improv everywhere quip (those guys suck sometimes)....it's a dumb book with layers. I hope it keeps the same level of quality.
Same. It has the potential to be one of my long-haul books if it keeps this kind of quality. It's a dumb yet really awesome book with great art - which is what's making me love it really.
Don't know if this is old news, but someone figured out that in All-New X-Men #1, Beast takes the Original Five specifically out of a moment from Lee/Kirby's X-Men v.1 #8, circa 1964.
I dug out my copy of "40 Years of X-Men" to see what it's all about...
The Original Five have just "graduated" and Xavier pulls a "my work here is done" disappearing act, but not before leaving Scott in charge as the team's new leader. Scott's in love with Jean but won't tell her how he feels, thinking an effective leader must remain cold and detached; his disinterested act is clearly working, as Jean pines for Scott but believes the attraction to be one-sided. Hank and Bobby go into town and see a young boy dangling from a roof; Hank breaks cover to scale the building and rescue the child, and he and Bobby are attacked by a mutant-hating mob. They escape and return to the X-Mansion, where Hank announces he's quitting the X-Men.
That's where future Beast comes in, obviously.
As the story continued,
it's one week later and Hank is borrowing a page from "The Peter Parker Story" by making it as a professional wrestler. He's defeated by the champion Unus the Untouchable, however, and booed out of the arena -- but not before seeing Unus with Brotherhood member Mastermind and deducing that mutant powers are the secret to his success. Unus later robs a team of bank robbers of their ill-gotten gains; the X-Men (sans Beast) arrive on the scene and try to stop him, but are unable to even touch him. Defeated, they return to the X-Mansion to find Hank back in costume and inventing a machine to make Unus even stronger. Fearing Hank has gone over to the Brotherhood they try to stop him, but he escapes and uses his machine on Unus. Hank's device works, but not how they feared; as Beast planned, the device amplifies Unus's powers to uncontrollable levels, repelling ALL objects away from his body, even food and drink. Starving and desperate, Unus agrees to abandon the Brotherhood and supervillainy in exchange for being returned to normal. Beast forgives the X-Men for doubting him, and the team welcomes him back with open arms.
Don't know if this is old news, but someone figured out that in All-New X-Men #1, Beast takes the Original Five specifically out of a moment from Lee/Kirby's X-Men v.1 #8, circa 1964.
Then:
Now:
I dug out my copy of "40 Years of X-Men" to see what it's all about...
The Original Five have just "graduated" and Xavier pulls a "my work here is done" disappearing act, but not before leaving Scott in charge as the team's new leader. Scott's in love with Jean but won't tell her how he feels, thinking an effective leader must remain cold and detached; his disinterested act is clearly working, as Jean pines for Scott but believes the attraction to be one-sided. Hank and Bobby go into town and see a young boy dangling from a roof; Hank breaks cover to scale the building and rescue the child, and he and Bobby are attacked by a mutant-hating mob. They escape and return to the X-Mansion, where Hank announces he's quitting the X-Men.
That's where future Beast comes in, obviously.
As the story continued,
it's one week later and Hank is borrowing a page from "The Peter Parker Story" by making it as a professional wrestler. He's defeated by the champion Unus the Untouchable, however, and booed out of the arena -- but not before seeing Unus with Brotherhood member Mastermind and deducing that mutant powers are the secret to his success. Unus later robs a team of bank robbers of their ill-gotten gains; the X-Men (sans Beast) arrive on the scene and try to stop him, but are unable to even touch him. Defeated, they return to the X-Mansion to find Hank back in costume and inventing a machine to make Unus even stronger. Fearing Hank has gone over to the Brotherhood they try to stop him, but he escapes and uses his machine on Unus. Hank's device works, but not how they feared; as Beast planned, the device amplifies Unus's powers to uncontrollable levels, repelling ALL objects away from his body, even food and drink. Starving and desperate, Unus agrees to abandon the Brotherhood and supervillainy in exchange for being returned to normal. Beast forgives the X-Men for doubting him, and the team welcomes him back with open arms.
Don't know if this is old news, but someone figured out that in All-New X-Men #1, Beast takes the Original Five specifically out of a moment from Lee/Kirby's X-Men v.1 #8, circa 1964.
Then:
Now:
I dug out my copy of "40 Years of X-Men" to see what it's all about...
The Original Five have just "graduated" and Xavier pulls a "my work here is done" disappearing act, but not before leaving Scott in charge as the team's new leader. Scott's in love with Jean but won't tell her how he feels, thinking an effective leader must remain cold and detached; his disinterested act is clearly working, as Jean pines for Scott but believes the attraction to be one-sided. Hank and Bobby go into town and see a young boy dangling from a roof; Hank breaks cover to scale the building and rescue the child, and he and Bobby are attacked by a mutant-hating mob. They escape and return to the X-Mansion, where Hank announces he's quitting the X-Men.
That's where future Beast comes in, obviously.
As the story continued,
it's one week later and Hank is borrowing a page from "The Peter Parker Story" by making it as a professional wrestler. He's defeated by the champion Unus the Untouchable, however, and booed out of the arena -- but not before seeing Unus with Brotherhood member Mastermind and deducing that mutant powers are the secret to his success. Unus later robs a team of bank robbers of their ill-gotten gains; the X-Men (sans Beast) arrive on the scene and try to stop him, but are unable to even touch him. Defeated, they return to the X-Mansion to find Hank back in costume and inventing a machine to make Unus even stronger. Fearing Hank has gone over to the Brotherhood they try to stop him, but he escapes and uses his machine on Unus. Hank's device works, but not how they feared; as Beast planned, the device amplifies Unus's powers to uncontrollable levels, repelling ALL objects away from his body, even food and drink. Starving and desperate, Unus agrees to abandon the Brotherhood and supervillainy in exchange for being returned to normal. Beast forgives the X-Men for doubting him, and the team welcomes him back with open arms.
