Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Maybe he was a monthly customer? Or maybe he was just buying an awful lot of really shitty comics
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COMICS! #8 / January 2012 - Happy New Year, Comic Book GAF!
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Maybe he was a monthly customer? Or maybe he was just buying an awful lot of really shitty comics
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
and he's a virgin and fucks his anime pillows lolrite??
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
That made me laugh more than it should have. I feel dirty.
Guys and girls like him is keeping the local comic store in business.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
When the midtown Midtown Comics was my LCS for Wednesdays, there used to be this one guy there every Wednesday morning (The AM: When Real Readers Get They Comics) and he'd buy two large stacks of trades, every week. Here's the weird thing, he wasn't a stereotypical wolfshirt, he was a stereotypical hipster. Rolled up sleeves on a button down short sleeve, trucker cap, the whole nine.
Cray.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Just enough to look like a real doucher.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Fucking lol @ wolfshirt! That's going in my personal lexicon.
Also, maybe he was buying them for his co-op organic fairtrade coffee-shop/record store
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Funny, that's the exact store I saw this dude at. Haha.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Okay, now I understand why everybody thinks Kevin Smith is terrible.
He reveals himself as the unoriginal thinker that ascribes to the "Tell me what kind of Spiderman you want, so I can give you that Spiderman" school of thinking. Listening to SModcast and he starts blabbing about just refitting existing popular characters to cater to every demographic.
:X
NO!
NEW. IDEAS!
He reveals himself as the unoriginal thinker that ascribes to the "Tell me what kind of Spiderman you want, so I can give you that Spiderman" school of thinking. Listening to SModcast and he starts blabbing about just refitting existing popular characters to cater to every demographic.
:X
NO!
NEW. IDEAS!
So Scott Snyder leaked a page from Batman #6 to iFanboy today (Batman #5 broke a site record and got ~93% of the community to make it their Pick of the Week):
via iFanboy
That eye, man. THAT EYE.
via iFanboy
That eye, man. THAT EYE.
I've written off Kevin Smith after he made Black Cat a rape victim and his terrible Batman mini-series.
The Take Out Bandit
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So Scott Snyder leaked a page from Batman #6 to iFanboy today (Batman #5 broke a site record and got ~93% of the community to make it their Pick of the Week):
via iFanboy
That eye, man. THAT EYE.
I might have to check this out.
You mean to tell me Scott Snyder isn't writing fanfic unbeatable prep time Batman?! :O
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!
Oh god yes.
That was terrible.
I also use that as an arguing point for why Marvel/DC no longer put top artistic talent on female lead books. :X
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I've written off Kevin Smith after that terrible Daredevil story he did.
notworksafe
Member
C'mon man, that was hilarious! Funniest Smodcast in a while. I'm in for Black Batman movie series starring Idris, Denzel, and Morgan Freeman. After that, White Luke Cage series!
Some quick catch-up (spoilers if you haven't been reading Batman and are very particular about not knowing anything going in):
Batman thinks he knows everything about Gotham City. A series of incidents occur relating to the mythic Court of Owls, a centuries-old order in Gotham that Bruce doesn't believe actually exists. So you have Batman facing people who he knows literally nothing about who appear to know a shitload about him. He has zero upperhand and is getting his ass kicked at the moment. They lured him into a maze and have been drugging his only water supply for a week. Now that he's slowly going insane, the Court of Owls has their assassin, Talon, dispatched to kill him in the maze. The last issue ended with Bats getting gutted with a knife, which is where that page picks up from.
Plus, that Greg Capullo art, man. I had some reservations about him going in, but the guy's a star.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
notworksafe
Member
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Jerkface.
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS, PLAYING JURI AND LAUGHING AT HIGH KEVIN SMITH LAUGHING AT HIS OWN SHIT!
The best part of White Luke Cage is it would prove nobody gives a shit either way.
notworksafe
Member
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS, PLAYING JURI AND LAUGHING AT HIGH KEVIN SMITH LAUGHING AT HIS OWN SHIT!
The best part of White Luke Cage is it would prove nobody gives a shit either way.
You sound jealous!
I especially liked that when making the White Luke Cage joke he couldn't remember Luke Cage's powers.
"So he's just a white guy who's strong...or...does whatever Luke Cage does".
fredrancour
Member
I dropped 40 yesterday in order to catch up on new52 books. If I wasn't a relatively poor college kid I could have easily broke 100 on single issues. Now, if that was a regular purchase for the dude, he's either rich or insane.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
What the?!
This sounds better than every Bat-thing shat onto paper in the past 10 years.
PushTheButtonMax
Banned
Has anyone read the Dark Matter series that just started? I've been looking for a good science fiction comic (not Star Wars) and was hoping to get some opinions from you guys.
edit: Thanks for all the replies everyone, lol
edit: Thanks for all the replies everyone, lol
notworksafe
Member
Both are still equally funny and not, imo. Bry has as many unfunny self-pity moments as Kev has stoner moments where he forgets everything.
I made a SModcast Network OT but it never got anywhere.
Yeah, but Bry doesn't talk over Q and Walt, whereas Mosier gets in about ten words per SModcast.
notworksafe
Member
Probably for the best, as Mosier plays a better straight man than funny man. Like I said, this week was the funniest in a while. Worth listening even if you've fallen out of interest with the show.
Are you referring to Guardian Devil? I thought that was a pretty great arc, and is considered one of the ten greatest DD stories ever told by most aficionados.
Mark Waid talks about Daredevil in this video interview.
http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/01/the-blastoff-video-interview-mark-waid/
http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/01/the-blastoff-video-interview-mark-waid/
I still listen, I still laugh, and I still like it. I just don't think it meets its own high standards as often as it could. The reason I read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing was because of how well Kevin sold it.
You've piqued my interest. To Amazon!
Thanks for posting this.
Much of the first Daredevil movie uses a lot of the imagery from the Guardian Devil arc.
It's an arc that really focuses a lot on Matt's relationship with faith, and the reveal of the villain utterly shocked me the first time I read it many years ago.
notworksafe
Member
Agreed on the bolded. Mainly I'm just unimpressed with live shows.
And since I want to at least bring this back to comics, Kevin Smith's Bionic Man is enjoyable. CBR has previews for the first five issues up here.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
Don't forget when he made Batman piss himself
So Scott Snyder leaked a page from Batman #6 to iFanboy today (Batman #5 broke a site record and got ~93% of the community to make it their Pick of the Week):
via iFanboy
That eye, man. THAT EYE.
Excellent job by Capullo there.
The third part of the Waid interview is really good. He talks about why he made the choice to make DD more of a fun and positive superhero book, instead of going the dark and brooding route. He wants variety on the shelves, and is basically tired of guys just moping around questioning themselves, instead of going out, kicking ass, and doing good things for others instead of for themselves.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Funnily enough I'm listening to this episode right now, it's a good one. But then again, I like Kevin and listen to a bunch of his podcasts, so I obviously have no taste. Really looking forward to his mythic Fatman on Batman pod if he ever gets around to it. And Comic Men is going to be a hoot, seeing a US TV version of TESD. Super fast editing and dramatic stings ahoy!
my name is ed
Banned
Ugh I want that daredevil so bad, but soft covers is where its at. But it does have awesome art... is it over sized? Ill get it if its over sized...
Also, I submitted a comics proposal to Image a couple nights ago. Hopefully they decide to pick it up.
Also, I submitted a comics proposal to Image a couple nights ago. Hopefully they decide to pick it up.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
I've been hearing a lot of positive buzz about Waid's run. I think I'll pick up the first hardbound trade. It collects issues 1 - 6, right?
I noticed that issue 8 is available on the Marvel comics app and it continues from where ASM #677 left off. I think I'll download those today. Was issue 7 a stand-alone book?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Correct
Great to see all the Daredevil love.
People should check out the video interview I posted above.
Also this was an earlier interview Tucker Stone had with Mark Waid.
http://pulllist.comixology.com/arti...l-Talks-Like-That-An-Interview-with-Mark-Waid
Also the word ballon podcast has a killer lineup.
Waid, Rucka and Wacker talk about omega effect.
http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/wordballoon/
People should check out the video interview I posted above.
Also this was an earlier interview Tucker Stone had with Mark Waid.
http://pulllist.comixology.com/arti...l-Talks-Like-That-An-Interview-with-Mark-Waid
Also the word ballon podcast has a killer lineup.
Waid, Rucka and Wacker talk about omega effect.
http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/wordballoon/
Yes it was, but it showed that stand-alone stories can still pack a lot of plot while broadening the hero's personality, and helping the book to grow.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Nice. Hopefully Marvel will get off their stingy asses and upload that issue to their app.
These days, I only buy digital monthlies and hardbound trades.
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