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COMICS!!! |OT| April 2017 - Now Featuring Superstar Artist Brett Booth - APRIL FOALS!

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shingi70

Banned
Freezasaurus said:
They all seem fine except for Black Widow. You can't really market her to little girls without severely compromising the essence of the character (even though I would totally expect Marvel to if it would make them a buck).
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I mean that DC cartoon has Amanda Waller and Harley Quinn. In the recent episode the even go to Belle reeve.
 
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caliph95

Member
For the young girls or young people in general that seems to be focus on their upcoming shows like the New Warriors with Squirrel girl.
 
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Sandfox

Member
caliph95 said:
For the young girls or young people in general that seems to be focus on their upcoming shows like the New Warriors with Squirrel girl.
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New Warriors and Cloak and Dagger are going to be on a channel that targets teen girls and young women so I wouldn't expect anything like the lines being discussed.
 
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Messi

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Bryan Lee O'Malley on Snotgirl

SNOTGIRL #6 - July 5th. We decided to move to a bi-monthly schedule starting with this issue. More 2-month gaps less 6-month gaps
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See y'all when the trade hits.
 
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Freezasaurus

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Messi said:
He did?
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He did.

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It's a trilogy.
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Man, so much for pacing The Spire out, ended up just blasting through the book . Absolutely fantastic. I don't want to get into any spoilers or plot details, imo the book is really special and I wouldn't want to ruin that for anyone, but just in terms of broad themes etc, the book is so fucking on point and relevant. It deals deeply with ideas about identity and the shame and pressure you can feel when you're not happy or don't feel like you fit with your identity, your sexual orientation, your culture. The clashing and strains of a multicultural society attempting to co-exist, the clashing of archaic class systems against each other. Straight up xenophobia and bigotry. The book does all of this while telling an exciting adventurous colourful story with plenty of funny moments, and twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very last moment. It makes everything, the high level ideas, the moment to moment character work and action sequences, the actual visual presentation of these things - it makes them look easy somehow, and is just this wonderful cohesive living thing. It's all wrapped up in some very clever well thought out world building too - enough to captivate you and wonder more about the world outside the panels but never so much that it's just blabbering things they find interesting at you that are irrelevant to the story itself.

I feel like I really need to live with a book for awhile and reread it a few times before I can decide if it's a GOAT so I'll stop short of declaring it that, but it's immediately one of the best things I have on my shelf, and I'm very much paying attention to what these folks have to say now. More Spurrier, more Stokely plz. Bonus cover for fun:

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MC_Hify

Member
Freezasaurus said:
They all seem fine except for Black Widow. You can't really market her to little girls without severely compromising the essence of the character (even though I would totally expect Marvel to if it would make them a buck).
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Little girls have to learn tradecraft at some point.
 
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mreddie

Member
Freezasaurus said:
They all seem fine except for Black Widow. You can't really market her to little girls without severely compromising the essence of the character (even though I would totally expect Marvel to if it would make them a buck).
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DC has "The Squad" showing up in cartoons and the doll stuff.

Shit, they have Nat in the shows and they do touch on her being serious.
 
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VanWinkle

Member
Just finished Selina's Big Score by Darwyn Cooke. I have read it before on my tablet well over a year ago, but felt the need to read it again, having recently bought Batman: Ego and Other Tails Deluxe Edition.

Man, what a story. Probably my favorite standalone "Catwoman" (more Selina, really) story ever. Cooke was so much more than just a great artist; he was a top-tier writer, too. It makes me sad that we didn't get another good ten+ years of stuff from him.
 
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BKatastrophe

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Captain America: Sam Wilson #21
This was emotional and it hit hard. That's all I can really say, aside from that
I don't think Sam will be done as Cap. He'll come back once Secret Empire is done. Marvel pushed him too hard to give it up now. Especially since his book is so socially relevant. Also interesting that they're bringing in a new Patriot? I feel like the existing one would have been an insanely good fit for this book.

Power Man and Iron Fist #15
Pretty bombastic ending, which was cool. And fairly heartfelt as well. I'm sad this book is ending, but it was veering off a bit the closer it got to the end, so I'm not too upset. Still though, it's always sad to see a good book end.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1954 #2
That was an enjoyable arc. I have one issue:
at the end with the British agents at their base, they're recapping the mission, but it says 1953, which is wrong because the book takes place in 1954.
Or am I reading stuff wrong? Wouldn't surprise me with Hellboy.
 
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Tragicomedy

Member
If you can get past the false advertisement of Greg Land pornstar covers (he didn't draw the interiors), then Black Widow (2004) is a fantastic miniseries.
 
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mreddie

Member
So far, the only TFA stuff from Marvoo was Poe and the TFA adaption.

NewMST3K, I want to like it but it's running way too fast
 
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Serpentine

Banned
put together another IST order:

Detective Comics Rebirth
Immortal Iron Fist
Scooter Girl
Deadly Class vol 5

I like to limit my orders to just over the $50 minimum for free shipping
Donniewahlberg said:
Man, so much for pacing The Spire out, ended up just blasting through the book . Absolutely fantastic. I don't want to get into any spoilers or plot details, imo the book is really special and I wouldn't want to ruin that for anyone, but just in terms of broad themes etc, the book is so fucking on point and relevant. It deals deeply with ideas about identity and the shame and pressure you can feel when you're not happy or don't feel like you fit with your identity, your sexual orientation, your culture. The clashing and strains of a multicultural society attempting to co-exist, the clashing of archaic class systems against each other. Straight up xenophobia and bigotry. The book does all of this while telling an exciting adventurous colourful story with plenty of funny moments, and twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very last moment. It makes everything, the high level ideas, the moment to moment character work and action sequences, the actual visual presentation of these things - it makes them look easy somehow, and is just this wonderful cohesive living thing. It's all wrapped up in some very clever well thought out world building too - enough to captivate you and wonder more about the world outside the panels but never so much that it's just blabbering things they find interesting at you that are irrelevant to the story itself.

I feel like I really need to live with a book for awhile and reread it a few times before I can decide if it's a GOAT so I'll stop short of declaring it that, but it's immediately one of the best things I have on my shelf, and I'm very much paying attention to what these folks have to say now. More Spurrier, more Stokely plz. Bonus cover for fun:
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The Spire is frickin great. I wanna reread it, I burned through the singles after it was completed. I'd double dip if they put it out in HC
LordOfLore said:
Nice variant:
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I'm so into this

Reminds me, I gotta pick up the rest of that recent Totally Awesome Hulk arc. Had to read #15 for a class and kinda loved it
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Serpentine said:
put together another IST order:

Detective Comics Rebirth
Immortal Iron Fist
Scooter Girl
Deadly Class vol 5

The Spire is frickin great. I wanna reread it, I burned through the singles after it was completed. I'd double dip if they put it out in HC
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Definitely! The art is so intricate, a nice big sewn spine HC would be awesome. In fact, the only complaint I have, which isn't particularly book specific as a general problem with the medium, is that being a big thick tpb with creative layouts, gutter loss is a little frustrating once or twice, just because it detracted from the cleverness.
Specifically thinking of the cool spread where they descent the large tower and they use the stairs to reverse the panel direction, once they spiral in the middle,
the page gutter obscures it a bit.

Great order btw, Deadly Class 5 is awesome! Is the Immortal Iron Fist the complete collection volume?
 
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Serpentine

Banned
Donniewahlberg said:
Definitely! The art is so intricate, a nice big sewn spine HC would be awesome. In fact, the only complaint I have, which isn't particularly book specific as a general problem with the medium, is that being a big thick tpb with creative layouts, gutter loss is a little frustrating once or twice, just because it detracted from the cleverness.
Specifically thinking of the cool spread where they descent the large tower and they use the stairs to reverse the panel direction, once they spiral in the middle,
the page gutter obscures it a bit.

Great order btw, Deadly Class 5 is awesome! Is the Immortal Iron Fist the complete collection volume?
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Ah didn't even think about that. that sucks bc that spread is so good in the singles.

And yeah, it's the first one, but it collects the whole Brubaker/Fraction/Aja et al run
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
It's kind of funny how no one ever talks about the Duane Swierczynski half of that run. Nothing positive, nothing negative, just nothing lol as if it doesn't exist. You reminded me there with the vol 1 part.
 
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caliph95

Member
Donniewahlberg said:
Man, so much for pacing The Spire out, ended up just blasting through the book . Absolutely fantastic. I don't want to get into any spoilers or plot details, imo the book is really special and I wouldn't want to ruin that for anyone, but just in terms of broad themes etc, the book is so fucking on point and relevant. It deals deeply with ideas about identity and the shame and pressure you can feel when you're not happy or don't feel like you fit with your identity, your sexual orientation, your culture. The clashing and strains of a multicultural society attempting to co-exist, the clashing of archaic class systems against each other. Straight up xenophobia and bigotry. The book does all of this while telling an exciting adventurous colourful story with plenty of funny moments, and twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very last moment. It makes everything, the high level ideas, the moment to moment character work and action sequences, the actual visual presentation of these things - it makes them look easy somehow, and is just this wonderful cohesive living thing. It's all wrapped up in some very clever well thought out world building too - enough to captivate you and wonder more about the world outside the panels but never so much that it's just blabbering things they find interesting at you that are irrelevant to the story itself.

I feel like I really need to live with a book for awhile and reread it a few times before I can decide if it's a GOAT so I'll stop short of declaring it that, but it's immediately one of the best things I have on my shelf, and I'm very much paying attention to what these folks have to say now. More Spurrier, more Stokely plz. Bonus cover for fun:
Click to expand...
Just start reading it too it's great so far
 
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TheFlow

Banned
BKatastrophe said:
Captain America: Sam Wilson #21
This was emotional and it hit hard. That's all I can really say, aside from that
I don't think Sam will be done as Cap. He'll come back once Secret Empire is done. Marvel pushed him too hard to give it up now. Especially since his book is so socially relevant. Also interesting that they're bringing in a new Patriot? I feel like the existing one would have been an insanely good fit for this book.

Power Man and Iron Fist #15
Pretty bombastic ending, which was cool. And fairly heartfelt as well. I'm sad this book is ending, but it was veering off a bit the closer it got to the end, so I'm not too upset. Still though, it's always sad to see a good book end.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1954 #2
That was an enjoyable arc. I have one issue:
at the end with the British agents at their base, they're recapping the mission, but it says 1953, which is wrong because the book takes place in 1954.
Or am I reading stuff wrong? Wouldn't surprise me with Hellboy.
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I was about to ask how was Power man and Iron fist.
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Lol I can't really parse it. Are they having a dig at DC or the Image anniversary? Or is it a dig at all, or do they think water under the bridge and all that? No idea haha.
 
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