GrandHarrier
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COMICS! |OT| August 2014. Infinite universes, or just fifty-two? Thanos.
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Rafa=FedKilla
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Is Rom:The Space Knight worth tracking down?
Serpentine
Banned
quick turnaround. pretty cool though.
whatsinaname
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I don't know how Top 10 and Neonomicon can be created by the same mind.
ThyMusicMan
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Yeah,, That's why I ordered my copy from Midtown,, Price wasn't to bad either. Plus they're still in stock, TFAW is out of stock and they're asking more.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Wait, what is this? Robins? Steph Robin??
What is this Gotham Academy thing as well? I really should read comics news sites but I find it takes away a lot of the suprises.
GrandHarrier
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So... I haven't really posted in this thread before, lately I've found myself kinda getting into comics again after.... well, a long hiatus. Hi all!
So, this Marvel Unlimited thing seems like a pretty good deal, I dig Netflix and Spotify, I get great value out of those services, so I bit the bullet and subbed and.... What is with this app? Why can't it work like Netflix but for comics? It seems way harder than necessary to read a series and have it keep track of where I am in that series, am I asking too much?
I'm not even going to bring up the reader aspects of it which I find wanting. A little bit bummed.
So, this Marvel Unlimited thing seems like a pretty good deal, I dig Netflix and Spotify, I get great value out of those services, so I bit the bullet and subbed and.... What is with this app? Why can't it work like Netflix but for comics? It seems way harder than necessary to read a series and have it keep track of where I am in that series, am I asking too much?
I'm not even going to bring up the reader aspects of it which I find wanting. A little bit bummed.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
boooo DC you pricktease Babs ain't blonde
Tizoc
Member
IIRC, it's last dozen issues weren't very good but it's overall a good 80s comic series. So yeah go for it I say.
GrandHarrier
Member
It'd be pretty weird for Stephanie to be Robin while she is still on the run and hasn't even met Batman yet.
GrandHarrier
Member
At this point I can only assume Jenny Frison made a pact with a dark God.
Red Sonja #17
Red Sonja #17
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I've never used it but Marvel Unlimited sounds a bit wonky from everything I've heard. Last month we discovered that one of the early issues of Nova is completely missing a page for example.
Holy shit. Seriously? Loooooool
GrandHarrier
Member
My experience with Marvel Unlimited was marginally negative. Their Web interface is bad. I'd have felt justified just download dot CBRs of the stuff I was reading.
Some time ago I posited that only women should be allowed to draw Red Sonja and holy shit do I stand by that statement.
That's sexist!
I'm a novice comics reader and I too subscribed a few days ago to MU. I already read a lot and for the price it's a great service but yeah, the app is seriously lacking in many aspects, especially coming from comixology.
It crashes more than it should, it restarts randomly when you multitask from one app to the other, there are no manual or automatic bookmarks so when it does that you have to manually pick the page you were at. It's hard to follow a series, personally I add to the library the issue I have to read next from the last page of what I'm done reading and then go back to the library and delete the one I just finished. This way I only have what I need to read next in my library. It's not that slow but it's annoying, and you really don't keep a good track of what you have read so far.
Also, new releases much be checked manually, there's no "subscription" option anywhere. Oh and panel by panel reading in comixology is hundreds of times better. And there's no single-page landscape reading as well, which on iPad mini is a pretty annoying problem.
Still I would recommend it, I would have spent a fortune to read what I managed to do in just two days.
It crashes more than it should, it restarts randomly when you multitask from one app to the other, there are no manual or automatic bookmarks so when it does that you have to manually pick the page you were at. It's hard to follow a series, personally I add to the library the issue I have to read next from the last page of what I'm done reading and then go back to the library and delete the one I just finished. This way I only have what I need to read next in my library. It's not that slow but it's annoying, and you really don't keep a good track of what you have read so far.
Also, new releases much be checked manually, there's no "subscription" option anywhere. Oh and panel by panel reading in comixology is hundreds of times better. And there's no single-page landscape reading as well, which on iPad mini is a pretty annoying problem.
Still I would recommend it, I would have spent a fortune to read what I managed to do in just two days.
GrandHarrier
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I can confirm the second arc is alot of fun. Gains in the levity department.
Is it progressive of me that the thing I am admiring most is the quality of the folds and such in the cloak she is wearing? Then it's like, oh yeah, Sonja is still got it going on, y'know.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
GrandHarrier
Member
Currently my only digital purchase on a regular basis is to double dip on Batman Beyond because fuck everything if that series ever gets canceled.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
It'd be pretty weird for Stephanie to be Robin while she is still on the run and hasn't even met Batman yet.
Don't remind me of the tattered mess the Robin situation is. It hurts my soul. When I have a kid I'm going to have to explain this shit to them.
"Well, there used to be all these Robins and it was awesome. And then they replaced them all and gutted it out and it all happened in five years which means Dick must have been about 20 when he was robin which makes NO SENSE and now Tim Drake was never even Robin to begin with ..."
"Dad why are you crying?"
GrandHarrier
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Haha.
Let's be honest though. It'll be the New New New 52 where everything is rebooted every issue and Marvel New Nower Now has places for inserts so whoever is currently playing the character in the movies can be slotted into the pages.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Yep. IIRC someone else mentioned one comic had speech bubbles from an entirely different comic as well.
Storm Chamber
Banned
that + reading his anthology again recently
Freezasaurus
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The series has always been more or less Conan-with-boobs. But Simone's run has actually been really good. It feels like she has a good grip on who Sonja is.
GrandHarrier
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Jedeye Sniv
Banned
True
Honestly though, the Robins were probably my favourite thing in the whole of comics, especially coming off Morrison's run where he subtly recontextualised the family so Bruce and Dick were brothers (makes so much more sense with the timescale - if Bruce is 24ish at year one and Dick is 13 then at the apex of the old52 Bruce is 37 and Dick is 26). I know I'm banging the same old drum, but 5 years just doesn't make sense. Like, I've been at my current job for three years and it feels like barely a blink of an eye - at five years in, Batman is still fairly 'new'. And the Robins get completely screwed (how IS Damian 10 again?).
Baaaah
Would still kill for a "Robins" title where they're all training at the same time like a teenaged army. That I would be cool with, that's an interesting spin.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
TetraxShards
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Superior Foes is ending
Sucks. New Warriors is ending too, I know a few of you were into that.
GrandHarrier
Member
Superior Foes is ending
Looks like it fell into Marvel's cancellation range. Unfortunate, since it seems to have had quite the following amongst people who did read it.
New Warriors #7 17,304
Superior Foes of Spider-Man #13 16,903
These titles are very close to the same numbers that New Warriors and Superior Foes are pulling, so they could be in the danger zone, too.
All New Invaders
Secret Avengers
Elektra
All New Ultimates
All New X-Factor
All New Ghost Rider
On DC's side, loooool
Star Spangled War Stories Gi Zombie #1 18,762
Just fucking cancel it now.
Also, RIP Forever People. If only it had Batman in it.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
The worst crime of all-new 52.
Serpentine
Banned
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Superior Foes is ending
why do you punish me god
;________;
WAIT FUCK-- NEW WARRIORS TOO? THIS IS THE WORST DAY
Shin Johnpv
Member
How fucking good is the current story line? How fucking good was the last story line? Beyond 2.0 is killing it.
GrandHarrier
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Secret Avengers #5 20,088
Secret Avengers #6 19,435
The others were canceled around 17,000ish.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I'm really sad. These two series were by far the best team books Marvel had out. And yes, that includes the books I haven't read.
I hope you guys give the trades a chance. Superior Foes has two out already and the first New Warriors trade is out next month. They were so much fun to read every month. Superior Foes was consistently hilarious and New Warriors became legitimately great once it got past the intro. A damn shame.
I hope you guys give the trades a chance. Superior Foes has two out already and the first New Warriors trade is out next month. They were so much fun to read every month. Superior Foes was consistently hilarious and New Warriors became legitimately great once it got past the intro. A damn shame.
I honestly think that as lesser Avengers books we get, as better it gets... Mighty and AI need now to go, than we have again an acceptable number of Avengers books in the stores...
Shin Johnpv
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I have inappropriate gestures for everyone who didn't buy this book.
Something along the lines of this
GrandHarrier
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And we're just approaching the real meat of this particular story. What will Terry do now that he is
confronting the man who killed his father. Someone whom he had started to work with, to fight crime, who seemed to be trying to amend for the things he had done. Especially now that he seems to have been Jokerized.
Can you really blame people though? I mean even I wouldn't have bought it except that Tim hyped it up, and I generally buy 4/5ths of DCs current line.
As soon as I finally finish my Spider-Man Mainseries Tradepaperback Collection, I will concentrate on the Spin-Off books and Superior Foes is after the praise it got from all of you the first thing I will order.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
I thought AI was already done and Mighty is on its way out?
I'm trade-waiting but liked the previous short run of Secret Avengers and am really looking forward to the newer book, hopefully it sticks around.
Really sad to see New Warriors go. Was happy Kaine had a home there.
Just ordered the 2nd Superior Foes trade and was hoping it wouldn't end soon. Absolutely loved the first book.
Shin Johnpv
Member
Don't forget the revelation that
Babs was pregnant with Bruce's kid, and miscarries. That's some heavy shit.
See I typically give anything dealing with the New Gods at least a chance. I hope they at least give it a few months to try and find it's footing, maybe develop an audience.
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