Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
The Mockingbird special was fun. Can't wait for her series to hit MU.
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COMICS! |OT| August 2016. That's Rare Groove. Volume is Crucial.
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Freezasaurus
Member
Pay more for less while screwing Alan Moore over aka the DiDio Special.
That and TDKR gets every book format known to man. It's crazy.
Freezasaurus
Member
They specifically keep Watchmen in print to screw over Alan Moore. The original deal was that the rights to the franchise would revert to him and Gibbons once the book was out of print for X number of years. So DC is determined not to let that happen.
I'm really curious as to how many copies they still actually sell.
It would be funny if they were just cycling the same books out over and over, but with different covers.
I'm waiting for them to just sell the original issues as $5 a piece for both this and TDKR.
I've heard that, but I'm not sold on that being the whole story. This, along with TDKR, are some of the most well-known graphic novels of all time. This, along with TDKR, stays in print and comes to every format.
I do think it may be in PART to make sure they don't lose the rights, but the book is right up there with TDKR in pedigree.
I'm jealous lol.
Primethius
Banned
Detective Comics #939
This was the first issue of this series that I truly consider great. Up until now, I felt it was good, but a series that maybe was trying to figure its identity out, thus being a bit inconsitent even within issues. Though it still feels like the cast is too big, it finally felt like a team book rather then Batgirl and Co.
This was the first issue of this series that I truly consider great. Up until now, I felt it was good, but a series that maybe was trying to figure its identity out, thus being a bit inconsitent even within issues. Though it still feels like the cast is too big, it finally felt like a team book rather then Batgirl and Co.
I know you guys hate All New X-Men but Im digging it 
Issue #3 closes out the ghosts of cyclops story, where those dumbass kids get in over their heads and poop their pants, and issue #4 delves on the kids new found fame because they are driving around helping people, and also in Laura being all suicidal because, well she's Wolverine and can just heal back, and how Angel isnt down with that (understandably so to be honest). I like whats going on with the book, and in fact its a precursor of what I kinda expect out of Champions.
Good art too.
Issue #3 closes out the ghosts of cyclops story, where those dumbass kids get in over their heads and poop their pants, and issue #4 delves on the kids new found fame because they are driving around helping people, and also in Laura being all suicidal because, well she's Wolverine and can just heal back, and how Angel isnt down with that (understandably so to be honest). I like whats going on with the book, and in fact its a precursor of what I kinda expect out of Champions.
Good art too.
I know you guys hate All New X-Men but Im digging it
Issue #3 closes out the ghosts of cyclops story, where those dumbass kids get in iver their heads and poop their pants, and issue #4 delves on the kids new found fame because they are driving around helping people, and also in Laura being all suicidal because, well she's Wolverine and can just heal back, and how Angel isnt down with that (understandably so to be honest). I like whats going on with the book, and in fact its a precursor of what I kinda expect out of Champions.
Good art too.
I'm the only person here that likes it lol.
WAS GERT A CLONE OR TIME TRAVELING? FACKYOUMARVEL!
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
List!
East of West #29
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
Killer week!
East of West #29
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
Killer week!
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Watchmen without color is like pizza without cheese.
Freezasaurus
Member
List of comics I will buy and not read this week
Future Quest #4
Gotham Academy Annual #1
East of West #29
Jupiter's Legacy Vol.2 #3
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
Ms. Marvel #10
Silver Surfer #6
Spider-Man #7
Art of the Deus Ex Universe
Seeing that Zombie Tramp is on issue #26 makes me wonder if there's something there I'm missing. Most Marvel books don't make it to issue 26.
Future Quest #4
Gotham Academy Annual #1
East of West #29
Jupiter's Legacy Vol.2 #3
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
Ms. Marvel #10
Silver Surfer #6
Spider-Man #7
Art of the Deus Ex Universe
Seeing that Zombie Tramp is on issue #26 makes me wonder if there's something there I'm missing. Most Marvel books don't make it to issue 26.
AOJFLAKSD
I apparently missed a package delivery from USPS this morning, and I think it was this (with the fancy extra stuff from being the "special edition" too.) Now I have to wait till Monday to go pick it up from the post office.
BKV left at a good time
Tragicomedy
Member
Traveling for work next week, and plan to hit the comic backlog in the evenings. Hit 700 books on the year, which puts well ahead of the 1K challenge pace.
List!
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
So not a lot, but I'm catching up on all the MU stuff, and still have a crazy Comixology backlog.
List!
Lazarus #24
Saga #37
Tokyo Ghost #10
So not a lot, but I'm catching up on all the MU stuff, and still have a crazy Comixology backlog.
Freezasaurus
Member
I apparently missed a package delivery from USPS this morning, and I think it was this (with the fancy extra stuff from being the "special edition" too.) Now I have to wait till Monday to go pick it up from the post office.
Went in for the GSC exclusive version, eh?
How is MU treating ya?
Tragicomedy
Member
I love pretty much everything about it. The improved app makes it pure money on my iPad. I still think their website is janky as hell, but never visit it anymore.
DC, where your at?
Freezasaurus
Member
Did you read it yet or are you new to the book?
Completely new.
KoruptData
Member
I have one single issue left to read to be caught up with those. Killed it this week. Trades on the other hand, backlog is overwhelming.
Secret Fawful
Member
Alan Moore's Providence is incredible, from the visuals, to the subtext, to the psychology, to the occult aspects, to the historical aspects, to the written segments at the end of each issue. I literally can not wait for the next two issues to come out.
Serpentine
Banned
I wasn't as into Kingsway West as i hoped, but I may continue to get it because it has a Chinese-Mexican relationship, which is as close to representation i'm gonna get!
when you're the squad's weak link
when you're the squad's weak link
BKatastrophe
Member
It's just something that has become a lot more interesting as I've gotten older.I admit Supes has been growing on me the last few months. He kind of embodies one of my favorite quotes.
I love it, but:
COMICS! |OT| September 2016 All these Americas pumping all this Iron
Upsetting. It was pretty good. Although that's funny about the poor sales. Only reason I say that is because at my LCS it was one of the more consistently selling books. Like, the first issue was sold out day one. And two and three were sparse on the shelves (forgot to add it to my pulls).
SO FUCKING COOL
AOJFLAKSD
You're gonna have to, because it's never ending because the universe hates us
Illuminati was died so we could get the putrid shit that was Vote Loki.
I think it's a decent book, but it's just decent. Much like ANAD Avengers, it's a pretty decent book with a solid moment here and there. Problem is that, unlike ANAD Avengers, it gets way too caught up in its own drama. Terrible drama, at that. Laura and Warren suck as a pair. Bobby is still boring as fuck, and Hank's a cuntwagon. Scott's way too whiny, but his absence after getting fucking steamrolled has removed that from the book for a bit.I know you guys hate All New X-Men but Im digging it
Issue #3 closes out the ghosts of cyclops story, where those dumbass kids get in over their heads and poop their pants, and issue #4 delves on the kids new found fame because they are driving around helping people, and also in Laura being all suicidal because, well she's Wolverine and can just heal back, and how Angel isnt down with that (understandably so to be honest). I like whats going on with the book, and in fact its a precursor of what I kinda expect out of Champions.
Good art too.
Simply put: Evan is the only reason to give any iota of a fuck about that book, and his arc that occurred recently was boooooooooooring and went nowhere.
Yup. Make sure to read his Uncanny run. It's far superior.
Freezasaurus
Member
I think this is the most important thing to remember. When exactly did he get so shitty? It wasn't overnight. It seemed to happen between Second Coming and Bendis ANXM.
BKatastrophe
Member
So, reading Dixon's Robin, and Huntress is shown wearing a black armband with Superman's S symbol on it. I assume that DoS has happened?
He told Scott that it was all his fault. In front of everyone. When Scott was already feeling like garbage and blaming himself.
So yeah, I'd say about then.
Young Hank became a bitch during this run of ANXM when he realized he couldn't keep up with this era and then decided he was going to take the team back in time WITHOUT TELLING THEM.
Hank McCoy, ladies and gents
I was just talking about young Hank, but Hank overall? He got shitty AT Second Coming, when he bitched Scott out IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AT KURT'S FUNERAL.
He told Scott that it was all his fault. In front of everyone. When Scott was already feeling like garbage and blaming himself.
So yeah, I'd say about then.
Young Hank became a bitch during this run of ANXM when he realized he couldn't keep up with this era and then decided he was going to take the team back in time WITHOUT TELLING THEM.
Hank McCoy, ladies and gents
The ghosts of Cyclops, Xavier and Wolverine cursed him for trying to mess with one of their redheads.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Haha so goooood. I really wish there could be more books like this at DC,, both a GCPD type book and in general. Even at the start of the new 52 where they tried really hard to diversify and offer up every genre, they managed military fiction, horror books etc, completely lack this kind of book. Reading Lazarus gives me the feels though, with Rucka & Lark back together.
Haha. There's an argument in there that watchmen was a noir, with the narrative style, the broken compromised heroes and so on, but I did snort to see the implication form DC that it has become Noir, simply because its black and white,
Gwen is the one I've stuck with through trade, book has a lot of style. I imagine if it wans't so integral to the premise having it be an alternate world, they would have folded her into the regular MU as well.
I was going to give Miles a miss, I bought Bendis' first iron man trade and honestly had very similar thoughts towards it as I did the amazing spiderman book, that I could very almost just buy the next volume and that nothing would feel missed. But y'all seem pretty high on Miles, and I'm probably going to humour Bendis for Jessica Jones and Doom Iron Man anyway, so it's not a hard line drawn. Problem with Bendis is, I thought he was a pretty great writer back in the day. Then of course, it started to feel like any Bendis book would be better in trade due to pacing, which is fine, I read in trade. But imo it's up to the point now where you need two trades to get a real plot going on. I'm very much a character first guy with my fiction, so appreciate the groundwork he lays with characters but you need something going on at the same time, especially in comics. There's no episode next week, it's one a month or 6 months til the next trade. I can't wait a year for plot progression.
LordOfLore
Banned
Ah, it's always a good morning when I can eat breakfast while watching the No Goblin dev team+their dog Cassie try to finish a Hitman target.
Also was notified that I have 2 books to pick up in the city.
Edit: Never thought about this.
Also was notified that I have 2 books to pick up in the city.
Edit: Never thought about this.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
It's definitely a good concept, they could do a lot with it, and it's nice to see characters emphatically shake off their original status quo.Working at Horizon, they could always have pushed him back with the next shake-up, but I like that they've moved him further the other way. If you're going to keep a character going forever, fresh scenarios are cool.
I agree but I would still be sad if Amazing Spider-Man never goes back to Streetlevel.
Streetlevel > Every other superhero scenario.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Haha. I guess it's a little different now with Miles around, they probably are more reticent in order to give them different scenarios. That said, I don't think we live in a world where they genuinely won't put him back there, eventually. Maybe by declaring he can do both, and running another book. Interesting to see what they do around the movie.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Hahah my kid, I don't even know. We're watching dawn of justice, the senator says something about superman having to answer to god or being a god: "superman doesn't believe in God. He believes in aliens. Cos he is one". Deep deep thoughts going on over here.
whatsinaname
Member
Next week seems surprisingly small for DC, especially considering they are double shipping so many books.
Ooh, this is finally coming out. The premise and previews are very interesting.
http://www.fantagraphics.com/longestdayofthefuture/
Ooh, this is finally coming out. The premise and previews are very interesting.
http://www.fantagraphics.com/longestdayofthefuture/
LordOfLore
Banned
Isn't it a so called "fifth week"?
TropicalFish
Member
I hope it works. Lol.