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COMICS! |OT| August 2016. That's Rare Groove. Volume is Crucial.
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
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Brianimaniac
Banned
It's not about actual difficulty, it's about perceived difficulty and relative difficulty. The people in your life are going to have a different experience because they have you there to offer guidance and advice. There are a lot of people out there that try to look up comics after seeing a movie or something, and they see so many different things with no sense of what is what, and just go "nope" and move on. It doesn't matter how easy it is to ask for help on a message board or look something up on Wikipedia, because people very reasonably don't want to have to resort to any of that stuff in the first place when they just want to relax and be entertained. That's just not how any other kind of entertainment works. You don't have to ask for help to read a manga or watch all of Mad Men or whatever. American superhero comics are almost uniquely off-putting in that regard.
I've been reading comics for like 30 years and that shit can frustrate me.
Like if I want to reread the Bendis era of Avengers books, which is material I already own, have already read, and have a good sense of how it all went together and the context around it, it would take me a solid hour to search for reading orders, compare a couple orders to get a sense of which are bloated with a bunch of superfluous stuff, which are too lean and leave out stuff that's good for context, and then try to think of things I might want to change myself. Between the amount of times that stuff relaunched, plus the times Bendis was doing more than one book at a time, plus the stuff that he didn't write that is directly related to his work, it all adds up to be a pretty big clusterfuck.
I decided I wanted to do a thorough deep-dive on post-Crisis Superman, starting at the very beginning, and I still haven't gotten around to it four years later because there are so many more convenient things I can do with my free time instead. Because even if something only takes 15 minutes of research to understand, the thing that takes no research wins. And the thing that takes no research is almost everything else.
LordOfLore
Banned
Its Strix. Gail Simones fave character btw.
This bit made me smile in Batgirl and I was floored that Gail came back to it in secret six as a little nod.
In Secret Six they go on an undercover mission and Strix brings :
:*)
Yeah I haven't read anything past the first arc but I really enjoyed it. He can be an acquired taste but Jae Lee was a great choice for interiors. I love how he draws Catwoman.
She's such a fun character. I'm looking forward to whatever Simones new book is.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It's time for another Onslaught revival.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
they tried that
it was called AXIS
you remember AXIS dont you
it was called AXIS
you remember AXIS dont you
Tyrant Rave
Banned
No more Onslaught
Coriolanus
Banned
aint a single person here that wasnt hyped for ultimates.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Yea splash mountain is just simple fun. And nice after you have been sweating all day.
Oh lord you are reading the books wth them and it is your first time!? R.i.p to your wallet. The main ride is worth the wait. Even I ended up buying a wand. Butter beer is cream soda and some other stuff but it is sooo delicious.
I plan to go back for sure now that everyone is back in school.
no sirens, but I got the next best thing!
Still looks more like sixis to me. Worst thing I've ever read from Remender.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I still don't see a D when I look at the Disney logo unless I consciously decide to see it that way.
TetraxShards
Member
"I am bad and that is good, I will never be good and that's not bad, there's no one I'd rather be than me."
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Link?
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I'm back to rereading Starman. Just finished issue 50 one of the standout single issues for sure. This is the 3rd time I've read this run and what always stands out especially in rereads is how well planned out the whole thing seems to be. He's dropping foreshadowing and hints that takes 30-50 issues to payoff. And yet he never seems to contradict his teases either. I can't think of many runs like this. Gaimans Sandman had events tied together but that was more he'd throw things up in the air at one point, and down the line pluck them down when needed. This is way more explicit in what he's teasing/hinting.
I was like whats so special about this page...then I got to the quote. fuck me. lol.
Marvel's current line is better than people give it credit for by saying things like they only have five good books, though I agree that quite a few of the flagship titles are meh. To me it looks like Now is either fixing or laying the groundwork to fix a nice amount of things I didn't like about Now.
Rebirth selling as well as it did was to be expected and we'll see how DC plans to keep people interested in the long run, because that seems to be their main struggle based on recent history.
Rebirth selling as well as it did was to be expected and we'll see how DC plans to keep people interested in the long run, because that seems to be their main struggle based on recent history.
Would it be so wrong to say that both companies have good to great books with a few stinkers without stoking this console wars style bullshit. We don't need Marvel vs DC in here. Honestly. Its tiresome.
That actually looks hype
LordOfLore
Banned
What do you think of the art?
WadiumArcadium
Member
That is a work of art.
Arguing over the that stuff is annoying.
Make a list comparing exclusives.
There were exceptions for sure. But the initial response as a whole was incredibly tepid. I didn't start getting hyped until that Marvel shill indoctrination thing I went to, and then I was gunho about it. A year later I'm kind of burned out. I also don't think that a good idea for every single book is
"Imagine of X was actually Y for a while."
Which is what ANAD is coasting on incredibly hard.
Freezasaurus
Member
Sometimes they are trying to hard with Batman
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Harris's art is good. Then when he wandered off the book it got a bit off the rails. But in the last quarter Snejbjerg does settle things well. Has a much cleaner look but it works well
That's too easy.
You're drinking the Marvel kool aid something something Marvel formula LOL LOL laugh out out loud
They just have fun with the ridiculousness.
Brianimaniac
Banned
The one thing worse than Axis is Greek yogurt.
They've jumped the shark several times over but it really hit me with the #Batgod arc in Darkseid War. I say this as a person whose favorite superhero is Batman.
The irony
I was thinking the same thing lol.