BKatastrophe
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Simone's Batgirl is rough. In an emotional sense. I'm genuinely uncomfortable reading this at points. I keep thinking, "this is the Secret Six writer," just to remind myself of the dissonance.
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COMICS!!! |OT| August 2017 | Gwenpool's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
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Freezasaurus
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Huh. So what's this about Punisher MAX Complete Collection vol.6 coming out next week? I thought 5 was the last one for some reason.
It was definitely much more grimdark than I was expecting out of Simone. Especially that Knightfall arc.
It was definitely much more grimdark than I was expecting out of Simone. Especially that Knightfall arc.
BKatastrophe
Member
Just started that arc.
Also disliking Dinah's New 52 duds.
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[img]https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/13/139525/2831609-birds_of_prey_016_011.jpg[/img]Generic ass battle armor or whatever.
Freezasaurus
Member
Bendis somehow managed to make a 20-page comic feel like a 40-page slog.
exmachina64
Banned
Never read Bendis.
LordOfLore
Banned
Thank god for DCYou and her solo giving her better clothes.
TropicalFish
Member
BYE that Black Canary costume slays her DCyou-Rebirth outfit is the pits even though it suited her solo series.
Captain Skeleton
Member
So I completely missed the Nightwing New Order by Paul Pope news! what the hell DC!
LordOfLore
Banned
LordOfLore
Banned
I'm surprised DC didn't turn it into a OGN.
Should be interesting to see how it's developed, I always thought the idea was pretty cool idea when I read about it.
DC doesn't really get anything of value out of that and I doubt the Milestone people want to hand their stuff over to DC.
DC gets the rights to Milestones properties that people have been craving for. You know how profitable Static would be in this day and age launched properly? Or how many people want to get reprints of old Milestone comics?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
From the sounds of the Milestone news the other day, they might not even have the rights to sell, given they are alleged to have tried to dupe the McDuffie estate out of their part in the first place?
I'm talking about when this whole ordeal is done. I don't trust Milestone with Hudson involved. That man's a snake.
Why would the founders sell in that case lol.
I'm not as confident in the popularity of Static and question whether people would even recognize the other properties, but I have no problem with being wrong in this case.
Because they can't get their shit together.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Okay, I gotcha haha making sure I hadn't misinterpreted that stuff!
JordanDeGroot
Member
Happy belated birthday Freeza. I join the birthday club myself at the end of the month, ripe old age of 32 this time, geez were does the time go. In my head feel like I'm still in my mid 20,s or something.
Catching up on last weeks Saga and I think over recent issues the big questions has to be raised,..................who's the greatest Petri or Ghus? There only one right answer and its probably not the one you think
Catching up on last weeks Saga and I think over recent issues the big questions has to be raised,..................who's the greatest Petri or Ghus? There only one right answer and its probably not the one you think
LordOfLore
Banned
Two of the Fabok covers for the evil Knights one-shots:
Poodlestrike
Banned
Is Hal down an arm there? Damn.
JordanDeGroot
Member
Oh dear, I'm starting to get bad all star batman vibes of every gadget and item batman has being bat themed again. We've got awful bat tank here, theyve already shown batman with a bat shaped head torch in another bit of preview art. Someone needs to tell Snyder the joke only stretches so far.
LordOfLore
Banned
Hey, if you were Batman and started focusing on mechs while turning evil you would also incorporate bats into them ;P
JordanDeGroot
Member
Nah I'd probably try and make a tank in the shape of a hand throwing up the two finger rock symbol
Ha it seems from the picture the tank also needs a gun for it that shoots sugar cubes.
JordanDeGroot
Member
Imagine sugar cube guns firing out of the raised fingers................brutal
BaroqueSampson
Member
Is that Batborg trying to digitize the justice league?
BKatastrophe
Member
Fucking radical
RepairmanJack
Member
Mech Cadet Yu was a little cliche but I really liked the look and feel of it. Anyone know if this is an ongoing or some type of mini? I'm getting burned out on picking up books and finding out later they're short runs.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Not sure but based on solicits, it seems like it'll run through #4. You're right, a little predictable but tons of moments that really set it apart.
my name is ed
Banned
So I read THE DIVINE by BOAZ LAVIE, TOMER and ASAF HANUKA
It's a book I bought about 3 years ago and kept on holding off on reading, but I picked it up and dug into it. If you're not familiar with Hanuka brothers, you should. They're really highly regarded as illustrators. They're not super prolific in comics; I imagine because theres a lot of demand for their working more lucrative parts of illustration.
The story revolves about a guy going over to Quanlum, a made up country to stand in for Mneymar, aka Burma. He's doing some contracted work helping to design tunnels so America can mine the countries natural resources. He ends up helping a kid who had been hurt by a landmine and comes across the child army that's the stand in for the famous "God's Army."
I don't know much about Lavie. Seems to be a good writer overall. He uses page breaks to good affect and knows how to build up tension and impending dread with a series of nightmares that make the best of the Hanuka brothers' abilities.
Otherwise, it feels a lot like the creators decided they wanted to add mysticism and myth to a mirrored version of a real world tragedy and hope that the weight of that tragedy can carry the book. It's not something I'm a fan of. I wish it had a different direction than something I feel like I've seen a dozen times.
It feels a little exploitive because it doesn't seem to do the journalistic legwork necessary to give this the weight it needs to land. :01 Second isn't a big comics publisher, so I thought maybe that was the reason I hadn't heard much about this book. But maybe its because it's actually not all that well written. I could go into more detail about what I didn't like about the writing and direction but lets talk about what is *amazing* in this book.
And that's the artwork. I just want to post some of the interior pages, the speak for themselves.
I do think it's a little odd how the cover gallery had some better covers than the one they ultimately went with.
It's a book I bought about 3 years ago and kept on holding off on reading, but I picked it up and dug into it. If you're not familiar with Hanuka brothers, you should. They're really highly regarded as illustrators. They're not super prolific in comics; I imagine because theres a lot of demand for their working more lucrative parts of illustration.
The story revolves about a guy going over to Quanlum, a made up country to stand in for Mneymar, aka Burma. He's doing some contracted work helping to design tunnels so America can mine the countries natural resources. He ends up helping a kid who had been hurt by a landmine and comes across the child army that's the stand in for the famous "God's Army."
I don't know much about Lavie. Seems to be a good writer overall. He uses page breaks to good affect and knows how to build up tension and impending dread with a series of nightmares that make the best of the Hanuka brothers' abilities.
Otherwise, it feels a lot like the creators decided they wanted to add mysticism and myth to a mirrored version of a real world tragedy and hope that the weight of that tragedy can carry the book. It's not something I'm a fan of. I wish it had a different direction than something I feel like I've seen a dozen times.
It feels a little exploitive because it doesn't seem to do the journalistic legwork necessary to give this the weight it needs to land. :01 Second isn't a big comics publisher, so I thought maybe that was the reason I hadn't heard much about this book. But maybe its because it's actually not all that well written. I could go into more detail about what I didn't like about the writing and direction but lets talk about what is *amazing* in this book.
And that's the artwork. I just want to post some of the interior pages, the speak for themselves.
I do think it's a little odd how the cover gallery had some better covers than the one they ultimately went with.
Still kicking myself for not getting a sketch from Yanick Paquette. He was here at one of my local cons a few years back and he was only charging half of what he charges now.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Spider-Man: I think I like where this is going except
Plus I think it lines up well with what's happening in Spider-Men 2.
Spider-Man/Deadpool: Even though I'm enjoying this, I'm really looking forward to the end of Secret Empire because Spider-Man vs. Deadpool seems much more interesting a concept.
Superman: The American history lesson continues. TIL that a Yankee Doodle Dandy is a person born on July 4th. Also, Superman was cool as hell here. I wish that the DCEU could show character moments like this, but they have to focus on the bigger stuff. Mores the pity.
The Unstoppable Wasp: I'm going to miss the fuck out of this book. It's hugely underrated and I hope it does well enough in trades that Marvel takes notice. Actually, I would really dig a Mockingbird and The Wasp book. Revive two books that died before their time. Moon Girl is the closest we have to a science hero ATM and it's a really underrated niche.
Tomboy: Today is a day for tears! What a book. What an ending. Mia Goodwin is a fantastic talent and I want her to make more comics. I wish there were more issues to look forward to.
Tomboy > Rachel Rising. If that doesn't sell you on the series, nothing will.
X-Men Gold: I legit don't know why I'm still reading this. It's not actually bad, it's nothing. Like, you could ask me what the overarching plot of this series is and I'd be completely nonplussed. It's just a sort of "there" comic that they can't cancel.
poor Lana.
If Miles does quit being Spider-Man, that would be sad on the one hand, but hilariously petty on Marvel's part since Sony has a Miles movie in the works.
Spider-Man/Deadpool: Even though I'm enjoying this, I'm really looking forward to the end of Secret Empire because Spider-Man vs. Deadpool seems much more interesting a concept.
Superman: The American history lesson continues. TIL that a Yankee Doodle Dandy is a person born on July 4th. Also, Superman was cool as hell here. I wish that the DCEU could show character moments like this, but they have to focus on the bigger stuff. Mores the pity.
The Unstoppable Wasp: I'm going to miss the fuck out of this book. It's hugely underrated and I hope it does well enough in trades that Marvel takes notice. Actually, I would really dig a Mockingbird and The Wasp book. Revive two books that died before their time. Moon Girl is the closest we have to a science hero ATM and it's a really underrated niche.
Tomboy: Today is a day for tears! What a book. What an ending. Mia Goodwin is a fantastic talent and I want her to make more comics. I wish there were more issues to look forward to.
Tomboy > Rachel Rising. If that doesn't sell you on the series, nothing will.
X-Men Gold: I legit don't know why I'm still reading this. It's not actually bad, it's nothing. Like, you could ask me what the overarching plot of this series is and I'd be completely nonplussed. It's just a sort of "there" comic that they can't cancel.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Aizo
Banned
This describes me a lot of the time people want to argue.
Wow. This is an avatar that I've never seen around here before. Reminds me of somebody else that has had avatars with red hair that were comic book characters.
Who was that? Huh. Can't remember anymore.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Same.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Well he just released a graphic novel called Solid State last week that was great. Not sure if Casanova is still ongoing but that's good too from what I read.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Absolutely fair. I blame Launchpad for everything, personally.
Aizo
Banned
I just randomly scrolled up and chose him. Felt right in my heart.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Serpentine
Banned
Overslept today. Thanks a lot, man, really appreciate that
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
My only crime today was reading and enjoying All-New GOTG. Guess that goes to show you where enjoying a Marvel book lands you.
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