GrandHarrier
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COMICS! |OT| February 2014. Flowers? Candy? Please. Get that guy/gal an omnibus!
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PaulExcellent
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Just finished going through my latest purchases:
Superior Spider-Man 26: Pbth. That was a waste of money.
Mega Man 1 - 10: WOW. I should have not stopped after the first issue. There's some really good stuff everywhere on this one.
Superior Spider-Man 26: Pbth. That was a waste of money.
Mega Man 1 - 10: WOW. I should have not stopped after the first issue. There's some really good stuff everywhere on this one.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
You're one lucky brah. Enjoy.
pock3tmonster
Banned
Is there a recommended storage method for maintaining Absolute and Omnibus editions? I read on another forum that displaying Omnibus editions vertically, for example, can cause the pages to droop and weaken the binding over time. Obviously I want to avoid this. I recieved my first Omnibus for Christmas, DC One Million, but I also have Fantastic Four (Jonathan Hickman) Omnibus, a number of the Invincible Ultimate Collections and Powers, Definitive Hardcover Collections. I just want to be sure I'm maintaining their binding.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Did you read DC1M yet? What did you think of it? It's easily my favourite crossover ever, and maybe one of my favourite comics stories full stop. I love all the threads running through it in the batbooks and superbooks, and the stuff like the Starman and Resurrection Man issues.
pock3tmonster
Banned
I just started it tonight actually! I'm excited to read it, it's my first experience. I came into comics not long before DC's New 52 reboot, apart from a few trades I borrowed here and there from the library. I will definitely let you know what I think when I finish. I might even ask for clarification on details. It's currently on my bedside table, eager to get reading again but worried about mishandling the collection.
GrandHarrier
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THE NEWEST INNOVATION... THE HIDE-A-CAPE.
Supergirl being all 90s.
Supergirl being all 90s.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
So excited for you! The continuity stuff in this isn't so bad since it's mostly far future craziness. The books themselves are very 90s but very charming as well, I get the impression that some of them were going hog wild with this.
GrandHarrier
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Paging KoruptData,
As a Deathstroke fan you better get this sweet poster while supplies (in 1992) last.
As a Deathstroke fan you better get this sweet poster while supplies (in 1992) last.
GrandHarrier
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No. It remains fairly mediocre. Scott Lobdell taints everything that he touches.
The series has a few points for it; Bunker was actually a pretty cool character, and they were starting to work a Titans / Legion connection again (something that has happened before) but it just sort of meandered.
I see. I'm also not a fan of his run in Action Comics.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Are these the old ones?
TBH it's never been that great, and old comics read pretty weird these days. If you want something Young Justice-y, pick up Teen Titans Year One (one trade, great art) or see if you can track down the 90s book called Young Justice.
fakeedit: oh wait, is vol2 the one from the 90s without any actual TT characters in it (until the 'crossover' later in the series). Yeah that book was terrible, why are you reading it??
GrandHarrier
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The Young Justice line at DC has suffered unfortunately. Legion / Legion Lost were canceled. Teen Titans has languished under Lobdell. Ravagers started and stopped after 8 issues. Superboy has bounced between too many creative teams (though the current evil Superboy is pretty interesting).
They had an over arching plan, it seems, to tie N.O.W.H.E.R.E, Harvest, the Titans, Legion all together but it broke down and didn't go anywhere.
At this point the best bet is the rumored Raven led Titans book that they are working on.
Edit: I've assumed they meant Volume 2 of the New 52 trades?
No, it is from the New 52.
I'll read Teen Titans Year One. Thanks.
Yes.
doniewhalberg
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Confirmed I guess
Bleedingcool has a pic of John Romita Jr's Superman.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/02...irmation-that-geoff-johns-will-be-writing-it/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/02...irmation-that-geoff-johns-will-be-writing-it/
Serpentine
Banned
Johns/JRJR Supes should be some good fun.
I ordered a big lot of the PAD Young Justice comics last summer, haven't really delved into it. what i've read is fun stuff though. David loves him some quips
I ordered a big lot of the PAD Young Justice comics last summer, haven't really delved into it. what i've read is fun stuff though. David loves him some quips
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Damn at that Bleeding Cool watermark. Good thing JRJR can do twelve issues a year. But I was dying to see Johns on Shazam. Liefeld was right, Image about to be the number two company once they land Mike Marts from Marvel....
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I don't know how JRJR will work without Dean White to fill in all the blanks at DC. Their bargain basement colourists are going to kill his stuff.
Serpentine
Banned
hadn't even considered that. DC's house style of coloring makes good dudes' art look generic as fuck.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Lo(l)bdell
Def get TT Year One, also see if you can find the Young Justice tie-in books. I heard they were good and they are literally exactly what you're looking for.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Let me tell you bout dis colorist called guruFx..
GrandHarrier
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Coloring is obviously subjective.
But aren't some of you the same people who like FF's Color-Fill-Tool-By-Numbers?
And there are plenty of good looking colors in DC's books. Whoever did Sword of Sorcery's colors for Lopresti, that book was just gorgeous and it was basically sent to die.
But hey you probably get every DC book and can personally judge every colorist so it's cool.
But aren't some of you the same people who like FF's Color-Fill-Tool-By-Numbers?
And there are plenty of good looking colors in DC's books. Whoever did Sword of Sorcery's colors for Lopresti, that book was just gorgeous and it was basically sent to die.
But hey you probably get every DC book and can personally judge every colorist so it's cool.
Or how about Marcelo Maiolo's colors in Green Arrow? His colors are amazing.
Serpentine
Banned
I don't get every DC book because the coloring is so shit, breh
in all seriousness though, people were posting uncolored Brett Booth drawings in here and i actually found them alright, and i wrote that guy off forever ago. i looked back and i still dislike his TT stuff. a lot of it's just basic as hell. no distinct sense of style to me. there are, of course, exceptions, but then it gets into that same territory about the "DC in-house art style" discussion we had a month or two back
in all seriousness though, people were posting uncolored Brett Booth drawings in here and i actually found them alright, and i wrote that guy off forever ago. i looked back and i still dislike his TT stuff. a lot of it's just basic as hell. no distinct sense of style to me. there are, of course, exceptions, but then it gets into that same territory about the "DC in-house art style" discussion we had a month or two back
GrandHarrier
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Or Tomeu Morey in Superman/Wonder Woman.
Or Rod Reis, Nathan Fairbairn, whoever colors Wonder Woman, Alex Sinclair, and so on...
Jedeye Sniv
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Who was the colorist on Jamal Igle's Supergirl run? Gave everyone a red nose, looked like everyone in Metropolis had a cold.
GrandHarrier
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All shit. Accept it and move on.
On a serious note: What is it about a house style that is "bad"? I've often heard that the continuity of a colorist can do wonders if you have disparate artists (re: Zero). I'd assume that would mean similar colors each time. A house style suggests similar colors for certain things (sky coloration etc). Why is one good and one bad?
KoruptData
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FCO on Batman is killing it.
KoruptData
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Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Yeah definitely on Zero Year, the colours are nuts on that book. I kinda hope they keep that lurid palette around after the arc, I really like it.
Good use of negative space, but all that gold just turns me right off it. I get that it's a look, but it's a look I don't like.
GrandHarrier
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#TeamBeardOllie
KoruptData
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That's his daddy.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
lmao, no it's not. It's the real Green Arrow from the old DCU (where everyone is alive and well and having awesome adventures) bridging the gap between universes, come over to show this whippersnapper a thing or two about facial hair.
Jesus fuck...Romita's the man.
GrandHarrier
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He doesn't. He has the beard for a time on the Island (as seen in some flashbacks). I'm just saying I'm on Team Beard.
That.., that's not true, is it?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
You wish it was as exciting as that
Spike Spiegel
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The old DCU is dead, the bodies dismembered and reassembled into puppet grotesqueries they parade out in gruesome parody of the old ways, mocking them. The characters you haven't seen yet? Frozen and stuffed into Didio's walk-in freezer, waiting their turn to join the freakshow.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
The nu52/old DCU crossover event is going to be amazing. I can't wait. I think the best bit will be when Wally finds out he's black now.
GrandHarrier
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Part of me wishes I could have lived through COIE just to experience this version of that.
The real Batman would waste a motha- what is this hippy no kill bullshit?!
Superman can tow a galaxy, what is this depowered bullshit?!
CrichtonKicks
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Might want to give Geoff Johns' TT run a try. I've only ready half of it (up through Infinite Crisis) but I quite liked it and I'm a fan of the Young Justice cartoon as well. It's available in an omnibus but best to try a trade or two first.
GrandHarrier
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Oh man,
I'd forgotten just how dumb the Lex Luther Alien Love Doll version of Supergirl was. Sooooo dumb. And creepy. And dumb.
I'd forgotten just how dumb the Lex Luther Alien Love Doll version of Supergirl was. Sooooo dumb. And creepy. And dumb.
Sir Garbageman
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Good question, I have a bunch of omnibus and hardcover editions myself and I've just been keeping them on a bookshelf upright. Hopefully that isn't too damaging to them over the long run.
Yeah people don't realise that this happened before and to a vastly larger extent.
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