GrandHarrier
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My roommate gets it and we talk about it so I generally know what is going on in it.
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COMICS! |OT| February 2014. Flowers? Candy? Please. Get that guy/gal an omnibus!
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My roommate gets it and we talk about it so I generally know what is going on in it.
Oh hey, thanks for continually pushing Supes/WW. Finally checked it out and it's great stuff, I think Diana had more screen time in this one issue than the last three issues combined of her own book.
evilpigking
Member
I might have gone a bit overboard but ordered Criminal Deluxe 1 and 2 and the 5 Powers definitive volumes.
Maybe it's because my pull list is down to only Ms. Marvel and Cataclysm atm.
Maybe it's because my pull list is down to only Ms. Marvel and Cataclysm atm.
GrandHarrier
Member
I've really been continually surprised by it. I wasn't sure what I was expecting from it at first but it's definitely not the kissy face romance book some detractors were suggesting it'd be. I can't wait to see where it goes from here. And dat art.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Who's the dark haired lady? Also, I love that Widow is the one not giving a fuck about Clint's dangling D.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I think, just as an aside, people would be a lot less confrontational about your recommendations and DC in general here if you didn't put in nearly every hype post some note about the wackness of "detractors". Just let rad be rad.
Tell me why a book is great, not why some dummy was wrong. When you frame it as you do, it just sounds like someone with an agenda more than someone with a subjective point of view.
Spike Spiegel
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Rucka's back at Marvel, and writing Cyclops?
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Dang, now I'm conflicted. Cyclops is probably my least favorite of the "popular" X-Men, but it's Ruckaaaaaaaaaa.
Gonna have to think about this. Maybe since it's Young Cyclops it won't be so bad.
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Dang, now I'm conflicted. Cyclops is probably my least favorite of the "popular" X-Men, but it's Ruckaaaaaaaaaa.
Gonna have to think about this. Maybe since it's Young Cyclops it won't be so bad.
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
Like someone said before, Planetary explores, tributes and deconstructs the superhero genre (and others genres and trends at large). It's mostly compromised on single issues stories that build up along a grand scale story. Even if you aren't not invested that much in the medium, chances are that you will get the nods along with enjoying the dynamics between the characters, and how the story unfolds every chapter.
KoruptData
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Brett Booth reads Neogaf confirmed?
https://twitter.com/demonpuppy/status/433703328912920577
Read comments.
https://twitter.com/demonpuppy/status/433703328912920577
Read comments.
slightconfuse
Banned
Corsair spike ,CORSAIR!
I imagine it will be like castaway in dimension Z but lighter tone
Nova Prime
Member
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this but why isn't the new book called All-New X-Force? Sounds dumb I know but still it bothers me
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
!!!! Oh my heck!!!!
slightconfuse
Banned
Booth should probably conform to a house style
He will deny NeoGAF three times...
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Brett Booth told me to practice. I've crossed streams!!!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Rafa is on his way
watch out Kot
watch out Kot
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
oh man Rafa. So cool. You'll get there man.
Dr_LawyerCop
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I was in your position, not regretting it at all so far. It's pretty cheap at instocktrades. They're much better than amazon in my opinion. They take tremendous care in packaging stuff and shipping is only $4 (or free if you spend over $50).
Spike Spiegel
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Wait, is Brett Booth saying he's not a "house style" artist? One of THE 90s Wildstorm guys?
Not at all what I expected, I haven't read enough comics myself to form a "credible" top 10 so I'll check some of these out.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Does Batman #28 spoil previous stuff that has happened in Snyders batman run or is it standalone? Im still catching up and am in the middle of the City of Owls storyline
Rrongfield
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Is the 'Vendetta' crossover between CaXF and UXF required to follow the new X-Force? I dropped both books quite early.
I'll start reading my "pile" in a few minutes.
I'll start reading my "pile" in a few minutes.
KoruptData
Member
Oh I get it now, Viewtiful posted his views on an article he read. He just forgot to link the article. Booth read the same article.
Ps. Rafa, I am your first follower on Twitter.
Ps. Rafa, I am your first follower on Twitter.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Stegman should have taken the She-Hulk gig again, career climbing be damned... great first issue writing, art was okay, may grow on me if it gets a little more creative rather than flat.
WatXM beginning to wrap up feels so sombre. Also just how feckin' long are the time-travelled brat X-Men going to be around now with another ongoing?
slightconfuse
Banned
:O
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Pick a side you have.
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They're Bendis babies, so the answer is as long as he wants.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
god damn, thor
It's pretty stand-alone. It's more of a teaser for Batman Eternal than anything else.
Palette Swap
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He's that New 52 Teen Titans artist, right? I picked the first issue of that book, realized the name of the artist rung a bell and after like 3 pages, I was fairly certain he was one of these Wildstorm guys from back in the day.
So yeah. House style through and through.
GrandHarrier
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Dear Birdie. One day you'll get a book on my recommendation and you'll like it and you'll come to me with this beautific smile upon your face and just as you begin to whisper your thanks, a gateway to hell will rip open and a great freeze shall grasp the world within it's icy grip.
95% of my rhetoric is in response to some of the inane bullshit that gets spoken like gospel. I'm just not the type to let that kind of stuff go. If ex-DC or Marvel guys are going to build a narrative that DC is the worst thing ever and everything they do is shit, I'm going to happily point out when and where they are wrong. And they usually are. Most DC books are actually pretty good. But some people have so poisoned their expectations for anything DC that they will fight it, tooth and nail, before admitting it. Sometimes it almost seems as if they are upset when DC has a success story or does something right.
Look, I get it, especially with the "ex-DC" guys, they can't help but hate everything about the New 52, and they hate the good stuff about it even more because it's another nail in the coffin of their desperate hope that everything will go back to the "way that it was" (which is not even possible at this point). What they'd end up getting, if something like that ever happened, is a New New 52 that looks like the Old DCU on paper.
I even understand it from the otherside. Everytime I see you post some INSANE OMG WTF BBQ explosion of joy about a book that you really, really liked, I can't help but be skeptical. "Really? It's that good? From Marvel?" But I don't say it. Because I haven't read it. But when I do that same exact thing, as someone who feels like his particular brand of our little comic club is constantly getting shit talked for stuff that just... doesn't make any sense... [Like DC's art is shit? Really? When that image was posted before, comparing them, my gut reaction was, "Wow, I really like most of those DC images... and Allreds art is still grade school shit with terrible primary colors, Captain Marvel has had shit art forever, and Hawkeye can't maintain a schedule with that basic linework??? But that's just my taste. Objectively judging art makes almost no sense.] I can't help but want to show them that they were wrong.
Anyways, for what it is worth, I appreciate your comments. Comics are still cool. All of them. Even the shit you like.
doniewhalberg
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Dude yes! I was wirting about this last month, no one replied
but it makes so much sense right? Where is it...Click
This is what I thought on the subject. It works so much thematically with his character. He could effectively continue to behave exactly as he normally does but have even more of the weight of the world on his back.
Anticitizen One
Banned
That Cyclops #1 cover has got to be one of the coolest comic covers in modern history
Very futuristic and sleek. It reminds me of 80s sci-fi
Very futuristic and sleek. It reminds me of 80s sci-fi
KoruptData
Member
Dear Birdie. One day you'll get a book on my recommendation and you'll like it and you'll come to me with this beautific smile upon your face and just as you begin to whisper your thanks, a gateway to hell will rip open and a great freeze shall grasp the world within it's icy grip.
95% of my rhetoric is in response to some of the inane bullshit that gets spoken like gospel. I'm just not the type to let that kind of stuff go. If ex-DC or Marvel guys are going to build a narrative that DC is the worst thing ever and everything they do is shit, I'm going to happily point out when and where they are wrong. And they usually are. Most DC books are actually pretty good. But some people have so poisoned their expectations for anything DC that they will fight it, tooth and nail, before admitting it. Sometimes it almost seems as if they are upset when DC has a success story or does something right.
Look, I get it, especially with the "ex-DC" guys, they can't help but hate everything about the New 52, and they hate the good stuff about it even more because it's another nail in the coffin of their desperate hope that everything will go back to the "way that it was" (which is not even possible at this point). What they'd end up getting, if something like that ever happened, is a New New 52 that looks like the Old DCU on paper.
I even understand it from the otherside. Everytime I see you post some INSANE OMG WTF BBQ explosion of joy about a book that you really, really liked, I can't help but be skeptical. "Really? It's that good? From Marvel?" But I don't say it. Because I haven't read it. But when I do that same exact thing, as someone who feels like his particular brand of our little comic club is constantly getting shit talked for stuff that just... doesn't make any sense... [Like DC's art is shit? Really? When that image was posted before, comparing them, my gut reaction was, "Wow, I really like most of those DC images... and Allreds art is still grade school shit with terrible primary colors, Captain Marvel has had shit art forever, and Hawkeye can't maintain a schedule with that basic linework??? But that's just my taste. Objectively judging art makes almost no sense.] I can't help but want to show them that they were wrong.
Anyways, for what it is worth, I appreciate your comments. Comics are still cool. All of them. Even the shit you like.
I was gonna say something like this, but I erased it and thought that I didn't want to bother, but this is pretty much the truth. 100%.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
You guys should be more like tim, he's perfectly ok with reading dozens of mediocre DC superhero books every month, you don't see him getting all defensive about it all the time. He just enjoys and talks about his books.
Anticitizen One
Banned
KoruptData
Member
I'm sure people like having their taste is something being called "mediocre." I'm pretty sure Tim is just more mature than a lot of us here and chooses not to participate is juvenile things.
GrandHarrier
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Tim has reached self actualization. I'm still somewhere at the base of the Maslow pyramid, desperately searching for a heavy rock to bash in the head of one of the Others.
Serpentine
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DC isn't the worst thing ever. At least they have guys like Cliff Chiang and Andrea Sorrentino. Meanwhile, pretty much every single Dynamite and Zenescope book looks the same.
So, the 3rd worst thing ever
So, the 3rd worst thing ever
GrandHarrier
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I never got into it because I've always thought the ideas being Swamp Thing and Animal Man were literally the worst thing ever. But I can also get weird with my superhero tastes. Like, with magic, for example. I've come to the realization that I dislike most magical characters. Specifically those with what I like to call "general purpose magic". People like Zatanna or most of the Justice League Dark people. I don't like when I can't get a grasp on a persons powerset. With general purpose magic they can seemingly do anything and that squicks me. It's why I ended up dropping Constantine / Phantom Stranger / Pandora / JL
, though I intend to pick up JL again when Amethyst joins the team.
KoruptData
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Serpentine
Banned
do you REALLY need to ask
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
Rotworld was fine
Spare a thought for Catwoman readers like me.
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