Calcium
Banned
Just one. Silver Surfer.
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COMICS! |OT| February 2016. World of love and strangeness and charm.
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
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Just one. Silver Surfer.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Cosmic powered farts must smell pretty awful.
I think it looks amazing.
Oh hey, the theme for DC's May variants is "Covers from the New 52 #1s, but either slightly better or slightly worse"!
JUDGEMENT TIME
Action Comics: Slightly better!
Aquaman: Slightly worse!
Batgirl: (sad but) Slightly worse!
Batman: Slightly worse! (but really it's because Capullo fucking killed it first go-around)
Catwoman: Slightly worse! (and that's in spite of closing the suit so as to make the cover about anything other than Selina's gazonkers)
Detective Comics: Slightly better! (though really it's just served to remind me how shit Tony Daniel's first issue on Detective was, like, whoa, that was a whole big goddamn waste of time for the sake of terrible gratuitous gore porn)
Flash: Slightly worse!
Green Arrow: Slightly better! (though what's up with his neck goddamn)
Green Lantern: Slightly worse! (but only because Sinestro as Green Lantern FUCKING RULED and he's not that anymore on the new cover)
Superman: Slightly better! (actually a whole lot better, might be my favorite one)
Wonder Woman: A whole lot worse, hoooooly fuck how bad can Finch get, goddamn
JUDGEMENT TIME
Action Comics: Slightly better!
Aquaman: Slightly worse!
Batgirl: (sad but) Slightly worse!
Batman: Slightly worse! (but really it's because Capullo fucking killed it first go-around)
Catwoman: Slightly worse! (and that's in spite of closing the suit so as to make the cover about anything other than Selina's gazonkers)
Detective Comics: Slightly better! (though really it's just served to remind me how shit Tony Daniel's first issue on Detective was, like, whoa, that was a whole big goddamn waste of time for the sake of terrible gratuitous gore porn)
Flash: Slightly worse!
Green Arrow: Slightly better! (though what's up with his neck goddamn)
Green Lantern: Slightly worse! (but only because Sinestro as Green Lantern FUCKING RULED and he's not that anymore on the new cover)
Superman: Slightly better! (actually a whole lot better, might be my favorite one)
Wonder Woman: A whole lot worse, hoooooly fuck how bad can Finch get, goddamn
Compared to some of the DC and Marvel redesigns, that new Wasp outfit is very streamlined.
Freezasaurus
Member
They're all worse, because DC isn't even fucking trying.
The super dopey face does not work at all with the pose, which is really going for it.
Calcium
Banned
The Manpaul cover is great as well. One of the few that isn't a complete copy and paste from the original. But, Brett Booth vs Ivan Reis is completely unfair.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Even Ayane from Wayward loves Lying Cat!
I'm sorry but the Superman one manages to improve on the original in every way. Like, the pose makes sense, the change in scale makes it look much more impressive, and the softer colors make it way better to look at.
Calcium
Banned
How can you say such a thing?
Lying Cat is delightful.
That is my fave page of Saga.
If we lie and say we hate certain characters the evil Brian K Vaughn can't hurt us.
Calcium
Banned
Mine too. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Fiona Staples refuses to draw anything bad happening to Lying Cat.
I will never forgive BKV for what he did at the end of Y. After that no one is safe, that fucker will hurt who he likes even if he has to draw stick figure versions instead of Fiona.
Calcium
Banned
Yeah, that one hurt.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I think the following are improvements or at least as good: Action Comics (improvement), Batman (just as good), Green Arrow (improvement), Superman (improvement), and Wonder Woman (just as good). The other ones are not as good as the originals. I LOVE Manapul and he's one of my favorite artists, but I didn't really like what he did with Batman himself on the Detective cover.
The handicap for you Is that you can't touch your stick until you hit 50% health.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
How will you feel about BKV after Ghus dies next issue?
I will have him dealt with
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Nah
Finch's cover trades Chiang's greek pottery art for dull as dishwater dead eyed house style.
For some reason, he decided to turn the obvious action flash from the arrow hitting Diana's cuff, which radiates throughout the entire cover, into a damn cloud.
The blue and orange background of Chiang's original, used to match the orange hue of Diana's skin and the dark blues of her outfit, are recreated in Finch's for no other reason but to match it. For some reason, the color of Diana's boots in Finch's don't even match her undergarments.
Where Chiang's Diana is scratched, bloodied, and presumably sunburnt, Finch's is pristine, spotless, and waifish.
Chiang gave Diana a nice thick outline to let her pop out, whereas Finch's looks photo shopped in.
It's a poor reproduction, so poor I hesitate to call it a reproduction honestly.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I liked when DC was going to give Wondy pants in the New 52
Freezasaurus
Member
Wasn't there a pre-N52 run where she had pants?
Good analysis. I didn't look into it enough. You're right.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Yeah I think that was the one by JMS? I don't remember.
They even drew the #1 cover for the New 52 with pants originally:
Then they decided against it and drew the hotpants
Spike Spiegel
Member
Rebirth's not until June, you're not gonna find out about those books for another three-to-four weeks at least.
Well at least I got hearthstone standard mode while I wait.
Oh, right. Sigh.
Screw this waiting, i'm going to read comics. Or watch NXT from two weeks ago.
It's the blades is it?
Poodlestrike
Banned
There was this:
I still really like that costume.
They just revealed the Superman soliticts for April and May and it seems to be an event called Super League. Also Janin on art for both Superman issues. dope.
http://www.comicosity.com/first-look-superman-april-and-may-solicitations-plus-mikel-janin-art/
So Spike is right, we are prob a month away from hearing about rebirth officially. Also they showed that Rebirth teaser too early lol.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Hmm, looks like Pre-Crisis Clark is getting in on that Solar Flare action.
Edit: and oh shit, Tomasi's writing it?
In.
Wait, holy crap, is that Wasp actually pulling from the freaking obscure Hope Pym that was like in the Spider-Girl Universe and was a villain and all that? Because it kind of looks like that, instead of just being "oh, we'll take the movie character who took the name and nothing else from that character and run with it," which would be the obvious thing, and if so I applaud the craziness of doing such.
Tizoc
Member
What other Brian K Vaughn comics have you read?
This Wasp suit goes well with Lang's suit so I'm cool with it.
According to the article Janet will still be around and Marvel seems to be building up characters related to Ant-Man so I guess a new Wasp is a part of that.
Such an under appreciated costume.
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm really curious to see what exactly it is. I have mixed feelings about another reboot.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Just saw a hard cover version of Descender Vol 1 here at work. I wish we consistently carried more Image trades so I could back up all my digital versions with sweet sweet hard cover versions. But we only ever seem to carry the first volume of a series.