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COMICS! |OT| February 2016. World of love and strangeness and charm.

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my name is ed

Banned
ElNarez said:
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
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That is the jankiest Babs Tarr drawing I've ever seen. She can do much better.

I'm kinda laughing at the difference between booth and reis. I shouldn't. It's mean.
 
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BKatastrophe

Member
fauxtrot said:
Not really feeling this All-New Wasp outfit... was hoping for something less over-designed and more streamlined.
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Remove the hip blades or all the blades, and it's amazing.
VanWinkle said:
There was this:

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I love that costume
 
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BossDarkseid

Member
Hitch saying a JLA/JSA crossover would be fun...while also mentioning he's not leaving and still has years of JLA stories planned...could be fun. Hurry. Up. DC.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

Banned
my name is ed said:
That is the jankiest Babs Tarr drawing I've ever seen. She can do much better.

I'm kinda laughing at the difference between booth and reis. I shouldn't. It's mean.
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It's Aquaman's face. He looks uncomfortable. Same with Batgirl. The eye holes on her mask in Babs version look way too big and dopey.

The Rafa cover doesn't match the original at all. He's not using the same pose and it looks like Batman is fighting off zombies.
 
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whatsinaname

Member
frye said:
Plas is probably the series from that era that holds up the best, if only for Cole's art. Are you planning to pick up the DC Archives?
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Frye was right (like always). Been reading Cole's Plastic Man and it is great. Love the art and colouring. And the pacing and gags feel fairly modern.

Sadist said:
So Comic GAF, anyone went to the theater yet for some chimmichangas?
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Caught the late show yesterday. Some really cleverly done stuff in there. Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus were hilarious in their interactions with Deadpool. And Deadpool didn't come across as a smarmy internet meme, which was my greatest worry going in.
 
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Owzers

Member
Republican Debate tonight, I expect Marco Rubio to do quite well and Christie won't be there to go on the attack. Is Jeb going to do it? Hah. Trump? He can barely get a coherent sentence out, he'll probably just grunt at Rubio.

I'm also going to get my comic reading in beforehand while I'll still have a chance at enjoying anything. Today's mission: Continue getting caught up on floppies. Three issues of Saga, two Paper Girls. It's ambitious but as an American i believer in doing great things.
 
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Zombine

Banned
sillymonkey321 said:
Republican Debate tonight, I expect Marco Rubio to do quite well and Christie won't be there to go on the attack. Is Jeb going to do it? Hah. Trump? He can barely get a coherent sentence out, he'll probably just grunt at Rubio.

I'm also going to get my comic reading in beforehand while I'll still have a chance at enjoying anything. Today's mission: Continue getting caught up on floppies. Three issues of Saga, two Paper Girls. It's ambitious but as an American i believer in doing great things.
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You're about as American as Ted Cruz

Real Americans don't paint.
 
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tim1138

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My advance review for Dark Night: A True Batman Story:

A powerful and moving autobiography from Paul Dini with art by Eduardo Risso. Dini recounts the impact being mugged and brutally beaten while while walking home one night had on his life and career. Batman and his rogues appear as a Greek chorus of sorts, egging on Dini to succumb to their own specific pathos as Dini tries to make sense of the attack and sort out his life. It is a brutally honest depiction of depression and the how hard it can be to overcome the lows and dark periods in your life.
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kmfdmpig

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mreddie said:
IDW books soon to be rebooted or shared?

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They mentioned this on Fatman and Batman a few months ago. It's hard to see it having any real success given the "franchises" they're using.

GI Joe is likely tarnished by the recent films, and the others are very niche. How many people even remember Visionaries or M.A.S.K., for example? The target audience is, to quote David Cross, dozens!
 
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Vyer

Member
ugh, I cracked my ipad air 2 screen, so I've been alternating between a surface pro 3 and a Samsung 7" tablet.


digital comics ghetto is not fun friends. i might have to be like the rest of comicsGAF and not read any comics for a while :(
 
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Owzers

Member
Vyer said:
ugh, I cracked my ipad air 2 screen, so I've been alternating between a surface pro 3 and a Samsung 7" tablet.


digital comics ghetto is not fun friends. i might have to be like the rest of comicsGAF and not read any comics for a while :(
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did you crack it while playing hearthstone? That's how most tablet damage occurs in my experience.

Also, that sucks.
 
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Vyer

Member
sillymonkey321 said:
did you crack it while playing hearthstone? That's how most tablet damage occurs in my experience.

Also, that sucks.
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ha, no. I put it on my jacket in the car then when grabbing my jacket out of the car later managed to completely forget that I had done that. good thing the hard concrete was there to break the fall!

I blame Trump.
 
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Messi

Member
Vyer said:
ugh, I cracked my ipad air 2 screen, so I've been alternating between a surface pro 3 and a Samsung 7" tablet.


digital comics ghetto is not fun friends. i might have to be like the rest of comicsGAF and not read any comics for a while :(
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This would never have happened with physical comics. I am conflicted.
 
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TetraxShards

Member
Messi said:
This would never have happened with physical comics. I am conflicted.
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But the comics themselves are intact, just the shell they're contained in is damaged. If you tear a page, it's torn forever!

I don't even know where my tablet is. I usually just end up using the web app if I want to read a comic these days, which is not often. Sad times.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Dark Horse's solicitations for May 2016

Jeff Lemire's written and drawn a short for Dark Horse Presents.

Sibersk Esto said:
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.
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Finch increased her breast size and shrunk her head.
 
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kmfdmpig

Member
Freezasaurus said:
I remember all of those and am pretty disgusted right now. There's absolutely no reason to bring back ROM and Visionaries any of them. Paramount and Hasbro grasping at straws on the way down to the poorhouse.
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I know. They might as well also throw in Captain Power and Air Raiders onto the heap of toy lines that have long since been forgotten and didn't gain much interest to begin with*

* I say this as someone who had a ton of MASK toys and wanted some Visionaries ones as well, but that was a long time ago and I really can't imagine who this is designed for. I get why studios would want a "universe", but the fact that this one is even being considered is laughable.
 
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