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COMICS!!! |OT| February 2017 All You Need is Love (and Rockets)
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congratulations on the highschool beatings
my name is ed
Banned
This is worse than when someone names their kid after some star wars character
Setting up your kid to take a lot of Ls in life
echoshifting
Banned
I once met a woman who named her son Aragorn
I always thought that one was especially cruel. There isn't even a good abbreviation to work with there
Lots of weird people use Game of Thrones characters these days, which, I mean...what. I wonder, have they watched it
I always thought that one was especially cruel. There isn't even a good abbreviation to work with there
Lots of weird people use Game of Thrones characters these days, which, I mean...what. I wonder, have they watched it
BKatastrophe
Member
Titans #8
If this isn't the biggest case of "Ya dun fucked up" you've ever seen, then I don't know what is. Also, I miss the previous artist. Only one issue? Ya damn tease. Also reminds me that I should really read Titans Hunt. Seems to be playing an increasingly integral role. And Garth still sucks.
All-New Wolverine #17
This was a pretty poignant issue, I must say. Pretty intense on an emotional level. I'm not a fan of Morissette's art, though. I feel like it lacks nuance. Also, Jean apparently aged a full fifteen years. Girl likes like she's almost thirty. Pretty great otherwise though.
Inhumans vs. X-Men #4
This event stays solid. Inhumans making smart counterattacks, and the revelation at the end goes to show the lack of information being a big issue. I still have a problem with the fact that this has happened (given that the Terrigen Eater could have solved the issue for both sides), but I understand why. Also Colossus showing that he's my boy for a reason. I also find it funny that one of
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And oh my god I can't stand the art anymore. The fuck? It's like it has no idea what it wants to be. Irritating on a cosmic scale.
Power Man and Iron Fist #13
GONE GONE THE FORM OF MAN
RISE THE DEMON ETRIGAN
This arc is dark and not getting any brighter. Is it just me or does something feel...off about Greene's art? Am I crazy? Seems different and I can't figure out why. Almost rushed? Anyways more Señor Magico is always a good thing.
If this isn't the biggest case of "Ya dun fucked up" you've ever seen, then I don't know what is. Also, I miss the previous artist. Only one issue? Ya damn tease. Also reminds me that I should really read Titans Hunt. Seems to be playing an increasingly integral role. And Garth still sucks.
All-New Wolverine #17
This was a pretty poignant issue, I must say. Pretty intense on an emotional level. I'm not a fan of Morissette's art, though. I feel like it lacks nuance. Also, Jean apparently aged a full fifteen years. Girl likes like she's almost thirty. Pretty great otherwise though.
Inhumans vs. X-Men #4
This event stays solid. Inhumans making smart counterattacks, and the revelation at the end goes to show the lack of information being a big issue. I still have a problem with the fact that this has happened (given that the Terrigen Eater could have solved the issue for both sides), but I understand why. Also Colossus showing that he's my boy for a reason. I also find it funny that one of
Magneto's important memories is ripping the adamantium out of Wolverine
And oh my god I can't stand the art anymore. The fuck? It's like it has no idea what it wants to be. Irritating on a cosmic scale.
Power Man and Iron Fist #13
GONE GONE THE FORM OF MAN
RISE THE DEMON ETRIGAN
This arc is dark and not getting any brighter. Is it just me or does something feel...off about Greene's art? Am I crazy? Seems different and I can't figure out why. Almost rushed? Anyways more Señor Magico is always a good thing.
MHWilliams
Member
You can do that, but you need to give the kid a normal middle name that he'll inevitably use.
In my high school, there was a guy named Aragorn, but he always went by his middle name, Michael.
Weird.
BKatastrophe
Member
I felt the Ryker's arc was serious, but it didn't feel dark (if that makes sense). This feels like it's gone to a pretty brutal place. Must be that leftover anger from Nighthawk.
echoshifting
Banned
If my parents named me Aragorn I would go by Strider
Yeah, I am still enjoying it but it's a bummer to see the book go out like this
Yeah, I am still enjoying it but it's a bummer to see the book go out like this
Yea don't get me wrong there were series moments in the first arc but it felt balanced. There were small humorous moments.
I haven't read this week issue but the previous one was savage. Tombstone is a legit threat
never thought i'd see Parker hate in recent history
BKatastrophe
Member
I feel the same. Upsetting that this book has to go out at all.
This week isn't as brutal, but it's still dark. Dealing with after math and doing some setting up.
LordOfLore
Banned
BKatastrophe
Member
I ain't even mad
LordOfLore
Banned
I wanted so many of those. I'm now debating selling a bunch of stuff and contacting a retailer like Big Bang to get at least the Annihilation one before the price skyrockets.
BKatastrophe
Member
It'd be cool if my LCS manages to get some that I want, but otherwise I'll live.
Tizoc
Member
LordOfLore
Banned
New CMX sales! Siege(meh), TWD collectios(don't tempt me...) and Love of Reading!
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Pmsl. Both correct, both thinking about the other title first I think. Liz & Abe and a few others make up the support cast in a number of the stories up until volume 5 of HB, but he is really the main event. After that, when BPRD spins out of it, Liz never appears in HB again, and vice versa, HB never appears in BPRD (although both titles do orbit and provide extra pieces of the puzzle to each other's lore over the years). Liz, Abe & Johann (ghost man) are very much front and centre in the BPRD book though, with Liz gets a ton of screen time. Kate Corrigan, Panya, there are some fantastic female characters in the BPRD over the years though and I think Arcudi said around the time the last issue of HoE shipping that some of his proudest moments as a writer was writing the female characters just being girls together lol.
TropicalFish
Member
Kal would have been fine on it's own but then they had to add the el. Tragic.
hell yeah
question: what do you make of the rumors he's
Superboy Prime
And let us never forget that Johann is a giant bag of dicks.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
LordOfLore
Banned
Hahah I love this. Just you wait for Cometh The Houryou're gonna need a bigger bag!
Oh no, not more Johann!
Good luck getting big bang to discount anything off cover. A $125 omnibus there is 125
That's a fair conversion rate these days though.
You are a fool if you are paying list price
I am a fool anyway. I only buy digital.
RepairmanJack
Member
Damn pretty much everything I read last night was great
Hal and GLC
Finally the Green Lantern Corps I've been wanting. We didn't get an absolute ton from this issue, but it was just awesome seeing some regular GLC stuff going on. It took way too many issues to get to this but glad it's finally happening.
New Super-Man
This book is under the radar probably one of DC's best books right now. I really hope the price hike doesn't screw over something like this or Red Hood.
Detective Comics
I was so damn glad to finally be getting more of Orphan. Up to this point she has really felt like a forgotten piece or just a body in the book. It was really nice to get some insight into why she would seem that way and to what is going on with her. I also really liked how the hints for what's to come is handled in the end a lot better than the previous issue of GLC.
Deathstroke
Priest really likes to fuck with the timeline of his story doesn't he? I dunno if I've just gotten used to it, or if I'm actually starting to understand it but overall everything is clicking a lot easier for me. Really liked this issue but I feel like saying this is the beginning of an arc is completely misleading, this book feels like one continuous mind fuck of a story and saying there are endings or arcs seems like an absolute lie.
Earth 2 Society
Each day we don't get some kind of Earth 2 Rebirth announcement I get more and more worried this book is just going to end with nothing coming next. This issue almost completely solidified those thoughts. It's a bummer that the book is getting to a point I've wanted for a while but just when it is it seems to be ending.
Titans
Really liked this issue and glad this book is turning around on me. This issue gave us something that really we haven't gotten at all from Rebirth, some day-in-the-life stuff. I'm really glad we got that and I hope they continue stuff like that to build these relationships.
Hal and GLC
Finally the Green Lantern Corps I've been wanting. We didn't get an absolute ton from this issue, but it was just awesome seeing some regular GLC stuff going on. It took way too many issues to get to this but glad it's finally happening.
New Super-Man
This book is under the radar probably one of DC's best books right now. I really hope the price hike doesn't screw over something like this or Red Hood.
Detective Comics
I was so damn glad to finally be getting more of Orphan. Up to this point she has really felt like a forgotten piece or just a body in the book. It was really nice to get some insight into why she would seem that way and to what is going on with her. I also really liked how the hints for what's to come is handled in the end a lot better than the previous issue of GLC.
Deathstroke
Priest really likes to fuck with the timeline of his story doesn't he? I dunno if I've just gotten used to it, or if I'm actually starting to understand it but overall everything is clicking a lot easier for me. Really liked this issue but I feel like saying this is the beginning of an arc is completely misleading, this book feels like one continuous mind fuck of a story and saying there are endings or arcs seems like an absolute lie.
Earth 2 Society
Each day we don't get some kind of Earth 2 Rebirth announcement I get more and more worried this book is just going to end with nothing coming next. This issue almost completely solidified those thoughts. It's a bummer that the book is getting to a point I've wanted for a while but just when it is it seems to be ending.
Titans
Really liked this issue and glad this book is turning around on me. This issue gave us something that really we haven't gotten at all from Rebirth, some day-in-the-life stuff. I'm really glad we got that and I hope they continue stuff like that to build these relationships.
LordOfLore
Banned
How Marvel is going to push #1 of X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue.
Edit: Secret Empire. "18 months forward" -Looks at DoX- Really?
Even more retailer exclusives.
Edit: Secret Empire. "18 months forward" -Looks at DoX- Really?
Even more retailer exclusives.
Roland_Gunner
Member
Those art styles don't seem to jell at all.
I was looking forward to Jessica Jones, but worried it would not hold a candle to Alias. It is much better than I anticipated and right up there with Alias (one of my all time favorites) in quality.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
They're really timing this perfectly. That's probably about the time a domestic attack will allow Trump to consolidate power.
What a bunch of fucking monsters.
LordOfLore
Banned
Alonso's "-lists all the lines from Deadpool to gotg- this a rallying cry!"
God, I hope he gets replaced in the 2018 relaunch or this year's one.
BKatastrophe
Member
Well, I dropped AC, but
that's been the theory since day one. Of course, that was just someone going, "wouldn't it be sick if....?" No more, no less. However I've been reading what people are saying, and it seems most likely. Plus, Superman did just have an arc dealing with multiversal Supermen, with Prophecy (was that his name? I forget. He wasn't memorable) collecting them all to fight some massive threat (which I presume to be Manhattan, given that he was apparently working for Oz).
The big problem with the first arc is that it was all about Wally and his return, as opposed to now actually being about the Titans as a team. It's really bringing the book into its intended direction, and two issues into that direction and it seems to be working pretty well so far.
It really is. It's more plot driven than Alias, and that's not a bad thing, but I do wish the Big Two would put out more mature, character driven books. Hulk is close, but there's still that dumb thread running in the background.
LordOfLore
Banned
The fact this is a upcoming cover for the Superman Reborn crossover probably helps the theory:
That guy looks like a Yu-gi-oh hero.
If they really do get this out and done in 4 months I'll be extremely surprised. I think I'm more interested in what's going to happen after this but I hope the event is good.
BKatastrophe
Member
Certainly doesn't hurt it
RepairmanJack
Member
All-Star Batman
I can't help but feel like this is Snyder wanting to put his touch on every Bat Villain but not actually wanting to go to the trouble of writing the stories. Just two of these issues in and they're not really even stories, they're Batman coming out of nowhere while the villain is mid-way through what they're doing. I didn't even get all the way through this issue because I couldn't bring myself to care enough to keep reading. I just didn't care. Yeah, I'm out on AS Batman. I was enjoying the back stories with Duke, but the one in this issue was pretty lame too. Duke in the Clay room and questioning Batman's method... nothing else.
I can't help but feel like this is Snyder wanting to put his touch on every Bat Villain but not actually wanting to go to the trouble of writing the stories. Just two of these issues in and they're not really even stories, they're Batman coming out of nowhere while the villain is mid-way through what they're doing. I didn't even get all the way through this issue because I couldn't bring myself to care enough to keep reading. I just didn't care. Yeah, I'm out on AS Batman. I was enjoying the back stories with Duke, but the one in this issue was pretty lame too. Duke in the Clay room and questioning Batman's method... nothing else.
flaxknuckles
Member
What is Duke supposed to be anyway? I remember Bats saying he wanted something better than a Robin but just getting another sidekick and not calling him Robin is not much different.
RepairmanJack
Member
Yeah, I'm not really sure. This back story arc is supposed to be leading to him finally getting his name and role, but it's kind of been dragged out to a dumb amount.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
My friend has always said that he was going to name his son Obi-Wan and have him go by Ben.
I've known him for 16 years and I'm still not sure if he's kidding.
LordOfLore
Banned
Not better. Different.
flaxknuckles
Member
But like how? As Bat's sidekick he's just Robin. If Bats turns him into a full superhero then it's the same thing he did with Batwing.
Poor kid.