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What do you think of Nick Pitarra's work on Manhattan Projects?
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I'm right there with you on Capt Marvel.
What do you think of Nick Pitarra's work on Manhattan Projects?
Dance Inferno
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Looks like a good week this:
Aquaman
I, Vampire
Superman (Supergirl crossover)
Teen Titans
The Flash
Avengers
Hawkeye
Aquaman
I, Vampire
Superman (Supergirl crossover)
Teen Titans
The Flash
Avengers
Hawkeye
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
YYYYUP.
GrandHarrier
Member
Jaded ass Marvel fanboys are the only ones who would think Batman Inc is, quote "The only Batman book worth reading".
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
GrandHarrier
Member
I'm not targeting you. Just speaking in general. Snyders Batman is regarded as one of DCs best books almost universally. Even Batman and Robin has gotten consistent praise. Batwoman, despite a few bumps, is consistently gorgeous.
You can not be into them personally but many of the Bat Family books are good.
furiouslyalex
Banned
Give image some love. Those are the best books on your list. All have at least 1 trade out too.
I can't wait till Batman Inc is done and I can read the whole thing straight through.
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
Invincible #100 and Batman Incorporated tomorrow.
Yep, it's a good week.
Yep, it's a good week.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
thinking batman inc is the only one worth reading = marvel fanboy....what?
sazabirules
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Has Detective Comics under Layman increased in quality? I heard bad things about it before.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Also, since we're on DC and my shattered expectations, Threshold was so disappointing.
Layman's Tec is pretty fun, and it's got some neat ideas. It got caught up in DOTF, but it managed to bring some thunder, and it's got interesting set-up for the post-event status quo.
slightconfuse
Banned
Nu52 In is th culmination of Morrisons run.
Batman the return is the minimal one would need be caught up
Batman the return is the minimal one would need be caught up
Spike Spiegel
Member
Seeing everyone talk about Batman suddenly has me thinking, "okay, maybe I shouldn't have scrapped that 'Bullhorn' segment I was working on for something less provocative." Alas...
Yay generalizations! I pull like 20 titles a month, only one of which is Marvel. In fact, I'd say 17 of those 20 are DC titles. People are allowed to like different stuff than each other, crazy as that may seem in this thread.
slightconfuse
Banned
Is that the one with the rocket racoon but he is a rabbit?
list 'em
furiouslyalex
Banned
Yeah, too far. I would think Batman should be the only DC character worth reading, but one book? Yeah, that's too far.
Spawn Origins vo.1 HC
Hellspawn: Complete Collection HC
Saga vol. 1 TP
One Trick Rip-Off / Deep Cuts HC
Tomorrow I should be getting:
Glory Volume 1: The Once and Future Destroyer TP
Uncanny X-Force: Apocalypse Solution HC
Should keep me busy for quite a while. If I really like em I'll probably get Venom(vol.2), Phonogram vol. 2, Prophet, and Batman after.
Phonogram is like the best series ever. Singles Club (vol 2) is so ridiculously good it's not fair to other comics.
I don't even know what it's about, all I know is that its gotten crazy high reviews and I really dig the cover art.
But I thought Alan Moore was a god among comic book fans
Class, my dumbass Before Watchmen thread is in Limbo, so let's discuss the ish here. Len Wein using Ozymandias to address the fact Alan Moore took the ending of Watchmen from an old episode of The Outer Limit. Thoughts. I'm all for it. If we're not gonna treat Moore with any sort of reverence whatsoever, might as well go for it and start calling him out on the dumb shit he wrote. And I know that it being so fucking stupid is part of the point. But it's a thing that needs to be addressed. DISCUSSION BEGINS NOW OKAY THANKS.
slightconfuse
Banned
Before watchmen is still going?
I thought it ended since no one is talking about it
I thought it ended since no one is talking about it
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Before Watchmen tarnishing the original?
My chair has disintegrated from the speed and velocity at which I was blown out of my seat in shock.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Before Watchmen has just sucked. People would've gotten over the treading on Alan Moore's work if the books had been any damn good. But they're all garbage that serve as nothing more than "HEY KIDS REMEMBER RORSCHACH! HERE HE IS!" You can almost hear that canned applause behind the background of every book.
The only one approaching readable is Dr. Manhattan, but even that one gets bogged down with nonsense subplotting and eye-rolling tie-ins with the main book.
There are stories to tell about the Watchmen universe. These are not them though.
slightconfuse
Banned
I just wished they used the talent to make original content.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I feel exactly 100% the same, except that I wish they never existed.
I have been moving through some graphic novels. We3 was amazing. That was some pretty haunting stuff, I really was happy they ended it like they did. Any other way and I think I might have had some wetness in my eyes 
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Hulk Smash Avengers was pretty good, but pretty much a cocktease. Every time a story got going, it was over. I enjoyed the first issue with the 60's Avengers much more. Thor is my favorite Avenger and maybe favorite Marvel character, so that explains why I liked that issue so much.
Batman: Cacophony was a pretty big letdown. The art sucked, and the story wasn't that compelling. I love Kevin Smith, but this wasn't right for him. It was only 3 issues so it wasn't offensive or anything, but it was pretty much a waste of time.
. Hulk Smash Avengers was pretty good, but pretty much a cocktease. Every time a story got going, it was over. I enjoyed the first issue with the 60's Avengers much more. Thor is my favorite Avenger and maybe favorite Marvel character, so that explains why I liked that issue so much.
Batman: Cacophony was a pretty big letdown. The art sucked, and the story wasn't that compelling. I love Kevin Smith, but this wasn't right for him. It was only 3 issues so it wasn't offensive or anything, but it was pretty much a waste of time.
Phonogram is essentially about music and magic.
Uh. Minutemen and Silk Spectre are goddamn clinics on comic storytelling that you should probably read if you enjoy good things. You said your piece on Doctor Manhattan, and I would mostly agree with it, though JMS has been pretty clever with the narrative, and Hughes is being Hughes. Ozymandias has Jae Lee taking his game to the next level while Wein goes through the motions, which is actually appropriate for once. Only Rorschach and Comedian are truly uninspired, though Comedian's been getting better.
The less said about Nite Owl, the better, though. God damn that was embarrassing.
Isn't Darwyn Cooke involved with Minutemen and Silk Spectre?
He's writer and artist on Minutemen and co-writer on Silk Spectre. Both are tip-top.
you're gonna love UXF, and we'll all be able to drool over Saga every month.
Phonogram vol 2 will blow you away, if you like dating and music and dancing.
That explains that.
GrandHarrier
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I still need to read it but I'm not surprised. Few comics seem able to handle cosmic very well. And by Cosmic I mean anything besides a big bad from outer space. It's easy to do a Darkseid or Thanos. It's harder to invent worlds and a galactic culture. On DC side only Green Lantern and Legion really handle it with any real care and even then it can be a crapshoot.
haha, don't ever disparage someone else's taste in comics ever again. Calling JMS clever *especially* in the context of Before Watchmen is fucking stupefying.
(Who cares if Moore stole from an episode of The Outer Limits? That's not news or something Moore himself hasn't already admitted to. Wein is a shitty writer and his Ozymandias book is pretty awful, so again, who cares.)
Dude. These are facts you need to deal with. I know that both Before Watchmen and JMS earned a good chunk of the torrent of crap you and others have been dumping on it, but Doctor Manhattan is actually playing around with the concept of linear time in cool and interesting ways. It doesn't make Before Watchmen any less a shameless cash grab. It doesn't make Superman: Earth One any less some of the stupidest shit ever put to print. Should your knees become more jerky, Macho Man Randy Savage's ghost will come back to life and get people to snap into them.
slightconfuse
Banned
Inlove how JRJR drew the watcher to look like Bendis
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
damn, holy fuck at Injustice #3
WHAT
also Harley looks like a Twi'lek
Joker used kryptonite with Scarecrows fear gas on Superman so he thought Lois(she's pregnant) was Doomsday so he beat on her and took her to space. Not only that but Joker put something on her to monitor her heartbeat tied to a nuke so when it stopped a nuke went off in Metropolis.
WHAT
also Harley looks like a Twi'lek
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I don't give too much of a damn about Watchmen, but I've kinda just blocked that whole Before Watchmen thing out of my head. The whole thing seemed disgusting to me.
Onemic! Welcome to the brood, brother
Onemic! Welcome to the brood, brother
furiouslyalex
Banned
Same, people buying that shit are part of the problem.
And what problem would that be?
krypt0nian
Banned
I have no idea. Cooke's stuff was stellar. I will be a part of that problem every damn day.
Different strokes for different folks. I'm okay with people buying comics and enjoying them.
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