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[GAMEPROFF]

I don't understand how JC has all this knowledge. It's crazy.

Twist: He is the Watcher

 

[Mistouze]

I don't understand how JC has all this knowledge. It's crazy.

He actually READS comic books.

Good to see you back JC btw.

 

[Tyrant Rave]

He actually READS comic books.

Good to see you back JC btw.

Reading comics LMAO

 

[tim1138]

You read enough comics and it sticks with you.

 

[Sadist]

JC's home must be a comic walhalla

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Uncanny Avengers next week, lets all put

Axis

behind us

 

[GrandHarrier]

Wolfsmund Vol 2:

WTF. No, seriously.

Literally everything that happens in this volume is wrong.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

Damn, just received this email alert from Mondo. Tempted but $300 is a lot of money.

I was dead set on getting this until they announced the price for it. Then it became NAHH.

 

[tim1138]

Uncanny Avengers is crossing over with Tooth and Claw in space? Sign me up!

All kidding aside, book looks good.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Uncanny Avengers next week, lets all put

Axis

behind us

This books seems worth the money alone for the art.

 

[Messi]

He actually READS comic books.

Good to see you back JC btw.

Then how would I have time to post here?

 

[WadiumArcadium]

Just finished Kelly DeConnick's first Captain Marvel trade. I really liked the art but the story was pretty bad. Can't say I want to read any more.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

Can I just say as some one who has been reading Batman and Robin since day one, and singing that creative teams praise since day one, it brings a tear to my eye to see so many other people finally embracing it.

 

[Zombine]

Then how would I have time to post here?

I just look at the pictures upside down.

 

[GrandHarrier]

Can I just say as some one who has been reading Batman and Robin since day one, and singing that creative teams praise since day one, it brings a tear to my eye to see so many other people finally embracing it.

While I feel that Snyder's Batman has had higher highs, Tomasi and Gleason have easily put together the most consistently solid A title from issue #1 til now.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Birdies log, stardate 1/22/15: I've never trusted DC, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my version of continuity. It seems to me our need to get past the New 52 reboot is problematic at best. They say Convergence could be a historic occasion, and I'd like to believe them, but how on earth can comics get past people like me?

lol replace whatever continuity you want, just don't give it to Frank Tieri and JT Krul.

You know me better than that. I'm Pro-Bendis GotG for god's sake.

Launch your straw man into the sun, mate.

 

[GrandHarrier]

lol replace whatever continuity you want, just don't give it to Frank Tieri and JT Krul.

You know me better than that. I'm Pro-Bendis GotG for god's sake.

Launch your straw man into the sun, mate.

Slingshot around the sun something something whales. - I'm just playing bro.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

they couldn't break for John Ostrander on Suicide Squad, like come on man

nice of them to find my nigga Tim Truman from Grimjack and Hawkworld for the Hawkman book with Jeff Parker. That and the Parker/Shanner wonder duo for Captain Marvel seem cool.

Len Wein/Kelley Jones Swamp Thing, hell that's 3

 

[E the Shaggy]

For those who are wondering and haven't checked it out yet... the current Posehn/Duggan run on Deadpool is absolutely fantastic. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly arc that I read last year was one of the top five story arcs of the last couple years.

Fucking good. And Shalvey killed it on art in that arc.

Hands down my favorite Deadpool story.

 

[Busaiku]

Man, the power creep in Spiderverse has been really annoying.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Slingshot around the sun something something whales. - I'm just playing bro.

all love bro

just hate to see shit veer into TTOB™ territory

i try and stick to companies not people

 

[ThyMusicMan]

So my Jeep shit out on me a couple weeks ago and I had to buy a new car,,,
I didn't have a car payment for 5 years,, :/,, Sooo now im starting to drop about 70% of my books from my LCS and ordering from DCBS.
We'll see how this once a month shipment goes, wondering if ill be able to remember what happened in the issue before it lol

 

[Sadist]

Ah Remender and Acuna

Yes pls

 

[tim1138]

they couldn't break for John Ostrander on Suicide Squad, like come on man

nice of them to find my nigga Tim Truman from Grimjack and Hawkworld for the Hawkman book with Jeff Parker. That and the Parker/Shanner wonder duo for Captain Marvel seem cool.

Len Wein/Kelley Jones Swamp Thing, hell that's 3

I didn't even notice there was a Suicide Squad book.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

While I feel that Snyder's Batman has had higher highs, Tomasi and Gleason have easily put together the most consistently solid A title from issue #1 til now.

Absolutely, and I'll say it again Tomasi gets Damian, and gets the relationship he has with Bruce better than any other writer.

 

[KoruptData]

Absolutely, and I'll say it again Tomasi gets Damian, and gets the relationship he has with Bruce better than any other writer.

Where Snyder has said many times he hates writing Damian because he has his own 10 year old son and couldn't imagine someone that young doing something like that.

Overall, I feel Snyders Batman has been the more consistent Batman title. I do think Tomasi has really found his groove in the story of getting Damian back. Tomasi has always delivered a lot of emotion, but that comes with the nature of the book Involving a father and his son.

 

[Arksy]

I spent the last three days reading 147 issues of Fables.

Worth it, even though it kind of goes very much downhill after about issue 75.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

So... Is the consens that Year One is a Batman Story with a big Jim Gordon Part or a Jim Gordon Story with a big Batman part?

 

[whatsinaname]

I spent the last three days reading 147 issues of Fables.

Worth it, even though it kind of goes very much downhill after about issue 75.

Yeah, I quit reading somewhere around 110 or so. Wetflame said it improves again, so I will read it in trades from the library once it is completely collected.

It is rather nice that the deluxe edition vol 9 collects it to just past 75. I won't be buying the rest of that series.

 

[PsychBat!]

Counter Earth is still a thing? Damn, Remender sure loves the 90s.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

So... Is the consens that Year One is a Batman Story with a big Jim Gordon Part or a Jim Gordon Story with a big Batman part?

Like Dark Knight Returns, Batman slowly erodes into the background of his own story, until its more about the effect and symbolic power Batman has over Gotham's citizens then Bruce himself. Can't really count Year One's, but DKR works on a 4x4 grid, 16 possible panels per page

• Book 1: Bruce Wayne/Batman appears in 505 panels (out of a possible 742)
• Book 2: 428 panels
• Book 3: 416 panels
• Book 4: 337 panels

 

[KoruptData]

I just read Batman Inc Vol 2 Issue 8 for the first time. I knew what happened and vol 1 of Inc. didn't do it for me so I never bothered with the n52 Inc. Needless to say, that was fucking brutal.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Like Dark Knight Returns, Batman slowly erodes into the background of his own story, until its more about the effect and symbolic power Batman has over Gotham's citizens then Bruce himself. Can't really count Year One's, but DKR works on a 4x4 grid, 16 possible panels per page

• Book 1: Bruce Wayne/Batman appears in 505 panels (out of a possible 742)
• Book 2: 428 panels
• Book 3: 416 panels
• Book 4: 337 panels

Dude, you need a Tag for all this stuff

 

[Arksy]

Yeah, I quit reading somewhere around 110 or so. Wetflame said it improves again, so I will read it in trades from the library once it is completely collected.

It is rather nice that the deluxe edition vol 9 collects it to just past 75. I won't be buying the rest of that series.

Eh, it does improve after 110, but not by much....by that time it's lost so much steam that it kind of feels hard to invest in any of the characters. So many plots to cover in the last three issues, I doubt they're going to be able to do it. The last major arc has been pretty uninspiring and uninteresting.

In any case I don't at all regret it, it's still decent enough. It's just that it's a pale shadow of the earlier issues.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

lol, found this angry fan letter about Batman year one

Mothafuckas ROBBED this man of 75 cents, yo

 

[tim1138]

Hah, great find JC. That is amazing.

 

[GrandHarrier]

lol, found this angry fan letter about Batman year one

Mothafuckas ROBBED this man of 75 cents, yo]

Very respectful to address them as gentlemen and offering a return address.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

I hope DC reprints the Deluxe Editon anytime soon. I want this as a hardcover next to mine Killing Joke

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Counter Earth is still a thing? Damn, Remender sure loves the 90s.

I can't believe Counter Earth ever really was a thing!

Remender!

 

[Zombine]

Even back then there were old people who bought into the hype of certain books.

 

[frye]

So... Is the consens that Year One is a Batman Story with a big Jim Gordon Part or a Jim Gordon Story with a big Batman part?

I've heard that people joked as it was coming out that it should be called Jim Gordon: Year One

 

[tim1138]

I hope original Secret Wars era Marvel is somewhere on Battleworld so we can get more gems like these, especially those rollerskates built into the Iron Man armor.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I hope original Secret Wars era Marvel is somewhere on Battleworld so we can get more gems like these, especially those rollerskates built into the Iron Man armor.

that first panel is killin' me yo

 

[GAMEPROFF]

It baffles me that they wont reprint the two Secret War Omnibusses. Even while I dont like those two Storylines at all, I would like to have a sexy Omnibus of booth.

 

[tim1138]

that first panel is killin' me yo

Rhodey has some amazing dialog in Secret Wars. He and Wasp's constant complainingabout breaking nails or needing her hair done really steal the show. I mean I guess yeah, the Venom suit debuted here and other important things, but they pale in comparison to Rhodey and Janet.

 

[arkon]

It baffles me that they wont reprint the two Secret War Omnibusses. Even while I dont like those two Storylines at all, I would like to have a sexy Omnibus of booth.

Why would you want the omniboo if you don't like the storylines?

 

[PsychBat!]

It's confirmed. JC is The Watcher.

 

[shiftplusone]

While I feel that Snyder's Batman has had higher highs, Tomasi and Gleason have easily put together the most consistently solid A title from issue #1 til now.

Umm Ive been reading it since issue 1 and that NoBody arc that ended with "forgive me father for I have sinned" is one of the worst(quality wise) things I've read

I groaned out loud and almost threw the book in the garbage.


Starting from the very next page it became a top 3 book, though.

 

[Zombine]

It's confirmed. JC is The Watcher.

Imagine how handy that is though. Like, what if one day he's held up and his life depends on answering a question right, and the criminal is like

"Yo. I'll let you live if you answer one question...how many pannels are in The Dark Knight book 3?"

 

[Memento Mori]

It baffles me that they wont reprint the two Secret War Omnibusses. Even while I dont like those two Storylines at all, I would like to have a sexy Omnibus of booth.

Weren't Marvel going to release a massive box-set of all the Secret Wars series?