GrandHarrier
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Wut.
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COMICS! |OT| January 2015. So many variants you'd swear it's 1995 instead.
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Wut.
Oh man, you ain't seen nothin yet. You're in for a wild ride.
Also, in regards to the symbolism and whatnot, if I were you, I wouldn't think too hard about it. Just take it all in and enjoy it.
It's your first time reading Doom Patrol? Oh boy you're in for a treat, like Kipp said don't try to over-analyze shit, just take the weird in.
Also, remember that IIRC Morrison was still in his "straight edge" period while writing this.
On another note, finally finished reading all the Hellboy stuff I currently have. How the fuck did I forget about the fucking twist in The Wild Hunt?
Hellboy is the fucking heir to King Arthur! So hype!
As the series has progressed it's become less about them which is sad. I would read a book about just them and a teacher. Say Emma or Illyana.
GrandHarrier
Member
I look forward to your fanfiction.
Edit: WHY THE FUCK AM I GETTING MOE ADS? GOD DAMNIT FREEZA.
I'll write some Eva and Kitty fan fiction. I'll even include the banana suit.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
We are finally animeGAF
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Finally? NeoGAF has always been animeGAF.
I dare not look in the Steam OT any more.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Definitely not in on Convergence, won't be any DC for those two months. I've been burned too many times with their gimmick months. And those "creative" teams. Oh boy. Gonna use that month for omnibuses and LoSH.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
with those convergence creative teams, I'm shocked Rafa or Kipp didn't get the call. They seemed to hire anybody they could find.
GrandHarrier
Member
So because I've been digging Red Sonja I decided to check out one of the off shoots? Mini series? Reason to print another book? Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #1.
That sure was a thing. They don't give shit for backstory. I think this is a slightly older Sonja? And there was something about a Snake God they explained literally nothing about? It did have a casually Evil Priest so that's cool I guess. Sonja also appears to be running a school and is in a relationship slash sleeping with some guy but they don't say who he was. Also they want you to know that she sure feels those old wounds cause she totes has a dream about one that didn't seem to serve any purpose except to eat up pages and then later we got sweet 60s style *moan* and *grunt*'s in the dialog.
3/10 and that's only because of the sweet cover.
That sure was a thing. They don't give shit for backstory. I think this is a slightly older Sonja? And there was something about a Snake God they explained literally nothing about? It did have a casually Evil Priest so that's cool I guess. Sonja also appears to be running a school and is in a relationship slash sleeping with some guy but they don't say who he was. Also they want you to know that she sure feels those old wounds cause she totes has a dream about one that didn't seem to serve any purpose except to eat up pages and then later we got sweet 60s style *moan* and *grunt*'s in the dialog.
3/10 and that's only because of the sweet cover.
It will be completely NSFW. Totally lewd.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
That hurts brah.....
Where to start with Red Sonja? Any good collections?
GrandHarrier
Member
Wrong person to ask unfortunately. I jumped on with Simone/Geovani with the most recent #1 about a year ago. It's been really enjoyable. They've done two six issue arcs, the second of which was especially good imo. I occasionally dabble in the other one shots or spin offs out of curiosity but I'm still a complete novice to this stuff.
TetraxShards
Member
Me neither, though I did get these last week:
They have no right to be so comfy TBH.
whatsinaname
Member
Hawkeye #19 was pretty good. Overall though, looking at #1-#19, something is missing in this series for me. It started off great and is peppered with some nice issues. But taken together, it feels like there is no direction to the series. (It is not the delays talking - those haven't really effected me yet). And the 'bro' stuff is overused.
You are coming upon one of my favourite arcs in comics. Hopefully you'll know which one I refer to once you read it.
You are coming upon one of my favourite arcs in comics. Hopefully you'll know which one I refer to once you read it.
I don't know the names of the TPBs, but Red Sonja should be fairly easy to follow. There was one main series that ran for a few years, with one main storyline, which ended in #49 IIRC. This storyline is divided into two parts. The first part ends with
Sonja dying
she is essentially reincarnated...as herself and we get what is almost the same origin story again
Dynamite also released Queen Sonja, which is also one long story, entirely self-contained, about Sonja becoming the ruler of a country and her battles as a leader.
Then they stopped both of these series and started over with the new Red Sonja series, written by Gail Simone. I haven't read this yet.
The various one-shots and mini-series released should all be self-contained or should say if they are the sequels to other one-shots/minis. I haven't read Vulture's Circle yet...maybe it's just crap.
Speaking of which, I did just read The Black Tower, which is a four-issue mini involving the titular structure appearing in a town and making the people go crazy. Two people emerge from the tower and are labeled demons by the asshole badguy barbarian villain. He kills the man and tries to rape the woman before Sonja pops up and cuts off his finger after he touches her boob (yes, really), and then through the course of events...his junk. Anyway, the town becomes a den of sin and debauchery while the tower just sits there. The asshole barbarian guy becomes the town leader and after a number of years pass, gets people to bring him Sonja, who is now missing an eye. She of course stops him and then the tower doors open, and here's where shit gets stupid and weird.
Armored guys that almost look like Doombots holding lightsabers emerge and are revealed to in fact be robots. They take over the town and drive Sonja away. Years pass and the robots have made everyone's lives miserable. Their leader emerges from the tower and it is implied that his robot army has taken over the world. They have guns and tanks, so the barbarians are pretty much helpless. Sonja shows up again, now older (and by that, I mean she has some white streaks in her hair and otherwise looks the same. Come on, guys.) and leading a barbarian army. The robots easily crush the resistance and their leader cuts off Sonja's head. Yep, she's dead.
Fast forward a number of years and we find out that the leader is a human wearing armor. There's little pockets of resistance but his dictatorship stops anything from happening. People are now used to technology and would-be assassins use guns and such. There's a 'religion' that started off as black tower worshippers -all female- who have over time changed into essentially a bunch of whores worshipping the leader. He sleeps with one of them, a woman with short red hair (HINT) and then shows her that he is in fact a time traveler. The tower is a giant time machine and his parents are the two people who came out back in issue one. The woman then attacks him and reveals that she is either Red Sonja reincarnated, cloned, or something else (seriously, this is how the dialogue goes...not even the writer knows what's going on here, lol) and cuts off his head.
She then proceeds to go back in time to the beginning of the story. She kills asshole barbarian guy, then kills the main villain's (innocent) mother to prevent him from being born, which causes her to fade out of existence and the tower disappears. Then we see Sonja riding towards the town.
Fast forward a number of years and we find out that the leader is a human wearing armor. There's little pockets of resistance but his dictatorship stops anything from happening. People are now used to technology and would-be assassins use guns and such. There's a 'religion' that started off as black tower worshippers -all female- who have over time changed into essentially a bunch of whores worshipping the leader. He sleeps with one of them, a woman with short red hair (HINT) and then shows her that he is in fact a time traveler. The tower is a giant time machine and his parents are the two people who came out back in issue one. The woman then attacks him and reveals that she is either Red Sonja reincarnated, cloned, or something else (seriously, this is how the dialogue goes...not even the writer knows what's going on here, lol) and cuts off his head.
She then proceeds to go back in time to the beginning of the story. She kills asshole barbarian guy, then kills the main villain's (innocent) mother to prevent him from being born, which causes her to fade out of existence and the tower disappears. Then we see Sonja riding towards the town.
Coriolanus
Banned
Welcome to Sonja and Conan.
Conan usually goes "he's cimmerian. he's a barbarian. he hates magic. the fuck else do you need to know?" as far as backstory is concerned.
Tbh they usually don't even detail the magic bit if it isn't in the current story.
By crom and stuff.
I mustve read more than 300 Conan stories. Here's what i know about sonja: she's a redhead in a metal thong, and she will only fuck the man that can defeat her. Afaik hasn't boned conan yet, even though he saved her ass and disarmed her dozens of times.
Comics from another time.
So I actually didn't think the Fantastic Four trailer looked that bad. I'll probaly end up watching it when it finally comes out.
http://youtu.be/e-BVs-KCSiA
http://youtu.be/e-BVs-KCSiA
I'm not interested in seeing a darker Fantastic Four at all, honestly.
GrandHarrier
Member
Oh I'm not judging i. I'm enjoying most of what I am dabbling in. I've probably liked 90% of what I've read. As a new reader Simone's run has really helped ease me in by basically saying "Don't worry about all this stuff I'll explain what you need to know". So of course when I deviate into stuff that long time fans would know it's like jumping into cape comics for the first time.
My problem with the trailer is, that you actually dont see anything that could help determain if this is going to be a good comicbook movie or not.
Its just a couple of people standing in front of the camera, this would make everything at least look ok.
They could at least give us some shots of Doom or how they were suited up with a burning Human Torch and The Thing and everything. Then I could also really having an opinion on the trailer.
I can understand that. I will say however, that all this pre-release stuff reminds me of what people were saying before GotG came out.
I don't see how it's similar to be honest.
The trailer is more similar to Man of Steel than anything.
The hesitations, the castings debates, the doubt that it would do well.
GrandHarrier
Member
Basically Cheska is putting her rep on the line and saying this is going to do GotG numbers. Confirmed. No take backs.
You can apply that to a lot of movies. Guardians even in pre release was far different than this.
LOL. No, I don't think that at all, but I do think there has been more doubt that normal surrounding it.
Doubt? Its open hate.
Absolutely.
GrandHarrier
Member
I just want to know if they will acknowledge Sue and Johnny. Are they step siblings or will they just straight ignore it.
I was always planning to see this, shitshow or not.
I was always planning to see this, shitshow or not.
I agree. Better than I expected. Doesn't mean the final product will be any good of course, but still.
At the very least it'll be hard to be worse than the previous movies. Ugh, Rise of the Silver Surfer was probably the closest I've come to walking out on a movie in a theater.
And I like the way it flashed X-Men: Days of Future Past really clearly, but they made it easy to miss "from the Studio behind" (or whatever the exact phrasing was).
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
There's literally no way a movie with Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan can be bad.
I seem to remember reading that Sue is adopted in the film?
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I'll say this: Fantastic Four trailer was better than the Ant-Man trailer.
slightconfuse
Banned
Nothing happened in that trailer. The first half of it was literally interstellar.
Half expected rust choke to show up
Half expected rust choke to show up
Low bar imo.
I'd rather say it here than in the trailer thread because they take everything as console wars wankery but on a pure conceptual level: I'd always be more interested in seeing a movie about a guy that shrinks to perform a heist than a gritty reboot of a property I've seen before.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
The lowest bar. Ant-Man trailer was awkward and terrible.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
It doesn't matter to me about ant man , they have me with Paul Rudd
KoruptData
Member
Someone give the heads up when IST updates please.
Buddha Beam
Banned
I never figured Mr. Mxyzptlk could one hit KO
. Not sure how I feel about that. I guess it makes sense, given his power set.
Trigon
ViewtifulJC
Banned
That Awkward Moment when you read this comment and remember that terrible comedy from last year you tried to forget
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
oh god damn it