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COMICS! |OT| January 2016. Didn't I promise? We're going home now.
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
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pizza?
Respect
I have a feeling this isn't a statue that we will be able to buy. it can join the other statues that we are never going to get
I keep the hope alive, the faint hope. But hope nontheless. I would give this man large sums of money to get this. Captain Marvel money.
Freezasaurus
Member
What makes you say that Messi-kun?
I just think he would have said more than he did and very few image books get statues.
Freezasaurus
Member
By "very few" you mean "almost literally zero."
Has anything from Image gotten any statues? I mean, aside from Walking Dead. Invincible got that one Atom Eve figure and that was it.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah, I'm not really interested in them, either. I do think they look pretty awesome, though, and I have nothing but respect for those who do collect them.
Review O'Clock! I'm "forcing" myself to work through more of my backlog before I buy a bunch more Nightwing and Sunstone books on IST. Speaking of, I have no idea of I talked about Nightwing before.
Sunstone Volume 2
Sejic continues to kill it on art. Obviously, I really love the few pinup panels that he has gone all out on, but even his more workman page to page layouts are delightful. This comic has, hands down, the best use of an angry uterus emoji I've seen in a comic, but I probably have been reading the wrong comics. Sejic is great at making smut, and by smut, I mean super cute moments with bondage gear and diddling intermixed. Also, the bonus pin up outfits in the back are great. Really want to see these for my Blade and Soul characters/any normal MMO game.
As for the story, it was really fun seeing Ally's origin and where some of her hang ups come from. She was totally illogical in a lot of spots in the most understandable way. Would recommend! I keep trying to get my girlfriend to read these, but she doesn't want to read my "lesbian porn books." Maybe I should give her this one as it has more guy on girl action? Excited to read the next one.
Birds of Prey, Volume 1, Chuck Dixon
Meh. The watercolor style of the first issue was really great, but I didn't like the hoochie mama outfits that Canary was in as it felt exploitative (lol, wat? see above, maybe she just needs a pony girl get up for me to be ok with it?). I enjoyed the scenes with Barbra in all the issues more than anything that Canary was doing. It may be that I have residual hate for the character after watching 3 season of Arrow. However, I did come out of this book liking Huntress a lot more. I don't know that I'm going to go back in for more Birds of Prey stuff. It seems like Lady Shiva/Lynx are some of Dixon's go to bad girls in his little corner of 90's DC. I also didn't realize that he wrote Knightfall, and I really need to check it out. He also keeps sprinkling in Blockbuster. I don't mind that at all.
I have 3 volumes of Usagi Yojimbo's giant collections that I need to get back into. Unfortunately, I can't stick with them too long, as they make all my other comics feel self conscious that they'll never be as great. Stan Sakai, you the real MVP.
Sunstone Volume 2
Sejic continues to kill it on art. Obviously, I really love the few pinup panels that he has gone all out on, but even his more workman page to page layouts are delightful. This comic has, hands down, the best use of an angry uterus emoji I've seen in a comic, but I probably have been reading the wrong comics. Sejic is great at making smut, and by smut, I mean super cute moments with bondage gear and diddling intermixed. Also, the bonus pin up outfits in the back are great. Really want to see these for my Blade and Soul characters/any normal MMO game.
As for the story, it was really fun seeing Ally's origin and where some of her hang ups come from. She was totally illogical in a lot of spots in the most understandable way. Would recommend! I keep trying to get my girlfriend to read these, but she doesn't want to read my "lesbian porn books." Maybe I should give her this one as it has more guy on girl action? Excited to read the next one.
Birds of Prey, Volume 1, Chuck Dixon
Meh. The watercolor style of the first issue was really great, but I didn't like the hoochie mama outfits that Canary was in as it felt exploitative (lol, wat? see above, maybe she just needs a pony girl get up for me to be ok with it?). I enjoyed the scenes with Barbra in all the issues more than anything that Canary was doing. It may be that I have residual hate for the character after watching 3 season of Arrow. However, I did come out of this book liking Huntress a lot more. I don't know that I'm going to go back in for more Birds of Prey stuff. It seems like Lady Shiva/Lynx are some of Dixon's go to bad girls in his little corner of 90's DC. I also didn't realize that he wrote Knightfall, and I really need to check it out. He also keeps sprinkling in Blockbuster. I don't mind that at all.
I have 3 volumes of Usagi Yojimbo's giant collections that I need to get back into. Unfortunately, I can't stick with them too long, as they make all my other comics feel self conscious that they'll never be as great. Stan Sakai, you the real MVP.
Agreed, plus I am hardcore into collecting gunpla
Freezasaurus
Member
Ah yes. That shit takes dedication. Some of the customs I've seen posted on figure blogs are spectacular.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The pony joke was in vol 2 of sunstone? Where Ally is at that show and can't stop laughing at the guy? I loved that bit.
Would love to know what your reaction was when you seen the big thing with
Marion nearly fucking herself up by being an idiot.
Oh wow, I hope she recovers quickly. Major heart surgery is no joke especially on a kid. That really sucks
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I highly highly recommend giving Dixons Birds of Prey series one more volume. The first Dc collected all the early minis that he did getting the concept of the series off the ground. It really gets going the next volume the series starts. And if you just read one issue of Dixons run read issue #8. It's the Dick Grayson goes on a date with Babs issue. It was hugely popular issue to the point i never read it until it came out on CMX 10 years later because DC never created BoP trades and the single issue would go for $30+ or so
You should! The series they did was amazing. Each issue was a meaty self contained story. Loved every issue
my name is ed
Banned
I said it before but Aja is the successor to Mazzuchelli which means he's destined to leave interiors and then drop a classic in about 15 years.
It's really kind of crazy. Those two images look like they could have come from the same issue, besides the coloring in the lower two panels in Year One.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
If you ever want more Mazzucchelli, definitely check out Daredevil: Born Again. He's such a good artist.
Aja rules too. Shame he seems to only be doing covers now.
Read it and loved it.
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
There's also a panel that is pretty much a direct homage to Batman Year One, try to find it.
Actually there are a bunch of references now that I'm thinking about it...
That's quite a bit of comics. I tend to just read one issue a day unless it's a series i am really into and i have several issues accessible, trade or backlog. I need to get back to Zero after reading vol 1 and 2 relatively quickly.
When you pull 20+ books a week you can't rest on your laurels.
I usually read 3-15. Closer to three on the days I work, and closer to 15 on the days I'm off. Although I really only get close that that high a number when I have NOTHING to do all day.
you have to let them pile up for one month and then drop whatever you feel like reading the least. Only the strong will survive! Trump 2016.
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
Okay this will be something fun to do during the book club, to find all the homages to Batman Year One.
The hand thing? Oh man. I'm not a part of that lifestyle, but I am a nurse in an intensive care unit. This kind of self harm, accidental or not, really bums me out. Blood clots and dead limbs are no joke. Really scary stuff. It was also the part that was furthest from my ability to relate to. I really didn't understand that you can go too deep too fast in bondage. Maybe that's a real thing? Getting tied up so well once that you want to be a full time slave seems odd.
As for the Pony joke, no. Just how she tries to introduce herself to Alan when they first me.
Is Birds of Prey #8 going to make me even madder that Dick didn't date Babs forever? Watching him hound down other girls in Nightwing is a bummer when he had such an awesome gal in Barbara. Most of this frustration comes from the trade Nightwing: The Lost Year, that has him dating Kori, and her being a massive B to Babs when she comes to see Dick. DickBabs forever, ya'll.
you didn't mention the scene where dick sleeps with babs after she gets shot by the joker only to reveal that he's about to get married to starfire the morning after
or the fact that these scenes are flashbacks and are revealed because dick and babs are laughing and reminiscing fondly about them in the present
nightwing annual #2 brehs
Thanks for the refresher, it was one of the first trades I bought a couple years ago, and I gave/sold it to my name is ed.
BKatastrophe
Member
Brainstorm is best Transformer
And this is some old school Kirby-esque stuff right here:
I've grown to really appreciate that kind of art
And this is some old school Kirby-esque stuff right here:
I've grown to really appreciate that kind of art
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
I loved #8. I even used to have it hanging on the wall...
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Yea it was an awesome issue that lived up to my 10 years of anticipation
ThyMusicMan
Member
Rick Remender posted this on Twitter. I would be down to buy one of these.
Oh and seemingly him and Wes Craig said that the Deadly Class OHC is confirmed.
Badass ....will buy
Mr. Luchador
Member
I have it my head that 5 years from now I'll do a Rick and Carl Grimes Cosplay with my wee lad.
Not sure how far to go with losing a hand and an eye though!
WadiumArcadium
Member
Sacrifices have to be made.
That looks great, but all I can think of while watching it is how much it reminds me of The Wolf Among Us. That did the comic book style so well that anyone else attempting it is going to look like they're imitating it by comparison. Of course, that had a lot less action than this does.
WadiumArcadium
Member
First thing I thought of when I saw it as well. Loved that art style in Wolf Among Us and then there was that massive downgrade for Game of Thrones.
Mr. Luchador
Member
I'd really enjoy another The Wolf Among Us Telltale game. Is the comic series a good read?
TheDarkKnight774
Member
It is through the main big arc (ish 75). The second halls milage may vary. I still enjoyed it enough to keep reading but wasn't as strong as the first half
Mr. Luchador
Member
How much of the story was told via the Telltale game?
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