Greatest doesn't equal best fam.
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COMICS! |OT| January 2016. Didn't I promise? We're going home now.
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Greatest doesn't equal best fam.
BKatastrophe
Member
My point is that there was nothing that made them great. Their biggest accomplishments were dying. Oh, and before Hal died, he murdered damn near the entire corps after going insane via Parallax.
That's it. Johns' pushes these two in the most "tell, but don't show" manner ever.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I don't see how it'd be possible for Jaime to drop even further off the map than he is now unless they do something truly ridiculous like kill him and give Ted the scarab.
Noooooo
BKatastrophe
Member
Guaranteed Ted gets the Scarab some how. Or develops an artificial Scarab or some shit. All of his weaponry and tech was derived from the Scarab, right?
Schweinehund
Member
I don't hate Ted but that'd be the biggest waste of a rebirth ever and not how I would start a relaunch.
I don't think Johns even cares for the character that much.
I don't think Johns even cares for the character that much.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Tbpf, I don't much care when Marvel does it, I'm only reading the 2 titles from them
I'm hoping you're right, though. I'm just nervous...
BKatastrophe
Member
At what point has anyone, including myself, said they love it when Marvel makes stuff more in line with the movies? Or the constant #1's? At the very least in the past month? Genuinely curious.
I don't hate DC at all. I'm just fucking with Poodle. I literally don't know who else would be Rebirthed.
Jaime would have to actually be on the map to drop off of it.
La Maquinon
Member
Just read Lazarus #14 omg omg this book just gets better and better.
FANTASTIC book. Really dig what issues I've read.
Marcus Johnson, loved by all.
I'm not talking Rebirth in particular just generally in the industry. When the New 52 first started their were a ton of female Solo books and female led team books. Yet when Marvel started to put out more female Led books the industry blew up fellating them with praise. Same thing with certain creators, where was the love for Soule be was working on DC items, or say David F Walker.
I mean I think DC You has been great but it seems that whatever DC does it gets shit on these days, while Marvel gets a bigger benefit of the doubt.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Yep.
The camaraderie between the different Lazari is something I've really enjoyed and did not expect.
La Maquinon
Member
Have you read this far yet?!?!? I don't want to spoil you but omg!
Freezasaurus
Member
I dropped it for a bit but I've gotten back into the book recently. It really is a good series. It's nice that the second hardcover finally got a mention in the new Image solicits.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Yeah I finished 15 yesterday.
whatsinaname
Member
Started Astro City: Confession. Had never read the foreword of this volume before. Such an amazing introduction by Harlan Ellison. So the first 3 introductions in the HCs are Gaiman, Miller and Ellison. And none of them seem like a "my publisher made me" pieces.
La Maquinon
Member
I'm gonna read 15 later. I can't believe she
didn't kill Jonah!
But he did well to earn her mercy. He was straight up honest
BossDarkseid
Member
Only 2 issues into Omega Men but gawd its so bleak. Really good though, even though i find the dialogue a little hard to follow at times.
Dandy Lyin
Member
I just saw that there is a Lazarus Sourcebook #1 coming in April.
"Following the revelations of "Poison" and leading into the bloody events of "Cull" with LAZARUS #22 in May, a new look at the world of LAZARUS: What's it like to live life under the Carlyle regime? This is where you find out!"
"Following the revelations of "Poison" and leading into the bloody events of "Cull" with LAZARUS #22 in May, a new look at the world of LAZARUS: What's it like to live life under the Carlyle regime? This is where you find out!"
I honestly thought it came out already.
Next week is the Black Science book 1 oversized hardcover!
I'm also wildly hyped about Future Quest. I mean look at this fucking promo:
That is seriously stunning.
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is the best book Marvel is publishing, no shame in shame in caring about it more than anything else
whatsinaname
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
I never really got a sense of bleakness from it, funny enough. It's dark, but it's very much alive.
TetraxShards
Member
Yet.
Freezasaurus
Member
Wait, what?
The first Black Science hardcover has been sitting at my local Barnes & Noble for weeks. Literally weeks.
whatsinaname
Member
I think there was a major misprint but some stock still shipped out.
I don't think that's what that was at B&N. This is 3 volumes and is OHC.
Edit: Freeza, buy all the copies and sell it as a collectors piece.
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah, it was definitely there. It was a big-ass book they had to put on the top shelf because it was too tall vertically to fit on the lower ones.
Yeah. It's officially out on Tuesday. It's going to be a nice week to begin with:
Black Science OHC
Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Daredevil vol 4 (I more or less ignored Cali DD, need to fix this.)
Freezasaurus
Member
Wait, Superior Foes omni next week? AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
In for both. I haven't put in an IST order in weeks.
Dude. Yes. I had to buy all of it for the second time.
Omfg though...Punisher MAX. This book is fucking relentless.
TetraxShards
Member
The nvidia site for free beta codes crashed on me half a dozen times before I gave up in frustration.
I'll be playing the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider for the next few days, if this kidney infection doesn't kill me by then. I miss coffee.
BKatastrophe
Member
I think it has more to do with their mainstream image, more often then not. I think it's just because Marvel seems a lot more...open, I guess? I'll go with "open." Because of that, and the sheer variety of properties that are growing increasingly familiar to the general public and mainstream, Marvel receives more praise. Basically, they have better PR.
DC, on the other hand, has always been that company that is so firmly rooted in legacies and because of the reboots and the much larger Batman push than any other property, that people just aren't willing to care. I mean, look at what 90% of the mainstream has to say about DC: too many reboots, their only good character is Batman, etc. And the ones they do give solo books to are ones no one is familiar with.
Now, if you're talking strictly within the comics crowd, without including the mainstream at all, I can't help you. All I know is that current DC doesn't pull me in like the older DC stuff. I think it has a lot to do with the lack of older, familiar property books aside from Batman, and a lot of weird, experimental books. It also seems like DC neglects a lot of characters, and they have a very small handful of writers dominating them (Johns, Venditti, Lobdell). Granted, there are obviously more than that, and I applaud DC for their lineup, but a lot of their stuff isn't appealing to me yet. All I'm reading by them currently is Midnighter and Black Canary. However, if there is a massive shakeup as far as writers and artists go, I'm in. Give me someone who can write good chemistry between characters and put them on Red Hood and Arsenal and I will read the hell out of it.
I dunno. I feel like I'm basically just spitballing here and nothing I'm saying is making any sense. It's hard to put it into one cohesive thought, but there you go. DC just isn't appealing to the right crowds, I guess.
Huh, your name looks vaguely familiar...
I'm buying an issue a week, making it the best weekly comic ever.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Who the hell are you?
Freezasaurus
Member
Nah. The Witness is taking up all my free time.
How good is it? I'm waiting until tomorrow to get it.
Freezasaurus
Member
It's excellent. But be warned, these are like, fucking Stephen Hawking difficulty puzzles.
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