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COMICS!!! |OT| January 2017 This is the Dawning of the Age of Apocalypse
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And now it seems like 2017 will be them trying to bring the extreme 90s back a bit lol.
Boom/IDW are Image without the edge. And yet, more tolerable.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Hmmmm, nah.
It's marvel people are staying on board regardless
And boom is not on image level.
Do you ever get the feeling image creators have big ideas for the first arc and then don't know how to continue post arc one but they do anyway
They wish.
Maybe they should pay their creators on time first.
They wish.
Maybe they should pay their creators on time first.
Stealth birthright discussion
BKV probably gets his endings from a random word generator and uses his writing skills to make it work.
What your saying is true, but some writers plan out longer than others.
Disagree
I honestly believe bkv is one of the few that knows what he is doing
BKatastrophe
Member
Yeah, that's one thing about Saga that is getting noticeable as the book goes on.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I believe he's known the ending of Saga since he started. But like most creative work how they get there ebbs and flows.
I loved reading about how Gaiman wrote Sandman. If my memory is correct his approach is throughout arcs he'd toss various things up in air and then if he felt compelled he'd pull them back down when it suited a newer arc. Which is why it's really fascinating to deee the connections and threads of characters and character associations when it's all complete. Something when I was reading it monthly was really hard to notice or see as it could be years before he'd take some minor note from an arc and pick it back up
I loved reading about how Gaiman wrote Sandman. If my memory is correct his approach is throughout arcs he'd toss various things up in air and then if he felt compelled he'd pull them back down when it suited a newer arc. Which is why it's really fascinating to deee the connections and threads of characters and character associations when it's all complete. Something when I was reading it monthly was really hard to notice or see as it could be years before he'd take some minor note from an arc and pick it back up
whatsinaname
Member
That ties into the previous comments I saw in this page about Marvel for cancelling at 12-14 issues. Not all ideas lend themselves to 50+ issues. And even if the idea was sustainable, not all creators have the skill to maintain quality. Because of personal investment (and maybe the scale for breaking even), it looks like Image series lend themselves to persisting longer at lower sales whereas DC/Marvel editorial would have dropped them a lot sooner.
Haloid1177
Banned
Was ordering some comics and just realized Jock is doing the next All Star Batman arc and holy shit now I'm hype. Gonna finish up the last two issues of All-Star I have tonight.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Monstress' monthly sales are slowly slipping but it's Vol 1 TPB is showing nice legs. It has sold 24K copies through its first 5 months.
That's unfortunate.
Give it to us and we will laugh.
Freezasaurus
Member
Holy shit, Flintstones this week was another spot-on issue.
Haloid pls, don't you have more figures to buy?
Ehhh.... I stopped after #2. Dipped too much into fantasy territory for me.
Haloid pls, don't you have more figures to buy?
Ehhh.... I stopped after #2. Dipped too much into fantasy territory for me.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Snotgirl was suppose to get a Halloween issue but was cancelled at the last minute. We might get it next October. Criminal I say.
Off the top of my head:
-one person saying Jane and Sam are bad replacements compared to Bucky and Dick because they are obscure characters
-Someone used potential hate over turning Misty Knight white as a way to prove some sort of double standard
-Spencer is currently arguing with a dude who is convinced that there's an sjw conspiracy at Marvel and anyone saying otherwise is lying.
There's a lot because it's been going on all day.
Capullo is its only saving grace
Shit, if Twitter happened in the 80s and 90s people would riot over Rhodey or Thunderstrike
Oh now that series is off to a great start.
The longer the book goes on the more unhinged Millar will become.
This is the perfect book for that
It's a mini so he'd want to hurry up. DC lit the batsignal. Capullo is needed back home.
Dude goes too far after a while.
Indeed, the Nova logo is on-point.
How about 5-6 issues
Too short
That's how Millar rolls these days.
what is this?
Freezasaurus
Member
It seems like a lot of books are ending up as minis now. Which I guess is a good thing since the industry has a pretty high turnover rate of new series at the moment.
Freezasaurus
Member
Nemesis is basically "hey, what if Batman was (more of) an asshole?"
And I continue my chug through Valiant, following a reading order. Read through the second Eternal Warrior trade, the first Rai one, and the big old Armor Hunters deluxe thing today. So that... was a lot of comics. Thus far I've liked Valiant's stuff okay for the most part (Shadowman, while it hit an okay issue or two, was damn rocky pretty much the whole time), with some of them even proving pretty darn good, but nothing's really blown me away yet. As in I don't regret picking up or reading this stuff, but there's nothing here that I'd feel a strong need to pick up in physical or outside of a sale or whatever. Still, got a good bit left to read in the old digital backlog before I'm through it yet.
This is not fair
You can't watch the Lions playoff game for three hours and be fair to Valiant.