BoosterDuck
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Booster Gold?!
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COMICS! |OT| July 2013. Celebrate liberty with the ultimate patriotic superhero.
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Spike Spiegel
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So... they confirmed nothing?
Rafa=FedKilla
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Pretty much.
Freezasaurus
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Does anyone know what the deal is with those Wonder Woman DC Nation shorts that have been popping up? Is that going to be an actual animated series? Art style is smexy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ppgsKbHWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ppgsKbHWo
They're just the shorts that air during the DC Nation block on Saturday mornings on Cartoon Network.
Tawney Bomb
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Booster Gold and Doom Patrol possibly? That gets me excited, might read DC comics.
KoruptData
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Just ordered the first 2 volumes of JL Dark without knowing too much about it. People here like it?
Affeinvasion
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It changes dramatically from one team to another and I'm not really sure why. If you like John Constantine you'll probably enjoy it.
KoruptData
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Ok, I lied a little and I think I read Jeff Lemire? took over at 7 and it was his dream to write Constatine.
slightconfuse
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New Bone material by Jeff Smith announced! Awww yeah, anyone else a massive fan?
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/18/new-bone-from-jeff-smith/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/18/new-bone-from-jeff-smith/
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So, I'm gonna have to Earth 2 then. Neat.
Batman has enough fucking books focusing on him. And watch the new Batman be revealed as Bruce Wayne because "Batman is the bestest and he had a plan to survive and prep time and YEAH!" Ugh, fucking A.
That's one thing that's pretty much up to Robinson, and he's much too smart to do something this hacky. At least I think.
slightconfuse
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There's a line in there that makes it sound like Otto's going to be around for a while, Ramos said Slott clued him in on what he's doing for the next three years.
Also I really like the fact Waid said he'd do a Halloween special without having an idea first, also that he isn't going to just hand wave the cancer away.
KoruptData
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Anybody know a good place I can preorder the Batman Arkham Orgins AF's? That Deathstroke looks great.
fuck
Robinson's leaving the book soon, though. Unless something's changed.
Yeah but he's been the one that's been building up E2-Batman and he's gonna be the one to spill the beans on his identity.
Anybody know a good place I can preorder the Batman Arkham Orgins AF's? That Deathstroke looks great.
They don't have series 2 up yet but they have Bane/Batman/Black Mask/Joker up at Amoktime and Big Bad Toy Store who I have had good experiences with in the past.
http://www.amoktime.com/super-hero-super-section-dc-direct-action-figures.html
Read the first 10 issues of NML
Wow, Jedeye wasn't kidding about the quality. This is surprisingly one of the darkest tones I've ever seen a Batman book in. Gotham is well and truly destitute and it's people no longer even function as normal people. Gordon hates Bats and Bruce Wayne apparently fucked up major sometime in the lead up and Batman has been gone. And when Batman does come back, he need to relearn how to work around the entire city.
Yet there is also a strong sense of idealism, especially with the scarecrow arc that I just finished up reading. And as an atheist, I'm really appreciate that religion and religious people were portrayed as real altruists while still struggling with natural human temptations. It's a good example of what religion should be. And that's how Batman should be too, a dark and gritty world with an undying spark of hope and light.
The worst criticism I can give is that the Azrael issues were kind of boring, but I have no connection to this character, so that's to be expected. It doesn't help that his entire story didn't really relate to NML except for the very end. They weren't bad per se, I just don't see how they relate in a strong way to the story that's going on right now. Now that he's coming to gotham, hopefully, they'll get better.
But so far, this is fantastic.
Are you guys sure the lead up issues to NML were that bad? It's hard to believe that they suck as bad as Jedeye said if the whole arc keeps up the quality the first few issues have given. I don't know if I want to go back now that I read this far, but I'm curious about what happened to Bruce Wayne, what caused this earthquake, what is the deal with Gordon, etc.
Edit: Also, this is the first book that I read that had Cassandra Cain in it, but wasn't she suppose to be mute?
Wow, Jedeye wasn't kidding about the quality. This is surprisingly one of the darkest tones I've ever seen a Batman book in. Gotham is well and truly destitute and it's people no longer even function as normal people. Gordon hates Bats and Bruce Wayne apparently fucked up major sometime in the lead up and Batman has been gone. And when Batman does come back, he need to relearn how to work around the entire city.
Yet there is also a strong sense of idealism, especially with the scarecrow arc that I just finished up reading. And as an atheist, I'm really appreciate that religion and religious people were portrayed as real altruists while still struggling with natural human temptations. It's a good example of what religion should be. And that's how Batman should be too, a dark and gritty world with an undying spark of hope and light.
The worst criticism I can give is that the Azrael issues were kind of boring, but I have no connection to this character, so that's to be expected. It doesn't help that his entire story didn't really relate to NML except for the very end. They weren't bad per se, I just don't see how they relate in a strong way to the story that's going on right now. Now that he's coming to gotham, hopefully, they'll get better.
But so far, this is fantastic.
Are you guys sure the lead up issues to NML were that bad? It's hard to believe that they suck as bad as Jedeye said if the whole arc keeps up the quality the first few issues have given. I don't know if I want to go back now that I read this far, but I'm curious about what happened to Bruce Wayne, what caused this earthquake, what is the deal with Gordon, etc.
Edit: Also, this is the first book that I read that had Cassandra Cain in it, but wasn't she suppose to be mute?
Oh well if Robinson's handling it, then I have more faith in a decent reveal.
Still sucks to hear that Earth 2 is in danger of becoming another Batman book. :/
ill laugh if potto is long term.
Affeinvasion
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Keep reading...
Well just because there is a three year plan it doesn't mean Spock will last three years, Peter'll have a hell of a mess to clean up when he gets back.
Suicide Squad, mostly.
Yeah, I looked around and bit and it does not seem positive. Sadly
I really like harley though.Yeah, I looked around and bit and it does not seem positive. Sadly
She has her own book coming out soon. Should be good; the team working on it also did a great Power Girl comic pre-Nu52.
Where would I go to get infos on this other than here?
SpiderJerusalem
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I LOVE Harley but the I've only bought the joker crossover issues of Suicide Squad. I'm really hopeful for her new book. I miss Sirens
Sirens was pretty good.
Oh, thank you very much. That cover art is lovely.
BoosterDuck
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Oh gee thanks DC for charging $3.99 on your Trinity War comics.
Jedeye Sniv
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Inspired by our messages yesterday, I got hold of NML digitally through otherwise nefarious means (I have all the singles, I just wanna read them on my tablet. I can show pics of my boxes fro proof!) and have re-started it again too. Damn that early Maleev art is so good!
And I'm not saying you're a dirty torrenter, but if your source includes the Azreal and Robin issues do yourself a favour and delete them. remember how I said the Road to NML stuff sucked? Well Azrael is very indicitive of the quality of those issues - a very dull story set on the perhiphery of the event, completely non essential. And the Robin stuff is just a bit dull. The Nightwing issues are pretty good though.
There was also a very dry and dull story with fuckin awful Aparo artwork about Bruce going to Washington in the Road to NML, and it has zero worth besides "Batman lost". When NML started, the readers were just as in the dark as the characters as to where Batman was. And it kinda makes the story better going into it without the endless artistically moribund setup. But if you do happen to have them on hand, read a couple of issues and then come back and tell me how right I am. But FFS, don't pay money for them. IMO, No Man's Land is ONLY the issues in Batman, Tec, Legends and Shadow - all the other titles (Robin, Nightwing, Chronicles) are non-essential and of wildly varying quality.
As for your questions - NML represented a quantum leap forward in quality for the Bat-books, they had never been this good before. Bruce went to Washington, lost and went AWOL. He'll come back and they'll explain where he was (clue: crying
). The Earthquake was just a natural disaster but the story itself was awful, lots of really bad art and prose. the first 8 or so issues were just showing the quake from different perspectives - the Robin issue was 20 pages of unconnected story followed by ONE PAGE of him seeing the quake from a plane, it was awful. Best bit of the story were the one shots set in Arkham and Blackgate showing the prisoners escape, they weren't too bad. At the end the Ventriloquist tries to take credit for causing it. The whole event was about 17 issues IIRC. The aftershocks were almost universally terrible as well, months and months of boring stories about ruined buildings. Yawn.
BenjaminBirdie
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Yup. ;D
Went HAM on the Elephantmen sale. Got all the collections. The production value/design on these things...
:0
Sadly, art is mad inconsistent but the price was right. ;D
Adam Warren did a story in A+X? Holy shit must read!
EDIT: He did one in A+X #9 too!
Shazam, Booster and the Doom Patrol, possibly? Very nice. Hoping for the best and all, of course.
I have the first book, I believe, but I've yet to read it. Given the recent news, I may finally pick up on it. :3
I have the first book, I believe, but I've yet to read it. Given the recent news, I may finally pick up on it. :3
Cpt.Underpants
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Might be a long shot but, is there a site that live streams the comic con DC/Vertigo panel?
Jedeye Sniv
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The perspective on that table is fucked.
/oldmanlawn
/oldmanlawn
BenjaminBirdie
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No, it was mis-solicited for #9.
Super duper wrong!
ViewtifulJC
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get the FUCK out of this thread
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