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COMICS! |OT| July 2015. Okay for everyone, unless you're a DC or a Spider-Man.
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Poodlestrike
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You'll get your big, purple jobber and you'll like it.
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LaunchpadMcQ
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It's a pretty big difference in viewing area.
ViewtifulJC
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WadiumArcadium
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Omnibuses were a mistake, they're nothing but trash. I want my Hawkeye omnibus now please Marvel.
You can just send all your omnibuses my way then I guess.
I await my volume 2 oversized hardcover of Hawkeye while respecting gravity. One hardcover should not support so many pages.
Not exactly what i had in mind...i think I might sell my sagging Wolverine Claremont omnibus though along with a couple other OHCs.
Your book burning ways are not welcome here
TheDarkKnight774
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No he just wants something to climb
Perfect, that's really encouraging to hear! I'll have to place the first three volumes in my next order along with Kabuki
Some hardcovers are an absolute trash reading experience. Batman Superman Vol 2 is one of those books. For some reason the artist chose to do all the art so that you have to hold the book sideways to read it. It is fucking awful and doesn't work in trade. I am considering dropping it.
WadiumArcadium
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Speaking of Batman Superman, is Loeb's run any good? I noticed the poor person's collected volumes had a reprint.
LaunchpadMcQ
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He could climb a burning heap of books for added challenge
BrightLightLava
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I forget how bad they are until I read something better. They are not great.
Bust speaking of great, I'm around issue 40 of Sandman and it's shaping up to be as good as people say that it is. I didn't quite get it at first, but after the first arc it really becomes something special. Though I did think Lucien and Cain were the same person until I just looked it up.
Freezasaurus
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My Hellboy Library Editions still aren't in. You're failing me, IST.
LaunchpadMcQ
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BLL pls, don't encourage this
I would never expect them to put an order together over the weekend though.
I hate it when the binding gets all soft and fuzzy.
IST was a mistake. Nothing but trash.
TheDarkKnight774
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Awesome! Make sure to post your impressions when you start reading them.Perfect, that's really encouraging to hear! I'll have to place the first three volumes in my next order along with Kabuki
WadiumArcadium
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How can you hate something that's soft and fuzzy?
whatsinaname
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I would recommend reading it from the start. As gketter said, the volumes in the series can be read in any order (I did that too) but I also think reading it in order would have been great. Busiek builds the mythos of the city very well.
If you are reading on comixology, the order is fairly straightforward. All volumes are also available as TPBs. Some HCs are OOP but DC is slowly reprinting them.
Perfect, that's really encouraging to hear! I'll have to place the first three volumes in my next order along with Kabuki
Seriously, Astro City is great, month in and month out it's one of my favorite books. The only real dip in quality it ever had was the Dark Ages arc, and that's when Busiek was extremely sick. It's such a fascinating and fully realized world, there is so much thought that goes into not only the heroes and villains, but the every day people that live there. It really feels like a living, breathing city. I can't imagine someone being a fan of cape comics and not liking Astro City.
BrightLightLava
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Sorrles, Charles. If they were all as good as Lumberjanes Vol 1, I would have no complaints.
ElBoxyBrown
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So DC is gonna start selling motion comics like Marvel did with their Knights line-up:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X5UIV30/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Edit: I think there gonna be motion comics.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X5UIV30/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Edit: I think there gonna be motion comics.
Tyrant Rave
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I loved the one issue of Astro City I did read.
Also been reading BPRD this afternoon and it's great. I love how some stories are over in a handful of pages with pretty simple conclusions, it really keeps things fresh. Lobster Johnson is really cool too. About to start the actual Plague of Frogs part.
Also been reading BPRD this afternoon and it's great. I love how some stories are over in a handful of pages with pretty simple conclusions, it really keeps things fresh. Lobster Johnson is really cool too. About to start the actual Plague of Frogs part.
TetraxShards
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Yes. The whole run is pretty good, though I wouldn't be a fan of Michael Turner's art during The Supergirl from Krypton arc.
Nope, it's the DTV movie and the hardcover of the story arc the movie is based off of.
Freezasaurus
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Agreed.
TheDarkKnight774
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Chrononauhts #4 - wow that was a fun mini. Millar can still be good when he tries and also puts a little heart into his work and characters. Not everything needs to be crazy shocking things. I'd love this to be the next Vaughn movie!
Black Science #15 - I swear Remender is in some competition with BKV for putting in the most random acts of badness in their stories. Still love the art and we'll see how this goes
Black Science #15 - I swear Remender is in some competition with BKV for putting in the most random acts of badness in their stories. Still love the art and we'll see how this goes
To be fair though I actually understand the universe of Black Science unlike Saga which feels pretty cheap in every death.
ElBoxyBrown
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Oh, that's a really good deal then and a smart way to get people into your comics.
TheDarkKnight774
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I disagree. It's just were so used to death in stories having so much build up and grandiose that the way BKV and others do it it's so sudden and quick that it throws us off. There's no poetic final last words, no character taking a hundred bullets and still doing one last saving act. It's a violent world and things can escalate and go very badly very quickly.
Didn't Chrononauts get picked up as the first one came out?
The news that it was picked up broke in March but he was talking about a screenplay before the first issue even came out. I quite liked what I read of Starlight so I think the movie of that might be cool.
Millarworld just trucking away.
If it's not done by Vaughan I can wait. He's the only person I trust to elevate that shit into something watchable.
The way BKV does it is brutal. Even for big characters. He is just like... There I did it. Deal with it.
Baron von Loathsome
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Looking forward to that Nemesis plot?
TheDarkKnight774
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Haha yea. And what makes it so damn effective is he can build up great characters with unique voices so quickly that you care about them in a short amount of issuesI get to the end of a Saga issue and my favorites are still alive I'm like.
Hasn't been much of that around #19-21.
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