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COMICS! |OT| July 2016. Everyone Loves A Hero, Everyone Loves You
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Is this like how Microsoft calculates things in number of crates destroyed in a game instead of sales?
I'm starting to find sales stuff to be gross, just too many relaunches and then seeing how well each company can do in their relaunch month while i'm still reading Walking Dead and Invincible issue 100something.
TetraxShards
Member
It was going to be July. Not a good sign for their promise that the whole series would come out this year. Especially when they have Walking Dead Season 3 coming as well, and there's still two more episodes of Minecraft left. I know they have massively expanded as a studio but it still worries me.
I like my POPs. Have 32 now, got Dad 76 and Movie Harley this week. Probably going to get a few more soon with my birthday coming up in a few weeks. Hoping to get a Star Trek Beyond Spock for sure. I don't buy the bigger ones usually but if they did a POP Rides with the Enterprise I'd probably go for that.
Brianimaniac
Banned
Word.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...themed-variant-covers-by-mayhew-wu-mckone-mor
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE DEFENDERS
THIS IS NOT THE DEFENDERS
STOP CALLING THEM THE DEFENDERS
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE DEFENDERS
THIS IS NOT THE DEFENDERS
STOP CALLING THEM THE DEFENDERS
Poodlestrike
Banned
Sales stuff has always been gross, people take industry-relevant data and use it as a (really fucking thin) smokescreen for fanboy wars.
LordOfLore
Banned
They really should've gone with Heroes For Hire or The Warriors.
Detective Comics and Action Comics are still with the real numbering.
Brianimaniac
Banned
They don't get credit for this. They gave up.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Its just boring. Like who honestly gives a single solitary shit unless one of your fave books is in danger. Shock and awe, they ordered a bunch of #1s, variant covers, crossovers, and niggas still buy Batman comics no matter who's writer/drawing them. What the fuck ever.
BKatastrophe
Member
So Inhumans are descendants of way way way early ancestors of humans. At one point the Kree were going from planet to planet messing with various races' DNA in order to create new living weapons. They did so to humans, and then left after an Inhuman named Randac, the first Inhuman and the first Inhuman king, forced them out. Over time the Inhumans, believed to be a small group, pretty much lived in isolation. Away from the rest of the world, due to them no longer really being human, since now they were hybrids. Over the milennia, however, Inhuman DNA was naturally passed down and spread all over the world.
The Inhumans were created by the Kree using an element called "Terrigen." It is with this element that the Inhumans use to activate their transformations and become their true selves. Various different Inhuman cultures have varying opinions and policies on when and how Terrigen should be used.
Beast is with the Inhumans only because none of the mutants want to deal with him and he's researching a way to stop the M-Pox from killing off mutantkind.
The game is rigged as shit, it doesn't represent any sort of tangible reality, and it only matters if you need to feel validated for backing the right corporation.
Just read the dang books, talk about the art. That's the only good part. Comics itself.
LordOfLore
Banned
Something I just noticed, but have CBR stopped with comic reviews? They haven't put up even one in a while. Must have to do with the new owner much like the increased amount of clickbaity headlines and ads.
Succinctly put. Thank you.
TetraxShards
Member
It's infotainment, same reason people obsess over box office or TV ratings. I just like DA NUMBERZ. It's honestly almost wholly divorced from my enjoyment of the actual comics.
echoshifting
Banned
Preeeeeetty much yeah
Like the only interesting sales numbers to me would be a month where there's no events or relaunches and the books have to stand on their own merits. Because no shit, relaunches and events sell. Batman sells. No. Shit.
We'll see if we ever get a month like that again.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I dropped the /Filmcast because the host won't shut the fuck up about budgets and box office performance.
It's a shame, because that show was a good way to find out about interesting things on Netflix or to rent that I wouldn't know about otherwise.
It's a shame, because that show was a good way to find out about interesting things on Netflix or to rent that I wouldn't know about otherwise.
LordOfLore
Banned
I was linked to the new Star Wars concept art on the site. Pretty much the only reason I visit the site of my own free will now is when CSBG updates or when writers and artists do exclusive interviews and link the interview on twitter.
Freezasaurus
Member
I just look when solicits come out.
People will do anything to avoid reading comics.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
For good internet comics coverage, check out Big Issues by Oliver Sava on The AV CLub.
Here's this week's: The Wicked + The Divine is this Summer's best Superhero Event
Note there are spoilers for this week's issue.
Here's this week's: The Wicked + The Divine is this Summer's best Superhero Event
Note there are spoilers for this week's issue.
echoshifting
Banned
AV Club writes the best comics stuff imho, despite the fact that they aren't a dedicated comics site (perhaps partially because of that). Their stuff is almost always worth reading.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I like CBR. They have good features on dumb old comics, and outside of that stuff, I'm mostly just looking for news and interviews, not editorials.
TetraxShards
Member
Most of the time I'd much rather be reading comics than reading about comics.
I would like if there were more books about the history of comics, stuff like Marvel Comics: The Untold Story which I really enjoyed. Grant Morrison's book Supergods was pretty good as well, part history lesson, part memoir.
Don't really enjoy reading long articles online, and converting to Kindle is far too much effort for the few that would interest me.
BKatastrophe
Member
No problem. I actually really like the Inhumans, so I'm more than happy to talk about them. I can recommend some Inhuman-specific stories to read as well, if you're interested.
Brianimaniac
Banned
TetraxShards
Member
I've read that as well. It was pretty excellent on the whole.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Supergods was great. Made it very clear that Morrison is nuts, but it's a great look at the history of comics.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I remember thinking Supergods made Morrison come off as a bit of an asshole, but it's been so long that I can't remember why. I didn't like that book and gave my copy to the library.
Not at all pretty sure they have reviewed a lot of this weeks releases so nope still doing reviews.
whatsinaname
Member
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
16 issues ive read
SIX TEEN
And FUCK ALL has happened
Duggan is a useless prick, I think I hate Deadpool, yet to read a story where he isn't shit
Primethius
Banned
Holy hell, Civil War #3 was awful.
This is the most forced, fake shit ever. Nothing about this event feels remotely organic.
Ugh, it's all so awful.
CWII is gonna make me hate Carol as much as CWI made me hate Tony. And unlike Tony, I don't even like Carol that much to begin with.
Everything outside of art this event has been trash. I'm scared of how bad the rest will get.
This is the most forced, fake shit ever. Nothing about this event feels remotely organic.
Danvers gets on stand with fake ass tears and the issue ends her dumb speech about saving lives.
CWII is gonna make me hate Carol as much as CWI made me hate Tony. And unlike Tony, I don't even like Carol that much to begin with.
Everything outside of art this event has been trash. I'm scared of how bad the rest will get.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
That's too funny. I love a good sound effect gag.
Does the new run have 16 issues or are you talking about the first Duggan run that started off with zombie presidents? I'm talking about the new run, previous run was a bunch of stuff wrapped around The Good, The Bad, The Ugly arc.
Brianimaniac
Banned
Drop the book. The bitchy, jaded "I buy things I know I'm going to hate" comic book reader is a bad look.
His Hulk was good, and he had the only non-Spencer Standoff issue I enjoyed.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I used to say they were hard to avoid too and I was wrong. People don't even try. It's very easy. Secret Wars and Civil War II are the only events I've read since Fear Itself and I read Marvel books almost every week. Even when the books you read have tie-in issues, the recap pages tell you everything you need to know from the main event.
BKatastrophe
Member
Remender's Uncanny X-Force!
Same thing with video games, movies, and TV shows.
Sure you can do.
I've never been super hot on The Inhumans.
But I do like Maximus, cuz he's mad. And does machines.
Agreed. Uncanny X-force was amazing.
That's the thing most people don't get about Deadpool.
The silliness is only one part of his character. The other part is that he is a sad, emotionally damaged, mess.
He should be a tragic character.
Calling Duggan a useless prick is quite an overreaction to reading something you don't like. I haven't finished his first run yet but I've enjoyed it and Chewbacca was fun. Read Hawkeye vs Deadpool if you haven't, that's a really fun book.
I'm fine with just ignoring everything Civil War till it's finished. Does mean that the only Marvel book I'm pulling now is Black Widow though.
echoshifting
Banned
Brianimaniac
Banned
If Rich was here, you would know it. He searches for his name and joins conversations to defend himself or act like he doesn't know what the problem is. He did it to a group of my friends on Twitter when one of them mentioned him. They weren't talking to him and no one used his @ name.
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