What if that stuff is pee?
First thought was snotWere you for a second under the impression that it wasn't?
Green Arrow #1 was definitely good comics but I wish I knew more about who the hell these people are. It made me curious about the N52 run. I actually already own 17-24, might as well read those I guess.
I finished season one of Marco Polo and started the next Orange is the New Black. Marco is still a CW-tier drama character that is holding back the show.
Groo and Friends wrapped up nicely with the last four issues. Very well plotted arc. Only concern is that it seems like a farewell of sorts. Hope it isn't.
Four issues into 52, it seems fairly decent at this point. Some threads are a lot more interesting than others (Montoya/Question and Dibny's mystery). Still waiting for the Steel and Black Adam threads to get going. Booster Gold has had a lot of screen time but didn't enjoy it much.
The one nitpick has to be the notes between issues. Some very interesting stuff but random spoilers for events that happen four or five issues down. At least we get this fun excerpt of Rucka getting annoyed with the artists and editors.
I liked Marco Polo. Though I don't know how. Looking forward to Season 2. It goes up Friday, I think?that guy manages to fuck up so much (and bone every virgin in sight) and still keep his head.
While both characters continually saying howthey are being watched by everyone
Finished Enigma. That was... something. Don't think I quite grasped all of it as I was reading but it still had its hooks in me so I was compelled to finish. The black humour sprinkled throughout helped, most often seen in the words of the narrator, who is worked into the story wonderfully by the end.
The artwork was hit and miss for me. In the first half it's really loose, scratchy and all over the place whereas towards the end everything's a bit tighter if that's the way to describe it. I would say I don't mind either which way as long as it's clear what's going on. That wasn't the case here and it happened more than a few times where I'd just be looking at some panels trying to make out what exactly I was looking at. That's distracting and just takes me out of the story.
Probably knock off a half mark or two for some of the artwork but it's still up there with the best stuff I've read this year. Certainly has stuck with me for a while after finishing and I'm still chewing it over...
We going to talk about Battleborn next?
What the hell is that?
I made no such deali thought we made a deal that Olivia would be in at least one in three gifs? Where am i, the manga thread? We going to talk about Battleborn next?
Could you take a wider picture of where these notes are in the book? They're not in the digital edition I think.
The artwork was hit and miss for me. In the first half it's really loose, scratchy and all over the place whereas towards the end everything's a bit tighter if that's the way to describe it. I would say I don't mind either which way as long as it's clear what's going on. That wasn't the case here and it happened more than a few times where I'd just be looking at some panels trying to make out what exactly I was looking at. That's distracting and just takes me out of the story.
Probably knock off a half mark or two for some of the artwork but it's still up there with the best stuff I've read this year. Certainly has stuck with me for a while after finishing and I'm still chewing it over...
I always feel like there's an intentional design to the art, in the early chapters its less distinct, more undefined to match the protagonist's mindset. And as the protagonist figures himself out, the art becomes tighter to illustrate the clarity he's achieved.
DF: Back to reality, I started working on the pages. I’m really not sure what I thought I was doing with the art style, maybe still trying to paint in line after all those pages of Kid Eternity. I was less than happy with the results but thought color would save it. I was excited to see colored pages as Art informed me they would be painted by Sherilyn Van Valkenberg. She’d recently done beautiful work on Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser. Finally seeing the colored pages was a shock, they were just awful, nothing remotely like Fafrd! Such an idiot, the color was fine, I was simply not Mike Mignola!
Around the time I was drawing the fourth issue my line was becoming somewhat less cluttered, more decisive, and my storytelling gained clarity. Meanwhile we had a promotional tour to attend to, Vertigo’s Spin Across America tour. Starting out in Austin Texas, finishing in Miami, tour tee shirts with dates on the back and cheesy embroidered denim jackets, what the hell was this? On the flight out I read through an advance copy of the second issue, it was really disheartening. I think I spent the rest of the tour apologizing for it and telling anybody who would listen “It gets better by issue four!” I’m sure I came over as insane. I think it was during an interview in Florida that Pete explained how as the character of Michael became more developed and open within the story I reflected that aspect in the art. “What an amazing challenge for you as the artist!” exclaimed the wide eyed interviewer, “Um, yes…” It was a perfect Milligan moment, divine inspiration served with elegant bullshit, so if it wasn’t true before, it became the truth at that moment!
PM: Hah hah. I do remember the moment when I’d explained the artistic rationale behind Duncan’s changing art work and style as the book progressed. Yes, there was a degree of bullshittery about it (what had happened was that Duncan had just got better and better, very quickly, over the course of the series). But the best bullshittery has a healthy wedge of truth in it and I did feel that the developing artwork was a kind of perfect visual metaphor for Michael, this half formed or badly drawn man who became more realized as the book went on.
52 looks phenomenal. I need to get that omnibus like right now.
I always feel like there's an intentional design to the art, in the early chapters its less distinct, more undefined to match the protagonist's mindset. And as the protagonist figures himself out, the art becomes tighter to illustrate the clarity he's achieved.
I've been trying to find this Alan Moore quote for the last half hour (that I'm half-convinced doesn't exist now) about how one of the few good things about work for hire is the serendipity of an editor-paired writer/artist team who end up clicking together and regardless of its actual existence I'd just like to say that Enigma is basically the best example of that ever. Fegredo is figuring out a style in those early issues and never draws like that ever again and the way that the art grows clearer and clearer as the main dude becomes more and more aware of his sense of self is kinda perfect?
When I first read it I thought it was intentional too, but according to Fegredo/Milligan it wasn't which is GREAT
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh game of thrones i don't even know where to begin, so many spoilers so little time. Stop reading if you don't want things spoiled.
The dragons were voiced by Sean Connery.
616 Peter met Gwen (as in Spider-Woman Gwen) during Spiderverse right?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh game of thrones i don't even know where to begin, so many spoilers so little time. Stop reading if you don't want things spoiled.
*HUGE UNMARKED SPOILERS*
can we keep spoilers for GoT out of this thread jesus fucking christ
52 looks phenomenal. I need to get that omnibus like right now.
This is also the time to remember that they made three Dragonheart movies. I want a Waterworld prequel.
Did they really make three of them? Damn. Were the sequels just cash-grab gutter trash?
616 Peter met Gwen (as in Spider-Woman Gwen) during Spiderverse right?
Every time I see Higuain I think of Madrid's 2006/2007 season and curse Perez. Then I see matches like this...
My wife's actual comment: "Why didn't he just blast that in?" Exactly.
Thats also how she describes our sex life to her friends btw