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COMICS! |OT| June 2016. The Manhattan Project
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
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echoshifting
Banned
East of West is my favorite comic right now, enjoy dude.
I don't think there is a set end date for Lazarus yet but I could be wrong.
BKatastrophe
Member
Tragicomedy
Member
Lol don't be a clown now. I posted my impressions Along with scores a couple pages back.
Batman rebirth isn't where the story arc begins for Tom Kings batman.
So what is it then? Filler? You called it a classic Batman intro. Intro to what? Are you saying this isn't the first issue in King's run? He's not going to build off the villain?
This is obviously the first issue in King's story arc. It just happened to not be very good.
Coriolanus
Banned
One of us! One of us! May Anung un Rama b praised! #blessed
Tragicomedy
Member
There's a lot of truth to this, sadly. I prefer self contained runs but they're becoming more rare. Especially on the Marvel side, it's all about that event cycle.
DC has me confused by tossing out this Watchmen stuff and then immediately ignoring it for their first four series launches. How is the Joker reveal not addressed in Batman Rebirth? It's almost as if Johns is in his own world and these scripts were finished long before any internal coordination.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I've only read the Morrison/Millar stuff along with some of the Johns stuff. I wouldn't recommend either to children.
Best comic.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Feels like filler, honestly. We know the bare bones of King's first arc, got nothing to do with Calendar Man, on the face of it.
I just hope the are able to grab some big names.
ANAD was a insane bummer in that regard.
Also it seems like Slott is leaving/getting a big Book.
Tragicomedy
Member
I buy comics for my young nephews.
Spidey is appropriate for younger readers, although they might not enjoy or understand some of the high school drama elements. Art is superb.
What you're really looking for is the Marvel Adventures line. They have collections of all the Avengers in teams or as solo characters. Here's an example:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785126449/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Nephews love those.
Now I'm even more confused. What was the point of the book? DC is relaunching everything and gives us a pointless, one-off Bats collaboration between King and Snyder? It didn't wrap any loose ends from New 52, and you're saying it's not going to tie much into the new series.
The other three releases tried to, you know, build up their new series.
Freezasaurus
Member
Trying to do my CMX order.... Is Civil War II worth buying or is it butt poop?
that Watchmen stuff read like " you'll see this again in our next event "
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I still remember my last WWE Raw. It was May of 2003. There was a 45 minute Rock promo followed by 2 matches both of which lasted less than 10 seconds before outside interference ended them. Then there was like another 20 minutes of backstage bullshit before they got to the next match.
I kept with wrestling through ROH for a couple more years but their owners dicked me over on CM Punks farewell weekend so I dropped them too.
echoshifting
Banned
ANAD Avengers was all right I guess. Fun reveal at the end. The young half of this team is the best part of this book, the veterans barely have personalities. Waid's Cap Falc is kind of a dick and for a leader he sure is full of laughably awful ideas. Like I can't believe Vision and Tony followed his lead when he said they should
without even questioning it.
The Wasp storyline has potential but it's barely there right now
feed themselves to the weird monster/portal thing they know literally nothing about
The Wasp storyline has potential but it's barely there right now
Tragicomedy
Member
Disappointingly true. Check out this massive and controversial reveal...which we'll address a year from now!
I blame DiDio, because I blame him for everything. Even the Zika virus.
My problem with non-cape books is that they so often feel to cartoony or when not to boring when more serious from the premise
I can get hooked on stuff like The Walking Dead or 30 Days of Night, but its hard with other stuff.
I can get hooked on stuff like The Walking Dead or 30 Days of Night, but its hard with other stuff.
Yeah, I am a idiot and go ahead and make you avatar quote...
WadiumArcadium
Member
I dropped it a few issues ago. I was only really reading it for Miles and Kamala.
KoruptData
Member
August 17th. August 17th is the date that Batman #5, last issue in Tom Kings first arc on Batman will be out. We only have 2.5 months to go and we will be able to compare Tom King's Batman first arc to Court of Owls and Batman and Robin before it.
2.99x5. $15 is what it takes in 2.5 months to try out something. If your going to judge Kings Batman off a one-shot that was more of an introduction to Batmans new sidekick that was introduced by the writer before, that's not being fair to King. Go read the solicits for issues 1-5 and it makes this issue seem more of an introduction to anything but Kings Batman but more the supporting cast. It also served as a respect to the 100,000+ people that bought Snyders/Capullos Batman every month for the last 5 years.
2.99x5. $15 is what it takes in 2.5 months to try out something. If your going to judge Kings Batman off a one-shot that was more of an introduction to Batmans new sidekick that was introduced by the writer before, that's not being fair to King. Go read the solicits for issues 1-5 and it makes this issue seem more of an introduction to anything but Kings Batman but more the supporting cast. It also served as a respect to the 100,000+ people that bought Snyders/Capullos Batman every month for the last 5 years.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
its great
Intro to batman fool. This is not the first part of kings arc. For a second how about you look at the incoming issues for batman. There is a batman rebirth #1 and then batman #1. Calendar man is just fodder. this book is more of a one shot and it is cowritten by sndyer... But if you wanna count it on kings run go ahead.
Furthermore, it is already widely accepted by every comic book site that batman rebirth #1 is solid. I mean if you wanna say it is bad all I can really do is go " lol k" because it is your opinion. I told you before that I can't talk about rebirth with ya because I always have to explain common sense so consider yourself lucky I wrote this much. Next time you getting a " lol k
"Where are you getting that from?
5 issues is a long time to wait before deciding whether you like a book or not IMO.
The only time I remeber an awesome use of Calender Man was in The Long Halloween and its sequel, and he wasnt even that big there
Lots of teasing in that direction on his twitter lately. I can read to much into it, but this time it feels really so.
RepairmanJack
Member
Pretty sure they've been saying John's had a huge hand in seeing all the Rebirth one-offs to set the tone for the whole initiative. Beyond that I think the big stuff will be played with for a long while.
With Joker at least I hope it's just dabbled in for at least a while. I'm kind of played out on Joker after just finishing catching up on Snyder's run.
Freezasaurus
Member
Okay, I'll buy it. Since you're twisting my arm....
I just got my DC Bombshells Cheetah statue and the nameplate is cracked. Had to send DCBS an photo of the damage.
Nice statue, otherwise.
We can only judge what is released. I'm sure people here will also judge it when the first arc completes. But there is nothing wrong with giving impressions positive or negative after a first issue of a new book.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
So it's good? Bought it, but thought #1 was crap
that is not what the problem was.
Also court of the owls was a longer arc than 5 issues
Edit: court of owls was huge
echoshifting
Banned
Sheesh a couple people in here getting real defensive about Rebirth books which is totally unnecessary and detrimental to discussion
Some people here didn't like it. I don't know why, maybe it was the hyper violence in it.
Freezasaurus
Member
I bought Green Arrow and Green Lantern.
#WhatHaveIDone #AllGreenEverything
#WhatHaveIDone #AllGreenEverything
green arrow is the best thing I read this week and that is saying something given we had moon knight and deadly class this week
Echo shifting: nobody is getting defensive.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
its silly imo
I just found the first issue a bit dull
GA is the best book this week (TWD a close second, Civil War is third for me), GL was meh
I thought the art was incredibly crap
Freezasaurus
Member
Because it is not Becky Cloonan art.
RepairmanJack
Member
You just reminded me Moon Knight is this week. Did it take a dip? Seems like it's gotten no talk today.
Speaking as someone who can't read until late and gets all impressions from this thread.
Freezasaurus
Member
Who cares about Moon Knight? GIANT DAYS is this week.
Not a huge fan of her work either but I see the appeal for others.
Freezasaurus
Member
It really is a great book. It throws me off a bit sometimes when I remember this book is set in England.
KoruptData
Member
I'm not defending a book, I'm defending someone calling it bad when if you look at the evidence here and across the Internet from fans and critics, most like it. What is more detrimental to a discussion, trashing something because you didn't like it or defending something you know other people will enjoy?
RepairmanJack
Member
Never heard of it...
Moon knight is fucking awesome. Embrace the madness! lemiere was already a great writer but he is taking it to another level here
Green arrow-amazing
Deadly class- good( this is supposed to be an end to a arc but it didn't feel that way)
Moon knight-amazing
Batman-good
Green lanterns-good
Paper girls-amazing( I am the biggest paper girl doubter here but I gotta give it credit for the amazing art and wtf moments)
Freezasaurus
Member
Nah, she does some really great work. But she's more interested in doing super-limited art prints these days than drawing comics. #CashGrab
Now you have. Now go read the best book you've just now heard of.