Good comics are worth waiting for. We are lucky he is even trying to do a sequel.
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COMICS!!! |OT| June 2017 - AquaBDSM : Sunstone but with dolphins.
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Good comics are worth waiting for. We are lucky he is even trying to do a sequel.
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ElBoxyBrown
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Wonder Woman is, how the kids say, "lit".
whatsinaname
Member
I have always wondered how much of a responsibility the editor has with situations like this. I somewhat agree about a writer not having reading everything out there (though I don't know - a lot of fans are able to keep up while still holding a full time job). But if the tone of a character completely differs from any other ongoing runs, should the editor step in and say something?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I'm really feeling it, I like that it's presented by the narrator like a myth being told. I'm probably going to get through as much as I can tonight lol no hope pacing it.
It really makes me want some sort of book set on Themyscira too, either a Young Diana or even modern book really centred on how people survive and thrive on an island full of such mysterious wonders and dangers. It's such a cool setting and culture beyond Diana's place and relation to it.
whatsinaname
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Hmm. Metron (?), Lightray, Scott Free and Forager. Looks like we are getting everyone back. Who is that in the foreground though...
Freezasaurus
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Why is everyone using the code tags for images all of a sudden?
Images are too big codes makes it more manageable while allowing someone to quote them. plus we had a neogaf tips a while ago.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
$9.99 price tag of course
Donniewahlberg
Banned
It doesn't play that nicely when you have pics and gifs turned off for data purposes unfortunately. When. I click show, it adds an extra step by booting me to a new tab with a bunch of code gibberish everytime that I have to get rid of.
Not that it's a problem, I just don't bother clicking haha but it is a thing I've noticed.
I am fine with paying 10$ for a almost trade sized floppy
What qualifies as almost?
I think #25 has about 100 pages? 144 pages were the last full Amazing Spider-Man trade.
Freezasaurus
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It's definitely one of my favorite comic movies. Glad to hear they're already planning a sequel.
It was ok to ask, I know that I am in the minority when it comes to that^^
Didnt knew the exact page count, I guessed here.
Freezasaurus
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Donniewahlberg
Banned
Man, each issue of of this book is super chunky! I just got to the end of #3 I think, Diana
I'll probably stop there for the night, but really fantastic. I was a touch worried that there would be some awkward translation with the book, given it was original a digital thing, in terms of panel layout and gutter loss etc but not at all, I wouldn't have been able to tell if I hadn't known.
I convinced my partner to let me take her to WW haha so we're going to go during the week, looking forward to it.
just washed up in Boston.
I convinced my partner to let me take her to WW haha so we're going to go during the week, looking forward to it.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Meanwhile from the Amazon digital trade sale that's like 40 comics
MHWilliams
Member
Once you have the top spot, you start to make bad decisions. This is why the Big Two pendulum works.
I agree with him to a point.
It's the Superman dilemma. "What now?" is I want writers who are better than I to come up with creative situations and put Dick Grayson, a fictional person who is better than I am, in them. I want to see how a hero deals with those issues. I want to know how Dick Grayson handles certain moral dilemmas. With characters like this, you test them with hard choices.
Freezasaurus
Member
Are they ever going to come out with BPRD Library Editions to match Hellboy?
whatsinaname
Member
They seem to be going for the smaller trim size HC "omnibuses" even for next few BPRD volumes (Hell On Earth, Abe Sapien, etc). So I don't see Hellboy LE sized ones anytime in the near future.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I don't think it'll ever happen. Every indication and discussion with Scott Allie, who sheperds all this stuff, has always been in terms of the BPRD Plague Of Frogs style *omnibus*. There's a very conscious effort to create the storylines and pace the various side series so that they could potentially be given the omnibus treatment, but even then it's not a lock. I know they went back and forth on doing Abe, and who knows when and if stuff like Lobster, Witchfinder etc will get there. My gut feel is most of them will, if only to eventually replace the 60 odd individual trades with fewer and chunkier paperbacks, as with Plague Of Frogs (where I believe the old individual trades have been liquidated now), but that some of those side books would probably get quite low print runs in HC. It's a good way of future proofing the line and simplifying the offering and price points but unless Mike drew it, there doesn't seem to be a will or want for LEs.
Just to keep editing, since I've adjusted this post half a dozen times now so why not, I'll say as well that it's a real shame that DH don't appear to want to go bigger. Mike is a true legend, and of course sales determine that is viable, but there is some down right incredible art that gone on in the BPRD books, is still going on, and all the smaller sub series. Going back to all of Guy Davis' stuff, Tyler Crook, James Harren, Lawrence Campbell on BPRD. The Fiumara bros on Abe, Ben Stenbeck, Tonci Zonjic on osme of the other books. Just mindblowing stuff and you still can't find most of these guys at the big two.
Freezasaurus
Member
Where is VanWinkle? Final volume of the Goon Library comes out next week. Finally.
whatsinaname
Member
Oh cool, I haven't read the last couple of trades of the series. Will finally get to finish it.
Freezasaurus
Member
The Library Editions are definitely the best format to read it in. Looking forward to finishing it myself.
I knew it was familiar.
Alex Ross is still amazing.
Tragicomedy
Member
I'd say at least bring it up so the author knows and confirm they're making a conscientious decision to break with history.
What I found silly about Priest's argument is that writers don't have time to read what came before. It feels like justification for laziness. Read a fucking synopsis. Have your publisher give you the breakdown. Ask questions. Do some damn research.
Be a professional. You're being paid to write a property that people care about. Put your spin on it and do your thing, but at least be familiar with what you're deviating from.
Arguing you don't have enough time is hollow, and makes it sound like you view writing comics as a secondary hobby instead of a job.
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On a completely different note, Rucka Woman #23 was freaking awesome. Amazing payoff. I love how Rucka is pulling all this together. Onto the annual.
What got me is that it wasn't enough that he is spouting all these excuses for his laziness. But that he then went on to rag on a load of other characters.
Seriously dude just own up you made a mistake and leave it.
He just comes of as a whiny moron.
Ten minutes on wikipedia or comicvine or something would catch him up mostly.
No time my balls.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
lol Christopher Priest is a "whiny moron".
jesus do we ever have the comics we deserve
I have never read his comics, but I did read his blog post and that is exactly how he comes off.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
oy, exhibit b
I feel like he should be expected to at least read Titans and Teen Titans or at least know how the characters are currently being written before writing the crossover. Plenty of writers at least keep track of what's going on in the line they are writing for.
Holy crap, I didn't realize it was that soon! I'm hyped now.
BaroqueSampson
Member
Hey ComicsGAF, does anyone have any of the Mezco One:12 line of figures? I'm thinking about picking up The Flash but I'm curious about quality.
Freezasaurus
Member
The last one came out in what? October? That was a longer stretch between books than any of the previous volumes.
I know, but I just remember knowing that I have to wait a long time for it to come and thus kind of set it on the backburner of my mind.
Tragicomedy
Member
How was The Legend of Wonder Woman originally packaged? These pages feel like they were originally split in two or something. Was this 27 "books"?
Can't blame him when Priest just wrote he doesn't have time to read comics.
Can't blame him when Priest just wrote he doesn't have time to read comics.
whatsinaname
Member
Yeah, three original digital releases were bunched up into one regular issue.
Yeah it was a digital first series
Yea Superman is also extra sized.
It was a digital-first series. They are presented in ~20 half-page "pages". Once three of them released, they would be combined into a ~30 page physical single issue.