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COMICS!!! |OT| June 2017 - AquaBDSM : Sunstone but with dolphins.
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Freezasaurus
Member
Two has-beens in one place? !!!!!
Tragicomedy
Member
She was always a thing in Messi's mind.
GringoSuave89
Banned
The weekly wait made it drag longer than it needed to, but reading them all straight through is a bit better. Solid series. Make sure you're familiar with Morrison's run, DickBats era, and New 52 Bats.
Also, that Dark Days issue is.... idk what it is yet, but it was a page turner for sure.
Tragicomedy
Member
How are you reading it? Not out yet digitally.
Yeah I want to read this too. Bleeding Cool is insinuating some crazy stuff about it.
BossDarkseid
Member
Seeing a couple of spoilers about The Forge and just waiting for Cmx/Amazon to put it up...
BKatastrophe
Member
I've barely read two weeks' worth of comics and here comes week three. I really need to stop doing this...
BossDarkseid
Member
Reading Dark Days: The Forge now...
JRJR's art is weird as hell at times, like the perspective is all off.
That said, it feels like a buildup to a Crisis. I mean, we already know Metal is the event, but it feels like Countdown to Infinite Crisis etc where tons of big, crazy concepts are coming together. It helps that Snyder's been planting the seeds for this for 6 years already...
The page 32 reveal has me happy and the ending is a "wtf!?".
Roll on The Casting
This is so out of Snyder's comfort zone (in a good way, I think - at least so far) that its cool to see just how many bits and pieces he draws upon.
JRJR's art is weird as hell at times, like the perspective is all off.
That said, it feels like a buildup to a Crisis. I mean, we already know Metal is the event, but it feels like Countdown to Infinite Crisis etc where tons of big, crazy concepts are coming together. It helps that Snyder's been planting the seeds for this for 6 years already...
The page 32 reveal has me happy and the ending is a "wtf!?".
Roll on The Casting
This is so out of Snyder's comfort zone (in a good way, I think - at least so far) that its cool to see just how many bits and pieces he draws upon.
so happy we're getting to some amount of spicy spicy payoff
Captain Skeleton
Member
Tease.
I stayed up.
tkscz
Member
Just read the new JLA... I swear I think I read this series just for Lobo. I mean, this issue wasn't that bad for being a story ark introduction, but it feels rushed. Like
It just feels pushed really fast and so did the last story ark they did. I guess this comic is a limited series or something because they go through arks so fast that sometimes I don't know whats going on and the writing gets all messed up.
they find a guy in an undisturbed valley and boom, skips to two weeks later and the dude has already adjusted, but wait, his story he told the JLA was a lie and Batman/Black Canery can tell. And of course they're right but the rest of the team doesn't believe Batman because everyone deserves a second chance, except it would be this guy's first chance so...
Captain Skeleton
Member
The Mister X Archives trade just arrived! Finally I can read the original series.
LordOfLore
Banned
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Dark Days The Forge #1 is Comic Of The Year
LordOfLore
Banned
Do you agree with Bleeding Cool's "recommended reading before The Forge" list?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I didn't even get past the second E in their name reading this post. They could write a six part piece on the development of Wip3out and I'd never fucking read it.
BossDarkseid
Member
It's not essential but there is payoff to threads started in Snyder's Batman run...
And Rich's notion of
Infinite Crisis
You don't need an intimate knowledge of BC's list, but you'll get a little extra out of it if you skim them.
Roland_Gunner
Member
Doomsday Clock, Johns' upcoming miniseries with Gary Frank, is the next step in the Rebirth story. Darks Days and Metal is a separate concept that Snyder has been working on since before rebirth started.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Dark Days was a comic, and it was also very good. That is what I have to say about that.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
This is what I thought as well.
Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but my 10 year old nephew asked for some comics. I'd like to get him a couple superhero issues and a couple non-cape books. Obviously nothing to violent or sexual. It's just been so long since I read comics I don't where to start :/
BossDarkseid
Member
Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) might be a decent place for cape books. It has a few of the Avengers and X Men making cameos from time to time, iirc, but isn't very violent or anything. From what I remember >_>
Gotham Academy might be suitable? I didn't read too much but it was quite charming and would be a decent gateway between non-cape books, and cape books. My mind's gone blank on others.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Non-cape:
Gotham Academy
Lumberjanes
Valiant High
Cape:
Ms. Marvel
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Faith
TheDarkKnight774
Member
My nephew is really into Amulet
You might also check out Super Dinosaur
I also always enjoyed Tiny Titans
Does he have any preferences? Like watching the Teen Titans cartoons or anything? Lots of the animated shows have tie in comics that are younger reader friendly.
Star Wars? (Keiron Gillen's run on Darth Vader is great if you want something maybe a little more challenging that things explicitly for children). Marvel have Spidey, which is basically a younger reader friendly Spider-man book (and good!). Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is set in the Marvel Universe and apparently survives it's low circulation entirely because the trades sell well to kids. Gotham Academy's first volume is fantastic, and a good book for kids (again, it's set in the DC universe but in a school. Batman's in it a bit, but not much). I hear good things about Superman Family Adventures too. Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil is good if it's still in print. Marvel have a "Marvel Adventures" line, which are supposed to be for kids. Most of them are pretty phoned in though, to be honest, so it depends on his development.
Lumberjanes is a good shout for younger indie readers. Those Uncle Scrooge books sell out the bejeezus internationally, and they're easier to get now Marvel distribute them.
BKatastrophe
Member
Didn't we already know that as of The Button?
Sure,
but we didn't have him telling other characters about it and using it to his advantage to get in their head (literally in this case). Dude flat out tells Iris and Wally that Flash rebooted the timeline and that Wally shouldn't even exist.
RedHoodedOwl
Member
Is Valiant's Shadowman worth reading?
BKatastrophe
Member
AbundantChoice
Member
Unfortunately, no. It's... aggressively boring. Definitely the weakest of the 1st wave of the Valiant re-launch.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
eeeeeehhhhuuhhhhhh depends on your level of interest and how much other Valiant you've read. The first two volumes and part of volume 3 are pretty good. The rest is really rough. The crossover in Ninjak volume 3, Operation Deadside, was fantastic and Rapture is looking to be amazing.
But yeah, definitely the weakest of early Valiant and one of the few runs I don't recommend often.
Right. I loved that the last page was a reference to an issue that came out 38 years ago.
RedHoodedOwl
Member
Didn't Thawne achieved that accomplishment when he shredded Thomas Wayne's letter?
I guess I'll read Bloodshot or Rai instead of Shadowman.
Definitely not, worst thing they've done.
LordOfLore
Banned
First non-Lemire issue?
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
BossDarkseid
Member
Let Cruise be Maxwell.
He's kinda charismatic, and a box office draw. I feel like he'd need to be intensely charismatic yet able to turn on you like a dime, into someone sneering, manipulative and controlling. A charismatic bastard.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Not even Bloodshot Reborn. Just Bloodshot. I will read Valiant, and none of it will be good!
RedHoodedOwl
Member
Bloodshot Reborn? Is that a mini-series?