Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Really miss Travel's work, man. Dude needs to get on an Image ongoing ASAP.
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Really miss Travel's work, man. Dude needs to get on an Image ongoing ASAP.
I believe you mean "Thorse."
He's working on that Zuerst Science Fiction Magazine thing, which will apparently piss a lot of people off because he kills Robert Kirkman, Warren Ellis, and a few others in the first few pages. Last time I chatted with him about it, he didn't have a publisher lined up for it though.
The Right Deal
Banned
I'm not sure how I'm feeling about the main Star Wars title. The art bugged me more in this issue then it has in the past and I wish the series had an established focus like Vader and Leia did right from the start.
Tizoc
Member
Batman TAS episode Holiday Knights, basically the episode is a collection of 3 stories, and the first story features Harley and Ivy with some excellent animation.
Speaking of this episode, the
4 kids remind me of the Newsboy Legion
I knew itI had seen it before.
KoruptData
Member
I have enjoyed the main Star Wars title, it's the side books that I'm not really feeling.
I like it too. I like Vader, but issue #2 wasn't that good.
Edit:
Is a whiteout type pen something that is generally used while inking? I was amazed to see that on the second page, there is this off-white whiteout-ish pen used for accents. It's really neat.
Doublesith
Member
Speaking of Star Wars, Noto cover for Shattered Empire #1:
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
To be fair, that's because Matthew Vaughn removes tons of gross horseshit from them, makes the characters more likeable, the stories more palatable, and then puts in some incredible action direction.
I almost ordered the book
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I almost ordered the book
Spend that money on good comics!
Um...the fuck? :/
TetraxShards
Member
Awesome, this is what I wanted from a new Star Wars EU. The interquel stories in the other comics are great and all, but this is way more my scene.
Can we have Gilad Pellaeon and the Imperial Remnant somehow?
I enjoyed The Secret Service. I might rent the Blu-Ray when it comes out, it left our cinema way too quick because we needed the extra screens for 50 Shades (we only have four screens).
I almost ordered the book
The book was good. I enjoyed it for what it was.
KoruptData
Member
Another good one.
TetraxShards
Member
Superman's face in that cover is my face when reading comic threads in the OT.
Serpentine
Banned
They did have that mini. Weird that that and KA 3 came and went and i barely heard a peep about either.
Another good one.
Oh, well i don't mind if you don't mind
Why do you destroy it?
(This is the only change in thr PT Special Editions which I hate...)
Edit: Switched to YouTube to listen to the superior special edition ending theme... Oh my god...
This is the year finally get a sequel to the fucking Star Wars OT. I still havent realized it fully...
Why do you destroy it?
(This is the only change in thr PT Special Editions which I hate...)
Not like the bad acting was Hayden's fault.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Why do you destroy it?
(This is the only change in thr PT Special Editions which I hate...)
Edit: Switched to YouTube to listen to the superior special edition ending theme... Oh my god...
This is the year finally get a sequel to the fucking Star Wars OT. I still havent realized it fully...
Someone needs to make a video of the Hayden Christensen version of the ending with the original "Yub Nub" music.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Oh Messi.....what have you done.
Where does one start and the other begin? I read it issue by issue digitally with the hopes of a hardcover collection down the line.
I don't think the quality ever dips. When I was catching up, I was compelled after every issue to keep on reading.
KoruptData
Member
The Twitter feminist movement is trying to get the Batgirl Joker variant from happening. I respect a lot of their fight but not this one. It's a throwback to an iconic moment in the characters history.
Before I forget again: I've asked this before to no avail, but with the TMNT/Ghostbusters crossover, does it draw/reference heavily from the comics for Ghostbusters, or just the movies? Like, should I really pick those up first, or would I be fine using it to gauge whether or not I'm interested in going back for them? I know at least one person in here must have read it...
uh oh
A gross, classic "women in refrigerators"-type of moment in the character's history that was salvaged by the work of Kim Yale, John Ostrander, Chuck Dixon, Gail Simone and others. Said moment that DC has a weird obsession with reminding everybody about even more than they like to reference Bane breaking Batman's back.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
This is a trap issue for that movement. They mean well but if they take every bait without understanding context and history of what they're raging about it dilutes the power of their message.
Final issue of that sixth Hitman trade Everything about it. Surprising, funny, heartfelt, emotional, it's all there. This trade as a whole has been heavier but there's always that element of humour throughout. Just enough and at just the right times.
There's a couple of examples of how powerful comics can be in letting the imagination of the reader fill in the blanks between panels and moments. Particularly the end of #49 and that one splash page in #50. Wonderful stuff.
I'm at that point now where I'm drawing out the experience because I don't want it to end. One more trade left...
Everything about it. Surprising, funny, heartfelt, emotional, it's all there. This trade as a whole has been heavier but there's always that element of humour throughout. Just enough and at just the right times.There's a couple of examples of how powerful comics can be in letting the imagination of the reader fill in the blanks between panels and moments. Particularly the end of #49 and that one splash page in #50. Wonderful stuff.
I'm at that point now where I'm drawing out the experience because I don't want it to end. One more trade left...
I can at least imagine why they do this... Out of Broken Bat, there came a chapter, DC dont want people to remember... While out of Killing Joke came Oracle, a still iconic character.
I'm not gonna say any more about that cover other than this: there are certain elements about it that bother me and a few small changes would have made it a hell of a lot more acceptable, in my opinion. It's a fantastically drawn piece that would hold a lot of emotional weight even without some of the elements I find troublesome.
Vol 1 ended with
the car accident and the dark haired friend of Rachel's waking up in the morgue.
"rising"
It's just a stupid cover all around that easily been changed to make it less icky.
...but naaah, let's point and laugh at the SJW's instead. It's not like they matter. ^_^
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I don't see it as women In refrigerators in any way. The events in the killing joke served a very specific purpose to the themes and point of the story. I understand people wanting to raise awareness about treatment of women and minorities in media but if people are going to over analyze anything bad that happens then I fear what you'll get is either a flood of a) creators avoid using them if they want to do darker, creepier, etc things. Or b) they swing so far the other way we get complaints of Mary sue characters or the "magical negro/minority" characters
Future Foundation
Member
Yes, because that's totally what Albuquerque wanted to do with his cover.
I think you find out in the next issue!
KoruptData
Member
Most of these characters would not exist if it wasn't for the evil that image represents. That's why its art to me. You can't have light without the darkness.
It's not the fact that bad things happen to women and minorities that's the problem; it's about context. Barbara was purely there to be victimized as a showing of how "serious" Joker was. Used as a plot device and nothing more.
Coriolanus
Banned
That moment when you've finally got around to reading Sex Criminals and realize that "and time stopped" wasn't a figure of speech.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
About the Batgirl cover.