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COMICS! |OT| March 2016. It's your job to be great.
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You'll be back when Valiant releases something everyone here is talking about and you won't be able to resist joining the discussion.
So he's never coming back?
PSM and Wizard.
I'm fine with him recoloring because I think it looks better in a lot of areas (worse in a few from what I've seen). But man, I wish he wouldn't have re-inked them. A lot of panels I saw looked objectively worse after the re-inking.
Poodlestrike
Banned
This week's rankings:
1) Vision
2) Gotham Academy
3) The Legend of Wonder Woman
4) Bombshells
5) Red Hood/Arsenal
6) Batman & Robin Eternal
7) Starfire
8) Batman/TMNT
9) Action Comics
10) Catwoman
Probably going to drop Catwoman. It's a decent crime story on its own merits, but I'm just not feeling it.
AC would've been much higher, but the pivotal moment of the issue is held back by some really weird/bad art.
Positions 5-8 are pretty much interchangeable; Batman/TMNT continues to be the platonic ideal of crossover comics, I'm not loving Starfire's new artist (though they're doing an okay job, it just doesn't work as well), Red Hood/Arsenal was brilliant and then there was a last-second swerve that has the potential to undo all the good work done by the rest of the issue which is... annoying, and while Batman & Robin Eternal had some fun moments it was very much an issue devoted to setting up the end (and also some weird art moments).
Bombshells and Legend of Wonder Woman are two books I consistently look forward to every week and proof, I think, that DC's bimonthly efforts post-Rebirth have potential. Legends is particularly good; gorgeous art and a compelling story, albeit one with a couple of very rushed-reading dialogue bubbles. Bombshells made me think I missed an issue or something, so it gets pushed back to 4th.
Gotham Academy was fucking ADORABLE. I love the Yearbook. And a surprise visit from no less a personage than Damian Wayne adds a cherry on top. They really need to add that guy to the main cast post-Rebirth, he won't have his own book any more, do it DC.
And finally, Vision. What else is there to say about Vision that hasn't already been said? How do you describe a superhero book that leads with the famous monologue from Merchant of Venice? It is, simply put, a masterpiece.
1) Vision
2) Gotham Academy
3) The Legend of Wonder Woman
4) Bombshells
5) Red Hood/Arsenal
6) Batman & Robin Eternal
7) Starfire
8) Batman/TMNT
9) Action Comics
10) Catwoman
Probably going to drop Catwoman. It's a decent crime story on its own merits, but I'm just not feeling it.
AC would've been much higher, but the pivotal moment of the issue is held back by some really weird/bad art.
Positions 5-8 are pretty much interchangeable; Batman/TMNT continues to be the platonic ideal of crossover comics, I'm not loving Starfire's new artist (though they're doing an okay job, it just doesn't work as well), Red Hood/Arsenal was brilliant and then there was a last-second swerve that has the potential to undo all the good work done by the rest of the issue which is... annoying, and while Batman & Robin Eternal had some fun moments it was very much an issue devoted to setting up the end (and also some weird art moments).
Bombshells and Legend of Wonder Woman are two books I consistently look forward to every week and proof, I think, that DC's bimonthly efforts post-Rebirth have potential. Legends is particularly good; gorgeous art and a compelling story, albeit one with a couple of very rushed-reading dialogue bubbles. Bombshells made me think I missed an issue or something, so it gets pushed back to 4th.
Gotham Academy was fucking ADORABLE. I love the Yearbook. And a surprise visit from no less a personage than Damian Wayne adds a cherry on top. They really need to add that guy to the main cast post-Rebirth, he won't have his own book any more, do it DC.
And finally, Vision. What else is there to say about Vision that hasn't already been said? How do you describe a superhero book that leads with the famous monologue from Merchant of Venice? It is, simply put, a masterpiece.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
I don't mind him recoloring them, I just wish the originals were preserved. The original issues are the only way to get a lot of those issues unaltered and some of them aren't cheap. Even the black and white Showcase volumes use his redrawn art. It's a pretty important run in comic book history to not be preserved.
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whatsinaname
Member
Started reading the first Squirrel Girl trade again. I love the tiny notes at the bottom of each page. (Like alt text for web comics)
Poodlestrike
Banned
Are you reading The Nonadventures of Wonderella by any chance? Great alt text jokes in that.
whatsinaname
Member
I have not but I just took a peek and it looks like fun! More stuff to read.
Edit: Damn, this panel is killing me. I shouldn't read this at work.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I have not but I just took a peek and it looks like fun! More stuff to read.
Edit: Damn, this panel is killing me. I shouldn't read this at work.
lol, yeah.
BKatastrophe
Member
It's just nice to see that every once in awhile. Compilations of comic hero costumes. Fuck Iron Spider though. Shit's ugly.
Very interesting. I do believe this will be the first BP book I pick up.
The bolded sums up my feelings on that book as a wholeOh
nooooooooooo
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On the Red Hood/Arsenal Lobdell may or may not be doing an interesting character salvage with Joker's Daughter. I thought there was some interesting progress being made, and then the last couple of pages happened and I dunno anymore. If it's a fakeout, it's a lame one, and if it's not, it's not what I want, so idk.
This was funny though.
I just like being a shit
Wait you don't have it already?
Oh goddamnit. Is Lashley staying forever? PLEASE?
can we just toss Land into the nearest volcano already... shit.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
rip in peace LaunchpadMcQ
Poodlestrike
Banned
ViewtifulJC
Banned
that's like one Chiptole burrito or a Batman vs Superman matinee
Poodlestrike
Banned
Exactly.
Catwoman is like 2.99 tho. Except this month is 4.99...wat
Cant wait when Sony crash and burns with all their Valiant cinematic universe stuff xD
Poodlestrike
Banned
#50! Historic!
Oh this is a historic run alright...
Poodlestrike
Banned
WadiumArcadium
Member
Is that Selina crime lord story still going? I finished re-reading Snyder's Graveyard Shift Batman trade today and she was doing it then. Though I think that issue was a preview of what would happen in Eternal.
Serpentine
Banned
the best post in comicsgaf history tbh
Poodlestrike
Banned
Nah, it wrapped a few issues back. This current one's been a bit of a noir crime story, which would normally be exactly my speed but... idk, it's just not clicking.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Jokes are one thing, but are comments like this really necessary?
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Oh, ok, sorry. Didn't sound like one at first.
Its just part of the running gag
no, Land needed a month off to google some more pictures to trace over, he'll be back on issue #7
I hope that doesnt mean that something happened to Dagger & Sword...Just read ASM #9
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Bless Dinosaur Comics and Ryan North
Freezasaurus
Member
Hey guys, how is current Guardians with Starlord and Kitty?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I'm going to start AoA again. I'm on vacation next week so that will give me something to read.
sketchsanchez
Member
So I'm here hoping someone can Answer something for me.
I just borrowed some superman trades from the library, I'm currently going through action comics volume 2:Bullet proof
why is superman wearing two costumes?
I thought it might be a past/future thing but no, one page he's in one costume taking hamsters from some dude, next page he's in the other costume *with* the hamsters and with the justice league.
The next issue he's under a new identity and the old costume, pages later he's with batman in the other costume talking about how he maybe shouldn't have ditched the old identity.
What gives?
I just borrowed some superman trades from the library, I'm currently going through action comics volume 2:Bullet proof
why is superman wearing two costumes?
I thought it might be a past/future thing but no, one page he's in one costume taking hamsters from some dude, next page he's in the other costume *with* the hamsters and with the justice league.
The next issue he's under a new identity and the old costume, pages later he's with batman in the other costume talking about how he maybe shouldn't have ditched the old identity.
What gives?
Ok, phew.
Poodlestrike
Banned
what a time to be alive
*meow*
Freezasaurus
Member
I don't think so. Elektra omnibus was Bill Senkiewicz. Alias was Michael Gaydos (who is in actuality a poor-man's Alex Maleev).
Bill did the Cover of Alias
WadiumArcadium
Member
what a time to be alive
They absolutely nailed the costume.