whatsinaname
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COMICS! |OT| March 2016. It's your job to be great.
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Hmm. Single series I
BKatastrophe
Member
I spent that much on Hellboy. All Library Editions.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Bro.
How come I'm just hearing about this new D.Gray-man anime now!?!
cus I'm late to everything 
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm pretty sure I grabbed them all for under $200.
no that's the point: Tony is just a regular-ass baby, with some kickass parents and at one point he gets smart enough to build this in a cave
with a box of scraps
because he made himself pretty great
that's the whole thing of the arc, it's this big existential threat of "what if tony didn't make tony? what if the thing about him, the idea that he made himself, was bullshit?" and of course it's not, but the thought it might be is scary and wrong and it makes nerds scream
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Most costly series for me have been Doom Patrol (Silver Age and Morrison) and Hellboy/BPRD (all LEs, all of Plague of Frogs and 1946-1948, some trades, and ongoings). Both were worth it.
Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #01-06
Well, history repeats itself. Every time I read Spidey again I feel so much joice at the idea of meeting an old friend. And every time it's a letdown. Don't they know how to do them anymore or what ? Am I missing something ?
It was... nice. Enjoyable sometimes. But that's it. Boring main plot and a weak Ramos to boot (I seriously never noticed as much blank backgrounds, and I can't say he impressed even when he did draw some panels). I had to double check it was really him penciling.
And man, the story... maybe it could be seen as harsh but really, it's not an abject failure, but writing things about it feels like a waste of time.
I miss Spider-Man. And at this point I'm half persuaded that if I want this situation to change I musn't look forward but backward.
Well, history repeats itself. Every time I read Spidey again I feel so much joice at the idea of meeting an old friend. And every time it's a letdown. Don't they know how to do them anymore or what ? Am I missing something ?
It was... nice. Enjoyable sometimes. But that's it. Boring main plot and a weak Ramos to boot (I seriously never noticed as much blank backgrounds, and I can't say he impressed even when he did draw some panels). I had to double check it was really him penciling.
And man, the story... maybe it could be seen as harsh but really, it's not an abject failure, but writing things about it feels like a waste of time.
I miss Spider-Man. And at this point I'm half persuaded that if I want this situation to change I musn't look forward but backward.
How is Injustice: Gods Among Us? Specifically Year One. I ask because today a new collection of it came out that collects the whole first year (424 pages) for only like $15. I've heard some pretty positive things about the series but I never looked into it enough to know whether that positivity is widespread or only for certain years or what.
Way better than it had any right to be.
Man, I'm loving that art.
Freezasaurus
Member
Is Injustice over now or still ongoing? I've always been curious about it.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
It's in year five, still ongoing
BKatastrophe
Member
It was announced back in either December or November. I wish it was a reboot instead of a continuation. The early anime could benefit from reanimation (a lot of it got reused for attacks) and removal of filler (though some of it was actually somewhat solid), plus it would give more time for more content to pull from. Seems shortsighted and dumb to just make more seasons.Bro.
How come I'm just hearing about this new D.Gray-man anime now!?!
cus I'm late to everything
I got all six volumes over a period of time. Each one cost about $50.
Did Tony find his real parents, then?
TetraxShards
Member
So it'll end just in time for that Injustice II announcement at E3.
Freezasaurus
Member
Great googly moogly!
About how many issues is each year?
I paid under $30 each, except whichever one IST was out of at the time.
TetraxShards
Member
The first ones were 36 digital issues, which worked out at 12 floppies. I haven't followed in awhile. I think the later years were a bit shorter. There were annuals as well.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
I don't know how I missed it honestly. lol
Yeah, I just read it's not going to be a reboot. That's pretty dumb. There's a lot of stuff I would have loved to see reanimated, and the thing hasn't aged very well. They'd probably get a much bigger audience if they rebooted, too; who the hell is going to go back to watch some anime from 2006 that nobody has even bothered to upscale to HD? Not to mention, they have, maybe, 25 episodes worth of content to go through if they don't pad it out.
I'm glad we're getting something, but man, it could have been a lot better. :/
BKatastrophe
Member
Well look at you
Yeah it's really upsetting. Plus, the English dub audience (fucking me, goddamnit) is still pissed off that Funi never managed to get the rights to S3 and S4 WHICH IS LITERALLY THE BEST PART OF THE SHOW (Suman Dark's Fallen through Assault on the Black Order).
And plus, why wouldn't you reboot an older anime when the current popular climate is REBOOTING OLDER ANIME. Good god, I'm actually getting angrier just thinking about it.
Freezasaurus
Member
Oh man, I can't watch Trump talking without laughing.
Freezasaurus
Member
Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely vote for Trumpalupagus over Clinton. Some of the things I've read about Cruz make him sound like a fucking maniac.
He just wants to be your friend. As of now i'd probably cave and vote for Hillary. My preference might be Hillary, Kasich, Trump, give myself over to PS VR and make my own president, Rubio, Carson, Cruz. I choose sleepy stabby over Cruz.
GOD DRUMPF
TetraxShards
Member
The United States was destroyed!
The voters of Super Tuesday were powerless to save it!
Now, all that remains....is 'MURICA!
Freezasaurus
Member
Brah, I will never ever vote for Clinton. She's so unlikeable.
I mean, are any of these people even doing anything except talking shit about each other?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
That's cool. I'm gonna keep my 16 year streak of voting for no one intact.
Freezasaurus
Member
Probably a good course of action. But I have to use my voting power to counter Vyer's.
I don't really like Clinton either. But that's still preferable to the awfulness being generated by the orange skinned Beast.
Freezasaurus
Member
Sorry Vyer. Oval office gonna be stained with spray-on sun tan.
don't forget the racism, misogyny, xenophobia, ignorance and bigotry stains!
those are my favorite!
Freezasaurus
Member
Nope. Tony, realizing space is weird and fucked up, decided to kick it back on earth so he could build a city of the future with his bro Arno.
All kinds of people try to fuck with that. Including Malekith, and that's just fucking rad. (Also rad in that run? The ten rings of the Mandarin acquiring sentience, and basically turning people into an angry anti-capitalist Green Lantern Corps)
So, he never really found the time to find his real parents. But GUESS WHAT? That's exactly the hook of INTERNATIONAL IRON MAN, the hot new book from Bendis and Maleev, out 3/16.
Freezasaurus
Member
So he can eat more, of course.
if I know my Giger, and I like to think I do, it's because that way his mouth is also a dick
On a lighter note, I've been using Comixology on this 7" Galaxy tab thing I have and holy gawd in heaven is it frustrating. I'm assuming it's because of this tablet, because performance is terrible, but even then there's weird shit like the app not recognizing things I've already bought so I end up thinking I missed an issue somehow only to have it 'corrected' once I go into the cart. That combined with the general performance and the fact that I'm having to read on a 7" screen and arrrggghh. At least the store is still here in app but shit that's not enough.
My glorious Digital Age is becoming ruined. I actually considered walking into a LCS the other day. what is happening
They're the hardest to get out!
i don't think a wall is gonna help
and surely the xenos won't pay for it. i mean they don't even have wallets
My glorious Digital Age is becoming ruined. I actually considered walking into a LCS the other day. what is happening
They're the hardest to get out!
Nonsense. Xenophobia is for Xenomorphs.
i don't think a wall is gonna help
and surely the xenos won't pay for it. i mean they don't even have wallets
BKatastrophe
Member
Well, I'm in for International purely because of the team of Bendis and Maleev (my boys). I recall the Mandarin ring plot because of Inhumanity. Also how I learned about Arno.
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
You never know, didn't think a lot of marvel omnibuses would get reprints, but they are happening a lot recently.
Kind of regretting not getting into the new Iron Man series, but I think these new Bendis series will likely be collected in OHC down the line.
Ms Marvel (2015) #06-10
Ok I'm sold. After a slow start with the first arc, and also being admitedly not interested in the whole Muslim angle, this is all getting pretty great as issues pass on. Characters are really coming into their own, cuteness is over 9000 (Lockjaw), some really nice dialogs, and a world that feels naturally modern. As opposed to artificially. So not Batgirl.
And Alphona absolutely kills it, but that's not a surprise to me as I always loved his art.
A little too, I don't know the word for it, artificial, hollow, high concept an enemy maybe (the whole generation why), but I like what I'm seeing. And nod silently with respect.
Ok I'm sold. After a slow start with the first arc, and also being admitedly not interested in the whole Muslim angle, this is all getting pretty great as issues pass on. Characters are really coming into their own, cuteness is over 9000 (Lockjaw), some really nice dialogs, and a world that feels naturally modern. As opposed to artificially. So not Batgirl.
And Alphona absolutely kills it, but that's not a surprise to me as I always loved his art.
A little too, I don't know the word for it, artificial, hollow, high concept an enemy maybe (the whole generation why), but I like what I'm seeing. And nod silently with respect.
Freezasaurus
Member
Honestly, I enjoyed the opening arc much more than the second. It felt like the second story got too bogged down by a forgettable villain and a supposedly dire situation I couldn't have cared less about. Thankfully, the book found its footing again after that.
We are on the same opinion about the vilain it seems. But I don't know what the dire situation is. Well I still have one issue to read in the arc, maybe I just haven't reached it yet. Or maybe you are refeing to the whole runaways thing, in that case, same here.
I think a magic is at work making the characters more and more alive, the dialogs good, etc. But this is clearly all despite a subpar vilain / general plot indeed.
BKatastrophe
Member
Lockjaw is the true Marvel Universe MVP.
Calcium
Banned
Injustice is surprisingly good, especially considering it's a video game tie-in. I went in with low expectations and it floored me. I've only read Year One and Year Two so far, but it's incredibly solid so far.
Uh huh. Unlike the likable Trump who touts apocryphal stories of generals lining up and executing Muslims as wise foreign policy. So likable. So harmless.
Voting Trump for the lulz is fucking vile. Even trolling with this shit is enabling him and those who think like him.
whatsinaname
Member
The Eternaut is really really good. Sure, the transition between pages is not that smooth (I guess because of how it was originally published), but it is an amazing comic. The art perfectly suits the story they are telling and the slowly increasing dread of the characters is so well depicted. It doesn't ever feel like just-another-post-apocalyptic-scenario book.
On topic now about the elections, I guess I would vote for Hillary if I could...
On topic now about the elections, I guess I would vote for Hillary if I could...
