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COMICS! |OT| May 2014. I for one welcome our new Amazon overlords.
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Truthfully, I find that my best bet for all things comic related it's just best to visit www.midtowncomics.com or just browse new releases in their app. They post next weeks stuff by 1pm eastern time latest.
ThyMusicMan
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I forgot about my recent IST goodies. I got Fear Agent vol 2 library, Batman & Superman HC and Joe the Barbarian ,, Joe the Barbarian is great. Sean Murphy is one of my favs, damn art is so good.
Happy to see some Velvet love. Much deserved.
Edit: I recently broke up with apple, well iPhone anyways, not the iPad I'm using right now. Lol. . I use Comic Shopper App for Andriod. It's really good. Comic Day is good for apple. I think that's the name
Happy to see some Velvet love. Much deserved.
Edit: I recently broke up with apple, well iPhone anyways, not the iPad I'm using right now. Lol. . I use Comic Shopper App for Andriod. It's really good. Comic Day is good for apple. I think that's the name
crimsonspider89
Banned
Yeah Academy season 2 got a bunch of editorial mandated changes(X-23, White Tiger, removing Speedball/Justice and adding Hawkeye(threw off the chemistry completely), and bad art to boot.
But the Final arc is great. Should of how it went after FI. Did the Final Exam then do the football game/unveiling of the truth.
But the Final arc is great. Should of how it went after FI. Did the Final Exam then do the football game/unveiling of the truth.
GrandHarrier
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Dunno. Didn't feel this issue. My reaction was more like, "We waited four months for this?"
I need to read something else by Brian K Vaughan sometime soon. Y: The Last Man basically got me into comics but I haven't read anything by him since.
I'll probably grab that big Runaways TPB coming out in July. People really like BKV's Runaways, right?
Also, what's the general consensus on Ex Machina? The premise interests me, but I haven't seen it get much praise.
And then of course I'll almost definitely get that deluxe hardcover of Saga later this year.
I'll probably grab that big Runaways TPB coming out in July. People really like BKV's Runaways, right?
Also, what's the general consensus on Ex Machina? The premise interests me, but I haven't seen it get much praise.
And then of course I'll almost definitely get that deluxe hardcover of Saga later this year.
I can definitely see people liking it, and there were definitely some parts I could enjoy, but the politics stuff (especially when it went full on straw man) really killed it for me. Of course I've only read the first few volumes before I stopped, so I can't offer a fair opinion on the complete run.
Edit: Also people can feel free to disagree since it's been a while, but I distinctly remember large chunks of art for the book being kind of crap. At the very least I remember some very poor scenes with the people in the office.
Eh...it is what it is I guess. I found it to be better than American Vampire. I was getting a bunch of feels from Saga that were much needed.
echoshifting
Banned
BKV's Runaways and Ex Machina? Both earn my seal of approval.
Dave_6
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My shitty attempts to take pictures of my Annihilation Omnibus.
Sorry about the quality.
Edit: Okay, I have no idea what I did wrong here.
Edit 2: Got it.
Thanks to you both!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Good god that Futures End art.
A chilling vision of the future indeed.
A chilling vision of the future indeed.
Runaways is really good. He also has an ongoing online comic right now at http://panelsyndicate.com with Marcos Martin. Every issue is pay-what-you-want.
He also did a graphic novel from Vertigo called Pride of Baghdad that I really enjoyed
Mike Double U
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Well GAF, here are my pickups for today. I bought a membership at the local shop so I get 20% off all new and recent releases. It paid for itself and some already!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I'm actually most interested in it because of the political aspect of it. Do you think I'd like it then? Or was it that the political stuff was done poorly?
Cool cool!
Oh! I totally forgot about Private Eye! I ought to get around to reading that soon.
And thanks for the recommendation. I always forget about that one, too. I think I usually get it mixed up with We3 in my head or something.
Adam Hughes' contribution to the SpringCon charity auction...sold for 1250.
Also need to figure out who I'm going to get a sketch from on my blank cover Harley. Should have picked up a few extras...
Mondo is going to have this Elektra print up at some point tomorrow.
http://t.e2ma.net/webview/xwcwg/6d3a2f90ec41ff725aec88d57dd22b31
Also need to figure out who I'm going to get a sketch from on my blank cover Harley. Should have picked up a few extras...
Mondo is going to have this Elektra print up at some point tomorrow.
http://t.e2ma.net/webview/xwcwg/6d3a2f90ec41ff725aec88d57dd22b31
the_firewithin
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nice Saga reference in DD this week
Freezasaurus
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Yeah, I wasn't a fan either. The earlier issues were good, though. Hopefully the next arc will be better.
Can you spoil it for me? I dropped Daredevil after the last issue. I am just not a big fan of Daredevil it seems and I needed to cut a few books.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
God damn, I didn't realize that it's been four months since the last issue.
I didn't feel like it was that bad this time, it flew by.
GrandHarrier
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Messi, known hiatus denier.
the_firewithin
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I loved the caption on the last page.
It's his thing, much in the same way anecdotes from dads are Snyder's thing, dismemberment is Johns' thing or rape is Alan Moore's thing.
KoruptData
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Batman Eternal was pretty cool this week. Building up that Selina and Bruce chemistry only to tear it down later. The impending doom continues.
The difference is I enjoyed this thing!
GrandHarrier
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BuddyJoeHooker
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I feel like I missed a lot of the story of Forever Evil just reading the main series.
Was JL and JLA pretty essential kind of like how Avengers and NA were needed for Infinity?
Cyborg out of nowhere and Superwoman playing everybody.
Isn't rape Millar's thing?
GrandHarrier
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Cyborg really. He was in Justice League. Fought and defeated Grid. Superwoman really wasn't in much besides FE.
JLA is more fluff on the Firestorm Matrix Prison.
JLA is more fluff on the Firestorm Matrix Prison.
Freezasaurus
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Eh, Millar will use whatever he can for dat shock value.
I can't really tell if Invincible is actually good or not, even 100+ issues in. all the over the top crazy shit and explosive nature of the book kinda makes you forget about anything else. It's like watching Bay's Transformers if you just edited all the action set pieces together with some John Turturro scenes sprinkled in.
Lol@the opening of Saga.
Man I love the art of East of West.
Lol@the opening of Saga.
Man I love the art of East of West.
tringworldso
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It's completely fine. Would have been better if Dan Jurgens didn't just do the layouts.
Freezasaurus
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It took me a few seconds to realize what I was looking at. OMG, Apple must have shit themselves on that one.
Indeed. Too bad the story is moving slower than molasses.
Storm Chamber
Banned
this was me until the very last page tbh
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
I read it again
and they do explain Cyborg showing up briefly in one panel.
Was Owlman wanting to be a team again with Dick explained in another issue or was he spouting some nonsense? Could Dick be from the Syndicate's Earth?
Was Owlman wanting to be a team again with Dick explained in another issue or was he spouting some nonsense? Could Dick be from the Syndicate's Earth?
shadyspace
Banned
lmao
Rrongfield
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I'm continuously surprised that a comic such as Zero exists and delivers each and every issue.
Velvet was one of the best issues yet. It's such a gorgeous book.
Doomed continues to be a fun crossover.
Velvet was one of the best issues yet. It's such a gorgeous book.
Doomed continues to be a fun crossover.
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
Well Prime Dick is best Dick
At the very least it just didn't come across well to me, personally. It felt very much like the main character was always "right" and it felt like he was kind of an author's mouthpiece to me. And there were definitely some strawman characters popping up that rubbed me the wrong way. Like, even when I agreed with the sentiments I didn't like the way things were playing out. But again, only read the first few volumes so any number of these things could've gotten better/been addressed. And of course politics are very much a ymmv sort of thing, so it may well just be me. At the very least I'm not trying to say it's on the level of Fox News or something, it just didn't feel right for me.
If you're interested maybe give the first volume a try and see how you like it? At the very least I can say that'd probably be a good sampling of the series and how it feels/works (again haven't read the whole run though).
GrandHarrier
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Lol, the Power Ring woman, Jessica Cruz...
Is a Doomsday prepper. Lol.
Freezasaurus
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oh man, Lady Bullseye isn't having a good month.
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First Coulson hits her with a car in Secret Avengers, then she gets stabbed by Elektra
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