Roland_Gunner
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You can probably process carbon dioxide, so that's awesome. Any plant control powers yet?
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COMICS! |OT| May 2016. Let's Do It. Let's Fall in Love.
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You can probably process carbon dioxide, so that's awesome. Any plant control powers yet?
Coriolanus
Banned
Brian Vaughan's We Stand on Guard is kinda weird.
Feel that it'd probably be better without all the giant mech nonsense
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and of course war plan red was actually a thing. of course. god damn coolidge.
Feel that it'd probably be better without all the giant mech nonsense
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and of course war plan red was actually a thing. of course. god damn coolidge.
BKatastrophe
Member
Are you a crustacean?
WadiumArcadium
Member
I can neither confirm nor deny.
Freezasaurus
Member
If you're a Predator, sure. A-okay. But if it's green and tends to melt things when outside of your body, bad news. You're a Xenomorph.
echoshifting
Banned
So I have yet to touch my pile of weekly books at all. I'm too wrapped up in Sunstone. It is really fucking good. Getting ready to dig into the second volume right now.
TetraxShards
Member
He might be a Vulcan as well.
We've secretly replaced WadiumArcadium's blood with Velocity-9, let's see if he notices!
Freezasaurus
Member
Vulcans aren't real, you silly billy.
BKatastrophe
Member
How can you know? Its still a couple of years until the First Contact.
Freezasaurus
Member
You are very optimistic Mr. GAMEPROFF. Xenomorphs will be our first contact.
So, have you ever heard the story how the Aztecs were wiped out?
RepairmanJack
Member
Ganke crossed a mother fucking line.
Yeah, I mean jesus that was not a great move.
Was the point of this chapter to make me hate Ganke? Because they did a pretty good job at doing that.
RepairmanJack
Member
Yeah, what the fuck? Think they should have gone even harder on Goldballs thinking it was fucked up as well but maybe we'll get that later.
Dude, Spoiler.
my name is ed
Banned
Ganke is a loser
Lose the deadweight Millas!
Lose the deadweight Millas!
was just wondering if you read it is all!
I read the trade a few months after it came out and while I agree it's minor Quitely, there's always one or two cool things in each issue that makes it worth reading, and really Quitely comics >> non-Quitely comics most of the time tbqh. reading them all one after another made me like the book a bit more too, you don't really get a sense of where it's going until that fourth or fifth issue and then by that the thing is over
my name is ed
Banned
ah gotcha, I guess I was reading into your question wrong
Yeah definitely agree about Quitely. Even in his lesser work like New X-Men always contained some really interesting pages. One thing that I think is kind of rarely discussed about Quitely is that his work is actually really hard to draw. I mean taking away all his ingenuity and design that really pops in something like We3, his sense of space, in particular the way planes face and interact with each other, is remarkable.
There are very few artists that create consistently interesting relationships between their shapes and planes. Moebius and Darrow both have that quality; I can't really think of others.
Quitely also has amazing sense for eye direction. As an example, Ive added my notes on why this page works, its the opening page of his New X-Men run.
Think of what this page accomplishes.
Wolverine attacking sentinel in background. Cyke attacking the head of the severed head of the sentinel which is on the ground, the mutant they are saving is under the hand of the destroyed sentinel, and the location is easily set with an understated background. A clear sense of scale and position is established. All of that in a splash page that is super easily readable. Its fucking masterful. Most artists can't pack that much info into a 5 panel page without fucking it up.
But sure, people look at his faces and ask why his women aren't pretty. As if Quitely were interested in romanticizing human faces. To get back to Jupiters Legacy, yeah I agree that you don't really know where its going until the end. It left me hungry for the next installment but not unsatisfied. Tricky thing, that.
whatsinaname
Member
You should stop reading so much Manga.
Wolverine just got lost in all the purple.
I blame, eh, Rhakar for this!
I have nothing to post, but its from Batman & Robin
New X-Men is soooo good.
Cassandra Nova is still one of my favourite villains in the series.
And i still love the panel where Emma has her nose punched and she's yelling at Sublime that's she is cross, very cross with him. And accidently lets him fall from down on the street from the officebuilding.
Cassandra Nova is still one of my favourite villains in the series.
And i still love the panel where Emma has her nose punched and she's yelling at Sublime that's she is cross, very cross with him. And accidently lets him fall from down on the street from the officebuilding.
my name is ed
Banned
Going by pure skills rather than a well executed 'moment': these are some standouts. But really, We3 has like a masterclass page every 3 to 5 pages
ah gotcha, I guess I was reading into your question wrong
Yeah definitely agree about Quitely. Even in his lesser work like New X-Men always contained some really interesting pages. One thing that I think is kind of rarely discussed about Quitely is that his work is actually really hard to draw. I mean taking away all his ingenuity and design that really pops in something like We3, his sense of space, in particular the way planes face and interact with each other, is remarkable.
There are very few artists that create consistently interesting relationships between their shapes and planes. Moebius and Darrow both have that quality; I can't really think of others.
Quitely also has amazing sense for eye direction. As an example, Ive added my notes on why this page works, its the opening page of his New X-Men run.
http://i.imgur.com/8xvSrch.jpg[img]
Think of what this page accomplishes.
Wolverine attacking sentinel in background. Cyke attacking the head of the severed head of the sentinel which is on the ground, the mutant they are saving is under the hand of the destroyed sentinel, and the location is easily set with an understated background. A clear sense of scale and position is established. All of that in a splash page that is super easily readable. Its fucking masterful. Most artists can't pack that much info into a 5 panel page without fucking it up.
But sure, people look at his faces and ask why his women aren't pretty. As if Quitely were interested in romanticizing human faces. To get back to Jupiters Legacy, yeah I agree that you don't really know where its going until the end. It left me hungry for the next installment but not unsatisfied. Tricky thing, that.[/QUOTE]
a good post
[img]http://i.imgur.com/yWVPoMV.jpg
I really liked this panel from Jupiter's Legacy. There's flashier stuff in there but it's just a great example of how a static image can suggest motion (her bursting through the glass shield, the distance between where the punch ends and where the baddie's head is, the cracks on the wall)
again, flashier stuff can be found in We3/Pax/BatRob etc, but i fuckin love this page in Earth 2 where it's Earth 2 Luthor and his ridiculous big purple cock codpiece
I think one of the things about Morrison and Quitely is that Moz really loves superheroes but Quitely kinda doesn't care about them outside of his Morrison collaborations? it doesn't always show but i like that it's somewhat noticeable in this page
ViewtifulJC
Banned
What a wonderful page filled with wonderful things being posted
Nobody has ever started a superhero comic book run better than "Wolverine. You can probably stop doing that now" as they easily dismantled the symbol of the old adversaries. Now its time for the NEW X-Men.
Nobody has ever started a superhero comic book run better than "Wolverine. You can probably stop doing that now" as they easily dismantled the symbol of the old adversaries. Now its time for the NEW X-Men.
my name is ed
Banned
yeah, comics gaf is making a quality comeback. we just need to-
This is my favorite Frank Quietly page
it was good while it lasted, boys.
What. That page is awesome.
Freezasaurus
Member
Shhhhh. There is only Overwatch now.
my name is ed
Banned
I thought you were being cheeky. Thats Burnham not Quitely haha
I legit don't know which games are coming out unless they're mentioned here...
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Was not a fan. BKV never gave me a reason to care about any of those people.
I once posted this, talking about how Quietly drawed himself in this page.
American Alien's last issue was kinda meh compared to the rest of the series, which also means the issue is still good. Not sure why
was in it though. Sometimes it seems like Landis just likes to throw random DC characters in the mix of his stories to show he "gets them" too. It worked with Dick and Oliver Queen in issue #4 I think but that time Deathstroke showed up, and now
, I'm just like, huh?
Lobo
Lobo
Freezasaurus
Member
I haven't read any of it, but I'm interested. Would you say the series as a whole is worth a read when the trade drops?
Absolutely.
I have the hardcover pre-ordered already, and I don't even collect Superman in trades or anything except for owning some of the essentials: All-Star, Birthright, For All Seasons, and Red Son.
Freezasaurus
Member
He's an Egyptian God. What do you expect? They act pretty weird in the current Doctor Fate book, as well.