WadiumArcadium
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Waid and Samnee? I'm loving it so far. I tried the first five issues or so of Edmonson and Noto's run on Marvel Unlimited but I couldn't get into it. This has been the opposite.
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COMICS! |OT| May 2016. Let's Do It. Let's Fall in Love.
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Waid and Samnee? I'm loving it so far. I tried the first five issues or so of Edmonson and Noto's run on Marvel Unlimited but I couldn't get into it. This has been the opposite.
Freezasaurus
Member
Nah, brah. Get Guillermo Del Toro on that shit and go with puppetry. It would be amazing.
Edmonsons Run. Have that trade for months on my Backlog.
Cant believe how fast I currently go through it, its one Trade per day, so only 4 weeks before I am at zero.
Need new shelf.
Got my new Grayson Trade, cant fucking wait to read it ar work tomorrow.
Sounds great, but you have to do these scenes where Khonsu pulls him to eagypt with CGI.
Well done he could really become Batmans Marvel.
I meant to share this with you guys last month, and I completely forgot, but I finished Issue #4 of my comic book, The Gamma Gals! It feels so good to finally finish this volume of the series. I started it last April, and wrote, penciled, inked, colored, and lettered the entire thing. It was such an exhausting and fun project to work on. I still have a Halloween and Christmas issue (Issue #5 and #6) that I'm going to be doing, but they are stand alone stories not related to this Zero G arc from issues #1-4. After this, I'm taking a break from superheroics, and am working on a different project in a different genre, but that won't be for a bit.
I'm just so happy and relieved to have actually completed a story arc for my book. I set out with the challenge to myself to try and complete just one issue, let alone 4. Feels good, man.
Oh yeah, the issues are on Kindle and comixology for digital, and at Indy Planet for the physical version if any of you were curious/interested. I just couldn't contain my excitement/relief for this thing!
I'm just so happy and relieved to have actually completed a story arc for my book. I set out with the challenge to myself to try and complete just one issue, let alone 4. Feels good, man.
Oh yeah, the issues are on Kindle and comixology for digital, and at Indy Planet for the physical version if any of you were curious/interested. I just couldn't contain my excitement/relief for this thing!
BKatastrophe
Member
Batman's Marvel is no Marvel I want to be a part of
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.
I missed the Quitely lovefest, how sad.
You should do more of these annotated posts though ed, that was awesome. As a counterpoint you should pick a shitty artist like Brett Booth or Tony Daniel and pick it apart.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Coriolanus
Banned
Hmm, thats.. yeah. Makes sense. Only character that had what could pass for an arc was the gay guy. Everybody else was pretty dang static.
Well, the actor saying that he hated the damn thing right after being asked to take care of it was a nice bit too, but thats about it.
Isnt that what Daredevil is?
RepairmanJack
Member
Yeah I'm really conflicted on the issue. I think it's great on its own which I guess works great with the whole run but I just sort of expected something different from the last issue. I guess you know who he is at that point and that was the books point but at the same time it doesn't feel like it's making a strong case for that.
Great book and I definitely recommend it. Just maybe an anticlimactic end but that's not really a bad thing.
Edit: On a side note for other conclusions Martian Manhunter was a great ending and pretty damn dark. I'm really curious what we see of Jonn next.
Thanks so much!
I'm really enjoying this Quitely discussion. I remember when I first came across his work, I was initially unimpressed. Wasn't a fan of his style, I guess. I don't know when or how it happened, but something about his work clicked with me, maybe it was the All Star Superman or New X-Men stuff, but I started loving his work. Fascinating artist. He has such a great eye for composition, movement, and scale/scope, among other things. I really enjoy looking at his pages.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I missed the Quitely lovefest, how sad.
You should do more of these annotated posts though ed, that was awesome. As a counterpoint you should pick a shitty artist like Brett Booth or Tony Daniel and pick it apart.
I would very much enjoy this.
BenjaminBirdie
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.
This is amazing. I did something like for a Sean Murphy Hellblazer page ages ago, lost to the wilds of time I suppose.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
That's right son, wrecked. I better not see you around here again.
I wanted to wait for the Deluxe... But at some point I will break and just buy it. Its such a wonderful book...
I thought you said something else and I had to do a double take.
Love this page though.
EDIT:
https://youtu.be/_kniQrk9jw0
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
TetraxShards
Member
Doom is filling in until Overwatch gets here. It's actually really good. It's stupid, but it's the best kind of stupid.
Between these two, 2016 is the year to Make FPS Great Again.
TetraxShards
Member
DARKNESS! NO QUIPPING!
I'm going to start Doom tonight before the Raptors continue to pretend they are an nba team.
TetraxShards
Member
my name is ed
Banned
I missed the Quitely lovefest, how sad.
You should do more of these annotated posts though ed, that was awesome. As a counterpoint you should pick a shitty artist like Brett Booth or Tony Daniel and pick it apart.
Thanks, y'all. I enjoy breaking down comics art. It reminded me I did a small art breakdown of couple pages from Uncanny X-Force for a now defunct small online comics magazine back in the day. After digging through my docs, I found it. Here it is, unedited from 2012. I don't even remember if they decided to publish it. Im kind of taken back how poorly it reads but here you go.
please... no Canadian hockey teams in the playoffs this year means the raptors are all we have ;_;
Raptors can't play basketball. They should stick to motorbikes.
Jurassic World was so dumb that i forgot the raptors didn't have motorbikes when looking at that gif. "Yep, that's jurassic world."
TetraxShards
Member
I approve of Ed's X-Force post because he made a Dean White funny, and the days of the DEAN WHITE~! meme on here were some of the best.
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.
I'm not a big Quietly fan, but I would NEVER say he's a bad artist. He's clearly good. Actually, the thing is, I think I would like his art a lot more if he had a better colorist. I've always disliked the coloring on his stuff much more than the line work. (Although, that panel you posted looks great)
I missed the Quitely lovefest, how sad.
You should do more of these annotated posts though ed, that was awesome. As a counterpoint you should pick a shitty artist like Brett Booth or Tony Daniel and pick it apart.
I can't believe you would put Booth and Daniels together. Daniels is way better.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
good posts on this page
Freezasaurus
Member
I liked it. But it would have been even better with Raptors on motorcycles.
hipsterpants
Member
Started Gotham Central which I stumbled across at the library. It's pretty amazing. Have to wait until next week to pull the next book though . Going to start using the library while I have the chance this summer. Unfortunately their cape stuff is literally 90% X-Men or Spider-Man.
They also have all the Absolute Sandman's, which I'm absolutely going to start reading.
. Going to start using the library while I have the chance this summer. Unfortunately their cape stuff is literally 90% X-Men or Spider-Man.They also have all the Absolute Sandman's, which I'm absolutely going to start reading.
whatsinaname
Member
Done with Infinity and all the in-between issues of Avengers/New Avengers. It was ok, as far as events go but still a little bit of a letdown. Had some nice moments though. I still don't know why Hobo Garrus, Mordin and Liara were helping Thanos.
Hopefully normal service resumes with New Avengers #12 and there are no more rest-stops along the way.
GOAT.
Hopefully normal service resumes with New Avengers #12 and there are no more rest-stops along the way.
GOAT.
RepairmanJack
Member
Finally got around to watching the Overwatch animated shorts....they're pretty damn good!
BP 2 gets a 2nd printing with a Run the Jewels cover.
I would run naked backwards through a field of dicks to own that.
I'm still holding a grudge over the older brother character and The Raptor Squad, maybe the pro chopper pilot.
And this is a thing i saw browsing the bigbadtoystore upcoming items page:
10'' plastic "statue" that also holds your keyring? $30.
Anyone read Uncanny Avengers #9? I dropped it after issue 3 because I wasnt a fan of the art at all or the first story arc but was very surprised with this new arc after hearing about on Kotaku of all places. The art is great and this new story line could be really good. Only issues I had with it were Rogue and Gambits designs. Wish Remmender was still on it though.
On a side note, I never read Rage of Ultron. Tbh I didnt know Remmender and Opena were on it and after the horrible Age of Ultron comic from Bendis I was not about to check RoU out. How was it received on here? About to order it on Amazon with the Uncanny Avengers omni.
On a side note, I never read Rage of Ultron. Tbh I didnt know Remmender and Opena were on it and after the horrible Age of Ultron comic from Bendis I was not about to check RoU out. How was it received on here? About to order it on Amazon with the Uncanny Avengers omni.
Most people thought it was weird but I personally loved everything about it. It hit me at home. I recommend it. Beautiful art, great dialogue and overall just a provoking read (at least near the end).
RepairmanJack
Member
I really hate Gambit's design but Rogue's doesn't bother me too much. I've been kind of meh on the book as a whole though.
It's pretty decent. Nothing earth shattering, but it reads like "here is a good, safe Avengers book for people who watch Age of Ultron to pick up, so they don't have to touch the clusterfuck that is the AoU book." And it is.
I quite liked Rage of Ultron but the way Remender wrote Hank really bugged me especially after reading Avengers A.I. The art is godlike.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
The best, and my favorite Quitely page. Simple, soulful, beautiful.
I liked it but I was 1) fiending for the return of my favourite monthly superhero comic in any form after its untimely demise at the hands of AXIS and 2) under the impression that Remender would be continuing the loose plot threads in a new book, which didn't end up happening
also keep in mind that Opena doesn't actually draw all of it
Haven't read that run since it came out, and I still totally remember that page. Brilliant.
Coriolanus
Banned
Man, avengers ai was some flash in a pan stuff. Only really good thing that writer ever wrote, and he nailed it with almost the whole cast.
Future Foundation
Member
I can see why people were tight at Ganke in Spider-Man #4. Holy shit, what a shitshow.
EDIT: And as Miles said
EDIT: And as Miles said
for fucking Goldballs.
Yup it's the only book I've read from Humphries I actually like it had some really good character work with Hank that was largely ignored everywhere else. Shame really, I should pick up the trades at some point.