Who is writing Vote Loki?
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Who is writing Vote Loki?
Christopher Hastings with Langdon Foss on art
Freezasaurus
Member
Isn't Hastings the guy writing Gwenpool?
Poodlestrike
Banned
He also does the excellent Adventures of Dr. McNinja.
I might pick up Loki, with McNinja coming to a close.
I forgot to mention that in my struggle to finish the SW tie ins, I read Runaways #4 and it was great. That mini is the biggest case of going from "this issue #1 did nothing for me" to becoming one of my favorite tie ins
There are two more issues left
Edit: oh #9 comes out this month
Mike is wrapping up a lot of his books this year so he can take a year off
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I like you.
...I was already excited for the book, but I did not know this. Now I'm very, very excited, as I love his work. Awesome!
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Tom King was in the CIA?!?! That's so cool. They should really do some kind of marketing with that, it's a pretty cool angle.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah, he was an analyst. Sheriff of Babylon is apparently the first book DC ever had to run past the CIA to make sure it didn't contain anything classified, lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
Yo, guys. I just heard that Tom King was in the CIA. Maybe they should put him on Black Widow.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Oh, did that turn into a meme in the 2 weeks I was gone?
Dammit, did I miss the new Guardians of Infinity?
Why would DC hire a known spy?
To get those hot Marvel secrets.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Freezasaurus
Member
Because they thought he was a comic book writer, but Marvel actually hired him to get a job at DC and feed them top level information.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah yeah I get it now
It was a little joke we had while you were on vacation.
BTW, did you know that Tom King was in the CIA?
Well it's pretty obvious Tom King formerly of the CIA is Dick Grayson.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
When I first started reading it I thought it was based on the television show Archer.
I like that book. This volume gas been great and the Squirrel Girl crossover is amazing.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I haven't read much from Lemire, but I LOVED his Green Arrow run.
Poodlestrike
Banned
All-New Hawkeye kind of seems to have been the turning point. He came off of Green Arrow (which wasn't actually all that well written, but that ART), went on Hawkeye immediately after, and things fell right off a cliff.
And JC already posted the real hawk-eye moment.
Welcome back, Poodle. What did you do in your time off?
Tragicomedy
Member
Yeah, that definitely did not happen. Nobody in Langley sat down and redacted shit in a Tom King comic book. Nobody in the Agency even remembered who Tom King was until he started invoking their name. There's nothing in that book that even approaches the realm of classified data. You can read more realistic stuff in Zero.
Shit is getting ridiculous. The dude writes comics. He writes them well. He's great, even. It'd be one thing if this was a DC marketing gimmick, but Mr. King is pushing this shit hard. The fact that he even refers to himself as a CIA "agent" is hilarious, when analysts and agents are entirely different things.
Can we call you CIA Agent Tragicomedy?
Tragicomedy
Member
I've been called worse!
Interestingly enough, I know a handful of people who have worked at NCTC for well over a decade. I'm going to ask them if they've ever heard of Tom King. I already know the answer.
I'm fine with people pushing false or overblown credentials. I get it. That's like 95% of politicians these days. I just find it offensive when they purposefully use incorrect labels and terms interchangeably to try and muddy up matters. Since our last discussion on this, I've seen interviews where King refers to himself as an "operations officer" (he wasn't), a "CIA agent" (he wasn't), and an "analyst" (he was). Those are WORLDS apart in both reality and the connotations that come associated with them.
This latest bullshit about having to vet everything he writes through the Agency...I MEAN LOL. Hell, any US citizen can just submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the CIA and see how full of shit he is in 20 business days. Nobody is reviewing Tom King comics to prevent exceptionally grave damage to US interests. Not that I'd expect comics journalists to, you know, actually question stupid claims and do some digging. There's not enough room left when your column is unadulterated praise.
Jeff Lemire comics
lol wut
But then we wouldn't have Moon Knight or Old Man Logan.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Not much, tbh. I have found a new button of Tragicomedy's to press, so I'll probably be doing that a bit.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Tragicomedy
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
Did you hear about how Tom King singlehandledly thwarted 15 terrorist attacks.
Hawkeye is over
The old man Hawkeye book is already over?
That was only an issue or two. It ended at #6.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
CMX Star Wars sale. Including some of the new marvel ones finally discounted.
https://www.comixology.com/Star-Wars-May-The-4th-Sale/page/10640?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC90YWJsZXQvc21hbGxDYXJvdXNlbA
https://www.comixology.com/Star-Wars-May-The-4th-Sale/page/10640?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC90YWJsZXQvc21hbGxDYXJvdXNlbA
all new hawkeye is still ongoing
edit: it ended? damn didn't someone here say that they are going to do another series
Freezasaurus
Member
No, but I heard that Tom King is only a cover name, and his real name is Jack Bauer.
Marvel with the ruthless cancelations damn. Is there a list of what ANAD books are canceled?