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COMICS! |OT| May 2016. Let's Do It. Let's Fall in Love.
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
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echoshifting
Banned
I thought it was just okay. I agree it's overrated. It doesn't really get better either so if you're not enjoying it now you may as well ditch it.
I'm giving it one more issue, which will be the end of the current arc, 33 issues in. I think that's enough to say I gave it a fair shot.
He was amazing on art for the tie in and a little bit less so in the ANAD book but still good. That SW book comes to a great end imo. Today was the first issue without him. Ben Caldwell of Prez is now doing the art. It looks different but still good. Kelly Thompson from Jem is now writing the book solo after first Margurite Bennett left after SW and then G Willow Wilson left after last issue (she was co writing with Kelly)
I will say, while I still like the book and really liked todays issue. Something is different and I like it less than the secret wars book. I think it was what Bennett was bringing to the book, the heart is different. Bennett knows how to write an emotional book and alot of A-Force is about emotions and heart. Singularity and Nico especially.
yeaaa finding stuff you've heard of on the cheap is really fun but so is coming across stuff that just looks dope
i don't think these comics were ever "hugely acclaimed" tbh? the only thing of note is that it's them doing something like 60 issues of comics together and also that one annual where they make the mandarin a lil bit less racist, which is all right i guess
If winning an Eisner doesn't equal hugely acclaimed I don't know what does. Plus I've heard multiple creators and writers talk that run up like it's Morrison's JLA or something.
echoshifting
Banned
Then you haven't been paying attention. Several of us have been raving about it.
It's shaping up to be a classic run.
You barely hear anyone talk about the Bendis run... do you mean the current one where everyone on gaf goes bananas for?
Rightfully so btw its amazing and every issue it baffles me that its a Bendis book
I mean from my end. I haven't been around to hear you all talk about it.
That good, huh? o.o
echoshifting
Banned
It's a top 5 ANAD book easily
ah yea, i was gonna mention that Eisner, but i got it confused with Iron Fist which was only nominated. but like, in terms of "talk," i don't think there's ever been a huge audience that went to bat for that comic, even as it was coming out -- definitely not in the same way you had people rep for the aforementioned Iron Fist, or idk, Hawkeye or Uncanny X-Force or w/e
The writer chose a poor direction to take the book.
Yeah, it's definitely a weird case. Almost seems like the hype was manufactured by the industry but most readers didn't really buy in. But then I see people like Ta-Nehisi Coates raving about that series, and I don't get it. It seems very by-the-book and safe to me, even though it teases more provocative ideas.
Large majority of us are enjoying the current run and have been talking about it.
Wait.... Dustin Weaver is gonna be on Uncanny X-Men now? Yeeessssssssss
echoshifting
Banned
Going from Greg Land to Dustin Weaver is like watching a pile of shit turn into a stack of gold bricks
Divine intervention indeed
Divine intervention indeed
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
That's great news.
I still don't like the roster of that team though. Villain teams work best when they use obscure fringe type characters. Plus the movies have just run Mystique and Magneto into the ground for me.
my name is ed
Banned
Bargain bins are pretty cool until you're like yeah I guess Ill read this Jim Shooter JG Jones book 'Fatale' how bad could it be
echoshifting
Banned
It's kind of a weird lineup but I wouldn't describe it as a "villain team." Psylocke, M and Archangel aren't villains, Sabretooth is a good guy now too. Magneto is in full antihero mode, he's the only one you could really describe as a villain.
Hey now... hey...
Its true
I wasn't expressing disbelief, I was expressing elation!
Greg Land's reign of terror is over?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
They might not be villains at the moment but they should be.
At the very least they need to add Blink so she can follow Sabertooth around calling him Mr Creed.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
its never great, but I checked it out every month anyway. Its kinda like a TV show, you check in on the characters every now and again to see what wacky thing they're up to, even if not a lot happens issue to issue.
I like Fraction's characterization, and Larroca's art when they're in suits(outside, not so much). I feel like he basically did all the Iron Man stories anybody could ever do: What if Tony armor gets in the wrong hands, what if Tony's company/mind/wealth is destroyed, what if Tony had to build up his company vs a rival organization, what if Tony started drinking again, what if he and Pepper hooked up again, what if he and Rhodes were like BFF, what if Stane and the Mandarin teamed up and it was Armor Wars 3...
and then??
echoshifting
Banned
Damn you Brian now I want this so badly
echoshifting
Banned
Do you have a moment to spare for our lord and savior Old Man Logan?
I am cautious on that
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I love that his sentence trails off with no punctuation at the end
like he just died right there
like when you say candle jack and he comes to take you aw
Freezasaurus
Member
Welp. Guess I'm buying Overwatch. I still don't really know what I'm doing objective-wise, but I kind of love this game and I don't really like online shooters. I only tried a few characters so far, but I'm really digging Pharah.
Cheers, love!
Cheers, love!
my name is ed
Banned
Boy, let me tell you. You aint lived until you've read Broadway Comics. Broadway Comics was the the second comic company that Shooter drove into the ground after he got kicked out of 90s Valiant
My favorite Slott arc.
I've been wanting to read that. Gotta get those Deluxe HCs eventually.
Freezasaurus
Member
You got something against booty?
You should read more of his Image stuff.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Fatale was a bit of a chore to get through for me. Are all Brubakers books that dry and overly serious?
huh, never heard of this before, lemme wiki this shit real quick
the third company
Freezasaurus
Member
Pretty much, but most of them are better than Fatale.