The Lemire talk has made me want to read his Green Arrow stuff now, where do I start? Is it a continuation from another teams run?
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The Lemire talk has made me want to read his Green Arrow stuff now, where do I start? Is it a continuation from another teams run?
Rafa=FedKilla
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Birthright was pretty good.
ViewtifulJC
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He pretty much blew up the entire status quo when he jumped on, so that shouldn't be a problem
Jedeye Sniv
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It wasn't even the first multiverse/Crisis story though (was working within a tradition of them), and the style is very Wolfman/Perez. Perez is the human embodiment of compression so much so that he's actually only one foot tall, so enormous are the forces acting on his being.
Erm, basically, COIE is a very 80s comic is what I'm saying. I don't think it's particularly 'human' or 'true'-feeling, and I don't think the sci-fi ideas were that big even at the time. Hickman is able to mix autistic-level science goodness with sweet, human moments unlike many other writers. Crisis doesn't even get a look in.
Look for Green Arrow vol 4: The Kill Machine and vol 5: The Outsiders War.
The last collection of his run will presumably be released next year.
Future Foundation
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Lemire's stuff w/ Sorrentino has already been collected. Start with Green Arrow Vol. 4.
It's sort of a soft reboot of the book. As such, you can jump into it without having read the first three volumes.
Cool, looks like he only did issues 17 through 31 so I'll fire through that.
slightconfuse
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Future Foundation
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Yes, yes it was. I really wish Waid/Yu had gotten a good long Superman run.
Fair enough. Must be my DC bias shining through. Also makes me want to see Hickman writing DC books.
Hm, that means it will most likely release as and OHC at some point but we will have to wait a hell of a time... And not to forget the many Event Spin-Offs, that will most likely be released...
Jedeye Sniv
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DC have got Morrison, good enough for me
I do wonder if him and Hickman have been secretly collaborating, lots of overlapping themes in their work lately. Hickman actually mentioned The Bleed recently, I thought that was DC only.Rafa=FedKilla
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Talking about the new Image comic series Birthright from Joshua Williamson and some artist.
Wait, Wolverines is weekly? No way Marvel can pull that off. Koi Pham, Doug Baldeon and Filipino Andrade come on down.
DC have got Morrison, good enough for me
Now THAT'S a way to celebrate 30 years since SW/COIE.
Have DC/Marvel crossover. Hickman takes Marvel side, Morrison DC, and make Superboy Prime the villain.
Future Foundation
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Ah, okay. I haven't read that, I should check it out.
Right after I re-read Superman Birthright.
Though the AvX tie-in stuff may not have been bad, I find it hard to argue that the event didn't screw up the series and its pacing bad. The start and the end of that omnibus is some of my favorite stuff in comics, and AvX was a blatant side-track that didn't fit in with the feel of the series and prevented it from really getting set up right. I honestly feel like AvX's effect on WatXM is super tragic personally and brought it down quite a bit.
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Jedeye Sniv
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Though the AvX tie-in stuff may not have been bad, I find it hard to argue that the event didn't screw up the series and its pacing bad. The start and the end of that omnibus is some of my favorite stuff in comics, and AvX was a blatant side-track that didn't fit in with the feel of the series and prevented it from really getting set up right. I honestly feel like AvX's effect on WatXM is super tragic personally and brought it down quite a bit.
I hear this argument all the time and I just don't see it. As birdie mentioned, it gave us the great Warbird story, that was worth it alone. And it followed the awful Frankenstein story, that did a good enough job of de-railing the title without any outside influence.
In many ways, I remember liking Uncanny and WatXM tying into AvX better than the main event itself (which I thought was poopy).
UXM tied in easier because Gillen's entire story was setting up AvX. WATXM's wasn't, so in terms of the whole run it does feel a tad disjointed.
TetraxShards
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The Frankenstein story was after AvX. There was the Doop issue and then that arc.
It was more the abrupt shift in tone (gone from crazy fun loving stuff referencing a million different things to super serious) and making the series deal with a ton of "serious reprecussion" stuff instead of focusing on getting settled into the school. I mean, the circus stuff was horrible regardless, but I definitely feel the run would've been far better off if it didn't need to deal with AvX.
On a whim, I picked up the first TPB from the library, and I absolutely adored it. It was kind of like an Indiana Jones-type adventure story, but with the pulpy tone of Black Beetle. The writing was incredibly enjoyable and the art was absolutely stunning.
I'm without a doubt going to be picking up the hypothetical OHC when it hopefully gets released. It was definitely a huge surprise.
BenjaminBirdie
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I don't think anyone would ever describe one of my arguments as claiming a Marvel event was bad lol
This bad boy turned up today!
Hah! Literally just a few minutes before I saw this post, I had gone to my bookshelf and grabbed this to finally read today.
...Although after posting about Five Ghosts, I'm kind of craving something more along those lines and might read more Criminal first. But hopefully I'll still read Copra today, because I've been really looking forward to reading it.
ThyMusicMan
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Awwshiiit.
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Tyrant Rave
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This is it, we've hit the big leagues
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I feel like I've been away for a while. Have there been 37 new events announced (in a row) in the past few days?
Hahaha, I ain't even mad. It was weird to see, but I find it to be pretty funny.
Tyrant Rave
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Marvel is teasing old events like Civil War as well as things like Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies
It's probably all stuff for Secret Wars
ViewtifulJC
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Tryant Rave has the best avatar btw
KoruptData
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I'm actually really excited for this. I just want some shocking violence porn from a Deathstroke book. A summer popcorn flick if you will.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
It took me a second to get what was going on, but that is weird.
Also, unrelated, but I finally met Frank Quitely! Dude was awesome, and my friend and I were first and second in line to meet him and shit was a little nerve-wracking.
Well, that's definitely something. Is it odd to not care about any of that?
Rafa=FedKilla
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Same here brah, wish he would hang up the typewriter though....I'm actually really excited for this. I just want some shocking violence porn from a Deathstroke book. A summer popcorn flick if you will.
Factually incorrect. It's Freeza.
Jedeye Sniv
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Cosigned. I think Tony Daniel is a great artist (love his Miller influence these days) constantly hurting his brand by insisting on writing.
Tyrant Rave
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Thanks homie, I'll let the typo slide this time
No, not really. I doubt I'll be reading it.
That's awesome that you got to meet Quitely, did you get him to sign anything or what? I need more details.
And I don't know if anyone who went to NYCC saw Wes Craig, but it sounds like he had a great time. Glad to see him so happy with what's going on, he deserves it. I want to pick up Black Hand Comics on Wednesday.
That's awesome, what did you get signed? I saw that Nick Pitarra (Manhattan Projects) bought a portrait of Alan Moore from Quitely and it was equal parts ridiculous and amazing.
Jedeye Sniv
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Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I got my Absolute All Star Supes, Flex Mentallo HC, and my good friend's floppy of All Star Superman # 7 and 8 signed (he made it so that the fuse from the rocket aligns right into the Q in his name--it's awesome). I let my friend take the first spot in line, and he asked Frank for a quick sketch of the Bat logo, which immediately made the security goons upset. Dude booked it over and said no damn sketches. Which is fine, because I just wanted a picture with Frank.
A sketch would be my favorite comics related item ever, but I know how these things work, and ain't no way was he going to sketch for 100 people.
Also, David Finch was signing at the same time and his line had like 10 people. I felt a little bad.
Like Diet Irn Bru aka the nectar of the gods, man.
And i'm out...
ViewtifulJC
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ComicsGAF activity just dropped by half
You are not wrong.
Freezasaurus
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Oh my god what the fuck did I just walk in on? :O
Shin Johnpv
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Potatoes.
Tyrant Rave
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Messi think you have a better avatar than me
ViewtifulJC
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If he sketched for a hundred people, he would literally be there until next year's con
I like yours alot but freezas is next level perfect
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