Jekki my man. I'm still sitting on a few 1-month Marvel Unlimited codes. If you want to keep reading Unlimited for another month or two thereafter, hit me up.
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COMICS! |OT| October 2015. ...Are just something we do while the patch downloads.
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Jekki my man. I'm still sitting on a few 1-month Marvel Unlimited codes. If you want to keep reading Unlimited for another month or two thereafter, hit me up.
BKatastrophe
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neogaffer1
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Robin War
Coriolanus
Banned
Gigantomakhia is legit good, btw.
Also since i had more postgrad classes today, this means hellboy talk. Read 1946. Varvara. Gods.
Y'know, the thousand year old evil entity in the body of a child is a trope that's been done to death, but this, THIS is how it should be done. Someone grotesquely powerful shouldn't need constant outbursts. Varvara is marked by her indifference, borne from long exposure to the horrors of the world, thus her justification for being attracted to Papa Hellboy (cuz ill be buggered if i can remember the doc's name) works very well. She sticks around because he has a tendency to run into shit so fucked up that it is completely new to her. That works! And works well.
And oh gods, her sense of humor. Carrying that charred doll at the end. How you get quite a bit more development from the way others talk about her. The first floppy was kinda wobbly, but once Joshua Dysart found his stride, dude did some excellent work.
Plus i kinda like that accursed nazi head.
Also BPRBDPD The Black Goddess. Johann. What a dick. Sure, character development, but what a dick!
Also since i had more postgrad classes today, this means hellboy talk. Read 1946. Varvara. Gods.
Y'know, the thousand year old evil entity in the body of a child is a trope that's been done to death, but this, THIS is how it should be done. Someone grotesquely powerful shouldn't need constant outbursts. Varvara is marked by her indifference, borne from long exposure to the horrors of the world, thus her justification for being attracted to Papa Hellboy (cuz ill be buggered if i can remember the doc's name) works very well. She sticks around because he has a tendency to run into shit so fucked up that it is completely new to her. That works! And works well.
And oh gods, her sense of humor. Carrying that charred doll at the end. How you get quite a bit more development from the way others talk about her. The first floppy was kinda wobbly, but once Joshua Dysart found his stride, dude did some excellent work.
Plus i kinda like that accursed nazi head.
Also BPRBDPD The Black Goddess. Johann. What a dick. Sure, character development, but what a dick!
neogaffer1
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huh, haven't heard of this
*some binging later*
goddammit is this tying in a bunch of shit with that stupid we are robin line? to be fair i haven't even read that, but the whole idea from the start being so dumb is the reason i didn't even give it a chance. though....
i like all of those except for we are robin. maybe this wouldn't be so bad.
I dug vol.1 of C.O.W.L.
Funny, Kyle Higgins was the guy to actually convince me to read it when I met him last year at comic-con.
Freezasaurus
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I never understood the obsession with likes and the getting of them. I used one forum that had the feature, and Jesus Christ it was annoying as fuck.
You like all of them except the one you haven't tried yet. Lol. Maybe you should just try it and go in with an open mind.
BuddyJoeHooker
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LaunchpadMcQ
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So is every female in One Piece a jobber?
Nami? Jobber.
Robin? Silly power and jobber.
Hancock? Haven't seen her do much, probably jobber.
Baby 5? Jobbed up by Franky.
Tashigi? Always bailed out by Smoker or Zoro.
Kalifa? Pseudo-wrecked by Sanji.
Alvida? One joke character.
Bonney? Haven't read enough but she's probably a jobber.
Nice job, Oda
Nami? Jobber.
Robin? Silly power and jobber.
Hancock? Haven't seen her do much, probably jobber.
Baby 5? Jobbed up by Franky.
Tashigi? Always bailed out by Smoker or Zoro.
Kalifa? Pseudo-wrecked by Sanji.
Alvida? One joke character.
Bonney? Haven't read enough but she's probably a jobber.
Nice job, Oda
Robin War is such a weird crossover idea.
Nami, Robin, and Hancock aren't jobbers and Bonney hasn't done crap in the series.
TheKaeptain
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Robin War sounds like it is going to be very much Tim and Damien's story.
I'm okay with this.
I'm okay with this.
TheKaeptain
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Nah DC would never give those lames the time a day. They have actual cool characters like Batman and Booster Gold.
Sibersk Esto
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You're using the term "jobber" wrong
Do you even know what jobber means?
My issue is that I hate what DC did with every single member of the Bat-family when they rebooted.
neogaffer1
Banned
well,
- dick sucked until forever evil, when they took him in a completely different direction that was way better than they did before with nu52 but still not nearly as good as peak nightwing pre-52
- i don't know much of tim pre-52 but his old suit always looked stupid to me because his cowl looked like a thumb and his new suit, while most people hate it, i quite like and his stuff w/ teen titans has been pretty damn good
- barbara was a step down in that she was a better oracle than batgirl, but her line's pretty good now and the soft reboot basically fixed the fact that it wasn't very distinct from any of the other lines even if it isn't in line with what people expect out of her batgirl
- red hood has been terrrible throughout nu52 and has a real stupid costume now to boot
- damien, based off of what little i've read of him pre52 and all of his stuff in nu52, is a terrible person and i hate him as robin, but the robin, son of batman line has real nice art and is doing some interesting things with him and redeeming him in my mind
oh, and, as someone whose favorite character is nightwing, dick as a bludhaven cop >>>> dickbats
I'm including the changes to their backstories.
Tyrant Rave
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Read Harley Quinn Road Trip Special
It was good fun! I really liked how the artist gave Selina all of the cat clothes and stuff.
It was good fun! I really liked how the artist gave Selina all of the cat clothes and stuff.
Love when artists pay attention to things like that. Like Hollingsworth using all that purple during Hawkeye.
Tyrant Rave
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Yeah the little details add a lot when it comes to adding personality to the characters and art.
Also just read Starfire #4. I'm enjoying this series a lot so far. I'm so excited to see Atlee again ;___; Lupacchino's art is really great on this too. I don't like her art as much as Amanda Conner's, but she's a good fit for this book. Love the little imagination bubbles that Kori has.
BKatastrophe
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You don't know how to use jobber. It's specifically someone who is designed to lose (Yamcha). "The Worf Effect" refers specifically to a jobber who is built up as a super badass, but still loses (Vegeta).
Nami isn't a fighter, though she does help. She's primarily a thief and navigator, and uses the skills provided by these talents as support. She's also technically never lost a solo fight (no matter how shitty the fights were).
Robin has had one solo fight in the series, and I can tell you this: what she did to Yama was fucking dirty.
Hancock has fucked up so much shit that she would have to bend over backwards to have to look down that far (reference!)
Baby 5 stood no chance against Franky to begin with and Buffalo, as her partner, is a piece of garbage and a waste of space.
Tashigi and Kalifa are probably the closest you'll get to jobbers with this list. Tashigi is Tashigi and Kalifa only beat Sanji because he handicapped himself and Nami was using shit out of nowhere (a big problem with Enies Lobby as a whole).
Alvida is largely irrelevant aside from Buggy shenanigans and Bonney has done precisely jack shit within the story as far as I know.
neogaffer1
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so i read we are robin because VanWinkle insisted i try it.
first two issues weren't bad, but the third issue ruined what it had going for it.
first two issues weren't bad, but the third issue ruined what it had going for it.
why the fuck did they make alfred the guy behind it? this very much goes against the whole "bruce isn't needed as batman anymore"--now alfred is letting bruce be happy while putting a bunch of other kids at risk instead? it's especially disappointing as it was starting to look like they were being led by a bad guy--build up a team of people who think they're actually doing good because at first they might be, but in the end use them as a tool to do things without them knowing it, like virgil and co in young justice.
Rafa=FedKilla
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I came across a big comic fan on OKCupid and I used a Liefeld joke. Pray for me.
Sounds edgy.
TheKaeptain
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neogaffer1
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he's a whiny little snot who thinks he's entitled to everything because of his genes and the fact that his childhood was replaced with league basic training camp.
GrandHarrier
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Marvel brought them on the ass end of the 90s boom, and rebooted the whole universe and canceled them mid reboot when sells wasn't up where they thought they should be.
Ultraverse had a lot of interesting moving parts, but it never congealed into a universe to me
He will for sure. $400-800 a pop but I'm there day 1.
Damn. Expensive but worth it.
Tizoc
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Not even OP mangaGAF want to waste their time discussing Oda is a sexist; it's a waste of time.
He already has 1k spreads up, but I'm waiting for the good stuff. I'll either get one insane page or two good ones
Or... Hear me out. Two big spreads
GrandHarrier
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Coriolanus
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Vore? On my comigaf? This weekend sounds promissing.
BRPRPRDPRPDD King of Fear. Gods i love what theyre doong with the black flame. Also how the whole thing is going to hell in a handbasket.
Fully expect to see the spider and the fly developed later. Also where the hell is hecate? Or brojamin?
BRPRPRDPRPDD King of Fear. Gods i love what theyre doong with the black flame. Also how the whole thing is going to hell in a handbasket.
Fully expect to see the spider and the fly developed later. Also where the hell is hecate? Or brojamin?
Fuck it, two four page spreads. As time moves closer to Comic Con I realize that there is less that I want. I don't feel bad buying these now. All I want is my Burnham commission and something from Joe Q.
Digital only
I'll show you
LaunchpadMcQ
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Let me phrase it another way, since everybody seems touchy about it. They are comparatively weak and are constantly being bailed out by other characters.
Not saying Oda is sexist.
Poodlestrike
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Late to this, but you should really check out We Are Robin. It's quite good. Not quite Omega Men tier, but damn good comics all the same. Easily on par with Gotham Academy.
I'm super hyped for Robin War.
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