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COMICS! |OT| October 2016. Capes, Crime, Bondage, and sometimes Overwatch.

Brian Fellows

Brian Fellows

Pete Carroll Owns Me
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ANIMOSITY #3
DEADLY CLASS #23
NAILBITER #26
REVIVAL #44
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #15
WALKING DEAD #160
WICKED & DIVINE #23
 
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BKatastrophe

Member
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers #8
How this book is so good, the world may never know. Is it Higgins' writing? Is it Prasetya's pencils combined with Herms colors? Is it Herms' colors? It's Herms' colors.

Anyways, it's to see the MMPR: Pink concept make it's way over here. Also, I've slightly altered my Black Dragon prediction:
He's either a tainted manifestation of Zack's interactions with the Dragon coin OR he's Tommy's brother.

Weavers #6
Well damn. Now this is how you end a goddamned series. With a bang. Overall a good series that I'll have to re-read. I wasn't really feeling this series initially, but I'm super glad I stuck with it. Great twists at the end.

One issue:
Why would the rest of the spiders come after Sid? It seems he got rid of his, so they can't track him. He'll most likely leave the city all together. Also if Sid no longer has a spider, then what threat is he really? The organization is in shambles by itself, and Sid no longer has an investment in that life anyways. Vengeance can't be part of it, because Frankie has all the loyalty. Anyone loyal to her dad is either dead or they've fallen in line. Frankie's not gonna let anyone go after him. Don't really see the point.

Overall a great book, and highly recommended. Much like Cry Havoc and X-Force, Spurrier leaves a great open ending. He has a real sweet spot for these kinds of endings, which may make him predictable in the future, but boy does he do them so well that it won't even be a problem.

Rom #3
Goddamn I said GODDAMN this was cool as fuck. Someone...holy shit someone help me lawd I ain't breathin. All Imma leave you with is this:

"And become a butterfly."

Actually I have one question:
D'rge mentions Tellus-5. Isn't that where the Autobot prison that Overlord took over located? Or is that somewhere else? Either way I could have sworn that Tellus-5 was important to the Transformers mythos, which raises interesting questions about why the wraiths would be involved in that.

Rom: REVOLUTION #1
Pretty cool all around. Nice action and I'm pretty sure Rom is one of my favorite characters ever at this point. Not sure how this pieces in with everything until I start reading REVOLUTION for realsies, but I'm just getting started.
 
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echoshifting

Banned
Guardians of the Galaxy #12-13: Ya know, I was expecting this tie-in to be terrible, but it wasn't half bad!

By that I mean, issue 12 is bad. It's about what you expect given the status of the crew and the manner of their arrival. But between Rocket's sermonizing on how terrible humans are for pages, delivering hot Bendis takes on various social issues, and the repeated scenes from CWII, and Bendis failing to express clear motives for ANY of these characters (except Peter) beyond blind loyalty to Carol, it's worse than it needed to be.

13, though! This issue is fucking terrific. In this issue, Gamora
goes on a fucking rampage and she and Carol kick the shit out of each other
. It's GREAT. It's GORGEOUS. And it's cathartic, too. That pretty much covers the whole issue, it's simple but it works. It pops. Some of these panels, god damn. Can't wait for Gamora's solo.

This issue also begins to introduce the fact that
the civilians of the MU are still awful and yeah they do think Carol's the greatest
. Ugh.
Maybe they can be her new friends, she's running out.
 
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Dandy Lyin

Member
Another light week for me, which is fine as I have a few trades to get through this week anyway.

Champions #2
Deadly Class #23
Nightwing #8
 
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LordOfLore

Banned
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Tawney Bomb

Member
Finally time to buy the rest of Locke and Key with this sale!

Is there a difference between Afterlife with Archie and the Afterlife with Archie magazine?
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Tawney Bomb said:
Finally time to buy the rest of Locke and Key with this sale
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Yay. Reading his latest novel right now, and while I want him to get right to work writing the next novel haha, I also really wish he wrote more comics. Imo one of the best and he'd easily be a personal top 3 writer if only he actually wrote more of em. Locke and Key is a masterpiece.

Where had you got up to previously?
 
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ElNarez

Banned
man it would be real wacky if this guy was literally the gold standard of american comics

can you imagine this guy being the one they name an award after
 
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Tawney Bomb

Member
Donniewahlberg said:
Yay. Reading his latest novel right now, and while I want him to get right to work writing the next novel haha, I also really wish he wrote more comics. Imo one of the best and he'd easily be a personal top 3 writer if only he actually wrote more of em. Locke and Key is a masterpiece.

Where had you got up to previously?
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I got up through book 3, so only 3 more to go.

I bought his latest book, but haven't got around to reading. Any good?
 
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echoshifting

Banned
List

Motor Girl 1

Animosity 3

Aquaman 10
Batman 10
Death of Hawkman 2
Midnighter and Apollo 2
Shade the Changing Girl 2
Superman 10
Unfollow 13

ROM 4

Deadly Class 23
Mayday 1
Southern Bastards 15
Walking Dead 160

Avengers 1
Champions 2
Death of X 3
Foolkiller 1
Moon Knight 8
Occupy Avengers 1
Spider-Man 2099 17
Spider-Woman 13
Unworthy Thor 1

This week!! New Terry Moore book! Two new Avengers lineups, maybe one will be good! Southern Bastards is back! Odinson!! New Animosity! PURPLE GUN MAN! Yes yes yes yes yes
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Tawney Bomb said:
I got up through book 3, so only 3 more to go.

I bought his latest book, but haven't got around to reading. Any good?
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Oh awesome, you have so much good stuff to go then!

Re: the fireman, It's REALLY good. It takes a few chapters to find its rhythm and settle into the lead character imo but once it gets to what the high concept for the book was obviously meant to be it reaaaally starts to get rolling and to go places, I'm finding it difficult pacing myself right now, I just want to bash right through it. Lots of interesting ideas and not quite in the ways I expected going in.

I actually saw an interview with him recently where he said his next book will be a collection four novellas, one being set in the Locke and key world, which is neat!
 
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echoshifting

Banned
Gwenpool #7: A delight. What else is there to say about the queen of Marvel comics? Every page is a treat.

Hadrian's Wall 1-2: Pretty decent outer space mystery! Simon Moore is a really well-developed protagonist, connected to the mystery that is unfolding, and about to
go nuts in outer space thanks to narcotic withdrawal
. This is a clever ticking time bomb that helps emphasize the isolation of our deep space setting. Not a huge fan of the art; it has that computerized colors/inks look I find totally unappealing, and there are some crazy thick outlines here and there, a stylistic choice that doesn't work for me.

Hadrian's Wall is an evocative name...I expected a space station, not a ship. I wonder if anything will come of it or if it's just a cool title?

Sticking with this one for now. Deep space, well realized. Compelling mystery. I'm in.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
echoshifting said:
This week!! New Terry Moore book! Two new Avengers lineups, maybe one will be good! Southern Bastards is back! Odinson!! New Animosity! PURPLE GUN MAN! Yes yes yes yes yes
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AAAAAHHHHHHHH I totally forgot to add Motor Girl to my list. I only ever skim the indy release list for Giant Days.
 
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Owzers

Member
When you guys read comics, are you usually watching nba games, wrestling, or listening to people cover Taylor Swift songs? I think you should try it.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
Owzers said:
When you guys read comics, are you usually watching nba games, wrestling, or listening to people cover Taylor Swift songs? I think you should try it.
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Sometimes I have the TV on, but I sometimes listen to classical music while reading comics or manga. *snobby Freeza*
 
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echoshifting

Banned
Hillbilly #3: So.

Please excuse the purple prose but

Reading Hillbilly is like sitting around a campfire listening to a master storyteller spin tall tales. I can feel the closeness of the woods and hear the crackling fire. That sense of dread, the primal fear of the unknowable dark in those woods. It's an incredibly evocative work of art. Folks, Powell is killing it on this book. Just absolutely killing it. You owe it to yourselves to try it. You could pick up any issue really and you will immediately fall into this world. I'd recommend it to anyone.
 
Brian Fellows

Brian Fellows

Pete Carroll Owns Me
Donniewahlberg said:
Haha oh no you found me. I just set it up recently, mostly to like and retweet things and ask the odd question to people. Cheers though man.
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Yeah I saw your replies to Donny Cates. If you use the words Image Comics in a tweet chances are I'm going to see it lol. I get bored and search that a lot.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
echoshifting said:
Hillbilly #3: So.

Please excuse the purple prose but

Reading Hillbilly is like sitting around a campfire listening to a master storyteller spin tall tales. I can feel the closeness of the woods and hear the crackling fire. That sense of dread, the primal fear of the unknowable dark in those woods. It's an incredibly evocative work of art. Folks, Powell is killing it on this book. Just absolutely killing it. You owe it to yourselves to try it. You could pick up any issue really and you will immediately fall into this world. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Bro, I am there day one on every issue. Fantastic book. Powell is one of those guys who can draw and write with equal talent.
 
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Donniewahlberg

Banned
Brian Fellows said:
Yeah I saw your replies to Donny Cates. If you use the words Image Comics in a tweet chances are I'm going to see it lol. I get bored and search that a lot.
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Haha I knew it. I think that book is going to be awesome man. I was going to share the reviews in here but seems so early still, it's one thing to get reviews out there and then there's too early ha. I really like what I'm hearing and seeing about God Country though.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
echoshifting said:
Even failing Moore books tend to go on for awhile though, so it's cool. I feel like he has to know the downsides of publishing the way he does. I'm sure Image would gladly take him if that's what he wanted.
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Maybe he's like the Nintendo of comics. He does his own thing for the fans he has instead of trying to appeal to the wider industry.
 
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