Actually, now that I am really thinking about Seven to Eternity #2 there was a weird page with a huge top panel for the throne room, where so much space is unused, and then five panels below that show the main character and antagonist conversing. Those panels are so small that the dominance is severely limited. Thought it was an absolutely terrible/amateurish layout. Strip Panel Naked would rake it over the coals.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
COMICS! |OT| October 2016. Capes, Crime, Bondage, and sometimes Overwatch.
- Thread starter Messi
- Start date
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Legion? Tone doesn't have much weaknesses.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Ion's a solid counter due to the Vortex shield and ability to snipe weak points.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Black Widow's still one of my favourite books at the moment. #7 was another great issue.
Natasha's first kill was pretty brutal - she was scarier back then. I liked how they tied the flashback into the final page.
BKatastrophe
Member
REVOLUTION #1-3
So I wasn't really all that invested in the whole IDW/Hasbro continuity going on, and reading Transformers MTMtE was really all that I thought was worth it. However, jumping in on Rom gave me another series to give a shit about (which is dope as hell), but I was a little worried because it was going right into a new event.
Which is FUCKING AWESOME. This series has been so damn cool so far. Great art and a fantastic means of tying all these different properties together. On top of that, it does what big crossover events should always do: pique curiosity and help create a desire to check out other books. In addition to Transformers (and the Marvel Rom stories), I want to read EVERYTHING in this continuity: Micronauts (which I was trade-waiting anyways) and G.I. Joe specifically. MASK only because it seems to really tie into everything as is, but Action Man doesn't really tickle me yet, especially considering he hasn't really done much. Out of everyone present so far, Action Man has done the least. Practically inconsequential, really.
I only have one question:
So I wasn't really all that invested in the whole IDW/Hasbro continuity going on, and reading Transformers MTMtE was really all that I thought was worth it. However, jumping in on Rom gave me another series to give a shit about (which is dope as hell), but I was a little worried because it was going right into a new event.
Which is FUCKING AWESOME. This series has been so damn cool so far. Great art and a fantastic means of tying all these different properties together. On top of that, it does what big crossover events should always do: pique curiosity and help create a desire to check out other books. In addition to Transformers (and the Marvel Rom stories), I want to read EVERYTHING in this continuity: Micronauts (which I was trade-waiting anyways) and G.I. Joe specifically. MASK only because it seems to really tie into everything as is, but Action Man doesn't really tickle me yet, especially considering he hasn't really done much. Out of everyone present so far, Action Man has done the least. Practically inconsequential, really.
I only have one question:
who is that Dr. Manhattan-looking dude who was chilling the the Micronauts crew and was sassing Karza? He seems like a dick.
echoshifting
Banned
Perfect comic. Loved everything about this issue.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I realised you have to save up quite a decent amount of these credit things to unlock stuff anyway so for now I won't worry about it. Really getting into the groove with the multi now, had a few great games this evening, just attrition. Are any of the old maps around? Haven't came across them yet if so
Freezasaurus
Member
I kinda doubt it.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Black Widow should. It deserves something like those Daredevil OHCs.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
We're getting Angel City in December. It's not that hard to save up credits. I think Titans are only 100.
that page is cool
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Mockingbird is not getting a OHC.
Black Widow maybe due to the team and they don't give OHCs to cancelled books that have 8 issues.
This panel is just one of the reasons I love Damian so much:
http://m.imgur.com/2p4jmA3?r
http://m.imgur.com/2p4jmA3?r
Freezasaurus
Member
I think I'd be surprised if Black Widow got an OHC. It's not one of their bigger titles, is it? How are sales?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I could see Widow. She's a movie character, Waid's other stuff has had the OHC treatment and they do more self contained stuff like Hawkeye and Spider Gwen.
LordOfLore
Banned
The next Superman story and Super Sons is going to be great.
It's more due to Waid and Samnee and Widow being in the movies.
Freezasaurus
Member
We'll see. I mean I'd probably buy a Widow OHC if they went in that direction.
Almost done with Goon Library vol.4. Love this series. Sometimes you come across dialogue you can't believe you just read, though. Maybe I'm getting too used to this new socially concious society we live in.
But too much wasted space above, which limits the dominant conflict because the other panels are too small.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Your all weak to my Ronin. Them circle strats.
Widow is an amazing book
So, I just got around to reading the big old Infestation book I've had sitting on my shelves for a while, and... that was weird. It was both the first and second Infestation events from IDW, which are largely separate but have the same structure of stories with a vague theme (1 being zombies, while 2 is Lovecraftian elder gods) kicked off and ended with some weird series I've never heard of.
But yeah, it's so odd to me because it's a giant event thing pulling in a ton of different franchises, and then... they don't cross over at all. It's just each world dealing with the same basic problem in their own short story. So as a result the quality is of course a scattershot in terms of quality, with some working better than others and not having an effect on anything else. So yeah, it was an okay read, but nothing that's going to probably stick with me, outside of how unusual it feels to see an event play out like that.
Oh, and there's the standout note of a little single issue called "Team Up." It wasn't exactly a great issue, but it's amusing in that it's a part of a crossover that just spends its entire length taking the piss out of "giant crossover event" stuff in general, calling out damn near every event you can think of from the big two while also throwing in little visual gags like referencing the famous Heroes Reborn Captain America image. Like I said, it's nothing too special as that's pretty much all it is, but it amused me.
But yeah, it's so odd to me because it's a giant event thing pulling in a ton of different franchises, and then... they don't cross over at all. It's just each world dealing with the same basic problem in their own short story. So as a result the quality is of course a scattershot in terms of quality, with some working better than others and not having an effect on anything else. So yeah, it was an okay read, but nothing that's going to probably stick with me, outside of how unusual it feels to see an event play out like that.
Oh, and there's the standout note of a little single issue called "Team Up." It wasn't exactly a great issue, but it's amusing in that it's a part of a crossover that just spends its entire length taking the piss out of "giant crossover event" stuff in general, calling out damn near every event you can think of from the big two while also throwing in little visual gags like referencing the famous Heroes Reborn Captain America image. Like I said, it's nothing too special as that's pretty much all it is, but it amused me.
Freezasaurus
Member
I don't doubt it. But I can't buy everything. I'll probably trade-wait it or wait for a CMX sale (lolololol)
Every issue was on sale a few weeks ago for NYCC.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Huh. So splinter and the turtles are literally
Thats a neat twist.
reincarnated in this.
Freezasaurus
Member
Well butts.
Freezasaurus
Member
Black Monday Murders is like 50 pages an issue, though.
echoshifting
Banned
And it's amazing.
Absofuckinglutely. The ending of the last issue was spectacular.
The first trade is out now though lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
It absolutely is. It's one of my favorite ongoings.
Man, I'm listening to theme music on the official WWE music YT channel and it's amazing how diverse some of this stuff is. I'm letting it autoplay whatever, and right now it's playing a piano version of Sasha Banks theme.
Sami Zayn?
Freezasaurus
Member
Not yet. It gave me Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, Sasha Banks (Piano), Sasha Banks (current), and now.... Paige.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Finished TMNT vol 2. I'm really enjoying this series, thanks to everyone who recommended the book to me earlier in the month, I've been pretty close a few times to jumping onboard but always backed off in the end. It's pretty great though. It has all those elements I remember from the old comics, the cartoon etc but once again, some of the furniture has been moved around a little. The same core tenants that make the turtles so fun and exciting to read but with some pieces turned this way or that, freshened up but not just for the sake of it, the changes work to enhance things. Great stuff. I have no idea where they got Dan Duncan from but I really like his art too.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Might drop Titans. The story is going nowhere.
I've only read the first arc, I plan on catching up after Fables but yeah it's good
Freezasaurus
Member
Damn, can't believe tomorrow is the last day for the October OT. 2016 almost over, bruhs.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Yea well I'd say it just gets more interesting with the second arc man, definitely go for it. How you doing in fables now?
I haven't even started getting the November OT ready.
COMICS! lOTl November 2016: Halloween loot boxes are gone, but a pumpkin is on the ballot.
Freezasaurus
Member
Hey, that's a good point. We never bothered to think of a title for the November OT. It's probably not important anyway.
Titles and telling people not to spoil stuff are the essentials, then you just have to figure out what you want to talk about that doesn't involve comics.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Well I was going to read Atlantis Attacks after Conquest but it turns out MU only has half the issues. So I started Maddrox instead. Will go from that into X-Factor.
Freezasaurus
Member
Wow, people still booing Roman Reigns.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Well, I've got up to the Krang War volume on the shelf right now, so i'm pretty sorted. Probably won't be able to get onto City Fall until christmas </3 gave my partner my comic book christmas list already, thought I'd be kind and just list image books since they do the cheapest trades out of what I read, but I think another decent chunk of TMNT could make a good post xmas day splurge, if these continue to hold up as well as the first 2.
And yea, this month has rolled by, it's only going to go quicker now with christmas on the way too.
