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[Grundlejungle]

Back when I was a wee little taint I remember picking up "Spider-Man one more day" as it came out. I remember it being so absolutely unashamedly godawful that it was the sole reason I stopped picking up individual issues for almost 15 years and only picked up trade paperbacks. "So I decided" hey it can't be that fucking bad right? I'll reread it."
That shit is like what if a late term abortion happened during a train crashing into a bus filled with children with down syndrome.
I didn't even think it was possible for me to hate that Goddamn book any fucking more than I did, but I fucking do. If I ever see Joe quasada, I am going to verbally assault him until my words give him physical damage and I am removed by the police in Minecraft.

In other news; the new IDW beast wars comic is pretty good. I picked up the first nine issues on Free comic book Day( it was a buy one get one deal at the local shop so I figured why the fuck not). Definitely give it a read if you like transformers.

 

[Rupin]

Yes, I was reading it as it was coming out. Dark Ark is solid, but I got bored at the beginning of the sequel series.

i just finished reading After the Flood. What a stupid way to end the series.

 

[TinCan Wizard]

I have a couple of chronological character / team read throughs going, but yeah, I tend to burn myself out on them and take months breaks on them. Right now I have ones going for X-Men, F4, Daredevil, Moon Knight, and the Bat-Family.

The only one I've really completed is Spider-Man, which took me years. I read practically everything from his debut in Amazing Fantasy up to Final Chapter (and then most of the core books up to Back in Black), including crap like the various Marvel Team-Up volumes and even completely irrelevant appearances in the likes of QuestProbe and Knights of Pendragon.

Oh god I thought I was the only one. I read Thor from the beginning. By the time I got to Simonson's run I was burned out and stopped reading. That was over 2 years ago. The stories were already repeating themselves, and sadly I noticed that was a trend with cape characters in general. Reading occasionally, it doesn't stand out, but when you binge them it sticks out.

 

[Registration]

what kind of stories Thor had at beginning?

 

[Rupin]

what kind of stories Thor had at beginning?

ones where he didn’t get made to look like a bitch.

 

[dilettante]

Rereading Wolfman and Perez's New Teen Titans and I completely forgot about this little story about the writers getting abducted by a mad scientist and then rescued by the Titans at the end of issue 20. I guess its a bit weird, the self-insert thing, but at least its their actual selves and not a proxy character, and they talk to the Titans for all of two panels. The satire is clever and it just feels like these guys had way too much fun writing this.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

Rereading Wolfman

Ah?

Oh, you meant Marv Wolfman.

Oh well, it looks entertaining anyway.

 

[jspit2.0]

ones where he didn’t get made to look like a bitch.

what kind of stories Thor had at beginning?

He was more of a Captain Marvel (Cape not Kree) ripoff. Thor was tied to the hammer and was merged to a human doctor. It lent the stories a nice touch, with two beings inhabiting one body. Sadly, the writers back then struggled to pull it off.
The strength of those early stories was contrast, an ancient god in the modern day. Terrestrial myth versus the stars. It goes down hill as Lee doesn't make the best use of it all and Kirby's art can only do so much.

It has spurts; then Walt Simonson takes over. He focuses down more on the mythological versus sci-fi aspects. Which was great. The problem is everyone rehashed that for a decade before Tom Defalco completely fucked the title and characters up for most of the 90s

Warren Ellis got hired to fix the title and wrote a very nice four issue mini-run with 90s art that didn't fit the story well and put the Asgardians as concept on a whole on its head. It lasted a year with Messner-Loebs stuck carrying the Ellis reboot for over a year.

Then came Heroes Return. Dan Jurgens joined JRJR and Immomen for a solid run four or five year run that is neither great or terrible. It just, lacks the magic.

Ultimately, it was JMS that fixed Thor. His year and a half made the book THE hot title at the time. He brought Thor back to his roots, set the flashy gods next to the most grounded places, Oklahoma for fuck sake. It was chock full of fun scenes from the Asgardians discovering plumbing, to a romance subplot that was a fan favorite cult sensation. Then Joe Q fucked it up, broke his word, and drove Joe off the book.

Keiron Gilleon, twee britfag writer took over and returned the book to the space/myth dichotomy that had been driven into the ground. Adding to the pain, plots were decompressed. They copied the Bendis/Johns model where every threat leads to another big threat with little room to breath.

Matt Fraction took over for a brief, worthless run that finished destroying what little of JMS creation remained, then turned it over to Aaron. Jason Aaron had a horrible run on the where he, like another talentless hack, sat on the character for years. His run was largely forgettable and boring until he made Thor a woman (done multiple times before). No one would have cared, but he made sure at every opportunity to shit on Thor as a character and as a mythos.

 

[Registration]

He was more of a Captain Marvel (Cape not Kree) ripoff. Thor was tied to the hammer and was merged to a human doctor. It lent the stories a nice touch, with two beings inhabiting one body. Sadly, the writers back then struggled to pull it off.
The strength of those early stories was contrast, an ancient god in the modern day. Terrestrial myth versus the stars. It goes down hill as Lee doesn't make the best use of it all and Kirby's art can only do so much.

It has spurts; then Walt Simonson takes over. He focuses down more on the mythological versus sci-fi aspects. Which was great. The problem is everyone rehashed that for a decade before Tom Defalco completely fucked the title and characters up for most of the 90s

Warren Ellis got hired to fix the title and wrote a very nice four issue mini-run with 90s art that didn't fit the story well and put the Asgardians as concept on a whole on its head. It lasted a year with Messner-Loebs stuck carrying the Ellis reboot for over a year.

Then came Heroes Return. Dan Jurgens joined JRJR and Immomen for a solid run four or five year run that is neither great or terrible. It just, lacks the magic.

Ultimately, it was JMS that fixed Thor. His year and a half made the book THE hot title at the time. He brought Thor back to his roots, set the flashy gods next to the most grounded places, Oklahoma for fuck sake. It was chock full of fun scenes from the Asgardians discovering plumbing, to a romance subplot that was a fan favorite cult sensation. Then Joe Q fucked it up, broke his word, and drove Joe off the book.

Keiron Gilleon, twee britfag writer took over and returned the book to the space/myth dichotomy that had been driven into the ground. Adding to the pain, plots were decompressed. They copied the Bendis/Johns model where every threat leads to another big threat with little room to breath.

Matt Fraction took over for a brief, worthless run that finished destroying what little of JMS creation remained, then turned it over to Aaron. Jason Aaron had a horrible run on the where he, like another talentless hack, sat on the character for years. His run was largely forgettable and boring until he made Thor a woman (done multiple times before). No one would have cared, but he made sure at every opportunity to shit on Thor as a character and as a mythos.

I remember being retarded and there was a blog that posted whole events (includinsg tie ins and all) and I would read some of the 00's events like Siege and that is how I even read Thor comics, I remember reading the ragnarok one that was near Bendis era...
But the thor related story that I remember the most was the Loki one in one of the Earth X books or its sequels

 

[MirrorNoir]

what kind of stories Thor had at beginning?

Early Thor was hospital romance drama with psycho cunt Jane Foster (who was always a creepy fucking stalker bitch, no matter what Aaron and later writers after Whor tried to say). Thor fought aliens and various brick shithouses that Loki and other Asgardian baddies gave super powers to and dealing with Enchantress's femcel stalker shit and Executioner's incel onitis crap with Enchantress.

Early on, Donald Blake was a real person who turned into Thor but soon it became he shared a body with Thor after a couple of issues. However, a couple of years into the character's run, Lee and Kirby got bored with the Earth status quo and basically phased out Jane and the hospital setting and started pushing the Asgardian lore angle and culminating in the "Donald Blake was a mask created by Odin to make Thor humble via mindrape" reveal and an extended outer space voyage which featured the origin of Galactus.

Also, the period between the Celestial/Eternals Saga and Simonson's run has a huge reputation for being god-awful; in particular, it's why the Simonson run was a huge hit in that the book hit a major spell of being bad under Doug Moench and Simonson's return was seen as a zap to the system to the title. HOWEVER, a lot of the Moench bashing was pushed by Wizard Magazine, who was at the forefront of pushing the "Moench Thor was unreadable" meme in the early 90s, amplifying it tenfold for readers who didn't read the Moench run or the Simonson run (which was unavailable save as backissues at the time). The Moench run recently got reprinted in the Epic line and while it hasn't had a full-on post-Whor repraisal like the DeFalco run did, the Moench run has had it's rep SOMEWHAT rehabbed in so far as Whor and Aaron's run being so abominable that even the Moench run is better in comparison to the Whor/Aaron run as far as actually looking and feeling like a proper Thor run by someone who cares about the character.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I just want to say that Robert Crumb’s Mr. Natural and Fritz The Cat comic strips are still memorable to read and look at, even when made during the ’60s and ‘70s.

Though, personally, I also find his Art & Beauty series to be pretty good when he actually draws his version of the female figure:



Crumb really mastered the art of the thighs after all of these years.

 

[DaBigBopper]

I just want to say that Robert Crumb’s Mr. Natural and Fritz The Cat comic strips are still memorable to read and look at, even when made during the ’60s and ‘70s.

Though, personally, I also find his Art & Beauty series to be pretty good when he actually draws his version of the female figure:

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Crumb really mastered the art of the thighs after all of these years.

He didn't like skinny bitches, but a lot of his women look Japanese because of how their legs are built. If you know what I mean, a lot of their women have stubbish legs. Crumb's women really, really have that problem. They look really stout and not in an attractive way where you can manhandle them, but like an Irishman in drag.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

They look really stout and not in an attractive way where you can manhandle them, but like an Irishman in drag.

Have you seen the Crumb documentary? He's the one who likes to be womanhandled.

Ultimately, it was JMS that fixed Thor. His year and a half made the book THE hot title at the time. He brought Thor back to his roots, set the flashy gods next to the most grounded places, Oklahoma for fuck sake. It was chock full of fun scenes from the Asgardians discovering plumbing, to a romance subplot that was a fan favorite cult sensation. Then Joe Q fucked it up, broke his word, and drove Joe off the book.

Yeah, what happened there? Why did Bendis need to blow up Okie Asgard? It was such a smart direction to take Thor and could've been status quo for a long while.

 

[Registration]

You know, it is quite strange how little the expanded universe for Indiana Jones is. Most comics were by Dark horse in the 90's, then it stopped. The two comics that I ended up reading were released in 2008 surfing at the Crystal Skull release.
It is such a interesting setting to put lots of adventures but it isn't very well explored, fo you guys knows why?

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

If I was going to look at an Indiana Jones comic trying to ape Bruce Timms style, I'd sooner it was drawn by actual Bruce Timm. The art is stiff and isn't helped by being only 4 panels, and yet a whole page, grouching about ethics in archeology.

Is that the best example that Indy Jones comics have to offer? A far cry from the energy of the films, and in itself, maybe an answer to your question.

Otherwise, I think of crazy adventures in comics involving dead civilizations, mythology and supernatural forces, I think Hellboy and BPRD.

 

[Registration]

If I was going to look at an Indiana Jones comic trying to ape Bruce Timms style, I'd sooner it was drawn by actual Bruce Timm. The art is stiff and isn't helped by being only 4 panels, and yet a whole page, grouching about ethics in archeology.

Is that the best example that Indy Jones comics have to offer? A far cry from the energy of the films, and in itself, maybe an answer to your question.

Otherwise, I think of crazy adventures in comics involving dead civilizations, mythology and supernatural forces, I think Hellboy and BPRD.

Its not trying to imitate Bruce Timm. The artistt is most well known for cartoon network comics, so his artstyle is mostly cartoon inspired. And I really believe this comic is for children, since they are relatively short.

>grouching about ethics in archeology.
yeah, indiana is a shit tier archeologist, even in the concept of the series timeframe. Archeology earlier in its phase was really shitty.
And you really had all this analysis from a single page? Aren't you being too much extreme? It was an alright comic

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

The guy's art is fine but holy shit pull back the camera a bit.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

And you really had all this analysis from a single page?

Well let me take a look.

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Aren't you being too much extreme?

Nope.

The artistt is most well known

By who?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

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I feel like the only fag on this earth who thinks Pride Month is quite possibly one of the dumbest unnecessary shitty "holidays" that caters to sodomites and sluts.

This shit is embarrassing. Kevin Conroy, an iconic gay, writing a Bat story for DC is not embarrassing, (in fact it is the only normal thing in this entire clusterfuck) But this plus the trannies plus whatever the fuck Superboy and Robin are doing is so stupid.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Did anyone here ever read v1 of Alpha Flight from the '80s? I've read a few issues where it crossover with X-Men and I've always found it kinda dry and boring, yet it went on for over 10 years so I assume it has its fans.

Also read the first New Mutants annual wherein a mutant tries to steal the Earth and sell it. It's pretty dumb, feeling like a heavily abbreviated story arc leading to stuff like the mutant only having a single line of dialogue as motivation ("Earth once sold me into slavery. No, I won't explain"). Well, at least Sam (Cannonball) cucks Roberto (Sunspot) and gets himself a big titty goth gf, which is amusing.