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I recently read Joker-Death of the Family, which had all the tie-in issues. I've not read the New 52 Teen Titans... is Wonder Girl as bloody annoying in that as she is in this story? She felt more like an SJW Marvel character instead of DC.
 
The last comic I've read was Wall-Might: The First Term which is the sequel to My Hero MAGAdemia. It's funny stuff and if you're up on your comicsgate stuff, you'll get even more of the jokes. Wait till you see what ind of how power Brett Kavanaugh (sp) has.


 
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Latest issue of the Walking Dead came out and it did another thing, although I know not a lot of people read it but I still enjoy it. Big spoilers for anyone that actually cares.
After putting out fake covers for the next few issues, it turns out that it was ending on 193 and they were put out to hide the fact. Another timeskip happens with an adult Carl in a frontier style society. Zombies are almost entirely gone except for outside of established cities and communities with them being more of a rarity at this point. You get to see plenty of the cast older living more regular lives, like Eugene building railways to connect everyone, Michonne becomes a judge, and Maggie becomes President of the Commonwealth (whatever that actually means). It ends on Carl reading a childrens story to his daughter about what the world was like and how Rick helped to bring people and society back together. I'm glad it was finished here because even Kirkman acknowledges that going any further would just be prolonging it for the sake of doing it. He also wrote a few pages on his thoughts of where it was going to end originally, why he changed those to continue, and when he realized it was time to end it. Hopefully this means the show will get shitcanned at some point sooner, but that's probably wishful thinking with how that's treated as a property.
 
Lugal said:
Any of you guys read any of Alejandro Jodorowsky's (the guy who tried to make an ridiculously ambitious movie out of Dune in the 70's) comics? They're pretty fucking awesome. I just started reading the new Metabaron comic, and I'd highly recommend The Incal (illustrated by Jean Giraud aka Moebius, one of the best comic artists ever) or the original Metabarons to anyone looking for some cool sci-fi comics.
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I've read some of Jodorowsky's works, something in a back issue of Heavy Metal and I've got a volume of Anibal Cinq.
I've heard of The Incal but haven't read it yet. I want to because holy shit, Moebius.
Other HM comics I've got recently are Lone Sloane: Chaos, illustrated by Philippe Druillet who is BADASS. Incomprehensible story but the art is amazing.
Ranx is another series I got into, also with really badass art.
That's the kind of comics I like the most, there seems to be so much more cool shit happening in European comics.
I've never been really into superhero stuff. (Except Batman. Arkham Asylum is an awesome comic done in a very unconventional style)

As for more mainstream stuff, has anyone read Lobo? I love Simon Bisley (I'm collecting HM back issues and focusing on Bisley covers) so I wanted to check out his comic work more. He's also worked on Slaine, which I'd also like to get into.
 
MerriedxReldnahc said:
As for more mainstream stuff, has anyone read Lobo? I love Simon Bisley (I'm collecting HM back issues and focusing on Bisley covers) so I wanted to check out his comic work more. He's also worked on Slaine, which I'd also like to get into.
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That goes a way back. I don't recall any specific stories, now but it was a fun read. How can you go wrong with a genocidal maniac who has a soft spot for space dolphins?
 
Has this been posted before? If it has, well then suffer through it again.
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How long do you think this will be aged? My bets are....months ago.
 
XtrmGamr719 said:
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How long do you think this will be aged? My bets are....months ago.
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This is sad. These writers all think they're the next Alan Moore but completely lack the ability to make established characters interesting. I know Lois is suppose to be looking smug but she looks like she's on drugs or had poor plastic surgery.
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Finishing the skypiea arc in OnePiece made me realize why American Comics can never catch up to manga. The American comic industry is soulless the entire flashback and second half of the climax of skypiea was the most emotion I felt from a comic in a long time, it almost had me in tears and it was basically about a guy trying to ring a bell .
 
Savage Avengers is surprisingly good reminds me of the comics I used to read as a child, I'll probably check out Strikeforce when it hits since it has a similar concept.

Is the current Daredevil comics any good? I've slowly been getting hooked on the Netflix series.

Also are any of the dozen Spider-Man ongoings worth reading?
 
Enjoying Rogue & Gambit. Remy is fine as fuck.

Kinda interested in Spider Gwen thanks to the Multi Verse movie. How is her series? I saw she appears in a tpb with Jessica Drew and Cindy Moon.
Her orgin sounds confusing. So she is or isn't in the 616 universe?
 
jellycar said:
Enjoying Rogue & Gambit. Remy is fine as fuck.

Kinda interested in Spider Gwen thanks to the Multi Verse movie. How is her series? I saw she appears in a tpb with Jessica Drew and Cindy Moon.
Her orgin sounds confusing. So she is or isn't in the 616 universe?
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Nah she's from a universe where Gwen got bitten by the spider as a teen instead of Peter and became Spider Woman, Peter becomes a fan of her and creates a serum to give himself powers only it backfires horribly and he becomes the Lizard who Gwen accidentally kills causing her to be hated in her home universe. Basically in a twist of irony Peter becomes HER Gwen Stacey.

I think thanks to shenanigans in Spider-Verse she got pulled into the 616 universe like Miles did.
 
It's "interesting" when a once talented artist/writer falls and Mark Russell is no exception. I really liked his work on The Flintstones comic and once thought he was a clever writer. Now that I've come across what he's been doing lately, he's lost it.

Examples:

His hand in religious satire.
 
Vol.1 of Spider-Gwen is pretty great and entertaining. Vol.2 starts well but basically becomes a miserable slog that's more interested in subverting tropes and going against expectations than doing anything good or fun.

I've been reading through X-Men from the start for the past... well, more than a year now. I'm around the '82 period now. The Stan Lee and Roy Thomas issues (1 - 66) are pretty bad, especially compared to what Stan Lee was putting out on Amazing Spider-Man, which I think still holds up wonderfully today. I really don't know why they turned out so bad -- it seems like he was trying to combine the successes of Spider-Man (teenager in high school with super powers) with the Fantastic Four (family dynamic of a group with super powers) but outside of a handful of issues those early X-Men stories are just incredibly dull. It's really no surprise that the book was originally cancelled.

Chris Claremont managed to turn everything around when the book was revived in '75 and so far his run's been a great read. Unfortunately, from what I remember reading when I was younger, I only have a few good years left before things start going downhill. Claremont is a good writer but he's best left alone and able to meticulously build up his plots over years, which is something Marvel slowly takes from him as they add more and more books to the X-franchise (iirc he nearly quit over X-Factor).

I also read the first Epic Collection for Moon Knight, which collects all his original appearances. About 90% of it is written by Doug Moench (who vehemently denies that Moon Knight was influenced by Batman, even though you'd have to have never heard of Batman to not see the similarities), so it at least has a consistent quality to it. The stories get better as they go along, though Moench relies far too heavily on 'This new antagonist that will only be around for an issue has major ties to Marc's past!' as a crutch for a lot of the stories. At one point one of the baddies is even Marc's own brother who is never referenced before or after that story (although I think another writer makes use of him later).

The biggest problem with the Moon Knight character at this point is that he has no reason to be a vigilante, let alone a hero. He's not making up for past sins or trying to stop a personal tragedy from happening to someone else. He's not even someone who naturally just wants to do good. The closest they get is that he seeks vengeance against people because a god of vengeance maybe possibly revived him (that part of his origin is left ambiguous at this point). Speaking of ambiguity, Moench can't seem to decide if Moon Knight has any powers or not. During the first handful of initial stories MK's physical abilities are enhanced depending on the phase of the moon due to being scratched by a werewolf (no, really). Most of the stories ignore the goofy moon-based strength stuff only for it to then randomly pop back up later and then disappear again.

The thing Moon Knight is probably most famous for - being mentally unstable and having multiple personalities - isn't really in these early stories but the seeds of it are there. At this point he has four identities he goes between depending on what he needs to do, all of them with their own personalities and backstories he's given them to help better sell them. While he isn't yet crazy you still have Marc or a supporting character worry about his mental health and the strain of juggling the various personalities, with him occasionally forgetting to 'leave' one of the identities when he should.

I got it for around $20, which was pretty good for over 500 pages worth of content. If you're someone who likes the '70s and '80s eras of Marvel it's a decent read. The only technical problem I had with the book is that some of the stories are out of order, though continuity isn't incredibly tight at this point so it's not a major issue.
 
I still don't get why Marvel had to bow to the sjw's and make Psylocke white again. Part of what made it work despite unfortunate implications is that we got to see how Betsy dealt with being in the new body, the fallout, and eventually like she said in the X-Men Legends game, she learned to accept and even love what she became.
She still looks amazing now don't get me wrong, and yes Kwannon is still around as well, but.....its just really irritating.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Vol.1 of Spider-Gwen is pretty great and entertaining. Vol.2 starts well but basically becomes a miserable slog that's more interested in subverting tropes and going against expectations than doing anything good or fun.

I've been reading through X-Men from the start for the past... well, more than a year now. I'm around the '82 period now. The Stan Lee and Roy Thomas issues (1 - 66) are pretty bad, especially compared to what Stan Lee was putting out on Amazing Spider-Man, which I think still holds up wonderfully today. I really don't know why they turned out so bad -- it seems like he was trying to combine the successes of Spider-Man (teenager in high school with super powers) with the Fantastic Four (family dynamic of a group with super powers) but outside of a handful of issues those early X-Men stories are just incredibly dull. It's really no surprise that the book was originally cancelled.

Chris Claremont managed to turn everything around when the book was revived in '75 and so far his run's been a great read. Unfortunately, from what I remember reading when I was younger, I only have a few good years left before things start going downhill. Claremont is a good writer but he's best left alone and able to meticulously build up his plots over years, which is something Marvel slowly takes from him as they add more and more books to the X-franchise (iirc he nearly quit over X-Factor).

I also read the first Epic Collection for Moon Knight, which collects all his original appearances. About 90% of it is written by Doug Moench (who vehemently denies that Moon Knight was influenced by Batman, even though you'd have to have never heard of Batman to not see the similarities), so it at least has a consistent quality to it. The stories get better as they go along, though Moench relies far too heavily on 'This new antagonist that will only be around for an issue has major ties to Marc's past!' as a crutch for a lot of the stories. At one point one of the baddies is even Marc's own brother who is never referenced before or after that story (although I think another writer makes use of him later).

The biggest problem with the Moon Knight character at this point is that he has no reason to be a vigilante, let alone a hero. He's not making up for past sins or trying to stop a personal tragedy from happening to someone else. He's not even someone who naturally just wants to do good. The closest they get is that he seeks vengeance against people because a god of vengeance maybe possibly revived him (that part of his origin is left ambiguous at this point). Speaking of ambiguity, Moench can't seem to decide if Moon Knight has any powers or not. During the first handful of initial stories MK's physical abilities are enhanced depending on the phase of the moon due to being scratched by a werewolf (no, really). Most of the stories ignore the goofy moon-based strength stuff only for it to then randomly pop back up later and then disappear again.

The thing Moon Knight is probably most famous for - being mentally unstable and having multiple personalities - isn't really in these early stories but the seeds of it are there. At this point he has four identities he goes between depending on what he needs to do, all of them with their own personalities and backstories he's given them to help better sell them. While he isn't yet crazy you still have Marc or a supporting character worry about his mental health and the strain of juggling the various personalities, with him occasionally forgetting to 'leave' one of the identities when he should.

I got it for around $20, which was pretty good for over 500 pages worth of content. If you're someone who likes the '70s and '80s eras of Marvel it's a decent read. The only technical problem I had with the book is that some of the stories are out of order, though continuity isn't incredibly tight at this point so it's not a major issue.
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The problem with Moon Knight is DareDevil exists and is frankly a better Batman expy.

jellycar said:
I still don't get why Marvel had to bow to the sjw's and make Psylocke white again. Part of what made it work despite unfortunate implications is that we got to see how Betsy dealt with being in the new body, the fallout, and eventually like she said in the X-Men Legends game, she learned to accept and even love what she became.
She still looks amazing now don't get me wrong, and yes Kwannon is still around as well, but.....its just really irritating.
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I'm still hoping Hickman reverses it.
 
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