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The current Green Lantern run (the Hal Jordan one) is pretty boring, unfortunately. Far more boring and uninspired than John Stewart's war journal series. They've nerfed Hal's ring again after all the business in Morrisson's run about it being a sentient thing that he made form his own willpower that was a part of him etc etc and he's back to 'big green plane' and 'simping pathetically after Carol' mode- I guess he was getting too OP. The artwork is fine but nothing particualrly exciting, a far cry from the crazy experimental stuff we were getting from Liam Sharp. It's still early days so who knows, maybe things will get more interesting, but currently I feel like i'm wasting time and money everytime I pick up the new issue.
I read the first couple issues, and they failed to hold my interest. The planes in the first issue were pretty cool, though.

By the way, what's the best Green Lantern run? I read Blackest Night and thought it was good, but I dropped the Lantern Corps comic when the socialist political sperging started.
 
X-Men 29: Duggan retcons the big heel turn when Xavier announces Krakoa's existence to the world and that he's gone evil by saying Doom interrupted his first attempt at the speech to tell Xavier he's got his own Cerebro and his own mutant squad and his own blackjack and hookers and telling Xavier he's going to fuck everything up (and even implies that he knows Magneto is beside him and egging him on because Xavier's too much of a pussy to do what he's about to do on his own). Magneto tells Xavier to "block Magneto and move on" after Doom tells Xavier off.

Amazing Spider-Man 39: Not much happens except that something is up with Madam Masque, who locks Hammerhead (who she beat up in the Gang War one-shot that started the story) in a room with other shadowy people she's kidnapped. She-Hulk gets a couple of action scenes and Tombstone leaves the hospital and asks for alliance with Spidey to stop the Gang War.
 
By the way, what's the best Green Lantern run? I read Blackest Night and thought it was good, but I dropped the Lantern Corps comic when the socialist political sperging started.
Morrisson's 'the Green Lantern' focusing on Hal is my favourite modern lantern run by far.

It's full of typical Morrisson weird shit and the plot is borderline incomprehensible, but it's charming and funny and Hal is characterised really well as someone incredibly powerful who struggles to know his place in the universe to the point that it almost feels like a character study. It leans really heavily on the more mysterious, fantasy elements of the Green Lantern concept and it very much has English folk vibes, especially in the second part. You can also tell that Morrisson has a lot of respect for the story elements that came before, such as Hal's time as the Spectre and his previous character arcs.

The artwork starts out as a fairly traditional (but very vibrant, high quality) comic book style but then evolves into being almost avant garde by the end. You really get a sense that Hal is delving into things that are beyond human comprehension. It does get very weird and it's not at all like other modern lantern comics, it's really a fantasy story as opposed to the more usual science fiction vibes.
 
I read the first couple issues, and they failed to hold my interest. The planes in the first issue were pretty cool, though.

By the way, what's the best Green Lantern run? I read Blackest Night and thought it was good, but I dropped the Lantern Corps comic when the socialist political sperging started.

In terms of Green Lantern:

1. The O'Neil/Adams run (GL #76-87/89 and Flash #217-219)
2. The Hal In Space run (GL #151-170)
3. The Predator Saga (GL #171-200), which includes John Stewart's tenure as Green Lantern
4. Green Lantern Corps (GLC #201-224)
5. The Gerald Jones run (I know he's a monster but he does a decent baby's first Green Lantern run without the gore and gratuitous violence of the Geoff Johns run; GL #1-47)
6. The first half of the Ron Marz Kyle Raynor run (GL #51-89; stopping when Donna Troy got yanked from the book by John Byrne)
7. The Johns/Tomasi run on Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps
8. The Morrison GL run

Honorable mention goes to Green Lantern Mosaic and Guy Gardner/Guy Guardner Warrior series.
 
Can i get a recommend on a x men tpb that is actually good, or at least comprehensible?
 
In terms of Green Lantern:

1. The O'Neil/Adams run (GL #76-87/89 and Flash #217-219)
2. The Hal In Space run (GL #151-170)
3. The Predator Saga (GL #171-200), which includes John Stewart's tenure as Green Lantern
4. Green Lantern Corps (GLC #201-224)
5. The Gerald Jones run (I know he's a monster but he does a decent baby's first Green Lantern run without the gore and gratuitous violence of the Geoff Johns run; GL #1-47)
6. The first half of the Ron Marz Kyle Raynor run (GL #51-89; stopping when Donna Troy got yanked from the book by John Byrne)
7. The Johns/Tomasi run on Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps
8. The Morrison GL run

Honorable mention goes to Green Lantern Mosaic and Guy Gardner/Guy Guardner Warrior series.
Jones is scum, however I gotta say those 90s lantern books were really solid. I can't remember the exact issues but Vendetti's time on Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps was pretty good too, I liked the Zod arc and the teamup between Superman and Hal.

I really can't stand Geoff Johns' writing style. Plus his Lantern stories were often illustrated by Van Scriver during rebirth and I really don't like that plastic-y action figure look he gave everyone. Rebirth in generla has imo aged really poorly and feels very 00s-ish in a bad way

Did you intentionally leave out Emerald Twilight? Lmao.
 
I read the first couple issues, and they failed to hold my interest. The planes in the first issue were pretty cool, though.

By the way, what's the best Green Lantern run? I read Blackest Night and thought it was good, but I dropped the Lantern Corps comic when the socialist political sperging started.

It might be Tomasi and Johns run. It's not a character with great runs.

There are solid one offs. The Moore short stories, Ganthet's tale with Byrne art.

But I'm struggling, I think Englehart did a run with Gibbons? Adams drew a run that if you hated the political crap you'd loathe because it's filthy with it

Morrisson's 'the Green Lantern' focusing on Hal is my favourite modern lantern run by far.

It's full of typical Morrisson weird shit and the plot is borderline incomprehensible, but it's charming and funny and Hal is characterised really well as someone incredibly powerful who struggles to know his place in the universe to the point that it almost feels like a character study. It leans really heavily on the more mysterious, fantasy elements of the Green Lantern concept and it very much has English folk vibes, especially in the second part. You can also tell that Morrisson has a lot of respect for the story elements that came before, such as Hal's time as the Spectre and his previous character arcs.

The artwork starts out as a fairly traditional (but very vibrant, high quality) comic book style but then evolves into being almost avant garde by the end. You really get a sense that Hal is delving into things that are beyond human comprehension. It does get very weird and it's not at all like other modern lantern comics, it's really a fantasy story as opposed to the more usual science fiction vibes.

Liam Sharpe's art is the highlight from that run. It's got that cringe miss terrific. But I liked the first year more or less.

In terms of Green Lantern:

1. The O'Neil/Adams run (GL #76-87/89 and Flash #217-219)
2. The Hal In Space run (GL #151-170)
3. The Predator Saga (GL #171-200), which includes John Stewart's tenure as Green Lantern
4. Green Lantern Corps (GLC #201-224)
5. The Gerald Jones run (I know he's a monster but he does a decent baby's first Green Lantern run without the gore and gratuitous violence of the Geoff Johns run; GL #1-47)
6. The first half of the Ron Marz Kyle Raynor run (GL #51-89; stopping when Donna Troy got yanked from the book by John Byrne)
7. The Johns/Tomasi run on Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps
8. The Morrison GL run

Honorable mention goes to Green Lantern Mosaic and Guy Gardner/Guy Guardner Warrior series.

Predator, that's it. That's the Gibbons one with Wein Englehart. Probably best of the worst.

Ron März run is worse than Johns gore and over the top without the redeeming bits and more character pushing. If Hal being the best GL bugs you, Karl is the the best GL evah! will drive you insane.

Gerard Jones worked with GIFfen on that one for the miniseries, but yeah, hope they put Jones against the wall.

Now the Guy series by Beau and Chuck Dixon isn't terrible, If I'm remembering right.

Jones is scum, however I gotta say those 90s lantern books were really solid. I can't remember the exact issues but Vendetti's time on Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps was pretty good too, I liked the Zod arc and the teamup between Superman and Hal.

I really can't stand Geoff Johns' writing style. Plus his Lantern stories were often illustrated by Van Scriver during rebirth and I really don't like that plastic-y action figure look he gave everyone. Rebirth in generla has imo aged really poorly and feels very 00s-ish in a bad way

Did you intentionally leave out Emerald Twilight? Lmao.

That's Ron Marz. Truly trash. Van Sciver only drew GL Rebirth and I want to say four or five issues of Johns run. he's not the presence he was on Vendetti's solid second run. Much better than his first run.

This might not have aged well but I remember liking Red Lantern's by Soule, Buns Sinestro Corps.
 
Van Sciver only drew GL Rebirth and I want to say four or five issues of Johns run
Ooh yeah you're right about Van Scriver, I think I'm remembering Rebirth. You know the thing I really didn't like about that book is how dark everything looked, but then that's probably on the colourist. I didn't like the look of the big parallax bug either, all teeth and spindly limbs and so on. Felt like edgy overkill and now that how he's always drawn so you don't see much creativity. One thing I'll say to Rebirth's credit is that it was a pretty smooth retcon, all things considered. the new Knight Terror Lantern 2-issue thing felt like kind of a rehash of rebirth tbh, with the whole regecting Parallax business.
Ron März run is worse than Johns gore and over the top without the redeeming bits and more character pushing. If Hal being the best GL bugs you, Karl is the the best GL evah! will drive you insane.
Idk I'm still a fan of Marz, he's kind of annoying sometimes but he's a good character writer and I like that. Kyle is a cool character but he doesn't relaly have the charisma to carry the series by himself and he's not believable as being especially powerful back then or now- his kindness and creativity were what set him apart from Hal, who could be cruel and arrogant at times.

The gore and violence felt impactful, at least. Like it was so shocking and emphasised how serious the situation was and how far gone Hal had become. It was mostly implied too, except for Killowog. You see a bit of a hand and some blood, Sinestro's face after the snap, but not too much else.
 
Oofff. No Paul Jenkins or Jae lee. They just literally....got some guy. Did he even read the series or understand why it worked? Probably not.

You know, In my head, I hope someone does an edit of those pages like muhphoenix. Black dude was literally a mutie terrorist right? I bet he totally was threatening to blow up school bus.
We need to bring back MightyGodKing, Nuzlocke, or Illuminated for one last mission
 
There's this YouTuber girl called Casually Comics who talks about comics (duh), she's probably on the woke side but she always tiptoes very carefully around controversial topics of the kind, and when she talks about these things she's surprisingly careful and balanced in the points of view she explores (at least in what I've seen, which is not everything).

But get her talking about current Power Girl, and while she keeps her composed demeanor, you can sense the underlying seethe because she loves classic big titty PG with all of her weird story and personality. She's very critical of what they've been doing with her, and actually makes very good points about how they're trying to distinguish her from Supergirl BUT ALSO making them both follow essentially the same story beats, making both even more redundant.

Aside from that, I've noticed something I call Woman Comics: comics written by women or for women, in which the same structure always happens, there's a conflict, the woman is on the back foot, then overcomes it for no reason beyond "believing in herself", and then there's ALWAYS a moment where she's with another female character telling each other that they're like, so valid over a cup of tea or some other hot beverage, often watching over a sunset.
It's in Power Girl, it's in Scarlet Witch, it's in some recent-ish issues of X-Men, it's ALL OVER those Identity/Voices/Pride comics they keep putting out, etc.
you just mean she's liberal lmao
 
you just mean she's liberal lmao

It's sad, but the brain rot today is real.

Sure

I'm just saying she's not annoying to listen to (at least in terms of wokeshit) and she's been talking shit about what they've done to Powergirl

It's hard to avoid. Either you run into grievance grifters or you deal with the people who steal care about comics and, surprise, the few that do tend to be more liberal than not.
 
@MirrorNoir

There’s a /co/ thread spreading a rumor that Sam Vigs wants to fully make Alan Scott a fag by making his wife a tranny. He wanted to make Superboy a tranny what’s your take.

They should have kept Alan Scott dead when they brought back the JSA via Doomsday Clock and made his son Todd, aka Obsidian his full-on replacement. Call him Shadow Lantern and have him take over as leader of the JSA. Fans were only willing to tolerate Alan being gay when it was a random alt earth but forcing it on mainline canon is retarded as fuck and the lengths DC are going to in order to spite fans over rejecting it, are frightening.

Also, Dark X-Men #5: Maddie kills Secret Wars Inferno Maddie, but not before Secret Wars dragon Nightcrawler eats Azreal and Emplate fucks off. Gambit tells Rogue that "Maddie will be there when the X-Men need her", Maggot joins the Morlocks, and we get a really out of nowhere shitting on Angel, saying "he's beyond salvation" as they linger on his charred corpse in the "where are they now epilogue".
 
They should have kept Alan Scott dead when they brought back the JSA via Doomsday Clock and made his son Todd, aka Obsidian his full-on replacement. Call him Shadow Lantern and have him take over as leader of the JSA. Fans were only willing to tolerate Alan being gay when it was a random alt earth but forcing it on mainline canon is retarded as fuck and the lengths DC are going to in order to spite fans over rejecting it, are frightening.

Also, Dark X-Men #5: Maddie kills Secret Wars Inferno Maddie, but not before Secret Wars dragon Nightcrawler eats Azreal and Emplate fucks off. Gambit tells Rogue that "Maddie will be there when the X-Men need her", Maggot joins the Morlocks, and we get a really out of nowhere shitting on Angel, saying "he's beyond salvation" as they linger on his charred corpse in the "where are they now epilogue".
It's really weird to me that they keep Alan gay because he was married to the original golden age Harlequin. You know with all the push Harley's getting, sliding an easy reason for JSA/Harley-Suicide Squad stuff would be fucking easy if it involved the original Harlequin.

Oh and we can't say that the original Harlequin doesn't exist anymore when Geoff Johns brought her son into creation with the Lost Children event. It'd also be a waste to not let Alan's relationship with the original Harlequin continue as the dude literally went to hell to retrieve her soul in the '90s. Let Alan just be "the elder statesmen" of the superheroes and just pick some golden ager without kids or a female love interest to turn gay. FFS DC, you're using the Harlequin's Son and have Obsidian back. Shill them. If you want to tell stories in the '40s-'50s-'60s about a closeted gay superhero, you could probably elevate an unknown character's status by having a serious and proper book featuring them. Like, idk, grab Captain Triumph. He was seen in that James Robinson elseworld's story, The Golden Age. You could quite literally let some rando writer/artist duo become this generation's sleeper hit/cult classic run creator (ala James' Robinson's Starman) though this. You don't have to slap everything behind an A-list IP name like Green Lantern.

Hell, outta all the relevant Green Lanterns, you'd think they'd have turned Kyle gay by now. He is an artist.
 
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Yet another reference to the "men won't go to therapy" meme being used in comics, (ironically put in the mouth of a character who is a former shrink who became obsessed with a patient to the point of becoming a criminal clown). It's a reminder that so-called "mainstream" comics as well as the Western entertainment industry are filled with "creatives" who think that "owning the chuds" and/or signaling to Extremely Online People who spend all day on Twitter that they "get" them are moral imperatives.
 
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There's this YouTuber girl called Casually Comics who talks about comics (duh), she's probably on the woke side but she always tiptoes very carefully around controversial topics of the kind, and when she talks about these things she's surprisingly careful and balanced in the points of view she explores (at least in what I've seen, which is not everything).

But get her talking about current Power Girl, and while she keeps her composed demeanor, you can sense the underlying seethe because she loves classic big titty PG with all of her weird story and personality. She's very critical of what they've been doing with her, and actually makes very good points about how they're trying to distinguish her from Supergirl BUT ALSO making them both follow essentially the same story beats, making both even more redundant.

Aside from that, I've noticed something I call Woman Comics: comics written by women or for women, in which the same structure always happens, there's a conflict, the woman is on the back foot, then overcomes it for no reason beyond "believing in herself", and then there's ALWAYS a moment where she's with another female character telling each other that they're like, so valid over a cup of tea or some other hot beverage, often watching over a sunset.
It's in Power Girl, it's in Scarlet Witch, it's in some recent-ish issues of X-Men, it's ALL OVER those Identity/Voices/Pride comics they keep putting out, etc.
Lot of people doing comics online are libs. Zack himself is a lib, he just doesnt like associating with them cause hes intelligent enough to know its bad optics and it could alienate people. Justsomeguy is the opposite of that spectrum, a retard lib who wants to alienate right wingers cause he hates them and wants to alienate left wingers cause he hates modern comics. Just cause EVS the froggot and Rippa the nigga are the loudest comicsgaters doesnt mean majority of comics people online are right wing.
Imagine my joy when I discovered there was a comic about H.P.Lovecraft by the same guy who did Watchmen and V for Vendetta.

Imagine my disappointment when I read the blurb about "explores the themes of racism and sexuality". And that FBI agents go undercover to infiltrate orgies and Alan Moore states his goal is to detail the "unspeakable rituals" that Lovecraft didn't describe because of his "sexual squeamishness". Right, because the 1920's was a time well receptive to writing detailed pornography featuring beastiality in mainstream magazines. Or maybe - just possibly - Lovecraft didn't think it appropriate to write detailed fish-on-woman sex scenes in the first place!

Think these were a few years but I follow comics a lot less than I do literature (*gasp* he said it!) and just came across his Lovecraft comics the other day.

*shudder*
The Shoggoth shit is crap, Alan Moore does interesting writing but its not necessarily good writing all the time. There are like 3-4 instances in the 80s when he wrote good but most of his writing is interesting to say the least. Even promethea is interesting in how much of a shitty lesbian pagan fanfic it is and lost girls is interesting as in how child pornography can be mainstreamed.
Yeah, Moore really disappoints if you graph his career out in a way other contemporaries like Frank Miller or Walt Simonson.
Hot take, All star Batman and Robin is a good book, its just not a great book but its very enjoyable in an adolescent edgy way. Jim Lees rare instance of doing all the art instead of just cover work like a lazy faggot adds so much character and everything is stereotypical/over the top which is fun. Its a lot better than Strikes again anyways, Strikes again is radioactive vomit. I also did like Holy Terror to be perfectly honest, it feels like a very 90s comic book tone wise, something about an exotic foreign culture which is terroristic in nature before 9/11 happened. 9/11 effectively killed all depictions of orientalism and criticism of the middle east in America.
Walt Simonson did a good Manhunter run which is what I remember from him. I dont think I liked Thor very much but his art is excellent.
 
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I don't have a problem with Alan Scott being gay but the way the gay characters in comics are written is poorly done. I still remember in the early 2010s when they made his alt gay and his story begins with boyfriend dying in a plane crash for some reason.
The one character I can say is written well is Constantine. Only because he really leans both ways without it defining his character.

I read the new Thunderbolts for obvious reasons. I don't mind it but....what the fuck are they doing with Sharon Carter?! So odd....nice to see Red Guardian. Next issue we see Natasha and Yelena thank fucking god as well as Kingpin.
 
Waid's off the rag (or is it on the rag? I'm robotripping at the moment) again. Calling CGers white supremacists/Nazis and vowing to destroy the entire comic industry rather than allow CG types to have any place in it and the Twitter SJW death kult mob stanning him.

I swear to Christ, Waid really must be pissed that Millar and Liefeld have both openly sided with Comicsgate and given them a second wind.
 
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