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Stab You in the Back said:
Spider-Girl vol. 1 - "Legacy"

Spider-Girl, however, was a pleasant surprise. I didn't read Spider-Girl when it was originally released because I don't like alternate universe books. That includes Spider-Girl's M2 universe, 2099, the ultimate universe, Batman Beyond, etc. I decided to pick up the first epic collection because I happened to get some original art from the series and wanted to know more about it.

Spider-Girl is the story of Mayday Parker--Peter's daughter--who is just coming into her spider powers. The Green Goblin's grandson attacks, and Mayday picks up the mantle of Spider-Man and becomes Spider-Girl.

Spider-Girl does what I wish modern comics did more, which is actually force a child character to grapple with the danger and responsibility of being a super hero. Peter and MJ straight up tell Mayday that no, she can't be Spider-Girl, so she spends the first ten or so issues sneaking out behind their back. Other superheroes test her to make sure she's ready for the big leagues. She gets shaken when she loses a fight. And there are actual consequences to her decision to fight crime. For example, in one issue, she gets waylaid by Darkdevil on her way to stop her friends from fighting, missed the fight, which resulted in one of them being hospitalized. It really is Ms. Marvel done right.

I can't recommend this enough. Unfortunately, only volumes 1 & 5 have been released in the epic format. Complete collections (a previous trade format) collected volumes 2-4. 2 is out of print, but 3 & 4 are easy to find and cheap. There should also be a volume 6 at some point.

Rating 9/10
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finding Spider-girl is one of the biggest surprises in comics in the years ive been reading,, Tom Defalco is never put as one of the great comics writers but he nails this tone of half 60s camp, half 90s attitude. it's a very likeable comic and manages to redeem elements from books you may not like - hell, later in the run it redeems some of its own weaker storylines. what a great run
 
I cant believe they are whoring DC to a Sonic crossover of all things...
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You can't believe the company that had King Kong and Godzilla fight the league would do this? Those AEW backups with the terrible art in recent books make me queasy. I now want to go through and read all the property crossovers Marvel and DC have done.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I'm slowly making my way through Silver Surfer vol. 3. Just finished Steve Englehart's underrated and frankly excellent run, and am now moving on to Starlin's stuff. Marz took over the book after Starlin, so I'll report in in a few weeks.
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I feel about Marz how you feel about Jeph Loeb.

CowPox said:
Has Ron Marz written anything good? Is it all just rehashed capeshit?
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Cringe at your 'capeshit' comment. Otherwise yes. And it wasn't even superheroes.

Though I don't think he deserves credit for it being good. He was thoroughly overseen by more talented management at the time.

BetterFuckChuck said:
If this happened in 2014 the takeaway would be Sonic is so irrelevant he has to hang onto DC. Now it's the same but in reverse, Sonic is the one holding up DC
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Cue Kenobi, you've done that to yourself.
 
Bruce LaLiLuLeLo said:
Idk if this is off topic but I came across this and read it
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/War-on-Gaza/Full?id=236651&s=&readType=1
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The only way I can describe it is Frank Millers Holy Terror but worse, more of a soapbox speech than a story. Its worse than the Artists against Homophobia comic series which is unfathomable personally.
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the problem with leftist criticism of the neoliberal war machine is images like this go unfathomably hard
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CowPox said:
Has Ron Marz written anything good? Is it all just rehashed capeshit?
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Never felt he was better than replacement level personally, but your mileage may vary. Some folks I know liked his Witchblade stories a lot.

Death of Diamond update: most if not all of the indies that distro'd through both Lunar and Diamond (Mad Cave, Vault, etc.) have cut off Diamond completely. Boom has accelerated its move to Penguin by several months. Still waiting to see what Dynamite decides to do. I would be terribly amused if one of the other distros told them, "Look, we'll move your books, but this variant cover mania needs to stop, we're not going to handle 27 individual SKUs per issue for you."
 
sarna said:
Never felt he was better than replacement level personally, but your mileage may vary. Some folks I know liked his Witchblade stories a lot.
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Breaaaathe in...

So the guy that fucking started the whole 'fridge the bitch' thing was praised as a 'feminist because he made Sara's costume less exploitative (the exploitation was the fucking point it was a horror comic), made it very dumb, and put a ton of lesbian shit. At no point did Marz Witchblade succeed as horror or seem particularly hard boiled. Sejic drew most of it and that's why people liked it.

Basically everything he's done that I feel isn't shit was with someone else keeping in line or supplying creativity. Sejic, Roccafort, et al made his Top Cow work look good and creative. Crossgen was Marc Alelessi literally handing him ideas and artists he would never have come up with on his own. Yes he's done good stuff. Mystic, Sojourn, Meridian. I saw him at a con a decade okay. Motherfucker still had Crossgen posters cause that was really his highlight other than fucking Kyle Rayner.

sarna said:
Death of Diamond update: most if not all of the indies that distro'd through both Lunar and Diamond (Mad Cave, Vault, etc.) have cut off Diamond completely. Boom has accelerated its move to Penguin by several months. Still waiting to see what Dynamite decides to do. I would be terribly amused if one of the other distros told them, "Look, we'll move your books, but this variant cover mania needs to stop, we're not going to handle 27 individual SKUs per issue for you."
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Honestly, burn baby burn.

Space Police said:
Any recs for space opera comics?
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Not sure if 'space epic', but set in space

Jim Steranko Outland, Incal.
 
Speaking of the Incal, the first of Jodoroswky's space opera works I read was the tragic "The Metabarons". A dynasty of perfect warriors, and various horrors and bizarre weaponry are seen.

Mike Baron's "Nexus", the collected Ron Goulart/Gil Kane comic strip "Star Hawks" (a police drama in a space opera setting, the titular interplanetary police end up protecting a young woman from a killer, pursue a robot who's stolen a dangerous new weapon, etc.) and another French space opera "Wake" or Sillage in ze original Franch. Navee is a young human female who was shipwrecked and orphaned on an alien planet. She was raised from infancy by one of the ship's robots, and has never met another human being. She survives into adolescence before she's discovered by agents of Wake, a massive space-faring civilization consisting of a giant convoy of ships containing many different species, who've come to terraform the planet for an alien race. After some friction, she eventually ends up travelling with the Wake, becoming an agent and explorer for the Wake government, while trying to discover more about her people, since the Wake's information on humanity is spotty and very limited at best. Plus, something that comes in handy, it's discovered she is incapable of telepathy but she is not "psi-passive" either, i.e. her mind cannot be read.
 
Commander X said:
Speaking of the Incal, the first of Jodoroswky's space opera works I read was the tragic "The Metabarons". A dynasty of perfect warriors, and various horrors and bizarre weaponry are seen.
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Metabarons is like Dune if it wasn't boring, cerebral piss.

Which makes sense, given the origins of the Metabarons comic as being repurposed from Jodorowsky's creatively disparate Dune script from the 70s.
 
You guys ever read Warlock 5? I've only gone through the first 5-6 issues and it was interesting, I liked the art quite a bit.
 
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