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The Token Ethnic said:
I picked up his 1997 mini-series and the Creole lady that shows up as a spirit to guide Remy was pretty amusing.
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pre-2012 marvel is always readable.
GranDuke said:
Detective often has mediocre talent, but Tamaki is probably a new low. I saw the usual suspects celebrating that she is first female to get an ongoing Batman gig so maybe that was a factor.
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I'd rather Gaile Simone do this.

or like, Mary Jo Duffy if she's still around.

I'm guessing people will meme it for being bad and then the next writer turns it back to normal.

the whole Jon Kent Superman thing coming up soon doesn't make too much sense considering we've barely had time with him. Why couldn't they have been patient for like 4-5 more years?
 
So getting off current comic news for a second, I just wanna say a lifetime ago the first time I read the walking dead was one Christmas when my mom bought me the trade collection of vol 2 miles behind us. Funny enough one of the issues I think it was 8 or so took place on Christmas. Only the adults knew it and made each other swear not to tell the kids about it. Because they were in a situation where the last thing they needed was the kids upset thinking Santa Claus had gotten eaten by zombie elves.


I bring this up because while we're not living in a world overrun by zombies and society is... barely holding together. With the way things are it feels like there isn't gonna be a Christmas this year. The one thing that could have potentially made all the fucked up shit that's happened so far seem minor and petty, and we can't even have it. *sigh*
 
Maybe been posted but this crossed my path.

I like Just Some Guy. This may be one of his shorter videos but I can't argue with his point.

EDIT: Best proposed name from the comments is hard to choose between DeepFryer. And Dumpsterfire.
 
On a lighter note I'm reading the early punisher stories including his 85-86 limited series and I gotta say it's amazing how something considered shocking one day can seem tame years later. Circle of blood was just barely approved by the CCA (which even in 1985 was really a shell of its former self) but this reprint doesn't even have a parental advisory warning on it.

Also I love how even in prison everyone's rocking serious 80s fashion. Headbands, jackets with shoulder pads and spikey pompadours. I don't know why I just get a chuckle when I see comics that are essentially snapshots of their time.
 
Richard Corben passed away, just announced yesterday. 80 years old. Famous for a lot of things, not least of them Den -- the first strip from the first issue of Heavy Metal in 1977 -- but my personal favorite was probably Punisher: The End. Hugely influential artist, one of the first guys to bring airbrushing style to comics.

Also in 1977, he did the album cover to Meat Loaf's original Bat Out of Hell.

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kaien said:
Richard Corben passed away, just announced yesterday. 80 years old. Famous for a lot of things, not least of them Den -- the first strip from the first issue of Heavy Metal in 1977 -- but my personal favorite was probably Punisher: The End. Hugely influential artist, one of the first guys to bring airbrushing style to comics.

Also in 1977, he did the album cover to Meat Loaf's original Bat Out of Hell.

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I am sad to hear that had happened.

The Heavy Metal line is great though.
 
kaien said:
Richard Corben passed away, just announced yesterday. 80 years old. Famous for a lot of things, not least of them Den -- the first strip from the first issue of Heavy Metal in 1977 -- but my personal favorite was probably Punisher: The End. Hugely influential artist, one of the first guys to bring airbrushing style to comics.

Also in 1977, he did the album cover to Meat Loaf's original Bat Out of Hell.

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not someone I consider a personal favorite, but still a damned great artist. RIP.



anyone read the new Namor run by Kurt Busiek? I think it's going to be pretty good since Busiek's work is super solid.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
RIP Corben, amazing artist. I still remember the horror of his Frankensteinish story Child. Did he write that or simply do the visuals?
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Looks like that was written by Greg Potter, who did a lot of stories for Eerie and the other Warren horror mags in the '70s. There's apparently a really nice remastered version with colors by Jose Villarubia in the Dark Horse Eerie Archives.
 
Ghost Rider has been described as being as capable as necessary in order to deal with a situation, however Strange put it during WWH. Wonder Woman hasn't been defined much more than "second only to Superman" powers and a warrior ethos. Sometimes the bracelets are needed to stop bullets, sometimes she's tough enough without them.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
Ghost Rider has been described as being as capable as necessary in order to deal with a situation, however Strange put it during WWH. Wonder Woman hasn't been defined much more than "second only to Superman" powers and a warrior ethos. Sometimes the bracelets are needed to stop bullets, sometimes she's tough enough without them.
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Wonder Woman is either a demigod or a divine golem of some sort. Her power is apparently at the top end of DC's heroes, but she's always had a focus on her training and skills than her raw power.

GR may depend on which version. But they've always been able to have in-universe reasons to punch at almost any weight class. That's what makes them kinda fucking terrifying to a lot of villains.
 
Anyone collecting the Dark Horse deluxe editions? I've got all 3 lines out so far: Berserk, Blade of the Immortal, Hellsing. They are absolutely beautiful books.
 
Czargon the Red said:
Wonder Woman is either a demigod or a divine golem of some sort. Her power is apparently at the top end of DC's heroes, but she's always had a focus on her training and skills than her raw power.
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Characters in top tier usually are not phased by bullets or really any "normal" human weapon (I guess asides of nukes), while WW has been wounded in the past by bullets. I think she might have even bled from regular sword as well, but I'm not sure about it.

I think the problem is that the image of her blocking bullets with her bracelets is iconic and writers/artists try to work it into their stories and it usually results in inconsistencies.
 
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