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GoPro said:
Ennis is a borderline "Hail Britain!" nut, and he is obsessed with SAS especially. Glorifying any foreign military rubs him the wrong way, as it supposedly takes away from royal forces' glory. These people tend to have inferiority complex towards American military, probably because British heavily depended on the U.S. in WW2 and Americans were the dominant military ever since. People like him get angry when you point out that during WW2 Polish and French resistances had to hand Britain enigma and intelligence, and that it was actually Americans and Russians who sealed the deal.
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And WWI. The British never got over their colony surpassing them in every, single way.
GoPro said:
No doubt. They have somewhat of a hold in videogames and anime industry through localization companies. Scanlating comics is far less work and resource intensive, so it is tougher to maintain a grip on manga. Still, few years ago there was that Attack on Titan anthology made in the U.S. It was full of typical pandering and idiocy.
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Netflix, Amazon, Hulu are were they go. Foreign funding dollars and the fact that the Japanese need to expand even if they don't want to because of demographics.
 
I'm gonna say it.

Knull is a hell of a decent villain but I think that's because he's the only really good one that either of the big 2 have introduced in the last few years. The Batman who Laughs would have been better if he wasn't a fucking meme brought to life that just didn't operate within the rules they established for dark multiverse stuff.

Knull has managed to give a great deal of entertainment, is decently written and implemented, and is a fun villain. I do wish he venomized Carol Danvers too thought.

I sort of like how the past year has kinda semi-quarantine the worst wokeshit away. Ms Marvel is off in the bullshit "Outlaws" thing and that's been slowed to a crawl. Danvers is just relegated to her book or to Avengers shit as a heavy that shows up. We don't see like, America Chavez, because she doesn't really sell well.

The Kara Zor-El and Wonder Woman books occupy their own space and don't really affect a whole ton. I'm ok with this and am neutral on the characters. I'm disappointed that there's no good consistent runs for either.

Sojourner Mullein is sort of inconsequential and while I do hope she's not flanderized into a Mary Sue, I think we have too many human green lanterns.

the latina wonder woman is my guilty pleasure based on first impressions and they write her a bit sassy and headstrong for a newbie hero, which is fine. it's probably my dick talking.

the new agents of atlas shit actually sort of tried to make a point that you can't just shove pieces of cities from all over the world to make people get along? that's one of the takeaways i got from it but it was sorely rushed due to covid stuff.

the current GOTG run is getting weird and nutty with the Knull/King in Black event and I love how they may be about to canonize Star-Lords original origin story from way back in the day. The Master of the Sun was a really fucking weird thing from that story and could be an appropriate counter to Knull.
 
Lucifer's Rectum said:
Nothing takes me out of a comic faster than bad art that's trying to be sexy. Like if you're going to have sexy characters, that's fine but do it well and tastefully. I'd rather not have what's basically a Batgirl strip tease in something like Heroes in Crisis where the whole book is trying (and failing) to be a serious story about trauma.

Also completely totally unrelated, but fuck Tom King. That writer has singlehandedly screwed up more shit I loved at DC over 4 years than Marvel's editorial staff could fuck up with Spidey over 20.
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I can't stand how
Czargon the Red said:
Alan at least had the JSA as a vehicle. Guy had his time in the sun and is forever the JLI GL. John had the DCAU.
Kyle was the GL for an entire generation and is sort of just worfed these days.



Jessica makes sense from a story point of view and is interesting. Simon is????
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I liked Jessica better as Power Ring than just another green lantern.
 
Lucifer's Rectum said:
ame with his Young Justice run which also gave Tim Drake a new, shitty costume and name only to backtrack on it like 3 issues later because he planned for a huge arc around Tim and then the book got cancelled.
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God that Drake thing was so dumb. Tim just suddenly shows up in a new name and costume for no explainable reason in #10, then dumps it all at the end of #18 complete with a character saying "don't ask for any explanation about it!"

I mean, why? "Red Robin" was still usable, unless the restaurant chain threatened to sue? Plus, how dumb was using an alias that is EXACTLY the same as your last name? It would be like Batman changing his alias to "WAYNE".

I suspect that the walkback happened because someone pointed out that a drake is a male duck, and those fuckers are gang rapists with super long corkscrew dicks.
 
Water-T said:
God that Drake thing was so dumb. Tim just suddenly shows up in a new name and costume for no explainable reason in #10, then dumps it all at the end of #18 complete with a character saying "don't ask for any explanation about it!"

I mean, why? "Red Robin" was still usable, unless the restaurant chain threatened to sue? Plus, how dumb was using an alias that is EXACTLY the same as your last name? It would be like Batman changing his alias to "WAYNE".

I suspect that the walkback happened because someone pointed out that a drake is a male duck, and those fuckers are gang rapists with super long corkscrew dicks.
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didn't bendis write young justice
 
There's an ad for a marvel event with Ed McGuinness where the avengers didn't form and it appears the new, or a Squadron is the premiere group. Ed's art is Disney Cotton Candy, Pastel Geometry, and Double D Cups all rolled into one giant curvy treat.

Not impressed with Superman: World of War yet, but there are interesting ideas. Seems like a variation on elements from Planet Hulk, but Warworlds have been around for an age.
 
Water-T said:
God that Drake thing was so dumb. Tim just suddenly shows up in a new name and costume for no explainable reason in #10, then dumps it all at the end of #18 complete with a character saying "don't ask for any explanation about it!"
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Besides the name just being dumb, that whole book felt rushed. The opening issues were really, really fun imo but then it got bloated and that middle arc went on too long and then the whole new costume shit happened and I had flashbacks to that costume Ben Reilly was running around with in his solo for like 2 issues that had so much vocal outcry that it was gone by issue 3.
Honestly it's a shame, that YJ book started pretty good. Too bad Bendis has a bad habit of cramming too much shit into his stories without paying it off properly these days.
 
Lucifer's Rectum said:
Besides the name just being dumb, that whole book felt rushed. The opening issues were really, really fun imo but then it got bloated and that middle arc went on too long and then the whole new costume shit happened and I had flashbacks to that costume Ben Reilly was running around with in his solo for like 2 issues that had so much vocal outcry that it was gone by issue 3.
Honestly it's a shame, that YJ book started pretty good. Too bad Bendis has a bad habit of cramming too much shit into his stories without paying it off properly these days.
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It really felt rushed at the end, especially issue 19

Zeus shows up to bitch at Wonder Girl about joining the Gods on Olympus, she says FUCK OFF GRAMPS and then Poseidon pops up in a fight that took just a few panels and was mostly told through NARRATION BOXES.

It's apparent that Bendis has plans bigger than that since he established Zeus bugging Cassie earlier in the series, but then DC was like, HURRY IT UP YOU BALD FUCK WE'RE CANCELLING THIS IN THE NEXT ISSUE.
 
Water-T said:
It really felt rushed at the end, especially issue 19

Zeus shows up to bitch at Wonder Girl about joining the Gods on Olympus, she says FUCK OFF GRAMPS and then Poseidon pops up in a fight that took just a few panels and was mostly told through NARRATION BOXES.

It's apparent that Bendis has plans bigger than that since he established Zeus bugging Cassie earlier in the series, but then DC was like, HURRY IT UP YOU BALD FUCK WE'RE CANCELLING THIS IN THE NEXT ISSUE.
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Not just that, there was all this build up with Jinny Hex's box and the green lantern power battery hijacking (did anything ever really come out of Teen Lantern besides setup?). It really felt like Bendis had plans for this run to go twice as long as it ended up going, and ended up getting it cut shorter than he signed on for. Apparently DC didn't want a fun book that focuses on fan favorite characters. Instead they'd rather push more Dark Nights shit down our throats for almost a fucking year.
 
Lucifer's Rectum said:
Honestly it's a shame, that YJ book started pretty good. Too bad Bendis has a bad habit of cramming too much shit into his stories without paying it off properly these days.
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Yeah, this has always been the classic Bendis quality arc. Great hook, great beginning, he can never stick the landing. Even legendary dogs like Secret War and Civil War II had pretty good first issues.
 
Water-T said:
It really felt rushed at the end, especially issue 19

Zeus shows up to bitch at Wonder Girl about joining the Gods on Olympus, she says FUCK OFF GRAMPS and then Poseidon pops up in a fight that took just a few panels and was mostly told through NARRATION BOXES.

It's apparent that Bendis has plans bigger than that since he established Zeus bugging Cassie earlier in the series, but then DC was like, HURRY IT UP YOU BALD FUCK WE'RE CANCELLING THIS IN THE NEXT ISSUE.
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Well, he should learn how to write a single coherent story in nineteen fucking issues. Anytime a Bendis book is cancelled its a good thing.

Lucifer's Rectum said:
Not just that, there was all this build up with Jinny Hex's box and the green lantern power battery hijacking (did anything ever really come out of Teen Lantern besides setup?). It really felt like Bendis had plans for this run to go twice as long as it ended up going, and ended up getting it cut shorter than he signed on for. Apparently DC didn't want a fun book that focuses on fan favorite characters. Instead they'd rather push more Dark Nights shit down our throats for almost a fucking year.
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Uh, fan favorite? Jinny Hex and that dumb donut OC that hacked the Oa power battery with a laptop?

No.

kaien said:
Yeah, this has always been the classic Bendis quality arc. Great hook, great beginning, he can never stick the landing. Even legendary dogs like Secret War and Civil War II had pretty good first issues.
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Meh, terrible writing is terrible writing. The fact that the story took a couple of issues to get bad doesn't change the bad mechanics in his dialogue.

"The shop?"

"The shop."

"Oh that shop."

So on and so forth. Whole pages filled with that shit.
 
Are there any non image comics worshipping 80s/90s focused podcasts?
I'm looking for somebody really joyful about 80s marvel comics cheese.
 
jspit2.0 said:
Meh, terrible writing is terrible writing. The fact that the story took a couple of issues to get bad doesn't change the bad mechanics in his dialogue.
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Oh yeah, the ping-pong dialogue thing is a whole separate issue. I remember reading Event Leviathan and being pretty sure the letterer had given up trying to make the balloons all point the right way.
 
Heyyy Bubba said:
Are there any non image comics worshipping 80s/90s focused podcasts?
I'm looking for somebody really joyful about 80s marvel comics cheese.
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Ironically, Rob Liefeld's Robservation has several episodes of him oozing over George Perez and John Byrne in the 70s and 80s followed by him fanboying over DKR and Watchmen.

I'll write something about his more recent one later, as it's peak Liefeld and deserves some discussion. But in the meantime, there are dozens of channels. The issue is comics are so narrow that any discussion channel won't stay on just one narrow topic for long.

But why don't you have some fun? What's your favorite 80s marvel cheese run recommend and why?
 
The Pitt isn't a run, but I remember thinking the idea of a giant space of city, earth, atmosphere and everything within just ceasing to exist being terrifying. A 50 mile wide sphere of reality shifted away instantly, and the near apocalyptic reaction of the air rushing into the sudden void, the lake of debris and mutagenic fluids at the bottom. I know New Universe wasn't great, but it was interesting. I long for newuniversal to be continued someday, impossible or not.
 
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