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Due to the recent Hellblazer talk I was thinking about picking up the complete collection TPBs but:
1) The covers are ugly. They have all this wonderful cover art from the issues the trades collect but instead go with new, cartoon-y looking art.
2) Instead of collecting #250 with vol.21 which collects the end of Andy Diggle's run they placed it in vol.22, which also includes Chas: The Knowledge (dumb from what I remember, and nothing I'd spend money on) and the start of Peter Milligan's run, which I also don't want to spend money on.

Both are probably pretty autistic points but they were enough to make me pass for now. I'm fine with my disparate collection of old TPBs, single issues, and copious amounts of scans.
 
Si Spencer just died, mostly know for his 90's 2000AD work but also did a bit with vertigo including Hellblazer, The Books of Magic.

The 2000AD obituary https://archive.is/r5Mcg

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So McFarlane announced Spawn shared universe. I think it is going to flop, but I found it kinda funny how he big leagued everyone else and pretended that asides of DC and Marvel nobody has shared universe comics.
 
GranDuke said:
So McFarlane announced Spawn shared universe. I think it is going to flop, but I found it kinda funny how he big leagued everyone else and pretended that asides of DC and Marvel nobody has shared universe comics.
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If they rebooted the universe and plotted out how everything's connected I'd be interested in it but that sort of planning and plotting hasn't been seen since the '80s. This just looks like a way to launch new Spawn titles and get headlines about them.
 
So that new Superman show seems pretty alright. At the very least, significantly higher production value than the other Arrowverse shows of late. I really like how they're taking a bit of influence from the Rebirth run written by Tomasi. I always enjoyed Supes as a father, not a huge fan of the kids being teenagers though.

Edit: Just read this week's Amazing Spider-Man. Holy fuck I think they're actually touching on OMD.
 
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TheCosmicWarrior said:
Like...undoing it?
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I couldn't say for certain, but considering the issue has Dr. Strange directly asking Mephisto what's going on with Peter Parker's soul, I'm thinking that's where Spencer's going with things.

Edit: here's the pages in case anyone cares. I will say it's nice having Bagely drawing a Spider-Man book again. I loved his work on Ultimate Spider-Man back in the day.
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Tor Lugosi said:
If they rebooted the universe and plotted out how everything's connected I'd be interested in it but that sort of planning and plotting hasn't been seen since the '80s. This just looks like a way to launch new Spawn titles and get headlines about them.
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GranDuke said:
And sell some new Spawn related figures.
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This is probably the reason.

Lucifer's Rectum said:
I couldn't say for certain, but considering the issue has Dr. Strange directly asking Mephisto what's going on with Peter Parker's soul, I'm thinking that's where Spencer's going with things.

Edit: here's the pages in case anyone cares. I will say it's nice having Bagely drawing a Spider-Man book again. I loved his work on Ultimate Spider-Man back in the day.
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Joe Kelly already mentioned. Until it is retconned, explicitly, this is all hot air to me.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
If all this set-up to undo OMD is a swerve for Marvel to go "lol psych" fans are going to be pissed. One of the main reasons why Spencer's run has so far been well received is because it seems to be trying to correct all the stupidity from the last decade.
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Hopefully Marvel is not retarded enough to pull that shit, especially after the backlash that DC got when they tried that tomfoolery with Batman & Catwoman's wedding in Batman #50.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
If all this set-up to undo OMD is a swerve for Marvel to go "lol psych" fans are going to be pissed. One of the main reasons why Spencer's run has so far been well received is because it seems to be trying to correct all the stupidity from the last decade.
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What they'll do is tease it and if they're smart they'll drag it into a dangling plot thread for the next decade. The OMD brain trust still runs things at Marvel. Breevort, Quesada. No one is going to piss in that Kool-aide.
 
I found it really interesting learning that the Gail Simone's run of Red Sonja, which I had seen highly praised by many, is apparently disliked greatly among long time fans. I ended up looking through the red sonja subreddit and they make some pretty compelling arguments on why it's a bad Red Sonja work because of the character liberties taken. Makes sense to me given that I ended up not getting that far into it since I found Sonja kind of annoying and bland. I'm enjoying Mark Russell's run a lot more so far and might look into some of the early runs besides Simone's run to see if they're also enjoyable. She's just a lot more fun to read in his run since she's a lot more fleshed out then Simone's Sonja of "Loves to drink and fuck to ridiculous levels while also coming off as dumb/pig-headed" which I found wore thin for me after the first arc (which I didn't mind).

It's just really weird to see a work get such high praise get the exact opposite treatment among dedicated fans. I can only assume it's due to the people enjoying Simone's run having that as their first intro to Red Sonja so her being so different from her past incarnations doesn't register.
 
Ok....so I read Legion of Super Heroes: Future State #2, and while the art is still "Tumblr-esque", the story actually went somewhere and had a nice payoff. Bendis finally got to the fucking point and managed to tell a whole fucking story.

Even a garbage can gets a steak.
 
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Lucifer's Rectum said:
I couldn't say for certain, but considering the issue has Dr. Strange directly asking Mephisto what's going on with Peter Parker's soul, I'm thinking that's where Spencer's going with things.

Edit: here's the pages in case anyone cares. I will say it's nice having Bagely drawing a Spider-Man book again. I loved his work on Ultimate Spider-Man back in the day.
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I'm stoked to see where this is going.
 
jspit2.0 said:
What they'll do is tease it and if they're smart they'll drag it into a dangling plot thread for the next decade. The OMD brain trust still runs things at Marvel. Breevort, Quesada. No one is going to piss in that Kool-aide.
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This is probably what they'll do. Maybe resolve the devil stuff but then do 'will they, won't they' shit for the next decade (or more) with Peter and MJ. Marvel's stupid enough to think that'll let them eat their cake and have it, too.
 
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