ElBoxyBrown
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Didn't DC try to publish Doom Patrol as a mainline DC title?
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COMICS!!! |OT| July 2017 | Princess, I've Seen the Way You Look At Me.
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Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I was going to mention to you earlier that none of the stuff you were wanting to buy was going to be on sale but then I got distracted. My bad.
Yeah, Giffen did a run in 2009 I think. But Morrison's original run was on DC, too. It was only after his run that it ran under Vertigo.
TropicalFish
Member
Astonishing X-Men saved the X-Men line I cannot believe it.
Aizo
Banned
Just finished catching up with Black Hammer. I gotta say that I was absolutely loving it until the last page of the most recent issue.
I love the characters so much, though. I want to learn more about all of them. Does Abe have a power? I don't get that.
I am rarely satisfied with how mysteries end up, and I worry that this will be similar. Obviously I can't judge yet, but I guess I'm not to into the possibility that it's all a spell created by Madame Butterfly and none of the people are real. Doesn't that seem just a bit too obvious? I felt reading at the start that maybe it was all a fake dream world when they mentioned pocket universes. I didn't want to be right. Hope it's more complex than that.
No worries. I have lots to read.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Imo, Jason is cocky with a mix of self-doubt and self-healing. I think it perfectly fits Jason's new persona.
I like this page:
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
BKatastrophe
Member
The personalities are there just fine. That's not my problem. Like I've been saying, it's not the characters, it's the way they engage with each other. The dialogue exchanges just don't function that well on a mechanical level.
LordOfLore
Banned
Man, that Image sale is crap.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Is it too playful?
LordOfLore
Banned
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
It really is. Collection only sales are alays lame. Luckily I've already mined Image sales for everything worth reading.
LordOfLore
Banned
Pretty much. They could've least done a BOGO sale.
Serpentine
Banned
I'm really interesting in seeing how they utilize all the Watchmen. It makes sense that Dr. Manhattan will be a powerhouse that all of the DC will probably have a lot of issues dealing with but all the other guys are just normal people. I can't imagine Nightowl or Silk Spectre are the ones fucking with the DC universe.
LordOfLore
Banned
Serpentine
Banned
One that doesn't exclude 3 months old books
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Idk why you guys always expect recent books to be discounted lol
LordOfLore
Banned
DC did. Only books that aren't are like 2 weeks old.
Image is the only publisher that has three month restrictions.
Serpentine
Banned
I guess it's more surprising to me that publishers don't do restrictions
They do enough sales that it doesn't really bother me. Not like I don't have a backlog already
They do enough sales that it doesn't really bother me. Not like I don't have a backlog already
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Damn man, Noah Hawley working on a Dr Doom movie at Fox. That guy is a deeply talented guy, will be interesting to see if he can overcome the shit that's gone on with that franchise and make an exciting thing to watch. Guess this was what he had to step away from Fargo for. Apparently Dan Stevens will be involved (Legion lead actor) but no confirmation how big a part that would be.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Bought myself the next 2 volumes of Black Science.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Where does that put you now?
Captain Skeleton
Member
That'll be 4. If there isn't a Valiant sale this weekend, and it's looking unlikely at this point, I'll get the next 2.
Honestly I figured the sales would be more of a blowout than they are.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Volume 4 is really good. I had issues with vol 1-3 (love the concept and art, had issues with the actual character work and shock value plot happenings), but vol 4 is really great stuff, they refocus the book in a way that's really compelling and digs into all the shit that's gone on. Interested what you think!
I'm all physical so never any good sales for me
hahaCaptain Skeleton
Member
Volume 4 is really good. I had issues with vol 1-3 (love the concept and art, had issues with the actual character work and shock value plot happenings), but vol 4 is really great stuff, they refocus the book in a way that's really compelling and digs into all the shit that's gone on. Interested what you think!
I'm all physical so never any good sales for me
I hear the series just gets better. I honestly loved the first 2 volumes.
I'm going more and more digital. I'm not super interesting in 'collecting' comics, just reading the stories.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
You're in a good place with the book then man. If you love it now haha....it just gets stronger and stronger
Haha that's fair! I really dig my trade collection but these days digital is definitely more convenient and way cheaper if patient. Helps if you've got a nice way to read them digital though :| haha
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I almost dropped Black Science because of the Godworld arc. Glad I didn't though.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I will be amazed if Doomsday Clock features any Watchmen characters beyond Dr Manhattan and maybe Ozymandis. It's pretty obvious from the dialogue teases that is taking place post Watchmen, so Rorschach and Comedian are dead, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre have changed identities, moved to California, and are no longer associated with Doc and Ozy. By all accounts this is picking up the thread from the end of Watchmen where Doc tells Ozy he's going to a new universe and creating new human life.
JordanDeGroot
Member
Respect to DC for keeping consistent on the pricing, but am I missing something, I can already think of two variants for Metal issues of the top of my head, the Jock cover above and midnight release variant.
BluenoseGames
Member
I don't read comics but I'm going on a plane tomorrow and I looked on comixology and DC are doing buy one get one free. I heard Superman Rebirth was good and I like Nightwing so I think I'm going to go with the first volumes, unless ya'll have any better suggestions?
LordOfLore
Banned
Think the variant covers line was just for Dark Matter.
Do that!
Edit: From a Comicsbeat article on the merch at SDCC:
Freezasaurus
Member
FUCK! Enough already. Too. Many. Statues.
JordanDeGroot
Member
X-men grand design looks like it could be a really fun love letter to the history of the x-men so I'll be on board, but how crazy would you have to make a story to try and tie in all the shit the xmen have been through over the years into one story ha
TheDarkKnight774
Member
The image CMX sale is great for collections. But I already own all the ones I wanted outside the last vol of sunstone and one other one. Grabbed those. Now to go through the tedious task of working through each series single issues and find each cut line. Why couldn't they just have a code and a simple discount. Then I could see what it applies to instead of playing this matching game
JordanDeGroot
Member
I'm glad there not going the Marvel route of everything needing twenty covers but to be honest despite the good creative teams for some of them a lot of the Dark Matter titles are for the more obscure characters and teams, its not exactly Batman or Wonder Woman there not doing variant covers for here.
Still 2.99 for every issue of an event, learn something from that Marvel, there not even doing there Generations issue that is meant to be a jumping in point at any cheaper.
whatsinaname
Member
Nice to see Morrison and Quitely are working together again, even if only for a video game comic.
Great deal on Sunstone
Freezasaurus
Member
Really? They look alright, but I don't feel any great need to own them.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Oh no please definitely don't link that
What game?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Amazing.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Finished Rafael Albuquerque's Ei8ht at lunch. Feels like it's just a bunch of recycled stuff, though the Meld is a great idea. 3/5!