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COMICS|OT|October 2017- The only thing scarier than Messi's avatar are Marvels sales
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I wonder how long its been since ALL of the Bat books were great.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Morrison era imo
Aizo
Banned
So, since this is the community I post in most, I figure I should mention here that I left Japan one week ago. Had an incredible past few months there, but I just don't have the connections I need for the sort of work that I want to be doing there. Taking some time back home to see all my family and friends, because I felt guilty being away from everyone for so long. I may return back to Japan next Spring, or perhaps a bit later.
I hate moving so much, but I move at least once a year. I've lived in 6 different places across three prefectures in Japan in the past three years. Agh.
I hate moving so much, but I move at least once a year. I've lived in 6 different places across three prefectures in Japan in the past three years. Agh.
Freezasaurus
Member
Mister Miracle is such an odd book.
BACK TO THE USA??? HOME OF DEW AND 7/11
WELCOME HOME
I will miss your extensive knowledge of JAPAN and its cultures
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
You were in Japan?
a wild launchpad appears
Freezasaurus
Member
Darkseid is.
Aw shit. Aizo giving up those maid cafes?
You were in the Valiant thread, which is like Japan.
Poodlestrike
Banned
lmaoooooooo
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Thoughts:
Flash: Meh. I don't want Meena to be a villain. Also, I really like Meena but let's stop pretending like Barry's eventual love interest is anyone except Iris. Even the show gets it now.
Batgirl and the Birds of Prey: This story's pretty cute. The girls saving the boys from potential death at the hands of an unknown sickness? Yeah that works.
Defenders: That was the laziest way to get Deadpool into this story, and I'm kinda bummed that
, though I'm loving seeing these street-level heroes interact. Of course Spidey isn't invited to their little group, even tho he's cooler than all of them. XD
Michael Cray: I take it back. This wasn't a bad Oliver Queen twist. Also way better than all the crappy "dark Batmen".
Falcon: Are we stuck with this narrative of "Steve's a jerk", even though they all know it was the Cosmic Cube? Bummer. Still, I liked this first issue--there's a lot of complex stuff as far as Sam being a man of the people, inspiration to other black people to become heroes, etc. etc. Very cool.
Mister Miracle: Still nothing but theories. Basically, it's the most impossible escape Mr. Miracle has ever attempted--escaping from his own mind. It's malfunctioning on him, showing him things...that are obviously wrong. Seems like ALE, but Scott is the Life Equation so that shouldn't work. But then again maybe its why he's the only one who can fight it?
Those are all I've read so far this week. I'll get around to the rest fairly quickly though since I've got a column to write.
Flash: Meh. I don't want Meena to be a villain. Also, I really like Meena but let's stop pretending like Barry's eventual love interest is anyone except Iris. Even the show gets it now.
Batgirl and the Birds of Prey: This story's pretty cute. The girls saving the boys from potential death at the hands of an unknown sickness? Yeah that works.
Defenders: That was the laziest way to get Deadpool into this story, and I'm kinda bummed that
Kingpin is behind all this
Michael Cray: I take it back. This wasn't a bad Oliver Queen twist. Also way better than all the crappy "dark Batmen".
Falcon: Are we stuck with this narrative of "Steve's a jerk", even though they all know it was the Cosmic Cube? Bummer. Still, I liked this first issue--there's a lot of complex stuff as far as Sam being a man of the people, inspiration to other black people to become heroes, etc. etc. Very cool.
Mister Miracle: Still nothing but theories. Basically, it's the most impossible escape Mr. Miracle has ever attempted--escaping from his own mind. It's malfunctioning on him, showing him things...that are obviously wrong. Seems like ALE, but Scott is the Life Equation so that shouldn't work. But then again maybe its why he's the only one who can fight it?
Those are all I've read so far this week. I'll get around to the rest fairly quickly though since I've got a column to write.
I'm wondering what Margaret Stohl's editor is doing. Like, the latest Cap Marvel has a running joke that Jessica Drew won't trust Jessica Jones to watch her kid which doesn't make sense on levels? JJ has a toddler? What parent of a toddler volunteers to babysit? And why would you not trust a person who has a kid to babysit?
This is the same problem I had with the second Red Widow novel, which is supposed to be canon with the MCU but has She-Hulk, Captain Marvel and other female superheroes show up. (Though with the Captain Marvel movie in the 90's, that could still work)
This is the same problem I had with the second Red Widow novel, which is supposed to be canon with the MCU but has She-Hulk, Captain Marvel and other female superheroes show up. (Though with the Captain Marvel movie in the 90's, that could still work)
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Okay so that's not just me then. Admittedly, the parent of a toddler might volunteer to babysit...but it wouldn't be Jessica Jones. And even if she did, it's weird to say you don't trust her when she's raising a child of her own. I was waiting for her to mention it but NOPE. Went the whole issue and nothin'. I miss Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters--the pre-CW Capt. Marvel was really good.
Freezasaurus
Member
Did anyone else pick up God Complex #1 from Image? It's a sci-fi detective story. It seems pretty swell so far.
Elaugaufein
Member
A mixed bag I'd say. The banner is hideous , but maybe half the stuff below it is actually decent. The other half is .... not.
Given the title of this project , which I can only assume is a fairly clear call to the alt right, and the summary, the actual pitch isn't as politics heavy / skewed as I would have expected. Might be because they apparently have Dixen involved so they need at least some level of respectability ? to
The comments are (surprise surprise) a cesspit though.
Edit - Jeezus, some of the other causes on FreeStartr are delusional at best. And it's basically all Alt-Right stuff. If you wanted to take a stand on Free Speech you'd think you'd find at least some unpopular leftist cause to launch with as well. The less crazy projects here are just dragged down by association and it looks like it's not actually pro-free speech at all since it's pretty much one sided politically.
Vic_Viper
Member
I asked earlier and didnt see anything. I ended up getting it but havent read it yet. Looks really good though from what I saw flipping through it.
Ended up getting God Complex instead of the Dying & the Dead this week.
Freezasaurus
Member
I liked it enough where I'm in for at least the next couple issues. Art is nice, too.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
lol. 100,000 bucks. I could've paid my student loans with that and it got thrown away on garbage. Jeez.
Hold on, what's this you're talking about?
I did, but I haven't read it yet. Hoping it's good.
Elaugaufein
Member
The average backing is ~$100 , there's about 20 K coming from the top 4 backers (at least one of which I suspect is involved in this project).
TropicalFish
Member
Omg Storm solo series in works I'm READY.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Good to hear! Can't wait for it to hit MU!
Gwenpool
fucking murders two villains
The last time this artist filled in, Gwen
tried to shoot a teenager in the head and got thrown in jail.
Aizo
Banned
Hahaha. What a post. You dont have to miss my knowledge. I still have years of education, years of experience living there, many Japanese friends, and my ongoing interests.
Much longer than Ive been in this community. Haha.
Ive never been. I did go to a bar where all the waitresses crossdress during my last week, though. That was interesting.
Serpentine
Banned
Free speech warriors like this don't actually care about free speech for everyone. Or even know what it means.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
They're absolutely
not dead
Also, man she's
altering reality
BKatastrophe
Member
Mindy Lahiri is my spirit animal
So much murder
Apparently now he would because of the alt right stuff
We have Tokyo Ghost for our Japan cultural knowledge.
RedHoodedOwl
Member
I'm glad I'm not the only who doesn't care about the edgelord batmen.
BKatastrophe
Member
Steve being a jerk is a narrative that existed before the Cosmic Cube fuckery. The very first arc of Sam Cap.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Do these dudes think they're too good to read Zenescope?
LordOfLore
Banned
Its the only M rated DC book, right?
BKatastrophe
Member
Off Topic for a quick sec:
The Mindy Project is pretty fucking great. Started a couple weeks ago. Half way through S4. Absolutely phenomenal. Also almost to the end of S2 of Nikita, which is also pretty good. Beginning of S2 is a zero to sixty.
We may continue to our regularly scheduled funny books.
The Mindy Project is pretty fucking great. Started a couple weeks ago. Half way through S4. Absolutely phenomenal. Also almost to the end of S2 of Nikita, which is also pretty good. Beginning of S2 is a zero to sixty.
We may continue to our regularly scheduled funny books.
Elaugaufein
Member
Yeah , I know. It just embarasses me. I'm way closer to a civil liberties absolutist than many on GAF , and these people just make me want to facepalm.
Elaugaufein
Member
I probably wouldn't expect a massive toneshift on Harley. It's been selling really well, and it seems to appeal to a different demographic than most of DCs books, so I can't see them wanting to lose that audience.
(I say that despite Harley being one of the Rebirth books I checked out at step start and then decided to pass on. It clearly knew what it was and what it was doing even if I didn't like it, unlike say Justice League which was trying to be Morrison without much understanding of how that works. )
(I say that despite Harley being one of the Rebirth books I checked out at step start and then decided to pass on. It clearly knew what it was and what it was doing even if I didn't like it, unlike say Justice League which was trying to be Morrison without much understanding of how that works. )
BKatastrophe
Member
Started Stephanie Brown Batgirl. Barbara says she used Steph's autopsy photos to stop the last girl who wanted to be Batgirl.
Who was that girl? How did Steph die?
Also, why exactly did Cass give up the cowl? Bruce died? Was it literally just because of Bruce and that's it? He dies, Dick takes over, and she quits? Also she lead the League of Assassins and the Outsiders? Shit mane.
Who was that girl? How did Steph die?
Also, why exactly did Cass give up the cowl? Bruce died? Was it literally just because of Bruce and that's it? He dies, Dick takes over, and she quits? Also she lead the League of Assassins and the Outsiders? Shit mane.
Elaugaufein
Member
It was later retconned (in War Crimes) that Steph didn't die and Leslie had faked her death to keep her safe afterwards. So the autopsy photos were faked.
Cass gave up the Cowl twice. Once just before Infinite Crisis, when she killed Shiva (but left her over a Lazarus Pit) , out of guilt I think, and then redebuted in OYL as a villain (yes it was awful, she was basically a Talia / Shiva cross villain for Tim ). This was later retconned as Slade having been drugging her and she became Batgirl again, and she floated around aimlessly for a while after that since DC had no idea what to do with her, before she gave the Cowl to Steph for reasons that weren't really explained at the time. It may have been explained later but I missed it if so.
BKatastrophe
Member
Elaugaufein
Member
If it helps she did eventually become Blackbat , which was pretty much her being Batgirl again in Hong Kong with some hints of a return to Gotham, but whatever was going to come of that got blown up by Flashpoint turning into the N52 launch instead of just being the yearly event.
Oh yeah, I looked, and it was eventually explained (not a retcon exactly since unlike the other stuff it didn't directly contradict prior cannon) that she gave the Cowl to Steph, because Bruce had told her too if he died and to go to Hong Kong for some reason, which lead into her Red Robin / Batman Incorporated / Black Bat phase.
BKatastrophe
Member
Man why is Tim such a dick to Steph in this?
Yeah but the previous stuff still seems dumb.
Elaugaufein
Member
If it's early Steph-Batgirl it's because a) Dick replaced him as Robin with Damian (who had tried to kill Tim multiple times) b) because no one was believing him when he (correctly) worked out Bruce wasn't dead and c) because Ra's was trying to wear him down mentally to use him as a replacement for Bruce or something.
And yes yes it was. DC made some bloody weird choices with their female characters from just before War Games until roughly Final Crisis.
JordanDeGroot
Member
I know I'm another one that was looking forward to this, it seemed even more of a strange twist that its disspeared as a few issues ago it was advertised as coming soon in the back of a Black Monday Murders issue.
Count me fully in for that Storm book, really been into Bartels stuff since I met her at thought bubble and Coates from writing her in his main Panther series and The Crew seems to write Storm really well. I just hope it has more luck in sales than the Crew and sadly probably the new Panther origin series is going to have.
Metal 3 was fun, again with the crazy obscure DC easter eggs. The warning bit was a little stupid though,
I mean come on clark, ignore everything you saw in that dream, the real warning was chords which spelled out our warning in reverse which was obviously a clue not to come, your such an idiot for not getting that obvious warning right 