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COMICS! March |OT| Girls, Girls, Girls of Spring Break!

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The Take Out Bandit

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ilnadmy said:
Just dropping in to say what's up. All the images on the first page are blocked at work (probably a good thing considering the title of this thread), but yeah I've basically dropped comic books and don't really see myself returning due to how costly the hobby is. I'll probably still swing by this thread every now and then to partake in the shenanigans.

In other news: MASS EFFECT 3! :O I got my Collector's Edition yesterday and it comes with a teeny tiny comic book about Aria. Haven't read it yet but it seems quite action packed.
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This reminds me.

I need to stop blowing so much money on video games I'll never play. ^_^
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

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ilnadmy said:
Just dropping in to say what's up. All the images on the first page are blocked at work (probably a good thing considering the title of this thread), but yeah I've basically dropped comic books and don't really see myself returning due to how costly the hobby is. I'll probably still swing by this thread every now and then to partake in the shenanigans.

In other news: MASS EFFECT 3! :O I got my Collector's Edition yesterday and it comes with a teeny tiny comic book about Aria. Haven't read it yet but it seems quite action packed.
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I know this may be too little too late, but you do know that comics are only as expensive as you let them be, right?

You do not have to read all the comics. You can just pick maybe one or two that you like and read them month to month. Or even better, buy maybe a trade a month or maybe even just a few a year. Read them and enjoy them, just like you would any other kind of media. In fact, if you read trades then the value proposition becomes much like any other form of media. The Preacher hardcovers cost me about 15 quid and lasted for hours, much better value than a DVD.

Basically what I'm saying is that even though many of us here are insane addicts you don't have to be as well. Just read what you like, it's so easy.

But yeah, Mass Effect! Wooooo! btw, I think that comic may be from the new series which I believe is about Aria. They did one about the Illusive Man recently as well. They're ok but not amazing I'd say. C+
 
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Spike Spiegel

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The Take Out Bandit said:
This reminds me.

I need to stop blowing so much money on video games I'll never play. ^_^
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The last new game purchased was Dark Souls, and I haven't even broken the shrinkwrap yet. My backlog pile glares at me from across the room daily, accumulating ever increasing layers of dust; its existence is always in the back of my mind whenever I go shopping, and I even think about looking at video games. The last time I turned on my PS3 was to watch a movie. In short, I think I'm done with gaming.

Until Guild Wars 2 comes out.
 
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Escape Goat

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Oh, a wedding issue? *yawn*

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Owzers

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Jedeye Sniv said:
I know this may be too little too late, but you do know that comics are only as expensive as you let them be, right?

You do not have to read all the comics. You can just pick maybe one or two that you like and read them month to month. Or even better, buy maybe a trade a month or maybe even just a few a year. Read them and enjoy them, just like you would any other kind of media. In fact, if you read trades then the value proposition becomes much like any other form of media. The Preacher hardcovers cost me about 15 quid and lasted for hours, much better value than a DVD.

Basically what I'm saying is that even though many of us here are insane addicts you don't have to be as well. Just read what you like, it's so easy.

But yeah, Mass Effect! Wooooo! btw, I think that comic may be from the new series which I believe is about Aria. They did one about the Illusive Man recently as well. They're ok but not amazing I'd say. C+
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I think the big trap is reading DC/Marvel universe titles, just got to stay away from those if you don't want to spend a lot of money on books. Read Thief of Thieves #1 and No Place Like Home #1. No Place Like Home didn't really catch on for me but i might check out the trade, Thief of Thieves on the other hand i really liked.
 
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krypt0nian

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Back to Bandit's point on male representation in comics and it's feminization, no one did real men better than Curt Swan's hairy chested Superman, or John Buscema's... well everyone.
 
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LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Yep. Marjorie Liu. Can't wait. I haven't been reading it either but just looking at the synopsis of this recent stuff with Greg Pak it seems a little convoluted and superfluous, so I don't feel like I'm missing much. I've definitely been missing Marjorie since X-23 took a shit.
 
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jaxword

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krypt0nian said:
Back to Bandit's point on male representation in comics and it's feminization, no one did real men better than Curt Swan's hairy chested Superman, or John Buscema's... well everyone.
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"Feminization" is a stupid word anyways and just reeks of insecurity anyways. Do you shave your face? Better stop, because it makes you look more feminine!
 
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krypt0nian

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jaxword said:
"Feminization" is a stupid word anyways and just reeks of insecurity anyways. Do you shave your face? Better stop, because it makes you look more feminine!
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That's your opinion. The trend in shaving the male chest, etc and then leaking into comics is a real one. And will swing back the other way and again men won't be trying to deny their secondary sexual characteristics.

And yeah a full beard is automatically more masculine. I'm not sure where you're going with that. It's a game of levels. This goes well beyond shaving of a guy's face. It's now shaving legs/arms in extreme cases in real life, and formerly hirsute comic characters being drawn as twinkie pinup boys in recent years.
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
krypt0nian said:
That's your opinion. The trend in shaving the male chest, etc and then leaking into comics is a real one. And will swing back the other way and again men won't be trying to deny their secondary sexual characteristics.

And yeah a full beard is automatically more masculine. I'm not sure where you're going with that. It's a game of levels. This goes well beyond shaving of a guy's face. It's now shaving legs/arms in extreme cases in real life, and formerly hirsute comic characters being drawn as twinkie pinup boys in recent years.
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twinkie pinup boys? damn.
 
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LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Parallax said:
i can only hope. the quicker she is gone, or transported to the future, the better off the x books will be.
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ep85 said:
Hopefully...Worst. Messiah. Ever.
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Haters gonna something something. Hope's like Cyclops Jr. I never really minded her, she just has to be a frumpy team leader all the time. I'm really interested in seeing her team branch out from being under her wing, but I don't hate Hope as much as most.
 
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krypt0nian

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Spike Spiegel said:
From Comics Alliance:

Point/Counterpoint: 'Justice League' Is Everything Wrong With Comics by Chris Sims

Point/Counterpoint: 'Justice League' Shines with Strong Characters by David Uzumeri

Whom to believe, whom to believe..?

Are we sure David didn't mean caricatures instead?
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Since both sides have people agreeing in the comments, believe whom you like. For me is was crazy fun with gorgeous art. That alone is better than tons of books people exault in the threads here. YMMV.

Best JLA ever? Nope. Absolute non-redeemable garbage as Sims portrays? Nope.
 
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Dance Inferno

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Jedeye Sniv said:
I know this may be too little too late, but you do know that comics are only as expensive as you let them be, right?

You do not have to read all the comics. You can just pick maybe one or two that you like and read them month to month. Or even better, buy maybe a trade a month or maybe even just a few a year. Read them and enjoy them, just like you would any other kind of media. In fact, if you read trades then the value proposition becomes much like any other form of media. The Preacher hardcovers cost me about 15 quid and lasted for hours, much better value than a DVD.

Basically what I'm saying is that even though many of us here are insane addicts you don't have to be as well. Just read what you like, it's so easy.

But yeah, Mass Effect! Wooooo! btw, I think that comic may be from the new series which I believe is about Aria. They did one about the Illusive Man recently as well. They're ok but not amazing I'd say. C+
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Yeah I guess I can see what you're saying. What's weird is that after just dropping comics altogether, Supergirl is really the comic I miss most. Who woulda thought? But yeah I may pick up the occasional issue every now and then, I did really enjoy comics over the past few months.
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

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krypt0nian said:
Since both sides have people agreeing in the comments, believe whom you like. For me is was crazy fun with gorgeous art. That alone is better than tons of books people exault in the threads here. YMMV.

Best JLA ever? Nope. Absolute non-redeemable garbage as Sims portrays? Nope.
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Crazy fun? Were we reading the same book? I'd have to agree with Sims, the book was a dismal failure. I just read #6 today so it's fairly fresh in my mind, but it was muddled, boring and silly to the point of being actually funny. That line about "You're the world's greatest super-humans!" was just ridiculous. Who speaks like that? Why would someone just exclaim that?

It was a story with absolutely no stakes. There was never a sense of danger for a second. Compare the way Darkseid is presented here to Final Crisis. In FC he is this monumental God of anti-life and despair. He sucks the goodness out of the world, his very presence is menacing, as soon as he shows up the world is lost, he is the ultimate in high stakes. In Justice League he is this big dude who shows up, gets in a fight and loses. It was not even an anticlimax since the story hadn't built up to his arrival in any meaningful way. He just is, then he isn't.

And the art fell apart by the end too. The first issue was indeed gorgeous but by the end it was muddled and hard to read, full of lines and scratches signifying nothing and only serving to confuse and obfuscate what was going on.

I would agree slightly with Uzumeri that the best part of the book was the interactions between the characters, and I really liked the take on Wonder Woman especially, the fish-out-of-water take on her was fun and I liked how alien she seemed. But the characters were in service of a story that meant literally nothing. I've spoken about Final Crisis on here before, but love or loathe it you can at least see that it's about something, Morrison had a point and a theme he was leading to that actually made the story reasonate. But with Justice League I could not tell you what it was about other than baddies show up, goodies react and hit them until they stop. I can deal with that for an issue, maybe, but making it 6 of them was just a waste of everyone's time.

Especially eggregious, considering the medium, was how limited the story was. It was all set in these nondescript environments, the destruction of which meant nothing. There was no human cost, no struggle, no actual heroism on display. You've got this medium where you can do anything, go anywhere and you choose to do this with it?

When I finished #6 today, I was actually a little disgusted with it and with myself for keeping on buying it too. I broke my own cardinal rule, which was I kept on buying a comic I knew full well was a piece of shit.

Thankfully I had Action Comics to wash the taste out, and Ultimate Spidey to follow up as a tasty desert. Some comics are amazing. This was not.
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

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ilnadmy said:
Yeah I guess I can see what you're saying. What's weird is that after just dropping comics altogether, Supergirl is really the comic I miss most. Who woulda thought? But yeah I may pick up the occasional issue every now and then, I did really enjoy comics over the past few months.
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Well that's cool. Maybe wait a few months and pick up the trade when it comes out? Totally the best way for new readers to experience the medium. Comics breed this 'gotta get em all' mentality, but you should really only be reading the stuff that speaks to you, and digesting it properly. I think we're all guilty (in fandom) of taking the volume of stuff we read for granted, and not really treasuring the gold when it's buried under the weight of obligation to continuity and completion (see above :p).
 
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Anticitizen One

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Geoff's justice league has been really disappointing so far and I get the feeling his whole run is going to be grimdark Super Friends fan fiction.
 
Guileless

Guileless

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My favorite Wolverine story is the one where he and the gray Hulk run a bar in Madripoor.
 
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Rafa=FedKilla

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ilnadmy said:
Yeah I guess I can see what you're saying. What's weird is that after just dropping comics altogether, Supergirl is really the comic I miss most. Who woulda thought? But yeah I may pick up the occasional issue every now and then, I did really enjoy comics over the past few months.
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You dropped comics brah, I thought you just started reading this year or something?

Glad to hear that black spiderman is still good, trade waiting it since I don't care about the rest of the Ultimate universe. And BKV's new series Saga comes out next week!
 
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parrotbeak

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I have the first 10 or so of that series. From like 1988 or something? I remember them being good but I was 12. I should still have them somewhere.
 
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snack

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Heya, GAF!

I just recently got into comics. Been reading The Walking Dead lately. Are there any others you guys could recommend for me? Thanks.
 
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bernardobri

Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
snack said:
Heya, GAF!

I just recently got into comics. Been reading The Walking Dead lately. Are there any others you guys could recommend for me? Thanks.
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Invincible (written by Robert Kirman of TWD)
 
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