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Identity Crisis would be considered a high-point?
Identity Crisis was the low-point of my life
Identity Crisis would be considered a high-point?
EDIT: From Bleeding Cool this morning: Dan Didio celebrates one decade of being a DC Comics exec
In the article he lists the 10 "high points" of his tenure at DC. In chronological order they are:
-Batman #608, the "Hush" storyline by Loeb/Lee
-Identity Crisis by Meltzer/Morales
-Superman/Batman #8, the "Supergirl" storyline by Loeb/Turner
-Countdown to Infinite Crisis, the $1 anthology comic
-Superman: Earth One by Straczynski/Davis
Featuring the art of Neal Adams with new colors by Jose Villarubia! Containing the Red Sonja tales from Marvel Feature #1-7 presented in glorious fully re-mastered color. These tales are where it all begins and help set the stage for the current Red Sonja series from Dynamite! This is a must-have collection of never-before reprinted material. Plus this volume will feature two covers by legendary artist Frank Thorne!
The story revolves around The Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn. Once psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she falls in love with the Joker after spending time with him inside Arkham Asylum. She develops an obsession with him, and turns to crime just to win his love.
In this Elseworlds tale, Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered by their own servants and poor Bruce was left with nothing. He sold his only possession, his house, to Barbara Gordon, who had earned a fortune off her murdered mother's insurance. Bruce entered the force and became a decorated detective while Babs went the Batman route. Only recently did she acquire the man wonder known as Robin. To further spin things on its head, the Joker is a woman, a cold-hearted self-professed bitch named Blanca Steeplechase. It only gets weirder.
- Sauce
Battleaxes plops you smack dab in the middle of the 8th century A.D. when men were men and women were expected to wait on them. In this mini-series we meet the women of one Northern tribe that allowed its females to train as warriors. Hrotha, widow of the tribes chief, wants to be the new chief. She is challenged by Gunnar, a warrior who wants to get rid of the tradition of training women to fight and institute Christianity as the tribes dominant religion. Through treachery, Gunnar defeats Hrotha who is then forced to flee with her daughter, Freya. They are accompanied by Sigga and Brunna, battle hardened warriors who are also lovers and Skold, a Druidess in training.
-Sauce
The story of Cavewoman is rooted deeply in science fiction.
Meriem Cecilbie Cooper is born in July 1980 to parents Robert Addam Cooper and Gail Nicole Reicher, in the town of Marshville, Oregon. After Robert dies of unknown causes, Gail turns to drugs, which leads her to fall in with an unsavory group of men. Eventually wanting to sever her ties with this group for Meriem's sake, Gail seeks the help of Meriem's scientist-inventor grandfather, Francis Peacock Reicher, affectionately called "Gramp." After first being thwarted, Gramp makes a mysteriously superhuman return, defeating the men easily and taking Meriem away on a hovercycle from the future.
At Gramp's laboratory, Meriem discoveres a time machine and a body-enhancing device that allows a living being to pass through the time stream. It is here that she first meets Klyde, Gramp's 15-foot-tall lab gorilla who has been accidentally altered by the body enhancer. Gramp then enhances Meriem as well, and the trio begins an ongoing adventure through time while on the run from dinosaurs and a secret branch of the government.
As events transpire, Gramp is written out of the story when he is killed by a Tyrannosaurus and Meriem stayed far from the cave that they settled down in. After a fierce fight with local carnivores near the "Quasi-Birds" nests, Meriem ended up naked when her clothes were torn off during the fight. Upon aging into a buxom 19-year-old, Meriem had lived in the local jungles naked (minus her hunting weapons), savage, happy, and free. Dinosaurs were taught to fear her. Meriem reunited with Klyde, who attacked her and broke her weapons. She then returned to the cave where she and Gramps had settled down. Not wanting to be naked and savage anymore, she eventually made a jungle bikini (with dinosaur teeth hanging on the strings) out of a leopard-printed snakeskin blanket. She also avenged her grandfather by slaying the Tyrannosaurus responsible for killing him, but rescued two Tyrannosaurus hatchlings from Velociraptors. One that was named Harmony became Meriem's companion while one named Peace became her enemy.
Later, the whole town of Marshville is transported into a prehistoric past.
Shanghaied and transported to a remote desert island, Wolverine and the Black Cat find themselves at the center of a deadly game. A team of filthy-rich hunters have slapped down some serious cash for the opportunity to hunt the Most Dangerous Prey on the Planet and theyve got the high-tech weapons to do just that. Like it or not, the key to Logan and Felicias survival just might be their ability to cooperate long enough to evade their hunters and uncover the identity of the deadly ringmaster. Brought to you by the team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and superstar artist Joe Linsner.
James Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Joseph M. Linsner return to right where their classic "Claws" storyline left off to bring us an all-new tale of action, intrigue and razor-sharp appendages. Two of Marvel's most beloved and be-clawed heroes, Wolverine and Black Cat, have barely had time to catch their breath from defeating the villainous mastermind Arcade and his sidekick White Rabbit when the two evil schemers find an escape from their exile in The Savage Land, and an entryway into revenge! Watch the fur fly as these four fight it out in an all-new, no-holds-barred Claws adventure!
Sexy girl spies, drawn as only J. Scott Campbell can! Danger Girl follows the story of renowned Archeologist and adventurer Abbey Chase as she is recruited by a super-secret spy organization. Along with fellow operatives, Sydney Savage and Natalia Kasstle, Abbey receives her first mission: to locate a series of mystical relics and keep them out of the hands of the Hammer Syndicate, a huge criminal network bent on world domination!
Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart.
The story of a rising star in the music world wrestling with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into Death's imminent realm.
It is based in a world in which Bruce Wayne was never Batman, and the infant Kal-El did not survive long enough to become Superman. The orphaned Barbara Gordon becomes Gotham's near-dictatorial protector, and Kara Zor-El as the Girl of Steel teams with Lex Luthor and the Justice Society.
Not only is costumed crimefighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing "supersuit" that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations . . . and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest "cape" in the masks-and-tights business. Nonetheless, she pluckily braves the ordeals of her bottom-rung superheroic life with the help of her "thugalicious" boyfriend (and former Witless Minion) and her hard-drinking ninja girlfriend, not to mention the supervillainous advice from the caged alien demonlord watching DVDs from atop her coffee table . . .
After missing for almost a decade, Glory's whereabouts are uncovered by a lone reporter, but the globe-spanning conspiracy keeping her hidden from humanity could make her return more dangerous than anyone ever anticipated! This first issue of an brand-new saga written by Eisner & Harvey-award winner JOE KEATINGE and illustrated by Wet Moon and Shadoweyes creator ROSS CAMPBELL sets up Glory's future by expanding on her past in a way promising to shock long-time fans and excite all-new readers!
Gold Digger focuses on the adventures of Gina Babette Diggers, superscientist, archeologist, teacher, adventurer, nerd, and idealist extraordinaire, accompanied by her colourful extended family, friends, students, and acquaintances, as she explores the strange and ancient hidden histories of the world, spanning a wide distinctive variety of characters, stories, environments, worlds, societies, times, species, and universes of magic and science fiction, in a world filled with possibilities.
Ghosts. The cities of the future have grown ankle-deep in them as they graze off the electromagnetic waste of a billion wireless Internet connections. Most can only drift, witless and lost. Rarely, though, something comes through with enough marbles to cause real trouble. And that's where Alice Hotwire, Detective Exorcist, comes in. -Sauce
A British schoolgirl yearning for excitement joins up with an angry rebel boy intent on tearing down middle-class England. Through their violent, anti-authority joyride filled with sex, drugs, and anarchy Morrison offers a scathing, often-hilarious take on the British suburban landscape, where edgy behavior provides an escape from sanity.
Lorna Relic Wrangler is a collection of four short stories starring Lorna a young blond bombshell that's ½ Lara Croft from Tomb Raider and ½ Indiana Jones and maybe a dash of National Treasure. Her first adventure shows her preparing for her first mission. As she warms up it becomes clear that her "superiors" are checking out the free show as Lorna leans and stretches in her tank top and cut off jean shorts. One thing becomes clear quickly, Lorna is a knock out. Once she's completed her training she's ready for the real deal, but this time she's not letting her perverted superiors peek at her.
Lorna's mission is anything but simple. She must run a course starting at the capitol building going to Washington's monument. From there she must take the very tip of the monument and run with it back to the capitol building. She'll then insert it into the roof of the building and prevent another dimension from opening. This is all to prevent black magic that was inserted into the country by the British before leaving the states. As Lorna prepares to leave for her mission she runs into her arch enemy, Posh Meow. -Sauce
Twenty years gone, and Jaime Hernandez Las Locas have lost none of their charm: Maggie still struggles with her waistline, Hopey still lives in full-rebellion mode, Penny Century (as seen in her own book) remains an emotionally adrift bombshell, and Izzy, as ever, is at war both with depression and herself.
None of which should suggest that these characters havent experienced believable evolution over the last two decades. Indeed, each has aged as gracefully on the page as their prodigal creator has off of it. -Sauce
Tesla Strong is the daughter of the Tom Strong, the premiere super-hero of Millennium City; and when her fathers educated ape friend, King Solomon, hops on a dimension-jumping, Kirby-esque surfboard and disappears, its up to young Tesla to search the multiverse for him. Her journey brings her into contact with many different versions of herself and her renowned family: some good (Tori Strong), some evil (Twyla Strong), and some well naked (Tamla Strong). In true Silver Age fashion for such is the spirit of creator Alan Moores Americas Best Comics imprint, Teslas adventures on multiple earths lead to a cosmic crisis that must be averted. -Sauce
Remember, too, that back in 1996, "Garth Ennis" wasn't even an adjective yet. He was a foreign star still on the ascent in the American market, doing Preacher, soon to be doing Hitman, not even close to Punisher. He did the first six issues of The Darkness, which spun off from Witchblade during that brief, bizarre moment when Witchblade was one of the hottest titles in all of comicdom. He also did this: Medieval Spawn / Witchblade, a team-up crossover that on first glance is just bizarre, and on second glance is still bizarre but telling as an ancestor of Ennis's current output. -Sauce
What do you get when you mix the beautiful daughter of a brilliant scientist with an extra-dimensional radiation bath? You get Anne O'Brien, half of the dimension-hopping, monster-battling team of Monkeyman & O'Brien! Together, this super-intelligent gorilla and this uber-woman are the only things standing between the people of earth and the menace of living gargoyles, frogs from space, and the Shrewmanoid and his army of monsters! To put it succinctly, they're two rays of hope in a world gone mad! Join Art Adams for nonstop, eye-popping action in this science-fiction adventure.
When the seas rose, genetic codes were smashed. Human settlements are ringed by a dense wilderness from which ferocious new animal species prey on the helpless. The high ground belongs to the rich and powerful that overlook swampland shantytowns from their fortress-like cities. Iron-fisted rule ensures order and allows the wealthy to harvest the poor as slaves.
Delve into the first chapter of Orchid, the tale of a teenage prostitute who learns that she is more than the role society has imposed upon her.
JSA leader Power Girl wants to build a new secret identity but a villain from her past has other plans for her and to get his way, he's holding Manhattan hostage. Plus, a trio of sexy alien marauders hits Earth for the ultimate party. Unfortunately, by their standards, that means destroying it.
In this new PG title, Power Girl must contend with Satanna and her animal menagerie, who have returned to avenge her fallen lover, Ultra-Humanite. If that weren't enough, the alien Vartox has called upon Power Girl to help repopulate his planet!
Just when you think GARTH ENNIS has gone too far, just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets, just when you thought no one would go near the idea of the world's first superhero prostitute... here comes THE PRO! Plus, in "The Pro Meets the Ho," our plucky heroine faces a super-powered "soiled dove" whose powers of perversion exceed the Pro's own!
Investigating a domestic dispute, the Dragon encounters Jennifer, a super-strong stripper who has somehow pulverised her abusive husband's entire head. Afterwards, Dragon and Alex answer a call concerning the decapitated remains of sixteen males. While almost everyone suspects Jennifer of the murders, the Dragon is soon attacked by a mysterious costumed woman, who escapes. Jennifer, who has been in jail, claims to have had nothing to do with the decapitated bodies.
Shes been an FF member, an Avenger and the sharpest attorney in the superhuman halls of justice! Now, see her savage starting point in this complete compilation of her first series! Jennifer Walters takes her first thundering steps into stardom against mobsters, monsters and a super-villain whos his own best team lineup! Featuring the Man-Thing, the Man-Wolf and the Man-Elephant! Guest-starring members of the Defenders!
In THE LONG NIGHT, very old Marvel villains Dr. Jonas Harrow and corporate baddies Roxxon are conspiring together to resurrect another old adversary, the android known as Dragon Man. They hope to fabricate a new army of synthezoid (Harrow's term, not mine) for Roxxon's nefarious purposes. And what are those, exactly? Does Roxxon plan to man all of its pumping stations with synthetic attendants, thus throwing the entire world into chaos? These gas companies are pure evil, aren't they? Ooh.
She-Hulk and the Thing are taking the subway for a change, while deep below them Lord Bonham and his followers (no idea, sorry) are about to emerge and feast on the living. - Sauce
She-Dragon finds herself stranded into Dimension X, courtesy the seemingly magical, limitless powers of the annoying Mr. Glum. She soon discovers there's plenty of life in the bizarre world that Mr. Glum once called home, but the locals ain't all that friendly. She-Dragon ends up being enslaved, forced into a life of back-breaking labor in the service of a brutal warlord. Of course, it doesn't take long for said warlord to take notice of her bust size, and he finds a new kind of enslaved service for her to fulfill. Meanwhile, Dragon's son Malcolm, Angel and a few other kids find themselves lost in Dimension X as well. - Sauce
The story primarily concerns the difficult relationship between two women, Helen Francine Peters (known simply as Francine) and Katina Marie ("Katchoo") Choovanski, and their friend David Qin. Francine considers Katchoo her best friend; Katchoo is in love with Francine. David is in love with Katchoo (a relationship which Katchoo herself is deeply confused about).
This plays itself out over a second plot element, a thriller style story concerning the shadowy 'Big Six' organization. Its leader is a woman named Darcy Parker, who uses highly trained women (of whom Katchoo was one) to infiltrateand to an extent controlthe American political system. It uses a non-linear approach to storytelling, putting in sequence elements of the story often years apart, and going back in time frequently.
In September 1969, Vampirella #1 debuted with a stunning cover by the legendary Frank Frazetta - and quickly made publishing history! The writers and artists that contributed during the magazine's original run included Jose Gonzalez, Archie Goodwin, Doug Moench, Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor Smith, Esteban Maroto, Frank Brunner, Mike Ploog, Rudy Nebres, Richard Corben, Pablo Marcos, Wally Wood, and many more! Dynamite now collects this legendary magazine in a hardcover archive collection FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Featuring work by Forest J. Ackerman, Don Glut, Tom Sutton, Neal Adams, Ernie Colon, Billy Graham, Alan Weiss, Jeff Jones, and Frank Frazetta, Volume One collects the first seven terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in its original magazine-sized format, and features the very first Vampirella cover by the immortal Frank Frazetta!
The new creative team of TIM SEELEY (HACK/SLASH) and DIEGO BERNARD (The Man With No Name) bring excitement and big changes to Sara Pezzini's world with this debut jump-on issue! Forever altered by the events of ARTIFACTS, Sara finds herself in a completely foreign situation and surroundings. The mystery of how and why will compel readers for the coming year and beyond!
Otherworldly wonder at the top of one world and the heart of another! In the Arctic Circle, the X-Men and Alpha Flight find a power that could save the world at the cost of destroying...what? But cost is no object when the power is revealed as a gift from Loki, who doesnt like it when his gifts are returned! When the God of Lies loses his own prize, he decides one bad turn deserves another and sets his magic against the X-Men, only for the New Mutants to take the fall...and rise to Asgard! The X-Men ride to the rescue, but can even the mightiest mutants survive the multiple magics of myth?
taking a gaf break
see you guys in a month
taking a gaf break
see you guys in a month
Yeah, they reprint it all the time now. In fact, I think another printing was solicited last month or the month before, maybe?Is The Pro still in print? I always wanted to check it out cuz I love Amanda Conner's art
Yes. Adam provided several variant covers for the first few issues of Power Girl.Is that an actual cover? It made me laugh out loud.
Oh hey, Choker #6 is out this week, how weird. Might need to track down a print copy so that I can finally read the series.
taking a gaf break
see you guys in a month
Noooooooooo! You're the only thing keeping us from devolving into a neckbeardy boys club! We already have TTOB with his booby comics, we need you to balance the force of evil emanating from him!
Great. Now it's just a bunch of creepy dudes in here talking about funnily dressed superladies.
Sorry you have to go.
Is The Pro still in print? I always wanted to check it out cuz I love Amanda Conner's art
Is that an actual cover? It made me laugh out loud.
I worship the Micronauts series!
Bug!
avx looks pretty bad... hopefully it doesn't mess with the only marvel title i read right now (wolverine & the x-men).
All you ladies should have read this.
Did my part Captain!Read Y: The Last Man Vol 1 and I Kill Giants today at work. Good stuff. IKG left me bummed out for like two hours. I'm such a wuss.
Bought the first 4 volumes of Locke and Key on the comixology sale. Time to go in.
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It is out this week and has a dope ass cover!
FF IS BAD ASS!!!Doom with Infinity Gauntlet
Speaking of Powergirl, Kotobukiya just announced a Bishoujo line figure:
Speaking of Powergirl, Kotobukiya just announced a Bishoujo line figure:
I have a question - if you buy one of these, you pretty much have to crack one out over it, right? Otherwise what's the point? I mean, it's expensive, it has boobs... gotta get your money's worth after all.
G'wan, glaze that statue, that dirty, dirty statue...
And this is what happens when Satchy leaves us. I degenerate into encouraging perversity.
So, what's coming out today that would be a good jumping on point?
I have a question - if you buy one of these, you pretty much have to crack one out over it, right? Otherwise what's the point? I mean, it's expensive, it has boobs... gotta get your money's worth after all.
G'wan, glaze that statue, that dirty, dirty statue...
And this is what happens when Satchy leaves us. I degenerate into encouraging perversity.
So, what's coming out today that would be a good jumping on point?
Speaking of Powergirl, Kotobukiya just announced a Bishoujo line figure:
Like for anything?
Maybe Avenging spider man? it's a team up book featuring spider man and this new arc has Steve Rogers!
Didn't see this posted here. The Toronto Star had an interesting interview Cebulski, talent coordinator at Marvel, and the journo posted the unedited interview (over lunch, Cebulski is a well known foodie) on his blog
http://porkosity.blogspot.ca/2012/03/fed-122-comic-scout-cb-cebulski.html
Talks about double shipping, piracy etc.
ready for more blasphemy? i'm gonna drop batman new 52. i loved snyders run on detective comics but this new batman court of owls doesn't really do anything for me. plus they're doing one of this big cross over events about it and i can never keep track of those.
i did start reading chew, though. very funny stuff and great art to boot.
Wait, when did that happen?! (title/issue?)I'm not against Mags joining the X-men under the leadership of Cyclops, no x-man would follow him. I just think it's out of character him being so cooperative. There's no tension, he just blindly follows Cyclops.
One of the few times I though he was acting on character was when he found out about X-Force and asked/blackmailed Logan into killing that nazi guy who tortured his family. That's the real Magneto right there!
ABOUT. F*CKING. TIME.Speaking of Powergirl, Kotobukiya just announced a Bishoujo line figure:
The "Epic Bat-Fail" line was the last straw for you too, eh?
ABOUT. F*CKING. TIME.
Now we need a She-Hulk from their Marvel line.
Yeah, for anything. Right now I'm thinking about:
AxX #0
Avengers #241
Fantastic Four #16
Astonishing X-Men #48
Captain America #628
DareDevil #10
How does that look?
Didn't see this posted here. The Toronto Star had an interesting interview Cebulski, talent coordinator at Marvel, and the journo posted the unedited interview (over lunch, Cebulski is a well known foodie) on his blog
http://porkosity.blogspot.ca/2012/03/fed-122-comic-scout-cb-cebulski.html
Talks about double shipping, piracy etc.