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COMICS! |OT| January 2015. So many variants you'd swear it's 1995 instead.

Messi

Member
I wonder how hard that guy jerked it to the Harley scratch n sniff issue?

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But then again Grayson is all sorts of fun so maybe it's just the darkness of the Batman titles and how Batgirl's been portrayed before that's making it seem so different.

I don't think its the extreme art change. Its the writing plain and simple. Stewart doesn't seem to know who Barbara Gordan is, what her life experiences would make her do, or her personality as has been established in the last 3+ years. He just came in and is writing a whole entirely new character that doesn't mesh with any version of Barbara Gordan we've seen before. To be perfectly honest, its a shitty version at that. The shit she pulled in the last issue was amateurish, irresponsible, and completely, 10000% out of character, and made NO SENSE based on the last 30 + issues. This isn't Babs, I don't know who this character is, but its not Babs. I'm all for keeping Tarr on the book but get Stewart the hell out of there. Right now, for me, the writing is making it run head long into Worst Batgirl run ever.
 

Messi

Member
I don't think its the extreme art change. Its the writing plain and simple. Stewart doesn't seem to know who Barbara Gordan is, what her life experiences would make her do, or her personality as has been established in the last 3+ years. He just came in and is writing a whole entirely new character that doesn't mesh with any version of Barbara Gordan we've seen before. To be perfectly honest, its a shitty version at that. The shit she pulled in the last issue was amateurish, irresponsible, and completely, 10000% out of character, and made NO SENSE based on the last 30 + issues. This isn't Babs, I don't know who this character is, but its not Babs. I'm all for keeping Tarr on the book but get Stewart the hell out of there. Right now, for me, the writing is making it run head long into Worst Batgirl run ever.

Would it fit better if you replaced Babs with Stef? In your opinion.
 
DUDES!
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My IST order shipped out later than usual :( Must have been a ton of people ordering the GL omnibus.

Mine is out for delivery. I'm only one state away though. Not like I'm gonna read it right away, I still have 2 comics from Wednesday and back to the Doom Patrol Omnibus.
 
omg I ordered comics for the first time in 2 months

I feel like a normal human being again

looking forward to reading Time Runs Out vol 1 and to catch up on Waid's DD.
 

Messi

Member
Mine is out for delivery. I'm only one state away though. Not like I'm gonna read it right away, I still have 2 comics from Wednesday and back to the Doom Patrol Omnibus.

Do you have any kind of floppy backlog? You seem to hammer through your floppies each week. I've become a digital horder. Months of issues backed up. But it makes it easier to see what books I really care about.
 
My problem with Gails run was it was just completely boring for the most part. The art was boring, the constant internal monologues were boring, and most of the story arcs were boring.

She seemed so depressed, so hopeless with what she was doing, she might as well been back in the wheelchair. I can appreciate what Stewart has done with her. She finally has said, "I have a second chance, I'm going to have some fun".
 

kd-z

Member
Added you guys on Steam. Well, anyone I could. Some of you the search engine didn't find :| So if you see and invite from a foolish wizard. please don't reject! :<

And Ed, those avatars are 440% dope! Shame about the competition, but it does feel a bit like it was aimed at a different kind of comic, doesn't it?
 
Do you have any kind of floppy backlog? You seem to hammer through your floppies each week. I've become a digital horder. Months of issues backed up. But it makes it easier to see what books I really care about.

No floppy backlog. I stay on top of that pretty good. No offense to you, but personally, the day my floppy backlog gets crazy is the day I know this hobby may not be for me. Every Wednesday is a fabulous day to me.
 
Would it fit better if you replaced Babs with Stef? In your opinion.

If last issue was an issue of The Spoiler and instead of Babs it was Stef, it would have made sense and probably would have worked.

What he's writing isn't Babs Batgirl.

My problem with Gails run was it was just completely boring for the most part. The art was boring, the constant internal monologues were boring, and most of the story arcs were boring.

She seemed so depressed, so hopeless with what she was doing, she might as well been back in the wheelchair. I can appreciate what Stewart has done with her. She finally has said, "I have a second chance, I'm going to have some fun".

I disagree with like all of this. While Gail's run was slower than some other comics, I never felt bored with it. Plus Barbara was dealing with some heavy shit in the comics, so the sense of sadness, and depression made sense. I mean she was under the thinking that she killed her brother. A damn near Joker level psychopath. Who worked with the Joker at one point in the run to kidnap their mother. I mean that's not shit you're going to be happy go lucky about.

Stewart took a character who was a cops daughter, with a genius level intellect, and a pretty damn good vigilante, and turned her into an almost single digit ig moron, whose running around like its the first day she put on a costume. Who gets tongue tied and confused when a cop doesn't like Batgirl.

I can't appreciate him dumbing her down, and turning her into a joke of a vigilante.
 

kd-z

Member
Hey guys, if you're going to add me on Steam shoot me a PM or quote my post in here or something. I got a friend request from "foolish wizard" and I don't know who that is.



Well...those are something I guess...Good idea...really lousy covers.

Added you guys on Steam. Well, anyone I could. Some of you the search engine didn't find :| So if you see and invite from a foolish wizard. please don't reject! :<

And Ed, those avatars are 440% dope! Shame about the competition, but it does feel a bit like it was aimed at a different kind of comic, doesn't it?
3 posts up ;)
 

Filthy Slug

Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
http://mancave.cbslocal.com/2015/01/29/violence-will-spiral-out-of-control-in-grayson-7/

No Mikel Janin on Grayson next month... it's that abomination face creator Stephen Mooney on art. FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

An example of how he ruined the Grayson Annual:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=25275&pg=4

I thought that issue was absolutely fine. Even what you posted ain't that bad to me--sure the face is too rounded and the expressions are off, but it's serviceable. Dude ain't Mikel Janin, but he also ain't Khoi Pham.

Think the Grayon Annual was one of my favorite annuals in a little while.
 

fertygo

Member
My problem with Gails run was it was just completely boring for the most part. The art was boring, the constant internal monologues were boring, and most of the story arcs were boring.

She seemed so depressed, so hopeless with what she was doing, she might as well been back in the wheelchair. I can appreciate what Stewart has done with her. She finally has said, "I have a second chance, I'm going to have some fun".

Yup, babs fucked up some bit in the new run but I still believe that's the point, she intentionally loosening up and hasn't found the balance yet.
Uncanny X-Men #30

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This arc is fucking fire.
 

Pie and Beans

Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Can someone spoil the skinny on how Bendis is ruining the X-Men these days?

I jumped off halfway through the "everyone hates Charles now who married Mystique because she was JLaw and now Scott has convinced the most powerful mutant ever to do his bidding because he offered him bagels and a flat white" saga.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Bendis sucks guys, dont forget. stop praising Uncanny #30

:3

edit: pie and beans, maybe use spoiler tags next time, yeah its old issues, but not THAT old, especially when a lot of us are on Marvel Unlimited
 

pulga

Banned
Can someone spoil the skinny on how Bendis is ruining the X-Men these days?

I jumped off halfway through the "everyone hates Charles now who married Mystique because she was JLaw and now Scott has convinced the most powerful mutant ever to do his bidding because he offered him bagels and a flat white" saga.

Cyclops is dead
Magik is dead
Emma Frost is dead
Charles Xavier LIVES and drops a final panel "TO ME, MY XMEN" megaton

None of it is gonna stick but whatever :lol
 
Yup, babs fucked up some bit in the new run but I still believe that's the point, she intentionally loosening up and hasn't found the balance yet.

Its beyond fucking up, and its not loosening up. She's acting like she dropped 120 points from her IQ, and like she's never done the whole vigilante thing before, or like her Father hasn't been a cop her entire life. Its completely out of character for her life experiences. He's writing a completely different character and just drawing Batgirl ontop of it.
 

Messi

Member
Cyclops is dead
Magik is dead
Emma Frost is dead
Charles Xavier LIVES and drops a final panel "TO ME, MY XMEN" megaton

None of it is gonna stick but whatever :lol

Oh course it won't stick but some of those were holy shit moments and the end was just awesome.

Its beyond fucking up, and its not loosening up. She's acting like she droped 120 points from her IQ, and like she's never done the whole vigilante thing before, or like her Father hasn't been a cop her entire life. Its completely out of character for her life experiences. He's writing a completely different character and just drawing Batgirl ontop of it.

In Eternal they show that Stef is new to being a hero and that she is wreckless. Shit would slot in perfectly for Babs. It's nuts.
 

pulga

Banned
Oh course it won't stick but some of those were holy shit moments and the end was just awesome.

The fucking about with time-traveling is absolutely ridiculous at this point, though.

No wonder the MU is getting reset bombed.
 

Messi

Member
Absolutely. Its like he wanted to write a Stef run, but was given Babs and said fuck it I'm writing Stef anyway.

He could totally write a Stef book with lafuente on art. (for the record I also love Babs Tarr). Lafuente said he is working on a DC book that isn't announced yet. Really hoping it is spoiler.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
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this might be my favorite single page in a comic book ever
 

Pie and Beans

Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Step #1: Fuse Bendis and Slott into the same entity.

Step #2: Fire Bendislott into space. Show Remender the telemetry and footage as a warning not to do so much stupid shit from now on. Give Hickman Fantastic Four back again so he doesn't have to pretend he's writing the 'Avengers'.

Step #3: Reboot Marvel Universe with no fear of more fuckery within the first 12 months even.
 
Can someone spoil the skinny on how Bendis is ruining the X-Men these days?

I jumped off halfway through the "everyone hates Charles now who married Mystique because she was JLaw and now Scott has convinced the most powerful mutant ever to do his bidding because he offered him bagels and a flat white" saga.

In fairness, flat whites are tasty as fuck.
 
Didn't notice they reissued the tpb for Superman: Secret Identity. Oh well bought the singles from my lcbs a year or so ago for pretty cheap.
 
He could totally write a Stef book with lafuente on art. (for the record I also love Babs Tarr). Lafuente said he is working on a DC book that isn't announced yet. Really hoping it is spoiler.

Fully agree, he would be great on a Stef book, just get him off Babara.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
It took me a few minutes to realize they were serious. Without
Emma and Magik, this book is fucked.

in 3 months nothing matters anyway

so who
kills cyke, magik and emma then? past xavier
? I was almost bummed to read the spoiler above, then I remembered I wont read the issue for another 6 months anyway so /shrug
 

Messi

Member
But today Stewart moved from Berlin, Germany to Glasgow, Scotland. He is going to be neighbors with Grant Morrison.

Morrison book drawn by Stewart?

I would be down for that.

Cameron draws some incredibly sexy women.

It took me a few minutes to realize they were serious. Without
Emma and Magik, this book is fucked.

Eva's time to shine! Triage too. Eva x Triage is real to me damn it!
 
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