Halloween issue had some good stuff. It had a lot of artists I was not aware of that are super rad. The comics, though. Woof. Weird Morrison Noir Cat detective story. Lots of short "horror" stories that are basically throw away ideas. No good.
Batman Annual 1, on the other hand. Hot fire. So many warm smiles. Except for the Dini, Adams story. That was more of a garbage fire. Possibly due to Harley Quinn and some really really terrible work from Neal Adams. The other stories were great.
Halloween issue had some good stuff. It had a lot of artists I was not aware of that are super rad. The comics, though. Woof. Weird Morrison Noir Cat detective story. Lots of short "horror" stories that are basically throw away ideas. No good.
Ok, holy shit, Kingsglaive really is important to watch before playing FFXV. Some really important events happen that I can't imagine is well explained in the game.
With the tubes on the groins, but not over any part which would appear to be stimulating, and everything is broken up into panels but really all just one picture? Yes. That one. I stared at that for a long time, but could not figure out what the hell was going on. I think the explosion is an orgasm, but beyond that, I have no clue what was supposed to be going on. Any insights on that pastel dream sequence?
Aliens: Life and Death #4 By Abnett, Moritat (Dec 21st) - As the Colonial Marines on LV-223 prepare to make their last stand against the xenomorph horde, their one hope may lie in the Alien queen! Aliens vs. Predator: Life and Death #1 By Abnett, Thies (Dec 28th) - The Predators arrive on LV-223! The question is: are they here to finish the fight with the Colonial Marines, or will they join the marines in the battle against the Aliens? And who will Ahabthe Predator from the Fire and Stone story cycleside with?
So what's the best way to get into the Alien/AVP/Predator/Prometheus comics?
Is it worth going back to the Fire and Stone series (or even further)? What's the best order to read through them all?
So what's the best way to get into the Alien/AVP/Predator/Prometheus comics?
Is it worth going back to the Fire and Stone series (or even further)? What's the best order to read through them all?
So what's the best way to get into the Alien/AVP/Predator/Prometheus comics?
Is it worth going back to the Fire and Stone series (or even further)? What's the best order to read through them all?
The Fire and Stone library edition is great and well worth picking up. It even has a nice bonus section with some really nice concept art. As for the current books, I'm still catching up on the Prometheus and Aliens Life and Death minis, but Aliens: Defiance is a great series and should probably be your top priority. There will also be a Life and Death library edition at some point just like Fire and Stone got, so reading now or later is purely a matter of how patient you want to be.
The Fire and Stone library edition is great and well worth picking up. It even has a nice bonus section with some really nice concept art. As for the current books, I'm still catching up on the Prometheus and Aliens Life and Death minis, but Aliens: Defiance is a great series and should probably be your top priority. There will also be a Life and Death library edition at some point just like Fire and Stone got, so reading now or later is purely a matter of how patient you want to be.
IMO If they're just going to keep trying to replace her with knockoffs I would rather have an actual Jean. I haven't read enough of normal Jean to have an opinion of her though.
Young Jean was fun under Bendis (except for that one thing you're already thinking of replying to this post with). I still think Trial of Jean Grey was awesome, that might be the only truly great Bendis Guardians story in fact. She hasn't been so great in ExX. Hopefully the next person finds the fun with that character again.
Halloween issue had some good stuff. It had a lot of artists I was not aware of that are super rad. The comics, though. Woof. Weird Morrison Noir Cat detective story. Lots of short "horror" stories that are basically throw away ideas. No good.
Batman Annual 1, on the other hand. Hot fire. So many warm smiles. Except for the Dini, Adams story. That was more of a garbage fire. Possibly due to Harley Quinn and some really really terrible work from Neal Adams. The other stories were great.
IMO If they're just going to keep trying to replace her with knockoffs I would rather have an actual Jean. I haven't read enough of normal Jean to have an opinion of her though.
I don't have an opinion on Young Jean, but her revival after the Dark Phoenix Saga is awful and screws up a lot of stuff. There's an awful retcon of the Phoenix Force that tries really hard to ruin the DPS, but primarily it really screws up Cyclops' character. It looks like Claremont was going to create a conflict of being an X-Men vs. being a husband/father but that all gets thrown out the window because Jean is back and is his true love. As in like "my wife and son are dead but I need Jean so whatever."
Young Jean was fun under Bendis (except for that one thing you're already thinking of replying to this post with). I still think Trial of Jean Grey was awesome, that might be the only truly great Bendis Guardians story in fact. She hasn't been so great in ExX. Hopefully the next person finds the fun with that character again.
Yeah I liked almost all the stories too. The Harley story was trash, of course. And the last story was kinda weird.
I read the first story as I was reading this thread which made the last page hysterical
Ok, holy shit, Kingsglaive really is important to watch before playing FFXV. Some really important events happen that I can't imagine is well explained in the game.
The Blu-ray and digital copy is only $10 otherwise you can rent it for cheap on Amazon for $5.99. Imo it's worth owning. The behind-the-scenes extras is decent. There's also a steelbook version that comes with the Brotherhood anime.
But lets be real for a second: Not every young mutant is X-Men material. And its downright irresponsible to send those kids into battle. Like Cypher. Remember him? His mutant ability was that he spoke a bunch of languages. Of course he died.
It's interesting to see this character return. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a key player in one of the ongoings spinning out of Monsters Unleashed.
Really struggling to finish Like Cage. When are they going to start making these seasons ten episodes. Every single time they collapse in the back half.
Really struggling to finish Like Cage. When are they going to start making these seasons ten episodes. Every single time they collapse in the back half.
Last year's special was alright, really liked the little short with Tim Sale on art about Gall Dennar, pretty funny. Winter Specials etc are odd to collect but I like the idea too.
Haha, I get excited when one of these one shots drops because it's one step closer towards them being collected, but otherwise just one big tease. Thats...3? now right? So maybe soooonish. I'm not sure if they're extra length issues though. They're doing a special HC thing for this one shot which is cool.
It's interesting to see this character return. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a key player in one of the ongoings spinning out of Monsters Unleashed.
Last year's special was alright, really liked the little short with Tim Sale on art about Gall Dennar, pretty funny. Winter Specials etc are odd to collect but I like the idea too.
Haha, I get excited when one of these one shots drops because it's one step closer towards them being collected, but otherwise just one big tease. Thats...3? now right? So maybe soooonish. I'm not sure if they're extra length issues though. They're doing a special HC thing for this one shot which is cool.
Really hope those two books have good creative teams, I want to get behind that kind of thing from Marvel, monsters unleashed looks very fun.
Elsa Bloodstone sounds great, would need to be a good team though, I wouldn't read it with anyone. I could see RL Stine doing something with Kid Kaiju, it would be nice if that was a thing and something both my boy and I could enjoy together. Pretty cool that Lemire is writing the monster commandos in OML soon, I wouldn't mind Lemire on one of them. After Animal Man & his brief Frankenstein run, I think he'd fit well.
Really struggling to finish Like Cage. When are they going to start making these seasons ten episodes. Every single time they collapse in the back half.
The complaint should never be about the amount of episodes. It's on the showrunners and writers to ensure their storyline(s) is(are) long enough. Plain and simple. I'm watching Person of Interest right now and they manage to write 22 episode arcs just fine. Granted, I'm not disagreeing, but I've only felt the season length problem with Cage and JJ. And the latter was only because they should've been slower in the beginning instead of going as hard as they did. Cage is inexplicable. I blame Diamondback. Bottom line is that a lot of it is a simple solution. Those writers and showrunners know how many episodes they're working with. It's their own damn fault that they can't make that story work for that much time.
The complaint should never be about the amount of episodes. It's on the showrunners and writers to ensure their storyline(s) is(are) long enough. Plain and simple. I'm watching Person of Interest right now and they manage to write 22 episode arcs just fine. Granted, I'm not disagreeing, but I've only felt the season length problem with Cage and JJ. And the latter was only because they should've been slower in the beginning instead of going as hard as they did. Cage is inexplicable. I blame Diamondback. Bottom line is that a lot of it is a simple solution. Those writers and showrunners know how many episodes they're working with. It's their own damn fault that they can't make that story work for that much time.
The complaint should never be about the amount of episodes. It's on the showrunners and writers to ensure their storyline(s) is(are) long enough. Plain and simple. I'm watching Person of Interest right now and they manage to write 22 episode arcs just fine. Granted, I'm not disagreeing, but I've only felt the season length problem with Cage and JJ. And the latter was only because they should've been slower in the beginning instead of going as hard as they did. Cage is inexplicable. I blame Diamondback. Bottom line is that a lot of it is a simple solution. Those writers and showrunners know how many episodes they're working with. It's their own damn fault that they can't make that story work for that much time.
That is fair. It has been my experience that shorter is better for shows that are so heavily serialized, and that's where my comment was coming from.
Like if we could do a bottle episode once or twice a season, I think that would be hugely beneficial to these shows. Any episode that even remotely feels like a bottle is like coming up for air. Like the Stick episode in DD S1, it was so nice for an episode to feel a little different for a change. And the fact that they don't do much of that makes me wonder if there is a mandated focus on the main storyline, and that may be hurting these shows in the context of a thirteen episode season. I haven't seen much of PoI but of what I can recall, I think there is some focus on "case of the week" eps, correct? Not just one big plodding story.
Shade the Changing Girl #2
All I can really say is that I don't think I've ever really been more compelled by high school drama than this book right here. Well, maybe Buffy, but otherwise it's pretty much this. And this is far, far more psychological than what I'd typically expect.
There's a few things that are interesting:
One big one is Shade getting rid of all the devices (laptop, phone, etc.). She states she doesn't need them, but she's not dumb. She knows exactly what they're for and probably how to use them. She has to realize almost immediately that Earth uses them as the primary form of communication. On top of that, she immediately knows how to work an old TV (which apparently only plays old shows). So I'm not sure I get it. I realize that she thinks that Earth is some kind of vacation, which is why she tries to get out of school. At the same time she seems to realize that she'll have to do it to fit in.
The human relationships are fairly interesting as well. We saw in #1 that
the parents and school were all fairly terrified by Megan's return. Wes, however, seems hurt by her not remembering. No one else seems to mind that she doesn't remember much, but it's interesting that Wes is actually hurt by a lack of feelings. He genuinely seems to be the only one who actually cares in a positive way. Everyone else either hates, fears, or is apathetic towards her. Teacup is another interesting character, because she's hiding from everyone on the team. Not just Megan, which implies the rest of the team bullies her all on their own (#1 showed everyone bullying Teacup at Megan's demands). This is a scary thought, especially considering the current team captain actually seems to want to deliver "consequences" to Megan, implying someone who wants to stand up to Megan's tyranny. Judging by Teacup's reactions, it's more just about power rather than anything else.
Good ass book. Very compelling and trippy. The visuals really help play up Shade's emotions, particularly confusion. It also helps that they're so damn beautiful.
That is fair. It has been my experience that shorter is better for shows that are so heavily serialized, and that's where my comment was coming from.
Like if we could do a bottle episode once or twice a season, I think that would be hugely beneficial to these shows. Any episode that even remotely feels like a bottle is like coming up for air. Like the Stick episode in DD S1, it was so nice for an episode to feel a little different for a change. And the fact that they don't do much of that makes me wonder if there is a mandated focus on the main storyline, and that may be hurting these shows in the context of a thirteen episode season. I haven't seen much of PoI but of what I can recall, I think there is some focus on "case of the week" eps, correct? Not just one big plodding story.
It starts that way at first, and while it still does cases, there is ALWAYS a major plot thread running in the background. One of several. While it gets a serialized focus later on, in doesn't change the fact that there are storylines that take multiple seasons to resolve and not once do they feel plodding because they are ALWAYS operating at a times. In fact, the cases start to in more and more. Introducing more major players or interconnecting with existing ones. JJ and DD lend themselves perfectly to that kind of show given their material.
Again, I don't disagree. Given how they're written, dropping an episode or two would be beneficial, but this is one of those cases where it's on them to better construct a story. Especially considering each episode is about an hour.
