JSA Storytime: Captain Atom

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>>82560323
anyone got get some FCBD swag?

anyone see someone traumatized by the CW2 freebie?

>>82560363
when I go to my LCS on FCBD, I never pick up any freebies

>>82560363
I haven't actually

I think people got most of their anger out a couple weeks ago when it was leaked

But maybe there's some rage I haven't found on twitter

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>>82560423
I never do either because honestly, I don't need more stuff and it's mostly stuff I'm not really into

Eiling's such a prick

>>82560323
Hello Storyteller.

Looks like he didn't quite explode this time.

>>82560363
Nah, FCBD doesn't really happen where I am. I would have liked to pick up the Rom, Space-Knight thing maybe.

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>>82560458

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>>82560494
so how are you owls today? I painted a chest of drawers.

>>82560363
The only times I've gone to FCBD have been on accident when I went to pick up my normal pull and it happened to be the right day.

I usually love free shit. I don't know why this doesn't do it for me.

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>>82560521
>old and busted vs. new hotness

Hey, look who's in Jessica and Simon's book.
>>82537976

>>82560458
Seriously, what is this dude's problem?

>>82560521
>canadian wildfires completely destroyed the air quality all day, full-beijing
>live nowhere near canada

>>82560521

rereading Squad trades and getting mad at how good it is. Ostrander man.

>>82560552
I really want Simon and Jessica's book to be good, but Humphries...

>>82560521
Clayface was revealed for Gotham.

What a delightful show.

>>82560423
>>82560458
>>82560540
Pick up Stuff of Legend, niggas.

>>82560521
I had tons of stuff planned today that I just didn't do, a combination of staying out way too late and the webcomics thread on the board making me catch up on a bunch of shit I used to follow.

>>82560521
I'm literally running out of space with all these X-Men comics, so even though I was originally planning to keep the collection just because, I'm gonna have to nuke it.

>>82560593
Gotham without Batman is actually pretty interesting and an elseworld I would like to see currently in maybe a short limited series DESU.

>>82560573
It really is so good. I can't see Rob Williams' Suicide Squad coming off in the vein of Ostrander, but I wish someone these days would try to replicate what he did.

>>82560521
>So how are you owls today?
Fine. Although... it's almost too stupid to explain, I had a dream where I was playing this video game that was like a mashup of Kingdom Hearts and Mario Party.

I don't even fucking know. It looked kinda fun though.

>>82560640
Ah, dude! That's some crazy shit.

>>82560655
I once had a dream I was watching a show I had created about a family of suburban worms on the Moon.

>>82560645
It really is.
This entire season had been amped up.

>>82560645
>Rob Williams' Suicide Squad
Read this as Robin Williams' Suicide Squad.

>>82560655
It's only a matter of time before Disney buys everything and delivers that game to you.

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>>82560560
Oh man, that is some horrible shit up there

>>82560573
Heeeey, maybe we could mix some Squad into this, Ostrander writes some issues late in this run (and you WILL see THE WALL here)

>>82560690
That's a baaad joke, but it makes me imagine like Patch Adams replacing the Wall.

>>82560698
When Disney buys everything, the only Chinese character on Earth is going to be Mulan.

>>82560704
Wasn't this part of the Janus Directive crossover?

>>82560521
I'm about to start reading Luke Cage's 90's solo.
It looks like it's going to be 90's as fuck.

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>>82560704
META
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>>82560672
I know! And the worst part is, I downloaded even more comics today! Byrne's Hidden Years and Parker's First Class for anyone who's curious.

>>82560730
At least it's actually in the 90s and not 20 years later e.g. the Thunderbolts

>>82560722
I'm pretty okay with Mulan.

>>82560704

The trade has an annual I hadn't read with a Waller back up that's got Giffen on art. I was so happy

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>>82560729
yes it was

>>82560521
Did you do a good job? Was it like a restoration or just some decorating?

>>82560521
I am worried I've got a cold or something, I feel way too listless and tired

>>82560758
How much space does it all take up in total?

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>>82560774
>>82560763
the one single Squad issue I own in floppy is the Doom Patrol one-shot crossover

>>82560785
I think I did a pretty good job, although I'm gonna do another coat tomorrow. It was grandmama's, and good wood, so I stripped off the old peeling paint and redid it with a DIY chalk paint style

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>>82560816
WHOOPS SORRY page 9 right here

>>82560704
>your step-father made sure all photos of your birth father were destroyed
Eiling's dickery is just becoming comical now.

>>82560698
I dunno, I think I might almost be okay with that. The gameplay looked fun and the story seemed interesting-ish. The main character's family was possessed by like, voodoo demons or something, and she had to beat them one by one.

Dreams always seem simultaneously coherent and nonsensical.

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>>82560840
and now page 11

>>82560806
167 GB, 5760 archives in total, and that includes some trades, so that's over 5760 issues.

>>82560816
That sounds pretty good! I'm the messiest guy with stuff like that, I'm fine taking stuff apart or putting it together but when it comes to painting I inevitably fuck up and ruin my clothes/the carpet/the cat.

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>>82560914
that's a fucking lot of comics

>>82560915
I'll post a picture when I get it all the way done

I'm pretty anal retentive about details, so I'm never really happy but it's usually a reasonably decent job

>>82560914
That is some fucking commitment dude.

>>82560914
Wow

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>>82560943
ruh-roh

>>82560760
>I'm pretty okay with Mulan.
I'm really surprised there aren't any Mulan comics. But then, maybe that's a good thing, since they'd inevitably go the generic "ME WARRIOR BLOOD RAARGH KILL" route.

>>82560816
I dunno, Nate. That seemed a bit much.

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>>82561000
Is the mad scientist ever written as this humane?

>>82560875
>the mad scientist is the only one who feels bad about all the shit Captain Atom's gone through

>>82560943
>>82560944
>>82560958
I know! And I'm still gonna do it because dammit I use to really fucking love the X-Men.

>>82561000
Kill Eiling! It's for the best crazy stalker guy.

>>82560874
I rarely dream spontaneously anymore but I can ease into sleep by trying to think of some creative ideas that actually sounds similar to one of them and it tends to give me this pretty out there fugue state before I finally drift off.

>>82561012
>ME WARRIOR BLOOD RAARGH KILL
I would shamefully probably be pretty okay with that as well. I mean I really like Shut Hell.

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>>82561015

>>82561027
Godspeed. I'll keep reading as long as you keep posting.

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>>82561105

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>>82561027
you are a scholar and a gentleman or lady as you choose to identify, anon

>>82560363
>anyone got get some FCBD swag?

Nope, I brainfarted on what week Cap 3 opens and am on call, so no 3 hour round trip movie/comic book store visits for me.

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>>82561166
>Lockleed

>>82561015
Almost never. Not to get too serious here, but I think the prevalence of evil scientists in fiction is a result of the influence of anti-intellectualism. There are still a lot of people who are straight up against scientific research and progress, and who irrationally fear new technology.

>>82561018
Dr. Megala is kinda the best character so far.

>>82560914
Just get a portable harddrive.

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>>82561199

>>82561117
>>82561166
Thanks guys, that does mean a lot, especially when storytiming is a nice relief from the stress of Real Life™

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>>82561227
hey, does this count as /d/?

>>82560914
absolute

madman

>>82561210
I have been thinking of doing that, same with a 4chan pass, but ehh, I'm too much of a cheapskate for that really.

>>82561205
I think it's more like, the ethical questions around advancing technology are eternal. It's an easy topic to explore and a classic character type.

>>82561253
I think yes, but it's pretty tame /d/ for these threads honestly.

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>>82561253

>>82561318
You should own an external drive anyway just as a safety measure. I learned the lesson about regular backups the hard way, lost like 3 years of stuff when my hard drive died

>>82561249
at least your realtor doesn't taunt you with listings they withheld from you once they're sold

i want to flip every table in a ten-mile radius

>>82561318
It does feel a shame that some portion of your effort is just going to burn out because of lack of storage.

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>>82561348
d'awwwwwww

I still can't help thinking of the OH NO DAD IS HOT! reaction panel with Todd and Jenny

Do you know a way for reducing the mb height?

>>82561166
>you are a scholar and a gentleman or lady as you choose to identify, anon
Careful, Storyteller. All that tolerance might end up making someone angry.

>>82561199
>schizophrenia
Oh, here we go...

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>>82561359
yes. invest in an external drive. you will be happy you did.

>>82560323
Captain Atom 004 (1987) (digital) (OkC.O.M.P.U.T.O.-Novus-HD)
http://www97.zippyshare.com/v/eONcbxCP/file.html

Entire run (the 55 of the 57 issues available as digitals):
>http://freetexthost.com/n5a3yvne4m

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>>82560521
>so how are you owls today?
In kinda a bad mood cause the local tea store apparently closed and I couldn't grab the gift I wanted for Mother's Day.


Also- Oh, hey, an Atomic Knight.

>>82561369
Don't worry, I have more than enough space for everything, especially since I purposefully left out some stuff like First X-Men and Wolverines.

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>>82561430
This is reminding me of the classic Gil Kane Chronos costume that Zirch posted today, in the category of "shit that only works with flat colors"

>>82560640
Consider cheap usb drives? You can get like 16 gig ones for pretty cheap.

>>82561430
OH! Is Firestorm going to be the rival character? Rivals are the best thing. Ronnie's not quite Gary Oak though, more like Pantyhose Taro.

>>82561454
Remember when they tried to bring back the Atomic Knights in Battle for Bludhaven? That was a thing.

>>82560690
Well, Harley would fit in, then.

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>>82561523
>>82561559
I can never think of Robin Williams without also thinking of the Patch Adams parody in Cecil B. Demented

>>82560704
Goddamn Eiling, what a cock.
That's practically Stalin grade memory control.

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>>82561595

>>82560758
Parker's First Class is some AAA graded choice cuts, IMO.

>>82561595
>That's where you're wrong, old foe. You're already a lot hotter than you think!
https://youtu.be/gzHfPN2SC1I

>>82561523
I think flats definitely let you be more adventurous in how you break up a design or silhouette. I quite like how transparency is used on this page as well.

>>82560774
Wait, didn't Megala used to have an eyepatch?

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>>82561666
They let you do some decorative linework that is just Too Much in modern coloring

I'm fucking dying here at the Max Headroom ref

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>>82561680
yes, but he's also dreaming, so we can no-prize it

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>>82560914

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>>82561746
I'm kind of a sucker for this whole "reconnecting with your adult kids" story

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>>82561793

>>82561000
Wait, Eiling is basically paying a stalker obsessed with his daughter to keep tabs on her?

>>82561015
>Is the mad scientist ever written as this humane?

Maybe Hank Pym?

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>>82561856
He didn't realize he was a stalker, but yeah

>>82561889
Hank's an active hero as well as the mad scientist, so he fits a bit different of a model, but yeah

>>82560640
>>82560806
>>82561359
>>82561482
>>82561530

You can get cheap external drives, both portable and plugged, refurbished direct from a reputable source. I have an older iMac I like to keep that I mainly use as an office stereo (because great speakers) so I needed a Firewire that was also USB 3.0. I got a 1TB LaCie from the manufacturer (so full warranty) refurb for $99 (they retail for $249 - 299+ at the time).

I've seen inexpensive ones on Other World Computing and there are other reputable sites, or you can stick with Amazon. A friend bought me my 2TB plugged that is where I keep my comic horde for $150 or so, from them. It's an Iomega.

>>82561105
Babylon you sad, sad Smithers.

BTW, is Babylon supposed to be a black guy? Or some purple dude Megala Scienced into a weird skin tone?

>>82561793
>I'm kind of a sucker for this whole "reconnecting with your adult kids" story
It's a very real premise, and thus easy to get invested in.

I kinda feel like superhero comics have really lost the urban fantasy feel they once had. It'd be nice if more cape stories were about dealing with more grounded situations rather than fight yet another apocalyptic giant dude.

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>>82561952
Say, speaking of computer speakers, mine are 1) over a decade old 2) one fell prey to Kid Flash and keeps falling apart. Any general recs for something good and small to plug into a PC? Do they make 'em wireless yet?

>>82561964
It all harkens back to the death of the supporting cast. Now it's all about the latest summer blockbuster event or whatever. In a way, superhero comic books have definitely regressed.

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>>82561960
Black dude I think but subject to the indignities of original and re-flat coloring

>>82561964
There's a full texture to these stories, in part because they're not decompressed and a lot of detail goes into each issue

>>82562038
Everyone should be forced to write 4 to 8 page stories down to a fine art until they're allowed to tackle 20 page ones.

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>>82562055
RAINBOW RAIDER~

>>82561952
>I got a 1TB LaCie from the manufacturer (so full warranty) refurb for $99 (they retail for $249 - 299+ at the time).

Brand new is $99 these days. At least, my WD passport harddrives were.

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>>82562106
>>82562101
And editors should say "Not enough happens in this story, make it happen without making the artist do twice the work"

>>82561227
I would put money on Eiling having one of Margaret's boyfriend murdered in high school.

>>82562002
You can probably get wireless, but corded should be $30 or less. Logitech is standard, but Amazon sells their house brand for like $14.

>>82561889
Brainy?

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>>82562137
bless his heart

>>82561318
More storage is never a bad idea, X-Anon. Especially if you're still in school, you really want to back up everything. One spilled bong and you could be fucked hard on a semester worth of work.

>>82562038
I hate to sound old, but comics used to be more complex and dealt with actual issues, which fit with the idea of extraordinary people doing what they feel is right. Now things have become far too basic, and boil down to "beat up bad guy".

>>82562055
>There's a full texture to these stories, in part because they're not decompressed and a lot of detail goes into each issue
Decompression was a mistake. Or at least, the type of decompression that's common now. You'd think longer stories would mean more character development and deeper exploration of ideas, but no. It's all just filler.

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>>82562195

>>82562137
Harking back to a week or two ago: That's my concrete criticism about Hellcat, there's an entire issue covering about ten minutes of real time, and most of the ten minutes are characters passively waiting for something to happen because the focus is on the group who's captive.

You have to be a master to make that work, and it didn't work. It's not a comic where you get your value in that $4.

>>82562101
Do any writers workshops offer up lessons in short story writing? That really should be a thing.

>>82562226
>You'd think longer stories would mean more character development and deeper exploration of ideas, but no. It's all just filler.

I hate how true this is. And it's not just capeshit at this point. I don't know how you fix it.

>>82561964
They had problems back in the day too, though. Reading the Dazzler storytimes, I kept getting disappointed at how they kept dragging her into superhero fights even though the heart of the comic was her career and relationships.

>>82562137
Submissions guidance for 2000AD:
>"An excellent way to practise script writing is to take a 24-page American comic, and re-write it so you can tell the same story in four pages."

>>82562226
>Decompression was a mistake. Or at least, the type of decompression that's common now. You'd think longer stories would mean more character development and deeper exploration of ideas, but no. It's all just filler.

It doesn't help that Bendis was one of the early pioneers, and is still going strong using the same damn style.

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>>82562252
You know, I think DeMatteis offers writing workshops, and he's certainly written enough short stories in his time to know how to do it.

>>82562271
You have to have the education in how and the editorial to enforce it

>>82562236
>passively waiting for something to happen
ugh ugh ugh

>>82562310
NICE

>>82562271
This is one of my main concerns with branching out to full OGN releases. I don't want to read 100 pages that amount to nothing but building up to another volume.

>>82562101
At least DC has had some newer writers that did a story in the Vertigo Quarterly or one of their digital anthologies first before putting them on minis and ongoings. Chu and King were two of those

>>82561538
>Remember when they tried to bring back the Atomic Knights in Battle for Bludhaven? That was a thing.

Battle for Bludhaven was unforgivably shit, and those Atomic Knights disappeared almost immediately for a reason.

Man. DC has just hosing walls in diarrhea for ages, haven't they?

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>>82562335

>>82562373
>Wet Moon

>>82562416
Poor Stein. :(

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>>82562389
eh, every company has the hidden and lost gems that they've bungled using

Opinion of unknown popularity: Ronnie/Jason is a fine Firestorm but it also misses some of the "older dude has to put up with young idiot's shit" dynamic that can be amusing as hell, get off my lawn you goddamn kids

>>82562431
is that how that reads?

>>82562271
One thing that might help is to stop trying to make every single fucking storyline into an "epic". Not everything needs to be worldbreaking, you can have low-key shit too.

>>82562317
Bendis' problem is that he tries to insert character development and interactions in his stories, but he doesn't understand how people work. Everyone he writes is an annoying, immature douchebag.

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>>82562476

>>82562236
It's really interesting to think about how easy or hard it is to pare down a particular comics issue. Right now stuff like Providence, or even The Fix, is fairly dense and it'd be difficult to hit all the notes in an issue while taking a big cut in pages. But other stuff, it's easy. And there are comics that could be cut down but use their space to good effect, like Omega Men. The pauses and spaces in that are part of the work.

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>>82562499

>>82562476
Wet Moon is so obviously Not For Me that I don't feel completely comfortable criticizing it, but yeah. The first four volumes have very little happen beyond an inching in and hinting towards relationships. It's an extremely slow comic.

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>>82562520
new Fix next week

I appreciate how much work Lieber puts in on each issue in the service of comics-style funny storytelling.

Reading Tom Taylor's Stuck On Namek epic was so grinding because each issue had so many clear red pen places in it, even allowing space for Nicola's glorious asses

>>82562476
>>82562499
Yay! Ronnie totally IS the rival.

>>82562389
I don't really understand why Battle for Bludhaven exists in the first place. Nightwing fans must've been fucking pissed too.

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>>82562567
I haven't read any of it but the aesthetic is not really my bag so I feel no real desire to dig in

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>>82562655
oh man, she was neat

>>82562696
F

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>>82562696

>>82562655
I think it's been retired by the author now but I probably would have kept reading it if not.

Even with slow pacing and a teeth-grinding cast there's something appealing about it featuring a great variety of body types that is nonetheless very clearly driven by the artist's fetishes and preference. That's a hell of a lot more interesting than the extremely safe Jem comic. I like a creator who wears their heart on their sleeve sometimes.

>>82562226
>I hate to sound old, but comics used to be more complex and dealt with actual issues, which fit with the idea of extraordinary people doing what they feel is right. Now things have become far too basic, and boil down to "beat up bad guy".

The shift in writing away from wordiness and individual issue stories from the 2000s killed a lot of the room they used to have to build supporting characters and themes and actual issues.

When you're writing a comic like 1/6th of a movie script, and for as many full page or even two page spreads as possible, there's just less room for story.

>>82562696
Aw, I really liked her.

>>82562655
>did my deep throat ever deliver

>>82562252
Ty Templeton has a comic making class in Toronto that I think is mostly about writing.

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>>82562777
Wet Moon's being reissued by Oni Press

>I hope so! I’ve been chipping away at volume 7 over the past couple years, I have some pages drawn but it’s slow going because of the other projects I need to juggle, as well as personal issues I’ve been dealing with, of course. It’s also the longest book I’ve ever written so it’s a big undertaking!

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>>82562856
oh my god

this is fucking amazing

>>82562520
everything about Omega Men is so deliberate I wouldn't want to see it cut down at all

Did you guys see Khouri talking about the variant covers? Even those were pretty specifically designed

https://twitter.com/andykhouri/status/728953335689027584
https://twitter.com/andykhouri/status/728954002084257792

>>82562856
That's good, thanks for letting me know.

>>82562335
The Vanquisher looks like it was custom built for Hawkman.

(But Hawkman I think wouldn't exist for another two years)

>>82562877
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

thank you bates, thank you for everything, especially this

>>82562877
Very Silver Age.:D

>>82562767
>that design
I'm sorry, we seem to have suddenly started read a TMNT comic instead of Captain Atom.

>>82562806
Spreads have also become a fucking plague. It goes back to trying to make absolutely everything "epic" and important seeming. That and it's easy filler for a 20 page issue that's part of a four issue story.

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>>82562919
I want to frame it

>>82562917
This is Shadow War Hawkman era, actually

>>82562899
>all that work for something selling so poorly
>the trade will sell like shit too

But why

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>>82563066
you just couldn't do Eiling's cigar these days

>>82563048
>>the trade will sell like shit too
Doubt it. It's a modern masterpiece.

>>82563048
Love.

>>82563092
Why not? It's not like this is a Marvel comic.

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>>82563092

>>82562476
>: Ronnie/Jason is a fine Firestorm

It was good before Blackest Night, okayish after (because killing Gehenna was ugly forced drama) and very badly written out of the gate in New52, but I only looked at like the first or two of that because it was pretty famously bad.

IMO the best period of JasonStorm was when he could Matrix with whoever was available. It made for some fun mixes.

>>82563122
DC never outright stated a ban on smoking as far as I know but I can't think of the last time I saw a character smoking

maybe Al in the first Earth 2 annual? I remember being surprised that he had a cigarette

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>>82563143
Early New 52 Firestorm was really weird and violent, and it got completely swept under the rug.

>>82563143
>why don't we have any black friends, mom?

So, let's review.

Classic villain Dr. Spectro is an in-universe fictional character made up by the government as part of Captain Atom's cover story. So after figuring out the truth, this guy, who may or may not be the Rainbow Raider(?) decides to become the real Dr. Spectro to claim the trademark.

COMIC BOOKS

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>>82563176
d'awwwwww

>>82563182
There was that, but there was also the whole Firestorms Of The World and Ronnie with crazy PTSD and people getting blown up all over the place

>>82563158
John Constantine.

>>82563104
It'll sell like 1k the first month and never chart anywhere ever again
;_;

>>82563158
It's so weird looking through really old Batman comics and seeing Bruce with a pipe and Dick in the same room

>>82563176
I kinda liked the basic premise.

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>>82563211
Add to that how Captain Atom's government cover story is his pre-DC Charlton-era canon, and it's all delightfully meta

Ooh, that reminds me of something I'll run later, that's short

>>82563176
I think Gail defaults to horror and grindhouse when she doesn't have a plan. This leads to some really off-the-mark stuff, like Firestorm and The Movement and Babsgirl.

Intentional horror, tho, totally different story.

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>>82563244
well now I feel silly for forgetting him

>>82563176
I'm still kind of surprised Simone and EVS like working together so much, they seem like total opposites on nearly everything

>>82563279
and now looking at Moritat art I think of Jonah Hex, how could I forget those two

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>>82563122
RIP

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>>82563249
It was, at least, not the same old Firestorm story, even if the execution got kind of weird

>>82563259
EVS is listed as co-plotter, so I think it was partly his idea

>>82562431
Were you here for the storytime?
http://desustorage.org/co/search/subject/wet%20moon/

>>82563158
Katehunter smoked a bit in her solo, I think

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>>82563342

>>82563354
Also I miss Kate, just putting that out there

>>82563332
Fuck you, Quesadilla.

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>>82563354
She did; she did the addict thing of lighting her cigarette off the gas stove when she couldn't find a lighter

>>82563332
While I'll definitely miss Nick the biggest casualty of this whole clusterfuck is (IMO) the Contessa

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>>82563389
I miss Kate and Dylan so much

I really, really loved Dylan and his awful self and his filthy sense of humor.

>>82563342
I guess, but she kinda has an unfounded reputation for being more Disney than she actually is. I expect some amount of grossout from her, physical or psychological, it's just a matter of whether her execution's on point or not.

Even her excellent DCAU episode had that little touch.

it's hard to find reactions on CWII because of the movie but I found a couple

https://twitter.com/ReverendMagnett/status/728974264855048192
https://twitter.com/Highball2814/status/729126711267184640
https://twitter.com/OliverSava/status/729121793756172288

>>82562877
Fuck. DC CW Version when. Just a glorious fucking LED strobe suit.

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>>82563416
oh, absolutely, she likes to push the envelope and I appreciate that she does; she also does not take very well to being lectured about writing Good Role Model stuff on twitter when it comes to "You wrote something sexy and/or violent, eww!"

>>82563458
Her reactions to being accused of hating sexy stuff is pretty good too

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>>82563158
Well it does more nearly accurately reflect reality.

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>>82563436
bless you anon for hunting

that first tweet is a fucking hoot

HE'S SLEEPING IN THE MONEY

>>82563389
>Gotham By Midnight was kill shortly after introducing her in the nu52

>>82563252
It really is meta as fuck. But it's actually done in an interesting way, so I don't mind.

>>82563342
Y'know, there's something of a simplistic charm to villains who are just using their powers to make money. Again, the urban fantasy thing. Ruling the world is a gigantic pain in the ass, when most folks would just want to live in comfort.

>>82563436
Boy do I wish Civil War 2 could burst the comics event bubble, especially blatant cash grab comic events like it

Literally everything about it what we've seen and heard is awful

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>>82563496
https://twitter.com/ReverendMagnett/status/728979996925112320

>I might be the only person latching onto Zemo as a breakout character in Civil War. It's only more evidence that I have the best taste.

husbando~

(maybe I should go see the movie if I can drink through it)

>>82563534
it doesn't matter how shitty it is, it's going to sell boatloads and they'll be doing Civil War III this time next year

>>82563458
One of the more memorable jokes in her Deadpool was the super-shameless Wade-masturbating-with-an-unwilling-audience thing. Old times, good times.

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>>82563539
we were #TeamZemo *before* it was cool

>>82563436
>Civil War II #0 or #1 or whatever it is is technically a superhero comics. It's composed of colored paper stapled in a specific order.

>>82563211
>who may or may not be the Rainbow Raider(?)

He isn't, he's just a guy who used to work with the Rainbow Raider's dad and could science together light based weaponry.

>>82563553
>Coming this Fall
>Road To Civil War II Aftermath Prelude To Civil War III

>>82563436
MORE
MORE I SAY

I can't wait for all 10/10 reviews to come in though
Praising the wit of all the characters' lines, how totally necessary any of the deaths are, how in character everybody is, etc
It'll be good

>>82563496
>I might be the only person latching onto Zemo as a breakout character in Civil War
Ugh, this guy is a tool.

>>82563553
Civil War 2.5 probably

>>82563635
>Invincible Iron Man STILL isn't done with the Road to Civil War II while marvel is hyping up CW3

>>82563539
You should go see it if only because I want your opinion on Zemo in it.

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>>82563605
Hah, put 'Bendis' into twitter search and the salt flows

>
Arthur @MsNonCompliant 1h1 hour ago Bendis has shown in issue 0 that he has no idea how to write Carol, and that CW2 is going to be an awful to it's female cast

That's an accurate little detail--there were a number of complex child custody cases in the 80s involving adoptions/returns of children

>>82563672
that is unduly smug, you're right

>>82563701
>that CW2 is going to be an awful to it's female cast
I'm getting flashbacks to that article praising ANAD's books and teams where the writer of it said Bendis wrote good nuanced women.

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>>82563701
since Sava specifically cropped that T'Challa panel (and didn't crop, say, the rocket to the tits), he's getting all the mad BP fans coming out of the woodwork

>>82563701
>yet more evidence I have the best taste
I have been arguing for days about Zemo in CW though so maybe I'm just bitter. That's on the 'for' side, I did like him.

>>82563701
Yes, Carol fandom. Be loud and stand up for something that is legitimately bad.

Meanwhile, I know someone who legitimately doesn't think Marvel will delete/kill off the remaining comics Captain Marvel legacy if the movie's plot requires it, and if it would streamline the brand.

>>82563605
>that obvious xenomorph
Pfft!

>we were #TeamZemo *before* it was cool
And #TeamJSA, #TeamLegion, #TeamJaredFate, #TeamInzaFate, #TeamMage, #Team90sSuperboy... Fucking hell, we've become hipsters, haven't we?

>>82563750
Is it the Mary Sue?

>>82563701
https://twitter.com/AManCalledHwk/status/729122665500286976
>That my biggest problem with Bendis these days. He didn't used to write character that way.

>>82563701
not a CWII tweet but I had a nice chuckle

https://twitter.com/VanAllenPlexico/status/728437260341796865

>>82563806
oh he did.

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>>82563778
Hah, what are they smoking? That's part of why I don't expect to see Phyla again; Moondragon maybe, if someone like Ewing digs her up.

>>82563700
going to the movies is honestly kind of work, tho

>>82563797
I believe so, yes

>>82563806
Is Bendis the one who started people calling Carol fat?

>>82563797
Yeah, they also made an article lambasting DCYou for lack of diversity. Fucking DCYou.

>>82563701
I like how the preview of next week's Ultimates seems to be suggesting that Carol's OOC behavior as written by Bendis is the result of PTSD from seeing time from Galactus's point of view.

>>82563836
>going to the movies is honestly kind of work, tho
For real? How come?

>>82563836

I really expected Moondragon in GOTG v2

>>82563332
Man, the more I find out about old Zodiac the more disappointed I am they are so obscure.

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>>82563750
>I'm getting flashbacks to that article praising ANAD's books and teams where the writer of it said Bendis wrote good nuanced women.
>Bendis
>good, nuanced women

>>82563778
Speaking of Carol, I saw some art of her new look, but the outfit was colored black. I much prefer it over the blue.

Still don't get why people are so whiny over the new costume. "MUH TITTIES" is not a legitimate gripe.

>>82563778
>Marvel will delete/kill off the remaining comics Captain Marvel legacy

That's practically been done already.

>>82563855
Ewing is a beautiful man.

>>82563836
>going to the movies is honestly kind of work, tho
C'mon OP, if my dad can go see BvS 10 times...

>>82563878

They suuuuuuuuuuck. Sternako did ok with them cause he's Sternako

https://twitter.com/iainwr/status/729000975567101952

LOL

>>82563896
He's quite disgusting actually.

>>82563887
It SHOULD be black, that's what Mar-Vell's costume looked like, and Carol's original costume too.

>>82563845
Dunno if he started it, but Bendis did have Doom call her fat.

He also had Carol reference her pregnancy at least two times.

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>>82563855
that's clever!

>>82563868
I don't particularly like going by myself, I have to get there and it's a bit of a slog, I'm terminally cheap...

>>82563870
I guess she'd be compressible into "related to Drax"?

>>82563887
>Still don't get why people are so whiny over the new costume. "MUH TITTIES" is not a legitimate gripe.

Its not the costume that's the problem.

>>82563894
As someone once put it, Monica dilutes the Captain Marvel brand as it stands now. Monica can't not die in Civil War III.

>>82563887
I think at this point people don't like the mannish build of her rather than the costume itself.

>>82563943
I don't mean physically. If you're against him as an author sound it out, because I'm interested.

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>>82563963
hey, we never made it to that part of Bendis Mighty, did we

shall we read one more tonight?

>>82563887
I like the current costume, it's stylish, and there is an awful lot of "WHERE'S THE TITS" and "SHE LOOKS LIKE A MAN" whining

>>82563980
Which is a shame, because Monica was a thousand times the Captain Marvel Carol is.

>>82563795
I think we were born hipsters.

>all my favorite books rely on Didio life support

comics won't let me live

>>82563940
Oh the poor thing

>>82564018
Sure

>>82563964
Fair enough. Consider pirating it then

>>82564027
What the fuck are we going to do when Didio is gone?

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>>82564018
I wish they keep the long hair.

>>82564018
>>82564018
>shall we read one more tonight?
Sure

>>82564027
I'm hoping Gerard Way will let the Young Animal books not sell like shit. Doom Patrol selling well now is something I've wanted for forever.

>>82563964
I don't think it's really worth it unless one highly values the theater experience of seeing the effects on the huge screen and all

>>82563483
That's still more than one in ten people who smoke, which is way more than you ever see in comics.

>>82563997
That's funny, I once designed a Ms. Marvel costume for fun that looked almost exactly like that one, only it had yellow lines separating the gloves and boots.

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>>82563845
>>82563963
>>82564018
I found it.

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>>82564071
>>82564050
OH SHIT, IS IT FINALLY HAPPENING?

>>82563958
Seriously, red and black has been her main color scheme forever, so why blue all of a sudden?

>>82563973
Nah, if it was a simple matter of Carol being stripped off everything that made her interesting as a character, there wouldn't be nearly this much of a fuss. /co/ never gave a single shit about her until this new direction for her, so I'm inclined to believe it's just more excuses to bitch about how DA SJWS are allegedly trying to take away muh comics.

>>82564069
What does that picture of two asses got to do with hair, anon?

>>82564075
Me, I get irrationally upset over the redneck greek chorus that finds its way into every theater I've been in my current state of residence.

So I haven't been to a theater in like eight years.

>>82564075
I will always try to watch stuff released at the cinema at the cinema but I'm lucky in that I live near the cinema, have a good indie place nearby as well, and both offer good discounts/subscriptions. I hate going to to the cinema solo as well though.

>>82564087
Her classic costume looks really great on superhero squad show. With pants

>>82564087
>>82563997
Do lightning bolts to seperate the gloves and boots and that would be an ok costume

>>82564124
The only one i could find.

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>>82564135
when I was in college the local movie theatre was Full Audience Participation, which made seeing the first Matrix film there quite entertaining

Neo opens up trenchcoat to reveal guns: "I'm packing more heat than that!"

>>82563795
No, we love those things unironically.

>>82563986
>>82564018
>LOOKS LIKE A MAN
Okay, this is just plain stupid. Carol is a solider. Captain is her actual rank. You can bitch about the bad writing and the intentional blandess that's been forced onto her to make her a "role model", and even the more questionable hairstyles are fair game.

But bitching that a soldier actually looks fit and capable is fucking retarded.

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>>82564204
right, we are the only people on the internet besides Steve Orlando who actually love Jared for his edgy dorky self

>>82563553
Nah, they already have next year's event penciled out. Not to any great detail beyond "Heroes fight... heroes?" and "New Indian Black Panther?" mind you, but they already have A plan. Civil War 3 will be like, 2018.

>>82564190
Now that's a joke that would get you thrown out of the theatre right away nowadays.

>>82564190
Except with all the wit of "HA HA THAT'S GAY HA HA I WILL LAUGH AT MY OWN JOKE FOR TWO MINUTES"

>>82564230
>implying they won't do more than one event a year

>>82564230
If they wanted to replace T'Challa until his movie comes out they could just use Shuri again.

>>82564230
They'll do a Thanos event when his movie debut comes out

>>82564220
All the female soldiers/former soldiers I know still wear feminine hair styles

if they're going to give Carol a butch haircut can she at least make out with a lady?

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>>82564248
my other college-era movie experience that was worth it was seeing South Park unspoiled, as you could hear the theatre collectively go "ARE THEY DOING THIS???" at the Uncle Fucker song

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>>82564220
She looked quite fit and capable before.

>>82564220
I don't disagree but she truly has the upper body of a man. It's not even the fact that she's flat chested. That's not what built females generally look like, just look at the soccer players and shit.

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>>82564289
>mfw he doesn't clean the pistol before putting it away

>>82564316
Only because Cho has a musclegirl fetish, most other artists drew her as Generic Superheroine #1.

>>82563778
>I know someone who legitimately doesn't think Marvel will delete/kill off the remaining comics Captain Marvel legacy if the movie's plot requires it, and if it would streamline the brand.

Well, they're probably wrong. Carol has already outlived Genis and Phyla, and I don't think they're going to kill Hulkling when he's probably their highest profile gay couple.

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>>82564320
>>82564319
Anka's...a little wonky wrt female anatomy, but the complaints about Carol haven't solely focused on his art

hey Dave, we have Steve Trevor in this comic

>>82564282
>All the female soldiers/former soldiers I know still wear feminine hair styles
Are any of the female soldiers you know stick figures who don't look like they could defeat a blowup doll?

>If they're going to give Carol a butch haircut can she at least make out with a lady?
Fuck Marvel for pussing out hard on the lesbian science baby. Carol being the "father" of Jessica's kid would've at least been funny. Better than what actually happened. What the fuck.

>>82564282
The whole man thing, though, what the fuck kind of men are these people looking at? How is pretending to be so retarded that you can't correctly distinguish gender a thing?

>>82560573
Ostrander can write like nobody's business, he killed mai waifu in Suicide Squad, and I couldn't even be mad about it.

>>82564227
A hipster would be all "Look at this loser with face tats and ankh knives! He's so lame I'll pretend to like him for a couple weeks before I get bored and say he was never cool."

>>82564361
>Are any of the female soldiers you know stick figures who don't look like they could defeat a blowup doll?
Well Gal Gadot was part of the IDF...

>>82564360
Campbell's Carol definitely looks like a man desu senpai

>>82564361
>Are any of the female soldiers you know stick figures who don't look like they could defeat a blowup doll?
actually one of them does, she's 100 pounds soaking wet

she said she was pretty buff when she was an active Marine though

>Fuck Marvel for pussing out hard on the lesbian science baby. Carol being the "father" of Jessica's kid would've at least been funny. Better than what actually happened. What the fuck.
"My pregnancy scare made me completely change my mind about kids!" is so goddamn stupid

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>>82564360
>>82564410
>"My pregnancy scare made me completely change my mind about kids!" is so goddamn stupid

that gets me mad if I think about it, fuck

>>82564361
I'm still baffled by the Jess pregnancy thing
Like she got a pregnancy scare, said wait I want a baby actually, then knocked herself up, but since it's still a superhero comic, she still goes out and fights crime while pregnant and after it's born

Also the baby hasn't been named yet or it took a while

Just a bunch of horrible decisions everywhere

>>82564389
>spoiler
Who was it, anon?

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>>82562137
It's telling that it's really hard to answer the question "What's your favorite comic book issue?" if you only count things written in the last... let's say 10 years.
There's probably a few examples (my favorite is Thor: God of Thunder Issue 12, where he's basically just being the God of Bros, up until they have to set up the Arc), but in general, nowadays people have favorite ARCS.

>>82560704
>Destroy all the pictures of his father.
Eiling you massive fuck.

>>82564432
>>82564435
like, I don't care for them making Jess suddenly wanting kids in general, but I guess "I accidentally got pregnant and decided to keep it" would have been tolerable

"I DIDN'T accidentally got pregnant but I decided that becoming a single mom in my early 20s was a great idea so I intentionally got knocked up despite never wanting kids before!" is so dumb it makes me mad

>>82564435
>she still goes out and fights crime while pregnant

No, she actually went on maternity leave.

>>82564458
I was about to say, it's cheating because the original Deadpool back inventory issue exists, BUT THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO

>>82563918
Well, it's more that I didn't realize that Mantis's dad was in Zodiac until The Crossing Anon did that storytime.

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>>82564458
>It's telling that it's really hard to answer the question "What's your favorite comic book issue?" if you only count things written in the last... let's say 10 years.
true, good standalone issues have gotten pretty rare

I think I'd probably say Darkseid War: Green Lantern and Dial H #13

>>82564410
>she said she was pretty buff when she was an active Marine though
That's fair. Muscle goes away after a while if you don't keep it up.

>"My pregnancy scare made me completely change my mind about kids!" is so goddamn stupid
I don't even know what to say about this. Who thought this was a good idea?

>>82560914

Dayum.

>>82564560
The aptly named Dennis Hopeless.

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>>82564560
Hopeless and his editorial staff (all married dudes)

>>82564560
People who, biologically, will never and can never consider pregnancy as a thing that could happen to them?

>>82564065
Curse his replacement, Eddie Berganza?

>>82564560
Well Hopeless and his wife just had a kid

>>82564595
>>82564589
What annoys me is that Hopeless took his situation (he & the wife didn't want kids, accidentally ended up with twins, couldn't be happier!) and then made his fictionalized application to Jess extra absurd for no reason

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>>82564595
who could that be~

>>82564559
>Dial H #13

Mah nigga.

I think I could have bought the pregnancy thing if it was an older woman. Like kind of "I think I want this but how much time do I have left?" or something as a result of a scare. Though if there is a 40+ female hero around without children maybe giving one to her would still feel shitty.

>>82564589
>>82564595
Y'know, I always assumed his name was Hopless, and you all were adding the e to be chucklefucks. But nope, Hopeless. How fucking appropriate.

>>82564603
Actually, if these guys are all married, shouldn't they know better?

>>82564603
But surely they must realize that being a single parent is extremely difficult and isn't something a normal person would undertake voluntarily?

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>>82564697
I think it was in a CBR article or something where the editor and the artist and Hopeless were all "We're trying to do this respectfully and we listen to our wives and we're all dads so it's meaningful to us" and it still made me mad

>>82564653
Man, I'm not going to say he's putting words in his wife's mouth, but I would not be surprised if he's profoundly more hyped about it than she is.

>>82564740
Also there are already heroes and characters who are mothers but they shittily saddled a character who didn't want one with one just cause, which is enough reason to get annoyed

>>82564559
Omega Men #9 is also very good.

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>>82564740

>>82561015
the OG, Frankenstein was pretty good hearted, he just had too much to prove and wasn't the best "father" to his creation.

It's far easier to make said mad scientist an asshole or too deluded to behave humanely, because he's well...mad.
The ones that do often give their lives trying to save the world from the product of their research. Which is what happened to the Movie version of Frankenstein. It's a lot rarer than the asshole Mad Scientists though.

>>82564740
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/hopeless-talks-spider-woman-and-balancing-crime-fighting-with-motherhood

This one seems even dumber in retrospect because there was literally no actual reason behind Jess changing her mind

>That is a complicated question and the answer will play a big role in the series. Jess doesn't particularly like children. She's made that pretty clear in the past. She hasn't been waiting around for the right guy to settle down and have a family. That's never been part of her plan. All of this is new uncharted ground for her and a big life changing business. It's not a trick or a gimmick. It's a story.

>My own life pretty clearly inspired this pitch. My wife and I had our first kids (twin boys) last year after ten years of marriage (we got married at 23). For nine of those 10 years, neither one of us planned on having children. I never wanted kids. The tenth year was a gonzo emotional rollercoaster that changed every single thing in our world.

>I won't get into it here but I very much relate to Jessica's stance on children. There are big, strong, deep-rooted reasons why she never wanted to be a parent. I understand that. I lived that. Then one day everything changed. Jess seemed like the perfect character for this story.

>>82564696
>Actually, if these guys are all married, shouldn't they know better?
No? Do you know so many married men who have thoughtful and grounded opinions about pregnancy? Who aren't gynecologists?

>>82564595
It's really dumb and irresponsible for a cape who got their earlier stories out with some more adult spy stuff.

>>82564688
>40+ woman
>comic books
Pfft! Even Lady Quark and Amanda Waller were eventually aged down.

>>82564559
The beginning of Grayson is probably the most number of one and dones in one book that I can remember as of late. There were like 5 or 6 in a row

And even then they all connect to make a bigger story arc in the last 3 or so issues

I do have a sadistic impulse in me that wants that baby to get some COMIC BOOKS shock ending just to spite Hopeless for Avengers Arena.

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>>82564805
Can you imagine if you replaced being pregnant with like, anything else? HIV? Limb loss? Child death?

Actually, that would be hilarious to read, but the point is that his logic is fucked.

>>82564803
>the Movie version of Frankenstein
That made me so mad, they had some dude at the very beginning say "The moral of this story is you shouldn't play God, no there's no other possible interpretation. "

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>>82564811
>adult spy stuff
only Black Widow is allowed to be female and do that at Marvel, now

>>82564775
Whoops, n/m. Thought we were just talking good single issues.

>>82564867
>Can you imagine if you replaced being pregnant with like, anything else? HIV? Limb loss? Child death?
>"I never wanted to get HIV, but well, accidents happen and this story reflects that"
>random male character is now a bugchaser