JSA Storytime: Captain Atom

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>>88757899
So we haven't gotten into this era of Wildstorm, but IIRC 3.0 ended in 2004, and things were generally limping along, am I right? It certainly wasn't dead, but a shakeup seemed in the cards.

>>88757899
Sick Pride costume, Cap.

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>>88757959
(that means please don't ask me to explain exactly how every character got to where they are in this because I'll half-assedly wiki it)

I just bought the whole 80s Captain Atom run digitally for under 50 bucks

feels pretty good

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>>88757994
some day we might re-read at least the opening of that to catch all the shit that becomes obviously set up on the second pass

I am so disappointed that this backstory recap omits the jokes Nate was making before he got blown up

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>>88758027

is this the one where he explodes?
Wait...

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>>88758046
(dat ass)

>>88758027
>>88758046
It kinda omits Megala entirely too.

>>88758086
...also just the notion that ANY of that research was ever declassified enough to be published...

But that's pretty nitpicky.

>>88757959

Did you read the latest Hydra!Cap issue? Not just because of magenta husbando but also because of Quasar.

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>>88758073
ha ha

You'll see

>>88758123
Nick Spencer sure did read his Gru

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>>88758145
I never exactly expected to see Kayla and the Starbrand referenced again in modern comics

>>88758145
Didja read Hard-Travelin Heroez?

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>>88758161

>>88758161
>>88758145

Yeah. Say what you want about Spencer, but he knows and loves his Gruenfeld backissues. Wish the pacing on Hydra!Cap was less glacial, though.

>>88758123
>magenta husbando
Sinestro was in Hydra!Cap?

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>>88758179
I thought this issue was kind of filler although some of the gags were great

Bald look for Nate is NEVER good look.

>>88758249
if exploding would make all my body hair fall off I'd try it

>>88758244
Zemo. As a kid with a fat little face, surprisingly cute.

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>>88758204
I think I will enjoy it much more when it's done and all the plots can be appreciated laid out in full. That said, I really don't know where it's going, and that's novel.

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>>88758274
I also suspect that Spencer likes FabNic's Helmut a lot more than recent Bru or Remender. WHich is just good taste.

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>>88758274

I want to pinch his chubby cheeks

>>88758313
Spencer writing Zemo with his dad was a huge improvement on how he wrote Zemo at the start of this story. He laid it on pretty thick there.

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>>88758313
uhoh

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>>88758344
TIME FOR WIKI FILL-IN:

>Adrianna's spirit moved on and Void appeared in the Halo Corporation, home of former WildCAT Spartan, now known as Jack Marlowe. Void started working for Jack Marlowe, who was studying Void's ability to teleport. When she teleported, Void moved through Otherspace, a dimension filled with energy. Marlowe's assistant, Noir, saw the possibilities in harvesting Otherspace, but he saw Void as a threat. He sabotaged a nuclear reactor, causing a leak. The leak caused Void's physical form to slowly break down. Marlowe did what he could to cure Void, but in the end found out that without Adrianna, Void had no will to live. Marlowe offered his robotic body as a new host and Void and Marlowe merged, vastly increasing Marlowe's already impressive powers.

>>88758313

Going by his interviews he definitely prefers T-Bolts!Zemo. That talk about 'hard choices' and Zub's talk about killing off members of the team makes me worried where the potential confrontation between Zemo and the Buckybolts is going, though.

>>88758334
>Steve/Bucky fanfic will continue to dominate even though Spencer is pretty much literally writing shipping prompts at this point

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>>88758363
And yes, that's the Kingdom Come suit Nate's wearing.

>>88758367
Let the first celebrity death of 2017 be Bucky Barnes.

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>>88758388
there is truly no justice, we all know that

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>>88758414
HI AUNT MADGE

>>88758339

I was personally also positively surprised by how he wrote Heinrich because Spencer wrote him with a bit of, dare I say, nuance? Restraint? Zemo's dad at least didn't come accross as a complete saturday morning cartoon.

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>>88758433
so how are you owls this fine day

also, his name is Cole Cash, which is one of those names so stupid it's perfect.

>>88758435
I want Spencer to get a hold of Moonstone again and save her from whatever

Or, okay, I want a Jeff Parker Moonstone mini

>>88758410
>Bendis talks over Thunderbolts
>he writes Bucky like shit
>Bucky fangirls scream at him 24/7

please lord let me have this if that man ends up on Thunderbolts

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>>88758456
In a perfect world, we get that Moonstone/Doc Samson/Foolkiller mini

>>88758466
You have to think that as thin-skinned as he is, the reactions to CW2 #8 have hurt him even if he won't show it

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>>88758482
even the reasonably mild-mannered can have enough

>>88758388
good hero/villain pairs are so underrated

>>88758456

Maybe Moonstone stabs Bucky in the back in the upcoming 'Return of the Masters' arc and fucks off with Helmut to Steve's book. But on the other hand that would require the Bolts to be written as entities with agendas beyond fellating Bucky's character.

>>88758435
Well, he had a bit of sturm und drang going when he talked up the Nazi war machine but yeah, painting him as a real father is always going to give him nuance.

Helmut Zemo really was a SMCV in the first few issues of Cap, so it's a nice gear shift. Maybe Spencer just really digs the comedic side of Zemo. Maybe he's doing a complicated thing where Zemo's role in this story will reflect how he was chronologically throughout all his appearances.

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>>88758498
>>88758510
Spencer surely remembers Helmut's unrequited crush on Karla

>>88758456
>Or, okay, I want a Jeff Parker Moonstone mini

I wouldn't mind a Moonstone/Songbird book that's mostly them sniping at each other.

>>88758482
>In a perfect world, we get that Moonstone/Doc Samson/Foolkiller mini
Just a one-off issue would be enough. Shit just a Christmas special story would be enough. You can end it on the punchline they level the building and somebody's gotta call in a negotiator.

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>>88758537
An oversized one-off would be great.

So yeah, the Wildstorm Universe at this point in time is a very, very scary place.

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>>88758584
;__________________;

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>>88758610
you're on Edgeworld, Nate

>>88758610
>Oh god, it's a world where every hero was Major Force

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>>88758635
Pretty much!

>>88758584
>>88758610

That's kinda heartbreaking, to be honest, that they are so afraid of him.

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>>88758647
So when is The Wild Storm out, soon, right?

>>88758675

I think it starts in February.

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>>88758666
This series has a lot of metacommentary about tone and the like

it's Maul and Griffles

>>88758675
Feb

Though the other titles are nowhere in sight

>>88758675
Day after Valentine's.

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>>88758701
mai waifu

>>88758710
I think the Wild Storm is the launching issue/series, so they'll be solicited off the back of it. I wonder if that's a way to test the waters at all - probably not, doubt there would be enough time.

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>>88758719

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>>88758744

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>>88758635

>>88758760
KEK

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>>88758760
Major points for not forgetting Nate can do this. Most writers don't use it.

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>>88758781
This is kind of hax and bullshit but I don't not like it?

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>>88758799
jesus christ, Cole, that's a rapeface

>>88758521
>My name is Captain Atom. As in A-bomb...as in nuclear fission...as in...the end of the world.
I really like this line, but I feel like it should've been the introductory line to this story, not some witty bantz in the middle of a fight.

>>88758799
that's actually pretty sweet

>>88758799
It's hax to get Nate up to speed faster, so we don't have to spend more time on him getting info on the universe. I'm okay with this (and probably would be even more so if I was a regular Wildstorm reader).

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>>88758822
>>88758847
Or I would have put it later in a more striking climax position

>>88758799
I'm not getting how it's working, really.

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>>88758876
>>88758871
In-story exposition is a skill few writers are good at

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>>88758928
>>88758898
Nate's good at general energy bullshit, and Mr. Miracle at hacking...

>>88758898
>dial phone number
>be in internet

it's simple, really

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>>88758954
it's also funny because that's close to a traditional Ray Palmer skill

>>88758951
>guy melts telephone booth
>durrr r u alrite????
Idiots like this woman deserve what's coming to them.

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>>88758998
d'awww

>>88758951
>>88758954
It feels totally new for Nate to understand energy-as-information as directly as that, but I'm not remembering. Still w/e, the reasoning has already been pointe dout.

>>88758998
Glorious golden ass.

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>>88759016
and now, backstory

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>>88759049
All true!

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>>88759075
even Madge cannot fight the plot

>>88759049
The Kherubim/Daemonite thing is so dumb but also so comics.

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>>88759100
Worker's comp must be total shit in the WU

>>88758456
>I want a Jeff Parker Moonstone mini
When was the last time Parker wrote anything Marvel? I'm still hoping to see him on JSA with wave 2.

>>88759100
I don't remember Earth-Low Res from 52!

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>>88759124
Grifter should always be written as an excellent grifter

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>>88759134
I want to say it was Dark Avengers/Red She-Hulk, and then he pretty much decamped.

I want him on a mainline DC book, yes.

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>>88759171
(skipping solicits page)

we know who he's talking about, yes

>>88759134
How many things has Jeff Parker written that are genuinely bad?

He seems like one of those writers that is consistently okay to good and yet don't have a big fanbase.

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>>88759185

>>88759171
>then he pretty much decamped
Did something happen over there?
Also I want him on Superman. Thomas should be relegated to Action. Tomasi is fun but he's not main book material.

>>88759248
LoSH or bust.

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>>88759246
well, poop

>>88759248
I get the feeling that he was not terribly appreciated at Marvel, and he kept fixing things and then having them cancelled.

>>88759233
His JLU was pretty meh, although I really don't blame him for that.

>>88757899
Hey JSAnon. Welcome back.

Wendell referenced having sexually transmitted Starbrand!
Spencer may be mediocre/tainting his stories with SJW virtue signalling bullshit, but the man loves his Gruenwald!

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>>88759264
I think Parker would write a very solid LOSH.

>the markings on this suit definitely go down to the ass

>>88759272
Spencer wrote John Walker pretty decently desu

>>88757959
Ah, Will Pfeifer. You did such good in H-E-R-O and were so generally underwhelming or Amazons Attack tier elsewhere.

Nick Spencer got mad at me on twitter once.

>>88759264
Is he a Legionfag? He does look like the guy who'd appreciate silver age fun stuff.
Also I just hope they go more of a camp route with Legion than edge route.

>>88759310
does spencer do things on twitter that isn't get mad

>>88757978
Majestic had a bunch of Superman storylines around the time Wildstorm got bought, as I recall.

Like he and Supes swapped places and then they teamed up etc.

>>88759233
see also: Mike Carey

>>88759295
What's the nightmare scenario for you with a Legion writer/artist, OP?

>>88759269
I thought the first arc was meh but I loved the arc with the Creature Commandos and Enemy Ace

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>>88759343
Yeah, there's some charming stuff in there

>>88759348
Bendis, lol; after Avengers I'm also deeply wary of Hickman

In more probable shit, IDK, Tom Taylor and his cackhanded self would be pretty low

>>88759310
No bullshit, Slott blocked me on Twitter because he said Superman doesn't threaten anyone and I tweeted him the bullet scene from Birthright with a smiley face. I wish he'd argued.

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>>88759384
Naaaaate, you should know by now how paranoid these people are

>>88758079
>Omits the entire meta Charlton shenanigans

>>88758086
>Omits Megala and his bull Babylon

At this point what even is the point? I mean Morrison had already gone and wrecked Eiling by making him a cackling Hulkbody villain instead of the glorious proto-Xanatos he originally was.
Almost everything great about Nate had been ditched!

>>88759348
King going full Batman like with Legion. I don't want him to go Vision/Omega Men route either.

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>>88759419
They're going to nuke the President for his own good, this is fucking great

>>88759420
and trust me, after this mini it gets way, way lower for Nate

>>88759420
Man, please don't refer to Megala's adopted son and cool super science spy guy as his fucking bull. I get we've all got our fetishes, but Christ son.

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>>88759448
>>88759420
Morrison's Eiling is completely wrong, yes

>>88759295
>I think Parker would write a very solid LOSH.

If Future Quest wasn't having the pacing problems it's having, it'd be a great thing to point to as an example. Huge cast that's all getting used pretty well, reasonably distinct character voices, a nice mess of younger characters.

He really feels like a great choice. And his adoption of Gorilla Man as a pet character suggests to me he might finally give the Legion the Gorilla team member it's always needed.

>>88759445
I used to think I'd really like King on L.E.G.I.O.N. but I dunno anymore. I feel like his dialogue tics would really fucking wear on me from Vril. Shit I feel like that's the kind of thing Vril would actively mock in some other hero.

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>>88759490
don't irradiate the carpet, dammit

>>88759420
>Morrison had already gone and wrecked Eiling by making him a cackling Hulkbody villain instead of the glorious proto-Xanatos he originally was.
When did that happen?

>>88759537
Shaggy Man thing. He fought the Justice League.

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>>88759534
ruh-roh

>>88759523
Vril has to be funny but in a very dark sort of way, which means I'd give the book to Mark Russell.

>>88758145
But Nate, you KNOW what the other capsule was made out of. It was your friend, Silver Shield.

>>88759344
Mike Baron for me.

>>88759562
Wouldn't you give *any* book to Mark Russell, OP?

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!!!

I am sad I missed most of the thread but caught it in time to post this.

got legion archive 6 at a used bookstore literally yesterday. Prime Shooter

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>>88759537
JLA

Much, much later, Ostrander recouped it significantly. I could have read so much more 80s Waller vs. Eiling than we got, goddamn

I duno what my dream cosmic from DC is at this point but I'd like an Omega Men continuation that does clean up from King's run while also bringing in some of the wackier elements from the 80s run. And LoSH of course.

>>88759562
I'm so excited for his Booster/Flintstones and the Snagglepuss story

>>88759580
bless you anon

>>88759545
>>88759585
Oh yeah I do remember some stuff from JLA.

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>>88759574
I don't think I'd give Russell your kind of more straight bang-up action-driven book, although he's clearly showing some plot skills. It's mostly that I think he'd get the tone right on L.E.G.I.O.N., wherein it's both very funny and deadly serious

>>88759580
still top husbando

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>>88759641
speaking of funny and serious, Mr. Stroke is heading places cape books usually don't

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>>88758249

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>>88759673
that's gonna get some use

>>88759663
Could you imagine how complex a Priest LEGION run might get.

>>88759663
What do you mean ?

>>88759673
his ass is pretty underrated

>>88759618
desu I'm more excited about Skwad/Banana Splits by Bedard, who is another HEAVILY underrated writer. I mean, he made a KFC comic book work. Twice!

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>>88759692
so my takeaway from the whole Legend of WW thing was "don't talk shit about your employer/other people working for them on twitter" and also "don't be so toxic co-dependent with your husband on twitter either"

>>88759709
engagement with very specific and bloody real life issues/events as the meat of the plot and not just dressing up things that could have been set anywhere. The Bosniak dude shooting the man, etc.

>>88759574
>>88759641
Russell isn't interested in capeshit, he hasn't even read much. Most I'd give him is a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle team up book after seeing his upcoming one shot.

>>88759343
Majestic's books are actually bretty gud IIRC. I'd like to see him get a book with a Wildstorm imprint coming soon.

>>88759739
Yeah, Bedard isn't too bad. LEGION and his GLC work was good and of course the KFC comics are GOAT

all the Hanna Barbera crossover annuals sound pretty good honestly

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>>88759739
That's such a total left-field crossover

I'm also hoping for Good Chaykin for Ruff and Ready, because if it works it's a perfect read on them, and he does know that period like the back of his hand--it's more that he needs to not be allowed to go nuts on it.

>>88759742
Where was the Vlatavan in that scene ;^)

>>88759752
Well, his state registered waifu is due to. Wouldn't be surprised if he shows up in the Zealot and/or Grifter books.

>>88758635
Hey, you're being unfair.

Some of them were GAY Major Force.

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>>88759776
That's the thing, he's not just using the usual stand-in countries, he's talking about Srebrenica.

>>88759769
On the other hand, New 52 Blue Beetle.

>>88759742

>engagement with very specific and bloody real life issues/events as the meat of the plot and not just dressing up things that could have been set anywhere. The Bosniak dude shooting the man, etc.

This makes me curious how Priest might do on a Black Widow book. Maybe he'd find a way to do something with her other than a rehash of a plot she already went through like four times already. Maybe he'd find a direction for Bucky that's not being a pest upon the Thunderbolts while he is at it, too.

>>88759742
>so my takeaway from the whole Legend of WW thing was "don't talk shit about your employer/other people working for them on twitter" and also "don't be so toxic co-dependent with your husband on twitter either"
but OP DC is obviously evil and in the wrong here! they fired a pregnant woman who wrote the only good Wonder Woman book!

not talking shit about your employer where they can easily see it (and especially not complaining about them hiring somebody other than you for a project, wtf) is a good lesson and I wonder how much truth there is to those posts that came up about them being really shady

>engagement with very specific and bloody real life issues/events as the meat of the plot and not just dressing up things that could have been set anywhere. The Bosniak dude shooting the man, etc.
oh that's a good point, that flashback managed to be kind of silly but brutal at the same time

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>>88759806
I can promise you some major Authority presence in this run by the end

and some curbstomping

Damn, son

>>88759809
Yeah, I was just poking fun. We had an African warlord already - it'll be interesting to see how current he pushes it.

>>88759811
I forgot about that

I really didn't like his Convergence Parallax mini either and New Guardians was pretty meh

>>88759739
Suicide Splits is such a fucking obscenely bonkers pitch that I am going to be extremely sad if it turns out underwhelming.

Amanda Waller bullying a cartoon animal rock band into saving her black ops criminals? That's as crazy as the Legion of Superheroes hiring a Colonel Sanders.

>>88759835
damn Nate, that's some balls

>>88759835
Proposing this as new subtitle:
>Captain Atom Spits on the Wildstorm Universe

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>>88759844
Yeah, the question with some of the mediocre recent Bedard stuff is how much of it was him and how much was mandated, given what we know about Early New 52 working conditions.

>>88759863
It's fucking great. He should be unfailingly polite, but when his moral ire is worked up, that's what he does.

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>>88759878

>>88759835
Oh god, it's JLA/Avengers all over again!
Except this time the guest Captain is 100% right

>>88758647
>Danger Girl

Ah Cliffhanger, the only book you had that interested me was the one that died the fastest.
Well, Battle Chasers seemed an alright pitch too, but I never ended up reading it.

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>>88759893
well when you put it like THAT

>>88759835

This is glorious.

>>88759835
Amazing.

Majestros isn't wrong when you compare him to the Authority

>>88758710
Well, be fair. Ellis has only had like two years behind the scenes working on it.

That's hardly time enough for more than like 4 issues.

>>88759878
>Yeah, the question with some of the mediocre recent Bedard stuff is how much of it was him and how much was mandated, given what we know about Early New 52 working conditions.
That's true, I wonder how much of the stuff people hated in Blue Beetle were editorial decisions

Not that that lets him totally off the hook but it's more understandable

Has he done anything recently other than KFC and the upcoming Banana Splits thing?

>>88759907
Battle Chasers never even properly finished because Joe Mad has ADHD or something. I mean, Jesus H. Christ man, stick to one project and finish it.

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>>88759912
>>88759934
The moral issues of The Authority are worth a reading/discussion although Millar is like sticking your head in a toilet. I think Phil Jimenez was talking about it a few months ago.

>>88759991
I do love Our Kev.

>>88758781
>Hair not white

Burn this now!

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>>88759991
:D :D :D

>>88760011
Kev is great in part because Ennis is good at hitting that balance between "does what's awful but necessary" and "doesn't paint it as good ol' solid heroism"

Also, as the universe itself reminds us, Kev is a cunt.

>>88759912
This is weird because the only Mr.Majestic I know is Joe Casey's, and he was straight up heroic.

I mean issue #1 has him physically move the Earth out of harm's way

>>88758898
Handwavy quantum power stuff.

Like that time he magicked Red Tornado back to life.

>>88759991
>is like sticking your head in a toilet
It's the best run

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>>88760040
I should run that, it's a fun series and it's far less edgy, as you say, than Casey often tends to be. Madge is a pretty solid guy in this run, it's just that the whole skew of the WU in it has gone very dark.

>>88759959
Has the Kickstarter game gone anywhere yet? Is it still stuck in Dev Hell, like all Kickstarter videogames?

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>>88760083
oh shiii-

>>88760094
I laughed so hard when they announced Joe Mad on the first big Inhumans push because we all knew that wasn't gonna happen

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>>88759742
Ray Dillon still doesn't understand what he did wrong there.

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>>88760083
>t's far less edgy, as you say, than Casey often tends to be
Casey has two moods

Subversive when he's trying to be Miller/Moore and Heroic when he's trying to be Kirby/Morrison

Personally I find all the subversive edgy books kind of crap, although I do love Officer Downe because of Burnham's art. Mr.Majestic, Godland, Cable, and Catalyst Comix are the good stuff

>>88760121
oh boy this scene

>>88760026
I really wanted Midnighter to run into Kev in that bar in his own series. I'd love Orlando to use him.

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>>88760121
mai scantily clad waifu

Thanks for reading: we'll be back ummm Saturday night, but expect 7:30-8 PM start

>>88760135
Casey also has a deeply unappealing (IMO) "kids/writers these days" spiel he goes into a lot in the end notes of SEX.

>>88759344
Bill Messner-Loebs.

IDW is doing a Judge Dredd one shot about what if he never stopped being a Werewolf written/drawn by John McCrea and of his whole career they credit him as the creator of Dogwelder.

That gives me a great idea of the tone of that comic

>>88760176
Thanks again OP!

>>88760115

Dillion and his supporters absolutely don't get it. Publically shitting on your employer and collegues because you are butthurt that someone else got to do a pitch for something is a pathetic thing to do and has nothing to do with 'criticising suspect practices'.

>>88760094
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/11/16/making-classic-rpgs-modern-with-battle-chasers-nightwar-on-ps4/

>>88759455
Fine then.
His LOVER Babylon.

>>88760176

Thanks OP!

>>88760176
Thanks OP

>>88759534
Uh, Nate, I think you're making the wrong face to negotiate with the president.

You surfed this internet. You ought to know about the global super-coup d'etat by now.

>>88760224
And the sheer number of people angry about Kickstarter rewards/paid for commissions was convincing that they needed badly to get their house in order before taking on more work. Her "gee shucks" attitude combined with his aggro is another alarming issue.

>>88760224
de Liz also had some sob "they said I could bring up any concerns I want!" excuse

which apparently does not cover your husband being a retarded asshole online

>>88759534
>>88759562
I just realized something.


Shouldn't he have woken up like 3 Presidents later? What was the yield on that nuke?

>>88760273

It makes me think that there went on much more into the cancellation of LOWW behind the scenes than what we know.

>>88760304
There was a bit in the Heidi MacDonald article

> In a private post by a very well known editor on FB, it was pointed out that if editors went public with all the nutty and unprofessional things that freelancers did, it would look terrible but also, the stories would never, ever end.

I suspect being their editor sucked.

>>88760290
Moving between universes probably uses up some of the yield.

>>88760304
There was some article with a DC spokeperson and apparently the pair were hard to work with.

>>88760364
link?

>>88760337

Everything about their behaviour online sure makes them look like complete nightmares to work with.

>>88760377
yeah if they're this shitty online I can't imagine they were much better in private

>>88760371
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/20/wonder-woman-writer-artist-ray-dillon-renae-de-liz-dropped-dc-relationship

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>>88760083

>>88760413
Thanks.

Yeah, you will note that for instance, people working for Marvel might fight with fans and be jerks on Twitter, but they aren't talking shit about other books from the company even when it's pretty clear in the writing that they don't care for them. Make a private account and vent to your friends, don't try to play chicken with Editorial/shame them in public.

>>88760176
Thanks OP. Welcome back, again.

Anything planned on the other end of this mini? Or back into the hiatus whole until February, when you check for your shadow/6 more weeks of hiatus?

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>>88760490
Ummmm, it's kind of up in the air. I do have some shit to Get Done and I'm working full time-level hours, but I can try to make better use of my other free time. I'm thinking of shorter and less ambitious/more finishable projects, maybe?

>>88758027
On the one hand, it's a central part of his character. On the other, having a guy telling jokes while he's about to explode would fuck with the gravity of the current scenario.

Then again, he's flying a giant metal Composite Superman into a green asteroid.

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>>88760176
Blow 'em up, Nate! Blow 'em up real good!

>>88758675
is Gen13 involved at all?

>>88759134
Agents of Atlas?

>>88759387
Bendis blocked me for asking Slott a question

>>88759574
Baron is my boy, Outsiders was the shit
>>88760200
Messner-Loebs wrote the best Wally

>>88759935
The silence about other titles/ongoing universe really bugs me that they poached Clean Room's artist for this

>>88762772
Clean Room is probably dead by the next issue anyway

>>88762976
It's been solicited up to #17, so it will probably wrap up at #18

>>88762602
Didn't Thunderbolts and Red Shulk come after that?

>>88763240
ah shit youre right I thought he did their Secret Wars one shot

>>88757899
Thanks

Captain Atom - Armageddon 01 (of 06) (2005) (two covers) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/l0HpKm8v/file.html

Captain Atom - Armageddon 02 (of 06) (2006) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/NqnqIELa/file.html

Captain Atom - Armageddon 03 (of 06) (2006) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/4lpt14FE/file.html

Captain Atom - Armageddon 04 (of 06) (2006) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/7rcF7Epe/file.html

Captain Atom - Armageddon 05 (of 06) (2006) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/hLzYZt2J/file.html

Captain Atom - Armageddon 06 (of 06) (2006) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/1IKpXFDy/file.html

>>88762602
Agents of Atlas was decent as far as I can remember

>>88759248
>Tomasi
has been doing a lot of set up (as has Jurgens, just not as well) that should start paying off with Multiplicity and the following arc. He's doing a good job, for example, in connecting the Dino Island/Loser two-parter with Multiplicity three stories, and I think moving the stories like that, versus dragging them out for six or seven issues, serves the series better.

>>88763660
That was Taylor and was meh

>>88759893
Hey, it's that aardvark diner.

>>88760337
This kind of reminds me of when Byrne left She-Hulk the first time and was blaming it on the editor but didn't say why. Peter David, knowing that the editor couldn't defend herself due to the NDAs, said that Byrne left because he objected to a scene in someone else's She-Hulk miniseries where she broke hundreds of razors while shaving.

>>88770744
Was it because it wasn't HIS fetish, or

>>88760168
Imagine if Kev shows up some day on the Baytor's bar.

>>88771405
Byrne is the pettiest, worst, most bitter and jealous kind of continuity fag who has ever been given actual power to control things.

>>88772269
Your anecdote makes PAD sound like a pretty petty asshole too.

>>88772452
Wasn't my ancedote, I've just read a lot of Byrne comics and commentary, including suffering through some events that were nothing but nitpicking continuity 'fixes'.

PAD can be pretty nitpicky too.

>>88771666
The dream, Satan. The dream.

>>88757899
Wait when did JSA storytime come back?

>>88773156
This is actually a JSA storytime exposed to a nuclear explosion in the distant past.

>>88773114
I'll concede you that anon.

>>88774344

>>88773167
Underrated post.

It feels weird to see DC and Wildstorm mixing, given what later happens with them being integrated and now separated again. I don't really know about the politics of them merging - was this like a test of that?

>>88776715
I like how DC decided to use Captain Atom for that, giving since Captain Atom cmes from Charlton, which was also merged with DC.