JSA Storytime: Captain Atom

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>>88844092
and now, a short recap on Max

come on, captcha, load

>>88844092
More Nate Thank you.

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>>88844109
still not okay

>>88844126
this takes us up to N52 and we'll see what we do from there because N52 was pretty but kind of not what I wanted? also, Bates/Weisman is out Wednesday, and we'll have a lot to talk about there

>>88844146
>N52 was pretty but kind of not what I wanted?
Diet Manhattan

>>88844109
How is everyone feeling about Max in the JL vs SS mini?

Oh man I remember this as it was coming out. /co/ was full born JLI IS THE BEST EVER SHUT UP and it was fun watching them convince themselves this was a great series and realize it wasn't over a year.

i remember absolutely nothing from the series itself

Hey OP!

>>88844164
The DC Watchmen tweets are triggering me hard.

>>88844165

potential that has yet to be capitalized on

>>88844192

i tweeted johns time trapper shit so i feel good about myself

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>>88844146
Brightest Day brought back a lot of people and was total dicks to most of them

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>>88844214
GODDAMMIT CAPTCHA

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>>88844323
oh look it's Green Lantern

>>88844146
Do you think you could track Max by his bloody handkerchiefs? Even just by handkerchief purchases maybe.

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>>88844352
>>88844167
I believe I have read that this one had a LOT of mandatory plot changes on the fly, as well

>>88844352

it's weird that Booster had entire life story from post Crisis to the end of Convergence.

Greatest Hero Of All Time

>OP has become a consistent faggot.
What went right?

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>>88844382
damn, that's cold

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>>88844390
OP works tomorrow night, so breaking that streak, sorry

reminder that Tora came back from the dead in BoP

>>88844404

i think i was also mad about this series because I love the Johns/Katz Booster Gold so much

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>>88844438

>>88844214
>and was total dicks to most of them
Not as bad as the poor legacy characters got it in Blackest Night.

>>88844214
Still mad about Shiera/Kendra

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>>88844472
reminder that honestly, Rucka, what were you thinking with Bea

if that BC thing about "shorter arcs, no more six-parters-for-a-trade" is true, gott sei dank

>>88844192
What about them

So they're going to Rebirth Booster soon right? Maybe he's part of a big story considering he's time traveller and all.
Also I don't know where Martian Manhunter is. I was so sure he was going to be in Orlando League.

>>88844494

>if that BC thing about "shorter arcs, no more six-parters-for-a-trade" is true, gott sei dank

i'm hoping that's BC spinning it and the actual thing is more "let the stories be the length they need to be"

a mandate for short stories isn't much better than a mandate for long stories imo

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>>88844494
pure husbando time

>>88844494
I wouldn't be surprised if it is true, so far a few Rebirth books had 7-8 issue opening arcs but it seems like every subsequent arc has been 3-5 issues instead with a handful of 1-2 issue ones

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>>88844524
I hope it's along the lines of "Editorial, plan your shit out, and err on the side of less expanded and why don't you work on long-term continuing plot skills"

>>88844512
Booster is crossing over in Flintstones, but I would be surprised if he doesn't show up elsewhere afterwards

Apparently the HB annuals are meant to be canon since the Future Quest/Adam Strange one follows up after Death of Hawkman

>Also I don't know where Martian Manhunter is. I was so sure he was going to be in Orlando League.
Yeah I was stunned he wasn't announced in the JLA lineup, Orlando LOVES MMH

Maybe he'll show up once the roster starts changing

>>88844524
I'm hoping it's more of a "don't drag stories out and don't write specifically for a 6 issue trade" thing and less "YOUR STORIES MUST BE 5 ISSUES OR LESS"

>>88844510
Are you looking forward to the event?

>>88844494
I like the idea of shorter arc, my favorite writers currently at DC (King, Seeley, Orlando) are all very good with one and done. I hope there's a mandate for one shots and smaller arcs, would feel great desu.

>>88844558

yeah, I mean there's no real reason to abandon the basics of Claremont/Levitz style.

>>88844573

right. i guess any hard line mandate not from the creative team worrys me

>>88844524
>a mandate for short stories isn't much better than a mandate for long stories imo
IMO that's totally wrong and the former is hugely preferable, at least with big two comics in the US.

Still betting on JLVSS ending with Max tricking everyone and becoming the JLA liason.
Then dreaming Teds gonna join up after Bats quits after the first 5 issues and is the one that figures out Max's shit

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>>88844558
I want to see more things that are 1) written with artist capacities in mind so arcs have a coherent fill without fill-ins 2) carrying longer and more subtle subplots over arc boundaries 3) pack in the development for supporting cast

>>88844579
No, just thought people were bitching about it on twitter or soemthing

>>88844595

Hell hasn't King been doing 4 or 5 issue arcs with intermittent one offs?

>>88844613

>1) written with artist capacities in mind so arcs have a coherent fill without fill-ins

green arrow jumps out to me as pulling this off amazingly. Superman too.

>>88844615
Just the tweets from creatives like "It's happening!"

It's not profaning something sacred for me anything, I just think it'll be shit.

>>88844524
The only reason for shorter arcs is artist can't keep up. Look at both Action and Superman ffs. I'd take forced one to three parter if it meant art was consistent.

>>88844640
It's Didio Comics, of course it'll be shit.

>>88844613
>carrying longer and more subtle subplots over arc boundaries
That's the thing, right? Frequent up-to-6 arcs doesn't mean you abandon long term stories entirely, it means you work them over a series of arcs. If the mandate was for arcs of 6-or-less with 1 or 2 one-shots in between that would be my absolute ideal. I think done-in-one's tend to help the supporting cast with an ongoing title too, maybe others would disagree on that. But they certainly can do.

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>>88844603
Exactly, send everyone to read a few years of Levitz/Giffen LOSH and see how the whole is greater than the parts

>>88844633
Khouri has talked about plotting very, very specifically for artist pacing and availability

>>88844666
Flintstones' existence is also Didio Comics.

>>88844579
I am because whatever the quality is, I know it would trigger the fuck out of autists.

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>>88844682
I think one-and-dones make writers who don't have a large time scale for writing/revision concentrate on using all their page real-estate more carefully

DAMMIT

>>88844092
>Brightest Day
While it doesn't sound like Fear Itself-level, I've never heard anything good about this.

>>88844729
it's mostly long and pointless, kinda dumb, and leads absolutely nowhere

>>88844666
Back to >>>/reddit/ cocksucker.

>>88844712
Stopped clocks and all that.

>>88844729
It exists, I can say that much

>>88844165
I want him to show up in Jaime's book

>>88844684
There were a few memorial storytimes when you weren't running OP. I dunno if you saw but I came across this on Giffen LOSH about then and posted it in one of them:

>Legion of Super-Heroes Vol 4 #5

>Oh, it's a long story. But basically a crazy wizard manages to fuck up history so that magic defeats technology up until even the 30th century. So this single issue is the Medievalized versions of the superheroes trying to get their timeline back. Keith Giffen manages to do what Mike Mignola couldn't and creates the most convincingly Lankhmarish visuals in comics history.

>Some people thought Keith Giffen's run on Legion was too dark, too dense, too complex, and too hard to understand. These people are all child molesters. There is nothing like it in the history of comic book storytelling and if we had to lose a few illiterate waterheads off the fanbase in order to see it, then those are the risks of the culture business.

>Many more people have never even heard of Giffen's run on Legion of Super-Heroes because nobody fucking reads Legion of Super-Heroes. I envy these people because they can go buy back-issues of the first few years of Legion Volume 4 and be extremely surprised and confused and engrossed and happy for a few days in a way that's otherwise fairly difficult to do without taking off your clothes, leaving the house, getting fat, or paying some creep with weird facial hair for a carefully-titrated helping of something illegal.

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>>88844724
that's our Nate

Who else tends to have absorption powers like this?

>>88844729
The main series was kind of weird, some plots were good and some were just kind of there

>>88844765
But that book is shit

>>88844682
This, look at Prieststroke.

>>88844758
Back to >>>/tv/ shitposter

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>>88844772
...that's amazing

really? memorial storytimes? I'm honored

>>88844772

not everyone gets it but those that do DO

>>88844724
I kinda think when you look smaller you also look at more minor details about a character and/or the supporting cast.

You can get a whole lot done in just a couple of pages, honestly. I really don't hate the idea of shorter arcs coming from a comics anthology background.

>>88844789
Prieststroke is also doing very well with its supporting cast. It did from the first issue on actually.

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>>88844812
F

...not really, we know he's back, but at least we got the blowing up out of the way early, and for all his faults Winick seems to know what it does

>>88844729
Nothing is Fear Itself level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Itself_(comics)
Just go to reception, every fucking critic probably edited himself shitting on the event. I have never seen a Wikipedia page like this for any other comic.

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>>88844837
We've got what: Slade, Wintergreen, Adele, Rose, Joey, Joey's thing, the support guy...

>>88844862

it broke Fraction

>>88844812
It was rough going without you OP.

>>88844390
Hey fuck you don't steal my thing.
Even if it's true

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>>88844811
>Reddit calling other people out

>>88844789
Deathstroke's first arc was 8 issues long, not exactly a short arc

The next two arcs look a lot shorter though

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>>88844881
this is gonna hurt

>>88844862
Fear Itself was the pre-Age of Ultron high mark for "shitty mandated event" that I would love to read the internal about because it was blown up from a small thing into line-wide

it did, however, bring us the Giant-Size Man-Thing

>>88844881
It probably helps that Mr Stroke has an established family. But yeah, as soon as Wintergreen was revealed we started getting work on the supporting cast. Shit he even did some work with Damian as a bonus.

>>88844911

>about because it was blown up from a small thing into line-wide

yeah a Cap and Thor crossover.

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>>88844914
now that was how you do a feature issue within a larger arc, yes

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>>88844944
yeah, this is top-tier whump

>>88844902
It was 8 issue long but a lot of the issues work as one shot. Like Deathstroke fighting Batman. Art change in that series isn't jarring since every issue changes the setting.

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>>88844969

>>88844970
>Art change in that series isn't jarring since every issue changes the setting.
I hadn't considered that at all, good point.

>>88844970
Yeah, there was actually a lot going on, it wasn't just a 4 issue story dragged out to 8 issues

but the next arcs being shorter do make me wonder if there's some truth to the BC article

>>88844404
It's Winnick writing, right? Half of everyone's going to come across like bitches

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>>88844998
>>88844970
I could also see someone in a store flipping through a single and being interested enough to start from the top

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>>88845016
lol half

there's a lot of Bitcherei in this run, but some of it's fun

(there are also some cool unexpected cameos)

>>88844438
What do I read for more background on Ice's homeland?

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>>88845062
shiny naked characters in comics: GO

>>88844780
You must get sick of this, Nate.

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>>88845080
is this /d/?

>>88844724
>Frozen water will contain radiation

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>>88845120

>>88845120
Idunno, but is Peter Thiel the Maxwell Lord of our universe?

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>>88845126
As a physical barrier, I'm not sure which radiation it stops and what gets through

>>88845120
that's an awful lot of blood

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>>88845157
....fuck

>>88844785
And?

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>>88845200
yeah, here we go

>>88845080
I like the notion he just bled a whole bunch over Booster before walking to the bleeding rig. Just gotta spread it about before leaving a trail.

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>>88845223
>>88845224
Max is pretty petty

>>88844881
>Joey's thing
Hahaha

Also that African guy from the first issue and I suspect Ikon will have more flashback scenes

>>88845258

good pitch for a series ngl

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>>88845258

>>88845263
You mean JA ZAKI, THE RED LION? I loved him repurposing Deathstroke's old suit.

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>>88845282
this is one hell of a whammy

>>88845297
that dude is pretty neat, i hope he shows up more

>>88845258
Since most everyone forgot he existed...those that didn't forget,could kill him with no repercussions right?

>>88845263
Red Lions already shown up since then.
I want more not-Black Panther, he seems cool.

>>88845297
Fuck I'm already reading it like the Black Panther music video

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>>88845306
Bea is just hanging out there appreciating the view

>>88845310
Aside from just liking the guy, the whole conflating of a dictator's larger-than-life public persona with the pomp and circumstance of supervillainy is some good shit.

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>>88845324
Without spoiling anything, this mini is a long hunt for Max, who's a slippery fuck

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>>88845362
You can't guilt trip Nate, Booster. Not this time.

>>88845335
You know, I hate to make another Dr Manhattan comparison but it doesn't make much sense for Nate to have a cup.

i like Bea's changing hair

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>>88845392
We had us a nice long conversation about the metaphysics and aesthetics of Nate's junk back when we read his ongoing, didn't we

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>>88845414
I believe 'quantum superposition' was invoked.

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>>88845442
Oh right, we Dickbats at this point in time

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>>88845469
>>88844896
i missed you too, fag!anon

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>>88845485
shiiit

>>88845414
>>88845442
Well, it's just seeing it alongside the guys in suits. Cause it ain't a suit. I figure either:

1) Nate loses his human junk because he takes on attributes of the junk-less Silver Shield when he transforms
2) He can just amend the silver skin to have a cup

But by 2) Major Force should pretty much have his junk out all the time too. I think a compromise would be that if Nate ever can't control the shell enough to turn it off/on, he also has his junk out all the time in the shell.

>>88845469
the edit of that last panel still cracks me up

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>>88845502

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>>88845506
it's mean but funny

>>88845503
I think whatever goodness there is in the universe made it so Major Force has no more junk--unlike Nate, he seems utterly unable to ever switch it off, right?

>>88845120
>Iceplay
>Bloodplay
>Corruption?
I'm not actually sure what's going on here

>>88845557
some kind of medical fetish?

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>>88845554
oh gosh, it's Magog, he's sure nice and well-adjusted

>>88845171
>>88845557
>Mind control

>>88845554
Major Force is stuck, yeah. Another difference that sometimes is just given up. I can't remember what Martin's deal was.

>>88845506
Does anybody have it?

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>>88845581

>>88845223
>Who the hell is Maxwell Lord?

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>>88845606
dammit!

>>88845629
>his boots are finally red to match his gloves/logo
I approve

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>>88845629

>>88844092
Why wasn't this in the Brightest Day Omnibus?

>>88845329
Right, that's why I counted him as a supporting rather than a one-off. Couldn't remember the second issue he was in, though.

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>>88845649

>>88845649
they really could have defined his ass better here

>>88845677
God damn it.

>>88844785
No it's not.

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>>88845677
Nate would totally have a joke for this

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>>88845703

>>88845730
Nice to know Tora and Bea are both braless and have hard nipples

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>>88845730

>>88845662
Because it was mostly unconnected yet just as long as the main series.

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>>88845743
the legs are getting a little Liefeld here, albeit mostly with feet

>>88845743
Are you arguing against the Casey/Dragotta rule of characterization?

>>88845469
So THAT'S where it comes from

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>>88845788
So when is their Miss America comic happening?

>>88845788
But I can't tell if they're wearing thongs or not!

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>>88845817
hi there Jaime

>>88845817
Not sure, sometime this year.

>>88845823
It's any underwear, anon. No need to be so prescriptive.

>>88845788
It truly says a lot about their America that she wears a fake whale tail to make people think she's wearing a thong but actually isn't wearing any underwear.

>>88845845
I would have been tickled if their America came out before Marvel's

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>>88845843
OH SHI-

>>88845869
These were dark times in comics. These were amazing times.

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>>88845869
(one page)

>>88845703
TBF while they call it a joke here there's less teasing and more fuk u from other characters about him.

>>88844092
Whoops. Coming in late again.

Don't know how much merch you buy, generally, OP, but look at this glorious insanity: https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Mighty-Micros-Iron-Man-vs-Thanos-76072

We need a Wendell driving a glowing yellow nunchuk mobile.

>>88844092
Booster looks like a scheevy Russian on a dating site on this cover.

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>>88845902
oh gosh

>>88845902
>Bizarro's car is backwards
Sasuga DC

>>88844109
>EXTREME mind control

So what, he can only control people drinking Mountain Dew or doing sick skateboard flips?

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>>88845935
>>88845928
it's definitely not as much of a quality lewd implication as Helmut with two Karlas

>>88845891
>>88845869

i'm pretty sure between final crisis and flashpoint was one of the weakest times for DCU honestly

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>>88845956

>>88845953
That would be radical.

>>88845743
>Ice powers
>Nipples not perpetually hard from your own cold

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>>88846002
I choose to believe that superheroine suits have incredible physical properties to function as built-in sports bras that nonetheless show off the girls

>>88844214
>Brightest Day brought back a lot of people and was total dicks to most of them

Yeah... I only lasted like... a month? Maybe two into the Brightest Day era before basically dropping DC altogether out of fatigue. They were running events HARD those days, and a lot of books suffered for it.

>>88846031
Reed Richards truly was a genius.

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>>88846041
so much of BD was attempted fix-it that it's clear the reboot was not planned long before it happened

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>>88846051
I'd kill for an unstable molecules bra

>>88846061

the legend is that Final Crisis was supposed to lead into it

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>>88846101
I was reading today a Vulture article about Rebirth that talked about how Johns et al. deliberately set out to spend less time on the 'how' of the fix-its and more on the "write a story with shit you want in it" side

>>88846061
Yeah, a lot of BD is setting up things for after Flashpoint, because it was originally supposed to be a softer reboot. So it's a lot of boring furniture rearranging that turned out to be completely unnecessary.

>>88846128
You think that's truer for some books than others? I'm thinking WW.

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>>88846123
That makes sense

>>88846002
How did OMACs get from being One Man Army Corps to this?

>>88846150
Ha, well, Rucka's doing his own thing. It's his decades long dream to bore everyone to death with his ultimate definitive origin story.

>>88846150

i just realized of the last 4 big runs for her 3 are still fucking with her origins. lol

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>>88846150
WW is clearly Rucka getting to do what he wants, I think. Probably that was a condition of him coming onto it, considering some of the comments about the Cho conflict. Speaking of which, there's an overview of it on Newsarama, and why is it so slow

>>88846176
Prelude to Infinite Crisis

>>88846190
I figure he gets a lot of leeway for deigning to come back.

>>88846176

i think it was infinite crisis build up?

>>88846176
Infinite Crisis

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>>88846201
down the line here JMS Wondy solidly fucks up wherever this book was going, in fact

>>88846123
I think Final Crisis took longer to come out than Countdown to Final Crisis did.

But that might just be me remembering wrong.

>>88846163
The genocidal father who made her a killing machine like Cass Cain is the most inexplicable part of what Rucka did to Bea.

>>88846207
I'm reading the vulture article now, that whiteboard anecdote is pretty charming.
>Shit maybe we shouldn't have completely fucked up the characters

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>>88846261
it's kind of the Standard Rucka Tough Female Character Backstory set, which is why it's so fucking dull

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>>88846262
The mix of top-down and collaborative is an interesting one; I think at times you do need one vision having an ultimate yes/no say on things, but micromanaging gets you nowhere good

Whereas current Marvel feels rather like a lot of *competing* fiefdoms and carved-out areas with little communication

>>88846282
It's so Whedon.

>>88844613
Ah, the Rip Hunter Board.

A permanent reminder of "look at all the storyline ideas we are going to botch or forget about"

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>>88844633
Green Arrow is pulling off it's artist tag teaming superbly.

It helps that both main artists are killing it too.

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>>88846312
I have never warmed to Joss.

>>88846312

Rucka's a million times worse about it

>>88846325

RIP Rip's boards

"IGNORE COUNTDOWN" is untoppable to be fair

>>88846311
It's interesting to think about "what are the essential elements" as a starting point vis-a-vis like Hellcat, although I don't want to rag on that too much because I know a couple of people ITT are fans. I suppose Patsy's kinda tricky on that because of the romance comic background anyway (the new one is almost that by way of superheroes but with, uh, far less romance).

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>>88846382
Comrade, who's read way way more Defenders than I have, had a take on it, what was it

Ahem

>>First, Hellcat was Marvel's first female Peter Parker. All the major female characters that Marvel had up until that point had either been retiring, fragile romantic interests, or aloof, serious-minded professionals. Patsy broke the mold by being an irreverent, wise-cracking woman who constantly tried to get her teammates to lighten up. Her friendship with Valkyrie worked so well because of this, with Brunnhilde being the straight woman to Patsy's antics. Naturally this is hardly anything unique today, where wise-cracking, quipping female heroes are everywhere, but back then this was something that really made her stand out. Being funny is a vital part of Patsy, and it needs to be captured well.

>The Leth series attempts this but it fails at one very vital narrative point. In the classic comics where she appeared, Hellcat was the whacky element in a serious world. She was embroiled in a dark, violent setting filled with death, despair and life-threatening situations and much like Spidey she coped by being flippant. In the current series, Hellcat lives in a whacky, flippant world where nothing is serious. She's a cartoon character in a cartoon world, thus removing the point of her humor. That's probably the most fundamental flaw of the Leth series for me because it's such an intrinsic problem that it affects everything in the comic

>>88844092
Who's the green haired waifu?

>>88846382
Isn't the bi guy endgame?

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>>88846431
that's Bea/Fire

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>>88844861
Also, we read his old book.

We know that all eating a bomb does to him is time displace him into the future.

This really should just be giving him a chance to team up with the Flash, Iris West, to get back home.

https://twitter.com/JMDeMatteis/status/815972912180105217

>>88846431
Fire aka Sunspot in the DC universe

>>88846441
Maybe, I'm not up to date. I just mean the zero stakes light-hearted nature of it like >>88846426 is more like, your Archie-pattern romance comic. Which I think Patsy originally was, rather than the extreme melodrama romance comic - I could be wrong on that, haven't read them. But there's not all that much smooching either way.

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>>88846480
Russia, eh?

>>88846426

i don't disagree with this but i also don't think it's what the book is going for. it's more golden age patsy than marvel patsy

>>88846426
>>>First, Hellcat was Marvel's first female Peter Parker.

Lies.
Hellcat was Atlas's female Archie Andrews.
She predates Marvel Comics, and just kind of accidentally trundled into the universe I think because Englehart was a fan.

>>88846577

yep. also one of the first 2 comics with the Marvel logo/brand name

>>88846564
TIME FOR DMITRI?!

>>88846568
Yeah, which is why I think it's interesting to look at the DC maxim in that article of "what is the essential X" down to you know, Green Arrow's goatee (it's nuts that this was ever editorial but put that aside). Because the essential Patsy Walker, Marvel-style, definitely isn't the current Hellcat but she has that extra background too.

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>>88846541
I have never really dug into romance comics of times past. I know from discussion with some other people that every once in a while, someone gets it into their head that there's this amazing treasure trove of undiscovered female-centric entertainment, and is then utterly underwhelmed by the content in and of itself.

>>88846577
>>88846568
True, the question is whether you want to keep the intervening stuff, and if you want to ditch it, what do you keep unaltered and what goes by the wayside and does it still add up

>>88844969
That last panel is ship bait. And the internet would defend this beating on the basis of shipping.

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>>88846623
hey do we wanna read one more tonight because we're off tomorrow?

>>88846634
I remember a couple good Max/Booster pics came out of this stuff

>>88846647
if you're up for it OP

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>>88846634
I called it 'whump' for a reason, whump is a venerable subgenre

>>88846623
Romance comics are boring but Patsy Walker has more charm than most, because there's a sense of humor about how silly Patsy is compared to the straight melodrama of sobbing teen girls.

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>>88846675
now THERE'S a Nate joke

we can't leave it here without doing some Rocket Reds, can we

>>88846623

There's also the element of a character being able to work in multiple stories/settings. Batman 66 and DKR Batman are the same character

it is weird there's not like an EC Comics for Romance, it's not like it was niche back then

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>>88846720
True, who is a current Marvel character who gets to exist in a variety of genres/tones?

>>88846623
One of my "never gonna happen" wishlists is a clever revival of EC's Moon Girl. Started out as a love comic but switched over to incorporating EC's horror and sci-fi elements quickly, was never very successful but had gems like female gangster Satan and a witch with a werewolf henchman who rode around on a mermaid. Moon Girl herself has the Red Sonja chastity problem: she's invincible, but she can't get with anyone until she gets beat.

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>>88845282
Quick everyone, add this to your "character playing other characters like chessmen" cover folder.

>>88846647
>nips so perked they make horizontal creases on her top

God damn Tora get those things under control.

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>>88846768
WELP

>>88846756
>female gangster Satan
I'm *there*

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>>88846796

>>88846634
>>88846634
>Max kills Ted
>then fucks his widow
That's far too depressing doujin for me

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>>88846821
best character incoming

>>88846741

Traditionally Spidey and the Thing. Maybe Deadpool nowadays?

and Patsy showed up for the first time in the Marvel U at Reed and Sue's wedding so it was totally a one off gag that Englehart incorporated. Love that kinda stuff

>>88845306
Wait, why was there a picture of Diana's Extreme Chiropractory?

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>>88846859
>it's all on his blog

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>>88846796
Well, pic related. It's got a set-up I think would be great if someone were to really think about how to modernize it/make these actual characters.

>>88845157
Jesus. He totally is. Secretly funds his (mostly legitimate) lawsuits against his enemies, bathes in the blood of infants, and.....I dunno, believes that rape awareness only exists to harm men...

>>88846869
She did it on live TV, which is why the whole world got mad at her.

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>>88846955
Jaime is cute! Cute!

>>88846741
Squirrel Girl is the closest between North's SoL and Ewing's Saturday morning cartoon. Carol and Deadpool *kinda* do just by virtue of being in everything.

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>>88846989
There's so much loose-continuity where-does-this-fit Deadpool stuff that he came to mind

>>88845525
You'd think Guy would be used to getting nearly killed by women he's dating. He IS something of a jackass.

>>88846989

>Ewing's Saturday morning cartoon

DID WE TALK ABOUT BOBBY AS CITIZEN V?

BECAUSE I AM HYPE

>>88846796
GET REKT

How are there still Black Lanterns around?

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>>88847023
oh Nate

>>88847038
I assume he will not wear the outfit

>>88845554
This is Freddy Shazam, right? We're at that confusing chunk of "lets fuck around and try to make Captain Marvel work without owning the name"

>>88847074

i kinda think he'll break it out to troll Zemo during HYDRA Civil War.

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>>88847038
I am charmed by the idea of a keikaku-off with a really, really angry Helmut, yes

>>88847075
I think so, and wow, this period was mean to him, too

>>88846904
Holy shit it's that girl who had her way with the Parkerbolts

>>88845962
Not for the Bat-Universe

>>88845677
>Magog and Captain Atom

So, this army base isn't in Kansas, right?

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>>88847154
Funny you should say that...

I don't think so. But do keep that idea in mind.

>>88847075
Yeah, Billy and Mary were depowered and recovering from a heap of traumatic shit.

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>>88847190
it's not a Rocket Red without somewhat stereotypical and yet always entertaining English

>>88847075

>"lets fuck around and try to make Captain Marvel work without owning the name"

wait is that why they're always pushing Black Adam?

>>88847154
Heh

>>88847221
Either that or just that he's a Johns husbando.

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>>88847215

>>88847049
I never finished all of Brightest Day, but one of the running themes was that people did not come back to life right. I remember Aquaman was having problems with influencing fish, and he started summoning dead fish instead

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>>88847247
(the colorists can't keep Nate's gloves and boots straight, oh well)

>>88847266
That sounds fucking hilarious.

>>88847247
>small floating plane
I'm dying here

>>88847049
>>88847266
Shit, hit submit too early. So I assume that Max might have trouble with mind controlling certain people, possibly those who were dead before.

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>>88847271
Tora knows Bea entirely too well

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>>88845869
Skateman Revival OGN when?!

>>88847271
Man look at the definition on those collarbones. There is no WAY he shouldn't have his dick hanging out.

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>>88847307
>>88847321
there's not actually any /34/, is there

Someone just ask Weisman about Nate's dick, you know he's got an answer

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>>88847348
that's an eloquent facepalm

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>>88847369
We do know that he has surely thought about it.

Who's gonna do the tweeting, because it's not me.

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>>88847284
Pic related from the first time it happened I think

>>88847370
Dmitri is the best friend.

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>>88847392
For the lulz, why else?

>>88847393
That's sick and twisted and I like it.

>>88847392
I don't even have a twitter

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>>88847432
welp

>>88846101
Question: Am I alone in missing when Jaime's scarab spoke in untranslated gibberish that we understood through his responses to it?

Made it feel more alien.

>>88847393
I wonder who Aquaman goes to see when he has problems, uh, influencing fish

Also I didn't realise you meant zombie fish so I legit imagined just a pile of dead fish.

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>>88847452
let's leave it here for right now

thanks for reading, back Wednesday, and I'll be running the new mini in the morning if no one beats me to it

>>88847458
nope, I liked that too.

I found the stylistic choice throughout New Krypton to have the really ugly Krypton font in the speech bubbles and a kind of subtitle translation not a good one.

>>88847392
I actually thought that was gonna be like the Norman Cap's shield scene for a second.

>>88846176
Marvel was doing absolutely nothing with the Prime Sentinel idea, so DC borrowed it.

>>88847486
Thanks again OP. Here's hoping for great things from the new one.

>>88847221
Johns liked Black Adam and he was pretty popular after 52

>>88847532

wasn't Johns doing stuff with him in JSA before 52?

>>88847532
maybe we should read Power of Shazam some time

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>>88846768

>>88847594
yeah, he was part of the JSA for a bit and there was that whole arc with Khandaq

>>88846821
>Nate's language skills have now been further eroded and he no longer can do Russian

Eventually he won't even be able to do English.

>>88847203
>Mary

As sexy as latex miniskirt Black Mary was, she was so very much the wrong thing for Mary Marvel.

The Marvel Family is not for gritty.
That's why the Jeff Smith mini was so great.

>>88847221
Sorta.

Black Adam has also been DC's splatterporn ready Arab Namor since Geoff Johns got ahold of him, so he's also popular as a murderous flying brick.

>>88847271
I strongly support this idea of a Justice League Comintern.
That sounds like a fun idea.

>>88847271
Ice's vest is weird.

>>88847307
>I injure no one but buildings of vestern plague

This may be a new Rocket Red, but he's keeping up Dmitri's record of being Best Character.

>>88848051
Dream drinking buddies comics:
>Namor/Black Adam
>Cyclops/Black Bolt
>Rocket Red/Gates

>>88847486
G'night. See you Wednesday for, hopefully, good old school Comics Meta, corny dad jokes, and Eiling dickery.

>I found the stylistic choice throughout New Krypton to have the really ugly Krypton font in the speech bubbles and a kind of subtitle translation not a good one.

Yeah.... yeah. That font was all kinds of overly complicated, and there was too much of it being used for it to go untranslated, because usually it was intended for the reader to actually be able to follow.

It'd be like if LoSH did entire pages in Interlac. If Interlac were a worse font.

>>88848219
>Nate takes Dmitri with him to the 31st century and he meets Gates and they end up having weird adventures with Mordru

>>88848329
Isn't it amazing how all our comic desires are pretty much WHAT IF THEY MET THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES

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>>88848385
Honestly what isn't made fucking cooler by the idea of meeting the Legion

>>88848319
They've kept Eiling black, but it looked like a rollback on the important stuff from the preview (I think him being black changes some stuff with Sgt Goz but the mini isn't going to get into that).

>>88848443
There's a lot of talky setup but it's going places fast.

>>88848428
If you're not a part of the DCCW watch and talks, you may have missed the regular requests for Diggle to meet as many characters that would be truly incongruous with him as possible.

>>88848319
Interlac is a better font by far. Also, the translations were in ALL CAPS SO EVERYONE WAS SHOUTING and yes, I know comics dialogue is usually lettered that way but the font for it was bad, too.

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>>88848691