JSA Storytime: X-Force

>>92181616
Pepe is DEAD!

I'm out of town so won't be reading, have fun owls

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>>92181668
RIP PEPE

what was good this week because I don't think I read anything or not or shit, it's been a long fucking week?

I gotta fucking reinstall Windows tomorrow, fuck

>>92181714
boo you whore

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>>92181737
Also you owls of any culture

http://www.metopera.org/Season/Radio/Free-Live-Audio-Streams/

I'm drinking a bottle of tempranillo and shitposting about the gala on twitter

>>92181737
People are fucking burning Secret Empire comics lol

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>>92181837
I fucking lost it, it's sub-Aja

she burned her own hand

>>92181976
I just can't believe people are getting this triggered over your average "hero goes bad" story, while no one threw a shitfit over Injustice. Fuck the MCU desu.

>>92181737
the 'Artist's Rendition' gag would be funnier if it wasn't drawn by Allred.

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>>92182036
Yeah, the degree of treating Cap like a bona-fide icon weirds me out

Okay now we're at our usual time so HI THERE

>>92182036
Injustice isn't canon.

The reasons people are so upset over Secret Empire are so complex in their stupidity I could write an essay over it. It's the highest degree of angry mob psychology.

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>>92182118
The people who are all "Secret Empire is THE REASON right-wingers I don't like are using Cap as an icon" are too fucking stupid for words

Hate the story all you fucking want, but the power some people are giving it as a story is astonishing

>>92182036
>Injustice
>canon

If HydraCap were basically Red Son, less people would be having a fit and their opinions would be less valid.

>>92181668
I haven't been on 4chan much past week or so but man I've seen a lot of 4chan shit pop up elsewhere by people who don't know it's 4chan.

>>92181616
I still find it hilarious that RHATO and Batman Beyond are selling more than Batgirl.

With her movie being more like Simone's, how long until Barbara has sometihng horrible happen to her and she gets all dark and edgy as a result?

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>>92182170
Oh son, there are SO many things the State of Texas will execute you for

>>92182118
Hey tex, did you see the preview of the next wonder woman issue featuring art by Mirka? I find it amusing to think that Cale hates Diana because she dropped her spaghetti on a charity date

>>92182118
>>92182246
Injustice obviously isn't canon, but it's popular with casuals and will cloud their idea of how Superman is for years to come. Right now we have people who honestly believe what happened in the game could happen in the regular comics. Fuck, there were people who thought they were adapting Injustice for BvS.

>>92182109
>>92182170
I also find the crossover between people who are self-confessed communists/radical socialists and who are also deeply invested in a corporate character sorta idiotic.

I know gay luxury space communism is a meme or w/e but just, think a little bit.

>>92181616
Hello, Storyteller.

... So, you know I don't much care for recs. But since I'm trying to be less of a pain in the ass, I was perhaps wondering if you knew of any books that make prominent use of visual storytelling.

Cause the thing is, despite comics being a visual medium, a lot of them seem often over reliant on dialogue and narration, which honestly baffles me. And not even just the obvious offenders like Bendis, even good comics tend to ramble a bit. And it's especially aggravating in this current age of rampant decompression, where you would think the extra length would be used to frame scenes more thoroughly than usual, but nope, more text which is often completely extraneous.

So, yeah, got any suggestions?

>>92182341
Well that ain't DC's fault, the game isn't the main comics and vice versa

If dumb people think it is then they'll be in for a surprise should they put up main canon Superman

>>92181616
Ahoy roy,

Waifu Academy's "Two Character models: Male and Female" makes Nova look like SHIT.

Like, goddamn, they need a short model for him and Moon Girl.

>>92182246
If it got the same amount of promotion but wasn't 616, you bet your fucking ass people would be just as mad. These people don't read comics, so they wouldn't understand that it's AU in the first place. They're faggots, just like OP.

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>>92182290
ugh, why even live

>>92181668
Long Live Pepe?

>>92182118
Apparently Marvel actually put out a "it's an event and shit will get cleaned up, just wait" article and people lost their shit over that too

Steve's Red/White/Blue Attack Team when

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>>92182351
Hmmm. I'm gonna think about that, books where the visuals really carry the storytelling

>>92181668
You can't kill memes you can only overtake or reincorporate them with new memes.

>>92182341
Even Diana's enemies are gay for her. I approve of this.

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>>92182495
Chris Burnham was pretty scathing about that

Also, Joe Hill sick burned two comics people who tried to pull him into a shitfight

>>92182495
They did:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/marvel-captain-americas-turn-hydra-hear-concerns/story?id=47136145

>>92181737
>what was good this week because I don't think I read anything or not or shit, it's been a long fucking week?

I think we may have already talked that on Wednesday? Thursday? Last story time.
Flintstones. Nova. DugGotG was okay (Moondragon is probably dead again), Other stuff...

I don't remember what actually came out this week, I'm dropping behind on week to week reading.

>>92182351
Are there any caveats on this Cranky? Only US comics, only capes?

>>92182495
desu it's pretty much them saying "don't be mad, keep buying, THEN you can get angry because we don't care after we get your money"

>>92181776
>http://www.metopera.org/Season/Radio/Free-Live-Audio-Streams

Neat.
I'm remote enough I don't get CBC Radio 2 and their Met broadcasts.

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>>92182612
Yeah, I've been kind of *___* with work this week

>>92182481
Hail Wojak

>>92182650
Personally more annoyed by Jason Aaron retconning Mjolnir into an evil storm and worthiness = Viking ideals 2BH.

>>92181616
Samurai Jack needs to be confined to a general.

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>>92182673
They do a lot of webcasts during the season which is also niiiiice

Man, this is also Milligan Going Places

>>92182645
Nah, I'm not terribly picky.

>>92182604
Speaking of which, Rich the Leech also spoiled stuff from SE 2 and 3 today.
I'm on mobile, so forgive the formatting:
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/05/10-things-can-tell-reading-secret-empire-2-3-oh-uprising-1-spoilers/

Issue 2 ends with a twist challenging the reading public’s interpretation of the entire series. It all depends on your view over what’s going on. And there will be multiple interpretations. But that will be a matter for debate. It is also possible if that event had been seeded more strongly earlier in the Captain America run that there would be a lot less fuss right now. But that will be a matter for debate
Yes, they have Hydra Youth.
You should google for “Overton window” before reading issue 3.


There's more, but I am on mobile like I said.

>>92181776
Also for your sometime perusal: an interview with the star of the Met's current Traviata. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/wednesday-april-12-2017-michael-fabiano-terence-davies-danny-rubin-and-more-1.4065582/tenor-michael-fabiano-on-taking-risks-and-keeping-opera-relevant-1.4065764

>>92182768
Man the main problem with SE really is Nick Spencer, huh. He can't take criticism, he can't not fight somebody and he can't write this at quite the level he wants to. Still, maybe it'll get good going in.

>>92182850
wtf i love spongebob again

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>>92182351
There's the comic this comes from which was entirely illustrated with no words, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.

>>92182768
>this event is nothing but Nick Spencer sabotaging himself because he can't take criticism

That would be hilarious desu

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>>92182768
WTF

>>92182850
that was awesome

>>92182869
>wtf i love spongebob again
Based Spongebob.

>>92182295
Is cannabilism one of them? This guy strikes me as the type to rape, murder and eat children.

>>92182912
Haunter by Sam Alden.

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>>92182970
It totally is

>>92182847
>>92182914
With this in mind, here's a serious question: Is Nick Spencer on his way to becoming the next Ken Penders?

>>92182518
Why would you send arcade cabinets to space instead of just a joystick and an emulator?

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>>92183039
I am busting the fuck up at this story about Renee Fleming not realizing the UK uses miles

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>>92183100

>>92182732
God, is there a Marvel Character who's mythos isn't 100% fucked right now?

>>92182850
that's brutal

>>92182912
That's from Haunter.

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/haunter-part-1-by-sam-alden/

If you want other stuff you can read right now I can shout out for Emily Carroll and Tillie Walden. Both have free comics up and they're good at stuff with a low dependency on words (but not all their comics are like that).

I don't know if you want pure visual spectacle or something specific but I can shout out for A Girl On the Shore, which is like dirty teen Japanese drama so I'm hesitant to rec Cranky it, as having some of the best body language and visual language I've ever seen in a comic. Also Takemitsu Zamurai, or basically anything by Taiyō Matsumoto, for great use of dramatic visuals and distortion for that effect.

Island has an entirely wordless strip that runs in it, A Land Called Tarot, by Gael Bertrand.

>>92183060
>Ken Penders
what did he do

>>92183139
>God, is there a Marvel Character who's mythos isn't 100% fucked right now?
Moon knight and OML ??

>>92183164
He's the guy that invented Knuckles from Sonic, but not actually Knuckles from Sonic.

>>92183181
When he gets that netflix series marvel will do something to fuck him up

>>92182850
Goddamn, Mark Russell is doing a Spongebob Comic?

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>>92183136
Hi, I know I'm little slow tonight, it's opera+wine night

I love you owls

....this....hits.

>>92182850
Why does the 'bob know so much about comic industry?

>>92182850
Oh also, the only reason why there's such a lack of variety is the monopolistic distribution system.

"Comics = Superheroes" is only true because Superhero fans were the only ones willing to trek out for a dedicated store, and are therefore the only ones with staying power.

Hey storyteller,
I finished The Unwritten for the first time on the weekend, and finishing it makes the reasons you don't like Carey even more confusing. In that series, he wrapped up every character and storyline by the end of it, which makes his actions in his prowse stories (Felix Castor, I think you said) even more confusing.
All in all I enjoyed it, even though the Fables segment killed the pace and weakened it for the final few issues.

>>92183214
>When he gets that netflix series marvel will do something to fuck him up
Well somehow he Survived bendis.

>>92183265
>"Comics = Superheroes" is only true because Superhero fans were the only ones willing to trek out for a dedicated store, and are therefore the only ones with staying power.
More like the comics code murdered just about every other genre of comics

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>>92183266
I read somewhere that he's said when the money is full that the last book will happen, but I'm still a bitch about it

>>92183265
RIP. Heroes World Distribution Co., originally named Superhero Enterprises, was an American comic book distributor founded by Ivan Snyder, active from 1975 to 1997, during the growth and consolidation of the direct market. Heroes World was acquired by Marvel Comics in late 1994 to act as the publisher's sole distributor. This ill-fated move, combined with other marketplace factors of the time, resulted in the financial failure of many other comics distributors and retailers — and the near collapse of the entire North American comic book market.

>>92183309
>I read somewhere that he's said when the money is full that the last book will happen
RIP Orc Stain.

>>92183296
>More like the comics code murdered just about every other genre of comics
And marvel purchasing heroes world.

>>92183310
THANKS MARVEL

>>92183139
Ya know, people shit on DC for "constantly rebooting", but Marvel is a pretty good argument for why comics universes need to have continuity flushed periodically.

>>92182351
It has a lot of words but I actually think TDKR is an OK example. You can cut out the words and still get a lot of the story. Miller in general is a good visual storyteller.

I'm more of a WORDSWORDSWORDS kind of person so it's hard for me to think of stuff I might own that has no words.

>>92183349
>THANKS MARVEL
This.

>>92183100
The UK uses miles?

... Then what the fuck am I using metric units for? All the time, I keep getting shit because "Pleb murricans, still using that primitive imperial shit. What idiots!". Well fuck you too, filthy hypocrites.

>>92183060
What do they have in common? Spencer doesn't seem to care much about his OCs at all.

>>92183381
The UK uses metric units except where it doesn't.

>>92183309
WTF I can't post

>>92183411
Blatant lies.

>>92183353
That totally applies to Sin City too. Sin City is like style running on fumes.

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>>92183411
I keep getting CONNECTION ERROR trying to post the next pages

>>92183381
Imperial units are more practically-sized than metric.

>>92183381
>... Then what the fuck am I using metric units for?
Are you a scientist? Because otherwise I don't see what's wrong with using imperial units.

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>>92183441
GODDAMMIT

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>>92183477

>>92183381
Like Britain is ever gonna give up something with the word "Imperial" in it entirely.

>>92183296
It killed True Crime, and Horror. For like 15 until somebody realized that doing them in black and white magazine format was a loophole around it.

Every other genre (humor, western, romance, etc.) continued to have a pretty healthy life into the 70s, by which point horror was coming back anyway.

>>92183441
The CIA is trying to keep you from revealing what they did to X-Force.

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>>92183518
fuuuuck

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>>92183531
>The CIA
??

>>92183248
WHAT A TWIST

>>92183477
What the fuck is wrong with Spike?

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>>92183477
Damn dude that's a messy death for trying to get revenge (sorta?) for your sick daughter. Also wow so many members of X-Force are complete assholes.

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>>92183581
this first letter is amazing

>>92183550
Oh. That's the fuck that's wrong.

>>92183459
You're only saying that because decimeters aren't popular.

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>>92183617
>>92183595
that's the magic of X-Force

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>>92183477
>>92183550
I love this transition.

>>92183460
I'm using it for my writing stuff. Vehicle stats, character heights, etc. Apparently looking up conversions was a fuckin' waste of time.

>>92183459
I'm not a math guy, but metric is not user friendly at all.

>>92183477
Spike, you really are the flat out worst.

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>>92183646
Fahrenheit is so much easier to talk about than Celsius, fuck

>>92183381
Texas uses unique units such as "about yeigh", "yonder", and "a ways"

>>92183567
It's been YEARS since he's been able to eat a kid he stole from a playground.

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>>92183685
Also "it takes a while"

>>92183615
B. Tribe, an earlier version of the Songbird/Diamondback model.

>>92183615
The last two letters tho.

>>92183678
It's a lot better for talking about weather.

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>>92183740
right? the ability to talk in decades of degrees is priceless

>>92183678
>>92183740
Get fucked US normies.

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>>92183783
LOLOLOLOL

>>92183615
>Dear wage slaves
What a cuck.

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>>92183678
>>92183740
I so don't get that argument, and attribute it solely to your upbringing. And lack of proper -40 = -40 winter.

0 = Cold enough to freeze water
100 = Hot enough to boil water
30 = Hot enough to be cranky and lazy

This is not hard!

>>92183805
I love that middle split.

>>92183835
Holy shit, didn't even notice that haha

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>>92183842
they're milking this and I love it

>>92183835
>Just saw a flat-earther call a satellite engineer a "spherecuck" on here sooo I think I'm done for the day

>>92183849
NO, see, it's the *decades* part. "It's in the 60s today."

>>92183862
>>92183835
That letters page is very /co/.

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>>92183880
>>Just saw a flat-earther call a satellite engineer a "spherecuck" on here sooo I think I'm done for the day
oh my god

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>>92183927
I know, right? SPHEREKEK

>>92183927
NGL I love the Flat Earth Society.

>>92183911
Damn, Tike. This is rough.

>>92183880
>NO, see, it's the *decades* part. "It's in the 60s today."

I am far too Canadian to recognize the significance of that, though.

Having the anchor point of atmospheric temperature is much handier, because the bigger the number the more extreme the heat/cold you need to look out for.

>>92183880
>spherecuck
... WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?

This is "dryback" all over again.

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>>92183953
FYI the Met chandeliers are a gift from the Austrian government

>>92183880
>spherecuck
Absolutely incredible

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>>92184025
It means that you are a cuck who thinks the earth is round, lol

>>92184024
It means you have a nice shorthand for the general range, like 60s isn't 80s, but you're not stuck on how big 24 is versus 32

>>92183903
Nice cultural appropriation. Wagecuck is /r9k/speak, bigot.

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>>92184081
We're Americans, none of us are going to fucking remember what 22 versus 28 is, but we know that 50s are pants weather and 70s are shorts

>>92183550
Wait, why is he left behind here but then he's on the spaceship with them?

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>>92184151
Because the one in the spaceship is a fake, fampai.

>>92184115
And 80s means you should be fine if you take it easy and 90s means you should be very careful not to get heatstroke and 100s means you should not go anywhere that doesn't have AC.

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>>92184172
yay

>>92184151
Herp derp I'm an idiot. Fuck shapeshifters

>>92184115
Again, I attribute this to being raised in F.
It's all just what you're used to.

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>>92184220
Right, above 100 is FML territory

>>92184227
But someone DIES!!

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>>92184256
But you can't talk in decades in C at all, you have to be so specific :{

>>92184172
>Journey to the Blackness
A film by Spike Lee.

>>92184263
This was a much cleaner way to interrogate a corpse compared to the last undead interrogation I read, which was in The Sandman

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>>92184273
It occurs to me Injustice is basically the comic with the SOMEONE DIES!! tag on every issue.

Just joining the thread. How you doing faggots?
>>92182595
>Chris Burnham was pretty scathing about that
Got link to that

>>92184328
>Spikes! My only weakness!

>>92184287
You're just saying that because you don't get that far negative in Texas!

-20s versus -30s is a pretty genuine difference! If you forgot your block heater on the latter, your car will basically not start

>Houston has actual fucking swans just wandering the streets
What the fuck planet did I just arrive on

>>92184328
Sniff, it was Laurence Fishburne, Spike, sniff... it was Laurence Fishburne...

>>92184323
Best undead interrogations are from Chew, though.

>92184328
>Samuel L Jackson or Laurence Fishbourne

HA! Remember when the guy from KTLA got them confused while interviewing one of them?

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>>92184370
We get fucking hot here! We know how to distinguish *kinds* of hot!

>>92184362
https://twitter.com/TheBurnham/status/859615096552669184

>>92184395
swans are vicious

also shit son what are you doing in Houston, I love Houston in a weird way

>>92184081
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT SHIT

>>92184395
The kind where lax gun laws allow you to literally EAT LIKE A KING should you so choose?

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>>92184431
>>92184464
Houston, wherein you can get a pedicure, amazing Viet food, books, and 30 minutes at a gun range IN THE SAME STRIP MALL

>>92184431
Edie is so effortlessly Best Girl.

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>>92184499
I just, to myself, called the Met 'cucks' for doing Don Carlo in Italian

help

uhoh

>>92184172
MILLIGAN YOU FUCKING

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT

>>92184564
Cranky's gonna freak.

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>>92184577
We're here for you, anon

Hackman is the Nolan of comics, only way less technically proficient.

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>>92184606
;_________________;

>>92184685
F
Sorry Cranky. You are trying to be a nicer person. then this happens

FUCK working nights. Since I'm probably going to miss the whole thread I want to post how excited and awesome it was when Captain Adam brought back burning away all the pictures of him

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>>92184685
... God. Fucking. Dammit.

I gotta stop falling for the blue ones.

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>>92184745
working nights is a total fucking buzzkill

mine have been brutal lately

>>92184328
RIP Spike. You were an ass, but not as much as the guy who tried to take your place.

>>92184564
Quickly insert a needle into the mutant's stomach. This kills the cranky.

>>92184431
One of those fun kind of "business trips" from which my only payment will be not being fired.

Hotel does have a bar and is next door to a great Vietnamese food place so there's that

>>92184787
Goddamn, Guy, you're playing on Hard Mode now.

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>>92184811
there's this unbelievably fucking good Siuchan place in Montrose, too

fuck now I wanna go see Don Carlos

>>92184747
>>92184606
These is something fucking amazing in these cheesy-ass emotional lines. Like even when the emotion is genuine they're still trying to say what they think is cool.

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>>92184877
oh my god I can't deal with this kawaii of an Edie

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>>92184878
I think Milligan, on the words side, threads the needle incredibly well here. He never loses sight of the satirical project, and he uses that to examine 'real' emotion with a rare intensity

>>92184877
Fifteen years ago is too long for me to remember. What's the ribbon in the top right for?

>>92184986
9/11

>>92184951
>www.x-force/deceased
Uh

>>92184951
>Full on Saintly Icon

Ha.

>>92184685
;~;7

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>>92185049
I know, right?

>>92185028
Yeah, that was a fucking shock. :|

>>92184721
>>92184799
Yeah, but I knew that was gonna happen eventually. The series quickly established that anyone can die, and Edie had the most involved story arc, with great care to make her likeable despite her numerous flaws. At this point she was pretty much doomed.

Still though, can I get a blue waifu who doesn't get offed for once? And this one was even a bad girl too!

R.I.P Edie Sawyer. You were the best character in this book.

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>>92185095
IIRC there's some retrospective stuff where if they had a do-over, Milligan wouldn't have killed her

>>92184951
>www.x-force/deceased
With or without .com, the page doesn't exist. And here I was looking forward to something from the geocities era.

>>92185093
>Edie upskirt

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>>92185153
That's Franz Kafka up there on the wall, by the way

The chandeliers look like the beloved ones at the Met

>>92185093
Rob, it's 2002 (?) X-Factor isn't a thing at this point. It died to send Havok to Mutant X, and won't come back until Peter David gets a vanity project.

>>92185032
I just get a 404 error.

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>>92185213
they totally did it

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>>92185272
I have complicated thoughts about this soprano

>>92185272
It's E-D Sawyer, right? Not ED-D?

>>92184951
There's definitely a lot of stuff like vanity vs. searching for meaning that hits me hard in this. Even in what we've read up to so far.

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>>92185320
I don't think it ever strikes me as, I dunno, too blunt in how it does it even though it's very explicit? It's so open about being about what it is that it doesn't feel like he's sneaking in the lecture

>>92185093
I was in middle school and got woken up by my parents at like 5 and they waved me to see the news but the footage wasn't being replayed again and I was too tired to wait. I didn't actually find out what had happened until the teacher talked to the class about it.

To this day the only feelings I have about the event are the annoyance at being woken up so early for nothing.
It's not like I've ever been to NY or knew any of the people who died. Just proof that the internet didn't turn me into a misanthrope; I've always been one.

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>>92185393
I was actually in NYC that Thanksgiving, and the smell down near there was one hell of a memory

>>92185153
Makes sense. Easy to imagine a lot of writers feel that way, since they put so much effort into the character they'd likely get attached. Still, it's an effective tragedy.

Certainly a better done tragedy than a certain French developed, Square Enix published adventure game, that's for sure. ... Yeah, I'm still bitter. What of it?

>>92185393
I was in third grade and didn't find out what actually happened till I was like eleven.

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>>92185433

>>92185095
I'll make one just for you in the comic I'm writing. Bad girls are my specialty.

>>92184769
If it makes you feel any better, this happens to me A LOT. I'm like the Kyle Rayner of waifufags.

>>92185375
Sure. Page you're posting there is a great example.

Also the looseness and disposability of the characters really works for it, but the downside is it's harder to care about characters like that. But Milligan is good enough to get past that. Much like Shade this is an incredibly character-focused book really?

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>>92185492
This series really was prescient about the fucking scourge reality TV would become

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>>92185548
we should read Shade

because I got gifted 3/4 of the run in singles and haven't read it

>>92185095
>Still though, can I get a blue waifu who doesn't get offed for once?
Well, there is Dead Girl...How are you defining 'waifu' and 'offed'?

>>92185315
Pronounced like "Eddy"

>>92185552
>I'm not here to make friends

>>92185552
Well, Survivor/Big Brother/American Idol were already ruining TV by this point, weren't they?

Anti-Matter 10/10 would buy the action figure.

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>>92185584
I just can't do countertenors no matter the musical intelligence behind the voice

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>>92185584
Do it! I have a few issues of it left to finish, but enjoyed most of it.
It is 70 issues long though

>>92185552
It's funny though, it also reminded me of how the performers in freakshows were there of their own volition.

>>92185598
Y'all keep talking about how Dead Girl is on- or -off-limits and I'm gonna link you to some /u/ndead stuff for certain.

>>92185584
>I got gifted 3/4 of the run in singles
If that's a lot with no gaps you have all the good stuff, it keeps going after 50 but that's where you can stop

>>92185433
Ouch, that must put a hell of a damper on the holidays.

>>92185676
Tell me about it. I feel like it lost the thread around the New York issues (I think it's new york, it's right after Hotel Shade).
That series really does need a proper reprint, the "current" trades kind of suck, and the only other legal option is pricey individual issues digitally

>>92185637
That cover is excellent, sorta Hewlett by way of Steadman.

Shade was one of those Vertigo books that had astounding covers.

>>92185461
What are you referring to?

>>92185462
How is that possible?

>>92185759
I keep hoping Vertigo will give it the "book" treatment with those thick paperbacks of either 2-3 trades worth of material, like Sandman Mystery Theatre is getting now

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>>92185676
there's a few gaps here and there and I just haven't had the *whoomp* to dig in, you know?

>>92185756
It was an amazing trip and I hold so many memories on to it (including opera), but also that smell down there...it's something you don't forget. Even two months later, metallic funk.

>>92185827
We can place our faith in sigil magic.

>>92185552
I take it this guy has no connection to THE Summers family? Shame, since he's got a bitchin' design.

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>>92185835
holy *shit*

TOO OLD TO CRY

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>>92185782
It seems like Vertigo had a really good set of covers for a lot of books. Having just read it, The Unwritten had fantastic covers, and it sucks that Yuko never got an Eisner for it.
>>92185827
I think the problem with the "book" format is that the first "arc" of Shade ended at issue #19, which is a bit too long for what those books usually cover (though the 100 bullets books are 20 issues each)

>>92185671
>/u/ndead
... Lesbian zombies? I must admit to mixed feelings on this.

>>92185598
Well, she is pretty cute. And she's already dead, so she can't die!

>>92185921
ALL TARTED UP

>>92185637
Oh, hi, Legion. What've you been up to?

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>>92185921
So onward to X-Statix when I'm off work, or Madman?

>>92186025
Legion never had a jacket half as swag as Shade's.

>>92185810
>What are you referring to?
Life is Strange. I fucking hate the ending. It's one of those endings that legitimately ruins the rest of the story.

As far as I'm concerned, Max and Chloe found a way to defeat the bullshit storm and lived happily ever after, because fuck you and your forced tragedy whoreshit.

>>92185835
What age were you when you got into opera? Is it just like something you grew up with?

>>92182351
I actually got some argentinian comics that work just like that. Do you read spanish?

>>92186092
TOTALLY NOT GAY

>>92186105
And he didn't say horseshit, he said WHOREshit. Like a whore taking a shit!

>>92185921
TAPIOCA

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>>92186092
I'm a stone cold atheist but I find the formal Statins very moving

>>92186115
It's funny because I grew up with some LPs around and watched the Great Performances stuff, but I fell in love with opera as opposed to symphonic in college, and my friend being all "Come visit me in NYC and I'll get good tickets to Meistersinger" was deeply formative

Now I chase those kinds of transcendental experiences

>>92186092
I'd not mind more Madmans.

>>92186135
Balls didn't touch

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>>92186213
This is kind of too raw, almost

>>92186213
Stations, EVEN

>>92186133
I do not, sorry. Thanks though.

>>92186202
Damn right! Filthy, diseased whores shitting out a terrible Mass Effect 3 tier ending that completely invalidates everything that came before it. Fuck you, Dontnod.

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>>92186268

>>92185810
>>How is that possible?
It's easy when you live on the other side of the country and adults can't say anything straight out.

>>92186268
>This is kind of too raw, almost
It's black, alright. Blacker than Tike will ever be. :^)

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>>92186337
You tell 'em, man.

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>>92186360
Would she have preferred him to have been intimate with a corpse before??

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>>92185921
FOR YOU

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>>92186403
LIEFELD

>>92186213
Guy. Dude. You are talking to the Edie doll, and it's talking back.

Also, it's kind of adorable, and that makes me vaguely uncomfortable.

>>92186268
>Lacuna
I was wondering when she'd come back.

>>92186403
At least the tool has good taste in handheld systems.

>>92186468
Hahaaa, fucking Rob!

>>92186458
If you pulled that patch of skin off, would he die?

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>>92186458
why is Baneposting so funny

my wine is almost gone :(

HEY OWLS thanks for reading. Thanks for sticking with me even though I have a job and don't show up so often. My next night off is...Friday. So come back then and we'll talk about the week's comics, and I'll run something for you.

You can always shitpost at me on twitter lol

>>92186526
>AVENGERS A--
Thanks, OP.

>>92186526
>HEY OWLS thanks for reading. Thanks for sticking with me even though I have a job and don't show up so often. My next night off is...Friday. So come back then and we'll talk about the week's comics, and I'll run something for you.
Thank you OP.

>>92186526
>You can always shitpost at me on twitter lol
Link?

>>92186526
Thanks for running.

I don't think I'd want to go to a children's hospital sponsored by a flying green space potato that speaks in gibberish.

>>92186481
>>Also, it's kind of adorable, and that makes me vaguely uncomfortable.
It's weird, but it shows how much she meant and hard her death hit him. Plus, it's a cute doll, I want one. The big downside of X-Statix is all the in-universe merch that you can't buy in real life.

>>92186613
@ariadnesisland

right now I'm shitposting about Texas politics

>>92186526
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

Y'know, X-Force/X-Statix is kind of a weird book. ... I already miss Edie.

Also, I think I'm starting to vaguely approach a point where you guys don't hate me! Still a ways off, but getting there.

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>>92186806
I would miss you if you weren't here, Cranky

I still scold you if you're being naughty when I'm not here

>>92186806
I always loved you Cranky

>>92186806
you're like a new man cranky

Holy Tynion:
https://twitter.com/JamesTheFourth/status/861050439546019840?s=09

>>92187403
JFC

>>92187403
>all that plebshit

>>92187403
What's the thick volume between Scalped and Saga of the Swamp Thing? I recognise the hand but the name escapes me

>>92186806
Cranky you're so similar to my younger brother I'm sometimes convinced you're actually him.

>>92185393
The actual attack didn't effect me as much as all the paranoid propaganda that ran around it every election year afterward. Had me worried Terrorists would try to bomb the Mall of America or the airport or something.

>>92187403
What a nerd

>>92187787
Sleeper omnibus

>>92186360
> That was the idea when we were pretending!

Phat and Vivisector are great in this run, resident bros. I gotta give my omnibus a reread sometime this summer.

>>92187968
Thanks anon!

>>92186806
I never hated you. I just pitied you for not being able to see that my views are objectively always right.

Comics for the people
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d3l7seo75bzjfm3/AABAKE_9Iu5xoJ3vqNo1euZWa?dl=0

>>92189114
Oh yeah, Thanks Texas for posting most of House of Mystery the other day. I downloaded 4gb of it, then noticed that the torrent I had running magically found seeders and finished when I wasn't looking ;^)

>>92189180
Meme magick at work as usual!

>>92187403
Christ, did he rob a bookstore?

>>92189114
Yo Tex. The last WW movie trailer managed to make this movie look to be a rousing meh!

It looks like a Wonder Woman movie. Not a good one, but at the very least a Wonder Woman movie, and not some Xena knockoff wearing her skin.

So, like... yay?

>>92189481
I saw the trailer play for about one nanosecond on Twitter before I NOPE'd out. Can't do it.

A meh movie sounds infinitely better than a movie that turns into a meme like MoS, BvS and SS. But honestly at this point I think it'll be a meme whether it's good or not.

>>92189744
I can definitely agree with that. At the very least, I don't think it will make me angry.

And you can just tell that Jenkins is trying her damnedest, the poor dear.

>>92190247
My husbando Jimenez really liked the trailer apparently.

>>92189744
Honestly I was very nope on the movie but the trailer made me a bit more optimistic. There's at least a cool bracelet scene.

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/05/04/dc-family-wonder-woman-book-bundle-sweepstakes

There's a giveaway for WW kids books, if any of you have nieces or nephews.

>>92185315
The former. It's short for Edith.

>>92193668
>If any of you have nieces or nephews
Subtle.

>>92186337
People actually saw bae vs. bay as the ending coming from I think episode 3 onwards.

I actually think it kinda works.

>>92195817
>I actually think "Because destiny says so." works.
Except it doesn't because there's no explanation for why Max saving Chloe caused a tornado to form other than "Butterfly Effect LOL". The game was otherwise following pretty consistent rules of causality. Max rewinds, changes thing, different thing happens.

But the ending, and by extension the main plot of the game goes like this. Max saves Chloe, tornado happens. What is the fuckin' through line here? This is some serious Step 3 Profit shit.

And I know what you're about to say "But it fits the theme!". What theme? That if you have the ability to help someone, don't? Cause remember, Max didn't even recognize Chloe at first, so as far as she knew, she was helping out a total stranger. Never help anyone for any reason. What a great message.

This ending is a text book example of forcing your narrative to fit your theme. That's bad writing.

>>92195995
I guess I'm viewing it as a physical representation of the kind of social impact/repercussions of choosing Chloe, and vice versa. I'm pretty much in agreement with you in strict terms but I think there was an intention there that I don't entirely hate. The ending works for me as an abstraction.

I do feel where they wanted to go from the first episode was not where they wanted to go in the last. I think what appealed to them most in telling the story changed as they were telling it.