The Wild Storm #4

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Mandatory Jim Lee cover

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CA$H MONEY

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Tell 'em they can kiss my whole ass

>>92464503
This cover is my fetish.

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>>92464653
Speaking of breakouts, a leopard or something broke out of its enclosure at the Dallas Zoo (I think) and ate a monkey or something like that.

It's a lot more horrific when read in the news.

>>92464534
Damn. Shot through the head and who's to blame.

There's no way this actually makes 24 issues is there? I never see anyone talking about it.

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>>92464688
I think it's guaranteed the 24 issues just because of Jim Lee, and also Ellis said in interviews he asked DC to just give him two years to establish this universe letting him do whatever he wants and then they could take it

>>92464567
Love this page even where it cheaps out.

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They may have missed the window on the timing for a WS reboot, though

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>>92464742
>I want to inject it into my face
Me too

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I love every line of dialogue in this scene so far

>>92464722
>>92464742
I think they did. I just wonder what the sales are going to be like a year from now.

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Space/tech porn!

>>92464790
The dialogue/art combo really is reminding me of Clean Room.

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And that's that one. Be back in a bit to post the rest of the series so far.

>>92464520
COLD BLOODED

>>92464429
I know its unlikely, but I'd really love for a version of Elijah Snow to turn up.

>>92464990
It could happen but Planetary was more or less a complete work.

I know this is Ellis and it's supposed to be more worldbuilding than actual storytelling, but this is slooooow. Gonna read better in trade, I bet.

>>92465284
I just want some Daemonites

>>92465307
Wasn't Voodoo in issue 1?

>>92465284
>more worldbuilding than actual storytelling
There is never a situation in which, when you're telling a story, this is the right thing to do.

It is slow. This is gonna be slow even in the first trade. It could definitely have been much more faster paced and I worry about how much it appeals to anyone not already into Wildstorm.

>>92465343
I was on the verge of just waiting for issues to stack up and binging before Grifter showed up and did his 'thang.

>>92465343
>much more faster paced
Fuck, just kill me.

Who's the bint with Bendix?

>>92465421
>Fuck, just kill me
Reading this will do that just fine

>>92465429
I assume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(comics)

>>92464618
>>92464634
Bendis?

>>92465460
Oooh, I remember the firebreathing xenomorph.

>>92464742
>They may have missed the window on the timing for a WS reboot, though

I think WildStorm pretty much burned their bridges on relaunches and fan trust by now. They had a fantastic late 90s/early 00s but then they fumbled the ball hard and now barely anyone gives a shit. The aborted Morrison relaunch and then integrating WS into the DCU just resigned people.

As nice as this might be, I can't see it catching on.

>>92464990
Wasn't Jenny Sparks Elijah surrogate in Authority?

>>92465557
They were both Century Babies (but that got more complex with Jenny than it ever was with Elijah).

>>92466728
I hope Shaft gets to do as much cool shit as Grifter has so far in Youngblood Rebirth

>>92466926
I hope Cray is just like fucking MURDERMODE when he finally goes ham on something.

>>92466996
Cray is so subdued right now.

But that moment in the last issue was nice.
He's going to jump headlong into DEATHBLOW when it happens. You can feel it.

where's Gen13

>>92467030
They fucked themselves to death due to being 2sexy4comics.

>>92464429
aww yeah. I have zero knowledge of wildstorm beyond grifter, planetary and the authority; This book is still enticing as all hell.

>>92464797
>first book you've gotten excited about in a while
>practically nobody's reading it
Isn't that always the way?

I want Majestic

I want The High

I guess Midnighter and Apollo are out?

>>92468331
>>I guess Midnighter and Apollo are out?
Probably?

>>92468311
Go, Jenny, Go go go

>>92468418
AWWW YEAH!

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>>92468331
Not really any way to say yet. Grifter was in New 52 as well.

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>>92468403
Jenny B. Goode

>>92468418
>>92468437
I love that hes a full blown gun master like some sort of fantasy creature that had 10,000 years to practice the gun

>>92468437
>>92468472
The mask is angry. Only one solution.

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End

>>92468457
I suppressed those memories, man.

>>92464797
What are the sales like now?

>>92470358
>#1 49,493
>#2 34,380
>#3 27,814
Not all that bad but pretty big drops

>>92470574
I'm blame how slow the story is moving. Its been months and its all still setup for what happens next. I'm sure even diehard wildstorm fans are going to wait for a trade to come out or something.

>>92470812

it tells you right at the top that its 24 issues.
what are they expecting to happen in issue 4?

bump storm

>>92470812
Sure the first two were slow but the last couple issues have been pretty good. They didn't advance the story much but issue long fights are par for the course with 2017 Ellis

>>92464429

Bumping because I'm about to read this.

>>92464687
How come the monkey didn't have a gun?

>>92464722
>that second to last panel
New reaction image.

>>92465343
Only tangentially related, but this is my first time reading anything WildStorm (didn't know it was a thing before, don't know its history) and I agree; it's slow as fuck. The world-building so far has been okay; the world is cool, but I don't think it's being introduced in a particularly interesting or even good way for the most part (except the end of this issue being). I'm no comics expert, but that's my 2 cents: it's an acquired interest that feels like it's taking its sweet time.

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>>92464722
>>92464742

I fucking LOVE Wildstorm. I've read literally almost everything they put out because it's all in one big torrent. Henry Bendix is one of my favorite villains of all time, if not my favorite. Particularly because of the back story they fleshed out with him in "The Boy Who Could Talk To Spiders"... It's like Harry Potter meets Dexter's Lab.

I want to write for DC, that's my life goal and I wanted to properly integrate Wildstorm into DC. Using Bendix as the Aizen of the DC universe, basically being the "everyone thought he was a good guy until he double crosses them and turned into a multiversal hyper-threat on the spot" way. Aizen and Bendix's story are similar.

Basically Bendix has a lot of potential and I'm glad he's back in some capacity but I feel like he's wasted. I need to story time The Boy Who Could Talk To Spiders for /co/ sometime.

>They may have missed the window on the timing for a WS reboot, though

Yeah doing a whole separate universe is dumb when the actual DC universe is in the middle of being REBIRTHED. Just rebirth it alongside. Not that hard if you have a writer who's familiar with both universes.

>>92468331

>I want The High

Anon. I wish I could show you what I want to do with the High and Superman. In The High Superman finds an enemy he can't just punch his way through, an intellectual enemy. It's a battle of two different versions of saving the world. Change or die.

>"The Man of Tomorrow versus The Man of Yesterday."

I've never read Wildstorm or the setting before and some stuff isn't clear at all. Are there aliens on Earth publicly known? Are some of these characters aliens? I think they said the Steve Jobs guys is an alien. Is that Bendix guy and his assistant aliens too or is he just some immortal magic man?

>>92475708
A lot of the original appeal of WS (as well as the early Imageverse, and later the rebooted Valiant) was that you were getting in on the ground floor of a brand new superhero universe with no history to it. And I think a reason sales eventually fade on all those is that at some point you have a lot of history built up, and if you're gonna be getting into a superhero universe with a lot of history, why not just go with Marvel or DC?

So they run into the problem of having to do a reboot that satisfies longtime fans that are heavily invested and people who know nothing about WS.

Anyway, do I think both WS and DC benefit greatly from integrating with each other? Definitely, but I also see the purpose of having a fresh universe to establish all your stuff in. But there's no reason you can't do both, so I hope we still get plenty of WS stuff in DC, and eventually Dakotaverse stuff though I'm not too familiar with that.

>>92476133
New as well. I'm guessing those questions will be slowly answered? It's either that or they never will be flat-out answered and maybe they aren't trying to appeal to new readers at all.

>>92476366
I'm a new reader and I've been guessing at stuff. From what I could tell as I read was there were two main competing factions, the Steve Jobs corporation group, and the worldwide runs everything government group. They are rivals and then a government member steals tech and coincidentally saves Steve Jobs.
The attention got Jobs nervous cause he is secretly an alien and there is some third anti-alien organization. He sent the team with Grifter and the teleporter who may be part of the corporation or a rogue independent team of mercs after the chick that saved him. The government sent agents too. They fought and the merc team is called a Wild Cat cause they don't work for the government I think. Not sure why.
Then there is the anti-alien organization run by the angry old bald man who seems to be immortal and hates earth. Not sure if he is an alien running the anti-alien organization.

That's the most sense I've made of this series so far.

>>92476133
It starts with a world that's basically like ours, but "five minutes into the future".

The tech companies that are really important to our every day lives in this universe have much greater technology than they let on, and just generally it's implied there are some more supernatural/scifi conspiracy things going on behind the scenes.

That's all you need to know going in. With basically everything else, if you don't know it, then the public/average person in-universe doesn't know.

More information is slowly being revealed to you as you're reading. So don't worry, if you're not fully understanding everything that's going on or what people are talking about, that's part of the story.

>>92476296

>Anyway, do I think both WS and DC benefit greatly from integrating with each other? Definitely, but I also see the purpose of having a fresh universe to establish all your stuff in. But there's no reason you can't do both, so I hope we still get plenty of WS stuff in DC,

My point exactly. This story I want to do with The High and Superman makes this point, because I COULD just come up with an original character. But why make an original character based on another character who DC already has the rights to and is employing the original creators of? I'd just pitch the story to Ellis and beg to let me use him (and the Changers).

It'd be like triple recycling at that point. Might as well use something already established and completely forgotten/ignored.

>>92476803
That's vaguely right. C.A.T. stands for Covert Action Group.

>>92464790
>>92464833
>>92464851
Something bugs me about this sequence. I mean I get that the idea is to slowly move back to take in the massiveness and intricacy of the space station, but for some reason this isn't entirely working for me.

>>92475708
>"The Boy Who Could Talk To Spiders"
Which issue is this?

DC has integrated every other universe into their main universe, so why do only Wildstormfags get mad?

>>92477708
>Covert Action Team
ftfy

>>92464429
I swear to god, the 24 issue schedule cracks me up every time

>>92466777
I love the visual nod to Zealot with the blood splatter

I think it's kinda slow and the art is kinda bad at places but I really liked the Jenny bit

Whatever they decide to do with the Wildstorm universe, I hope they keep Jim Lee away from the character designs.

>>92464687
Guess who's back
back again

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>>92478792

The Monarch Issue #5.

I'm going out of town for work in a few hours but I'll story time it this weekend when I get back.

>>92468295
Man I love this page. Also I would be so easy for bugfu. Is this an allusion to some other comic?

>>92482242
say, do you have high quality scans? All that I've found were almost unreadable, and Monarchy was never released in my country, but I'm still tempted to buy it just to be able to read the whole thing in peace.
Also Bendix a best, bendixbro. He deserves so much more than he got. Still pissed about his first end in Stormwatch second series.

>>92482274
Top left, senpai.

>>92480757
yeah I'm fucking retarded I guess

>>92483263
>Manhunter
Man, some things I would get much earlier if I were a native speaker. Thanks. Mostly meant bugfu, is praying mantis an allusion to something, or just a joke on them hunting male mantises and slaying them?

>>92464990
>Elijah
Damn I miss him

>>92465552
There was gonna be a relaunch writen by Morrison?

>>92464868
Why is Deathblow black now?

>>92479151
Because Jim Lee.

>>92475708
>Ellis will never write Bleach

Last bump

still curious about Monarchy scans quality

>>92483802
He was supposed to take over both Authority and Wildcats.

>>92479151
because wildstorm produced some of the best comics of all time
since they have been "integrated" into the dcu nothing good (or in most cases nothing at all) has been done with a lot of those really great characters

>>92483802
It was back in around 2006 or 2007. Morrison was going to do a run on Authority with Gene Ha and a run on WIldcats with Jim Lee. With Authority, they only got two issues out. With Wildcats, they only got one issue out. It never went anywhere because Lee and Morrison had way too much on their plate (Lee was running stuff at DC and also working on All Star Batman and that Justice League project with Johns that eventually became a New 52 arc; Morrison was wrapping up Seven Soldiers, working on 52 with Waid, Rucka, Johns, and Giffen, and also writing Batman, All Star Superman, and Final Crisis)

>>92483425
>or just a joke on them hunting male mantises and slaying them?

Just that.

Martian Manhunter is the name of a superhero, so the joke is that Ellis repurposed the name for a martian praying mantis who hunts men to fuck and kill while fucking.

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>>92487849
>because wildstorm produced some of the best comics of all time

>>92488921
>tfw you will never be murdered by the woman you're having sex with

waifus ranked so far
Void>Jenny>engineer>zealot>savant

>>92489260
you missed Lauren, who would be around Jenny tier. Was really nicely drawn in Stormwatch too.
Well, this might look like some shameless promotion, but I did found a nice blog about Wildstorm, which helps me to remember what a nice universe it was. Wonder is the guy who writes those analysis is posting here, if so - good job man, waiting for new review.
https://kcrrlives.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/the-wild-storm-3-meanderings-wild-times/#tws3jenny

>>92464618
those last panels were Bendistalk

>>92489260
>Jenny not top
>Pris not even on the list
Leave and never return.

>>92475708
>>I want The High
>Anon. I wish I could show you what I want to do with the High and Superman. In The High Superman finds an enemy he can't just punch his way through, an intellectual enemy. It's a battle of two different versions of saving the world. Change or die.
>>"The Man of Tomorrow versus The Man of Yesterday.
tfw never will read that ;-;
still interested in any ideas you had, kind anon

Do I have to read something before this?
Is this comic any good?

>>92491489
a) eh, I have and all the small parts are better for that, but you can go commando and just check the 4 issues without that, see if it's your style
b) i'd say it is but im a nostalgiafag, and I've read Wildstorm before