JSA Storytime: X-Statix

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>>92468904
Sorry for ditching you all the last two days but I just got my PC back

yay for the PC

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>>92469022
what was good today?

>>92468904
LONG LIVE THE LEGION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vbJ9ChN3g

>>92469022
shit happens

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>>92469088
it runs real fucking fast, now

>>92469080
dat imra hair tho

>>92469071
All I read was Wildstorm and USAvengers and both were things I guess.

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>>92469080
yass

I heard Comics Twitter was more of a shitstorm than usual today but somehow none of it filtered across my dash

>>92469173
Seeing some people say "Actually, maybe Secret Empire will be OK" after today's issue was a lol.

>>92468904
Every time I see you storytime, I think that Justice Society of America's getting storytimed.

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>>92469194
If you have any links please share them because I need the lulz and maybe the eating of crow

(All I've read today is Wild Storm because Griffles is husbando)

>>92468904
> Darwyn Cooke
A year ago last Sunday

https://twitter.com/PULPH0PE/status/863800530912653313

Who the fuck is Corkscrew? This is dumb.

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>>92469207
been known to do that too!

We started off that way and just wandered along but the name stuck.

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>>92469240
This was the backup to the first issue

AND NOW, back to the shitstorm in the town taken over by the fucked-up kid

>>92469071
Invincible was good but I'm pretty sure you don't follow that. Button finale stuck the landing. People are getting triggered that Steve delegates the more gruesome tasks to his underlings like any good fascistic dictator. The eagerness with which people are jumping on Spencer (not to say that he doesn't deserve a good portion of it) is ridiculous.

In other news, crankypants still hates crossovers.

>>92469080
>Lightning Boy
You tried, NRS.

>>92468904
Hello Storyteller.

Summer is hot and fucking miserable. Hate.

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>>92469288
I admit I haven't been reading Button either

"Say cheese"

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>>92469302

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>>92469327

>>92469339
But they're wearing their newer costumes.

>>92469303
>Hate.

I've made myself mad by net-stalking a bunch of young professionals today whose lives all look insufferable but also ones I'm deeply envious of. Why.

Anyway, I'm not gonna hang around. Just in a terrible mood. Thanks as always OP.

>>92468904
>"_heese"
Dunno why the C symbol had a slash across it.

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>>92469390
take care of yourself, anon

>>92469080
Why the fuck are the Founders and Brainy in Injustice 2, and why are we the only ones who care?

Please don't let this lead to any 31st century Regime bullshit.

>>92469288
>In other news, crankypants still hates crossovers.
Blow me.

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>>92469421

>>92469425
They were in the Brainiac Lego DTV too. Just the way DC is choosing to promote them right now I guess.

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>>92469445
Watching people realize that Saga is inevitably descending into grimdark bodycount is oddly satisfying

>>92469022
Is Cork meant to be read with a Midwestern accent? I'm hearing his dialogue in one.

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>>92469476
daaaaaaamn

I want the last Lego Marvel game to go on sale because I want some mindless fun but not at full price

>>92469476
Who died in it now? It is set during a war.

>>92469425
>Please don't let this lead to any 31st century Regime bullshit.
Well, there is Superman's ending...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbJ-LNQ-eY

>>92469110
>Does to look like the face of mercy to you?

Hey thread.

Thanks for recommending Einstein on the Beach, OP, it ended up resonating with me more than I could have anticipated. I haven't even looked up its history on Wikipedia yet because I'm having so much fun trying to interpret it myself.

Haven't listened to the '79 recording yet though.

>>92468904
SECRET EMPIRE EXPANDED TO 10 ISSUES

God, Superman vs. Dr. Manhattan is stupid bullshit, but even that is a better idea than Marvel's constantly expanding annual events.

I swear, next year they'll announce a 5 part event that will somehow stretch into 2020 as it bloats to 18 issues.

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>>92469509
>Izabel, even though she's a freaking ghost (desu I think that was foreshadowed a bit though.) Alana's unborn baby. And oh yeah, the entire family of friendly ferret aliens they had just befriended.

And yet they still won't kill off The Will.

>>92469602
the Met production of Satyagraha, which is on video, may be the best thing I have ever seen live.

>>92469225
Delet this

>>92469240
One of the people auditioning to join Statix. He killed the guy he was sparring with, which is why he's being put through this "exercise."

>>92469467
Yeah, and Imra was voiced by Kari Wahlgrenn, reprising her role from the animated series. It's like they were pandering to me in particular.

DC's Legion push has been weird in that it's subtle-ish. I swear, the slow build has been torturous, but effective. They keep popping up in random places, and it does keep you on the look out even in stuff you wouldn't normally care about. Crafty bastards.

>>92469627
Everything about how Marvel's handling this conclusion makes me sick. It shouldn't have been a big event in the first place.

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>>92469627
I am not surprised and yet I am somehow deeply disappointed

I did like the suggestion

>If it turns out that HydraCap is sent-back-Bucky all along I'll laugh pretty fucking hard.

>>92469246
>Hoo boy. I need a raise.
Can't say I didn't see it coming.

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>>92469695

>>92469173
Is comic twitter ever NOT a shit storm?

>>92469273
It's just like one of my harem animes!

>>92469638
I didn't realize you were reading Saga, OP.

>second spoiler
Do you think they should have by now? Sounds like BKV anyway.

>>92469744
Never.

>>92469744
Maybe not a full discussion with a lot of back and forth, but I liked people taking about how many panels were in that page King posted (https://twitter.com/TomKingTK/status/864880929944338432)

I think it's just one personally.

>>92469327
>I admit I haven't been reading Button either
Your loss

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>>92469744
No, but I gather The Discourse was in full stride today

Colleen Doran likes to subtweet some of the more obnoxious personae

>>92469784
I'm not right now--I know BKV too well--I was quoting someone

>>92469695
As a burned Thunderbolts fan, I also hope all of that bad things happen to Bucky.

>>92469327
>First panel
https://youtu.be/294X_1TYklg

>>92469695
>>92469826
>Zemo finds out his husbando is fucking Bucky
>betrays him and saves the day

lmao

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>>92469820
I know, I know, but I'm also remarkably unspoiled for it? I just haven't had enthusiasm for much lately. I've been in a lot of dull pain.

>>92469744
Genuinely not. It's a product of clickbait: comics news is always chasing a controversy, so there always IS a controversy.

>>92468904
>Laura Allred: Colors
I knew one of the Allred was involved in this.

>>92469327
>Say cheese

>>92469860
IKTF. When you have these days or weeks without passion it's eroding.

>>92469864
Take the word "comics" out of that and you now have the entire basis of modern news reporting.

>>92469173
>I heard Comics Twitter was more of a shitstorm than usual today

One plus side of falling into the Persona-hole, I find myself not giving a fuck about what nonsense Marvel and DC are pulling.

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>>92469860
>>92469896
I did get some reading done while the PC was in the shop but then I was also using my phone to refresh Twitter furiously

>>92469602
Hey Tex. Why is Odyssey of the Amazons so fucking boring and generic? Why is it the one Wondy spinoff we've gotten in ages has virtually fuck all to do with anything Wondy related?

Also, on a completely unrelated note, am I the only one who actually kinda liked the Maleficent movie?

>>92469928
I've read one book in months; I feel bad about it.
>>92469826
Actually now that Thunderbolts is done a lot of my Bucky hate has faded.

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>>92469907
I wanna play NieR because people I know are like totally in love with it but it's still $60 and I'm a cheap bitch

>>92469959
>am I the only one who actually kinda liked the Maleficent movie?
Yes.

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>>92469994
I do think Spencer has a bit of a Bucky hateboner from Bru misusing Zemo, honestly

>>92470000
>>92469907
The PS4's monopoly on weeaboo games has me seriously considering caving and getting a console again.

>>92469022
Well, PC is in full working order now?
You have ascended to the ranks of the immortals in the PC Master Race, and are now fully committed to ethnic cleansing everyone with lesser BIG COMPUTER NUMBERS?

>>92469907
OT: on a recent drive down to Houston I spent five hours listening to the P5 OST, despite the fact that I probably won't even get to play it for several years because no PS4.

>>92469959
I don't really understand why it was made, it gives no insight into the Amazons and features none of the named Amazons who will be in the movie.

Someone today said it seems more like they just took a generic fantasy/mythological script and slapped some Amazons on it and I'm inclined to agree with that.

Things started to make sense when I looked up the writer and found he's one of the co-creators of the Underworld franchise.

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>>92470064
working on it but it boots in like 15 seconds now, it's amazing

>>92470000
I originally was just going to play NieR and Automata, and then I found out they're a sequel to the Drakengard series. Then I found out just how fucking insane the Drakengard continuity is. Like, there's fucking PLAYS and shit that are relevant to that canon.

Sadly, my curse is being a mad bastard (I once went all the way back to SMT...If to absorb the Persona timeline), so I know I'm gonna have to do it eventually, I just need to find the PS2 games.

>>92469071
I am still weeks behind.

I read... ...the end of the Button of what's new? Thawne time travel shenanigans are kinda old to me at this point. Maybe they always were, given that the big example of it is killing Barry's mom, which is a tremendous "oh fuck off" point to me.

>>92470061
I'm glad I'm into fucking weird were games that don't go to the PC, because with the myriad of car problems I have, there's no way I can afford a half decent gaming rig.

>>92470107
I don't think you actually need any of Drakengard or even the original NieR for Automata. It's pretty complete and independent as a game (and .v. good). There is a fuckup metaplot though so I guess if you like that, get into it.

Everyone in Drakengard is a horrific human being.

>>92470061
I got mad and sold my ps4 after my account got hacked and Sony banned me for my trouble but man I really want to play P4 and Nier and FFXII

>>92470107
I'm only going to play Automata myself, because I'm a shameless Platinumfag like half of /v/

>>92470159
I can get Nier on PC but no Valkyria, no Persona, no Nioh hurts.

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>>92470061
me too, as if I have the time to devote to console gaming

Is this the thread where people have played Shadow Hearts 2?

>>92470161
>even the original NieR
NieR's ending is so damn final that I'm curious how it could possibly tie in to a sequel.

I mean Your character gets erased from existence and everyone's memory and then the game deletes your save file.

>>92470190
A Vita TV will let you play the first 5 Persona games in some form or another, unless you specifically want P5.

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>>92470206

i didn't know storytime was happening tonight!

i haven't read any comics today

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>>92470254
>>92470261
unfortunately it's the last storytime until Tuesday because my schedule sucks

>>92470261
Or period. Fuck outta here.

>>92469194
I think I'll still choose to abstain from it on the grounds of not really giving a shit.

There at least a good reason given for Thor forgetting that global domination is a bad thing after he lived through The Reigning?

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>>92470283

>>92470286

i actually started JLA Detroit for fun a few days ago.

>>92470331
This totally didn't go the way I expected it to.

>>92470328
That reason is "That was ten years ago the writers didn't know about it."

>>92470331
That last panel doe.

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>>92470331

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>>92469071
I'm thinking of going back to storytiming now that things have calmed down. Not the Great X-Men Storytime though, not yet. Maybe something smaller.

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>>92470395
nothing could possibly go wrong

>>92469173
EVS apparently apologized for his outburst last week

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>>92470440
>>92470510
Man, I saw some stuff about shit he's been doing for ages that makes him basically out to be a mean-spirited /b/tard all the time. Back away slowly stuff.

>>92470510
didn't he apologize and donate to an anti-suicide org right after it happened? not surprised people were still mad about it though

>>92469390
Congratulations, you've discovered the truth of the digital age: The Internet was a mistake.

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>>92470540
huh, we Paul Pope today

reminder that Paul Pope wrote a Batman book about saving the works of von Mises

>>92470617
Practically a Bueno face on the last panel there.

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>>92470617

>>92470510
>>92470540
Whoa whoa whoa, what did I miss?

>>92470545
>>92470540
Apparently he has done a shit of mean spirited things. It's a long read (and 4chan might eat the link), but there is a bunch of stuff:

http://phenomenalfx.weebly.com/blog

>>92470107
>>92470161
Would it surprise anyone to know that I love Zero? She's such an asshole, and it's great. The only other who comes close is One.

>>92469476
I kind of lost interest at around book 6, because it was getting even more pornographic and I really didn't care much about Alana after her stupid "Drugs are fun things for cool people" arc.

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>>92470643
EVS told someone to kill themselves in a particularly mean way, then backpedaled and apologized and made a charity donation. That was a good response, but it started to come out that he's basically a giant cock all the time and backpedals repeatedly

>>92470706
I started to feel like the porn was pure shock value on Staples' part and that just bores me

>>92470656
I like a ton of the Drakengard characters. They're mostly all intentionally grotesque and I dig it.

>>92470706
Agreed, drugs are fun things for all people.

>>92470081
It's just so bland. At least Maleficent has a goofy charm and genuine sincerity to it. Odyssey has nothing to offer whatsoever.

>>92470655
holy fuck that's a load of insanity

>>92470655
What the fuck

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>>92470731
>EVS told someone to kill themselves in a particularly mean way, then backpedaled and apologized and made a charity donation. That was a good response, but it started to come out that he's basically a giant cock all the time and backpedals repeatedly

And you say this man voted for Trump for some reason?

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>>92470843
can we actually stay off the cultural politics tonight?

>>92469928
Technology makes it so easy for me to not make a dent on my book backlog.

God, I have so many fucking backlogs. I could buy nothing for a decade and still probably wouldn't get through it all as I just stare glassily at walls instead.

>>92470806
>>92470777
I saw it linked on reddit and am still trying to parse the insanity of it

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>>92470869
>>92470907
I have some things in various formats now that I would have killed to get a decade ago, and they sit unread/watched/etc.

>>92469994
>Actually now that Thunderbolts is done a lot of my Bucky hate has faded.

You are far too forgiving. Bland Cyborg Man should have stayed dead, as Stan intended.

>>92470907
>I have a couple hours free, what should I do?
>I know, I'll dick around doing literally nothing on the internet while my massive comic/game/book/etc backlog gathers dust and my hobbies shrivel up and die

>>92470869
Can do.

>>92470655
>>92470731
What did y'all think? He voted for Trump.

>>92470960
Yyep

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>>92470960
I live this daily :(

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>>92470996
Pope's grotesquerie really works here

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>>92471040

>>92470350
It bugs me that no one gives a shit about pre-JMS Thor.

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>>92471084
lololol

>>92470976
>>92470996
same

I've been stuck on the same knitting project for two years and I haven't read a comic outside wednesdays/storytimes in months

>>92470960
The paradox of choice.

Lately if I watch something I make sure EVERYTHING around me is turned off and just watch it through with no distractions, it doesn't happen all the time but it's a real experience.

>>92470960
The Information Age has fucked us all up. Whenever I could be finishing up Mistborn or re-reading The Ship Who Searched, I gravitate towards faffing about online.

Although, in my defense, that is partially because Mistborn is a huge pain in my ass.

>>92469860
>That's gotta hurt

>>92470617
>What are the media gonna say when they learn that X-Statix has recruited a murderer?

Something about them being edgy and hip, and how that speaks to Middle America's unfulfilled bloodlust?

>>92470731
>I started to feel like the porn was pure shock value on Staples' part and that just bores me

Oh yeah, it was 100% valueless HBO nudity.

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>>92471116
It takes a lot of discipline. I fail at it a lot.

>>92471180
the autofellatio dragon was pure "what can I get in here"

>>92471116
>Lately if I watch something I make sure EVERYTHING around me is turned off and just watch it through with no distractions, it doesn't happen all the time but it's a real experience.
that's a pretty good idea

I'm pretty sure the internet/instant access to a million different types of entertainment has ruined my attention span, sounds like a good way to retrain it

>>92470960
I'm happy that I'm up to unlocking Hulk in Waifu Academy, because it means I can probably delet gaem after the GotG event and getting to listen to HULK CENA for a bit.

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>>92471217

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>>92471271
>>92471263
HULK STUDY!

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>>92471296

>>92471217
I also think it was thumbing its nose a bit at the traditional dragon/quest involving a dragon

>>92471296
Between that and my phone reformating itself (deleting my TWO YEARS of Marvel Puzzle Quest), I'm starting to get off a some digital distractions!

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>>92471338
that's also true

>>92471260
I have a friend who's a huge movie buff, but he'll refuse to watch a movie with you unless you agree to turn your phone off and not speak during the film.

I guess it's a little annoying how hardcore he is at the time but I have to say it really improves the experience, so I can't blame him.

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>>92471363
jesus!

>>92470960
I was reading Moore's Swamp Thing and enjoying the fuck out of it and then I realized that faggot op will make this thread cause it's Wednesday and I instantly opened this tab.

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>>92471388
<3 <3 <3

>>92470373
I know he's supposed to be Lefield, but I can't see Spike as anyone but Johns.

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>>92471416
this reminds me of the Beavis and Butt-Head take on "It's a Wonderful Life"

>>92471416
Noooo!

>>92469080
Why was Brainy talking through a goddamn kazoo?

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>>92471441
>speed metal fan

>>92471472
Because a thousand years in the future and the Coluans still haven't surpassed 1920's Earth in terms of speaker quality.

>>92471472
Because him having a RoBoTiC™ voice is more realistic.

>>92471363
On a vaguely related note I read Kaleidoscope Century recently, which I think you rec'd a good long while back, and I thought that fucked pretty nicely with the usual tropes you get done about immortality and time travel. Which I thought made the end especially horrifying.

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>>92471485
I wanna go to the beach

>>92471516
isn't it great? and horrifying?

>>92471433
the hat?

>>92471472
so you wouldn't notice he was Steve Blum

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>>92471532
No one IME does quite the tonal range of John Barnes. How the fuck he also wrote One for the Morning Glory, I don't even know

>>92469080
This is honestly pretty cute from Brainy despite the grimdark setting. I'm glad Injustice found room for that.

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>>92471568
Hey owls, thanks for reading

Next night off: next tuesday

lol

>>92471620
See you thne.

>>92471620
G'night OP, thanks

>>92471416
Jeez...

>>92471532
The ending is like a nightmare scream, yeah. It's completely fucking chilling to go through the plot and the reveal at the end and the self-reflection of the main character and have THAT as your finish. After I finished it I checked goodreads and instantly hated anyone who downrated it for being edgy or was like "I liked this when I was 14 - I don't anymore"

There were some fair points made about parts of the book being more a history lesson than story but I think that's kind of essential for the finish and you still get a strong PoV throughout. And it doesn't drag, at all, so it's a trade-off.

>>92471672
Let me know what you think of 1979 Einstein, it's a trip to realize that they're working from the same text, you know? It's shorter (had to be due to the LP format) and IMO weirder and rougher

>>92471562
Didn't The Reanimator/DCAU Question Jeffrey Combs voice him?

>>92471620
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

I really gotta get around to reading some books, the poor things are just collecting dust on my shelf. Summer may be less miserable with some decent literature.

>>92471685
It's also very John Barnes that it's kind of a sequel/same universe as two practically YA novels (Orbital Resonance and Sky So Big And Black), and then one introspective grown-up book (Candle)

>>92471740
I haven't read much else of his; another thing to (probably not) get around to.

>>92471620
Thanks again OP

>>92471620
The fact his name is Guy Smith is fucking perfect.

>>92471791
There's also the Giraut books, the excellent Million Open Doors followed by the insanely depressing but gripping Earth Made of Glass, and he promised me some day he'd finish A Far Cry (I drunktweeted him about it)

He's a smart guy.

>>92471843
4U

>>92469349
>deadly storm of death

>>92471040
It's okay Fanboy, there will be other Creme Brules.

>>92471620
Thank you.

>>92470907
The Hugo voting packet came out last night. Having over twenty books get dumped in your lap is an experience.

>>92473004
anything good?

any canine-forced John C. Wright this year?

>>92473388
Just one short story, mercifully. (Also some dino porn.)

They got the entire Craft Sequence in the packet, which is impressive. Full list: http://file770.com/?p=35109#comment-637090

>>92473484
I needed to dunk my head in bleach after actually reading the entire essay collection that one year.

>>92473602
(also be sure to tell us what's good)

I've had clear and strong anti-recs for the McGuire novella and the Palmer novel.

>>92473484
>Stix Hiscock

Man, I miss when lady writers just used their initials. What a lousy pseudonym.

>>92473632
Haven't read them yet, so I'm sure I'll have opinions soon enough!

(I also have a reasonable tolerance for "bad" as long as it's interestingly bad -- more of an issue for novels, really, since I read quickly enough to not worry about wasting too much time on shortfic.)

Speaking of interestingly bad -- I saw somebody on Twitter complaining today about Lois Lane losing a leg and saying that clearly this would never happen to male characters. I just wanted to force them to read Cry for Justice.

>>92473879

I'm down for new Oracle. She'd never work with the Squad though

>>92473879
>Lois Lane losing a leg
when did that happen?

>>92473928
Superman #23 today.

>>92473879
>I just wanted to force them to read Cry for Justice.

What, so they could yell at you for giving them a story when a character's daughter dies so he could relapse into heroin addiction?

>>92473971
... fair enough.

>>92473879
The McGuire was dinged for being a tumblr lecture and failing utterly as a mystery despite the killer premise. Having read other work of hers, I believe this critique on its face.

The Palmer was more of "you can't do this twist in the second book without actually hinting at or setting it up in the first".

>>92473484
As a voter, please vote Vision.

>>92473823
Stix Hiscock where, though?

>>92474058
This

>>92474058
Calling it'll be Monstress.

>>92468904
OH SNAP! I've never heard about this one before! It's like a lost issue of X-Statix! Thanks, JSA storytime bro!

>>92477610
You know, an X-Statix: the Lost Tapes would probably be one of the few good ways you could do a revival.

>>92477682
After the recent Doop mini, I wouldn't trust Milligan with X-Statix again....

>>92477958
What was bad about it?