JSA Storytime: X-Statix

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>>happy Birthday.

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>>93148891
today is also the birthday of the immortal RICHARD STRAUSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bU7ibqGko

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>>93148933

>>93148933
Nice.

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>>93148964
BTW you really have to hear something like that live, even the biggest speakers imaginable can't give you the same "lol wow I can feel that sound in my chest cavity" experience

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>>93148986

>>93148869
Hello, Storyteller.

It's Dinah's 70th birthday, and nobody gives a shit. That's kind of sad.

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>>93149006

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>>93149027
time for Strange

>>93149025
I'm not indifferent?

>>93148869
>someone remembered Rita DeMara was a character who existed

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>>93149055

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>>93149077

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>>93148891
>>93149025
I like Dinah, they just haven't done much exciting with her lately

Otto Schmidt certainly draws a fine ass Dinah though

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>>93149100
GDI is this the digital conversion losing speech bubbles AGAIN?

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>>93149116
God bless dickgirl Russians

>>93149025
I'm kinda surprised she's 70 years old.

>>93149139
She's a classic JSA-er, man

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>>93149137
btw whoever reads capeshit as Bourdieuian protest, you're my favorite

>>93149055
Dr. Strange is one of those characters I could never get into. I'm very very anal about magic, I need there to be consistent rules or else it comes off as plot convenience bullshit. Strange just seems to do whatever needs to happen, and I'm like "Nah.".

>>93149123
I'm having the same problem with the Exiles digital rips, so I'll eventually have to dig out the scans so I can replace the affected pages.

Get your shit together, Marvel

>tfw all the best girls are dead

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>>93149169
The list of truly successful comics with Dr. Strange is, IMO/E, fairly small. It needs to be juuuust on the far side of comics logic to even work--since it's comics, it needs to work on a profoundly symbolic/visual level that doesn't necessarily translate into textual exegesis. I found the thread about why Aaron Strange sucked to resonate with me.

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>>93149202
Or, in other words, it's the "If it's visually striking and coherent and just plain strong enough, you don't ask the questions like 'how does this work???'" which is the lynchpin of Horrock's shredding of Bitch Planet

>>93148869
A faggot OP is, yes.

>>93149164
Sadly gotta fall out with you 'cause you say Bourdieuian, I say Bourdieusian...

>>93149202
>I found the thread about why Aaron Strange sucked to resonate with me.
got an archive link?

>>93149202
>I found the thread about why Aaron Strange sucked to resonate with me.
Because Dr. Strange loses his magic and starts running around with an axe?

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>>93149252
I'm not quite sure which is standard!

love me some field theory

>>93149235
I've only read the original Ditko run, which certainly hits "visually striking".

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>>93149277

>>93121005

>>93149304
right, it's working entirely on its visual logic, and it's got imagination and mmph to it. If you make a good enough image, it can carry a comic/an opera production even against the grain of "but how does it work/what does it mean"

>>93149116
It's not hard to see why. Dinah is a sensible, responsible adult who deals with her problems like a normal ass person with a minimum of overblown drama. In other words, she's the type of character who is immediately labeled 'boring' by a lot of folks. She doesn't have any over the top flaws aside from, y'know, the typical stuff a normal person has, which is an instant deal breaker for many, so people tend to ignore her.

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>>93149360
so how are you owls?

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>>93149385

>>93149385
Bored, watching E3 for kicks. Curious how that anon who was very into LiS feels about the prequel.

>>93149360
thanks!

>>93149385
not bad, how are you OP?

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>>93149423
Dr. Strange does have one of the most pimpin' capes of all time

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>>93149444
Oh yeah, my Twitter feed got taken over by shit I don't understand there

>>93149446
I think I'm gonna dye my hair

>>93149385
Hungry, frustrated with how to design sci-fi submarines, and slightly confused about how walruses fuck.

You?

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>>93149500
full but I reek of mesquite smoke, which is somewhere between pleasant and annoying

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>>93149530
Okay, how many people get the Ollie North joke on the previous page? You can be honest.

>>93149360
>>93149235
So that comment like "lol why would you trust a reviewer" raises a fair point IMO in that most comics reviewing/criticism is total garbage.

There's this thing coming soon PanelxPanel? https://gumroad.com/l/PXPNO1 if you care and it's got creator input, everyone talking it up, a guy behind it who's trying to think and is open to communication and I'm still basically "Gonna have to see this first issue because it could still be complete trash"

Feels weird to think that about the medium. Picked out your Horrocks comment because at one point she was talking about a book of comics criticism modeled off of Borges' Dreamtigers and that's the kind of thing that makes me sit up and be interested.

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>>93149562
See, now, THIS is a Dr. Strange page.

>>93149491
I was impressed by how the immediate comments were "Can I fuck the Orcs?" "Can I fuck the robots?" etc. Everyone is proud to be a pervert on twitter (and on 4chan).

>>93149444
>Life is Strange
>prequel
... Prequel? Fucking HOW? WHY? What, did Max break time so hard that she got her powers early? Is it just mundane faffing around with kid Max and kid Chloe?

Is Dontnod staffed entirely by insane morons? How the fuck do you make a prequel for Life is Strange? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

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>>93149604
Sometimes fandom is great

>>93149575
I like reading some people I really disagree with because at least there's some style and a strong POV to it. The ones I least like are where I feel like either 1) they go too far in omitting uncomfortable/non-conforming aspects of the work 2) I feel how carefully they write around audience expectations especially about 'diverse' material

>>93148869
Who's Yellowjacket here?

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>>93149650

>>93149626
It's about Chloe and Rachel. To be honest maybe it'll just be a much more down-to-earth story about their lives at that point, that'd probably be best.

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>>93149695

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>>93149720

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>>93149750

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>>93149781
that last panel is as creepy as it should be

>>93149809
yes, it certainly is

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>>93149809

>>93149708
It'd be best if it explained why reality itself wants Chloe dead.

Shit, now I'm torn. On the one hand, this seems like an incredibly pointless idea, but on the other, I'm getting more of my bae. Fuck, this is stupid, but my waifu...

>>93149385
Entertained by the superhero universe thread. Now an anon is suggesting they make a zine and everything, which is cool but the whole thing will probably crash and burn before it even gets off the ground

>>93149867
that's how they reel you in, man

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>>93149848

>>93149809
I've been really impressed by Allred's ability to switch up into horror/gore and make it have an impact in this whole run. More so than with the Madman we read.

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>>93149930
Ooh, tough call: racist slur vs. sexual harassment

>>93149659
Rita DeMara, pointlessly killed off in The Crossing and brought back in Chaos War until Brevoort decided to be a dick and put the kibosh on all the Avenger resurrections from that event

I kind of want to write a book that canonizes their resurrections again and explains that Rita and the rest just told the whole superhero business to go fuck itself and are living normal lives away from New York and all that crazy shit.

>>93149891
There's an irregular /co/ zine which is still going IIRC.

>>93149626
>Dontnod
It's not made by them. They are working on the actual sequel thing, plus their vampire game

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>>93149972
We really just hit the very first parts of Madman, to be fair

>>93149910
The heart wants what the head advises against.

Gotta give ol Squeenix credit. They got their waifubait game on lock. Bastards.

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>>93150036
>>93150042
but their husbando game, where is more Basch for me

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>>93150061

>>93150061
>where is more Basch for me
hey, FFXII Zodiac edition comes out next month!

I wish I didn't sell my PS4 ;_;

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>>93150114
oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

wait, I don't have a PS4

fuck

Also, sadly, that wouldn't fix my biggest problem with FF12

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>>93150144

>>93150144
what was your biggest problem with FF12? I loved that game when it came out but I haven't played it in ages

>>93150042
Remember they're coming out with a Marvel game next year.

>>93150114
Is that not gonna be a be on PC?

>>93150061
Their husbando game has been weak lately. FF15 was fuckin' laughable with that boy band shit.

>Basch
Well, the chart says that female players don't like older males, so let's insert this Vaan dipshit who has fuck all to do with the plot instead.
>Well, why don't we just have Ashe be the protagonist? It's kinda her story anyway.
A FEMALE? GET OUT.

This story always reminds me of that one series I've shilled a couple of times in /co/ about the dead literally who's who want to come back to life, and the idea of being compared to Milligan if I ever get to pitch it to Marvel scares the living shit out of me
/blog over

>>93150205
Balthier and Fran are clearly the top husbando/waifu combo in FF12.

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>>93150179
It's badly paced/they run out of story near the end compared to where you finally have easy access around the world. Yes, all the fun extra quests flesh things out quite a bit, but there needed to be way more in between climbing up the Pharos and fighting the no-way-back final battle.

>>93150198
I don't know, but I'm a console pleb and I don't really play games on PC

I don't think it's coming out for Xbone so I'm not sure about PC

Microsoft is fucking stupid and I don't know what they actually want to achieve wit Scorpio.

>>93150114
This year has been brutal if you're a weeb faggot like me with no PS4.

>>93150252
It does feel a bit like the console some 10 year old kid would make up and pretend he owns to his friends.
>XBOX ONE... X!

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>>93150236

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>>93150288
This and Mockingbird are pretty funny considering that recent run, lol

>>93148869
I don't care for this much, the coloring and linework looks off compared to the main series.

>>93149361
>She doesn't have any over the top flaws
the power of feminism

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>>93150327
The Dragotta/Allred partnership is weird in places

I honestly can't be arsed to give a damn about E3 these days. It's all such soulless pagantry. Let me know if they announce a new Metroid game at Nintendo's conference, then I'll start paying attention.

>>93150284
I don't know, there's no urgency about it. There isn't a proper generational leap and incentive is really lacking. People are really going to think "wow first I spend $500 to get a 4k tv then $500 more to get this machine, you know what I'd rather just buy a simple console since games are going to come out on it either way." Let's be honest here, consoleplebs really don't think about the quality of visuals and market is always dominated by cheaper console.

>>93150288
>characters can end up going insane in the Marvel afterlife
Fuck, I forgot how much I unintentionally drew from this mini

>>93150388
I fell for the Kojimbo meme and was waiting for Death Stranding but it's not going to be there.

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>>93150384

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>>93150430

>>93149181
the best boys too

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>>93150452

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>>93150480

>>93150357
Oh eat shit. I'm frankly fed the fuck up with this demand that every character be a barely functioning mess, while at the same time being "relateable". Sorry to break the bloody fucking obvious to you, but most people are fairly well adjusted, and do not have gigantic singular personality quirks around which their entire lives revolve. Maybe if you would actually talk to another person at some point in your life instead of whiny about how girls won't touch your tiny dick on account of being a fedora tipping faggot, you would already know that. Goddamn.

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>>93150519

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>>93150541

>>93150538
>most people
Here's the thing, darling: most people are boring.

>>93150538
>Sorry to break the bloody fucking obvious to you, but most people are fairly well adjusted, and do not have gigantic singular personality quirks around which their entire lives revolve.
And yet your crankiness.

What was your first experience when you started reading From Hell? I feel like it's a bit too artsy in the context of all of Moore's work and bit too purposefully impenetrable. I'm liking the challenge though.

>>93150538
Calm down cranky. Modern day feminism is terrible.

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>>93150538

>>93149169
>>93149202

the samme happens to me with Strange.
moderately recently, during Hickmans Avengers run before Secret Wars, the Avengers were beaten by the not-Justice League of another universe (and the Avengers blew up their planet), only for Strange to be a deux ex machine, summon some demon, and singlehandedly destroy the not justice league.

Supposedly that had a terrible cost on him, but nothing really happened.

>>93150621
I just thought "man, this totally shits all over Watchmen and Miracleman..."

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>>93150587
WELP

I need to go do things. Thanks for reading! We're back tomorrow! this is five issues.

>>93150538
Was this you today?
>>93144318

>>93150708
>>93150708
thanks OP!

>>93150708
Thanks senpai

>>93150708
Holy shit Madeline.

>>93150708
Fuck you faggot OP, you never do overtime anymore.

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>>93150657

>>93150782
OP is much more tired these days. And a little burned out.

>>93150813
illuminated comics is a gift

>>93150604
Sure, if you're an idiot. It all comes down to a character's base personality, how they handle situations, their personal beliefs, etc. Characters do not need to be insane, one-note freaks to be interesting. I'd argue the opposite, in fact. That's why I like Diana and Clark, but dislike Bruce. The former act like people and express a range of traits and emotions, while the latter comes off as a one-note caricature most times.

>>93150612
>And yet your crankiness.
Is not my only trait. You just see it a lot because we're on 4chan.

>>93150856
You've been around a ton lately compared to the past few weeks. Are you still working nights?

>>93148869
Quick, everybody, count all the people who aren't dead anymore!

>>93150657
>>93150813
Hackman really took wrong messages from Fantastic Four run. Everyone applauded the message and he thought all I need in my book is the message, fuck technicality.

>>93150894
Schedule is all over the place right now.

>>93150881
Wonder Woman is one note as fuck, as is Black Canary.

>>93150708
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

Good luck with said things.

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>>93150813
>bowling with Zemo

>>93149025
Dinah is not "iconic" for normal grade celebration. And sadly has been relegated to teams basically forever, so no more ousting Johnny Thunder from his own feature anymore.

I dont understand if Dead Girl resurrected by herself or if Strage did it.
Could she still be used?

>>93151168
Anyone can be used if someone feels like making it happen

>>93149385
Kinda Meh. Watching Tonys to see if the Newfie one wins anything.

>>93149491
I don't like how much this plays into Bendis style incompetent sliding timescale shenanigans.

>>93149562
Yo. Also, he's a FoxNews guy now.

>>93149650
SKRULL

>>93149650
So this story was released before Secret Invasion? With Mocking Bird being dead instead of being held captured by the Skrulls?

>>93149995
Miss America hado a hard life. Her son was a human nuclear bomb and her other kids were retconned into Magneto's and then not Magneto's.

>>93151722
Yes, this is 2006

who's the redhead in the book club?

>>93152582
The then recently dead Miracle MacTaggart.