JSA Storytime: Starman

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>>93625676
(sorry for no storytime Saturday, life happened)

also note that apparently his ass is better than the JSA's, which I find hard to believe

>>93625676
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/03/dc-comics-talent-marvel-legacy-misfire/

Rich put an article up about something /co/ was thinking was gonna happen after DC put out a line of artist-centered books and marvel said people don't care about artists
So it'll be interesting to see if the marvel to DC migration happens 5 years after to the Dc to marvel migration started

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>>93625693

>>93625693
show it, you cowards

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>>93625730
if a fraction of what Rich the leech posted today is true, about Legacy, what a stupendously cack-handed undertaking

>>93625730

And Ribic's art looks good as usual
>>93616205

still loling about it being 1,000,000 BC. nothing like DC One Million, no sir, made up that name outrselves

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>>93625758
the ongoing Chaykingeddon is too stupid even for me, lover of stupid comics drama on Twitter

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>>93625781
lol moving to the SA

Waddup thread, feels good to be back to storytiming.

>>93625781
At least some people are getting that it's better to just ignore it and not buy anything and save your money for projects that you'd like instead

>>93625676
Hello, Storyteller.

Not much to say about Starman, honestly. It's a bit boiler plate, really, so much so that I'm tempted to just talk about my new cat.

>>93625781
Seems to have people sit up and think about Image as a 'publisher' anyway. It's twisted round so many times in just a couple days I can't even follow it anymore.

>>93625781
Same. Poor Brandon Graham got the full brunt of our favorite furry's fury.

>>93625822
Hi X-Anon.

>>93625781
There was one guy who was a real asshole to Dustin Weaver, being all like "well, I was going to buy Paklis but then I saw that Chaykin comic so I put it back down". Like, goddamn, man.

>>93625859
>>93625859
"Furry fury" just reminded me of when the Snagglepuss pages first came out and furries were so angry that they didn't want to fuck him, and a bunch of furry artists redrew him with bedroom eyes and everything.

>>93625864
Hi anon.

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>>93625832
cats are awesome, we can always talk about cats

>>93625859
I nearly died at 'spacetwinksplaining'

>>93625843
I'm torn because Image does try to pitch itself as a Place and a Thing, and yet it's not, really, and most people who work with it don't WANT more editorial oversight

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>>93625869
also apparently people are mad at KSD? which I could have called because the DeFractions are real close to Howie, they're not going to unperson him over this, even if they might sigh internally

>>93625758
It's been a pretty bad couple of days for Marvel, including Rich posting his "Runaways is totally a stealth mini, be aware of that" article

>>93625781
>ongoing
Nah it seems to have subsided to just a low level of " this comic is garbage" anger. Once Image pulled the cover a good number of people moved on

>>93625869
Like the person who sent Simone a message saying they were going to pirate her comic because they love her, but didn't want to give Image money.

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>>93625917
I find the idea that your fav must make a Statement about something kind of repellent, and yet, if you've built a brand and positionality around being woke, you've kind of done it to yourself

endless, endless field positioning, with nary a reference to aesthetics in sight

>>93625924
I missed that one

>>93625924
>couple days
More like couple months lol

Anyway that stealth mini article was just common sense at this point.

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>>93625946

>>93625924
No shit, it's a new Marvel book launching from a YA author. Is there a Marvel launch which ISN'T a stealth mini at this point?

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>>93625964
Moonstruck is clearly too furry for me

>>93625983
They seem to be letting Iceman and Jean Grey get more tan 6 issues

>>93625946
>>93625985
That's the lesbian werewolf/monster romance one, right?

Should've got Emily Carroll on board https://twitter.com/emilyterrible/status/881940936951050240

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>>93625985

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>>93626014
protip: this is not what anywhere that close to SA looks like

>>93625946
BleedingCool is loading slowly for me, but this should be it:
http://archive.is/ePDrb

tl:dr:
>"Starting in September, I’ll be the ongoing writer for Runaways. And if people buy it, I will continue to write it. And it’s the sort of thing I can do while I write books, so I’ve already written the first six issues.”
>Oh and the Amazon listing for the collected issues? Those six issues that Rowell has already written for next year in Runaways… no Vol 1 or similar listed in its title, which an ongoing series would get.
Plus we had Gabriel yelling about how they don't call things miniseries anymore

>>93625946
I think this seminar/staff training thing is just going to fuck Image up again down the line, because anyone who pretends they aren't primarily a business is kidding themselves. And if this doesn't mean more editorial influence, then what does it mean?

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>>93626012
I guess so, I just saw the preview pages on BC

whoever in the comments says it looks like a BOOM! book is dead on

>>93626030
BC's loading time is chugging cock today

>>93626024
>Big Two comic books
>accurate geography anywhere outside of New York

>>93626037
Some people want Stephenson gone, which I wouldn't mind desu

I hate how Image went from gimmicky not Marvel to not Fanta to gimmicky not Fanta thanks to those retarded themed variants.

>>93626024
Wow, this is like they looked at a picture of SA in a history book and drew it like that.

Reminds me how my non-Texan friends think all of Texas looks like the Fort Worth Stockyards.

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>>93626037
There was a horrible fuss at the Duke Divinity School over a senior, much prized but cantankerous professor objecting to some semi-mandatory training, but I'm with him in that 3 days of 8 hours is a huge commitment for minimal return

I dunno, offer it for people who want to learn more, but I don't think making people go to things like this cultivates other emotions above resentment, which is counterproductive. You make HR/Legal do these things so you won't do things that generate lawsuits you'll lose.

>>93626042
It's by one of the Lumberjanes writers and has a Kate Leth feature, it basically is Image publishing a Boom! book. Makes sense, that's an audience Marvel has tried to get too. And it is quite literally the coffeeshop setting people ask for.

>>93625985
>Moonstruck is clearly too furry for me
Oh girl, I lost any semblance of "too furry" long ago. As long as the being in question is sapient and of proper age for its species, I really don't care anymore.

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>>93626064
hey they get Riverwalk points here, though

>>93626059
>to not Fanta
More like Not Vertigo/Epic/Dark Horse/First etc

Outside of things like Pencil Head or The Humans I can't see anything fitting in at Fanta

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>>93626096
there are so many HORSECOCK! jokes to make

>>93626092
Aha, I see. Well, I don't begrudge that audience getting books it wants, I just want 0% technology part of it

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>>93626127
btw hair got dyed, lessons were learned, because for a little bit there I looked like a batshit Skyrim Nord

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>>93626144
(the Alamo is not very big)

>>93626127
>there are so many HORSECOCK! jokes to make
[insert "horse pussy" reference here]

Though personally, while equines are nice, I prefer fish.

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>>93626173
wtf

>>93626104
If anything Fanta has become more Image-y recently.

>>93626173
Please stop.

Tom Scioi posted her " directors commentary" for the Super Powers back ups in the Cave Carson trade

http://www.ambarb.com/?p=1943

> These stories take place on Earth 5C10L1 in the DC Multiverse. I wrote 3 years worth of stories for Super Powers and a New Gods OGN, just in case I ever got the opportunity.
> Earth 5C10L1

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>>93626173

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>>93626239
yessss

>>93626239
>her
Meant his, derp

>>93626239
>I wrote 3 years worth of stories for Super Powers and a New Gods OGN
Holy shit!

>>93626239
>her
???

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>>93626257
my body is ready for the next KFC comic

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>>93626283

>>93626183
>>93626190
Heh. I enjoy the thought of you trying to purge the image of me pounding it to fish porn from your minds.

>>93626242
>orca
>fish
Anon, pls.

>>93626239
Holy shiiit

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>>93626302

I mentioned PanelxPanel last thread (or a few threads) ago and I dunno if anyone gives a shit but turns out I got a free copy gratis and it was pretty much a disappointment.

Comes across as criticism designed to be incredibly marketable: the actual breakdowns are good, but the creator interviews seem a bit high on their own fumes (and the magazine's position as a whole is fawning) and a substantial number of the credited writers are only in a 4-5 page section of different blurb ads for current comics. The fact each issue is basically gonna be built around a new Image #1 too...

>>93626276
brain fart

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>>93626350
That sounds pretty underwhelming.

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>>93626311
Mentally classing you as T.C. from Preacher right now

>>93626350
>The fact each issue is basically gonna be built around a new Image #1 too
Wasn't the first issue focused on a Black Mask comic though?

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>>93626373
so how are you owls today

>>93626379
Eh, this is JSA Storytime. We're all a bunch of filthy degenerates here.

Hell, the origin of "hoot hoot" alone is evidence enough.

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>>93626455

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>>93626470
the love of the space owls is pure

>>93626455
Reinvigorated and inspired. I'm going back to writing after this storytime.

>>93626505
Good to hear, anon.

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>>93626496
I have to work tomorrow but the magic words are involved

>>93626455
The Crash Bandicoot remake is entertaining enough. Fuck the bridge levels. Coco is cute. CUTE!

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>>93626373
It was, yeah. I like the content (especially from creators) about actual construction, there's a good introductory lettering thing, but there are like half a dozen pages of this kinda thing that's gonna be a regular feature. The long interviews are definitely hit or miss. It's not dense either: 80-odd pages, but every section has a stand alone title page. Contents are on page 5, first feature starts on page 10.

It did make me wonder if Gillen gets paid for blurbs (I don't think he would have been for his one here) and if so how much he charges.

>>93626391
That's true, yeah. It's an Image one next week (a comic I am actually looking forward to) and I see it primarily sitting there going forward. Maybe it'll be more diverse in its sources than I'm anticipating, I could be wrong. It didn't help that I wasn't into the comic it features tired of the non-superhero book having 'superpowers!' as a reveal, and I don't think you can highlight that kind of twist as daring or different these days

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>>93626529

>>93626529
Box wine?

>>93626532
Is it the same gameplay as the original (2D mixed with fixed camera behind the head) or is it a whole new thing?

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>>93626550
ugh, no one gives a shit about capsule "buy this" shit

>>93626571
"time and a half"

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>>93626583
If this is going to get good, it has to lean hard into the fucked-up stuff

>>93626583
But I like all those comics! Even though I dropped Giant Days when the original artist left

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>>93626603
for some reason everything hurts today

:(

>>93626144
kek, did you get it sorted?

>>93626603
Acceptable fanservice, 7/10

>>93625730
there were some signs of this already with some guys like Coipel showing up in DC solicits again, should be fun

>>93626572
Same, but with updated visuals, and you can play as Coco.

And y'know, despite the new graphics, it still retains the look and feel of a 90s platformer. Like, it still gives off that distinctive aura, which is odd, but pretty fuckin' great.

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>>93626637
there was some serious scrubbing involved but it looks fukken cool

>>93626627
I like them all too but come the fuck on. That's a recurring, multi-page feature in your magazine? That's the thing people are saying "Hey I'm in this" about?

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>>93626642
if they poached Immonen, that'd be something

I, too, want a healthy Marvel, but I don't see this regime course-correcting itself at all

>>93626684
Marvel has proven to everyone that they won't change unless they are actually punished first

>>93625775
Wasn't Ribic supposed to working on an Image series? Lazy bastard.

>>93626684
Waiting for the evil mouse-eared suits to step in and chop heads desu. THAT'S how you'd get comics for kids in stores again.

>>93626505
Good luck

>>93626720
Probably too late for that, kids don't shop at stores anymore. It's all digital for them.

>>93626642
Not an artist but according to Brett Booth DC are trying to get Waid back.

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>>93626709
The "creators not set on books" thing reminds me of when DC had people competing for a book with pitches, and that was unhealthy as fuck

>>93626737
It will be downloaded directly into their brains through their fave youtubers then.

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>>93626747
this is bringing back all my memories of WordPerfect 5.0 macros and the insane keyboard plate you could use to remember them

A TIME BEFORE MICE, KIDS

>>93626738
I don't really want him back unless it's editorial. The last good thing he did was 52 and he might have just been carried by the other 3.

>>93625693
By life, do you mean 1000 page Tad Williams novel?

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>>93626720

>>93626720
Can they also get Marvel to publish some higher profile non-cape stuff, please? This industry is just a chore these days.

Y'know how video game publishers always mindlessly one really successful thing, without regards for what made that thing work, often leading to market saturation? Comic books are what happens when the next successful thing to mindlessly copy fails to manifest.

>>93626710
>Wasn't Ribic supposed to working on an Image series
No he's working on The Metabaron

>>93626684
I'm seeing some interesting things being brought up in this book so far, like here with the public having some slight unease to the obviously fake and shallow image Starman puts on, repeatedly comparing him to the Lone Ranger, and the creepy "may actually be dead or something" underlying plot point.

But like we've all said it's going a bit slow so far, which can be a problem because we have no way of knowing if it'll ever pay off, and by the time most of this stuff will play out in the story we'll have already invested a shitload of time.

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>>93626780
actually it was my BIL's birthday and so huge amounts of food were consumed

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>>93626808
Found it.

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>>93626819
at least, tho, this is 80s comics so it'll pay off faster than a Bendis book would (and it never would)

>>93625676
Ah yeah, Bolt. Eiling's favourite super assassin.

>>93626777
What the fuck is this page.

>>93626819
It's forcing me to compare it to the Captain Atom and Quasar we read and it doesn't come off better.

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>>93626834

>>93626834
>it'll pay off faster than a Bendis book would
That's not really much of an accomplishment desu

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>>93626864
True....truuuue....

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>>93626879
ugh, i just want to chug beer and ibuprofen, tonight

>>93626778
I think Daredevil was good.

I know his recent output has been awful but I'm always willing to give him a chance to redeem himself.

>>93626834
>>93626854
I'm the one who recommended it and I did so because it looked similar to Atom and Quasar and had a similarly long run, so I knew from the start it would take some time to really get me hooked if it ever did.

>>93626800
I actually feel like there's loads of great shit coming out but it has basically no relevance to what is popular and/or gets press. And so many books are tiring for sure, not even having the idea or gem of an idea that makes them interesting.

>>93626819
If you're worried about wasting your time you may want to check out now considering how it ends for this Starman.

>>93626897
Fair point!

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>>93626894
resisting making awful joke

>>93626800
There was that Millar/Immonen comic Empress that Icon put out.

Maybe Marvel was too busy hoping Powers would take off to bother giving it a push.

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>>93626919

Oh shit, I forgot the Foolkiller guy is doing a fucking Atari comic.

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>>93626969
might have to read

https://twitter.com/KurtBusiek/status/882044510972268545

italics imo

>>93626903
There are indeed SOME non-cape books out there, but ain't nobody's even heard of them.

And holy fucking SHIT, there are so many books that have absolutely no reason to exist. Like, the hell was that book where Aquaman hung out with a bunch of random fucks? They weren't even Atlanteans! Then there's Odyssey of the Amazons, A-Force, (let's be honest)Zub Thunderbolts, absolutely everything involving the Green Lanterns right now... There's just so much, and I hate using this word, filler. So much fucking shovelware. Make sure a book has a damn point before you publish it. Goddamn.

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>>93627011

>>93627027
Busiek is dead to me now.

>>93627011
It really feels like a lot of attention is given to Starman in poses of agony.

>>93627027
Italics, yes. Feels like a proper "future-esque" kind of logo.

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>>93627070
it's definitely their kink

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>>93627116
ugh, Invasion?

>>93627116
>little girl that grows into musclegirl
Is this /co/'s ideal woman?

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>>93627185
yes, no question

>>93625917
Man, this is some solid comfy superheroics.

>>93627179
>Invasion
Speaking of pointless books...

Oh, and the current JLA book. That has no reason to exist beyond being a dumping ground for characters editorial wants to have around for reasons.

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>>93627200
I'm about to fall over asleep so thanks for reading, we should be on tomorrow

>>93627279
Thanks I guess OP, this is pretty boring so far.

>>93627279
G'night, OP, thanks.

>>93626720
Pretty sure Ike the Kike has 100% control over this portion of Marvel so don't get your hopes up.

>>93627279
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

This Crash remake gives me hope that a similar Spyro remake will happen eventually. Goddamn, that would rock.

>>93626057
Eh, partial pass for being 30 years ago and Google Street view not being a thing.

>>93626099
Could the first scene have been in a part of town that's since been redeveloped maybe? Like, this was 1987.

>>93626144
>for a little bit there I looked like a batshit Skyrim Nord

And this was... unwanted?

>>93626283
>at some point this Bolt fought Nate with a recently broken collar and ribs

Ouch

>>93627279
Thanks as always OP

I'm enjoying it well enough but yeah, I guess it's not particularly special.