JSA Storytime: Mr. X

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>>93801419
so what have I missed that's /co/ related

>>93801430
17776 is cool, though I guess it's debatably not /co/

>>93801430
New Ragman mini by Fawkes and Inaki Miranda, sounds pretty neat

>>93801430
Marvel CHANGES THE INDUSTRY - AGAIN - with lenticular covers in, I assume, a continuing attempt to make nothing be something.

DC horror anthology thing got announced.

also the Legacy "leaks" were confirmed fanfiction, but everyone knew that already

>>93801419
Hello, Storyteller.

Two things.
1) There's a Ragman mini coming out soon. So that's something to loom forward to.

2) Um, don't be surprised if we have some newcomers joining us today. /co/ remembered that we're a thing again.

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>>93801430
yes, I just saw the Ragman thread

obvious troll is obvious

>>93801430

have you storytimed since the will payton cameo in METAL preview?

>>93801419

Hell yeah Los Bros!

i appreciate L&R more than I like it but love their art.

>>93801510
I mean, I'm pretty sure the guy being insulting about JSA threads and the guy bitching about someone being insulting about JSA threads are in fact the same person.

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>>93801509
LOL

>>93801524
Yeah, the last Mr. X storytime was after then and I went "shit we might have to pick it back up and see if it does finally get going"

>>93801536
this is trufax

>>93801510
Cranky, you've been a very naughty boy.

>>93801536
I think he's probably a regular here shitposting for fun

>>93801447
The first part was so cool! Then it updated again!

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>>93801558
the dig about women is too obvious to not be

>>93801542
>see if it does finally get going
It doesn't. It stays boring the whole way through.

>>93801542

ahh, I've missed a bunch bc night shifts.

>>93801543
Yeah, who would have guessed that a DC Halloween special would contain Batman?

>>93801543
Not sure that's Cranky but I do feel like that "What does /co/ think of crossovers?" thread was someone bored trying to bait him out.

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>>93801579
Yeah, unfortunately the schedule these days is very erratic

That said, we're on wednesday through friday this week, off Saturday, on Sunday

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>>93801645
Love that the dominant colors here are blue and orange. Very striking. Also, these are old scans, not digital. I have issue #1 in digital, and the colors are too clean and bright.

>>93801665

All this EVIL CITY stuff is reminding me of Gotham and I don't like it and I know it's on me

Secret Empire speculation thread that might be relevant to the thread's interests >>93792257

I hope he kills Bucky again

>>93801665
There's a reason movie poster designers like blue and orange.

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>>93801665
oh shit Dave's been running MAGE?

>>93801665
I really like the way the black spaces are constructed around (or imposing on) the characters here too

>>93801575
>>93801645

Yolanda's reaching out from the blackness and Mercedes is framed by it all the way until she leaves.

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>>93801697
best boy

>>93801665
Before we got digital rips I used to like those scans that tried to color correct a little. Probably still my favorite technique to some degree (not really the ones that went too smeary though) over raw scans and rips because you keep some of the paper "texture" but still get it to look brighter.

>>93801600
Oh eat my taint. You know full well that ain't why I have a problem with it. That just happened to come up, and I like bitching about how much of a piece of shit Bruce Wayne is.

No, like I said before, I see this special as a return to the old gimmicks that were causing DC to flush itself down the toilet in recent years. Rebirth has only just started them on the path to recovery, and here they are falling back on what wasn't working. It's incredibly disappointing, especially when we're in the middle of a major storyline, and you decide to launch both this AND an event book? Goddamn.

>>93801694
Gotham isn't the first thing ever to do the "evil city" thing.

>>93801694
Sadly if anything it'll be the reverse. There was some rep for American Eagle, my fave Captain America supporting character, online and it make me happy but lol like he'll ever show up again. My Eagle/Patriot Arizona roadtrip book will never happen, sob.

>>93801711

Those reprints should be coming out soon right?

>>93801761

yeah but comics you know. my brain'll go straight to Batman

>>93801747
>It's incredibly disappointing, especially when we're in the middle of a major storyline, and you decide to launch both this AND an event book? Goddamn.
I'm not sure how a one shot holiday special actually interrupts anything

DC has put out holiday specials even when their sales were good

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>>93801722
Los Bros are masters of blacks

>>93801747
Is it the first special? I feel like Rebirth is still pretty clearly delineating what's regular and mainline, and what's for fun, and what's a mini. The first event they did was very small and contained and felt like testing the waters, then Metal and Doomsday Clock, and now an anthology. That seems OK? The events are all Bat-centric but Batman sells, what are you gonna do?

>>93801711
Well, the new series does debut tomorrow...

>>93801789
The Mage reprints come out this month I think, and new Mage starts soon

>>93801800

I was about to post how it's great we're talking up the colors but they don't shine until you see them use black. it's just fantastic

>>93801800
I thought they were masters of spics?

>>93801807
They did a Christmas special this previous December iirc

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>>93801824
OH

Well, I have to go to my LCS to bitch them out, so hopefully they put it on my pull because they've fucked up my pull one too many a time now

>>93801847
I'm going to hell for laughing

>>93801848
Not him but it was the one with Kyle/Carol so I didn't read it, right?

>>93801807

>The events are all Bat-centric but Batman sells, what are you gonna do?

Are they? SS v JL and Doomsday Clock aren't really. and even Metal imo isn't Batman but DC, it's using bats bc it's a mystery and he's the detective and also Snyder/Capullo

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>>93801575
Wtf happened

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>>93801832
Yeah, look at panel two here, and all of page 8. It's awesome optical illusion stuff.

>>93801872
I saw Snyder tweeting about the awesomeness of a Kubert drawing Hawkstuff

>>93801864
Kyle/Carol was in the New Talent Special.

>>93801864
No, that was the New Talent Special which I also didn't read for probably the same reason

The Christmas/Holiday was a different issue

>>93801891
Clothing colors matching environment colors is the fetish Coles Phillips gave me.

>>93801827
They come out in comic shops this week, regular book shops next.

>>93801711
Wait - was it you who brought up Mister X in the Denied Storytime?

>>93801800
>Los Bros are masters of blacks
Heh... You uh, wanna rephrase that, Storyteller?

>>93801795
>>93801807
I dunno, it just seems like they're jumping the gun. Obviously I don't object to them ever doing side stuff, but it seems way to early. Yes, we're like a year out, but I feel they ought to focus on finishing the Rebirth storyline before starting anything new. This is just inviting the same clutter that fucked them in the first place.

>>93801891

Yeah the Hawks seem like the most important characters rn.

we (meaning comics community in general) really hasn't talked about Metal enough as an event that seems like just a celebration of the depths of the DCU. it's such a different take on events that we haven't seen in awhile. it must be that fun thing

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>>93801891
Steve Lieber posted the cover for THE FIX volume 3 and it's this wonderful Al Hirschman homage

>>93801959
>Denied
Defined, sorry.

But I am so calling dibs on Denied #0 tomorrow

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>>93801959
No, that was before I got in, but I was scanning back through it

I did just note that Prester John is John K. Snyder III, he's one of the really obvious artists in the book

>>93801967
yeah, yeah, someone on twitter was talking about their 'spot blacks' the other day

>>93801970
I get annoyed with Batman centric stuff as much as anyone but Metal is throwing me enough bones with little references and cameos that I'm pretty interested in it

>>93801977
>Al Hirschman
Think your academic background is coming through there Storyteller :^)

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>>93802046
goddammit

Hirschfeld, and now I gotta ask Steve if he stuck a NINA in there anywhere

(need to get back to the A. O. biography)

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>>93802110
It's kind of fun to compare this with Mage which is such a deliberate Hero's Journey but is also so deeply autobiographical and about the life of the artist, because this clearly is too

of course, the greatest work on that front ever written is Die Meistersinger

>>93802027
Thanks, I was hoping someone would give us an answer.

And speaking of covers - the two that will emblazon the two trades that will contain the Hero Discovered are already out.

They're okay - I just wish they were more encompassing.

>>93802167
>but is also so deeply autobiographical and about the life of the artist, because this clearly is too

Someone mentioned that it lessens the magic of the story - and in parts, yeah...I can see that. But it does give it a nice vibe.

>>93802110
That second panel speaks to me. I hate having to sleep.

>>93802038
The latest prologue has me convinced that editorial is finally doing its damn job and keeping Diana's character consistent outside her own book. So there's that.

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>>93802167
That face!

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>>93802228
it's an astounding rapeface

>>93802167
Do you have any strong opinions or recs for Simplicius Simplicissimus OP, book or opera? There was a thread on /tg/ today which veered into the 30 Years War and I was pretty interested that the IRL author was apparently kidnapped and raised by mercenaries like his fictional protagonist.

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>>93802217
>imagines the women in his life simultaneously calling him out for being an asshole, and fighting over him
Methinks Eichmann has some issues.

Well, except with Katsuda. She's just a friend.

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>>93802284
I don't know the opera at all but it's probably thorny. I have a copy of the book I keep meaning to dig into except it's in the original and that means I'll be page a day, lol

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>>93802376
There's this great survey of the History of the Novel that goes into detail on 17th/18th century German novels and there's some wild shit in there

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>>93802408

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>>93802468
Mercedes' hair is cute! CUTE!

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>>93802490
btw it's fucking hot even for texas

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>>93802517
Woke up and my kitchen was full of mosquitoes.

>Mister X animated show never ever
Fug

>>93802517
A few storytimes ago Anon, you encouraged me to read Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Thank you so much, you were right, it's so CUTE!!!

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>>93802558
i hate them so much

>>93802582
I miss prime Johns. That Rebirth one-shot gives me hope he might be back though.

>>93802408

>tfw you try to get into Goethe

stupid world wars making the culture so it's confusing to get into german stuff

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>>93802582
<3 <3 <3

>>93802582
Yeah, too bad Prime Earth Courtney and Pat died in the incursions.

>>93802490
>>93802517
Anyone really digging these short side stories? I already wish more comics did this as a way to flesh out the setting.

Seriously, just imagine this for any book. Tales of Themyscira, Tales of Metroplis, Tales of Future Metropolis, Tales of Thanagar, Tales of Rann, etc etc. That would be great.

>>93802217

there's my bros wrestling reference

>>93802582
Such a fun comic.
Gosh, Johns hit the ground running.

>>93802639
That would require either longer comics or more compressed comics.

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>>93802633
>>93802639
ANd you make them self-contained and NO INFODUMPS ALLOWED

Speaking of infodumps, Zirch was unusually explicit the other night about the time he worked on a Valiant comic and it got edited and he hated the results

>>93802630
>the sorrows of young anon

>>93802517
Tell me about it, I've been out working construction for the summer. Let me tell you there's nothing better to unwind with some comics. Thanks storytimer.

>>93802639
Odyssey of the Amazons or w/e is basically the first one.

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>>93802630
(from before krautchan went totally insane)

>>93802683

it's so great reading old ass books that are incredibly timely

>>93802679
I lost what little respect I had for that bland hack when he went on some tirade about how "superheroes was totes the best genre to draw!!" or some such shit.

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>>93802691
I salute you for being stronger than me, anon.

I do bike commute, in this heat, so I know how it sucks, but not like that.

>>93802578
It works perfectly in the form of a comic.

One of the supreme advantages of comics that I think a lot of people forget about is that they're created largely by a one or two people, whereas with a movie or show you've got several writers working for the director working for a bunch of producers, you've got actors and animators or cinematographers, etc. It's always felt like too many cooks in the kitchen to me.

With comics you get some editorial influence, sure, but the creative vision is kept very pure. This comic itself is an example of something I don't think would've come out like this in any other medium.

>>93802703
Not really, that ended up doing absolutely nothing to flesh out the Amazons and its characters were basically completely divorced from Themyscira.

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>>93802748

>NOT LIKE THIS! NOT LIKE THIS! LIKE THIS!!!

>>93802725
Desu reading prose is the one thing I try not to take onto the internet. I got salty as fuck this weekend at some random hipster ragging on Gene Wolfe, and I was pissy for days about this Arthur Machen review that just laser focused in on misogyny (and when I read the story in question, I was rooting for the witch). Ofc placing stuff historically is different from genre fiction, just wanna vent.

>>93801509
To OP can I recommend next book? I think we should read Priest's Steel run and see how earlier Priest was.

>>93802772
Definitely.
Such as in David Lapham's explicitly creative owned/detached stuff. Almost all of that is the refinement or filtering of one story dynamic.

It's clearly very personal to him, and as writer and artist he can go full hog on navigating it.

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>>93802848
Someone told me that the Internet discovered the sex in Claw this past week or something

My main question was "so do they know what it means? because I sure don't"

>>93802713
What happened to krautchan?

>>93802746
I wish Zirch would lay off using poser so heavily. Comparing his art from Cable & Deadpool or T-Bolts with his current Deodato lite art is painful.

>>93802772
Yeah, but this Art Deco/German Impressionism mix would look lovely in animated form, like BTAS but without the superhero shit to distract from it.

>>93802703
Odyssey of the Amazons almost certainly would've been better as a shorter backup feature in the main WW book. Certainly would've felt like less of a waste of time.

>>93802848
>>93802870

i love the occasions someone reads IT for the first time and posts about it. you just get to watch the bomb tick down

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>>93802871
I haven't been there in ages but I was told it became less ironically and more actually racist, by a German

>>93802870

>THOSE ANNOYING POST BROS

hey a comic about the internet!

>>93802864
Ugh, I've read it and it's really bland. For every Black Panther there was a Justice League Task Force.

>>93802901
Wouldn't doubt it since that's what most anonymous boards have become.

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>>93802625
I think it was a combination of the New 52 burning him out and being overworked with his new role as the Chief Creative Officer. I still think he's done good things during that time like Aquaman and Forever Evil.

>>93801800
Not as good as Miller though.

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>>93802944
BUTTER FUER DEN BUTTERGOTT is still funny, a decade later

>>93802633
Courtney really should be used as a template on how to create and write female teen characters.

>>93802952
Forever Evil was one of those events that actually needed to be longer.

>>93802870
This is the tweet:

https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/883339495244013570

And I'm like, it's fine to think it's bad but you don't get to that point of BotNS without knowing the context which you chose to exclude. So you gave more of a shit about retweets or w/e than opening that up to people. There's some back-patting, dick-waving mocking "I haven't read this but" in thread too, I hate it all.

Dude makes a fucking pop culture podcast about the Boss Baby and shit. Got some mileage off of this so he's memeing about the sex scene in It now.

/salt

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>>93802969
You know, I wouldn't mind sitting down and doing a slow read through at least one Frank Miller comics together. Nothing too long, though.

>>93802989
There's a lot going on there that's handled very well--actual growth, among other things.

>>93802864
If we are throwing random suggestions, there is the mid 1990s "House of Secrets" that is filled with 1990s grunge (and no connection to the DCU despite the name)

>>93803014
>>93802895
>i love the occasions someone reads IT for the first time and posts about it. you just get to watch the bomb tick down
lol, literally this guy now

>>93803014

>memeing about the sex scene in It now.

Babe Ruth Called It.jpeg

>>93802772
If this is you Tex, I hope things are going okay for you.

>>93803015
Elektra Lives Again has my fave Miller/Varley art out of anything, just putting out there. Some immensely powerful pages.

>>93803014
He sounds like a numale cuck

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>>93803014
...Yeah, there's a reason that book won everything. But hey! It's easy to just tag it as 'a fantasy book', right?

>>93802992
True but the event gave me Ultraman's origin which is still one of my favorite issues of all time.

>>93802772
>Not really, that ended up doing absolutely nothing to flesh out the Amazons and its characters were basically completely divorced from Themyscira.
The one thing that had anyone even slightly interested in this book, and it utterly failed to deliver. The death knell of any story is a cast of characters who have no defined personality, and this is a book about an entire legion of soldiers that. Statistically, there ought to be at least one of them who's interesting, but no. Even shitty people invoke a reaction, but OotA was just so bland. I wanted it to be good, cause we never really get Wondy spinoffs, so this one being a big pile of nothing hurt.

>>93803112
Everything about Earth 3 was so perfect.
You can say that Prime Johns was before - but in Earth 3...Johns was at it again.

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>>93803079
Christ, at least someone in the comics points out the framing of the book (although it's massively more entertaining when you go in not understanding the framing and go GODDAMMIT when you realize what it is)

And then! Then! He one-ups that trick in Long Sun!

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>>93803057
Elektra Lives Again is GODLY.

>>93803079
Someone starts talking about the details way down and there's a WAIT THIS SOUNDS COOL WHAT reaction. At least there was that.

>>93803015
You should do Ronin.

>>93803015
It just feels to me that a lot of creators are too scared to have their teen characters start off as brats in their work. That comic might be too close to me though since I saw a lot of my older sisters in Courtney.

>>93803135
>Everything about Earth 3 was so perfect.
I disagree, Morrison's Anti-Matter Earth was much more creative and powerful, especially at the end when the League realize that world can't be fixed.

>>93803154
Yeah, that page will stick with me forever. It might just outright be my favourite comics page from anything. Goddamn.

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>>93803154
that's a god-tier page

>>93803154
That's some amazing coloring, too.

>>93803044
Yeah, things are fine, thank you, I just haven't done much storytiming because I still don't have a pass and the captchas give me the biggest headache.

>>93803079
Obviously it only won because the CSWM NWO controls all the awards.

>>93803116
The funny thing is the first issue actually introduces a cast who, while really cliched and one-note, at least are characters, only to push them to the side for the majority of the story.

>>93803176
That's an interesting take, but Johns' version had the inherent ideals of camp and the unrecoverable nastiness of it all.

>>93803195
Varley doesn't get enough credit. Not least for being married to fucking Frank Miller for years.

>>93803154
Prime Miller was just too good.

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>>93803211
Y-YOU TOO, S-STUPID ROBOT

Speaking of Frank....anyone looking forward to Xerxes?

>>93803171
On the other hand you get some really stupid audience reactions if you do make your teens brats, just look at the initial reactions towards Kenan.

man i need to order that wolfe book you recc'd me forever and a year ago about dr death island or whatever.

and that dude complains about the kids in IT being Teenagers and they aren't!! that is in fact kind of the point

>>93803234

like I'll probably read it cause it's Miller but 300 isn't like....good? so not really excited

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>>93803228

>>93802901
Damn I mentioned him but this cover is some straight up Coles Phillips inspiration.

>>93803228
Fucking perfection.

Honestly, I think it's the individual characterizations of the Crime Syndicate which makes me prefer Johns' versions.

>>93803254
Same, I am not the biggest fan of 300. It's interesting to see Miller being well enough to tackle solo work again

>>93803254
>and that dude complains about the kids in IT being Teenagers and they aren't!! that is in fact kind of the point
If you tell him that he'll probably melt.

>>93803234
I completely forgot that TDKIII finished, so I still have to get around to that first

>>93803292
I like the overall events of TDKIII...but the majority of the writing was just so bland.

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>>93803260
Don't get me wrong, Gene Wolfe has never really written that good of female characters and has some weird-even-for-Catholics ideas about sex, but there's astonishing things to be discovered there

>>93803189
Yeah, it's practically bande-desinee tier, isn't it? Then again, Miller is the kind of guy who would get Lone Wolf and Cub untranslated just to admire the art and learn from Japanese sequential storytelling, so it's not too unsurprising I suppose.

>>93803176
It wasn't really that good. The whole story trying to ape Authority's sensibilities which Morrison confirmed in Supergods. It was the start of Morrison's cynical years which is the weakest Morrison in terms of quality output m

>>93803320
I blame Azzarello. Dude has always been hit or miss.

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>>93803326
It's got the roughness that later Miller would push much harder but not taken to those unappealing extremes, the figures are still finely drawn

>>93803324
That wasn't even the substance of the criticism though. And he picked the deliberately distorted sex scene from the book - like this woman doesn't just randomly look like that, it's a horrible progression you're hardly meant to be on board with.

>>93803353
Aye.
And the fact that it began by disregarding the more interesting ideas of DKSA's ending was always sour.

Miller did say he wanted to do a fourth chapter. If he gets well enough, I'd welcome it. The mini comics were the best parts.

>>93803210
>The funny thing is the first issue actually introduces a cast who, while really cliched and one-note, at least are characters, only to push them to the side for the majority of the story.
See, that's the shit of it. The first issue, while not great, showed some promise. There's like 20 of these chicks, so they don't need to be super complex. But the conflict was set up, a mystery established, and the premise made clear. But then all that potentially interesting shit goes completely out the window in favor of a rescue mission as the main plot. What a fuckin' crock.

>>93803353
His new Aftershock book is not very good either

>>93803324
I was curious anon, who do you think in comics is actually underrated in how they write female characters?

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>>93803383
Yes, the idea that Severian is a horrible and unreliable narrator eludes a critic of this literal-mindedness who is also primarily out to mock the book because of the identity of its author

Anyone here reads comic related blogs? Like analyzing comics or trends? Or anything else? I feel like comics community doesn't really have big bloggers.

>>93803433
comicsbeat does pretty good month-by-month breakdowns, and they just updated with the May Diamond numbers

One of their contributors was apparently kicked out of the Marvel retail facebook group because of something they said

>>93803401
How is Moonshine? I was going to get it until I realized it was an ongoing. Risso is a god though.

I am disappointed and yet unsurprised that all the Legacy announcements have been garbage.

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>>93803364
One thing I really do love about Miller that has remained a constant throughout the years and that has been a huge influence in my art is the way he poses his characters.
It's almost Araki-esque, but less flashy and more action-oriented. I love it.

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>>93803409
That's worth thinking about, and I don't have an answer immediately in mind. So who do we always give credit to, there's a place to start.

>>93803469
really, any more dirt on that

>>93803433
What are you looking for?

>>93803364
Calling it now, this chick right here is Reinhart.

>>93803469
Isn't that more of a site than actual blog though? They do some great work for sure.

>>93803484

goddamn that panel 7

i am in awe, they make it seem so easy

>>93803484
BleedingCool tabloid work:
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/08/retailer-expelled-marvels-secret-facebook-group-penning-critical-oped/
It'd greentext it, but in standard fashion, it's collected tweets.

Marvel also lost a PR guy a few days ago, who jumped ship to Sony

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>>93803532
>Marvel also lost a PR guy a few days ago, who jumped ship to Sony
So... Sony will get worse?

>>93803484
Brubaker and Rucka tend to get named a lot as good for female characters but I'd argue that Bru is actually pretty crap and Rucka is too much of a one trick pony.

>>93803489
Mainly someone analyzing comics and writers and trends.
I'm thinking about starting my own blog so I kind of want to get a feel of what kind of format comics audience prefer.

>>93803532

i can't read articles by jude terror. he's just such a bad writer

>>93803478
I think Moonshine's pretty solid, and I think 100 Bullets completely fell apart in the final quarter if that's any guide for you.

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>>93803536
Hah, i read that column and was kind of "yes, and...okay...this is largely not news"

>>93803539
Simone too.

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>>93803539
I've become tired of Standard Rucka Protagonist almost as much as Warren Ellis Jaded Asshole. I haven't read enough of Bru's more personal/less editorial work to say, but I know some people hated how he used Sharon Carter and BuckyNat.

>>93803484
I'm sure I'll get shit for it but I genuinely like how Snyder writes female characters, especially in his Vertigo and Image books. I've also noticed a small segment of people online saying that Johns can't write female characters which I don't get. I do think he has a bit of trouble of writing a wide variety of female characters but he's not bad by any means.

>>93803549
So there are a couple of people I check for actual individual 'this is what I think of this comic' but no real formal blogs with a schedule. Well, there's one but it's almost entirely manga.

>>93803551
The last couple of writers BC hired are awful in general. Like the guy who did a review for a Batman issue that started with an almost 1000 words long essay for why he hates Bruce.

>>93803539
Rucka's protagonist don't really have much of a personality. I'd say his work in general needs some flash and overpowering style.
As much as I hate Gillen and Fagtion, at least their writing is stylized. Both Brubaker and Ducks feel so eh.

>>93803574
BuckyNat was and is awful. Cancerous fanbase, too.

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>>93803594
Or how they let that same guy do ANOTHER "Zubbolts is so awesome" article yesterday

Jude is categorically worthless

>>93803539
Rucka writes terrible women if they aren't moody lesbians

>>93803555
>>93803574
Called it! Come on, Walter, the ol' Samus is a girl trick was a thing way before Metroid. How did you not see that coming, dude? The initials alone were a dead giveaway.

>>93803592
Who would they be? I only really cared for David Uzumeri and that fucker stopped writing.

>>93803532
That "Disgrace to the Industry" piece was actually most illuminating in that the guy basically admitted that he instructs his employees on what "opinions" to give to his customers. He doesn't like Secret Empire, so all of his employees are instructed not to mention Secret Empire when customers ask what's good.

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>>93803592
Actually that's not totally true I do read The Comics Journal quite a bit which has a weekly round-up but that's far removed from superhero stuff.

>>93803627
His reviews have been so substanceless, too, as if they were written a thirteen year old. Take a shot every time he writes something along the lines of 'this book has a nice fight the power feel'.

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>>93803677
and that's bullshit, row row fight the power is awesomely over the top stylized

>>93803579
I think Johns' non-white people are kind of weird, like that thing John Stewart says in Sinestro Corps War, about "all I have to do is STAY BLACK!" or some such nonsense.

I never had a problem with his women though, although his comics *are* full of machismo, but not of the "toxic" kind methinks.

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>>93803723
holy shit

>>93803654
https://twitter.com/mercurialblonde
https://twitter.com/nurse_nurse
https://twitter.com/MinovskyArticle

First one I know is semi-popular ITT, first two did a cool podcast together for a while, last one is primarily manga. Giving twitters because that's where shit mostly gets discussed but expect a lot of muh life posts too.

https://twitter.com/hassanoe

This guy is also popular, does regular video and print criticism and posts a lot of "here's a page and what I see in it" stuff.

>>93803723
Still can't get over him saying Malin is fine because of Bagley's art also being stylicized.

>>93803723

those middle 3 panels are amazing

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>>93803746
I want to be the woman just casually wearing a crown

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>>93803798
that made me see red from its sheer ignorance

look at that "bitch please" face

>>93803723
The art on this is so good.

>>93803737
I'm curious if that's just how he writes John since I recently read his JSA run and his Mr. Terrific was fine.

>>93803807
But where are you gong to get a birdcage?

>>93803807
There is no law against it, OP.

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>>93803854
good question, probably IKEA

>>93803798
>Malin
? A Swedish actress?

>>93803807
The fucking suicide in the cloud, holy shit.

>>93803723
>>93803746
Hm. An... interesting choice killing off the big bad in a flashback.

>>93803737
Johns' JSA run was perhaps the only time I didn't completely hate Power Girl. Didn't change my mind about her or anything, I just wasn't yelling at the comic whole reading it because she wouldn't shut the hell up.

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>>93803892
>hating on /ourgirl/ ever

>>93803892
Did his run include her constantly feuding with the knob known as Magog? Or was that after Johns finished his run?

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>>93803897
>>93803892
I'm ready for the meltdown from one person when the return of the JSA is post-Crisis Johns-era and not pre-Crisis with Huntress and Peej and Fury

>>93803934
That's what Cranky does.

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>>93803966
(I mean, Fury is also a later creation than either of those two, and just barely pre-Crisis, but)

>>93803957
that's all post-Johns, Magog wasn't a dick with Johns, really

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>>93803982
>Steven T. Seagle
Man of Action founder, comics writer, etc.

>>93803966
I still don't understand why Marvel ripped off this comic.

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>>93803999

>>93804022

BYE LOS BROS

>>93803999
He wrote the House of Secrets in the 1990s that I mentioned earlier in the thread.

>>93803737
It's not Geoff's fault that John Stewart only has one notable characteristic

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>>93804022
holy shit I want a MISTER X t-shirt

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>>93804057
thanks for reading

more tomorrow

>>93801485
>Marvel CHANGES THE INDUSTRY - AGAIN - with lenticular covers in
Okay but this is so funny because you KNOW they're only doing it because Batman and Flash did so well with the Button crossover.
Like I think Batman equaled like 200k with both covers on one issue
and marvel thinks it was the covers that did it, not the slow burn of revealing stuff and having readers' and retailers' goodwill

>>93804048
Hey now, Gerard "if she's a teen I'm not too keen" Jones managed to write a decent John, and he was never that great a writer. I'm sure that someone that's not busy jerking off Hal Jordan's proverbial dick could do something with him.

>>93803934
>>93803967
Spare me. She's an obnoxious asshole. She's needlessly aggressive, combative, constantly grouchy for no goddamn reason, and every idiotic word out of her horrible, ceaselessly yammering mouth makes me want to kill myself.

Seriously, she's like... well, she's like me, but with huge tits.

When you fawn over Power Girl, you're basically jerking off to a female version of me. So have fun with that, I guess.

>>93804057

The posters would be pretty damn good too.

>tfw you will never have a time-machine to go back and get all that sweet merch you missed out on because you were too young, stupid, or broke to buy it when it was new.

>>93804110
To be fair, Gerard Jones inherited a John untainted by years of MUH MARINE animated flanderization. Johns didn't seem to have the energy to try to push back against that characterization.

>>93804083
Hory chet, dat ad
Danke OP

>>93804129
I also want the Starman sterling silver badge

>>93804088
The covers for Marvel's lenticulars aren't even good.

>>93804116
Cranky you've got some weird fetishes dude.

>>93804116
See? We really all love you deep down.

>>93804083
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

Yeah, this book is still really good. Despite being a out a cyberpunk dystopia with a plot about how aesthetics affect the mind, it's surprisingly kinda chill. It's the misadventures of this weird d
guy and his gal pals. I dig it.

Incredible series.

>>93803579
I wonder if Johns' almost inability to write platonic friendships without subtext might be pinging to those people as a "female characters treated as accessories" thing?

He's not really noteworthy to me in that regard though. I think his women are fine.

>>93804263
I'm thinking that we read volume 1, read something else, and just keep scattering Mr. X through our reading diet regularly until we finish all of it

>>93804148
Johns was the one who canonized the marine shit from the DCAU, friendo.

>>93803888
the shitty artist from the last Thunderbolts

>>93802992
Forever Evil didn't really need to be longer, it needed to be paced better.

Issues 3-5 and the first half of 6 was people gathering together and a bunch of filler.

Then everything important and some cliffhangers ended up being crammed into the last half of #6 and in #7.

>>93804110
Venditti doesn't jerk Hal off and his John can only speak in military cliches

>>93804323
OH. I totally forgot his name, I just thought of him as that guy trying to make the Thunderbolts look 90's as fuck in spite of the fact that even in the 90's they didn't look all that 90's.

>>93804283
I might be slow to pick it up but I honestly didn't pick up any subtext during his JSA run.

>>93803401
Does Aftershock even have any good books?

I remember /co/ used to like Animosity or at least thought it was the best Bennett book.

>>93804402
Black Adam and Atom Smasher

>>93803532
The Lion FOrge guy being all "you're doing good noble work there against the man" is funny if they're the people de Campi was ripping for wanting her to come to a retreat unpaid and not allowing for her to bring her kid

>>93804487
Ah, fair point.

>>93804469
I thought I heard good things about Bunn's book.

>>93801419
I'll try to catch up on this later, but dang, going out of town just makes it so hard to catch up on things.

>>93804283
This makes me kind of want some macho superheroes who are clearly and almost comically gay for each other, with a completely oblivious female trying desperately to gain the attention of one of them.

>>93804469
World Reader is pretty cool

>>93804670
So Midnighter and Apollo with a thirsty female thrown in?

>>93804369
Obviously bad writers need not apply.

>>93804670
I was thinking the other day, since Bombshell yuriverse is so popular and successful, why not make an alternate universe BL book? I'm sure it would be just as if not more popular.

>>93805298
But anon that would be gay!

>>93805390
Gay is cool as long as you're not the one sucking the dick.

>>93803484
Andreyko comes to mind

>>93801419
> Dean Motter, Los Bros Hernandez
this is the good shit

>>93805750
I love Manhunter a lot

I'm still confused as to how his Batwoman was so shitty

>>93805825
It was a serious disappointment even though I liked the idea of the Unknowns a lot

>>93805298
lol if they did that they'd use basically none of their popular characters. no way any of the male batfamily members or superman would be apart of it

though desu I'd be interested to see how well an uber gay dude elseworld comic like bombshells would do because women like gay fanfics and there'd be a lot of outrage. lol
Who would write it though?
Orlando can't write anything but edgy shit and Jimenez is better artist than writer. and tynion is straight up mediocre.

>>93805825
Editorial probably came onto Batwoman hard.

They left it alone until their whole NOBODY CAN BE MARRIED THAT AGES THEM REEEEEEEEE
But they probably only left it alone in the first place because of the creators.

>>93805844
I liked a lot of the ideas in it but the execution was entirely lacking

>>93805849
It also wouldn't star mostly men because das sexist

>>93801419
>Mister X

The villain from that japanese wrestling show?

>>93806001
Not that one

Also not the Marvel edgelord who fights bears

>>93805888
>>93805298
I wonder who is the main audience for that. Didn't pornhub or some site like it do a survey once that showed that women were watching a surprising amount of "lesbian" porn?

>>93802772
Yeah but there was a Tales of Themyscira book from like, way back when. I think Texas Anon storytimed a few issues in the months leading up to Wonder Woman 2017.

>>93803807
Eichmann, you're a fucking harem protagonist.

Thanks, OP.

bumping for others

amazing series

>>93804491
It's possible. I think the numbers of other women writing for Lion Forge work out to match.

>>93801419

>>93812455

This series had some of the best covers ever.

>>93803138

>>93816702