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Black Mask Spotlight Storytime:Black 1-5 2017-07-15 12:14:40 Post No. 93883046
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Storytime of publisher Black Mask's comic series, last time it was Kim&Kim which can be read over here >>>93831847
Well time to get the /pol/ bait out of the way. For those who never heard of this good for you, but it's a comic with the very simple premise black people and only black people have superpowers and that is why the white man keeps them down. Called a very important story on the Black Mask homepage the comic unfortunately is a very amateurish production that relies on shock value(which I have a story about) and it is basically the X-men with one character who is really just Magneto. So let's read and at the end of the storytime I will give a preview of what I plan on next.
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>>93883046
>“A young black person gets shot by police. This time, he gets up, discovering that he’s more powerful than he ever could have imagined.
In a time when the African-American community’s fraught relationship with the police is making headlines across the world, BLACK is shaping up to be a superhero comic ripped right out of some of modern America’s biggest social issues.”-io9
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>>93883053
>“BLACK follows Kareem Jenkins, a young black teenager who gets racially profiled and gunned down by police only to discover that he is one of many black people with superpowers.”-Comics Alliance
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>>93883065
>“A story like BLACK is still important, and necessary… It may attract one demographic more than others, but it parallels current events – so it is a universal story.”-The Washington Post
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>>93883070
>“There is, unfortunately, no better time for a comic book like BLACK to be announced and created than right now, because the visual of the young Black man wearing a hoodie and being confronted by the gun(s) of police officers is burned into our collective conscience. It is the image of one of the most prevalent and gross generalizations of our times.”-Comic Book Resources
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>>93883086
So do you want to know what I would recommend instead of this? Harbinger.
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WE
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>>93883092
Another Black Mask book I'm interested in Storytiming because the art is really terrible and I want to get the bad ones done is Jade Street Protection Services, the elevator pitch is magical girl delinquents, and my god the 4th issues art is ugh.
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>>93883120
>>93883124
ah good to know where getting it out of the way now.
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>>93883134
After Jade Street I'm going to post a comic I like by them,.
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>>93883148
THIS COMIC MADE THIS MUCH MONEY ON KICKSTARTER! $91,973
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>>93883157
A major flaw with this comic is that this comic introduces so many characters at once. So not a lot of them get panel time besides Kareem.
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>>93883157
>Indiscriminately assaulting civilians is a bad look
>Indiscriminately assaulting cops tho is badass
Shieeeeeeeeeet.Inb4 at least they didn't kill them. You don't need to die to catch that fade for nothing.
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>>93883186
>>93883180
It's an authority thing. As much as I do worry about cops hurting them doesn't help anyone and some situations just come down to paranoia getting out of control.
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>>93883252
This cover we had to censor at the store....I wonder why this cover didn't create a controversy?
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>>93883046
Is this the comic where black people have had powers since history and yet were still enslaved by white people somehow?
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>>93883274
>>93883280
yup you got it.
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>>93883291
this conversation belongs more in /a/ but a friend was telling me about how in the Live action Ghost in the Shell how the cyber people where the one were somehow disenfranchised even though they were the majority and also had more power. Like I get the X-men since there a new thing in universe but come on man.
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>>93883280
>Guy helps her out
>She still busts his balls all the way out the door even if it costs him his job
Unbelievable. Also he opened fire on three potentially unarmed young males and killed two.
Bad detective work to forge the facts for a front.
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>>93883046
Cool concept, but the execution is fucking horrible on all fronts. Plus it pisses /pol/tards off which is an added bonus.
Bump
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>>93883393
>>93883403
it's a neat concept....that a more experienced team should have done. I think the best version of this story though is the underrated American Way.
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>>93883324
>Ghost in the Shell
>cyborgs are oppressed
... Are you sure you're nit talking about Deus Ex? Cause that's not how that works in GitS. I mean, sure, there's anti-cyborg prejudice, but the people who do that are perceived and portrayed as idiotic twats. Like, the second episode of Stand Alone Complex is about how anti-cyber people are fucking stupid.
Every time this movie comes up, I hear a new dumb thing about it.
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>>93883427
It's about a celebrity superhero team in the 1960's getting it's first black member. It has some good concepts with the only major flaw being the who fake publicity superhero concept is very hard to take seriously.
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>>93883046
>have superpowers
>da honkeys still kick yo ass an put ya in chainz
Are you sure it's a comic AGAINS /pol/ and not written by them?
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>>93883428
>>93883447
No it was Ghost in the Shell, I love the series I know what your talking about. Like Togusa in the movie is apparently a jerk about being mostly human.
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>>93883485
>>93883490
I'm kind of wondering how it got away with the good reviews it got.
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>>93883490
>Like Togusa in the movie is apparently a jerk about being mostly human.
Now I'm really glad I didn't catch that thing.
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>>93883053
What about asians? Do they have super powers too? Or they really are honorary whites?
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>>93883520
>>93883519
There just born ninjas.
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>>93883503
It basicly puts blacks in a possition that no matter how powerful they might be or how they WUZ KINGZ AN SHIET they are always going to be enslaved by the superior white man. /pol/ would fucking love it.
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>>93883490
>Like Togusa in the movie is apparently a jerk about being mostly human.
Glad I didn't see this flick, cause I suspect it would just make me angry.
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>>93883519
>jews don't get superpowers neither
/POL/ BTFO!
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>>93883573
>>93883557
Well yeah we control the banks duh that's more than enough power. We need to make sure the system is balance.
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>>93883603
their nerfing Arabs in the next patch.
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>>93883519
What's actually particularly funny about this very narrow concept, from what I can tell now anyway, is that it touts some nonsense about a quark composition producing powers, even though your particle composition shouldn't make you superhuman and should actually make you an inanimate object given atoms require specific subatomic properties in order to produce the behavior and interactions they do for and in organisms and something entirely made from non-normal building blocks instead of some vague bullshit like an X-Gene should just be fucking dead, is it that it runs into several more hiccups genetically even if it got over the initial hurdle because most "black" people in modern america aren't 100% African and in fact you can find some people of different ethnicity who phenotypically appear one way but genetically might have more DNA tracing back to Africa in them despite not expressing itself than the most people who expressly consider themselves pure black.
Ergo I have no idea how any of this facilitates itself even pseudoscientifically, outside of magic there is no circumstance where any one group could have an ability and no other.
Shit, by virtue of even having such selective genetics these people should not be compatible to reproduce with anything or anyone aside from each other resulting in an incomprehensible amount of inbreeding.
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Seriously, did none of the creative team notice their basic premise had a huge gaping plot hole in it? Way to fail your spot check.
Like, this would make way more sense if it was a recent thing, where suddenly only now were superpowers starting to emerge.
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>>93883629
>>93883620
>>93883627
It's politics driven writing, it's makes a point over making sense, Let me explain a story in Strong Female Protagonist(it's a webcomic)
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>>93883046
Have the creator read X-Men? Because this is X-Men?
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>>93883657
In the comic there is a character who has a healing factor that uses herself as a organ factor to give people organs they need.
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>>93883627
Well, Nation of Islam believes that superadvanced black civilisation was enslaved 6000 years ago by whites who didn't even knew fire at the time.
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>>93883671
Now the story glosses over the fact that compatibility is an issue and well it glosses over one big issue to try to make a point.
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>>93883694
>>93883671
and I forgot the image. Anyway the character get a docuche to enhance her powers, now she make organs for the whole world.
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>>93883710
But what happens when you enhance a healing factor? There is only one step up from that never getting hurt, so her getting surgery would probably be impossible because she would heal too fast for it to make a incision. If the comic made it a mistake or ill-thought out but according to this comic this one person can now provide organs to the entire world.
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>>93883746
>But what happens when you enhance a healing factor?
Wouldn't you just explode in a mass of tumors like Hulk in Marvel Ruins?
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Hey i was expecting the storytime yesterday, what happen?
Also have in mind black mask has published some good books like "we can never go back" and "4 kids walk into a bank"
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>>93883763
And wouldnt you regenerate from that?
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>>93883764
>>93883778
It's called life and I had to say goodbye to an ex, so life.
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>>93883782
Well that depends on definition of regeneration. Turning into a giant tumor can't be fixed by regeneration. Do you heal wounds or you magically are always in the best of shape. That would also make you immortal and basically indestructible.
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>>93883782
>>93883791
can you see what I mean when I said politic driven writing. Even when I agree I hate when logic breaks way too much to make a point.
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>>93883815
And do you plan to continue to storytime black mask tittles?
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>>93883764
>>93883815
Also yes I know Black Mask has published good comics but the bigs ones are the worst ones so I want to get them out of the way first before I do good things. Take the posion now get a reward.
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This could have been good but I feel the execution was just really bad from the get go. The numbers don't make any sense straight away, and it gets really hamfisted when they get to the prison.
>>93883764
4 Kids is great. To use Black Mask's own descriptive methods, it's like A Series of Unfortunate Events meets Stand By Me.
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>>93883835
>>93883851
yes I do. I already said ealier that I'm planning on Jade Street next, I'm not going through every title but after Jade Street I'm going to focus on the titles I like. So don't worry chill.
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>>93883874
4kids is what I was going to do after Jade Street than onto I was going to give people a vote.
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>>93883895
also i want to see if I can find Occupy comics to storytime because that's where the company was started.
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>>93883912
Really I want Black Mask to do well but I do feel like I'm looking at a company in growing pains trying to figure out who it want's to be.
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>>93883874
Call me naive but a comic called jade street doesnt sounds bad.
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>>93883933
Like I don't Kim&Kim might end up being it's gold standard.
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>>93883945
It's like delinquent magical girls IIRC. I haven't read it.
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>>93883046
i read a interview with the writer and he is pretty cool guy, the interviewer was a dick tho trying to bait the guy, they were talking about Howard Chaykin comic and censorship in the industry, the writer said he didn't give a shit and free expression is a thing the industry needs to protect
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>>93883945
>>93883949
Jade Street Protectors is about delinquent magical girls. One character is basically Muslim Louise Belcher in character design at least. I'm just glad none of them are named Daisy Chain.
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>>93883985
>>93884006
That is cool. I just wish this comic was better than it ended up being, people put a lot into it. Hell my friends were so torn up about this title because he was didn't want to be the first black person he heard say it was bad.
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>>93884045
Hell as a Jew myself I do try to promote comics and stories about being Jewish or themes. Though I have a rule about avoiding recommending Maus because everyone has read that and I hate that Jewish stories have to revolve around to Holocaust to matter.
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>>93884078
I used to say Jew either get a Holocaust movie or a Adam Sandler movie each year, I will let you decide what is worst to go to.
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>>93884078
people usually write what they know, but it can be fun to write out side your comfort zone tho. i will read anything as long as its good no matter the subject matter. i read a volleyball manga so
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>>93884115
Hey that's fair, my thing is I try to avoid themes that have become overexposed and try to get readers exposed to more interesting works.
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>>93884135
It's in my writing as well I like to take things apart before I put them back together .
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>>93884078
Have you read the Giffen Ragman? It's a pretty good cape thing which is just straight up seeped in the MC's Jewishness.
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>>93884146
in my opinion the best super book right is hero academia, i know its not /co/ but its vastly more interesting isn't full of sjw politics shit and its a lot of fun with endearing characters
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>>93884156
>>93884198
Yeah I loved it, wished there was a trade I could have used for the Hannukah display I had at the store.
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>>93884198
wonder if the creators know their real enemy was Obama and white supremacist do not really exist any more!
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>>93884078
>Hell as a Jew myself I do try to promote comics and stories about being Jewish or themes.
So most of big two stuff?
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>>93884221
Just cuz amerikkka made its leader for 8 years a black guy doesn't mean it's not a white supremacist country.
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>>93884202
I would ask not to post an image during storytime till I'm done. But yeah I dig my hero, I'm also a fan of a lot of DC rebirth stuff right now. Though my favorite superhero comics are Nothing Can Stop Juggernaught from Amazing Spider-man.
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>>93884202
Shounen always gets a huge surge when it gets popular and I think "the best" comment is totally unfounded, bit I agree MHA is really good. I think it's less for the world it sets out or that its absent politics (because parts of it definitely are political) and more that it manages to really make you connect with the emotional highs and lows of the characters, which makes every big dramatic moment really hit. In that respect, it's like the best team/family books from Marvel and DC - the When X-Men Were Good comparison is a solid one.
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>>93884235
well superman was created by two Jewish kids and then stolen by a another Jewish guy Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
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>>93884274
>>93884202
I think if you like Hero Academia, New Super-Man is definitely worth a look for Western stuff.
>>93884212
Well they might bring out a trade for the new miniseries they're doing? I'm interesting in how they're gonna reboot it.
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>>93884273
that makes no sense also i think this is bait
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>>93884235
>>93884274
Depends I try to find one that are explicit about it like I pull out the Will Eisner stuff like the dreamer. I also focus on creators, like while controversial I used Max Landis Superman American Alien as an example, also he said on twitter his Superman is half-Jewish which made me happy on some level.
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>>93884318
>New Super-Man is definitely worth a look for Western stuff.
i read it i didnt like it, i haven't liked spiderman for a long time
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>>93884307
You know there is also Stanley Martin Lieber, Jacob Kurtzberg and many, many more.
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>>93884325
So you want Isreal-Man beathing the shit out of Forskin-Man or something?
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>>93884302
agree with this i also like that it has a tension that really works with out shock value of gore like invincible, its better than like 90% of marvels line up
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>>93884325
Still here are my favorite superhero comics for people who care.
Amazing Spider-man 1-150, Mage Vol 1 and 2, Static Shock, Damage Control, Starman, Daredevil Born again, and All Star Superman. I have more but those ones I return a lot too.
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>>93884383
>Mage Vol 1 and 2,
theses mage again they just released a tpb and i was thinking a week ago what happened to matt wagners mage
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>>93884383
they are literally using every black stereotype
im amazed there isn't a ho woman with asking for cash powers
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>>93884352
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA.....
>>93884383
The last issue of this comes out Wednesday but man I'm storytiming it now because America I believe is coming out this week and might as well get people on board now before the storm.
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>>93883291
Out of everything in this comic, the fake science shit like "dodecaquarks" is the most triggering
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>>93884354
Yeah. And when it does go for edge like with Stain, it's actually basically writing a love letter to that era of comics and its fantastic. Really it's a great series, it might very well be the best cape thing going right now I just always shy away from that "the best". You really do get hype at these THE ORIGIN issues or when Deku has these simultaneous moments of triumph and self-realization. The varying of style for different heroes and villains is very effective too.
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>>93884337
didn't know that but i dont really care about some ones linage as long as they make great comics
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>>93884456
I wish it didn't even bother trying to explain it.
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>>93884459
the first super villain attack was really tense because the stakes for deku and mighty are so high it makes u care about the characters. wish western comics had this now days
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>>93884477
>>93884459
Good cape is good cape. Never been a fan of how some people think it killed other genre's in comics because if you have have or organize comics for a convention you discover that somehow Richie Rich has 47 titles running at one point and maybe people just exaggerated the overall effect.47....titles.
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>>93884472
>didn't know that
Really? Dude, there is a reason why the thing and so many background characters are jewish. They didn't want to make comics about jews becouse christian americans might just not buy them but you can be sure that both DC and Marvel are jewish as hell. Well at least they used to. Now marvel seem to be more in favor of some other minority.
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>>93884534
War comics hung in for a loooooooooonnnng time before the 90's. Westerns though died mostly because of the movie declining.
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>>93884534
i read a lot of noncape comics
east of west, the descender, 100 bullets, fables , goon
but i love cap comics and really good cape comics stand out
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>>93884534
>how some people think it killed other genre's in comics
Well it didn't killed them but after the code (kiddiefied) capes and kiddie comics were basicly only comics you were allowed to make. Romance, drama, extremly popular at a time horror and other genres just were thrown into underground.
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>>93884560
There is an irony somewhere about using a comic about Black people to talk about Jewish culture. ah well. Now excuse me I have to find a rap artist to promote.
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>>93884544
ok didn't know more like didn't care, as long as its good
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>>93884560
>>93884586
you would think but like I said you organize for a con you get a bigger look at the titles that stuck around, a big common factor is that the anthology died off. Did you know Arak Son of thunder had 40 issues? I DO!
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>>93884612
But you did said that you care about jewish representation in comics. Now that you know that it's there you suddenly don't?
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>>93884623
Fantasy comic got really big for a while with Conan and Warlord. Both titles where in the 100's or 200s. Not to mention Elf Quest.
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>>93884623
>Arak Son of thunder
that sounds cool
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>>93884668
>Elf Quest
That was quite late. By late 70' code was way more chill.
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>>93884681
>>93884687
Never read it but like I said once you organize for a con you tend to realize that while superheroes are dominet they didn't really kill anything off. Even horror comic still had a place for a long time.
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>>93884712
It wasn't cape comics fault. They just were only thing that could be sold easily under code. Theoretically you could make your stuff as edgy and dark as you wished. Selling it was the problem.
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>>93884646
i care about good stories, if its a Jewish story cool but i dont really care if the creators are Jewish, im Australian, do you know how many comics represent me? hardly any do i give a shit nope. i read wonder women stories written by men, Greg ruka wrote batwoman, who is a white gay solider i dont think he is . if you want more Jewish stories go write them more power to you. i just wanna read good stories from every one no matter were, who or what you believe in
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>>93884696
I'm going for a more general overview not just the 60's or 50's but even than take Turok the original comic ran for about 130 issues and that was about a Native American fighting dinosaurs.
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>>93884756
>>93884767
That is fair I want more good stories, it might be on my end that if I see a comic deal with a subject matter like being Jewish I want to something interesting done with it.
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>>93884767
loved that comic and played the game a lot
shadowman comic he was a black guy fighting hell monster i think its been a while
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>>93884796
Like take Miles Morales I want to like the character but his stories don't hold a candle to Peter's. I once planed on a duel storytime where Peter and Miles would be compared page by page but the logistics was really bad for me to do it.
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>>93884796>>93884796
>I see a comic deal with a subject matter like being Jewish I want to something interesting done with it.
yes dont just make a Jewish story make it a good Jewish story
i like some of the Jewish myth's like the golem or a comic about The Keresh and the Tigris of the Bei Ilai. a lion that causes miscarriages could be cool.....
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>>93884827
The basic idea was to show that Miles has stalled and Peter even at his stunted growth grew more than Miles has within his his first five years.
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>>93884827
problem with marvel is they hire writers based on gender or sexual preference. people are not just their skin colour or gender or religion. that is why Greg Ruckas batwoman is a really good character, shes gay, a ex solider, a army brat, a child that lost a parent and a daddys girl
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>>93884441
>All those super-powered fart noises
juvenile lol
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>>93884870
It's become a /co/ meme but I thought that one Chris Hastings Gwenpool issue with Miles was pretty great, and in a better world he'd have a shot at writing the character.
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>>93884910
>>93884919
Bendis his writer is Jewish so that is not the problem. I feel thought Bendis like to play kid gloves with him
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>>93884941
marvel needs to bring back writers and artist with actual talent not victim points
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>>93884961
>>93884941
It's a good issue but you could replace him with Peter and nothing would change.
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>>93884989
they need to stop calling him spiderman too, there is only one spiderman, plenty of spider based heroes but one peter parker
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>>93885029
>>93885023
Look if Miles could stand on his own with a name he would and maybe people would accept him but if the only thing that makes him special is a mantle and nothing else what could he offer a Peter-fan.
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>>93885069
i think any character can stand on their own if you have a good writer ,
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>>93884989
True, but Peter's older now.
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>>93885134
yeah I agree, but Miles does not have a good writer to do with right now.
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>>93883053
ZA WARUDO
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>>93885181
>>93885174
when has that stopped comics?
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>>93885181
no marvel character has at the moment
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>>93883077
>>93883086
>we dindu nuffin
>runs from cops
Wow, I didn't expect it to be realistic. Lesson learned: don't run from cops. Should have ended the comic right then and there.
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>>93885229
This book's pacing seems all over the place.
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>>93885278
it has some good ideas but your right
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It's funny: Marvel have dragged their heels on ageing their characters for years. Hell, they're even putting out "marvel legacy", which does nothing to solve the problem. DC has the same problem, but it's not as glaringly obvious.
Letting their characters age, and having them pass down their mantles is the only way to avoid the eventual collapse due to stagnancy.
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>>93885428
woops wrong page.
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>>93885511
Last page tune in next time as we explore the newest sub genre in comics when they collide in Jade Street Protectors.
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>>93883077
>three innocent obvious kids just going to play some basketball
>immediately surrounded by 20 cops all with guns draw and ready to shoot for absolutely no reason
Yup, this is definitely unbiased and totally accurate depiction of the situation in America.
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>>93884961
Bendis is Miles biggest problem.
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>>93885011
It is a real sign of quality where an entire page is needed to explain the plot.
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>>93886150
What do you expect from a publisher literally named "Black Mask"? Subtlety and nuance?
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>>93886394
>not knowing what else Black Mask publishes
Don't post if you're a pleb.
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>>93885511
Oh shit, it's THE MAN!
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The art is kinda awful
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>>93885535
You know I give this some credit for just straight up rolling with the stereotypes.
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thank you for your patience to upload, anon.
i read three of the issues you posted, not interested.
may i suggest SPACE RIDERS on your list of goodies to storytime?
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>>93883657
>nagger in the previous comic
>nigger right on the cover of this one
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>>93884202
I prefer it's spin-off, Vigilante, more but that's because I hate battle academies with a passion
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