JSA Storytime: Mr. X

Howdy.

Holy shit we're in like 2013+ now?

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>>94491803
I forget what order this all properly goes in so I've just been doing it as antho excerpts and then next we'll do minis

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>>94491829

>>94491803
Mister X jumps from the 90s to like a decade ahead out of nowhere. The series was dormant for a long time before Motter brought it back.

>>94491729
Hello, Storyteller.

Can Mark Millar just fuck off already? I am 1000% done with him and his edgelord bullshit. And now this fuckstain is getting his own fucking Netflix show, because we live in a shit cyberpunk novel, and this is the oh so subtle commentary on how entertainment has become enslaved to the lowest common denominator. Goddamn.

>>94491886
Cry more.

This interview pretty much diminished my interest in Mister Miracle down to next to nothing.

http://www.cbr.com/interview-tom-king-tackles-new-gods-mythology-in-mister-miracle/

Does anyone know how the comixology scans of Mage are? I've seen some stuff about bad recoloring but don't know if that's on comixology or I should find old scans

>>94491886
Mark Millar isn't entirely bad IMO. Also if you haven't read 2000AD Millar you haven't read truly shit Millar (as in, not even bad enough to laugh at).

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>>94491886
you know my stance, "don't like, ignore"

that is also my general take on the article about YA fandom that's blowing up the internet and I'm here with the popcorn for: if you haven't read something that's awesome, but then you go after it for being bad, mostly nah

>>94491912
Or his fucking Youngblood stories.
And I think Millar is in the middle of a shit resurgence.

>>94491910
>a Game of Thrones-type story
Dropped so fucking hard. That hack can go fcuk himself.

>>94491886
I don't really care that much about him either way. Superior was fine I guess?

>>94491926
That's not even the bad part.
His thoughts on Orion are almost Bendis-levels of bullshit.

You have to actively try to not get Orion as hard as King has.

>>94491910
Oh wow yeah there are so many DO NOT WANTs so quickly in that interview, but it's hard to cut what's genuine out from what's there as marketing talk.

I know OP wants no spoilers so not gonna discuss but: yeah, I get you.

>>94491886
Man if people enjoy that stuff, let em, no skin off my ass.

It was funny to see some Twitter folks get upset about it because they've now retroactively dubbed Millar an enemy of progress or something. Up there with the folks getting mad at that new HBO Confederate show because they didn't like the premise and went "DELETE THIS".

I don't get why people can't just go "this does not appeal to me, so I will not buy it".

>>94491910
Wow, he REALLY doesn't get Orion at all, holy shit.

>>94491921
Yeah I really liked Starlight and Jupiter's Legacy. Need to look into his comic with Capullo.

>>94491943
He doesn't really seem to get MM either. Or like, Kirby on the New Gods.

But whatever. I'm fine with a new take if it's good in and of itself.

>>94491953
And it's crazy because Netflix has the rights to some of Millar's cooler stuff.

I mean, Netflix is getting American Jesus. That's got...insane potential.

>>94491971
>Need to look into his comic with Capullo.
It's not as bad as Empress or Chrononauts - it has a character backbone unlike those two. Worth a quick read,

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>>94491953
It's the sense of there being a zero-sum economy as in "If this gets published something I like won't", but also the continual attempt to pull fannish ecosystems in the direction of their personal preferences

>>94491729
fuck yes Mister X
the education continues

>>94491990
At least with his ideas on Scott Free and stuff like Granny or Highfather...it's a totally valid thing that hasn't been explored before.

Orion though...it's just some weird insane bias.

>>94491920
Maybe it's not a good idea to pre-emptively shit on something directly at the creator for weeks upon weeks upon weeks and hundreds of thousands of words huh. Maybe that is actually harassment instead of the creator protesting about it, even.

As soon as your attitude is "You do not even read this thing" I'm off the ride. Know thyself.

>>94491990
It's funny how hypocrites like you give King a free pass because "it's his own take, maaan" but give hacks like Bendis shit when they fail to get your favorite character.

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>>94491998
NO SPOILERS GODDAMMIT

I FUCKING MEAN IT

>>94492058
No spoilers...but King comes off as a dumbass in that interview.

>>94492043
Not him but Bendis is bad on two levels. It's not just the lack of caring about continuity but also the execution is terrible. There's room for nuance in criticism.

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>>94492075
That's still enough, take it to another thread if you want to bitch about it.

>>94492058
Why would you care about spoilers about what is transparently going to be one of the worst New Gods books of all time, and will only be liked by people with zero knowledge of the characters?

>>94492094
Bendis was just an example, there's plenty of other cases where /co/'s persona non grata isn't allowed to "do their own thing" with a character, but the latest meme writer is.

>>94491920
Read that, I hate that people hide behind "journalism" when it suits them and "opinion piece" when it doesn't.

>>94491998
It's something we see in the whole of " "nerd" "culture" " now since there's a belief that everything has to be for everyone (by everyone, they usually mean "me personally") so that they can be part of the larger zeitgeist/conversation.

>>94492043
Not saying I agree with that guy but there's an argument to be made that if something is good despite not being true to the source, it's still good. Bendis ignores or actively shits upon the source while replacing it with his own garbage.

>>94492020
The idea of redemptive love from suffering between Scott and Barda is one I'm always there for, but that in and of itself doesn't really go with his Christ analogue - but it is hilarious to imagine Christ as a serial escape artist and hey I guess you *can* say that and I'm not really there for Scott being dark and broken in his heart-of-hearts but I agree the sketching of that has something more to it than the sketching of Orion.

>>94492043
I give Bendis shit for being a crappy writer and doing nothing good with anyone. Shit Bendis current Jessica Jones? Right from the first issue there was a fantastic route that could have gone down which just never fucking happened. But even if it had, the dialogue would still have been shit.

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>>94492040
I think the attempts to construct a power differential simply as author has power so author must take any response silently/stoically/acquiescently, fan has no power so don't direct your authorial Eye of Sauron at them while they can say anything; it doesn't really work that way on the internets.

>>94492122
humor me?

>>94491920
I know that's how I should be treating this, but in this case, I simply find offense in someone like Millar finding any success, cause he doesn't deserve it. Because he's a piece of shit with the mentality of a psychotic teenager who doesn't have the balls to shoot up the mall, so instead he writes comic books.

He's like those people who made the game Hatred, but without any hint of satire. It'd be fine if he was simply taking the piss, but he's dead fuckin' serious about this shit. And THIS guy gets his own show? Fuck everything.

>>94492169
>It'd be fine if he was simply taking the piss, but he's dead fuckin' serious about this shit.

Kick-Ass is completely about taking the piss though.
It's not even pretending to be subtle about that.

>>94492122
>one of the worst New Gods books of all time
You just know this won't be the case but yes, he is most likely going to try to reinvent the characters and shit.

>>94492144
I don't know if I'd agree with that, we use the NOT MUH a lot to shit on the more reactionary types too.

>>94492122
Godwave

>>94492160
Read the interview you dummy, it's right there. Oh wait, you don't want spoilers, even though the interview doesn't spoil anything other than the book being shit.

>>94492147
It often comes down to overinvestment and the identifying of hobby as identity IMO. I mean that's basically what "nerd culture" is, the idea you can buy an identity of interests - and these days, largely from corporations.

And that isn't me trying to bitch about new people entering the hobbies or new directions or shit like that. I love this stuff because I genuinely enjoy it, I think it can be genuinely enjoyed and loved and I want other people to do that. But you gotta be aware of what your experience is vs. others, and vs. whatever company you're buying from.

How close to a circle is the YA and comics twitter disasters?

>>94492122

Hell yeah cant wait to again be the weirdo who likes a panned book!

>>94491926
It's just a meme thing to say. Gerards says it too and he said he only watched the first 2 or 3 seasons and doesn't really remember the names of the characters right.

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>>94492160
O____O

>>94492169
Yeah, I find a lot of Millar unsuccessful, but he's pretty constant in taking the piss

Mitch Gerads being on art killed my interest, I didn't need an interview.

>>94492169
Millar isn't dead fucking serious about much.

>>94492186

Yeah, like Ultimate Avengers is almost a comedy book

>>94492219
It literally just means there might be some political stuff. I'm sure King probably used it in regards to Omega Men too.

>>94492232
I remember when the KA saga was coming out and people had somehow deluded themselves into thinking that HIt-Girl's ultra-conservative rhetoric is meant to be serious.

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>>94492215
There was this j'accuse article the other day about Doug TenNapel and how comics was bad for not having ostracized him, and I thought 1) he's more of a games guy 2) did anyone who knew who he was at this point in time NOT know about his beliefs and how he's been isolated in large part due to them? But hey, anything to make a leap to another discussion about Eddie Berganza

>>94492144
Speaking of
>latest meme writer
I kind of found Donny Cates' God Country to be a little bland. It was a nice little story, but nothing really special to me. I liked the first issue of Redneck, but haven't read the others.
I wonder how his Loki-as-Sorcerer-Supreme will go.

>>94492215
More like the casual who outs himself as a casual for liking a shit book.

>>94492205
>doesn't spoil anything other than the book being shit.
That was already spoiled when King said he was talking to Mark fucking Waid about this.

>>94492295
That in itself ain't damning.
Evanier knew the man himself and he had some...iffy ideas.

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>>94492282
so hey can we talk about Jeph Loeb getting defensive about Inhumans TV, that was pretty funny

>>94492260
We talked about it before IIRC but I always feel that all the overblown macho/military shit:

1) Millar wants to mock it
2) Millar also legitimately thinks it's the coolest shit

He's not the only writer either. Ennis has a fair bit of that but he's better at setting up the human stakes, even in complete absurdity.

>>94492284
Cates is seriously mediocre as fuck. I can't believe one quote from Bendis saying he's "the next big thing" is all it took to make him such a darling.

>>94492317
>he had some...iffy ideas.

His Mister Miracle one-shot was decent enough, it was absolutely carried by Steve Rude's art though. As for Evanier's New Gods...

>>94492323
All the talk about Inhumans being unwatchably bad is the first thing that's made me want to watch it.

>>94492332
Definitely.
It doesn't take long to realize that almost none of the leads are actually meant to be heroic either. More so psychopaths.

>>94492346
>His Mister Miracle one-shot was decent enough, it was absolutely carried by Steve Rude's art though
Spot on

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>>94492317
How was Rachel Pollack's New Gods?

>>94492335
>all it took to make him such a darling.

No all it took was for him to come from writing " real books" to instantly give his work more worth to comics press than most of what's on the shelf.

See Brad Meltzer

>>94492317
Waid is
1. an idiot
2. a person that has never written the New Gods well
3. One of the people that kept pushing shit like retard angry manchild Orion
4. petty as fuck and might be giving him bad ideas to sabotage a DC comic

Also, Evanier is not a good writer and even talks about how Kirby would have a hard time remembering what he had in mind to plot the day before so it's was just a case of Evanier being near Kirby and hearing a million ideas.

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>>94492332
It's totally Millar's kink but he has a certain amount of self-awareness about it being his kink. Second-order self-kinkshaming, if you will.

>>94492378
Hah, I get that. It's a bit like how in that YA article, people keep saying "These negative reviews going on about how it's the most harmful book ever make me want to read it."

>>94492317
Evanier killed off my obscure New Godsfu, the meanie.

>>94492282
I remember the webcomic woman behind The Meek and Mare Internum getting a lot of shit for working with Doug a few years ago.

>>94492378
Speaking of Inhumans, the preview for Priest's mini looks SO bad.

King is reminding me a lot of Azzarello in that he's pretty great at writing but tends to not really get the established characters he's writing for and in trying to take them in a "mature" direction totally misses the point.

>>94492323
I wonder if Loeb is aware of just how much of the good will he built up from his famous Batman work is now totally squandered

>>94492169
I can't totally hate Millar because he's done some good random fill-in issues, including a great Wonder Woman issue about Cassie.

>>94492425
Millar's Jay Garrick issue is still Top tier Flash.

>>94492396
When you put it like that...it explains a lot.

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>>94492397
I love jetpack traffic cop

>>94492450
Millar's Black Flash story was such garbage though...

>>94492422
I thought it looked sick actually. Straight up engaging with the Alpha Primitives and weird genetic monarchy in the first pages. That's what I want from Inhumans.

>>94492323
>Inhumans TV
Speaking of shit that shouldn't have its own TV production... Seriously Marvel, stop trying to make the Inhumans the next big thing. So you don't have the film rights to the X-Men, boo boo, get over it. Aren't you supposed to be a comics company? Do even you not give a flying rat's ass about comic books anymore?

>Hickman "confirming" that Marvel doesn't publish F4 anymore because they can't make movies with them
>implying that wasn't blatantly obvious
Oh right, you really fucking don't.

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>>94492425
Loeb's another face that can be added to the "sad Battfleck" image

>>94492456
That's the kinda thing I want to see in Metropolis. City of Tomorrow, just slightly more advanced than us kinda stuff.

>>94492388
I didn't even know this existed.

Dumb annoyance: I really dislike lettering when the bubbles don't have an outline like this

I'm sure it's to let the art breathe or something, but it just feels uncomfortable to me. Especially when it ends adjacent to panel border.

>>94492472
I like the spectacle of it, but yeah given how that's not the first time I've heard that then I guess it doesn't hold up for others.

>>94492425
The problem with King is that he's a spineless fuck. His work gradually became worse with time. Honestly, go back and read the first issues he scrips on Grayson, they're so good and then by the end he's full on meme joke mode. He listens to what others are saying instead of being fearless and doing his own thing. He wants to be a good boy(or "le nerd xD" as he likes to say) and please everyone.

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>>94492479
It was nice to see someone actually just say it as opposed to Brevoort's ~if you'd all just bought it, well~ attempted fanshaming

>>94492456
If there's one constant about futures you'd consider living in, it's jetpacks.

>>94492397
Honestly it's just the thought that something might stand out. Sometimes a bad thing still has really interesting pieces to it.

>>94492477
4 pages in and there's already a stupid plot device to make Black Bolt speak. Also, a million fucking pointless retcons.

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>>94492541
It's the difference between a quality SoP and a bland one, there's usually something remarkable about the quality that might have been good in other hands, nothing can fix the bland ones

>>94492510
I love the idea but the actual execution of the story is dogshit.

>>94492519
I wouldn't doubt that he might have been more heavily edited as his niche books suddenly started getting more popular, and then obviously when he's on Batman, their flagship book.

But it's pretty easy to say "editorial's behind it all!" so I won't posit that as fact.

>>94492550
That plot device is also being used as a way to tell you Black Bolt spent his entire childhood in a soundless isolation chamber though. And as a way to set up the primeval BB/Maximus conflict (where both are powerless, so neither is who they *truly* are).

I dunno I'm still pretty interested in it.

>>94492577
Point taken haha.

>>94492571
You know, I kept seeing that defense come up in regards to Unfunnies this year.

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>>94492612
Unfunnies is part of the Unholy Trinity because it's sure memorable, as is the pure WTF that Marville goes into and the "how did this ever get okayed and those covers" of Trouble

>>94492583
I think it's self-adjustment more than editorial. Just the way he talks in interviews makes it seem like he's attempting to chase the normie audience when that's not really him. If he was ordered to do it he wouldn't own it like that. Though I don't know, he's CIA so he can probably fake whatever anyway.

>>94492612
Moore kind of sort of did it right with the Pogo characters in Swamp Thing, Morrison sort of kind of did it with Coyote Gospel, and I'm pretty sure Gaiman kort of sind of did it in Sandman at least one or two times.

But yeah my basic opinion of most of Millar's edgy works is that he's not serious about it like the above writers but he thinks it's the funniest shit every unironically, whereas to us Unfunnies is funny ironically.

>>94492524
True enough, I suppose. It's just so petty though.

Seriously, this is an industry where the publishers don't actually give a fuck about the primary product they deal in, and are more interested in using their brand names to sell completely different products. Marvel, at least, is turning into Konami for fucks sake!

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>>94492745
It's deeply petty

Current Marvel is fascinating in that we all generally agree something ain't right there, but every angle on what's wrong is different

>>94492739
The anecdote about Millar's wife reading the Unfunnies is funnier than anything actually in the comic.

>>94492739
>my basic opinion of most of Millar's edgy works is that he's not serious about it like the above writers but he thinks it's the funniest shit every unironically

Yeah, I can see that for sure. He totally thinks that whatever he does is harrowing or upsetting, even if he's being exaggerated by it

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>>94492795
"the crow was sucking cock for a reason" is in my pantheon of writer quotes

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>>94492842
also hey what do we think of Cable

my main gripe is come on, make him white-haired not dirty blond-ish

>>94492873
He looks cool enough.
Someone mentioned that he should get more and more weapons out of nowhere...which yeah, should be.

>>94492745
I don't understand how this can be their mindset but their trade sales are so atrocious.

Like I'd almost think they're trying to gear moviefags toward buying floppies if not for the ridiculous price point, poor quality, and poor storytelling.

I just don't get Marvel.

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>>94492903
I expect the movie itself to feature much more proper Cable-size guns

>>94492903
It's weird that Colossus was so fucking huge in the first movie and Cable is just... human-sized. I thought they'd go full Liefeld.

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>>94492935
Is Colossus coming back for this one? Because he was adorable.

>>94492794
I can't even begin to imagine what the hell is going on over there. The average board meeting must be a spectacle of mentally disturbed buffoonery. You can't even suspect that aliens are running Marvel right now, cause even aliens must have a sense of how basic marketing and PR works.

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So what do we think of this? Looks better than DC Legends anyway.

>>94492968
I like to imagine Bendis talks IRL like he writes dialogue and any meeting with him, everyone just has to GTFO of there as quickly as possible.

>>94493042
>another game I have to monitor in case my waifus and husbandos show up

DC why

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>>94492968
As best I can tell they're in "This is fine" mode or there's just a total vacancy in upper leadership to try to make the different parts work together, so individual fiefdoms are making comics but there's no cohesion at all which really hurts marketing the most

>>94493042
What is it? A new waifu game?

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>>94493086
this is like the scene in Lulu where everyone is buying stock shares before the market crash, lol

Galaxy brain take: being wildly different is actual the most Kirby way to do new gods. "The Kirby way is to make your own comic"

>>94492286

:]

>>94492968

Part of me just thinks Disney is pulling an EA where they acquire a successful studio, wring every last dollar out of it, and then unceremoniously dump it's withered husk when everyone gets sick of paying $50 for Buggy Shitshow 4.

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>>94492935
I hope for retarded looking fuckhuge guns that don't look like they can conceivably be held.

Maybe CGI to imitate Liefeld's non-Euclidean artstyle.

>>94492968
Marvel's been run by clueless morons since at least Shooter era which was why he quit.

You have editorial, corporate, and publishing all clashing with vastly different ideas for the brand, and it seems like head editorial even disagrees with the individual editors. There's no unity between everyone making the trains run on time.

>>94493042
I know this is beating a dead horse at this point but they really need to fuck off with Wonder Woman's sword already and bring in Hawkgirl whose ENTIRE GIMMICK IS USING ANCIENT WEAPONRY

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>>94493142
I agree that Hawks+weapons=OTP

>>94493107
New action game, but it does have surprise waifus like Artemis.

>>94493137
>Galaxy brain take: being wildly different is actual the most Kirby way to do new gods. "The Kirby way is to make your own comic"

make this into a meme for the storytime, which is sure to be a shitstorm

>>94493137
His take on Orion isn't different, it's just awful. Lots of hacks have written Orion like that and King chose to follow their take instead of Kirby's.

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>>94493159
lol

lesse, what's next in the folder

>>94493042
Yo, is that Artemis getting some promotion? Nice!

>>94493086
You may be on to something there. All these weird nonsensical decisions do seem somewhat random, like they're being done because nobody is there to tell everyone their ideas are dumb.

I mean, we're used to that in comics, but this may be happening on an administrative level now.

>>94493234
Oh shit, I completely forgot about four issues of volume 3 from 1996

>>94493238
Gotta start pushing her now for that movie sequel.

>>94493182
>make this into a meme for the storytime, which is sure to be a shitstorm

Gotta say...it nearly got me right here

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>>94493268
Quick vote: forwards or backwards

>>94493302
Backwards

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Why do I have to see this

>>94493302
Back it up.

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>>94493326
Okay this fails as a cover compared to what we've had before

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>>94493302

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>>94493378
LOL

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>>94493288
You'll see no complaints from me. I'll be expecting Diana and Artemis' anime rivalry to be a major subplot of course.

>>94493302
Backwards. Why not.

>>94493339
>How Marvel RUINED Wonder Woman
Okay, I'll play. How?

>>94493378
Clever.

>>94493137
>"The Kirby way is to make your own comic"
No, it's not.

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>>94493435
we B&W again

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>>94493512
last panel very quotable

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>>94493551
I don't recognize the artist's name here, anyone know Gene Gonzales?

>>94493482
And it's the good kind of B&W where one can actually see what the hell is happening, because the art style isn't a cluttered mess.

>>94493551
That last panel is begging for a crop.

>>94493551
Time to shoop 4chan's list of porn boards into his glasses in the last panel

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>>94493663
You're my hero of the day

>>94493657
It's super clean!

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>>94493685

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>>94493737

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>>94493789
must be best girl?

>>94493657

Agreed, some of the other B&W issues were really hard to follow.

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>>94493833

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>>94493880
Brides of Mr. X was really too goddamn much

>>94493685
Yeah, there's a reason every visual medium switched to color the instant they could. B&W simply makes it harder to differentiate shapes the more complex the imagery becomes. It's fine when you have simpler visuals, but the more shit is presented to the viewer, the harder it is to goddamn see anything.

For example, could you imagine something like Bayformers in black and white? Your eyes would bleed.

>>94493915
>For example, could you imagine something like Bayformers in black and white? Your eyes would bleed.

Ahh my brain!

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>>94493915
...that'd be a fascinating experiment, actually

I'm not volunteering, but aren't there some automatic B&Wizer programs, probably?

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>>94493981
>Hopper's

Cute! CUTE!

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>>94493833
>>94493883
>>94493913
>>94493981

Best girl indeed.

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Special Edition

>>94494087
Brilliant

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>>94494027
clearly a Schrödinger's cat

>>94493981
>>94493915
I wonder what they used for Mad Max: Fury Road because I had heard comments about the "black and chrome" edition looking kind of weird because it was not shot or composed with B&W directly in mind.
That reminds me of those stills from the Munsters where the sets were brightly colored

>>94493883
>tfw you never hug Mercedes and assure her that everything will be okay
I don't like seeing my cinnamon roll crying.

>>94493981
Oh no doubt. I imagine any of the major editing programs have a B&W filter.

And for the record, I would watch it, just for the sake of seeing how bad it would be. I'd stop if I started experiencing headaches though. I feel my point would be quite definitively made by then.

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>>94494087
Yessss

>>94494148
A 5minute stretch of a fight scene would probably demonstrate it perfectly

The ripples of that YA piece keep going. Everyone's fav hooded utilitarian weighed in

>>94494117

Had to be something legit bc Miller wanted to shoot it in black and white to start.

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>>94494217
I saw that, lol

There are a lot of women online who have lost their patience with him, that's for sure. Not that other people haven't, but given the way he pitches himself as soooo feminist, well

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>>94494253

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>>94494217
Adam Cadman?
But really, what is this YA piece?

>>94494253
The fuck? Is it just me, or does this bouncer bear an uncanny resemblance to DSP?

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>>94494324
http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Lots of people have posted about it; particularly quality dragging by Roxane Gay when people tried to shame her for linking to it

also it's tangentially comics because this got posted in it

>>94494335
Literally who

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>>94494317
party time! excellent!

>>94494324
Woke people showing how woke they are by telling other woke people they're not as woke.

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>>94494405

>>94494369
remember kids, if people can't visibly see that you're morally correct and righteous about everything you do then you might as well be Hitler

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>>94494469
>>94494451
Also the same ol' 'This hurts me' is more effective than 'I don't like it' song and dance

>>94494483
I'm relieved to see that "How dare you quote me without permission if I published something on a public site" has been getting "lol what" pushback.

>>94493137
>"The Kirby way is to make your own comic"

Well he already failed by working at DC on a character someone else made

>>94494369
Man, this idea that having bad acts in a work means that they're correct really needs to die.

Give teenagers some credit. They're retarded but they can tell a villainous character from a heroic one.

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>>94494567
>Man, this idea that having bad acts in a work means that they're correct really needs to die.

So goddamn much

>>94494469
>makes homemade rice krispies squares
Comic, don't pander to me. Mercedes is already best girl, you don't have to pile it on.

Besides, it doesn't matter if you make her perfect wife material, she's not real, so I couldn't propose to her anyway.

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>>94494567
Apparently lots of the actual teenies the books are aimed at are disengaging from the Twitterverse and looking for more private places to talk about books without having to be so performative or be screenshotted for being wrong

Good for them

>>94494511
>I'm relieved to see that "How dare you quote me without permission if I published something on a public site" has been getting "lol what" pushback.
it's a minor win but I'll take it

>>94494567
>Man, this idea that having bad acts in a work means that they're correct really needs to die.
it can't die fast enough

>>94494630
>looking for more private places to talk about books without having to be so performative or be screenshotted for being wrong
Usenet is coming back, baby!

>>94494630
bless those kids

I wish it was easier to escape from, it's spread around literally every fandom tangential space

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>>94494681
Twitter would be so much less of a hellscape with even LJ-class privacy controls, although the locked community was really the perfect solution

>>94494630
>people literally can't stop themselves from harassing children on the internet

Is there a greater mistake in modern human history than social media?

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>>94494708
From what I know of today's damn kids that keep riding their damn skateboards on my driveway the hip new thing is private Discord servers. So basically we're back to AIM chatrooms.

>>94494630

Thank god some kids have sense.

Next generation is gonna be WEIRD

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>>94494741
To be fair the teenies are discovering that they're pretty good at harassment as well but yeah, let's burn it all down, now

(there've been some great bits wherein teenies discover that you can't get AO3 to take down someone's fic just because you think it's sick and wrong and accordingly abusive and harmful, because the people who developed AO3 remember LJ nuking the porn and won't let that happen again)

>>94494750
>>94494820
God DAMN

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>>94494846
Thanks for reading! Hopefully 3 issues tomorrow!

>>94494861

Thanks again for storytiming this. Loves me some Mister X.

>>94494820
thank fuck for that

leaving shitty reviews on a site with no ratings system anyway (and bless the lack of a rating system while we're at it) is about the most they can do

>>94494861
thanks OP! have a nice night

>>94494861
Thanks OP!

>>94494909
Here's a thread on that:

https://violent-darts.tumblr.com/post/159591399030/kaciart-rocket-sith

>>94494741

Maybe high frutcose corn syrup?

But social media is easily in the top five.

>>94494861
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

I still hate Mark Millar. Seriously, fuck that edgy moron. The crow had no actual narrative reason to be sucking cock.

>>94494922
I fucking love the use of the word "evil" here.

>>94495035
>The crow had no actual narrative reason to be sucking cock.
It really didn't.

>>94495035
But it was doing a thing you don't expect a funny cartoon character to do therefore it's hilarious and smart

>>94495185
>it's hilarious and smart
Unfunnies is actually a horror comic, but yeah there wasn't any narrative reason anyway

>>94494861
thanks again OP

>>94494922
>Certain people are screaming that AO3 is bad because it’s not a “safe space.” The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers.

could go ahead and extrapolate this to everything tbqh

>>94495059
It was a graphic depiction of how far their lives had fallen and what she needed to do to make money.

>>94491921
>>94491961
>characterfag tears
Delicious. Based King.

>>94491886
hi Grant, go jerk off more

Thanks, OP.

>>94495035
Anyone on 4chan complaining about a writer being edgy has a major case of pot calling the kettle black syndrome.

>>94498093
That's just Cranky Anon, /co/'s resident bitch about everything

You may know his work from any of the Looney Tunes/DC threads crying that people don't take superheroes seriously.

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>>94495035
>The crow had no actual narrative reason to be sucking cock.

>>94492571
>We can't use Type O

Fuck off, grasshopper. Type O goes with everything, it's the sriracha sauce of blood.

>>94493377
This is one of the best covers ever.

>>94491910
Controversial opinion time
I don't really care about Kings portrayel of Orion because I'm reading a Mr Miracle book, not Simonsons Orion. As long as it's nothing character destroying and services the book well enough I don't mind.
You have to remember this is marketing speak which simplifies everything. King has used that GoT line in every Mr Miracle interview so far, but all that really means is that there will be intense and quick violence mixed in with quiet moments of talking and character interactions, as opposed to a constant action flow

>>94502301
That's true and, I mean, it was also compared to Star Wars.

>>94502301
It shouldn't be either/or. The characterizations aren't hard.