JSA Storytime: Omega the Unknown

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>>94838852
you know how I said yesterday we might be late?

it's errand time, will try to be back within an hour, please discuss Marvel solicits or whatever among yourselves

>>94838863
At this point I don't really read the Marvel solicits. I just skim the creative teams and feel nothing.

>>94838852
Hello, Storyteller.

Actually, there was one solicit from yesterday that I might be interested in. I kinda like the idea of Dinah and Lobo hanging out. Seems like a decent set up for some vitriolic buddy antics.

>>94838863
Marvel now has Brisson and Cates as exclusive, but nothing interesting in their solicits.

>>94838888
Fucking checked
>I just skim the creative teams and feel nothing.
This. Only thing I might even give a try is Bemis on MK

>>94838863
Marvel solicits were worse than the DC ones.

At least DC's were just mostly boring. Marvel's were fucking painful.

Also Image's solicits were funny in that Hickman was nowhere to be found.

>>94838888
>I just skim the creative teams and feel nothing
Same for both companies

Only saw two things I want to check out. The Kamandi omnibus and Simonson's Kamandi Challenge issue.

>>94838888
I'm just interested in Burrows on Moon Knight.

I've gained a sudden interest in Marvel for the first time in five years. I've been reading this book on Marvel's behind the scenes history and it's got me nostalgic for their characters.

Any tips on what I may have missed in that time? I started catching up on Spencer's Cap, Duggan's Deadpool, and I'm gonna start going through all of Ewing's stuff courtesy of that one anon who's storytiming it all.

Warning: I don't care about the X-Men and I definitely don't care about the Inhumans.

>>94839060
Check out Thunderbolts. The original by Busiek, the other run by Busiek, Parker, and Ellis are the generally go to material.

>>94839060
I don't read a lot of Marvel but I enjoyed Superior Foes of Spider-Man

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>>94838984
>Also Image's solicits were funny in that Hickman was nowhere to be found.
Nick Spencer is only part of that Not Brand Echh one-shot for Marvel in November. This is two months now where he is mostly MIA.

Nothing was really appealing to me in the Image solicitations. I did read two issues of that new Simone book, and the art is really rough.

>>94838888
same

Moon Knight sounds kinda cool but I don't need to scroll through 70 boring solicits to see that

>>94839060
Check out Fury:My War Gone By

>>94839060
Seth Loveness's Nova was a really good recent book

>>94839060
>Any tips on what I may have missed in that time?
Not much.
>>94839123
Looks like stills from a fucking Telltale game.

>>94839060
Since 2012? So basically from Marvel NOW! (as opposed to Marvel Nower and Marvel Nowerer)?

Have you read any of it? Jason Aaron's Thor: God Of Thunder is good before Aaron goes bad on Thor, Kathryn Immonen's Journey into Mystery is great. Hickman's Avengers is the Big Deal Plotline. Gillen and McKelvie on Young Avengers, Spencer/Lieber on Superior Foes of Spider-Man. ANGR, All-New Ghost Rider, it's only a few issues but Tradd Moore art. Warren Ellis' Moon Knight.

If you stick with Ewing's books I think you'll find mostly stuff you'll enjoy.

>>94839123
Just checked Image's solicits and it's apparently going to be three Orson issues in a row for Stray Bullets now.

And hell I love the Wild Man, but Lapham needs to wrap this up.

>>94839123
Yeah I like the story so far but I'm not a fan of Staggs "art"

>>94839060
Iron Fist: The Living Weapon :^)

>>94839105
Well, I read all those, here in this thread. I'm more talking about stuff that's come out since I quit buying them.

>>94839111
That's one of the big ones I heard a lot about while it was coming out.

>>94839151
Didn't know Ennis had been at Marvel any time recently, sounds excellent since I'm a fan of his.

>>94839168
Yeah, Now was where I jumped off, dropped the couple I was still pulling and started pulling mostly DC and a couple Image books.

>>94839205
Well, the stuff in that post is what I'd recommend. I haven't been reading much Marvel myself lately but if we skip right up to now I think the very recent Foolkiller and Nova miniseries were great.

>>94839205
>idn't know Ennis had been at Marvel any time recently

He's got a new Punisher comic with Parlov ( the artist from every Barracuda story in MAX) coming soon. It's more Frank in 'Nam

>>94839205
>Well, I read all those, here in this thread. I'm more talking about stuff that's come out since I quit buying them.
Oh, well I got nothing then, since I don't get much into Marvel either.

I have been wanting to check out older Carol Danvers stuff though.

>>94838852
Is omega a jew?

>>94839202
Fuck, I forgot about that series.
I wonder if anybody would notice if I skipped that in my storytime.

>>94839242
Thor and Kid!Loki stuff sound great. Don't think I'm gonna bother with Hickvengers because of all the memeing y'all have done in this thread or I'll just read Illuminated Comics

Youngblood's first trade solicit only lists 5 issues of the six-issue first storyarc...

So, gonna start the countdown to cancellation.

>>94839123
They've got a bunch of stuff that's coming up but since they're not minis and they have literal who creators you just know they'll mostly get canceled and have rushed endings.
I'll check out Angelic because I like the artist and I want to like Spurrier but his recent output has been... rough.
Wasn't Lemire's new Image title supposed to start though?

>>94839318
I don't think so? Can't remember if religion has come up yet.

>>94838888
My thoughts on the solicits were that I liked the She-Hulk/Leader cover and two of the Moon Knight covers.

>>94839332
Please run it, I want to see you tear it apart like we did with Bendis' shit.

>>94839004
Not Ennis/Parlov?

>>94839337
I'd definitely rec the Sif Journey into Mystery, the Kathryn Immonen one, but maybe it's not for you. If you like God-Butcher Thor I would still recommend ANGR and Ellis' Moon Knight because although they're not exactly mythic they're both sort of high octane metal shit w/ good art.

>>94839378
He has a 4 issue mini at Dark Horse that's a spinoff from Black Hammer starting in November. Is that what you were thinking of?

>>94839123
I'm gonna check out the Master of Kung-Fu and the Silver Sable one shots at least.

>>94839416
Of course, but I meant in a sort of fascinated way, rather than hell yes I'm going to read it.

>>94839431
No. Something with Hester on art, a new original comic for Image. It sounded good and right in his ballpark.

>>94839442
I would've check Master of Kung Fu out if they didn't have a rassler writing it...

>>94839417
>Ellis' Moon Knight
It's a slog. And without any interesting bits to rationalise it. And the art is good but it had better when there's nothing happening.

>>94839004
So his nemesis is gonna be Horus, right?

>>94839417
I'm a long-time Thor fan that only fell off at Fraction's run, so if there's ANY decent Thor stuff, I'm on board.

I remember hearing about Moon Knight, and Ghost Rider looks interesting.

Thanks anon.

>>94839484
It's not a slog, if anything there's too little content for the money you pay. You read through it really fast and there's nothing special aside from a few action scenes.

>>94839483
Why?

>>94839484
>It's a slog
Anon, I can't do this right now. It's 6 well-executed one-shots with absolutely gorgeous art (or really, coloring). I'd quite happily read that kind of series into infinity. I don't need it to be an ongoing series, I don't even need every one-shot to land.

>>94839489
I think that's the symbol on that cover, so yeah, could be cool

>>94839393
I STILL can't believe Bendis wrote an entire issue based around Cage's wedding, and Iron Fist didn't even get a cameo! That's like marrying off Blue Beetle, without a Booster Gold appearance!

>>94839506
read Gillen's Journey into Mystery

>>94839537
how can the bride not be present at the wedding?

>>94839527
>>94839516
I apologize.For some retard reason I was thinking of Lemire's run. Ellis is good.

>>94839576
Lemire's run was better

>>94839537
I still mantain that Cage is Bendis' husbando and Jessica Jones is his self-insert.

Why are we spoiler posting?

>>94839639
I thought this was common knowledge

>>94839625
>Ellis introduces the interesting idea that Khonshu is probably real and fucking with Marc's head
>NOPE HE'S JUST CRAY CRAY LMAO
Lemire's run is pretty goddamn terrible, m8.

>>94839537
>>94839557
Micheal and Ted should get married. If only because bromance is cancerous whoreshit that needs to die in a fire. It's like, gentlemen, you're both in serious denial, and it's making me uncomfortable. Just fuck already!

>>94839625
Why do you think that anon? And are you saying Lemire is better or that being better than Ellis isn't a very high bar?

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>>94838863
hoot hoot

>>94839669
>writer introduces an idea and does nothing with it
I hate that.

>>94839797
welcome to capeshit

>>94839681
Both. More the latter though.

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>>94839797
Bendis is the king of "I have an idea and I'll talk about it respectably in an interview" turning into never getting there

>>94839827
Meh. Fair enough.

>>94839810
You know very well this isn't the case and for the most part a writer will introduce something so that HE can use it.

>>94839840
There's also Geoffrey Johns.

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>>94839840
so yeah those solicits mostly suck

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>>94839869
Johns has some nasty habits there but he tends to at least accomplish *something* tangible before he leaves

I'd love to hear about the original plans for his JL and JLA that clearly got rewritten on the fly

>>94839881
;___________;

>>94839881
Trade fuckery is happening to Youngblood again and that is never a good sign.

Too bad, I was enjoying this relaunch

>>94839869
>Krypto vs Dex-Starr NEVER EVER

>>94839904
Oh come on, Vibe, Grail, Wondy's brother, Rise of The Seven Seas, Sivana/Mr. Mind... and these are all only in the last few years in which he's barely written any comics.

>>94839797
You mean like giving the power of Brainiac to THE intrepid reporter Lois Lane, and having fuck all happen as a result?

Yes I am still bitter about that, dammit! I'm telling you, Brainiac News Network. You know you want it.

Read all of Aarons Thor dude, Dautermann's stuff is better than Ribics

>>94839945
Spinning L.E.G.I.O.N. as a totally and completely propagandic news organization could actually be a fun reboot. FAKE NEWS, yadda yadda.

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>>94839941
I mean yes, but those are mainly plothreads in the flagship books wherein we know there's the most Mandated Content and things got tweaked the hardest

Rise of the Seven Seas makes me mad, to be fair

>>94839797
>>94839869
>>94839904

my favorite johns loose end is lex luthor and brainiacs baby

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>>94840030
babies are always a mistake in comics

>>94839997
Ribic is super overrated. Dauterman is yet another artist DC let slip between their fingers and now they have 80% of their titles looking bland as all fuck. Anyway, I don't read Thor but I was looking though the storytime of the latest issue to look at pretty pictures and Dauterman unironically only drew 1(one) page. It wasn't even anything important that couldn't have been drawn by the guy that did the rest of the issue either.

>>94840025
The lack of more based Orm hits the hardest

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>>94840049
Except for Lyrl, I love that little fucker

>>94838852
Possibly Omega NDJ-001.
He IS less Unknown than before. Omega the somewhat known? Omega the Recognizable?

>>94840062
Indeed.

I'll be an apologist and say that I think Johns mostly does it as a way to seed things in case he's still on a book later, with the idea that if it pays off it makes it feel more intentional and linked rather than just random arcs published in order.

But I guess as a reader it's still the same disappointment.

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>>94840071
I got Mage

but I haven't read it yet

but I got it!

>>94840049

it was set up for a Conner Superboy foil

>>94840104
But what of Miracle Max?

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>>94840113
I haven't read it either

I've been cleaning the house on my days off

>>94840030
>not the unwritten Boomerang/Meloni Thawne love story

>>94839123
>the art is really rough.

It looks like badly photoshopped pictures, if that's representative of it.

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>>94840102
Don't be an apologist, he's set up stuff and never followed up for a decade. Dr. Alchemy from his first Flash run for example.

>>94840102
I'm OK with it because my favorite things in cape comics are long stories built up as C-plots over long runs.

I would rather they at least TRY to build things up instead of not bothering, but you rarely get runs that last more than a year or two these days.

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>>94840146
Everyone sets up stuff they don't get around to or can't get around to or plans change. Sometimes people are nice enough to nip it obliquely in-text if that happens, like Robinson Starman wanting to use Hawkman and not being able to

>>94840049
t. Black Manta

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>>94839152
THIS.

Shit deserved more than 9 issues.

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>>94840197

>>94840205
>Moon Girl still going strong at 25

>>94839639
No, that's pretty well been true since Alias.

Bendis is a size queen.

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>>94840238
who the fuck is HOLO-MAN?

>>94839669
>introduces the interesting idea that Khonshu is probably real

...
No, that seems like something that's probably been true for a long time, given that the rest of the Egyptian Gods are real.

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>>94840263
BUSIEK LETTER!!!!

>>94840249
One of these days, someone is going to make Bendis choose between Kitty and Luke, and I don't know which he'd pick.

>>94839904
Why do people here always blame editorial when it comes to Johns fucking up but give Bendis shit all the time? What the fuck? They're both hacks.

when're the moon knight gods gonna show up with thor and herc and everyone

>>94839787
VOTE? But for WHO?

>>94840242
Either it's selling well (with kids) in trade, or Marvel WANTS it to sell well (with kids) in trade.

>>94840296
Little harsh there, Kurt.

>>94840300
Honestly because a lot of the time Johns's fuckups doesn't seem anything like him, so it's very easy to see where an outside force might have interfered.

He still has to own stuff like Darkseid War.

>>94840269
Not when it comes to Moon Knight, most writers always played it off as Marc being crazy.

>>94839869
He would do well to stop foreshadowing shit he's going to put at the end of 4 years of stories he may or may not write.

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>>94840299
Speaking of Kitty, does anyone have the "Kitty Pryde, Waifu" summary? I thought I'd screencapped it but I can't find where I put it

>>94840300
At least for me, because it is pretty different to be writing a flagship book with events where you can tell things got changed around/mandated (like how TRINITY WAR was clearly hacked up on the fly) vs. writing a relatively stand-alone book or controlling your own line and not bothering to line up with line-wide events and ending it with a "the revolution was in your hearts the whole time"

>>94840296
hey, one of those letters is from my hometown

I fucking love seeing old letters from people who go on to write comics (had Busiek started by this point?)

>>94840332
>Either it's selling well (with kids) in trade, or Marvel WANTS it to sell well (with kids) in trade.

It does apparently do well through Scholastic, but that doesn't explain why they publish it in floppies when the could just put out OGNs.

>>94839669
I mean, It's a little disingenuous to say that he introduced that. Huston's run toyed with that. Never confirmed one way or the other, but it was always alluded to by other characters that it was possible Khonshu was real.

>>94840296
Wow, Busiek is a dick.

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>>94840296
>Nitro (remember him?)
Oh, do I, Kurt. Do I.

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>>94840359
I want a PARACHUTE BALL

>>94840407
He's always been very clear and idiosyncratic about what works for him and what doesn't

He has really weird X-opinions

>>94840407
Well, he thinks that Kirby half-assed/phoned in Orion's design...so yeah

>>94840242
>>94840332
I actually read like 20 issues into Moon girl and she's just not very likeable at all. She's sort of a jerk to everyone and constantly getting stuff wrecked.

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>>94839881
Not sure if this...

>>94840359
But Bendis writes flagship books all the time? Did you seriously forget he was the guy behind New Avengers for nearly a decade?

Johns is literally DC's Bendis, stop being such a shameless apologist.

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>>94840426
that actually makes me want to read it more than "Moon Girl is such an amazing role model for girls of color" ever did

>>94840423
didn't he hate the second wave additions like Nightcrawler/Colossus/Storm/etc?

>>94840381
Because the business is antiquated and stuck in its ways.

It's frustrating that both Marvel and DC have done quite a bit of experimentation with content, but very little to none with format.

>>94840426
sounds like a generic cartoon protagonist then

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>>94839881
Or this is better.

>>94840436
this book has been oddly sexy in a lot of little ways

>>94840423
>really weird X-opinions
No, let's call them for what they are: shit. They are SHIT X-opinions.

>>94840470
Electro best boy

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>>94840437
I'm not thinking about his Avengers when I make the "says he has clear goals and then never realizes them" dig, that's things like his Iron Man run where he was going to make Tony Stark relevant to the MU like never before, or Cyclops' Awesome Mutant Revolution. Although yeah, we can talk about Secret Invasion as a huge waste of setup.

>>94840445
Priest's Tanya Power Girl feels like such a fucking shot at Moon Girl.

>>94840447
I mean even DC figured it out with DCSHG. Shit doesn't have to be hard.

Busiek CLAP ruined CLAP the CLAP X-Men

>>94840446
He thinks the original volume with Lee and Thomas is better than Claremont's, and is directly responsible for Cyclops being seen as a dick, Jean becoming a meme, and X-Factor being a thing. So yeah.

>>94840446
He hates everything that isn't the original 5 being high schoolers. He also said he doesn't want to read First Class because it's not cannon even though it's nothing but that boarding school melodrama he wants.

He wrote in after they killed Jean Grey to tell them he was done buying the comic ( for the second time )

>>94840513
>He thinks the original volume with Lee and Thomas is better than Claremont's
It is

>>94840125
That one was fucking terrible, because he just offed Owen after having the guy build a zombie feeding pit in a completely out of character move, without paying off at all the Thawne connection.

>>94840537
Imagine having taste this horrible.

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>>94840489
"extended prologue to stories that never arrive" is definitely applicable to later Johns, but IMO it's worse/habitual with Bendis

>>94840049
But anon, Legion babies! Legion Babies that are also Validus!

>>94840558
It must be the anon who started the anti Frank Miller thread

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>>94840537
How so? Or are you just baiting?

>>94840104
>Laser Books

Fuck, that's a way better name than Science Fiction Book Club.

>>94840541
I almost want to say that one felt like the "kill the replacements" stuff that was going on around the same time, but it was just done with such character assassination that I don't think that was actually it. Easy to kill off a character without anything like that.

I have a sneaking suspicion though he was going to have Owen come back and join the Zoom Corps.

>>94840584

The Neil Adams stuff is pretty rad

>>94840584
Wait, is it really 90 pages or is book-length being used for aplomb?

>>94840446
>>94840475
He's probably the only fucker on the planet who prefers Kirby's X-Men to Claremont's, and everyone who was there with X-Anon knows why THAT'S just a wrong opinion.

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>>94840564
>be taller

>>94840513
>X-Factor being a thing.

But that's a good thing, anon.

>>94840605
>I have a sneaking suspicion though he was going to have Owen come back and join the Zoom Corps.

Well, that's another thing to add to the "cool shit we never got because the Reverse Flash Family never happened" aka the Zoom/Kadabra War

>>94840618

Book-length meaning not multiple stories like how Adventure Comics had Legion and Superboy and shit

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>>94840613
Fair enough, the Adams stuff was pretty good, but that was at the end.

>>94840665

it's also still not as good as most claremont

>>94840584
It's the only one I've read. Nothing against any other run. I was mostly just baiting.

I don't really care about the X-Men at all, just because I never got into them when I was young. But I greatly enjoy reading X-Men discussion threads here.

>>94840613
It's the only time that volume becomes good and it's not even 10 issues.

>>94840618
It's 20 pages long.

>>94840656
Ahh neat.

>>94840263
Bobby Drake's boyfriend?

>>94840641
I'm talking about the original X-Factor, who were the O5 acting like a bunch of mutant hunters just so they could rescue mutants. It's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.

Didio and Giffen's Manhunter Special has its preview out

>http://www.cbr.com/manhunter-special-1/

>>94840641
Cameron Hodge antics aside, O5 X-Factor was terribly boring. Remember that the character that became Apocalypse was originally going to be The Owl.

>>94840682
That is also true.

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>>94840725
HOOT HOOT

>>94840263
>>94840699
MORE LIKE HOMO-MAN!!! LMAO!!!1!11

>>94840645
I need someone to write about all that was going to be in that run. Such a disappointment.

>>94840725
"The Owl", a character so god damned boring that fucking BENDIS had to make him interesting.

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>>94840741
how are you owls today

>>94840296
He raises some valid criticisms.

Reading this as we are now, as a pseudo-nostalgic look into offbeat weirdness, the utter pointlessness of El Gato is just a bit a trippy weirdness. In the 70s, it was a lazily named Doctor Strange palate swap that really didn't advance all that much information on Omega himself.

>>94840300
Because Bendis has clearly not been subject to editing since migrating from the Ultimate books.

>>94840779
The Owl/Ock gang war was great, but choosing that guy as the archnemesis for the original five X-Men is a "Wait, what?" moment.

>>94840800
Job hunting's a bitch.

>>94840359
>when nearly a fifth of Marvel's books weren't superheroes

>>94840800
defeated

>>94840800
Tired as hell. I got woken up early today because Twitter was blowing up, after I made a funny tweet that got retweeted by an E-List internet celebrity.

>>94840800
Fine. Oddly preoccupied with my dumb "Macross, but with Wonder Woman" idea, but otherwise okay.

You?

>>94840857
Be sure to remember us as you rocket to fame, anon

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>>94840829
it's the worst fucking thing in the world

>>94840854
:(

>>94840864
tired and I have to work tomorrow, meh

>>94840425
The only thing really distinctive about Orion is his hat.

>>94840857
>and as soon as I post that, I get ANOTHER Like

>>94840426
Intelligent people are allowed/supposed to be intolerable jerks, tho. It's why people love Doctor Doom and Sheldon Cooper!

>>94840803
Gerber just wasn't expecting the book to be such a failure so he was clearly taking his time and faffing around. Nowadays if you're not a superstar writer and instead are, say, an Ewing-level writer, you plan for the bare minimum of issues you'll be able to write.

>>94840857
I think you can mute the conversation?

>>94840800
I finally managed to drag myself away from Persona 5 for long enough to start storytiming again.

>>94840891
Sure, but it's still a nicely done design is simplistic. Being un-ornamented helps to give Orion a very staunch feeling.

Busiek maintains that Kirby simply half-assed/gave up on it and that Orion should wear the Astro Force Harness 24/7

>>94840800
tired but I worked out harder than I normally do so I feel good about it

>>94840725
Oh, yeah, I'm not really defending the utter bomb that was the start of the series. But Weezie really turned that shit around.

As much as they've fucking ruined it with the skin colour roulette bullshit in the last decade or so, Archangel was the first time Angel was worth a damn.

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>>94840880

>>94840944
>Busiek maintains that Kirby simply half-assed/gave up on it and that Orion should wear the Astro Force Harness 24/7

Well, no, that'd be silly.
But honestly, I kinda feel like most of the New Gods ARE kinda halfassed rehashes of Thor and Inhumans designs. That got further rehashed into the Eternals.

Which one of you did this?
>>94840124

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>>94840993

>>94841049
Well, I'll give you Lonar and Fastbak.

Mainly because I've never really been too wild about them haha.

>>94841051
none of us have taste that bad besides maybe the anon who likes Metal

>>94840639
>Pacific Comics

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE SKATE MAN.

>>94841049
>and Inhumans designs
???
The good Inhuman design is Black Bolt, the rest are all pretty awful, especially Medusa, who is just "redhead long-haired masked woman in purple spandex"

>>94840829
>>94840880
See, this shot right here is why I fucking hate when writers do not do their research for projects. Yes, it IS a pain in the ass to go through tons of comics to learn how characters and setting elements works, and even looking up the information either in the company archives or just online can be arduous work in itself.

But it's your job.
See, "professional" comics writers, editors, and even artists, due to working in a niche industry, often don't have to worry about job security because their employers more than likely can't afford to get rid of them when they put in sub-par work.

If you ask me, there's no excuse for doing your job poorly. You're lucky enough to have a job in these shithole times we live in, so do it right. Even if you hate your job, it's still yours to do.

Pardon the rant, a lot of people in this industry piss me off with their blatant lack of fucks to give.

>>94841082

fuck you

>>94841090
I didn't say the Inhumans were well designed, just that they shared elements with New Gods designs.

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>>94841056

>>94841141
Especially Karnak

>>94841103

>>94840800
Feeling kinda lousy.

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>>94841169
where'd my image go

>>94841100
A-anon all I said was that I'm having trouble job hunting...

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>>94841142
U-Control 7-Foot Life-Size Ghost

95 cents

>>94841082
There are TWO anons who like Metal, thank you very much.

>>94840104
Darn it, get reading!

I've been waiting to hear your thoughts on it for almost a full week now!

>>94841213
Three. The cover for four is making me more interested

>>94841056
>Nitro's Back

Well, hot damn, look's like Steve thought Busiek was on to something.

>>94841209
Three issues of Omega, or... 7-Foot Life-Size Ghost...

Hmmm...

>>94841232
Make it four, I thought it was fun

>>94841209
>1001 Things Free

>89 ¢

>>94841192
Yeah, and it's disgusting that you have scrounge and claw for employment, while these complacent hacks get to sit on a steady paycheck by rehashing the same old bullshit over and over, without putting in any effort whatsoever.

Greg Land gets reliable work, and you don't. Fuck this planet.

>>94841291
That's over 11 free things per one cent!

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>>94841209
THANKS FOR READING

>>94841348
Thanks again OP. Back tomorrow?

>>94841348
THANKS FOR POSTING

>>94841348
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

I keep waiting for Omega and the kid to merge together, yet it keeps not happening. Also, Amber is best girl.

>>94840829
Remember to call asking about the status of your job application.

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>>94840436
>>94840461

>>94841348
Thank you very kindly

>>94841285
I want to see what he does with Daniel.

I recently read American Vampire, and that was pretty good.

>>94841515
He implied some stuff with Starman is coming down the pipeline, I wanna see if DC's trying to revive Will Payton or what

>>94841377
yes, absent catastrophe

>>94841563
I think Capullo leaked in an interview that Snyder has another Swamp Thing mini in the works as well.
So many magic beings are getting miniseries

>>94841759
My boy Swamp Thing's getting more issues? Hell yes.

>>94841759
where's muhh Amethyst

RISE