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I wasn't reading anything with Static in it pre-reboot, but somebody tell me, was he always this unusually smart? I mean, he was a smart kid in the TV show (which is pretty much all I know of his character), but in this book he's like Mr. Terrific with electricity powers. I mean, he has a freakin' Batcave, complete with crazy detailed computer. I want to like Static so much, but this just isn't the Static I thought I knew. Also, I think the point when my sister got a doppelganger and no one could tell them apart would be about the point when I'd turn to my parents and say "gently caress it, as long as things are crazy, I'm a superhero."
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TwoPair posted:I wasn't reading anything with Static in it pre-reboot, but somebody tell me, was he always this unusually smart? I mean, he was a smart kid in the TV show (which is pretty much all I know of his character), but in this book he's like Mr. Terrific with electricity powers. I mean, he has a freakin' Batcave, complete with crazy detailed computer. I want to like Static so much, but this just isn't the Static I thought I knew. Fake edit: but he's not a doctor, right? Edit: gently caress, I am dumb Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at Oct 7, 2011 around 02:18 |
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Static was always a genius (hence the comparisons to Spider-Man). I can't say if the new characterization emphasizes that more or not since I've neither read the Milestone series nor the relaunch.
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I picked up the 2nd issues of OMAC, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, and JLI. They all either met or exceeded the quality of their predecessors. Action Comics and JLI in particular paid returns on the faith I invested in them after reading their respective #1s. I also picked up Huntress, and it was quite good. She's a real awesome kick-rear end vigilante chick. Very likable, very ambitious, very smart. Solid writing and solid art.
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| # ? Oct 6, 2011 07:26 |
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Are these #2s selling out as stupidly fast as the #1s did? I can't make it to a comic shop until probably Friday and am scared the Action, A-Mans, and Swamp Things will all be gone. 
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| # ? Oct 6, 2011 08:19 |
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Ominous Jazz posted:I think that it was donated. He mentions a doctor, right? Maybe Camus or Mr. Terrific. All that tech was given to him by Hardware, who is in fact super rich and a genius. It's explicitly stated in the first issue.
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Evil Sagan posted:I picked up the 2nd issues of OMAC, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, and JLI. They all either met or exceeded the quality of their predecessors. Action Comics and JLI in particular paid returns on the faith I invested in them after reading their respective #1s. I'm interested in finding out what people like about OMAC. I gave the second issue a shot and it's really coming off as a less interesting Hulk type story.
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Soonmot posted:I'm interested in finding out what people like about OMAC. I gave the second issue a shot and it's really coming off as a less interesting Hulk type story. I'm buying it but purely for the Giffen art. I've always liked his art but when he's doing his Kirby riff I absolutely love it. It's not necessarily a book I read, just one I really like to look at.
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Skunk Ape posted:Are these #2s selling out as stupidly fast as the #1s did? I can't make it to a comic shop until probably Friday and am scared the Action, A-Mans, and Swamp Things will all be gone. My local store was sold out of all of those by lunch on Wednesday. Why don't you set up a pull list at your store to ensure you get them?
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| # ? Oct 6, 2011 10:42 |
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Because pull lists are for comic book nerds! ...oh. Oh no!
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Animal Man continues to be the number one book for me. Such an air of menace. Just to make sure I have it right - on that last page, the Hunters Three eat the zookeepers and immediately assume their forms, right?
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SynthOrange posted:Because pull lists are for comic book nerds! Welcome to the world of comic book nerddom. It's not so bad. Actually, new blood in comic shops is probably gonna make some owners happy, some of the more traditional nerds are apparently very annoying: http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com/
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Skunk Ape posted:Are these #2s selling out as stupidly fast as the #1s did? I can't make it to a comic shop until probably Friday and am scared the Action, A-Mans, and Swamp Things will all be gone. Quite a few are but most stores have adjusted their orders to avoid the massive sell outs.
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Rhyno posted:Quite a few are but most stores have adjusted their orders to avoid the massive sell outs. Have the reprints been selling out too?
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Joe Don Baker posted:Have the reprints been selling out too? Action, Batgirl and Detective are going to 3rd printings, Justice League to a 4th. There's a few other 3rd printings on the way but I can't remember which for the life of me. At this point pretty much every #1 is getting a second printing.
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Rhyno posted:Action, Batgirl and Detective are going to 3rd printings, Justice League to a 4th. There's a few other 3rd printings on the way but I can't remember which for the life of me. At this point pretty much every #1 is getting a second printing. I was more referring to your store, but that info is good too.
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Joe Don Baker posted:I was more referring to your store, but that info is good too. I've sold out of the Action 2nd printing because I push the book into everyone's hands. We still have a few of pretty much every other second print. Swamp Thing is also getting a third printing.
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I find it interesting that my local chain comic store has STACKS AND STACKS of #1s laying around. I think Action Comics #1 (first printing) had like 20-30 copies just sitting in a big pile. They also had a ton of Detective Comics, Superman, Animal Man, etc. just laying around. Everywhere else they're selling out, I hear, but my local stores apparently bought a ton of them and sold very few of them.
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I had no luck going into my local store, but Barnes and Noble had a ton of the #1s.
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Liberal Idiot posted:Wally West. Well, if there weren't any Crisis events, Wally has to be in some kind of Nightwing-esque transition between Kid Flash and Flash. Optimistically-speaking, anyway.
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It's kind of funny. In the big city I'm living in, many of the comics I wanted sold out the first day. Some I got before it was too late, others I had to wait for the shop to scrounge up more. Then I visit my parent's in their middle of nowhere town, and find all the #1s save JLA still in stock at their one and only bookstore.
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glitchwraith posted:It's kind of funny. In the big city I'm living in, many of the comics I wanted sold out the first day. Some I got before it was too late, others I had to wait for the shop to scrounge up more. Then I visit my parent's in their middle of nowhere town, and find all the #1s save JLA still in stock at their one and only bookstore. It kind of makes sense, actually. I know that in Philly, there are only about five comic book stores in a city of over a million people, so one for every two hundred thousand or so. A place in a small town is catering to a much smaller audience; even if it's the only game in town, it's not much of a game.
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Preview for The Shade #1 is up and I have absolutely no idea what's going on. Hopefully those who read his Starman series will be able to share some insight.
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Wachter posted:Just to make sure I have it right - on that last page, the Hunters Three eat the zookeepers and immediately assume their forms, right? That's how I read it, yeah. Animal Man #2 was as good as the first one. Which is to say pretty awesomely awesome. Playing house to a bunch of dead animals was brilliant, everything else was just beautifully twisted. The artwork is so good for the feel they seem to be going for with the book - it just wouldn't work half as well with any other style. Since I didn't pick up Swamp Thing last month, I'm guessing I really should for the full Red and Green story that's panning out here?
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I remember Goons calling in and leaving bad comments about my Local Comic Shop before they would even stock things on a Wednesday. I still come in every Wednesday and they have at least one "Shipping error" or claim that book doesn't come out this week. It's a hobby shop for tabletop games with comics on the side. When I came in to get Swamp Thing and Animal Man, I picked up the last of both and it was only 2:00. For a place like that to be selling out so quickly, it looks like the new DCU is moving a lot of comics, and I'm happy for them. The Red/The Green crossover between Swamp Thing and Animal Man is going to be good. I'm going to go back and buy the good stuff from both series. Embarrassingly, I've never read the origional ST/AM runs by Alan Moore or the revival by Morrison. (I'll probably get Neil's Sandman as well)
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Major Ryan posted:That's how I read it, yeah. I guess I didn't think of the art like that. I didn't like it but I guess it fits with what they're going for :P e: to elaborate a little more... I felt like it was really scratchy, I guess. I'm not really sure how to explain it. I'm just starting to get into comics so I haven't seen a wide variety but it bothered me :\ Red Robin Hood fucked around with this message at Oct 6, 2011 around 18:47 |
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There are like...four (I think?) shops in my city, pop. 1.3 million. The one closest to me hasn't sold out of anything I've wanted. The other one I sometimes visit is in the suburbs and by Wednesday night almost everything was gone. I think it's because that location has a lot of devoted patrons showing up every week for things like gaming tournaments. Those people are going to be in the store several times a month anyway, and with the buzz they're suddenly more likely to pick something up they otherwise wouldn't. The place that isn't moving product as quickly has regulars too, but people don't practically live there. I figure they're selling roughly the same amount of books but the one without stock problems is doing it in fewer transactions.
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Was Teen Titans #1 any good? I picked up Superboy (which was pretty good!) and saw they were setting him up as the villain for it.
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To go back to the Static Shock discussion from earlier, I re read #1&2 at lunch today and they allude to the sister situation when he's talking to Hardware in #1. So color me intrigued, I'll be sticking on Static for a few issues now just to see where this plot goes.
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Soonmot posted:I'm interested in finding out what people like about OMAC. I gave the second issue a shot and it's really coming off as a less interesting Hulk type story. In my case I like how big the personalities are. The style is just so aggressive in its characterization and comic camp. I AM OMAC. It's just right. I'm told that this is the influence of Jack Kirby's legacy.
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Jack Kirby: So good even Dan DiDio is competent when channeling him.
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Chaltab posted:Jack Kirby: So good even Dan DiDio is competent when channeling him. I really think it's Giffen doing the channeling. I expect Didio's contribution is incredibly minor
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Space_Butler posted:Preview for The Shade #1 is up and I have absolutely no idea what's going on. Hopefully those who read his Starman series will be able to share some insight. I don't know what the deal is with the shootout and the guy being chased, but here's the primer on Shade and the blue guy. Shade is dude from the early 1800's who somehow gained powers and with it immortality. How he got these powers is never explicitly said, but we know minor details. His powers are control over shadows, not unlike how Green Lanterns control light. He fought Jay Garrick Flash and the JSA a lot in the old days and it was later explained that because he's immortal, he feels he's above man's law. In the Starman series, it was established that Shade is really taken in by Starman's home of Opal City and will go out of his way to protect it. He was never so much a villain in the series, but more of an anti-hero, making the turn to hero the farther and farther the series went along. The Starman series was about Jack Knight, the son of the original Starman. Jack thought the whole superhero thing was a joke and that his father was wasting his mental resources by taking part in it, but ended up having to take up the mantle and over time learned to respect it all. One of the big things in the series is that "Starman" is a name that DC would toss onto a character every ten years or so, hoping to have a viable intellectual property until failing again and again. The Starman series shows that somehow every single guy to ever be named Starman is linked in some way. Anyway, Jack's story ended on a happy note with him giving the mantle to Stargirl and moving away with his girlfriend. It's a big enough deal that DC has agreed never to ever check up on him ever. His story is over. Even when they did Starman #81 for the Blackest Night tie-in, it was about the Shade with no appearance of Jack whatsoever. Also, that tie-in revealed that Shade has fallen into a relationship with a cop from the Starman series. Like I said, the series was about taking every DC Starman and bringing them into the forefront. This involved Mikaal Tomas, a "last of his kind" alien who took the name of Starman in an installment of 1st Issue Special, a comic intent on creating new characters. It ended with a cliffhanger and nobody ever followed up on it until James Robinson over 20 years later. His main power is a jewel in his chest that shoots cosmic energy. He was a major supporting character in the series and later was revealed to be gay. After the series, nobody used him until Robinson brought him back for Cry for Justice where in it, Tomas' boyfriend was killed and he cried for justice. He joined the Justice League pre-reboot and here we are.
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Gavok posted:Background I think this is going to be another book that should be allowed to do whatever it wants but is hamstrung by being in a "new" universe. Things you mentioned like Mikaal's lover having died, mentions of Congorilla, the title of Starman being a "mantle", and all of these other things are all stuff from the previous DCU but seems hard to reconcile with the post-flashpoint condensed world we're currently in. Especially since it seems like it's being written with the idea of the previous Starman series having occurred, yet Stargirl and the JSA don't exist on New Earth now, and there's not nearly as much of a sense of history since superheroes only publicly came out 5 years ago. That said, I might give this a try since The Shade sounds like a pretty badass character.
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As someone who read a good majority of Starman and loved it I will say that this Shade preview was a little rough for me. Let's hope that last panel ("hope that our conversation is the worst thing to happen this month") is a knowing nod to those pages being nothing but obligatory recap/setup silliness. Though I don't recall the Starman series ever being super meta so it could just be Shade doing his whole cryptic gentleman thing and telling Mikaal off for his stupid questions.
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Having finished my stack for the week I came away liking every book I read even more than I liked it last month, however, the only exception is Stormwatch where the issue felt even clumsier than the last one. Basically I'm at the point where until Stormwatch finds a different artist, the book is basically unreadable. What a god drat shame, the 4-5 pages that the fill-in artist did were leaps and bounds better than anything Miguel Sepulveda submitted. The book could easily find it's footing with even a half-way competent artist, but I don't expect this change considering DC gave him an exclusive contract despite the fact that almost everyone considers Stormwatch to be one of the ugliest books of the reboot.
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The Savage Hawkman was my favorite out of the ones I have read so far. What was everybody else's? My favorite The Savage Hawkman I have read Green Arrow #1, #2 Demon Knights #1 Animal Man #1, #2 I, Vampire #1 Black Hawks #1 Red Robin Hood fucked around with this message at Oct 7, 2011 around 03:38 |
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Red Robin Hood posted:The Savage Hawkman was my favorite out of the ones I have ready so far. What was everybody else's? You should read Action Comics, Batman, Swamp Thing, Batman & Robin, Voodoo and Aquaman.
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Rhyno posted:You should read Action Comics, Batman, Swamp Thing, Batman & Robin, Voodoo and Aquaman. And Wonder Woman!!
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