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CapnAndy posted:On a slightly less depressing topic than dying pets: There was some parts I liked, like Chuck making fun of the people who are way to into fight club 1. But it is overall garbage and I assumed it was selling like garbage and people were hating it. I was like the only person buying it at my shop but at my friends shop like 4 blocks away they claimed they couldn't keep it on the shelf so gently caress if I know. And people online seem to like it everywhere but here. I kinda hated this comic
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CapnAndy posted:On a slightly less depressing topic than dying pets: We sold 150 copies of #1. About 80 copies of #2. #3 plummeted to 30 copies sold. #10 sold 6 copies so far.
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Rhyno posted:We sold 150 copies of #1. About 80 copies of #2. #3 plummeted to 30 copies sold. #10 sold 6 copies so far. How'd BP sell today?
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zoux posted:How'd BP sell today? Really well. The head of African studies at the in town university came in and bought one of each of the variants I had and 15 copies of the standard cover to give out to his TAs and best students. I tried to sell him all standard covers but he insisted on the variants.
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Rhyno posted:Really well. The head of African studies at the in town university came in and bought one of each of the variants I had and 15 copies of the standard cover to give out to his TAs and best students. I tried to sell him all standard covers but he insisted on the variants. Yeah, I think a lot of people who have never read a comic are gonna grab this book and I think it's great. I'd be super interested to see what an African studies prof thought of it, especially if he's well familiar with previous runs.
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zoux posted:Yeah, I think a lot of people who have never read a comic are gonna grab this book and I think it's great. I'd be super interested to see what an African studies prof thought of it, especially if he's well familiar with previous runs. He was not, he only sought it out because of who is writing it. I told him to come back and see me if he enjoys it and we'll track down as much Priest Panther as we can find.
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CapnAndy posted:It still comes in second to Love Never Dies on my "how did you miss the point of the thing you wrote that badly" list, but it's a close second. I didn't know what that was, and looking it up I found this gem. quote:The Daily Mail announced in May 2007 that the sequel would be delayed, because Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto, a rare-breed Turkish Van, climbed onto Lloyd Webber's Clavinova digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.
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Space Fish posted:Between Unfollow, Survivors' Club, and Sheriff of Babylon, this has been a great week for reading Vertigo's output. I hope their first trades do well enough to justify keeping them afloat. Bleedingcool think they're going to get an overhaul in the next few months because nothing's been selling, but hopefully that just means that everyone gets to keep their jobs and there are a couple of, like adult version legacy DC comics in the mix to get people interested. Apparently Gerard Way will do Doom Patrol and act as some kind of brand curator for the line to 'hip' it up. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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Rhyno posted:He was not, he only sought it out because of who is writing it. I told him to come back and see me if he enjoys it and we'll track down as much Priest Panther as we can find. Isn't the entire Priest run collected in 3 ultimate collections now? And I'm not sure what it would be like to read the later chunks without being familiar with Kirby and his style.
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I like Ta-Nehisi Coates a lot and really enjoyed the first installment of his Black Panther. Unfortunately, I have a minor issue - it's unrelated to the comic itself, Coates or Brian Stelfreeze and is mostly incidental and related to media coverage - is that the great older Panther comics seem to be getting lost in the conversation, when even Coates himself has namedropped Kirby, Don McGregor and Christopher Priest. I don't necessarily blame the people discussing, since Coates is an extremely talented and popular writer but it kinda sucks that there's a bit of a "finally someone good is writing this iconic character" vibe in the air in some circles, especially in light of Priest being the first black person to write him (but not to work on him - that would be Billy Graham, the artist, not the televangelist)Rhyno posted:He was not, he only sought it out because of who is writing it. I told him to come back and see me if he enjoys it and we'll track down as much Priest Panther as we can find. I'd be interested in hearing what he thinks of the McGregor Panther as well, actually.
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Reggie Hudlin did a lot of damage to the character and his bad books are what most people know of the character in the modern day, sadly. Wasn't that BET show based on his run? It makes sense that people feel like the character's "never been good" if that's all they've seen.
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Lurdiak posted:Reggie Hudlin did a lot of damage to the character and his bad books are what most people know of the character in the modern day, sadly. Wasn't that BET show based on his run? I don't remember the Hudlin run very well but isn't it a mixed bag? And I think so yeah.
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Lightning Lord posted:I don't remember the Hudlin run very well but isn't it a mixed bag? And I think so yeah. I mean it's not the worst thing ever but it was very juvenile and Panther came across like a huge rear end in a top hat most of the time.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Apparently Gerard Way will do Doom Patrol and act as some kind of brand curator for the line to 'hip' the up. Not gonna lie, Gerard Way Doom Patrol would be pretty great.
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Zachack posted:Isn't the entire Priest run collected in 3 ultimate collections now? With a 4th on the way!
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Vol.2 of the Priest run is sold out at Diamond god drat it.
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i just got all of the Priest run on Comixology. I've had the first trade for years but never read the rest. It's really, really dope so far.
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CapnAndy posted:Fight Club 2 was utter garbage from start to finish. Just wanted to put that out there. I could've told you that without picking up the book but I appreciate the confirmation
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I picked up The Authority among other things in the Christmas Comixology sale. Volume 1 was all right (I much preferred the attack of the clones and attack of the god arcs to the attack of the ALIEN RAPE CAMPS arc) but what the gently caress happened in volume 2? How did it go from that to 'it feels like I've waited my entire life to test those pulsars on live babies' and 'THE AUTHORITY IS A MULTI-CULTURAL GROUP [with only white members]'? I'm only 30 pages or so in and it's already painful. e: [after frying an entire nursery ward full of infants] 'Don't expect a hand-job from the boss just yet, Tank Man. Word from the hangar is that the little bitch's [<- referring to an infant less than a day old] energy signature is mobile and heading west.' jesus christ apparently the dude who did wanted and kick rear end started writing this comic book. this man is very strange and doesn't seem to like comic books very much. Foul Fowl fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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What happened was that the writers changed from the very talented but easily bored Warren Ellis to Mark "booby-trapped womb" Millar.
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That's funny cause last night I remembered the Authority fighting a villain who time travelled to molest one of them as a child, and realized that was so messed up and creepy (on the writer) that it still sticks in my brain. I have no idea who the writer was at that point but I'm gonna guess Millar.
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I don't really understand why he writes comic books if he's only writing them to go STRAP YOURSELF IN THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANDMA'S COMIC BOOKS. What's even the point of all this harrowing stuff happening if the book doesn't linger on it for more than a panel? Some big giant just threw a 747 full of people at the aforementioned infant child and nobody blinked an eye. Hundreds of people dead and the protagonists are busy coming up with cool quips. I'd think this was meta-satire if the writer wasn't so obviously patting himself on the back for being the guy smart enough to figure out that Superman is bullshit and why aren't babies ever killed in comic books or whateverChinaman7000 posted:That's funny cause last night I remembered the Authority fighting a villain who time travelled to molest one of them as a child, and realized that was so messed up and creepy (on the writer) that it still sticks in my brain. I have no idea who the writer was at that point but I'm gonna guess Millar. That hasn't happened yet so yeah. gently caress me.
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It's really hard to believe Mark Millar managed to write Red Son and his FF run when you read some of his other work. I don't understand why he constantly gravitates to garbage.
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i actually quite liked Millar's Authority on a recent reread, I can understand how it could be too puerile for some but it's a good trial run of his satire of pop culture/"Ugly American" types that would inform The Ultimates. Plus I can never have too much Frank Quitely in my life.
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Foul Fowl posted:Some big giant just threw a 747 full of people at the aforementioned infant child and nobody blinked an eye. Hundreds of people dead and the protagonists are busy coming up with cool quips. I'd think this was meta-satire if the writer wasn't so obviously patting himself on the back for being the guy smart enough to figure out that Superman is bullshit and why aren't babies ever killed in comic books or whatever The Authority are not good guys. They're bastards who take out even worse bastards planning on doing really heinous poo poo. It's ends justify the means, ruthless calculus, it's the Punisher on a supergroup level, you're generally not supposed to admire the way they go about things (though housing tens of thousands of refugees on the Carrier and calling out the G7 on their ineffectual poo poo was admittedly a nice touch). Also, Millar does not think Superman is bullshit, you couldn't be more wrong there if you tried.
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Sentinel Red posted:Also, Millar does not think Superman is bullshit, you couldn't be more wrong there if you tried. In all fairness, it's easy to extrapolate how Millar would be expected to feel about Superman based on The Authority. The only creator I can think of off the top of my head who legitimately hates Superman is Frank Cho.
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Liberal Idiot posted:In all fairness, it's easy to extrapolate how Millar would be expected to feel about Superman based on The Authority. The only creator I can think of off the top of my head who legitimately hates Superman is Frank Cho. That's because you can't draw Superman with huge tits.
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Liberal Idiot posted:In all fairness, it's easy to extrapolate how Millar would be expected to feel about Superman based on The Authority Then you read his Superman Adventures run, and its some of the best stuff he has written and its based off TAS.
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zoux posted:That's because you can't draw Superman with huge tits. He drew some ridiculous commission recreating the fight from the end of Dark Knight Returns with Batman delivering a monologue about how Superman is a "pussy" because he never does "whatever it takes to win." Frank Cho believes Superman is weak because he refuses to vaporize his former best friend within two seconds of encountering him. Not even Garth Ennis would say that about Superman. bobkatt013 posted:Then you read his Superman Adventures run, and its some of the best stuff he has written and its based off TAS. Yeah, it's great stuff and a lot of fun. Even Red Son comes off as extremely sympathetic to Superman despite everything.
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Millar's no stranger to shock n schlock, but his current series Huck is full of heart (hope it doesn't go too dark with its villains, hasn't yet).
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zoux posted:That's because you can't draw Superman with huge tits. They did that once and now she has her own show on CBS.
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Aphrodite posted:They did that once and now she has her own show on CBS. Supergirl is the thigh gap one, the tits one is Power Girl.
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zoux posted:That's because you can't draw Superman with huge tits.
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Liberal Idiot posted:Not even Garth Ennis would say that about Superman. Isn't Superman the one superhero Ennis really likes?
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