Endless Mike posted:

RIP The Jokester

Rhyno posted:

Yeah, digital does feel like a huge ripoff.

X-O posted:

Digital is the best. I don't have to worry about where I'm going to put a book when I'm done because single issues are the worst unless you're a collector. I'm a reader, I don't give a poo poo about the collecting aspect of comics.

CapnAndy posted:

I can put as many comics on my iPad as I want and it stays the same size, weighs the same, and I can carry literally all my comics all the time because I have one magic screen that is all the media I own all the time, on command, and it glows in the dark so I can read it in bed easier.

I went digital and never looked back.

Teenage Fansub posted:

If I had to go to the shop and get floppies every Wednesday, the reality of how many comics I buy would certainly hit me in a way clicking the 'yup' button in a browser doesn't.

Teenage Fansub posted:

1-3 comics. You're funny.

zoux posted:

I wonder if there are people out there, not in the industry, who have read everything one (or both!!!) of the big 2 has ever put out.

zoux posted:

When I first was big into Marvel U and was just reading tons and tons of books I thought I'd try a heroic read of all the X-men mainline comics. Marvel U is missing a ton of those in the 70s-90s but it didn't matter because I never made it past five books of the original run. That old comic dialogue is to painful to actually read.

Toxxupation posted:

Marvel Unlimited's missing a lot.

DrProsek posted:

I'm torn between being impressed with that level of completionism, and confused why someone would do that. It just sounds like that's going to lead to reading a lot of books he doesn't like and have no impact on the DC books he does like, purely because "they're DC, gotta know what's going on in Doomed".

Same thing with the Marvel guy.

Toxxupation posted:

God having just finished The Clown at Midnight there's only one time Morrison actually utilizes the fact that it's prose in a way that's effective or necessitates the form and that's the whole "Joker deciding what personality he wants to be" bit, which could've itself been done with him staring in a mirror or something and it runs through all the various faces he's had. Everything else about the issue felt like what you'd find if you searched for "Batman noir" on fanfiction.net. And it doesn't even end. Like that's the most insulting part. Thousands and thousands of words and it doesn't have a conclusion that feels satisfactory or earned.

What an annoying, annoying issue.

bobkatt013 posted:

So you dropped it right after Batman and son arc, before the comic began to really become good?

boom boom boom posted:

Is Marvel Unlimited any good? It says it has more than 17,000 comics, but is that just comics they don't think they can sell independently?

Toxxupation posted:

It felt like the storytelling was too all over the place, where it just bounced from setting to setting with no real explanation. It felt overly complicated.

My biggest issues were with what a Mother Box actually, you know, was, who the gently caress Mandrakk was and why he was suddenly the most important villain, and what the exact point of the whole "man is given the gift of fire" sequences were. Was it just to set up the Batman ending or what?

I mean, I liked Final Crisis, don't get me wrong. Like the whole Batman shooting and killing Darkseid bit was powerful and it makes sense that Darkseid would hate music. It just felt...kinda smug about how clever it was, I guess?


Yeah I just read that run, it helped. I'm following this guide.


Issues.

Teenage Fansub posted:

FC doesn't really have much to do with the previous Crisises. Not like Infinite's link to COIE.

Idran posted:

I can understand if people were saying that something was only good with annotations, that's a mark of a bad story, but what's wrong with something being better with annotations? That's what they're for. Like, Through The Looking Glass is great, but Through The Looking Glass with Martin Gardner's annotations alongside is even better.

Edit: Oh wait, or do you mean it's not actually better with annotations in your view?

CapnAndy posted:

That mini was written after Identity Crisis and either after Infinite Crisis or with full knowledge of what happened in it, I forget. All the jokes (in addition to Sue constantly being mistaken for pregnant, there's a bit where Max threatens to shoot Beetle in the head) are 100% intentional.

Idran posted:

CharlestheHammer posted:

80s Boom Boom owns tho.

Rhyno posted:

No because Lee insists they will finish the book someday.

Toxxupation posted:

Is world war hulk good?

Sentinel Red posted:

I'm too gutted and angry to care about comic books right now. It's a victory for ignorance, fear, and stupidity, and the ones who will feel it the most are the ones who loving voted for it.

Scotland, London, Norn Iron, Liverpool and Newcastle are cool, burn down the rest.

I mean, Wales! loving WALES! It's gotten more from the EU than it's ever put in, they've funded regeneration programmes while successive governments have left it (and the North) to loving rot.

Alaois posted:

and now due to a clause in their last independence referendum, Scotland can hold another vote to leave the UK since they were removed from the EU by force

WickedHate posted:

I've been having a killer headache contemplating the referendum and as much as I wanna avoid it as much as possible it's kind of frightening to think about, especially if it could be foreshadowing for November here in the US.

"Without a bullet being fired"....class act, the UKIP.

So! To answer the original question, goodbye Captain Britan, hello Captain Airstrip-One.

WickedHate posted:

I didn't worry about November until the thing everyone said wasn't going to happen across the pond happened. Thank god the New 52 is over because if the fantasy escapist world kept being as bleak as the real one we'd probably all

VagueRant posted:

I actually had to look this up, I didn't believe Farage could've really said it. Kind of a perfect political move, because his supporters will write off any criticism as political correctness and only make him more popular.

Oh wait, this isn't D&D, is it? Any comic authors respond to this yet? Ton of Brits out there.

Squizzle posted:

Binge watch BTAS.

Rhyno posted:

So you're paying $9 more a year to NOT get free shipping?

Rhyno posted:

Sounds like you should fix that and save yourself $9.

CapnAndy posted:

When you are in a store and see something you want, check it on Amazon first because about 95% of the time it's cheaper and you can just push a button and have it in two days.

X-O posted:

Or better yet, you don't actually have to go to a store after getting off work in traffic. You can save yourself time and frustration by just waiting a day or two. Amazon Prime is the best.

Skwirl posted:

People who can't manage a 50 dollar splurge once a year probably shouldn't be spending 9 bucks a month on an Internet streaming service.

Skwirl posted:

Prime is 100 bucks? That's pretty minor savings versus the month to month model, never mind what I said. I think I just misread other people's comments about the yearly service and made bad back of the napkin math.

I wasn't trying to say that poor people don't deserve enjoyment, and just that they shouldn't pay twice as much for it, same reason no one should ever rent furniture unless it's for a specific event or very short term.

WickedHate posted:

Aw, that's great man. I vote show binging. I've still got like, a million things to catch up on.

WickedHate posted:

Luckily I already watched the manga so i can just enjoy gifs of JoJo on tumblr, but I need to get on the latest episodes of Space Patrol Luluco and Preacher, and I'm a whole season down on Concrete Revolutio.

The last show I really managed to follow along with as it was airing was season 2 of Better Call Saul, which was...disappointing, if I'm being honest.

Gaz-L posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5mOT57ghM