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I need more, and I don't know where my trade paperbacks are. Just another page or two, please?
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flosofl posted:Huh. Worked fine on iOS Awful app. Yeah, it's mobile browsers they don't work properly on. You have to tap the image to unspoiler, but also tap the image to expand/retract, and the latter takes priority. Including some spoilered text to tap on works pretty well too.
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Avulsion posted:
Is this the comic (probably just the page before this) where the whole plot is revealed by the character whose "power" is synesthesia?
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CzarChasm posted:Is this the comic (probably just the page before this) where the whole plot is revealed by the character whose "power" is synesthesia? Yes. I think it involves perfume and music.
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prefect posted:Yes. I think it involves perfume and music. To be fair, I think she's a psychic (with synesthesia).
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CzarChasm posted:Is this the comic (probably just the page before this) where the whole plot is revealed by the character whose "power" is synesthesia? I think it is pretty much the page before this, yes. In fairness I thought it worked in context of the comic. It didnt come out of nowhere or anything.
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prefect posted:Yes. I think it involves perfume and music. And a pun! She hears Beethoven's Ode to Joy, but she smells the Commissioner's perfume, Eau de Joy
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GrandpaPants posted:And a pun! That's right -- I remembered the first half, but not the second. drat, that Alan Moore can write a good comic book. 
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Top Ten is a great comic both in it's general writing, and in the entire setting itself--a procedural police department in a city where everyone is some sort of "super hero"/Monster/Magical being/Whatever. I only wish we had gotten more of it (besides you know, the weird stuff Alan Moore decided to do with Jeff Smax in the back half of the series)
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Choco1980 posted:Top Ten is a great comic both in its general writing, and in the entire setting itself--a procedural police department in a city where everyone is some sort of "super hero"/Monster/Magical being/Whatever. I only wish we had gotten more of it (besides you know, the weird stuff Alan Moore decided to do with Jeff Smax in the back half of the series) There's Top Ten itself (12 issues) and the Smax mini (5 issues) and the hardcover prequel, "The Forty-Niners" and Top Ten, Season Two (four issues, plus one special, and then it suddenly stops; written by Zander Cannon). There's also "Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct", by Paul di Filippo. It's not worth reading.
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Nov 23, 2016 03:00
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 Dont read Season Two or Beyond they are utter trash
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Ah drat. Those panels made me miss Top Ten and had me wondering whether that universe was expanded upon.
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Oh I've already read all of Top Ten. And the rest of the America's Best Comics (everything but League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place in the same world/universe, btw) except for the more recent Tom Strong stuff made in the last 6 years. Anyone know if those two miniseries were any good?
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Beyond was trash, yes. What did you dislike about Season Two?
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Parahexavoctal posted:Beyond was trash, yes. What did you dislike about Season Two? Obviously I cant speak for Synthbuttrange, but I mainly remember Season Two just not being a particularly great comic. Nothing terrible enough to be noteworthy, just not that good either. Admittedly, following Alan Moore writing characters he created was always going to be tough, even if you were their co-creator. I've been meaning to reread what was published of Season Two to see if it is as mediocre as I thought at the time or if it was coloured by "These characters were better written when Alan Moore was writing them", particularly as Top Ten is pretty much my favourite thing that Moore has ever written, and pretty much got me back into comics after a long break. As it stands from my vague memory, I wouldnt tell people to avoid them, but equally I wouldnt tell anyone to spend any particular effort obtaining them.
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Y'all are wrong; Season Two rules; Zander Cannon is the poo poo
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So are the Smax mini and the Forty-Niners good?
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Both the Smax mini and the Forty-Niners are excellent. The Smax mini is very different from most of Top Ten, however, because it goes back to Smax's origins which are as much of a pastiche take on fairy tales as Top Ten is of cape-and-mask stories. As a result it gets a little... weird at times, but it's still good.
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Redeye Flight posted:Both the Smax mini and the Forty-Niners are excellent. The Smax mini is very different from most of Top Ten, however, because it goes back to Smax's origins which are as much of a pastiche take on fairy tales as Top Ten is of cape-and-mask stories. As a result it gets a little... weird at times, but it's still good. Smax marries his sister and everyone is okay with it because of cultural relativism. Let that determine if you want to read it or not.
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The whole reason why Jeff Smax plays the silent badass loner character in Top Ten is so people won't find out he's really just a dumb hick from some backwater magical kingdom.
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Also he fought a dragon once: SMAX spoilers:      
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I'm gonna need some context for what makes those panels badass. Because it looks like 'hero tries to rescue princess, fails so utterly and instantly that the dragon doesn't even bother to harm him, and runs away so fast he winds up in a different genre'.
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Nov 29, 2016 07:55
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That dragon is such a terrifying character.
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I was thinking it was all some uh space RP video game, and he pretty much said gently caress it after he failed the quest.
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FredMSloniker posted:I'm gonna need some context for what makes those panels badass. Because it looks like 'hero tries to rescue princess, fails so utterly and instantly that the dragon doesn't even bother to harm him, and runs away so fast he winds up in a different genre'. That's pretty much exactly what happened, except he's invulnerable. The dragon is bad, and an rear end.
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RiotGearEpsilon posted:That dragon is such a terrifying character. It really really is. Its shape hurts my head, and it seems to have complete, effortless control over time and space. And all it uses it for is cruelty and entertainment.
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Choco1980 posted:It really really is. Its shape hurts my head, and it seems to have complete, effortless control over time and space. And all it uses it for is cruelty and entertainment. Great design there. His beard resembles a certain category of fractal curve
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FredMSloniker posted:I'm gonna need some context for what makes those panels badass. Because it looks like 'hero tries to rescue princess, fails so utterly and instantly that the dragon doesn't even bother to harm him, and runs away so fast he winds up in a different genre'. I had to look it up myself, but it's basically his origin story I guess " Smax originally hailed from a land based on fantasy myth and fairy tale legends, but had left after a horrifying failure during his career as a dragon slayer." I should probably get around to reading top 10
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Bohemian Nights posted:I had to look it up myself, but it's basically his origin story I guess " Smax originally hailed from a land based on fantasy myth and fairy tale legends, but had left after a horrifying failure during his career as a dragon slayer." It also shows where that white handprint on his chest came from. I don't think there had been any foreshadowing just how sad a story it was.
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redbackground posted:It also shows where that white handprint on his chest came from. I don't think there had been any foreshadowing just how sad a story it was. Yeah, I had assumed it was part of his super beam-shooting power, but now it's less badass and more depressing.
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redbackground posted:It also shows where that white handprint on his chest came from. I don't think there had been any foreshadowing just how sad a story it was. Not how tragic, but there was definitely some foreshadowing about how bitter he was about where he came from. There's obviously the singing sword in one scene of Top 10, then there was a short conversation he had with his partner about how dragons and magic and all that was poo poo. Nevvy Z posted:Why didn't he kill it? I imagine he was just incredibly demoralized about failing to be a hero.
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The only thing I didn't like about Smax's dragon is that don't they pretty much just blow him up in a fairly mundane gas explosion?
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Thanks, thread, for making me read all there yet is of Kill Six Billion Demons in one day. Not sure if I empathize with YISUN's views or not.
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Bobulus posted:The only thing I didn't like about Smax's dragon is that don't they pretty much just blow him up in a fairly mundane gas explosion? IIRC it is a fusion or nuclear something something
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Bobulus posted:The only thing I didn't like about Smax's dragon is that don't they pretty much just blow him up in a fairly mundane gas explosion? It's a bit more complicated than that (spoilers, obvs)
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Very Discworld-y, that.
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Ditch posted:Okay now that's badass Everything involving that dragon is really, just very little of it being the good guys.
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Mousepractice posted:
My first thought on seeing that panel was that it was a very Alan Moore-ish sort of pose and way of looking, not to mention the way the "mustache/beard" frames the mouth. Made a certain amount of sense that such an omniscient character might be portrayed as a projection of an author's darker impulses.
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