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Teaser for a new Charles Soule and Scott Snyder co-written series for Image.
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Jul 4, 2019 19:32
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Teenage Fansub posted:Teaser for a new Charles Soule and Scott Snyder co-written series for Image. Plot twist: It turns out the rest of the world got along just fine without America.
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Jul 4, 2019 19:47
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not looking forward to discovering that the us only managed to seal itself off by sending half of the country to death camps so they wouldnt revolt
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Jul 4, 2019 20:07
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Well that's a pretty lazy sci-fi trope to try and dissect American culture by region. I'm still gonna read it though.
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Jul 4, 2019 22:47
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MrFlibble posted:I am way behind on IDW TMNT but given their track record I fully expect this to work and seem completely natural. It is
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Jul 5, 2019 06:45
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hm is it an expedition into the world or into america
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Jul 5, 2019 06:56
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On re-read I can't tell. The image is the outside looking in, so I assumed it was the rest of the world seeing what had happened to the US due to the visual. As for Venus, she was added long after I stopped watching (was she show before comics? I have actually no idea). Seemed a silly addition among other silly additions designed to sell toys, but no strong opinions.
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Jul 5, 2019 07:06
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Andrigaar posted:On re-read I can't tell. The image is the outside looking in, so I assumed it was the rest of the world seeing what had happened to the US due to the visual. Venus was created for the fox show. The one that crossover with the power rangers
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Jul 5, 2019 07:42
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I was a little kid at the time (like, really small, and even then it was re-runs I think?) but I liked Venus. Her whole thing was that she'd trained under Splinter's mystic pen pal and learned shinobi magic, and I thought it was cool that there was a) a girl turtle and b) a magic turtle. In retrospect, though, her character design was really awful. The fact that she has weird shell boobs is just very silly.
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Jul 5, 2019 09:29
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bobkatt013 posted:It is Fantastic. I really should catch up, but I want to do a big Usagi Yojimbo* reread before (and I also want to do a marathon of a regular book series and rewatch all of Justified so i'm sure i'll squeeze it in somewhere). Android Blues posted:I was a little kid at the time (like, really small, and even then it was re-runs I think?) but I liked Venus. Her whole thing was that she'd trained under Splinter's mystic pen pal and learned shinobi magic, and I thought it was cool that there was a) a girl turtle and b) a magic turtle. In retrospect, though, her character design was really awful. The fact that she has weird shell boobs is just very silly. The only thing I know is that they stressed hard that the tmnt aren't biologically family (so that Venus could be a potential love interest to one of them) and that shinobi is literally japanese for ninja and thats kind of funny, *Everyone should read Usagi Yojimbo. There's a new number 1 out thats a fantastic jumping on point. Go do that.
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Jul 5, 2019 21:31
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MrFlibble posted:shinobi is literally japanese for ninja and thats kind of funny, It's specifically Japanese for male ninja. The appropriate word for Venus would have been "kunoichi," or just... ninja, since shinobi and kunoichi refer to specific genders of ninja.
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Jul 6, 2019 03:07
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MrFlibble posted:Fantastic. I really should catch up, but I want to do a big Usagi Yojimbo* reread before (and I also want to do a marathon of a regular book series and rewatch all of Justified so i'm sure i'll squeeze it in somewhere). Everyone should also read the turtles/usagi crossovers
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Jul 6, 2019 06:40
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drat I just picked up the 2019 Peter Cannon Thunderbolt book. It's really really good if you're a horrible comic nerd. 
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Jul 8, 2019 12:22
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Am I allowed to do a rundown with the pages for a comic? I wasn't sure what the rules are on doing 'storytime' things here. I ask because I've been mulling over this thing i've had in my collection for years and I had scanned last year because I was kind of amazed by the sheer oddity of it. I'm curious if anyone would be at all interested in a run-down of it (especially since the company is long gone and I don't think it's ever going to see the light of day otherwise.)  It also has a reverse side issue on it too. 
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Jul 10, 2019 08:25
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I'd run it by the mods in BSS Chat first, but the rule when I did my Unfunnies thread was "you can post pages/panels but not full issues."
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Jul 10, 2019 23:48
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That's been the general rule with exceptions for like newspaper strips and webcomics and public domain poo poo.
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Jul 11, 2019 00:31
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Where’s my next Uber Invasion issue, Gillen???
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Jul 11, 2019 00:37
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seriously. i get that die is the new big thing but the last issue was in october and at that time he said there were only 4 issues left. just finish it up already
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Jul 11, 2019 00:46
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site posted:seriously. i get that die is the new big thing but the last issue was in october and at that time he said there were only 4 issues left. just finish it up already I think there's probably something, to use the vernacular, deeply hosed behind the scenes at Avatar. I can't remember the last time I saw a new book from them that wasn't something from the Boundless imprint, which is all deeply unsexy porn starring characters from the '90s. It might not be Gillen's fault here. Edit: actually, I lied. Pat Shand brought back Stitched a couple of weeks ago, of all things, and even it had an explicit lesbian sex scene out of nowhere. It may just be that Uber is insufficiently pornographic for the new era at Avatar.
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Jul 11, 2019 01:27
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The new Heavy Metal?
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Jul 11, 2019 04:24
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The Black Hammer/Justice League crossover started fine. It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
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Jul 11, 2019 04:27
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Yeah Kieron was having a lot of issues with Avatar and is trying to get the rights back while both he and the artist are doing other gigs too. 
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Jul 11, 2019 04:46
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Well yeah that’s one way of ending a series. I can’t say I liked it but the very end of it was nice and hopeful. I’m happy Carl ended with Sophia. Also nice that Lydia is still around and on friendly terms. Michonne as the high court was nice balance to Maggie’s presidency but the issue’s plot of Maggie’s kid being a circus dude keeping the dead as a show was.... odd. I can see what they were going for (the dead are such an afterthought that people find macabre entertainment in it) but to treat them as property and stick the law against Carl loving Grimes over some zombies to the point Michonne had to step in? God drat I get things are lax but they don’t have to go that far. It also betrays the story somewhat that the dead are no longer a threat when everyone is still infected and if someone dies from an accident they’ll come back as a zombie within the community and it could cause trouble. I appreciated the nod to some characters but not seeing Negan react to Rick’s death was a loss to the book. It's pretty established that you have a bit of time before someone reanimates, so plenty of chances to brain them. The zombies are only dangerous in numbers, or if someone is unprepared. Its probably second nature to stick something in someone's forehead if something goes wrong by the time of the time skip, especially if the next generation are raised to deal with them. And worse case scenerio, it's easy to deal with a few zombies/bites than the massive hoardes that were roaming pre-cull.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:01
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Is this where League of Extraordinary Gentlemen chat goes because #6 of Part 4 just ended and it's dumb as poo poo.
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Jul 18, 2019 22:22
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Giant Days won two Eisners, one of them for continuing series, which Immortal Hulk was also nominated for. Hopefully this means there's some sort of new series coming after it ends.
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Jul 20, 2019 16:15
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Teenage Fansub posted:Teaser for a new Charles Soule and Scott Snyder co-written series for Image. So, America is not a self-sufficient nation. It relies heavily on trade to survive. Including immigration, if you accept the dehumanizing and somewhat immoral concept of human capital. It doesn't produce enough energy to fuel itself without foreign assistance. It produces a lot of food, but not enough to keep its industries afloat. It doesn't have enough unskilled workers to man all of the most vital jobs, hence the need for immigration. This isn't even getting into its military industrial complex requiring foreign steel and oil nor its people, while xenophobic, not culturally capable of accepting such severe isolationist policies and likely working hard to have them reversed quickly. Hell, the economy would collapse as many of its largest corporations are technically headquartered in Ireland as a tax dodge. If America were to somehow seal itself off in an isolationist stance, it'd be dead in a couple of months.
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Jul 20, 2019 16:25
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Covok posted:So, America is not a self-sufficient nation. It relies heavily on trade to survive. Including immigration, if you accept the dehumanizing and somewhat immoral concept of human capital. It doesn't produce enough energy to fuel itself without foreign assistance. It produces a lot of food, but not enough to keep its industries afloat. It doesn't have enough unskilled workers to man all of the most vital jobs, hence the need for immigration. This isn't even getting into its military industrial complex requiring foreign steel and oil nor its people, while xenophobic, not culturally capable of accepting such severe isolationist policies and likely working hard to have them reversed quickly. Hell, the economy would collapse as many of its largest corporations are technically headquartered in Ireland as a tax dodge. If America were to somehow seal itself off in an isolationist stance, it'd be dead in a couple of months. Also spontaneous mutation in mankind wouldn't lead to the manifestation of such ridiculous powers as "ice generation" or "laser eyes".
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Jul 20, 2019 16:48
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 Anyway, SDCC is apparently close to over now. Any word on what this comic is actually about or from which perspective(s) it's told?
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Jul 21, 2019 02:34
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Andrigaar posted:
There's a whole nother day left
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Jul 21, 2019 03:07
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Yea, but I don't recall anything of worth on Sunday the times I went. It was a half-day to hit the exhibition floor and buy things.
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Jul 21, 2019 07:46
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All I did was Google for "Soule Snyder comic" and found more info right away. https://www.cbr.com/snyder-soule-camuncoli-image-undiscovered-country/ Giant fish monsters and "techno-zombies" don't get my hopes up, but the rest sounds cool.
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Jul 21, 2019 13:41
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Looks like Paper Girls ends in a week. I only have the trades on Comixology, so I'll be 5 issues behind when that lands.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:41
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The final issue of A Walk Through Hell was a little anti-climactic - although I did practically leap out of my seat at the page where Shaw faces down the Anti-Christ with a handgun after he's just spent most of the issue pontificating to her about how he is the inevitable manifestation of humanity's dark fate, etc etc. One thing I didn't understand: that page being directly followed by Carnahan walking out of the warehouse. I guess the implication is that the Satanic conspiracy in the FBI runs so deep that some of the authorities on-site instantly recognise him, and know that this is them reaping the fruit of their labours?
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Jul 25, 2019 10:04
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Well now I want to read A Walk Through Hell. I'm a sucker for a biblical story.
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Jul 25, 2019 16:11
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Android Blues posted:One thing I didn't understand: that page being directly followed by Carnahan walking out of the warehouse. I guess the implication is that the Satanic conspiracy in the FBI runs so deep that some of the authorities on-site instantly recognise him, and know that this is them reaping the fruit of their labours? My take on it was that he was exerting his power to make them let him go, the same way he did with the SWAT team in issue #1.
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Jul 25, 2019 17:00
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So I was just looking at the Image solicits for September because I never did, and I was hoping October's was going to be out. Holy poo poo, Trees is coming back? And it's a 5 part series so it might actually finish? I'm going to have to check if I'm still subbed to that one. Battlepug is getting an ongoing?! Sure, I like dumb fun, why not? And then my question for the thread is they also solicited Walking Dead vol 16 hardcover. That only goes up to 192, and volume 4 of the Compendium goes to 193. Didn't that series just finish at 196? I guess I'm screwed for volume 17, unless half the book is interviews, sketches, and some poo poo.
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Jul 25, 2019 17:47
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lifg posted:Well now I want to read A Walk Through Hell. I'm a sucker for a biblical story. It's real good, even if the ending is a little bit subdued. So much great stuff on the way there.
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Jul 25, 2019 19:43
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Xelkelvos posted:Is this where League of Extraordinary Gentlemen chat goes because #6 of Part 4 just ended and it's dumb as poo poo. I kind of liked it being an homage to 2000AD. And the Planet of the Apes vs. Terminator setup. To be honest, the weirdest part of it for me was having Lara Croft appear in the final page's 1960s Doctor Who homage.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:37
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IUG posted:Holy poo poo, Trees is coming back? And it's a 5 part series so it might actually finish? I'm going to have to check if I'm still subbed to that one. Yeah, Ellis mentioned in his newsletter a year ago that he rewrote a big part of the 3rd book and was then waiting on Howard for the art and Image Comics for the distribution. Glad it panned out, I really like that series.
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I’m a bit behind on this but Assassin Nation and Clue Candlestick are fantastic. Highly recommend picking both up if you haven’t yet. The former will get a trade soon, not sure about Clue though. Dash Shaw is so good though that I think looking for the floppies themselves is worth it.
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