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I started reading the post-Zero Hour run and it's delightful. It reminds me a bit of Busiek's Avengers or Thunderbolts, just densely plotted but lightly handled comics that are more than happy to be superhero stories.
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How Wonderful! posted:I started reading the post-Zero Hour run and it's delightful. It reminds me a bit of Busiek's Avengers or Thunderbolts, just densely plotted but lightly handled comics that are more than happy to be superhero stories. It's so good. Alan Davis did some amazing covers for that era.
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Rhyno posted:It's so good. Alan Davis did some amazing covers for that era.  You're telling me. LoSH #80: this is such a good cover, and such a good condensation of the brightness and verve I'm loving about these comics.
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Mar 25, 2020 07:37
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How Wonderful! posted:
That's the very one I had in mind! My older sister had access to an enormous printer back in the day and had that made for me into a 6 foot banner. I have no idea what happened to it though.
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About 6 months ago I decided to try the Legion without any knowledge of the team. The thread recommended I just go ahead with the Threeboot and if I liked that to go back to ZH. Threeboot was fantastic.
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I fell down the Legion rabbit hole earlier this year and heartily recommend it to everyone. Does anyone know how the Threeboot got over when it was "current"? I enjoyed it as a fresh take on the concept (though not as challenging a swerve as, say, 5YL), but I'd be curious how the fanbase reacted at the time. It follows fairly close on the heels of the...Abnett? era of the ZH reboot, right?
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It was considered pretty good at the time but it didn't shock the industry with success or anything.
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Suicide Squad still rolling good and we get the start of a little arc giving Digger a chance to be competent. Amethyst seems to be explicitly trying to subvert the original setting which is a new direction, I guess.
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Mar 25, 2020 23:03
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Whatever happened to the Johns Shazam book?
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Dawgstar posted:Whatever happened to the Johns Shazam book? Art delays. It’s on issue 11
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I finally got around to reading Frank Miller's recent Superman Year One and it's really terrible!
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Rhyno posted:I finally got around to reading Frank Miller's recent Superman Year One and it's really terrible! Is the bit where he joins the loving Marines as terrible as it first sounded, or is it even worse?
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Mar 28, 2020 10:42
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Skwirl posted:Is the bit where he joins the loving Marines as terrible as it first sounded, or is it even worse? Worse! And then he's like Aquaman for some reason and bangs a mermaid.
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Mar 28, 2020 10:43
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Rhyno posted:Worse! And then he's like Aquaman for some reason and bangs a mermaid. That's actually a call back to some silver age weirdness, he had a third girlfriend beyond Lana Lang and Lois Lane that was a mermaid also with the initials L.L. I don't remember the actual name though
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Mar 28, 2020 10:50
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Skwirl posted:That's actually a call back to some silver age weirdness, he had a third girlfriend beyond Lana Lang and Lois Lane that was a mermaid also with the initials L.L. I don't remember the actual name though Lori Lemaris. But it's super fuckin weird in this mini and I hate it
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Mar 28, 2020 10:56
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Anyone else noticed that Diamond has stopped receiving product for the direct market? https://www.newsarama.com/49538-diamond-comics-distributors-ceases-receiving-products-for-distribution-due-to-coronavirus-report.html On the plus side, I might get caught up on my months-long backlog of comics to read!
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:Anyone else noticed that Diamond has stopped receiving product for the direct market? A global pandemic has disrupted the supply chains and nonessential businesses have been shut down to limit the public's exposure to the spreading virus.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:Anyone else noticed that Diamond has stopped receiving product for the direct market? Yes, there's a global pandemic. I'm glad you woke up from your coma. Your bed will be needed for COVID-19 patients.
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Thanks for pointing out the obvious. My point was simply to post that this thing, relevant to DC Comics distribution, had occurred and might be of interest.
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It's more that you posted a bit of news five days after it was reported related to the single biggest news story on the entire planet at the moment and treated it like no one had heard this crazy thing about the hobby they're passionate enough to discuss about on an internet forum. No one has brought it up in this thread because it's been talked about in pretty much every other relevant thread on this subforum and it's certainly bigger than DC.
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Man, DC doing digital releases is a pretty bold attack on the direct market. No wonder they didn't say poo poo when the entire rest of the industry was coming together in solidarity.
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Endless Mike posted:It's more that you posted a bit of news five days after it was reported related to the single biggest news story on the entire planet at the moment and treated it like no one had heard this crazy thing about the hobby they're passionate enough to discuss about on an internet forum. No one has brought it up in this thread because it's been talked about in pretty much every other relevant thread on this subforum and it's certainly bigger than DC. This is the only thread in this sub forum I follow and didn’t see it mentioned. Sorry.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Man, DC doing digital releases is a pretty bold attack on the direct market. No wonder they didn't say poo poo when the entire rest of the industry was coming together in solidarity. well they just caved in apparently
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Anyone remember the outsider from flashpoint? Lol that stupid crossover.
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Apr 9, 2020 01:41
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Mr Hootington posted:Anyone remember flashpoint? Nope cause gently caress that hack job of an "event" Goddamn this is brutally true. 
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Are there any comics where Constantine interacts with the Lucifer from Sandman and the Mike Carey series? Because it's obviously a different character from the Ennis run and a bunch of the Rebirth stuff had Vertigo and especially Sandman stuff and John Constantine interacting more with the Cape and Cowl stuff.
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Skwirl posted:Are there any comics where Constantine interacts with the Lucifer from Sandman and the Mike Carey series? Because it's obviously a different character from the Ennis run and a bunch of the Rebirth stuff had Vertigo and especially Sandman stuff and John Constantine interacting more with the Cape and Cowl stuff. Nope. Lucifer has retired and that’s why the first of the fallen was created
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Well, actually, the "current" Lucifer in DC's Vertigo Comics has recently met "Constantine" in the current (and quite good) Lucifer series by Dan Watters, most pertinently in issues 14 and 15. Now...whether or not this Lucifer is the Mike Carey Lucifer is up for debate, considering the Mike Carey Lucifer flew off to another Creation at the end of his series (spoilers!), but he's definitely intended to be the Lucifer of Vertigo Comics in most ways that matter (gave up rulership of Hell to Morpheus, buggered off, ran a piano bar with Mazikeen, etc). And whether or not this Constantine is the Constantine we know is definitely questionable, since this one was one plucked, moments before his death, out from the apocalyptic timeline where Tim Hunter became evil...but yes, technically, Lucifer and Constantine have met.  Current Vertigo continuity is...fun. Pretty much think of it as a soft reboot.
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Rhyno posted:Lori Lemaris.
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BrianWilly posted:Well, actually, the "current" Lucifer in DC's Vertigo Comics has recently met "Constantine" in the current (and quite good) Lucifer series by Dan Watters, most pertinently in issues 14 and 15. I think the continuity is probably just the book of acts but that is the sort of answer I was looking for.
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https://twitter.com/stevewmorris/status/1250439679381368832
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Didn’t the giant penny come from a story where Two Face straps Batman to it and flips it?
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Don't be foolish, it was a trophy from Batman thwarting The Penny Plunderer, whose crime symbol was PENNIES. A Two Face trophy/crime symbol would be... faces?
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Apr 15, 2020 23:12
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Ahh. You’re right. I think that was just an episode of the animated series.
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Edge & Christian posted:Don't be foolish, it was a trophy from Batman thwarting The Penny Plunderer, whose crime symbol was PENNIES. A Two Face trophy/crime symbol would be... faces? If ever there was a villain in need of a gritty reboot
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Madkal posted:If ever there was a villain in need of a gritty reboot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aM_dT5VMI
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I'm more familiar with the gritty aughts reboot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0wWvyJz9VI
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DC Rebirth Penny Plunderer will have his origin modeled after another one of Batman's greatest rogues: "Wanna know how I got these pennies?"
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