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bobjr posted:My favorite Bleach moment was when Kubo announced the year of Chad then never had Chad really show up or do anything depending on when in bleach's publication this was, "not appearing in Bleach" may have been the best thing to happen to him
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Reading Bleach and making GBS threads on it in the bleach thread in adtrw was very fun. it's not like the average bleach took more than a minute to read since nothing happened and everything was just white backgrounds
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Alaois posted:man, remember Bleach. Considering the fact that working on the manga was literally killing him, I somehow doubt he was using it as a meal ticket.
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Aug 12, 2020 06:28
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Kay Kessler posted:Considering the fact that working on the manga was literally killing him, I somehow doubt he was using it as a meal ticket. how what the gently caress
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the pacing in the anime was so bad that when aizen pulled out the big “I planned the whole plot of the series” reveal in the anime it then went into a multi-episode clip reel going through basically the entirety of the show with occasional shots of Aizen sitting in a chair watching it on a tv screen the pacing in the manga wasn’t even good to begin with
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https://twitter.com/AshitanoGin/status/1034833921396101120 The manga industry is seriously hosed up EDIT: Near the end of the bleach run he also missed a lot of cons because of "bad colds". I don't know if he ever talked about what he actually had publicly but drawing a weekly manga series for 15 years will gently caress just about anyone's health up seriously
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Nuns with Guns posted:Grant Morrison's Batman run continued even after DC editorial was compelled by some higher corporate authority to reset the DC universe with the nu52. Him and Geoff John's Green Lantern were specifically in some nega zone where nobody could tell how much of the prior series were still canon because the assumed timeline had compressed so far down. It was bad, but that was totally because of bizarre corporate fuckery on an unpredictable level nobody had time to plan for. And that's the issue in a nutshell, isn't it? If a character isn't Hal Jordan or Wolverine, they don't matter and their stories don't matter. You can argue about who is and isn't a legitimate character or you can argue about sales, but this is a legitimate issue that pisses people off, and makes them give up on superhero comics.
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Aug 12, 2020 06:43
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Yeah Kubo was having a ton of health issues from stress and overwork during the later parts of Bleach. An oft told untruth is that Bleach was canceled but according to an interview Kubo gave after it ended that wasn't the case: he decided to wrap it up early because of all of his health issues and ended it with the blessing of WSJ. He even apparently gave them a year's notice, which health problems aside makes the incredibly dogshit pacing of the last 50 chapters even funnier.
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I can enjoy BLEACH on a superficial level. BLEACH is cool. But it is only "cool". There's no depth to it. No nuance in the storytelling. Just Tite Kubo throwing fuckin whatever into the story and hoping it works. All BLEACH has to offer is cool anime people with cool powers doing cool fights with cool music. Nothing else. Textbook style over substance. It's probably more fun to watch the AMVs people make of it then actually watch the whole show but I can still enjoy it despite the extremely frustrating deus ex machinas and endless new characters being introduced.IronicDongz posted:there's an actual difference between living people and spirits and death means something(the spirit world being full of 'spirits' who all eat and breath and die and are essentially just regular humans, just in fantasy feudal japan, sucks really bad) Yeah the story and the lore/world are hosed up tho. This is actually one of my biggest pet peeves in fiction. When the afterlife is pretty much just "life 2.0". If people can still die, then they're still mortal then its not even really an afterlife? It's such a boring and lazy way to portray the afterlife. So much fiction does this. DOOM does this too. The demons are functionally just aliens. They're flesh and blood creatures you can kill with bullets and rockets. Imagine all the interesting stuff you could do if you took the concept of the afterlife seriously. Like how weird and different would it be existing not as a flesh and blood person but a soul? A spiritual body with no bones? What would a society where everyone lives forever look like? How would a war where every soldier on both sides is immortal be fought? The possibilites are endless. Ive always wanted to make a video game exploring this concept sooooo uh original idea do not steal.
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Jamie Faith posted:I can enjoy BLEACH on a superficial level. BLEACH is cool. But it is only "cool". There's no depth to it. No nuance in the storytelling. Just Tite Kubo throwing fuckin whatever into the story and hoping it works. All BLEACH has to offer is cool anime people with cool powers doing cool fights with cool music. Nothing else. Textbook style over substance. It's probably more fun to watch the AMVs people make of it then actually watch the whole show but I can still enjoy it despite the extremely frustrating deus ex machinas and endless new characters being introduced. Grim Fandango sounds like it would be right up your alley.
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TheFlyingLlama posted:The manga industry is seriously hosed up I remember some article recently mentioning how One Piece's author because he's so buried in his work just outright lives separately from his wife and children and gets to see them once a week at most If that guy of all people can't leverage his success into decent work-life balance what hope does anyone in that industry have
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Clip-On Fedora posted:And that's the issue in a nutshell, isn't it? If a character isn't Hal Jordan or Wolverine, they don't matter and their stories don't matter. You can argue about who is and isn't a legitimate character or you can argue about sales, but this is a legitimate issue that pisses people off, and makes them give up on superhero comics. i will say i've given up on more video games than comic books due to this issue so it's not something unique to superhero comics either
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Grim Fandango sounds like it would be right up your alley. Ooh I've never played Grim Fandango before but I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the rec! 
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bobjr posted:My favorite Bleach moment was when Kubo announced the year of Chad then never had Chad really show up or do anything The Virgin Chad vs the Chad Ichigo
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Endorph posted:jojos is isnanely easy to get into though. you read it. thats easy. It also has quite a few decent jumping on points unlike some long running manga.
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This is a weird personal take thing but the idea that comic book characters like batman will be around until I die sorta puts me off ever getting involved with them, there's an appeal in knowing that you can engage with an idea or a character and then be properly done with it.Jamie Faith posted:Imagine all the interesting stuff you could do if you took the concept of the afterlife seriously. Like how weird and different would it be existing not as a flesh and blood person but a soul? A spiritual body with no bones? What would a society where everyone lives forever look like? How would a war where every soldier on both sides is immortal be fought? The possibilites are endless. I've not gotten really far into it, but I've heard Planescape Torment fucks around in this space a bit.
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Bleach is marvelous because you just cannot look away despite the inane and downright bizarre plot development that happens before you. The characters are (mostly) fun enough to keep me engaged. I will say the start of his final arc showed a lot of promise. But somewhere around the halfway point it changed back into badly paced endless fighting. Looking above, I think that must have been the point where Kubo got literally sick of it. (But he really should not have given us 3 volume long fights then. His boss rush arc was even more padded than Shaman Kings)
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Roth posted:Bleach is great because there's a part where Kenpachi gets a power up by using Kendo His second powerup was being killed over and over until he realised he could finally go all out. After which he kills his opponent, who's power is anything they imagine becoming real, because when they imagined they were stronger than Kenpachi their body couldn't take it and they just died. They he got knocked out so the Protagonist could show up and I refuse to read any further.
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Mokinokaro posted:It also has quite a few decent jumping on points unlike some long running manga.
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Seemlar posted:I remember some article recently mentioning how One Piece's author because he's so buried in his work just outright lives separately from his wife and children and gets to see them once a week at most the manga industry (and most if not all other creative industries) self-select for a work ethic that is indistinguishable from mental illness
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How come they don't mirror mangos reading them backwards sucks especially physically.
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Clip-On Fedora posted:And that's the issue in a nutshell, isn't it? If a character isn't Hal Jordan or Wolverine, they don't matter and their stories don't matter. You can argue about who is and isn't a legitimate character or you can argue about sales, but this is a legitimate issue that pisses people off, and makes them give up on superhero comics. I can read the full runs of Gwenpool and Cassandra Cain's Batgirl, or read all the appearances of Ystin the Shining Knight and Stephanie Brown and still enjoy them and not feel like they need to matter to some massive status quo. That is the appeal of following smaller characters: their stories are more contained and accessible because there aren't thousands of back issues to trawl through. They were engaging self-contained adventures. It does suck when a series ends and new writers or status quos poo poo all over them. Cass and Stephanie got dumped on pretty bad for a long time, and there was also a lot of barely disguised misogyny in how DC responded to the female fans of those characters asking when they'd come back and not be written like garbage (or also the racism in the case of Cass.) But like Roth mentioned, the wheel turned and now they're back to being in a better status quo again with better writers. It's okay to be turned off by the fact that there's not some grounded, irreversible continuity in the two big shared superhero universes. I don't think that invalidates the stories that are there when people enjoy the ones happening the moment. The comic nerds who are most deeply invested in the TRUE TIMELINE are usually the insufferable gatekeepers who hate any change like having X-23 pick up the Wolverine mantle for a couple of years or Lady Thor anyway. The underlying misogyny, racial bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia are still a problem in comics, too. I guess on the plus side DC was finally embarrassed into firing the sexual predator on the Superman editorial team a couple years ago? That recent wave of discourse shows there's still plenty of people both Marvel and DC, as well as Dark Horse, IDW, Boom, etc. could sweep out.
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Endorph posted:like i just want to go 'i want to read this' and pick up something and read it from beginning to end and experience a complete story. this is not an experience i have been able to figure out how to get from batman despite trying since i watched the justice league cartoon when i was 12. Year One. I think the problem is as much directing readers to appropriate books as it is the books themselves because Batman - Year One is about as good an answer to the question as could possibly exist. JustaDamnFool posted:This is a weird personal take thing but the idea that comic book characters like batman will be around until I die sorta puts me off ever getting involved with them, there's an appeal in knowing that you can engage with an idea or a character and then be properly done with it. Initially it's used as a defiant rallying cry and to suggest that someone will always pick up the mantle (indeed the first time it appears the Batman and Robin who are saying it are not the people who originally had the titles at the start of the story). Later it gets used on a more metatextual level to suggest that DC will never willingly stop publishing the books despite how natural an end it will be. And then Bruce Wayne winks at the reader while Gordon talks about the next big event.
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Groovelord Neato posted:How come they don't mirror mangos reading them backwards sucks especially physically.
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When you take art that's drawn with lines of action going in one direction and flip it so it's facing the other way, it's going to end up looking super unbalanced and disconcerting to the eye. You'd need a lot of redraws and messy edits to individual panels that are more trouble than they're worth and disrupt the flow of action panel-by-panel.
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Reading backwards sucks though.
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Groovelord Neato posted:How come they don't mirror mangos reading them backwards sucks especially physically. 
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That Batman comic I read was the one with a new superhero called Gotham came to Gotham and he was really powerful but then he got a himself a tragic backstory and went nuts. I think his sister talked him down and they were just some rich kids that had bought super powers somehow? It was also in that very modern 'decompressed' style where everything takes ages to happen but it also felt like it was skipping over important bits of the plot. Like there was a page with batman doing stuff on different days in different weather and it was because of some sort of... seasonal weather bomb? Then he had to dive into a lake to disarm it but he did it on friday when it was set to winter I guess? And alfred was all like 'no you'll die' but batman didn't die because he doesn't need to breathe. All the while I was just going, who set this and why? If thats considered a good jumping on point I guess I don't want to jump on afterall sorry. I do read other western stuff like Saga seems good a couple of volumes in. Also Bone is a very good self contained story that I have in an enormous single volume release.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Reading backwards sucks though.
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Mr Phillby posted:Like there was a page with batman doing stuff on different days in different weather and it was because of some sort of... seasonal weather bomb? Then he had to dive into a lake to disarm it but he did it on friday when it was set to winter I guess? And alfred was all like 'no you'll die' but batman didn't die because he doesn't need to breathe. All the while I was just going, who set this and why? That was meant as a short story to signify that things were going to be different due to the new creative team (hence the focus on time and change). It was a mistake to put it at the beginning of the book. The Gotham / Gotham Girl stuff was the actual start of the story arc.
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This is the worst batman comic I've ever read
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Groovelord Neato posted:Reading backwards sucks though.
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When I was like 8 or 9 I read a whole volume of Yu Yu Hakusho backwards not realizing my mistake and frankly I still enjoyed it. This isn't really adding much to the conversation it's just a funny little anecdote.
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I've read manga for 15 years and rarely read comics (just European stuff/indies) and right to left is my default comic reading direction now. I grew up on European comics too so it's not just a 'first experience' thing, you just get used to what you consume. That said I basically immediately adjust without any problem, except whenever there's a western comic that's aping manga stylistically but is still written left to right which has frequently resulted in my brain getting fried trying to figure out how to read it. I remember a few times which had a combination of really bad paneling and just completely awkward stilted conversation that the correct reading order didn't make much sense. And though the wrong one also didn't make sense it didn't really make LESS sense, and I literally had to google what direction it was supposed to be read in.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:That was meant as a short story to signify that things were going to be different due to the new creative team (hence the focus on time and change). It was a mistake to put it at the beginning of the book.
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IronicDongz posted:it takes like 10 minutes to get used to Mr Phillby posted:Yeah well that stuff didn't particularly grab me either and naming a character the same as the City just led to confusing dialog, why wasn't he like Captain Gotham or something? I barely knew anything about the character when he went bad, it all felt rather arbitary to be honest.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcuBwXFk5lM Civvie rereleased his Blood 2 review with a redone voiceover and proper HD video and it is much better than his first version from years back.
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Alaois posted:
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I strongly disagree and find it awkward regardless of how much I read. To give another example I recdntly read through The Visions, which is absolutely steeped in decades of absolute nonsense continuity. However the parts relevant to the story were clearly explained so It mostly made sense to someone who's never read the avengers or w/e.
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