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ilikedirt posted:Will i hate the bendis run even if i actually enjoy brian michael I like his other work too, I just don't think he's a good fit for Supes. Your mileage may vary.
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It's very hit or miss. There's definitely scenes and beats and issues where it's Bendis at his best (the scene where Clark takes Lois to see the singer-songwriter who lives on their block because he can't help overhearing her practice when he goes out on patrol is super sweet, for instance) but it also lets him indulge some of his weaknesses that he seems to have a blindspot for (like having the big alien conspiracy to cover up Krypton's real reason for being blown up act like a literal PTA meeting. Not figuratively, literally having loving Guardians of Oa talk about having to go to their niece's Bat Mitzvah and poo poo) I'd say yeah, the Tomasi stuff or maybe wait for the upcoming Tom Taylor Superman.
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Apr 22, 2021 20:52
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Tomasi is the best modern Superman run in my opinion, but Bendis has a few great moments in a sea of mediocre ones. Honestly, just start will All Star Superman, Superman For All Seasons, or Red Son. Superman Shazam First Thunder is excellent too. All great and really capture the character well. Superman being a Dad is great in the Tomasi stuff, and everything feels good and has a pleasant time. Bendis aging Jon up to do a bad Legion book is the worst thing he has done at DC (so far!).
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Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu's Superman: Birthright is a really good retelling of his origin, it probably doesn't exactly jibe with what's supposed to be his origin now, but it's close enough.
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Parallax posted:my first thought when seeing the Shazam cover was those Cerebus in Hell covers which do the exact same thing Am i so broken that my first thought was that mlp in the holocaust picture?
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Apr 22, 2021 21:20
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frodnonnag posted:Am i so broken that my first thought was that mlp in the holocaust picture? lol, yeah you're broken.
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Space_Butler posted:They also announced a Shazam 4-issue limited series for July and hot drat I love this variant cover, it reminds me of The Lighthouse. DC is starting to get weird again and I love it. That's really thematically awful as a cover for a Shazam book, but it's an ok collage.
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ilikedirt posted:Will i hate the bendis run even if i actually enjoy brian michael I generally love Bendis, and it's awful.
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Apr 22, 2021 22:01
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How Wonderful! posted:That's a cool homage to a really great Doré! I thought those skeletons looked familiar only to realize that it's not the first time they've been referenced on a DC cover.  edit: I can't seem to get the image to work, but check out Stephen Bissette's cover for Swamp Thing Annual #2! CitizenKrang fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Apr 23, 2021 02:34
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I am a big Bendis fan, but the best part of Bendis Superman was all of the ancillary titles written by anybody but Bendis were the best part of the Bendis Superman run. Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Wonder Twins, and Dial H for Hero were all wonderful in their own ways. Regardless of how you feel about Superman revealing his identity, this is a great page of comics, though.
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(of course the attachment showed up on the first post after I reposted it. Sorry, everybody.)
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How’d that turn out? Seemed like a huge deal until it happened, and then nobody cared. Does everyone know Lois is Mrs Superman? Is the integrity of the Daily Planet completely shot?
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Open Marriage Night posted:How’d that turn out? Seemed like a huge deal until it happened, and then nobody cared. Does everyone know Lois is Mrs Superman? Is the integrity of the Daily Planet completely shot? Perry immediately fired Clark. And then rehired him as kind of a brand ambassador. Oh and Jimmy owns the Planet now cuz he's distantly related to Lex and thus has a bunch of Luthor money.
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Open Marriage Night posted:How’d that turn out? Seemed like a huge deal until it happened, and then nobody cared. Does everyone know Lois is Mrs Superman? Is the integrity of the Daily Planet completely shot? It turned out pretty well! The way Superman's life is set up, his identity being revealed is not as earth-shattering/a big ole bunch of problems the way Daredevil's was.
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Apr 23, 2021 19:37
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I hate it. Bring on the next reboot.
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Open Marriage Night posted:How’d that turn out? Seemed like a huge deal until it happened, and then nobody cared. Does everyone know Lois is Mrs Superman? Is the integrity of the Daily Planet completely shot? There were a few issues laying out some of the legal ramifications like conflict of interest stuff, but it was smoothed over partially due to the weight of Superman's own integrity in the public eye. As far as Lois being Mrs. Superman, it was already known by villains that targeting Lois Lane would earn the ire of Superman for some reason and the assumption was that they were a thing before she married Clark Kent. Once the reveal happened (and after a "scandal" of pics being leaked of her kissing Superman), everyone was basically "oh, that all makes sense now." The Daily Planet was bought by a person running a criminal org in Metropolis, I forget the broader reason at this point, but eventually Jimmy Olsen bought it out after his own fortune was decimated by his brother (read the Jimmy Olsen comics, it's great) and it turning out the Olsens are distant relatives of the Luthors and therefore have access to the Luthor fortune. Under Jimmy's threat of basically draining the whole thing because he legally had as much control over it as Lex, they basically split it and agreed not to interfere with each others' money.
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X-O posted:Well that's an instant buy. As long as they do away with this notion of Jon Kent being a possible villain down the road. Stephen Byrne did an awesome variant cover too. https://twitter.com/StephenByrne86/status/1384921465087307779
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Sorry for the double post, but I don't want to put two tweets in the same post. https://twitter.com/Velosassraptor/status/1385666195077074945 I thought it was weird when Batman had to collect 400 rings before he could face Riddler, but now it all makes sense. 
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JordanKai posted:I thought it was weird when Batman had to collect 400 rings before he could face Riddler, but now it all makes sense. Sorry, give me a moment, I'm having Arkham flashbacks. If I never pick up another loving Riddler Trophy it'll be too soon.
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catlord posted:Sorry, give me a moment, I'm having Arkham flashbacks. What about Enigma Packs...
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Thanks I hate it.
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Do I even want to know???
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I've never read a Brother Power the Geek comic (probably because it lasted like, two issues), but he is apparently on the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld so I'm gonna say please don't do him dirty.Gaz-L posted:What about Enigma Packs... What about gently caress you?  honestly, I 100%'ed the Riddler trophies in Asylum, City, and Knight, but Origins I just couldn't.
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What is that even from?
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Apr 28, 2021 00:08
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I love when the best option in a poll gets the least amount of votes.
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Apr 28, 2021 00:10
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I can't think of a bigger indictment of that era of comics than Geoff Johns' popularity.
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The fact that van Sciver wasn't dead last is also damning. But jesus yes, Rucka and Manapul on JLA?
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Also Jim Lee on two of those creative teams.
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Gaz-L posted:The fact that van Sciver wasn't dead last is also damning. But jesus yes, Rucka and Manapul on JLA? I don't understand what people see in van Sciver's art. Even setting aside who he is, his art just looks so painfully generic.
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Roth posted:I don't understand what people see in van Sciver's art. Even setting aside who he is, his art just looks so painfully generic. For a lot of people “realism” is the most important thing about comic book art. The more characters look like computer-rendered marble statues, the better. The only praise I’ll give that guy is that I liked the effort that went into giving each GL their own distinct look to their constructs. Although I think that was a gimmick that eventually faded away after several issues.
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Roth posted:What is that even from? The recent Inferior Five here's an article from some blog about some of the issues it had https://fantasymerchant.com/2020/01/19/comic-book-case-study-why-inferior-5-failed/ Edit: In other series, Robin feels a bit like the start to a battle shonen manga and if the influences to it weren't obviously they even have this page  Damian reading RomCom manga 
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Apr 28, 2021 01:41
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Roth posted:I don't understand what people see in van Sciver's art. Even setting aside who he is, his art just looks so painfully generic. ...would you rather have Greg Land?
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I mean, are those the only two options did everyone except the cyber frog guy and Greg Land get in a tragic accident
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You take Greg Land 100 out of 100 times.
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I wouldn't say I hated EVS before it was cool. Reading Green Lantern (mostly Corps and Sinestro Corp War) and his artwork is fine. It is mind blowing and it isn't bad. I will never buy a book by him now and I think he is a terrible human being who has pretty much destroyed his own career but I think there are also worse artists out there that are also much better people than EVS as well
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I still like the cover to Flash: Rebirth #1 a lot, and he did the SEX issue of New X-Men. That unnamed artist did have some fun stuff in the past.
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I haven't caught up on Inferior Five, but if anyone gets a pass for dipping too hard into the meta/fourth-wall breaking well after a book of theirs gets messed over I feel like it's Keith Giffen, he's been doing that/having that done to him for going on four decades.
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Speaking of which, I recently bought a house and my mom is about to retire and itching to do work on her own house, so over the course of my last couple sporadic visits to see my parents I've been finally clearing out and packing up all my childhood poo poo, including whatever comics that were not already donated or given away. It's been fun to go through and sort all this stuff I hadn't physically looked at in years, but one of the real treats was revisiting all of the 80s/90s Ambush Bug stuff. I don't think Giffen's pencils were ever prettier than in the Nothing Special.
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