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Keith Giffen, Co-Creator Of Rocket Raccoon & Lobo, Has Died, Aged 70 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/keith-giffen-co-creator-rocket-raccoon-lobo-died-aged-70/
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The Last Call posted:Keith Giffen, Co-Creator Of Rocket Raccoon & Lobo, Has Died, Aged 70 He was one of my favorite comic book writers. RIP dude. You wrote so many good books.
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Oct 12, 2023 01:31
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The Last Call posted:Keith Giffen, Co-Creator Of Rocket Raccoon & Lobo, Has Died, Aged 70 Ugh, that sucks.
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Oct 12, 2023 01:36
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The Last Call posted:Keith Giffen, Co-Creator Of Rocket Raccoon & Lobo, Has Died, Aged 70 Oh gently caress. 
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Oct 12, 2023 01:40
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The Last Call posted:Keith Giffen, Co-Creator Of Rocket Raccoon & Lobo, Has Died, Aged 70 Oh no  This one hits hard because Keith co-created Justice League International which had a tremendous impact on me as a kid and helped make me a DC fan. Rest in Peace sir!
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Oct 12, 2023 01:56
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Griffen JLI was the majority of what I was able to read when I deployed to Iraq and probably did a ton to save my mental health and make me a Blue Beetle fan forever.
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Oct 12, 2023 02:11
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Ok I'm not familiar with his work. What do you guys suggest?
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Oct 12, 2023 02:53
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Upsidads posted:Ok I'm not familiar with his work. His Justice League (all of them) run. I am a sucker for the first Lobo mini he did.
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Oct 12, 2023 03:09
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On it thanks!
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Oct 12, 2023 03:21
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Upsidads posted:Ok I'm not familiar with his work. Start here: Justice League International https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1401217397/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1697081977&sr=8-4 Lobo https://www.amazon.com/Lobo-Keith-G...ps%2C148&sr=8-1 Star Lord https://www.amazon.com/Star-Lord-An...ps%2C126&sr=8-1 90sgamer fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 04:42
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Keith Giffen also created the modern Guardians of the galaxy the ones the James Gunn films were based on
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Oct 12, 2023 04:53
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My first SA account (and my first accounts on BBSes, Prodigy, pretty much everything through the end of high school) was under "Ambush Bug", which was where I fell in love with Keith Giffen. It trucks in deep weird comics minutiae and a lot of the jokes are dated/possibly incomprehensible 30+ years later, but Ambush Bug was doing weird fourth breaking meta-humor in comics years/decades before She-Hulk, Deadpool, Harley Quinn, or anyone else went down the same path. His Justice League run was obviously enormously important/influential, and he never hit that level of popularity again, but from the early Lobo minis to Drax and Annihilation really setting the stage for modern Cosmic Marvel, to a long run of fascinating failed experiments (LOSH Five Years Later! Trencher! Heckler! Agents of Law! Eclipso! PunX! Inferior Five! Sugar and Spike! Being the first person to try to pull Rob Liefeld's sketchbook notes into a coherent story!) you almost never got the impression Giffen was phoning it in, and even if it didn't really work you had to appreciate the big swings. His last series I really loved was the just-pre-New 52 Doom Patrol, which was a wild spin-off of 52/Oolong Island mixed with Arnold Drake DP, Grant Morrison DP, and any other long-neglected character/concept that came to mind. It was also the finest Blackest Night tie-in by a considerable margin.
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Oct 12, 2023 05:15
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Kind of a forgotten book and it wasn't the best or anything, but I enjoyed Giffen's Justice League 3000 a whole bunch. Wouldn't mind seeing those characters pop back up sometime.
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Oct 12, 2023 06:05
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Vandar posted:Kind of a forgotten book and it wasn't the best or anything, but I enjoyed Giffen's Justice League 3000 a whole bunch. What a tremendously underrated series. Legion fans were so affronted it wasn't about them and nobody else cared enough to bother even trying it. It's such a great weird look at the Justice League.
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Oct 12, 2023 11:58
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Back when 52 was coming out, DC"s website would show some of Giffen's pencil layouts for the previous week's issue. It was amazing and a real look behind the curtain at a master. You were having this weekly series come out with a host of different artists, but Giffen was able to give it a sense of coherence and play to the strengths of whoever that week's artist was.
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Oct 12, 2023 13:18
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Justice League International is obviously amazing, but I have even more love for the sequel minis: Formerly Known As The Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League are both fantastic. He also co-created Jaime Reyes. What a killer and eclectic career.
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Oct 12, 2023 15:50
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Vandar posted:Kind of a forgotten book and it wasn't the best or anything, but I enjoyed Giffen's Justice League 3000 a whole bunch. When I said "read all the Justice Leagues" I was including this one too.
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https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1712517366691619102 https://twitter.com/D4hz4hn/status/1712496328427655529
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Oct 12, 2023 18:32
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Out of all those names Tomasi is the only one I care about
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Oct 12, 2023 18:34
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lomzus posted:https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1712517366691619102 THE JSA BOOK ISNT FINISHED. gently caress. I wanted to know what happens to the found sidekicks and with per degaton
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Oct 12, 2023 18:36
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the description of the launch series makes this whole thing sound intensely uninteresting. It all sounds identical to the stuff that already comes out from Image, gets one or two collections, and then vanishes from existence.
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Oct 12, 2023 18:43
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Justice League International is obviously amazing, but I have even more love for the sequel minis: Formerly Known As The Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League are both fantastic. He also co-created Jaime Reyes. What a killer and eclectic career. Yeah, I still haven't gotten around to JLI, but Formerly Known as the Justice League was one of those ones I picked up when I was starting with comics. G'nort's still may favourite Green Lantern.
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Oct 12, 2023 18:49
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Gripweed posted:the description of the launch series makes this whole thing sound intensely uninteresting. It all sounds identical to the stuff that already comes out from Image, gets one or two collections, and then vanishes from existence. Not everything needs to be a manga that runs for 30 years
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Oct 12, 2023 18:56
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were any of those guys other than Johns doing current books for DC anyways and I assume Johns is still on the contractual hook for x amount of issues of JSA
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Oct 12, 2023 18:58
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Endless Mike posted:Not everything needs to be a manga that runs for 30 years Not everything needs to be about someone with special powers fighting monsters and/or robots either, yet here we are
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Oct 12, 2023 19:25
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Endless Mike posted:Not everything needs to be a manga that runs for 30 years except they're pitching this as a new shared universe with potential live action versions so ideally they want it to be around for a while, and not the 2-4 years it will actually survive for
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Oct 12, 2023 19:35
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Parallax posted:except they're pitching this as a new shared universe with potential live action versions so ideally they want it to be around for a while, and not the 2-4 years it will actually survive for In my defense, I saw the creators and wasn't interested, so I didn't bother to read any further.
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Oct 12, 2023 20:18
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All those folks working together and the best thing they came up with is "Ghost Machine?" Good luck.
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Oct 12, 2023 20:38
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absolutely reeks of "let's set up an IP farm for the content mill"
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Oct 12, 2023 21:00
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Justice League International is obviously amazing, but I have even more love for the sequel minis: Formerly Known As The Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League are both fantastic. He also co-created Jaime Reyes. What a killer and eclectic career. SO influential to me. Cannot be overstated how much those minis meant to me as a comic book reader just starting out. Informed my taste. I remember asking for Formerly Known as the Justice League for Christmas probably the first year I was reading comics.
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Alaois posted:absolutely reeks of "let's set up an IP farm for the content mill" Yeah I can't see the comics succeeding. Especially with a bunch of guys who can't put out comics on time, especially Johns.
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lomzus posted:https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1712517366691619102 Image II is go. Good riddance to Geoffs. Now that he and Didio is gone, let's make Hal Jordan evil, reveal he managed to pull off Zero Hour and all the crap going on with Barry coming back is basically Hal trying to be THE hero of the DC universe, even getting to punch Batman because he really is the egotist jerk most of us know him to be. All the hiccups in continuity/reboots being Hal trying to make changes and the universe itself fighting back causing bumps and ripples. Then kill Barry. Kill him. The Last Call fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Last Call posted:Image II is go. Parallax posted:except they're pitching this as a new shared universe with potential live action versions so ideally they want it to be around for a while, and not the 2-4 years it will actually survive for Codependent Poster posted:Yeah I can't see the comics succeeding. Especially with a bunch of guys who can't put out comics on time, especially Johns. Johns and Frank also sold the TV rights to Geiger to Paramount a year ago and a show is in active development. The 'news' here is that Johns/Frank are expanding their creator-owned thing ("Mad Ghost") to include other people under the umbrella "Ghost Machine". Mad Ghost has already successfully published books through Image and sold the rights for tv/film. Most/all of this information is in the press release everyone's articles are based on?
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You either live a Mark Millar or die attempting to start a publishing-to-screen house.
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Space Fish posted:You either live a Mark Millar or die attempting to start a publishing-to-screen house. woof, I'll take dying. Mr Hootington posted:THE JSA BOOK ISNT FINISHED. gently caress. I was interested then I read the New Golden Age book and saw Johns is apparently back on his bullshit with Watchmen sequels/references/whatever you want to call it and uggghhh I just can't. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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Image Speedrun
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TwoPair posted:woof, I'll take dying. I liked the first golden age book. The JSA series and Stargirl were both really good too. He gave Jay Garrick a daughter and created a bunch of golden age sidekicks that had been "kidnapped" from time and continuity.
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Mr Hootington posted:I liked the first golden age book. The JSA series and Stargirl were both really good too. Oh no, I mean I liked that stuff, but seeing any references to Watchmen/Doomsday Clock immediately puts a bad taste in my mouth, since I didn't like Doomsday Clock and hate incorporating Watchmen into the main universe on a fundamental level
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Randomly decided to read the wiki page for Batman: Death in the Family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Death_in_the_Family_(comics) quote:Development Apparently the winning character ended up being Jimmy Olsen, but in the end they decided to call that whole thing off and just publish PSAs starring superheroes talking about the AIDS crisis.
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Alaois posted:absolutely reeks of "let's set up an IP farm for the content mill" It’s not. Most of the poo poo johns is doing was originally going to be released by DC under an imprint called “Killing Zone”. He probably thought it was BS that Bendis, joe hill, gaiman and Gerard way just show up and instantly get their own imprints and Hickman was offered one but DC cancelled his.
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