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Chaos Hippy posted:So I started doing a podcast with a few like-minded folks a short while ago, which I've resisted talking about here because it felt a bit too much like shameless self-promotion. But that's all changed now, because Charles Soule retweeted us, and I can't not talk about that. Well, I've heard good things about most of his work, but I'm kind of disappointed with the fact he had X-23 stand by as Elixir (one of her closest friends) got horribly murdered, while charging in straight after to save Daken, noted psychopath and murderer, from the same fate in Wolverines.
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bairfanx posted:Am I the only one who's not a big fan of Soule? Like, I've never actively disliked anything of his I've read, but none of it has ever really impressed me either. His Swamp Thing and Thunderbolt comics are pretty drat great.
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Jan 5, 2015 16:18
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enigmahfc posted:His Swamp Thing and Thunderbolt comics are pretty drat great. Yep his Swamp Thing is pretty great and had an awesome John Constantine story. His entire run has been building up to something amazing, and it looks like the pay off is going to be worth it.
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enigmahfc posted:His Swamp Thing and Thunderbolt comics are pretty drat great. Thunderbolts was okay.
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Lurdiak posted:Thunderbolts was okay. Thunderbolts was actually really good.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:23
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Senor Candle posted:Thunderbolts was actually really good. I tried it because of people saying stuff like this, and I disagree. If it was really good, he'd be able to make me care about any of those characters. Same thing with Red Lanterns. She-Hulk was good though. And of course, that was the one book of his that got cancelled.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:37
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Yvonmukluk posted:Well, I've heard good things about most of his work, but I'm kind of disappointed with the fact he had X-23 stand by as Elixir (one of her closest friends) got horribly murdered, while charging in straight after to save Daken, noted psychopath and murderer, from the same fate in Wolverines. I hadn't heard about Elixir getting killed off but I'm surprised it took this long. A character with that power set of healing anything and resurrecting the dead could easily strip the tension of any situation where someone is in peril of dying in the X-Books.
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Servoret posted:I tried it because of people saying stuff like this, and I disagree. If it was really good, he'd be able to make me care about any of those characters. Same thing with Red Lanterns. She-Hulk was good though. And of course, that was the one book of his that got cancelled. All his DC books are being cancelled since he is now Marvel Exclusive.
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Dacap posted:I hadn't heard about Elixir getting killed off but I'm surprised it took this long. A character with that power set of healing anything and resurrecting the dead could easily strip the tension of any situation where someone is in peril of dying in the X-Books. They already have a new healer in Uncanny who is even more powerful than Elixer.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:48
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I thought Elixer was already _~*Omega Level*~_
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Don't know if this is the right thread, but someone else might also like this: 2015/1981 Marvel Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 
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Jan 5, 2015 18:54
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Servoret posted:. She-Hulk was good though. And of course, that was the one book of his that got cancelled. See, the only thing that really kept me interested in She-Hulk was the art. I read the first trade and despite being someone who loses their poo poo over legal dramas more than I have any reason to, it just didn't do anything for me. Soule strikes me as a perfectly serviceable writer, like someone else said, he's wonderfully inoffensive, but I don't really get it. Ah well, at least a) I'm not alone and b) some of y'all have a writer you dig a bit.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:21
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What are some good comics related tumblrs guys?
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Jan 5, 2015 21:07
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zoux posted:What are some good comics related tumblrs guys? rockofeternity is pretty great.
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Jan 5, 2015 21:16
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zoux posted:What are some good comics related tumblrs guys? http://comicartistevolution.tumblr.com/ http://thebristolboard.tumblr.com/
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zoux posted:What are some good comics related tumblrs guys? If there is an artist you like, follow them because they probably have a tumblr.
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Jan 5, 2015 22:00
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I'm also doing that but I meant general comics tumblr's that collect cool and funny comic book art.
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Jan 5, 2015 22:00
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Speaking of social media and comics, I am now on Instagram. Who should I be following?
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Jan 5, 2015 22:11
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I just finished reading Unlimited's 'Discover: Civil War' and while the event wasn't as awful as I anticipated, the last comic in the series was Avengers: The Initiative #1 which was just the worst. The whole thing is just  in writing - they have a superhero army in training but they need to show it's serious so someone needs to get washed out, and they accomplish this by doing a 'test' of everyone's powers. Girl with guns, cool - sweet robot killing, now let's test the guy whose power we know is manifesting people's deepest, darkest fears. Let's do that by having him manifest hers - not against a regular person's or anything like that - if I'm wanting to see someone behave completely irrationally because they are being confronted by the thing they are afraid of most, I want them so heavily armed that their codename reflects it. Oh wow! She went completely out of control in response! We better surgically strip her powers and kick her out - not the guy whose power is to make people irrationally and probably dangerously crazy. That's how we roll in the proper super-military, scrubs.It was easily the worst issue of the almost one hundred issues of that entire event.
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Jan 6, 2015 02:27
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Dan Slott, everybody.
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Lurdiak posted:Dan Slott, everybody. I wish there was a way to throw rotten vegetables at him but over the internet.
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Rhyno posted:I wish there was a way to throw rotten vegetables at him but over the internet. To be fair, it can be inferred due to later events all of that was intentional so they would have an excuse to take the weapon and fit it on to a clone of the person she killed, but still, I second the above because Dan Slott is loving awful for other reasons anyway. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 03:02
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It's really strange that the Dan Slott who wrote She-Hulk retired and some other guy with the same name got the same job as him. It's like Landfill never retired!
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Jan 6, 2015 03:39
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I got into Locke and Key way too late, and should have bought the trades in one go, because I need to know how it's going. Just finished the fourth and I hate waiting, ugh. As a Canuck I typically (well, nearly universally) buy at my LCS because I like to support local and duty from online purchases almost always cancels out any saving I may have made. I want my damned copy of Bitch Planet to show up, mostly because of the hype, knowing nothing about the series. Is it any good?
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Jan 6, 2015 03:44
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Dan Slott's still got a believer in me via Silver Surfer. And Bitch Planet deserves all of its "best first issue" praise. I can't wait for the next issue.
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Space Fish posted:Dan Slott's still got a believer in me via Silver Surfer. Are you sure you're not being blinded by Mike Allred's art carrying the load of making Slott's Dr. Who fanfiction palatable?
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Jan 6, 2015 04:54
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People can keep calling it Dr. Who all day but that doesn't make it a bad comic  (Allred's art is very pretty though)
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TwoPair posted:People can keep calling it Dr. Who all day but that doesn't make it a bad comic No, the poo poo writing is what makes it a bad comic.
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I've been listening to some of the Inkstuds "On the Road" interviews (mostly because the sound quality on the regular interviews is horrendous) and some of them are pretty good, but it seems to me that Brandon Graham is the one that really carries the conversation and Robin McConnell is just kinda there. The Liefeld interview was hilarious mostly for his impresions and his "gently caress you if you don't like me" attitude. He still can't draw worth a poo poo, but he seems to be an all-around nice guy with a ton of energy.
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Vincent posted:I've been listening to some of the Inkstuds "On the Road" interviews (mostly because the sound quality on the regular interviews is horrendous) and some of them are pretty good, but it seems to me that Brandon Graham is the one that really carries the conversation and Robin McConnell is just kinda there. I think part of it is that Brandon just has very different things to talk about with other comics folks than Robin does. Robin is very good at knowing when to get out of the way and often very good at knowing which questions to ask that will let the subject go on for a while.
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I recently started reading "From Hell" and the version I've got has extensive endnotes explaining the historical basis (or at least inspiration) for basically every conversation in the whole thing. They're interesting, but there's so much there, and it kind of bogs down the narrative. Should I read them as I go, or is it fine to leave them for when I get around to rereading it?
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Leave them until afterwards. They're fascinating but not at all essential for an initial readthrough.
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Endless Mike posted:It's really strange that the Dan Slott who wrote She-Hulk retired and some other guy with the same name got the same job as him. It's like Landfill never retired! No, that's not what happened, clearly some bitter, lovely comics writer who was dying swapped his mind with the Dan Slott we once knew. Superior Spider-Man was making fun of everyone for not noticing the swap.
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Yeah. Treat them like a Director's Commentary on a DVD. It's really interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look at how all the pieces come together, and it makes you appreciate all the work that actually went into producing the book, but if you do your first read with them 'on' it's basically too much noise for the story to coalesce by itself. I read them by themselves after I finished the story, flicking back every now and then when they referred to art or some specific detail in the scene.
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i'm gonna go ahead and say the endnotes to From Hell are the best part of the book but yeah you should read them last
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Jan 6, 2015 13:53
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Hey guys, IDW just bought Top Shelf.
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Jan 6, 2015 14:21
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Hey guys, IDW just bought Top Shelf. They must be doing all right for themselves. Do IDW still publish original stuff, or is it all licenses and those fancy Marvel artist editions? In my mind they're still the people who put out 30 Days Of Night, and then everything else Steve Niles thought was a good idea after. Yay, Top Shelf are sticking around 
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Just saw that. That's a HUGE get. And yeah, IDW publishes a decent amount of creator-owned stuff in addition to their licensed properties.
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YayTop Shelf sticking around and getting some added security is the best thing to happen, especially since everybody seems to be sticking in the same/similar role. IDW is just a weird publisher to me, they've got those great artist collections and are publishing Corto Maltese now but 90% of their output seems to be Star Trek x My Little Pony x pretty much every single 80's franchise possible.
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Waterhaul posted:YayTop Shelf sticking around and getting some added security is the best thing to happen, especially since everybody seems to be sticking in the same/similar role. I once read that Fantagraphics didn't make any money from their arty, independent comic publishing, and that they were basically surviving because of the porn comics they published under a different imprint. I like it when crass commercialism can be used to support art/quality/whatever you want to call it.
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