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It's May, the first day of which is May Day, so let's celebrate our fellow workers, comrades.
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May 1, 2018 21:15
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Best op ever.
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May 1, 2018 21:36
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Aunt May Day
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May 1, 2018 21:53
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April Showers did not bring May flowers. Worst May ever! 0/10
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May 1, 2018 21:55
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Spidergirl AKA May Parker is also known as Mayday. That is my contribution to this thread.
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May 1, 2018 21:56
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Madkal posted:Spidergirl AKA May Parker is also known as Mayday. That is my contribution to this thread. Annie now.
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May 1, 2018 21:58
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Rhyno posted:Annie now. Different Spider-girl.
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May 1, 2018 22:40
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Lurdiak posted:Different Spider-girl. May never existed as far as Marvel is now concerned.
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May 1, 2018 22:42
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Rhyno posted:May never existed as far as Marvel is now concerned. She lived in an alternate future, her existence was always in question.
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May 1, 2018 22:45
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Lurdiak posted:She lived in an alternate future, her existence was always in question. Well if ya wanna get technical.
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May 1, 2018 22:47
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Rhyno posted:Well if ya wanna get technical. I remember when Ben Reilly didn't exist as far as Marvel is concerned, and now that rear end in a top hat is (kinda) back. None of it matters.
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May 1, 2018 22:51
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Didn't Spidergirl have like a 100 issue run?
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May 1, 2018 22:52
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Madkal posted:Didn't Spidergirl have like a 100 issue run? Like 130 across two volumes. MC2 was a whole thing for years.
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May 1, 2018 23:00
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It was kept alive by middle-aged men pretending to be 12-year-old girls.
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May 1, 2018 23:45
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Wasn't Spider-Girl basically the only decent book from MC2?
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May 1, 2018 23:55
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I wish they hadn't killed Spider-Man's daughter.
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May 1, 2018 23:57
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wasn't Spider-Girl basically the only decent book from MC2? "Decent."
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May 1, 2018 23:59
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wasn't Spider-Girl basically the only decent book from MC2? It was the only successful one.
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May 2, 2018 00:02
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Rhyno posted:Like 130 across two volumes. MC2 was a whole thing for years. I think she still has had the longest consecutive run for a Marvel superheroine. It really was the little book that could. Although that being said, it does definitely show through that it was produced by some (albeit well-meaning) old white guys. I'm still kind of mad how the character was squandered, but with stuff like Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ms. Marvel & Renew Your Vows coming out now, there's plenty new (and I must admit better) characters & series out there. Senior Woodchuck posted:It was kept alive by middle-aged men pretending to be 12-year-old girls. Guy Goodbody posted:I wish they hadn't killed Spider-Man's daughter. 
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May 2, 2018 00:16
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wasn't Spider-Girl basically the only decent book from MC2? No, because they also had one about a silver Juggernaut who tied a flannel shirt around his big Juggernaut waist and sported a grimy little goatee, which, for 1999, is such peak DeFalco that I can't believe he didn't blink out of existence, his service to the universe having been rendered in full.
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May 2, 2018 06:57
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J2 was a bad comic but it wasn't the worst MC2 book I'm looking at you WILD THING. Spider-Girl was really something in that it was a very long follow up to the Clone Saga, something everyone was supposed to hate with a passion.
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May 2, 2018 07:04
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Just got Charles Soule's novel in the mail. It's weird reading long prose from people when you're used to just spending 5-10 minutes on their stories.
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May 2, 2018 07:08
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just got Charles Soule's novel in the mail. It's weird reading long prose from people when you're used to just spending 5-10 minutes on their stories. Mike Carey and Greg Rucka are also really good prose authors.
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May 2, 2018 20:47
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May 2, 2018 21:16
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RevKrule posted:Mike Carey and Greg Rucka are also really good prose authors. I knew of Rucka as a prose author before I knew about his comics. The Atticus Kodiak novels are sooooo good.
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May 2, 2018 21:30
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Rucka (and Brad Meltzer) were prose authors who moved into comics. Is that more or less common than the other direction?
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May 2, 2018 21:37
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Prose to comics is waaaaaay more common.
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May 2, 2018 21:53
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I have been meaning to pick up more comic to prose authors for a while. I got King's A once crowded sky which was okay but definitely would have worked better as a comic than a novel. Been meaning to pick up some Rucka novels.
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May 2, 2018 22:30
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The best Mayday Parker comic is that one-shot from Universe X where middle-aged Peter is locked in some kind of fantasy coma and May enters it to wake him up. Then she discovers that in his fantasy, he's succeeded by a son with Gwen Stacy and May has a brutal mental breakdown over it.
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May 2, 2018 23:05
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I read and liked a lot of China Mieville’s stuff, but that’s probably cheating
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May 3, 2018 02:00
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He needs to do another comic. Dial H was really good.
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May 3, 2018 02:14
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Obligatory mention of the two Alan Moore novels.
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May 3, 2018 18:53
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A Strange Aeon posted:Obligatory mention of the two Alan Moore novels. Isn't one more of a bludgeoning weapon than a novel?
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May 3, 2018 19:14
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Madkal posted:Isn't one more of a bludgeoning weapon than a novel? Yeah--I've read most of Voice of the Fire and I actually think it's pretty cool. I've been a little gun shy with his other one, since it's so long and it's already pretty difficult for me to tackle huge books.
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May 4, 2018 00:01
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Can we change the name of the forum?Android Blues posted:This month's Snagglepuss is loving lit.
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May 4, 2018 00:18
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Last issue policeman Quick Draw McGraw had to violently arrest Huckberry Hound in a raid on an underground gay bar hours after they made love. If Hanna and/or Barbera are alive, I'd love to know their thoughts. edit: Or not, on second thoughts. I just wonder if they get comps. ee: Both dead. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 00:40 on May 4, 2018 |
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May 4, 2018 00:32
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Gavok posted:The best Mayday Parker comic is that one-shot from Universe X where middle-aged Peter is locked in some kind of fantasy coma and May enters it to wake him up. Then she discovers that in his fantasy, he's succeeded by a son with Gwen Stacy and May has a brutal mental breakdown over it. I hate that comic with the passion of a thousand suns.
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May 4, 2018 01:54
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah--I've read most of Voice of the Fire and I actually think it's pretty cool. I've been a little gun shy with his other one, since it's so long and it's already pretty difficult for me to tackle huge books. It's worth it, for the most part.
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May 4, 2018 01:54
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Someone made a guide for the FCBD selection this year. https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/05/03/603652979/free-comic-book-day-2018-a-guide-to-the-best-bets-and-the-best-avoided My local only lets you carry away two free comics (if this year's rules are the same as the last) I'll try to get World's Greatest Cartoonists and Barrier if they have them. The big two stuff usually gets on Comixology anyway.
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May 4, 2018 03:42
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Teenage Fansub posted:Someone made a guide for the FCBD selection this year. Thanks for the link. Guess I'll make the rounds to see if any of my local shops have the new Street Angel story.
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