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Has anyone been reading the new Lucifer books, because I can't think of a series that had a more definitive ending, so how are they making more?
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Autism Sneaks posted:Lois Lane is Greg Rucka and He's saying Bendis is responsible for them getting made, not that he's writing them himself.
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Mar 10, 2020 14:18
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I historically have found Mark Russell's stuff profoundly annoying but even I liked Wonder Twins. It feels gentler and more tempered than his earlier stuff, and I think making his protagonists two earnestly nice and good people blunts what I took as an almost affected cynicism elsewhere.
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I've been reading the YJ books and it hasn't really come up. Has any other series covered why some people remember the original Young Justice and some don't? Is it it just a Dr Manhattan punched reality thing? edit: Hah! Never mind as of #14 Beerdeer fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 15:31
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Beerdeer posted:I've been reading the YJ books and it hasn't really come up. Has any other series covered why some people remember the original Young Justice and some don't? Is it it just a Dr Manhattan punched reality thing? It was a Johns/Didio reality punch.
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Mar 11, 2020 15:38
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Well first Barry Reality Raced everything. And then Brainiac Reality Catalogued all the Hypertime worlds but Then Perpetua Reality-Rewound everything, but Doc Manhattan Reality Observed everything and placed Superman at the heart but now Wally is Reality Thunking everything from the Doctor Mobiushattan Chair leading to the Metal Crisis of the Dark Universal, just in time for the Wall of Monitors that Guards the Multiversal Orrery of 5x2 worlds to come under fire from the Ubermonitor, leading to the company-crossover hit known as the Crisis War where Marvel and DC will unite.
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Mar 11, 2020 19:40
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further evidence of post-DiDio creative upheaval: the Generation Two one-shot is missing from the June solicits (they were previously announced to be released monthly, beginning with Generation One in May)
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Barry Convex posted:further evidence of post-DiDio creative upheaval: the Generation Two one-shot is missing from the June solicits (they were previously announced to be released monthly, beginning with Generation One in May) Generation Two?
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Covok posted:Generation Two? https://www.newsarama.com/49420-dc-s-generation-event-missing-from-june-2020-solicitations.html
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I was chatting with my old boss last night, mostly urging him to work from home as much as he can but he mentioned he heard a rumor the DC FCBD book is possibly being replaced with a basic reprint and the Generation 5G stuff will be kind of ignored for now.
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Rhyno posted:I was chatting with my old boss last night, mostly urging him to work from home as much as he can but he mentioned he heard a rumor the DC FCBD book is possibly being replaced with a basic reprint and the Generation 5G stuff will be kind of ignored for now. This wouldn't surprise me. DC Comics has a pretty lackluster FCBD track record for the most part, but them totally dumping 5G or whatever isn't unlikely. One thing I do wonder how the comic industry is going to deal with Coronavirus. There are so many stores (like mine certainly) that operate on pretty thin margins so having to shut down for a few weeks could be the end. We had to close for nearly two weeks from a hurricane a few years ago and that was rough. Just having three weeks of stock built up is hard to get out from under. Will Diamond be willing to delay every comic 2+ weeks if everything starts to get shut down? Business is already getting slow due to people not going out shopping as much, and it is only going to get worse.
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Mar 15, 2020 19:18
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more than the companies, ive seen a lot of creators worrying about making ends meet because those companies dont pay them poo poo and they rely on con money which has now disappeared. plus the fact that they dont get benefits either and the cost of getting sick would gently caress them over completely
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Mar 15, 2020 19:44
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site posted:more than the companies, ive seen a lot of creators worrying about making ends meet because those companies dont pay them poo poo and they rely on con money which has now disappeared. plus the fact that they dont get benefits either and the cost of getting sick would gently caress them over completely Yeah, if you have some spare cash most creators have personal websites where they sell merch, so I'd recommend getting some stuff from a couple favorites.
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Mar 15, 2020 20:45
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Rhyno posted:I was chatting with my old boss last night, mostly urging him to work from home as much as he can but he mentioned he heard a rumor the DC FCBD book is possibly being replaced with a basic reprint and the Generation 5G stuff will be kind of ignored for now. wasn't it already announced that the book was gonna be a reprint from the Wally story in Flash #750 and the Snyder Wonder Woman story from Wonder Woman #750? I feel like it was always reprints
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Mar 15, 2020 23:32
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Imagine a world where Jim Lee was willing to do an original 8-12 page Batman story for a Free Comic Book Day book. Reprints can be fine, but original stuff is good for both new and old readers.
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Mar 15, 2020 23:50
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Lord_Hambrose posted:This wouldn't surprise me. DC Comics has a pretty lackluster FCBD track record for the most part, but them totally dumping 5G or whatever isn't unlikely. Maybe not the right thread for it, but yeah I’m worried what happens to my shop if they have to shut down for 2 months. Not a lot of businesses can survive that, especially small stores like this that operate on the edge even in good times. I’m happy to have the owner just charge my card remotely and hold books for me, but I am not going in.
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Mar 15, 2020 23:51
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Reprints can be fine, but original stuff is good for both new and old readers.
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Mar 15, 2020 23:57
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One of the Wonder Twins villains being a take on Permit Patty who imprisons people in the Phantom Zone with her supertech cellphone, but it's always black people due to her deep-seated prejudice is a writing move that shouldn't work, but actually comes off as a deft, sad metaphor and works totally. I've always liked Russell's work though. I loved Snagglepuss.
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Mar 16, 2020 00:00
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Wasn't one year the FCBD book a preview of that Future's End story were Superman is a disfigured cyborg?
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Mar 16, 2020 00:18
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Skwirl posted:Wasn't one year the FCBD book a preview of that Future's End story were Superman is a disfigured cyborg? I don't recall Superman specifically but it was definitely a pretty tone deaf move to have the free DC comic on a day meant for getting kids into comics with a comic that features popular heroes getting horriblt disfigured.
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Mar 16, 2020 00:27
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I'm definitely worried for my shop's chances if they have to go several weeks with no or very little business. I'd think at some point those concerns would be so widespread that Diamond would have to let shops float if they couldn't pay the bills, or work out some kind of short-pay arrangement with them. My shop is already on thin margins because they're a DC heavy shop and the current DC lineup isn't connecting with their customers, so this would only make things worse.
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Mar 16, 2020 00:35
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Roth posted:I don't recall Superman specifically but it was definitely a pretty tone deaf move to have the free DC comic on a day meant for getting kids into comics with a comic that features popular heroes getting horriblt disfigured. I think the comic where Wendy and Marvin get maimed by Mighty Mutt who turns out to be a hell hound was on one of these.
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It was a Teen Titans comic and I think came out while the show was still very popular.
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Roth posted:I don't recall Superman specifically but it was definitely a pretty tone deaf move to have the free DC comic on a day meant for getting kids into comics with a comic that features popular heroes getting horriblt disfigured. dunno, sounds about right for the company who put the tom king supes story where he watches his wife murdered over and over again in the walmart kids digest
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Roth posted:It was a Teen Titans comic and I think came out while the show was still very popular. Ah ok. I remembered that it was Titans, but not whether it was a Comic Day thing or not. site posted:dunno, sounds about right for the company who put the tom king supes story where he watches his wife murdered over and over again in the walmart kids digest WTFBBQ?!!
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ElNarez posted:wasn't it already announced that the book was gonna be a reprint from the Wally story in Flash #750 and the Snyder Wonder Woman story from Wonder Woman #750? I feel like it was always reprints iirc it wasn't originally announced explicitly as a reprint book but yeah last I heard it's the Wally story from Flash #750 with a few extra pages, I forget what else
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doomrider7 posted:Ah ok. I remembered that it was Titans, but not whether it was a Comic Day thing or not. You heard right. Page loving 1:  (it's actually Superman imagining these things while he's stuck in a line at some DMV-esque line to use an alien pay phone to call Lois from halfway across the universe and he's imagining all the things that could be going wrong while he's gone but like half the pages are Lois dying so... yeah, not a great choice for kids)
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Roth posted:I don't recall Superman specifically but it was definitely a pretty tone deaf move to have the free DC comic on a day meant for getting kids into comics with a comic that features popular heroes getting horriblt disfigured. Ah, so Futures End, then.
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TwoPair posted:You heard right. Page loving 1: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! Ok I'm actually laughing at this. WTF?!! Who thought this was a good idea?!
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Is anyone itt a particularly avid LoSH fan? I'm trying to take this period of having a ton of downtime as an opportunity to dig into a franchise that was held pretty dear by a deceased friend of mine and which I'm overwhelmingly unfamiliar with outside of Giffen's stuff. Are the reboot Legion and Legionnaires just side-by-side serial books like the 90s Superman titles, or are they different teams/timelines? I know that the Legionnaires (I think?) were originally time displaced copies of the 5YL Legion that permitted lighter, more conventional superhero storytelling, but what's the meaningful distinction between the two titles/teams post-Zero Hour?
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How Wonderful! posted:Is anyone itt a particularly avid LoSH fan? I'm trying to take this period of having a ton of downtime as an opportunity to dig into a franchise that was held pretty dear by a deceased friend of mine and which I'm overwhelmingly unfamiliar with outside of Giffen's stuff. Are the reboot Legion and Legionnaires just side-by-side serial books like the 90s Superman titles, or are they different teams/timelines? I know that the Legionnaires (I think?) were originally time displaced copies of the 5YL Legion that permitted lighter, more conventional superhero storytelling, but what's the meaningful distinction between the two titles/teams post-Zero Hour? The Legion were my first exposure to super heroes beyond Superman. Post Zero Hour, the franchise received a full reboot and it's probably my favorite LOSH era of all time, all the way up til it's end. They took everything that worked and dropped everything that didn't and made some magic. The story flowed back and forth between the two books, much like the Superman titles. At one point they split via time travel for nearly a year before reuniting. But then Geoff Johns wanted the "real" Legion back. And don't get me wrong, they've done some great things with that but it all got chucked out the window again with Rebirth.
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Mark Waid’s Legion was good at the time.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Mark Waid’s Legion was good at the time. I didn't really care for it. I also totally forgot they existed so I guess I can't blame Johns.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:20
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It spun out of Johns Teen Titans if you want to blame him a little.
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Open Marriage Night posted:It spun out of Johns Teen Titans if you want to blame him a little. Blame's back on the menu! That was pretty bad if I recall, the Titans/Legion one shot kind of poo poo on Conner's Legion arc.
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Rhyno posted:The Legion were my first exposure to super heroes beyond Superman. isn't this missing the Waid "Threeboot" Legion?
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FoneBone posted:isn't this missing the Waid "Threeboot" Legion? If you look up like two posts we covered that I'd forgotten about it. There's also a tremendously horrible run by Jim Shooter that nobody should ever read.
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Rhyno posted:Blame's back on the menu! I haven’t went back and read it, but I remember I liked it because it introduced the Legion in a way that didn’t seem completely impenetrable to someone that just started reading monthly DC books outside of Batman with Teen Titans. Legion of Super Heroes is like Fantastic Four. They’re pillars that helped shape the super hero genre, revered by older fans and mega nerds, and often overlooked by the average fan. Honestly, I like the idea of the Legion more than I like reading about them. Absolutely love them in Superman stories though.
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Ehh, Fantastic Four is way more important to the DNA of Marvel comics and the first 103 issues with Jack Kirby is probably the greatest run of a superhero comic from that era.
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Every now and the Legion gets trotted out to prove *this* is a dire threat and it's just kind of boring. I'm just bitter the LoSH cartoon got canned.
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