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CapnAndy posted:Rat Queens took a serious nosedive in quality for a while there. It picked back up again eventually. Did it? I fell off it once Sejic left.
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If I had the power to get rid of one thing from comic stories (and movies) it would be the henchmen. Why? I hate how the hero of the story will brutalize hundreds of henchmen, even kill them, but when it comes to facing the main villain the hero will go "it isn't worth it for me to permanently main/kill you" and that will be it. Like the hero decided the henchmen deserved a date far worse than the main villain who probably killed far more people than all the henchmen combined, but because the villain has a name the hero knows he isn't worth the pain and suffering the hero dished out to the henchmen.
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Jul 30, 2020 05:25
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Madkal posted:If I had the power to get rid of one thing from comic stories (and movies) it would be the henchmen. Why? I hate how the hero of the story will brutalize hundreds of henchmen, even kill them, but when it comes to facing the main villain the hero will go "it isn't worth it for me to permanently main/kill you" and that will be it. Like the hero decided the henchmen deserved a date far worse than the main villain who probably killed far more people than all the henchmen combined, but because the villain has a name the hero knows he isn't worth the pain and suffering the hero dished out to the henchmen. Depends on how it's handled really, like in Batman '66 makes it work pretty well cause the treatment between villain and henchman by Batman and Robin is usually pretty equal(unless one of them is a woman) and the violence is usually pretty mild(just enough to make it interesting) Basically like a lot of other things, Batman '66 is something more superhero works need to take lessons from
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Madkal posted:If I had the power to get rid of one thing from comic stories (and movies) it would be the henchmen. Why? I hate how the hero of the story will brutalize hundreds of henchmen, even kill them, but when it comes to facing the main villain the hero will go "it isn't worth it for me to permanently main/kill you" and that will be it. Like the hero decided the henchmen deserved a date far worse than the main villain who probably killed far more people than all the henchmen combined, but because the villain has a name the hero knows he isn't worth the pain and suffering the hero dished out to the henchmen. This was one of my biggest complaints about Arrow, this exact thing. He would cripple, maim, and murder scores of nameless goons, then got all high and mighty with his team when they killed anyone who really had it coming.
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Jul 30, 2020 06:30
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Jul 30, 2020 06:48
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Madkal posted:As much as I really hate to say it I found Rat Queens was never as good as it originally was after its original artist (who was a domestic abuser) was fired from the book. Not that the art quality dipped but the stories just were not good and I kind of hate myself for saying it but that's my opinion.  I like Rat Queens but the story is getting needlessly complex.
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Madkal posted:If I had the power to get rid of one thing from comic stories (and movies) it would be the henchmen. Why? I hate how the hero of the story will brutalize hundreds of henchmen, even kill them, but when it comes to facing the main villain the hero will go "it isn't worth it for me to permanently main/kill you" and that will be it. Like the hero decided the henchmen deserved a date far worse than the main villain who probably killed far more people than all the henchmen combined, but because the villain has a name the hero knows he isn't worth the pain and suffering the hero dished out to the henchmen. I take it this is the first time learning about white collar crime?
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Jul 30, 2020 16:43
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Something I've discovered since the rona is that my reading of comics was really tied into my weekly tradition of hitting the bar for lunch. I just don't feel the same urge to keep up on my weeklies, even titles I love, without that. It's kind of sad.
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Jul 31, 2020 17:15
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Soonmot posted:Something I've discovered since the rona is that my reading of comics was really tied into my weekly tradition of hitting the bar for lunch. I just don't feel the same urge to keep up on my weeklies, even titles I love, without that. It's kind of sad. Same. For me reading in general is was tied to reading on the bus and subway during my commute. Now I don't think I've read even half as much as I used to.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:35
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Mine is the same: get 3-5 weeklies every other week and read them ASAP. Buy a bundle of digital books and go a few days reading about half of it, then going days or weeks without reading anything. I thought my reread pile would shrink, but I hardly made a dent.
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Jul 31, 2020 19:06
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I have the problem that I didn't have a pull list, I just went in and got what I wanted weekly, and breaking that weekly habit really, really hosed me up. I don't know when comics restarted, I don't know what issues of what comics I was following have come out in the intervening time, and every wednesday I forget to actually get some comics puts me that much further back.
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Jul 31, 2020 19:11
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I cancelled my pull list just before the UK went into lockdown. My shop has since reopened but I'm still working from home and I just haven't felt the urge to go back. I thought that I'd maybe go digital when releases started up again but I haven't done that either so the habit of going in every Wednesday was a huge part of me getting and reading comics.
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Jul 31, 2020 20:39
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Are release dates of upcoming comics posted anywhere?
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Jul 31, 2020 21:04
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Gripweed posted:Are release dates of upcoming comics posted anywhere? This thread
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Jul 31, 2020 21:12
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Skwirl posted:This thread The dates are only available a week in advance? I was hoping to see when exactly Ultraman and Marneus Calgar start, but they're both at least a month away.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:18
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Gripweed posted:The dates are only available a week in advance? I was hoping to see when exactly Ultraman and Marneus Calgar start, but they're both at least a month away. Individual titles you can usually just google search but I don't think there's a hard release date for those yet. Everything I can find just says "September" for Ultraman.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:25
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Skwirl posted:Individual titles you can usually just google search but I don't think there's a hard release date for those yet. Everything I can find just says "September" for Ultraman. I guess I'll check when we're clsoer to September. Thanks
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Jul 31, 2020 21:28
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My shop stayed open during shut down (all customers had to wear masks and only allowed two people in at a time but they weren't getting any new stock. It's a fairly small shop and such so I would try support by getting graphic novels (usually would phone ahead to get them to put it aside so it would be a quick pick up). One thing the pandemic has done for me is now I'm re reading a lot of my singles issues for runs I haven't read in ages. With trades I will usually reread them every once in a while but with singles it's usually one and done but I'm finally rereading singles like I did when I was a kid.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:53
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Gripweed posted:I guess I'll check when we're clsoer to September. Thanks Comixology has it coming out on September 9.
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Jul 31, 2020 22:24
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Greekonomics posted:Comixology has it coming out on September 9. Oh cool, thanks. And they have the date for Marneus Calgar, October 14th. It also says that both of those are issues 1 (of 5). Which is new and unhappy news.
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Jul 31, 2020 22:27
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The Ultraman series is titled 'The Rise of Ultraman' which does give the impression that it could lead into an ongoing.
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Roth posted:The Ultraman series is titled 'The Rise of Ultraman' which does give the impression that it could lead into an ongoing. I certainly hope so. Those are two franchises that could easily support multiple ongoings and big crossover events. the yearly Ultraman series and Black Library novels already do a totally satisfactory job telling discrete, finite stories. If the Marvel comics do the same thing then that'll be a waste.
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I don't think Marvel would have bothered getting the rights to either Ultraman or Warhammer 40k if their entire plan was to just make a single miniseries and nothing further.
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https://twitter.com/enthusiamy/status/1289258279340658689 So what heroes would fit this hypothetical criteria?
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Yvonmukluk posted:https://twitter.com/enthusiamy/status/1289258279340658689
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Yvonmukluk posted:https://twitter.com/enthusiamy/status/1289258279340658689 If The Slingers had been rebooted with a new team in 2015 And also if The Slingers had lasted 9 years instead of barely one year
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It didn’t last until 2008, but the Mattie Franklin Spider Woman series had its first issue in 1999, and Spider Gwen first appeared in 2015. That’s about as close as I can get.
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You guys aren't doing the analogy right, here's a non comics example someone in the comments noted that might get you thinking correctly; https://twitter.com/Alsadius/status/1289365146192637952?s=19
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We are closer in time to the life of Christ than he was to the construction of the pyramids of Giza.
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Time in the year 2020 has no meaning. We are as close as Batman fighting Joker now as we are to Batman fighting Joker then as we will be to Batman fighting the Joker in the future.
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Madkal posted:Time in the year 2020 has no meaning. We are as close as Batman fighting Joker now as we are to Batman fighting Joker then as we will be to Batman fighting the Joker in the future. Well, I mean, there's canonically three...
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Aug 1, 2020 23:29
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Wow. Runaways S3 really just shits the bed.
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Aug 2, 2020 08:41
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Season 1 poo poo every piece of furniture in the house.
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Rhyno posted:Season 1 poo poo every piece of furniture in the house. But the witch poo poo is... ehhhh. Hurley is pretty amazing though.
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Open Marriage Night posted:It didn’t last until 2008, but the Mattie Franklin Spider Woman series had its first issue in 1999, and Spider Gwen first appeared in 2015. FilthyImp posted:Wow. Runaways S3 really just shits the bed.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Yeah, I was considering trying it out for the Cloak & Dagger crossover, but even that is apparently bad. The Jonah subplot gives the parents something to do, and Julian McMahon is fun, but the eventual resolution to that is such a wet thud that S3 is dragged down by it. It doesn't help that they quite obviously needed to prune the cast down and skimp of FX stuff.
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I guess I'm in the minority but my comic book reading has actually increased the last couple of months. Before lockdown I was buying more books than I was reading. Now I'm getting through them all and making a significant dent in my back log. I just started reading Burbaker and Phillips' The Fade Out and it's really good!
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FilthyImp posted:Wow. Runaways S3 really just shits the bed. eh, I enjoyed it and thought it was better than S2. wish they had introduced Victor instead of just teasing him for S4 though
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Have they run away yet?
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/\/\/\/\also thatBarry Convex posted:eh, I enjoyed it and thought it was better than S2. wish they had introduced Victor instead of just teasing him for S4 though does molly ever wear a cool hat for more than half an episode?
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