The Comic book Thread

[FrankBooth]

Be nice to get some good Soviet action for Cap 2, Bucky gonna be a mean bitch.


I admit I haven't read much of GOTG, I know people are really into it. It seems like fun.

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Be nice to get some good Soviet action for Cap 2, Bucky gonna be a mean bitch.


I admit I haven't read much of GOTG, I know people are really into it. It seems like fun.

Nice Iron Armor. Were's my can opener?

GOTG: They bare no resemblance to the original team (admittedly alternate dimension ...but, not just at first, only after young Astrovik was created.) That origin was in Marvel Super Heroes (number 18 I think Gene Colan art) and then the original series. Then there was the 90s series which was pretty good and mostly the same team with Star Hawk-Aleta and a few others added. I remember a young woman, who I thought kicked ass.Alternate Universe we were told.

Now it is all descendents of Starlin books mixed with Marvel 2000s cosmic characters. Rocket Racoon was first in Hulk. Starlord (although, vastly different) had his own, one-shot, B&W mag. Wasn't Groot a Marvel big-Foot Monster (period)? Or was he a Hulk villain too? Gamora from Warlock. Drax, although mutated and smart now, from Captain Marvel. Moondragons' daddy, brought back to life by Kronos with brain damage and one though. Kill Thanos.

Really thought Cosmo, Moondragon and Mantis (the Celestial Madonna, after all) were vital to the new group but, guess they wanted to simplify for the movie. Which will be made too complex in the second movie, as happens, by complaints about the first. They live on a space station that is really the dead corpse of a Celestial. It is a big, rough place, with nasty inhabitants, and they are the defacto sherriffs, as well as Guarding our Galaxy.

Tied into Nova Corps, Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar, Magus' Universal Church of Truth, Warlock, Marv-ell, Inhumans, Thanos, Infinity Gauntlet, Cosmic Cube (Tesseract for all you movie goers), Eternals of Titan, Terrax, Quasar, Badoon, Negative Zone, Cosmic Control Rod, Moondragon, Pip The Troll etc... type of stuff.

[EvilMinion]

Evil Minion:

I hear Stephenie Brown, Jr (is that her name?) is not going to be in Smallville Season 11. It will be Barbara Gordon. Or so a DC panel reports from Comic Con.

A lot of people were upset over that announcement.

I just read that. DC were kind of d1ckish about it as well. They said they hadn't heard the 'rumour' that Steph Brown was going to be in Smallville, but WE HAVE EYES DC, we saw the art. Their reasoning is that Barbara Gordon is a more well-known character than SB.


Lego Catwoman:




Brand spanking Captain Marvel this week, and some movie about a bat.

[custodes]

^ Nice Lego art.

As for the d1ckishness, it is Scott Lobdell. The lamest talent with the most power since Robomination Liefeld.

There was a DC panel at Comic Con called Young Justice. It seems they are using that name for a large group of teen heroes now. Who comes up on stage to talk and answer questions? Scott Lobdell. He then proceeds to discuss all his tremendously horrible books like Teen Titans, Superboy (now turned over to DeFalco....so Scott can blame it on him now...Scotts' good at deflecting blame), Red Hood and the Outlaws (ghastly writing and art....you remember), and the whole Robin problem created. Who is Robin in TT? Damian is with Batman, Red Hood and where is Red Robin? Stephanie? He is now going to write Superman which is a horrible mess already (but, I blame much of this on him....he is a main Superman Family architect in the DCnU. Even Morrisons' Action is ruined and he is usually great. There is still a 5 year span between Super and Action.Mess!

No talk at all about Young Justice. Fooled ya. Wonder how many were annoyed at the show? I was shown the wiki page and told this is Young Justice. Tell that to the TV fans who have actual taste. I accuse them of changing it to attempt to get more readers to read Lobdells' horrible books. Some of DCs' finest and crumbling fast. Held up only by character recognition itself.

Scott himself said at last: I do not watch the Young Justice TV Show.

[custodes]

Brand spanking Captain Marvel this week.

I read the Avenging Spider Man this month with her in it. It was pretty good. Didn't explain her new costume or show what came first but, I enjoyed it. Preview they said. Continued next month. Her and Spidey taking on a Private Military Group hired by a bank , who wear armor suits. They are chasing a "thief" or possibly "political activist" who they say robbed the bank and are using deadly force on Carol, Petey and this woman, in a flying suit. She has no name yet but, thinks of herself as a Robin Hood.

[custodes]

Well, they did it. Those fvckers at DC killed Steve Trevor! And his new book starts in Oct. You know the one? With Waller. It takes place 5 years ago, natch. Way to screw up our heads more DC.


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[IconOfEvi]

Batman! BATMAN!

You MUST all see it!

NOW!

[custodes]

Batman! BATMAN!

You MUST all see it!

NOW!

Batwho? Is that the guy with the lightening bolt?

[EvilMinion]

^ Nice Lego art.

As for the d1ckishness, it is Scott Lobdell. The lamest talent with the most power since Robomination Liefeld.

There was a DC panel at Comic Con called Young Justice. It seems they are using that name for a large group of teen heroes now.

Heh, Robomination. I noticed that, I was hoping for a Young Justice book, but no dice. Is YJ: Invasion not popular? I like it well enough.

Well, they did it. Those fvckers at DC killed Steve Trevor!

DC seems to have been aiming for the 18 - 25 year old guy demographic with the 'reboot', and part of that is killing off the love interests - you know, anyone who could possibly make the heroes happy. Superman is single in one reality and a widower in another, Alan Scott's boyfriend is dead, and now Steve Trevor. I don't like the trend towards making everything 'gritty', I get it for Batman, but that's not what Superman or Wonder Woman are about.

I'm glad they kept Shazam/the other Captain Marvel around though, Billy's a great kid.

I actually got to visit a CBS recently. It was okay, lots of trade, not as many single issues, and none of what I normally get. I grabbed some others:

New Deadwardians #1 - I liked it more than I thought I would.

Rachel Rising #1 - really good, I've wanted to buy this for a while, didn't get around to it.

Mystic #1 - cute high fantasy story, another one I've wanted to buy for a while and kept forgetting about it. I'm glad I found it.

Dominique Laveau #1 and 2 - I didn't enjoy this much. The narration is overwritten, and the dialogue is underwritten. It's a bit of a mess. I don't mind narration in the hardboiled detective story style, but there's only so much 'each city builds its own myths and blood flakes off the ghosts like red rust and blah blah blah' I can take. It's too much on every page, and it's compensating for a weak plot structure. Disappointingly, this was the only comic I bought two issues of, I wish I'd bought #2 for the rest of them and not this one.

Buffy Season 9 vol 1. Shut up, I like it.

[FrankBooth]

Hello, a bit of catching up to do. Sorry for being out of action. No need to mention the horrible events in colorado, beyond sickening.

Sometimes people shouldn't speak : http://robot6.comicbookresources.com...night-returns/






Cam of one of the Man of Steel teasers, surprisingly Snyder seems restrained and I like the trailer : http://modernagecomics.tumblr.com/po...that-didnt-get

You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

[EvilMinion]

I hope you weren't out of action for anything serious, FrankB.

The mindless speculation for the purpose of filling airspace over the shooter's motives are disgusting. He probably would have tailored his actions to any media, he just happened to be 'inspired' by Batman in this instance.

I was worried about Snyder's slow-mo fetish for Man of Steel. It's okay in small doses, like in Dawn of the Dead, but it's too much in 300. IMO, anyway. Every guy I know loves it, so maybe it's just me.

[custodes]

Heh, Robomination. I noticed that, I was hoping for a Young Justice book, but no dice. Is YJ: Invasion not popular? I like it well enough.

Yeah, Invasion is great. The problem is DC is now calling Teen Titans, Superboy, Red Hood, Legion of SuperHeroes (the only good book) and a bunch of others "Young Justice." Wrong. Young Justice is the comic named YJ and the Cartoon and books from the 90s. Not these others. At Comic Con 2012 they had a panel named Young Justice, it opened and they handed the microphone to Scott Lobdell and all he talked about were his books TT, Superboy Red Hood etc.... He did not discuss YJ like most of the audience hoped. Lame trick. He is hands down the worst writer in comics today. No he does not write, nor read (he says) the real Young Justice.

DC seems to have been aiming for the 18 - 25 year old guy demographic with the 'reboot', and part of that is killing off the love interests - you know, anyone who could possibly make the heroes happy. Superman is single in one reality and a widower in another, Alan Scott's boyfriend is dead, and now Steve Trevor. I don't like the trend towards making everything 'gritty', I get it for Batman, but that's not what Superman or Wonder Woman are about.

I'm glad they kept Shazam/the other Captain Marvel around though, Billy's a great kid.

I actually got to visit a CBS recently. It was okay, lots of trade, not as many single issues, and none of what I normally get. I grabbed some others:

New Deadwardians #1 - I liked it more than I thought I would.

Rachel Rising #1 - really good, I've wanted to buy this for a while, didn't get around to it.

Mystic #1 - cute high fantasy story, another one I've wanted to buy for a while and kept forgetting about it. I'm glad I found it.

Dominique Laveau #1 and 2 - I didn't enjoy this much. The narration is overwritten, and the dialogue is underwritten. It's a bit of a mess. I don't mind narration in the hardboiled detective story style, but there's only so much 'each city builds its own myths and blood flakes off the ghosts like red rust and blah blah blah' I can take. It's too much on every page, and it's compensating for a weak plot structure. Disappointingly, this was the only comic I bought two issues of, I wish I'd bought #2 for the rest of them and not this one.

Buffy Season 9 vol 1. Shut up, I like it.

I read Shazam and am interested. Many folks are pissed at how he is a serious juvenile delinquent. I'm much more interested in that backup story than the JLA. Only reason I haven't dropped the book.

Most DC books I'm dropping right and left. Few left. I like many Vertico books though including New Deadwardians. I did not like Dominique LaVeau either. Bad writing. Words had nothing to do with the pictures.

Try maybe the "Locke & Key" trade paperbacks. Pretty damn cool. Teen descendants of a strange family inherit a Mansion full of Keys that give super powers (and horror.)

I never read Buffy but, I watched every episode. It is sort of the past to me but, not yet nostalgia past. Not ready to do it up again yet. I do read several IDW TV/Movie related books though. Some are very good.

I hated 300. Tried to watch it 5 times and couldn't. Liked Sin City. Loved Watchmen despite the people bitching about it. Watchmen ( the movie)is all about paying close attention to the opening credits scene. Still pissed they couldn't get the Special Forces Honor Guard to march in step at the funeral though. High Hopes for Man of Steel.

Frank: Yeah....blame the shooting on a comic. Let's hear the ( accused) killer tell us why he did it please. Before he is jailed, and in isolation for 3 months.) Don't make up stories.

Also, thanks for the Trailer. Hope you are feeling OK!

[EvilMinion]

Thanks for the "Locke and Key" rec, I'll have a look. I liked Watchmen too, it was worth it for the credits alone.

I've been slowly working my way through Fables, and I love Sandman, even if makes me a hipster poser

Speaking of Sandman, there's going to be a prequel, and JH Williams is going to illustrate.

[custodes]

Thanks for the "Locke and Key" rec, I'll have a look. I liked Watchmen too, it was worth it for the credits alone.

I've been slowly working my way through Fables, and I love Sandman, even if makes me a hipster poser

Speaking of Sandman, there's going to be a prequel, and JH Williams is going to illustrate.

Locke & Key is great. Ask Frank (and I think it is right up your alley.)

I didn't care much for Fables. Thought it was OK but, not great. Read the first 3 1/2 TPs. Loved Sandman with a passion. Don't tell Neil. Looking forward to the new ones. His (Gaimens') first book of short stories "Smoke and Mirrors" was very interesting. Do not like his novels (text). You are not a hip poser. They can like good things too.

Saga really good. Saucer Country ( although, it is all American politics.) Vertigo usually very good. Except maybe VOODOO and Marie Laveau. Haven't tried Fairies because, I didn't love Fables. Books of Magic pretty good, from the old days. Especially the very first 4 issue mini-series.

[FrankBooth]

Locke & Key makes me smile, really do love that series. I am not the biggest Fables fan but see the appeal, beautiful art and stories. I need to return to reading more of it. EM is going to read Hellboy/BPRD and become another fan, cause she should.

I am two weeks behind, just a bit much going on but will update the thread with comic stuff. Still have not seen TDKR, I will soon.

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