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COMICS!!!|OT| August 2019 | DON'T MAKE IT TOO GAY!
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So the previous issue Power Girl is in her traditional red and white costume (no boob window, tho). This issue, she's suddenly wearing this downright tasteful outfit in totally different colors. The thing even has a turtleneck! (Canary's full coverage outfit is cool too)
This has one of my favorite Black Canary looks, easily.
NoThe best PG costume!:
It's better than her New 52 suit easily, but I'll always be a fan of the punk biker chick look myself.
It'll never get old for me
Her Rebirth look with the cross strap is really good.
Doing research for a listicle I'm writing and man, Kurt Busiek's Tony Stark is still the best version of the character, this many years later.
Was so busy yesterday I didn't get to read any comics until right before bed and I missed all of the discourse around Powers of X & what everyone else took from it. One thing that immediately jumped out at me though was
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On a separate thought, I also got a chance to read the JLD Annual, and that was some really great stuff. Ram V manages to find interesting meaningful contrasts and commentary on the parliament/nature of flowers vs trees, and between Swampy and the new avatar of the green. Within that, it was also a really great introspective, creepy af one and done swampy story, outside of a little bit of framing on either side, there's almost nothing to do with the current JLD storyline and it v much stood alone. March's art was perfect too, really good read.
The introduction of the preserve at the end & the librarian's frustration that there's *more machine code than soul* in the mutant archive definitely opens the door that at least some of what we see in either book, is the librarian's own simulation of a key significant event & potentially an inaccurate one at that. The two people in the trees at the end is obviously supposed to be evoking Eden, but what is Krakoa in the *present* if not eden, and the pod people did hatch naked at the beginning of HoX.
If he's running simulations to try to finish a different result to something that originally happened and created a domino effect that lead to all of the disaster alluded to, that would make the Moira/Xavier moment a candidate too. Perhap a simulation of a Moira from our present injected into what the Librarian believes to be a pivotal moment early with Xavier, to try and figure out what he was *really* thinking. We just get some generic "I had a dream" stuff, but maybe that's all that Xavier was really thinking that day and Moira is a variable to try and push an incomplete archive of Xavier into saying something new/revealing.
If he's running simulations to try to finish a different result to something that originally happened and created a domino effect that lead to all of the disaster alluded to, that would make the Moira/Xavier moment a candidate too. Perhap a simulation of a Moira from our present injected into what the Librarian believes to be a pivotal moment early with Xavier, to try and figure out what he was *really* thinking. We just get some generic "I had a dream" stuff, but maybe that's all that Xavier was really thinking that day and Moira is a variable to try and push an incomplete archive of Xavier into saying something new/revealing.
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On a separate thought, I also got a chance to read the JLD Annual, and that was some really great stuff. Ram V manages to find interesting meaningful contrasts and commentary on the parliament/nature of flowers vs trees, and between Swampy and the new avatar of the green. Within that, it was also a really great introspective, creepy af one and done swampy story, outside of a little bit of framing on either side, there's almost nothing to do with the current JLD storyline and it v much stood alone. March's art was perfect too, really good read.
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The GL annual was the worst Morrison writing I've read in years. Maybe ever.
And look at the damn colouring. What a crud issue.
edit: I'm amazed at the reviews being complimentary to the art on comicbookroundup.
edit: Steve Oliff's the colourist. Looks like he's most famous for the groundbreaking digital colouring of the American release of Akira in the 80's. I guess this is Morrison giving an old legend a break. I'm usually okay with that sort of thing, even when it looks wonky, but bleh.
eee: Actually, Oliff's been on the whole series. The same guy did this page:
I don't get it.
And look at the damn colouring. What a crud issue.
edit: I'm amazed at the reviews being complimentary to the art on comicbookroundup.
edit: Steve Oliff's the colourist. Looks like he's most famous for the groundbreaking digital colouring of the American release of Akira in the 80's. I guess this is Morrison giving an old legend a break. I'm usually okay with that sort of thing, even when it looks wonky, but bleh.
eee: Actually, Oliff's been on the whole series. The same guy did this page:
I don't get it.
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I gave up on comicbookroundup and comic reviews in general because they never match my opinion and even if I find a reviewer that does it's never consistent
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Hah I actually got a real kick out of this issue, just read it over my morning coffee and there were a few parts that genuinely made me laugh, like the family squabble and the swerve at the end. It felt like a good place to tell that story, in an annual where there's space to get a bit goofy and weird (I mean, there was basically a sonic pinball sequence on one page lol). To each their own of course, I feel bad if you didn't dig it since the cover price is higher than norm.
Please don't bully flatface-chan...I hope the art team all only had a day to work on the comic. I'll accept that.
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Ah yes, I loved that story when *checks notes* Predator joined the Sinestro Corps!
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Oliff is a legend but some of the old great colorists never made a smooth transition to digital coloring.The GL annual was the worst Morrison writing I've read in years. Maybe ever.
And look at the damn colouring. What a crud issue.
edit: I'm amazed at the reviews being complimentary to the art on comicbookroundup.
edit: Steve Oliff's the colourist. Looks like he's most famous for the groundbreaking digital colouring of the American release of Akira in the 80's. I guess this is Morrison giving an old legend a break. I'm usually okay with that sort of thing, even when it looks wonky, but bleh.
eee: Actually, Oliff's been on the whole series. The same guy did this page:
I don't get it.
This link talks a little bit about his work on Akira. He was doing digital color separations, not coloring in photoshop.
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I finished League of Extraordinary Gentlemen yesterday, all the way down to July's final issue and I have to say...I should have followed my original instinct of stopping after vol. 2.
I enjoyed the Nemo spin-offs and I think the third part of Century, but overall everything Moore did with this book from Black Dossier and onward just felt like it completely lost the plot. Story was dropped in favor of cramming as many literary, film, tv characters and references in as possible, even when it didn't make sense, even when they added nothing, and especially when they detracted from the originally established group of characters. Black Dossier makes a hard pivot to Mina and Allan as this immortal pair of flippant adventurers -- along with Orlando, who Moore clearly enjoys writing more than anyone else -- and it feels like it becomes a different book with a different group of people and a different purpose, where the references aren't the fun window dressing but the entire point. It also felt like something had changed tonally: whereas his America's Best Comics stuff was about having fun with comics, his League run increasingly began to feel like he was making fun of what he was doing at all, that it had all become beneath him and, even in the spirit of keeping things fun, he wasn't taking it seriously anymore and poked at the whole enterprise of it all.
I don't know, I didn't not enjoy the post-vol. 2 material, but it increasingly started to rub me the wrong way. The Nemo spin-offs are a notable exception because those felt like a return to the spirit of the original volumes, of telling a more classic adventure story with a comparatively light layer of reference-driven characters and plot points. But the main book, and its increasing obsession with Orlando, the Blazing World and Prospero, and an endless wave of references, just got tiresome.
I enjoyed the Nemo spin-offs and I think the third part of Century, but overall everything Moore did with this book from Black Dossier and onward just felt like it completely lost the plot. Story was dropped in favor of cramming as many literary, film, tv characters and references in as possible, even when it didn't make sense, even when they added nothing, and especially when they detracted from the originally established group of characters. Black Dossier makes a hard pivot to Mina and Allan as this immortal pair of flippant adventurers -- along with Orlando, who Moore clearly enjoys writing more than anyone else -- and it feels like it becomes a different book with a different group of people and a different purpose, where the references aren't the fun window dressing but the entire point. It also felt like something had changed tonally: whereas his America's Best Comics stuff was about having fun with comics, his League run increasingly began to feel like he was making fun of what he was doing at all, that it had all become beneath him and, even in the spirit of keeping things fun, he wasn't taking it seriously anymore and poked at the whole enterprise of it all.
I don't know, I didn't not enjoy the post-vol. 2 material, but it increasingly started to rub me the wrong way. The Nemo spin-offs are a notable exception because those felt like a return to the spirit of the original volumes, of telling a more classic adventure story with a comparatively light layer of reference-driven characters and plot points. But the main book, and its increasing obsession with Orlando, the Blazing World and Prospero, and an endless wave of references, just got tiresome.
Read Batman Last Knight on Earth #2. It is pretty great as an overall package. Much better than Batman Damned. Actually feels like 3 issues in one. Love seeing Capullo back on Batman with Snyder. Only complaint I have is it almost moves too fast, due to having to cram the story in to 3 oversized issues. The story they are telling could have been a 10-12 issue arc if they wanted. I mean it's probably a good thing they didn't, since it would have probably felt too bloated then. There's just some things I would have liked to seen more of.
Powers of X was meh. Not a fan of the art style. What the hell is going on with the Xavier's eyes and Magneto's nose. Also didn't like that manga style expressions for Nimrod.
xavier's eyes switching from actual eyes to cartoony black dots was definitely weird
Yeah it did look like Silva was rushed a bit. Maybe that what Xavier's eyes look like under the X Helmet. Just tiny like black, soulless eyes.xavier's eyes switching from actual eyes to cartoony black dots was definitely weird
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Powers of X - This was ok, but not as good as the first issue of HoX. I would have honestly preferred if the first issue was following Sinister's stuff on Mars, rather than that relegated to an info dump on one page. Neither of the two Hickman OCs really grab me personality or appearance wise. Still it was a good issue in that it did make me a bit interested in if Hickman's X-Men is going to revolve around the X-Men trying to change the future, and I do want to know what Xavier saw in Moira's head.
You did ask!
It was a pretty crap situation, and I'm glad Sina came forward and talked about it. Things like this don't get better unless we put the spotlight on them.
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I think our spotlight went better than last time! That's something, right?
I think our spotlight went better than last time! That's something, right?
Didn't someone post hentai during the spotlight?
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