-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
COMICS!!!|OT| December 2018 |Face front, true believers!
- Thread starter Messi
- Start date
- Status
I'm not up to date with X-Men continuity but shouldn't the leader of the X-Men really be Storm? Jean was dead for years and I don't really understand how or why Kitty became the leader instead.
It was setup during X-Men Gold #1 iirc. Not sure why it wasn't Storm though.
Yeah that was her logic after IvX. "That sucked, I quit, Kitty's in charge now."
OP
OP
Size changes depending on people's settings and at a base level the banner sizes on mobile and desktop are waaaay different. There's very little we can do.
Kitty had some sort of complex for Storm during the Claremont years, I'll tell you that much.
Covers in general are weird. The portion of the image that gets displayed varies by desktop / mobile and where it's being viewed. If you put a location in your profile, your cover image will get a bit more viewable space when people click your avatar.
A couple of the Joelle Jones statues dropped pretty low on Amazon. Batgirl is 62 and Supergirl is 75
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0741F6VWS/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079HFPD7X/ref=psdc_10304191_t3_B0741F6VWS
Plus I got Bombshells Vixen for 55 from one of the Entertainment Earth daily deals.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0741F6VWS/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079HFPD7X/ref=psdc_10304191_t3_B0741F6VWS
Plus I got Bombshells Vixen for 55 from one of the Entertainment Earth daily deals.
Lengthy review incoming
I'm conflicted by this book. It has a number of strong qualities that seem undermined by the craft of the author. I feel, at times, that I was reading a great work produced by someone ten years before they would be capable of doing it justice. Still, it is a book very much worth reading if I think it may be superceded by other works and reduced by time.
Sulaiman has knack for making characters work. They're all very well defined in terms of their interests and ambitions. Dialogue mostly gleams, but on occasion, it comes off as it maybe rushing to push along the story and as part of a rougher draft.
The passage of time is marked by a death count that wears the reader down. I felt myself feeling like the characters do, weighed down by the violence around them with seemingly no end in sight even in disbelief at its own continuation. Depictions of real life videos and photos are inserted into the book as filtered through the book's style. It is one of many creative decisions that ultimately make this book greater than the sum of its parts.
While the situation in Syria may be extremely complicated by any number of actors and agents, the simple graphic style of the story serves the setting well. But just because the style is simple, it does not mean it is elegant. The execution here is messy and clunky. The expressions of characters are too basic and inconsistent especially when it comes to women. The body language of the characters often exists only in a minimal way.
In some pages, silhouettes tell the story and they are used to great effect. I understand the author may have wanted to boil down the visuals to its most basic point in these pages, but the composition in these panels communicates too little to tell us anything of significance. Almost every panel is stiffly posed. Whenever the story requires a sense of movement, Sulaiman loses his hold on the craft.
In comparison, when Sulaiman includes them, his backgrounds are quite striking and dynamic. The high contrast style works marvelously here. At around the midpoint, pages 138 and 139 in my edition, there is a wonderful sequence where the characters set up sniper cover on a street. It is the visual highlight of the book and it may be telling that the characters occupy little real estate on these two pages.
But the book accomplishes what the author sets out to do. I came away from the book, not understanding the conflict to a greater extent, but seeing it with a more sensitive, grounded point of view gifted by the author. Am I personally bringing it down too many points because of what I want to be?
Is this type of journalism, one where a timely comic is created to explain a place, people and time, bound to the same standards as a regular entry of fiction? I don't know, but my ultimate recommendation is that you check this book out and make your conclusion as to what a work like this means.
I'm conflicted by this book. It has a number of strong qualities that seem undermined by the craft of the author. I feel, at times, that I was reading a great work produced by someone ten years before they would be capable of doing it justice. Still, it is a book very much worth reading if I think it may be superceded by other works and reduced by time.
Sulaiman has knack for making characters work. They're all very well defined in terms of their interests and ambitions. Dialogue mostly gleams, but on occasion, it comes off as it maybe rushing to push along the story and as part of a rougher draft.
The passage of time is marked by a death count that wears the reader down. I felt myself feeling like the characters do, weighed down by the violence around them with seemingly no end in sight even in disbelief at its own continuation. Depictions of real life videos and photos are inserted into the book as filtered through the book's style. It is one of many creative decisions that ultimately make this book greater than the sum of its parts.
While the situation in Syria may be extremely complicated by any number of actors and agents, the simple graphic style of the story serves the setting well. But just because the style is simple, it does not mean it is elegant. The execution here is messy and clunky. The expressions of characters are too basic and inconsistent especially when it comes to women. The body language of the characters often exists only in a minimal way.
In some pages, silhouettes tell the story and they are used to great effect. I understand the author may have wanted to boil down the visuals to its most basic point in these pages, but the composition in these panels communicates too little to tell us anything of significance. Almost every panel is stiffly posed. Whenever the story requires a sense of movement, Sulaiman loses his hold on the craft.
In comparison, when Sulaiman includes them, his backgrounds are quite striking and dynamic. The high contrast style works marvelously here. At around the midpoint, pages 138 and 139 in my edition, there is a wonderful sequence where the characters set up sniper cover on a street. It is the visual highlight of the book and it may be telling that the characters occupy little real estate on these two pages.
But the book accomplishes what the author sets out to do. I came away from the book, not understanding the conflict to a greater extent, but seeing it with a more sensitive, grounded point of view gifted by the author. Am I personally bringing it down too many points because of what I want to be?
Is this type of journalism, one where a timely comic is created to explain a place, people and time, bound to the same standards as a regular entry of fiction? I don't know, but my ultimate recommendation is that you check this book out and make your conclusion as to what a work like this means.
Guggenheim was given X-Men Gold which became the "main" X-Book and he's literally a younger Claremont except replace Storm with Kitty. He said repeatedly she's his favorite character and he quite literally turned her into Felicity from Arrow. Inexplicably the HBIC with emphasis on the B. She's treated as this unstoppable perfect leader when she's mostly a bitch to everyone who makes speeches for no real reason.
While I'm lukewarm on his writing, I did appreciate in Sina Grace's first Iceman run where Bobby straight told Kitty she's been a bitch ever since she became leader. And made fun of her hair.
Great review Ultraviolet Mexican ! I've not heard of this text but it moved to the top of my "find ASAP" pile. Thanks.
Oh yeah I never intended to blame yall, that's a great cover pic, I'm just amazed at how weird all this works
Well yeah, but hey, you gotta go through the cycle.
Has Storm fucked up?
Go to Kitty
Has Kitty Caused a mess?
Scott you're on deck
Whoops Scott fucked the pooch
Logan, go and do the leader thing
Wolverine screwed things royally?
Hey Beahahahahahahahaha get one of the one offs
Whoops they did no good
You free storm?
Who needs him, it's me they're calling out to
I love how you almost can't even see Batman
And I reply "No."
OP
OP
OP
OP
I love how you almost can't even see Batman
What does mine look like on desktop. Can you see my sons clearly?
Considering I've seen 0 posts I'm assuming people in this thread aren't that excited about the Avengers game. Y'all are smart. I'm going to die of laughter if the rumors are true and you play as a fucking S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
Cyclops fans fearing for their sanity that their hero is going to get whipped once again and return to blandness.
Oops.
And yeah, I'm pretty sure you replied to me when I posted a pic of that a few months ago. I own the whole series digitally, too.
10% it's PS4 Spider-Man or Rocksteady Batman tier, 90% it's every other superhero video game tier.
Pretty much, it's Square Enix
Also, not going to get excited about a game I've seen fuck all about.
Gaming disappoints me more often that not nowadays anyway.
- Status