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COMICS!!! |OT| February 2020 | Perfect for people that don't understand the complex 3 act structure/have a business degree
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I did warn you about how y'all were gonna hate the ending and meanwhile I fucking love it, but I live for that DRAMA.
It's the Bat-wedding thing all over again. You didn't get your big time makeout and fireworks scene and now you're cranky. I get it, but, at the same time, I think this is just another misadventure on the way to what everyone, you, me, Jody Houser and Dan Didio know to be the ultimate truth, which is that Harley and Ivy love each other very very much. It's just that for now, Ivy has to confront the bad parts of herself made manifest through an extra-powerful fertilizer given to her by Lex Luthor empowered by an extra-multiversal entity and fused with Martian DNA, as you do. It's a process.
The series ends with Harley looking at the empty seat where Ivy used to be and yearning. It's not the end of the relationship by a mile. It's just Tragedy.
The series ends with Harley looking at the empty seat where Ivy used to be and yearning. It's not the end of the relationship by a mile. It's just Tragedy.
Welcome back to "Whose Comics OT Is It Anyway?", where the canon's made up, and the ships don't matter.
Welcome back to "Whose Comics OT Is It Anyway?", where the canon's made up, and the ships don't matter.
pshhhh, drew carey instead of clive anderson
for shame
look I think characters struggling with the notion of whether or not they're worthy of someone's love is #relatable
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They are when they need to sell shit to people. Not when people actually need it. They are cowards.
Have you seen the people who are in charge. Look at how 'diverse' that list of 10 creators for the first generation books is. They'll throw some hints and crumbs to people if it'll sell a few variant covers but that's it.
Wolverine #1 Preview:
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/02/14/wolverine-murders-the-x-men-again-in-wolverine-1-preview/
The art looks so good in that second story. Hope they are rotating arcs or something.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/02/14/wolverine-murders-the-x-men-again-in-wolverine-1-preview/
The art looks so good in that second story. Hope they are rotating arcs or something.
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Sejic will get to put Harley and Ivy together for real by the end of Harleen... And they will allow that as its it's own universe, much like them being an actual couple in bombshells. But the main universe... Nah. Stop kidding yourselfs, we have been through this bait and switch multiple times and they hang it out there to sell copies because they know how desperate the fans of them are. Hell they released a Harley and Ivy valentines statue this week... Someone didn't get the memo... Or they did and the memo was milk the fans again.
They can miss me with their bullshit.
They can miss me with their bullshit.
I had no idea that The Terrifics #25 was a choose your own adventure style book.
Isnt Dan Mora working on some new book thats coming out soon? I swear ive seen that name attached to a new book coming out. The art is the issue looks great.
LOVE that cover too.
Isnt Dan Mora working on some new book thats coming out soon? I swear ive seen that name attached to a new book coming out. The art is the issue looks great.
LOVE that cover too.
I would assume he is going to be working on Once & Future (which is really good) for the next while since it was bumped up to an ongoing.
He did a cover for that Batman: The Adventures Continue series:
He's also still doing Power Rangers stuff, like new art for Heroes of the Grid (the board game) as new material comes out, and the covers for MMPR/TMNT.
Oh shit it was!!!? I still havent read the last issue, but I loved everything up to it. Would make a great show too lol.
But man his art is getting so good. Someone needs to sign him asap.
DC could be run by Magdalene Visaggio and Harley and Ivy still wouldn't be together.
These characters are designed to go on indefinitely and the machine that runs the company and fuels itself on angry fans computed that there's more to mine from the Will They Won't They of these two before maybe caving years down the line then eventually rescinding it and starting the whole thing over.
You're not going to get endings in cape comics.
These characters are designed to go on indefinitely and the machine that runs the company and fuels itself on angry fans computed that there's more to mine from the Will They Won't They of these two before maybe caving years down the line then eventually rescinding it and starting the whole thing over.
You're not going to get endings in cape comics.
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I always see Harley and Ivy as too independent (and in Ivy's case, morally conflicted) to actually settle down, but then again I don't read enough stuff with either of them in it so I can't make those judgements.
"As you do, it's a process." is my new favorite way of describing wacky character arcs.
You know, sometimes you get a phone call from a friend, sometimes a friend uses their levitating airship to break you out of prison when you've been framed for an incident that's killed a dozen people so Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman waste their time chasing you, while the actual perpetrator, himself wracked with loneliness and guilt, engineers his own suicide via time loop.
Not a super-favourite (and mayne not really indie), but I read a couple of Lions Forge series which were not bad - Astonisher, Summit, Quincredible.
But which Bat-wedding?!?! Batman or Batwoman? DC does this all the fucking time. They can't help themselves.
It's surprisingly hard to think of ones I like that don't have deconstruction as at least part of it.
There's also a lot of stuff I like that's closer to pulp hero but hits a lot of the same beats. Atomic Robo is online for free, for instance. There's been many Dynamite takes on stuff I've liked over the years like the Kevin Smith's Green Hornet series (it's a really good spin on the standard story) and there's been a couple of really good Lone Ranger (he counts IMO) stories. I remember loving the very first series they did, that had John Cassaday covers.
Some of the best the genre has to offer. So if you haven't read that, it goes first.
There's Invincible too I guess.
Irredeemable is awesome, one of my favourite series of all time. It's still amazing to me that the guy who wrote Kingdom Come also wrote that. I actually think that's part of why it works so well.
That's actually pretty interesting.
Huh. Some of that isn't so insane
Translucid
Secret Identities
These both look really cool and have been added to the list.
I should throw one out too: Everyone here should read Boneheaded: A Story About Masks for the adorable gay skeleton man.
No? It's a valid question to ask. Slott actually looked at the last couple runs on the character and asked: if he erased and restored his mind, and completely regenerated his body, what's left of the ACTUAL Tony Stark?
Harley Quinn Breaking Glass and Superman Smashes the Klan are fantastic.
Got my copy of Bone in today. Looks really nice, though I'm a little confused why it's $150. Reasonably well put together book, but if anybody were to ask me to examine this book and guess the price, I would have said $100 at most.
Still, excited to have it!
Still, excited to have it!
Got my copy of Bone in today. Looks really nice, though I'm a little confused why it's $150. Reasonably well put together book, but if anybody were to ask me to examine this book and guess the price, I would have said $100 at most.
Still, excited to have it!
that's gorgeous.
Thanks!
I'll keep an eye out for them. Are they on Comixology like standard DC comics?
Yup. SSTK is in three parts and finishes next week.
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Yes
In print they are smaller digest format but it suits them.
I enjoyed Teen Titans : Raven also.
It's a great looking book for sure. I want to start reading it, but I'm already reading Booster Gold by Jurgens Vol 1 and X-Men by Claremont/Lee Omni Vol 1.
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