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COMICS!!!|OT| July 2019 | No, More Mutants!
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Ahhhhhh!!!! That sounds good!! Fuck yeah. My hopes are up for a proper Hellblazer for the first time in years.
Spurrier on Hellblazer sounds fantastic
Why are we getting so many good teams on comics now? It feels wrong to be blessed with so much content. I'm used to TBAs and Khoi Pham.
Why are we getting so many good teams on comics now? It feels wrong to be blessed with so much content. I'm used to TBAs and Khoi Pham.
New Constantine!!! Ive always wanted to read Hellblazer, just never dove in because of the sheer amount of issues lol. Will totally check this out, just not sure about Si Spurrier. Ive heard his newer stuff has been great.
I bought the complete collection tpbs for cheap when I saw what they were starting to go for, then I found out they did Harcover OHC versions as well. So pissed I didnt know about those earlier damnit!
The Cable run that started directly after Messiah Complex is neat, but I was not a fan of the art in that series at all. Messiah War is the only really important story though.
It is awesome. The art isnt for everyone, but I thought it fit the tone of the book really well. Plus, you cant go wrong with Kyle and Yost.
I bought the complete collection tpbs for cheap when I saw what they were starting to go for, then I found out they did Harcover OHC versions as well. So pissed I didnt know about those earlier damnit!
The Cable run that started directly after Messiah Complex is neat, but I was not a fan of the art in that series at all. Messiah War is the only really important story though.
Simon spurrier has been training to do a hellblazer ongoing since The Simping Detective back at 2000 AD, we are blessed
This might truly be the only comic that actually matters in the year 2019
You know he's been doing The Dreaming for a hot minute, right? He was already back.
Takara's just doing the one-shot. Aaron Campbell is the ongoing artist. I always thought he was one of Dynamite's best guys.
JC and I both discussed it and the only announcement that could be cooler than any of the ones today is an X-Force comic by Fiffe
Also here's a Piskor variant for F4
I can't believe I'm going to be buying a Fantastic Four book. The shogun is really putting in work.
Also here's a Piskor variant for F4
I can't believe I'm going to be buying a Fantastic Four book. The shogun is really putting in work.
HOLY SHIT YES. Si's been doing such incredible work on The Dreaming! This is so cool. Also, DC EXPANDING the Sandman Universe instead of culling it with the Vertigo snip coming soon? This is very very good news.
Also, y'all mfers better go read The Dreaming now.
-The Simping Detective, a collection of film noir pastiche stories he did at 2000 AD. Excellent Frazier Irving artwork.
-Six Gun Gorilla, a sci-fi/fantasy story that also involves a giant six shooter gorilla. It's actually about learning to deal with grief and mistakes in a healthy way!
-The Spire: Same artist from six gun gorilla. A fantasy mystery with equal ties to Miyazaki and Crime fiction.
-legion: the Legion tv show cribs from this mightily
-Coda: kind of a LotR/Mad Max story starring a mute drifter in a post apocalyptic fantasy world
Damn, Jordan Richard's didn't pull any punches regarding Aaron's She-Hulk.
Have you read much 2000 AD? Do you have other recommendations?
Black Science
Oh hell fucking yes
Everything I've read from him has been great
Coda was fucking amazing and everyone should read it. Godshaper was great. Angelic was fun but incomplete. The Dreaming is perfect.
What an awful take. I'm so tired of this ComicsGate brand of indignation. Like, he's walking right into the meta-criticism that Aaron is dropping and saying, "That's me! And calling me out only proves I'm right!"
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I could be confusing him with someone else, I just seem to remember not being a big fan of his X-Force. But there were so many different X-Force books around that time, so I could be wrong.
Bought X-Men: Grand Design 2, New Mutants: Zeb Wells Complete Collection and X-Men: Marauders. That should appease my appetite (alongside New Mutants: Demon Bear) till Jonathan Hickman's run starts at the end of the month. For now, I'll just get through Grand Design 1 and 2. One step at a time.
Speaking of, theres a Hickman Image sale. His East of West is very good, but my favorite book by him at Image is Black Monday Murders. Just waiting for them to release the last arc of the book. Out of all of his works, I think that would make for an awesome show or film.
Aaron's take on She-Hulk is bad and it will be a good day when someone else gets to write her again.
I used to loooooove David Mack. I thought he was really pushing some boundaries with his Kabuki work. Then, allocations of copying other artists' work and not being able to actually draw. Frankly, I don't know what to fully believe on that front, but it cooled my enthusiasm for his work. I do think a lot of the first four (five?) Kabuki volumes have a lot going for them - even if their creation was ultimately derivative and not original, at least he was pulling from good places.
There is so much good stuff in 2000AD it can be hard to know where to start. The Weekly issue would be my recommendation. You won't have a clue what's going on but stories are generally quite short runs and pretty soon you'd be reading brand new ones and be getting into the groove.
If you like digital the 2000AD website will sell you drm free copies too.
2000AD is an utterly amazing British insitution with a massive backlog of things to dip in and out of. Depends what you like. Some of the classics
Judge Dredd (Can't recommend anything with Dredd highly enough)
Nemesis the Warlock
Zenith (Some quality work by Grant Morrison)
Rogue Trooper
Slaine
The Ballad of Halo Jones (Alan Moore)
Indigo Prime
Nikolai Dante
Sinister Dexter
it's an almost endless list. Definitely start reading the weekly though if you can.
Well. "Aaron is interested in a masculine brand of feminism" isn't too far off from what's happened with this version of She-Hulk. He's also right that not being conventionally attractive doesn't stop people from hitting on women and in fact, it does happen in that very comic, which is something I can't believe I missed while I was reading it.
Oh, I didn't realize that was 2000 AD. I have that on order at the library.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Does anyone remember an old digital X-Men comic? I'm pretty sure it was a Starjammers story, where it plays sound effects and all that? I remember loving it as a kid
I'm not saying She-Hulk wasn't frequently if not always used as a sexy fanservice pin up girl but it's still weird to me that a guy drains her of all her wit and personality and then treats her fans like sexist manbabies for not liking it.
I was like "that's cool"
Then he said old Galatucus was the big bad and I went "ehhhhh...."
Then he said days of future past
And playing off Xmen GD a bit
Shit will be gold
She's completely gone to waste is the problem. The comic ssue in question is probably the best use of her yet. Good character analysis and breakdown. The bigger issue being that certain fans are conflating how she isn't being used with ComicsGate bullshit.
That's complete bullshit and you know it, SageShinigami. There's no "masculine brand of feminism" at play. There's only feminism and then people who aren't feminists misusing the term to try and push opposing views. And I'm not even going to get into the rest of your comment. Completely irrelevant.
Nah, Weiss, don't go down this path, man. She can be the Hulk and still be that same woman she was. And pretending that calling out actual ComicsGate sexists is actually something more than that is bullshit. Don't conflate actual sexists with people who are critical. You're doing the sexists a favor.
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