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COMICS!!!|OT| July 2019 | No, More Mutants!
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I miss mini series. Let's not pretend every character needs a 50 issue run. Tom King is languishing on Batman because he just had to do 100 issues, even though 75 would've been fine. I want some announcements of a 12 issue mini series of some likable characters.
DC does mini/maxi series (Mr Miracle, Martian Manhunter, Naomi, Walmart stuff, all of the upcoming Joe Hill horror comics, the just announced Metal Men) and Marvel has minis that they call ongoings and cancel before ten issues :)
It's kind of a catch-22, though. Announce a character book as a mini and people will assume it's nothing interesting or important. Announce that same book as an ongoing and people debate over whether or not that character "deserves" it, not to mention how things fare after that shiny new #1. Sales will be there, but staying power is a case-by-case.
Perfection.
SDCC sale has me caught up on pretty much everything I had my eye on at this point.Grabbed:
Murder Falcon
Head Lopper v.3
Little Bird
Invisible Kingdom
Umbrella Academy v.3
& the rest of Coda
The only thing that hasn't went up that I was hoping to get up to date on in time for the last issue was These Savage Shores, but I can't really complain.
It's a really sketchy and shitty business practice on Marvel's (and others') part, too. At the very least, having a creative team sign on for a specific-length run gives them an opportunity to chain together contracts as necessary. Marvel's effectively telling creative teams that they should do their best and if they sell then they can keep working, only the terms of when their state of failure is reached are ambiguous and they're often made to jump through ridiculous hoops for events or other more popular runs' decisions. So you end up with someone like Bunn on Asgardians of the Galaxy a.) legitimately believing they had a long run ahead of them now out of work, with b.) not even a single meaningful arc finished. and c.)fans who were willing to invest in a new idea left abandoned and bitter.
It's a garbo situation and really a sign of poor management. They're structuring things so they, editorial and not the creatives, are given room to be flexible to their to market fluctuations and creatives/readers be damned. Imagine if Asgardian had gotten an arc out, rather than being shifted towards War of the Realms and then killed off by War of the Realms splitting the team for other books. Marvel never gave it a chance because its priority wasn't the book, the creative team, nor its readers.
I can believe that. Whole thing felt like a blatant cashing in on an one-off MCU meme.
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I understand, though. Also it's cool that he answers questions n stuff
That's the main focus of it, but there's also a fair bit about her gaining self esteem through a friendship.
Lol Tim pointed out to me that you can get the new titles at 34 cents an issue with the sale, the discount code and the cmxu discount all applied. At that everyone remotely interested should give them a shot, esp The Dreaming and Lucifer
Whelp, if I'm gonna read Brightest Day, may as well read it all...
Actually enjoying it so far. Lots of little mysteries and some interesting new threats born out Blackest Night that are reminding me why that big event didn't quite grab me.
I suppose its largely just the zombie premise wasn't for me, but there is a lot of intrigue here in how all these little players are thrown off course by a lot of seemingly unrelated nonsensical curious happenings that demand figuring out. All of which potentially are connected. I'm intrigued, whereas I found Blackest Night grew tiring with constant big fights and endless reminders that the scary monsters are not your mom and dad or wife or girlfriend.
Brightest Day may shit the bed(and many are mixed on it), and yeesh there are a lot of tie-ins and series under this banner, but so far I'm digging the chunk of issues I've read. (Well the JLA/JSA stuff with Jade and evil Alan is a low point so far)
Actually enjoying it so far. Lots of little mysteries and some interesting new threats born out Blackest Night that are reminding me why that big event didn't quite grab me.
I suppose its largely just the zombie premise wasn't for me, but there is a lot of intrigue here in how all these little players are thrown off course by a lot of seemingly unrelated nonsensical curious happenings that demand figuring out. All of which potentially are connected. I'm intrigued, whereas I found Blackest Night grew tiring with constant big fights and endless reminders that the scary monsters are not your mom and dad or wife or girlfriend.
Brightest Day may shit the bed(and many are mixed on it), and yeesh there are a lot of tie-ins and series under this banner, but so far I'm digging the chunk of issues I've read. (Well the JLA/JSA stuff with Jade and evil Alan is a low point so far)
Read through Red Ultramiraine by Manuele Fior (5000km per sec, Blackbird Days) yesterday. Rather different than his other works and feels a little more 'rough around the edges' but I loved that. Great art style and colour use. Two parallel/intertwined stories - one a retelling of the Icarus fable and the other about a young manic/depressive architect and his girlfriend set in current time.
The biggest problem with Brightest Day is that the actual event comic was very clearly setting up a new status quo and reintroduced a bunch of characters and then that was all thrown out for the New 52. I would liked to have seen what the DCU would have been like had Flashpoint not been a reboot and just a Flash story as originally intended.
Yeah, it was super frustrating. The original plan for Flashpoint was the story was pretty much going to be the same, and then when it was over DC was going to launch a Flash Family/Speed Force book that would have been the like the Flash equivalent of GLC. Stupid Didio and Lee screwed all that up.
I just realized
Have X-Men and TMNT crossed over yet?
Cause that's the one that needs to happen. It's so fucking obvious.
Have X-Men and TMNT crossed over yet?
Cause that's the one that needs to happen. It's so fucking obvious.
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Me a month ago when he was still in Golden State: how fuckin dare u
Me today after he left Golden State: ye
57% off on Sandman Omnibus volume 2.
Volume 1 will be on sale later today.
This series is bad.
And it's bad in such a specific way that I have since been able to tell any manga by that mangaka purely by the bad that permeates all of his work.
It's brutal, I've been reading it, but that's more because it's like watching a car wreck And you just can't look away.
Stuff will probably stick, at least for a little bit. But none of it is really all that important besides some character deaths. They went into the series knowing they were going to kill off quite a few people. It was probably planned as a way to fix things before HiX-Men, like Eve of Destruction for Morrison's New X-Men.
Still pissed that after all this time they finally relaunch Uncanny and this is what they decided to do lol.
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I am sure orders are low but I don't believe Higgins for a second.
Correction: That was 2% of Action Comics #1000, not Tec.
Thats for his store, not everyone.
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Yeah I still don't believe him lol. Dudes a die hard DC shill.
Sounds like I'll give it a quick wiki readthrough this weekend.
Emma mindwiping mutants out of memory seems important, though.
If you do end up checking it out, you can pretty much start after the Disassembled stuff, which I think was the first 15 issues. It was a weekly series that sets up the Age of X-Man stuff. After that, the book becomes about the X-Men that didnt end up in the Age of X-Man, and thats where the "important" stuff starts.
Yea that would have been really neat to see. They barely even touched Hope outside of those 2 issues where she first shows up, so this would have at least given her something else to do lol. I dont even recall the two even talking to each other now that im thinking about it more.
gives context to the opening lines of HoX, too:
"Humans of Earth - while you slept, the world changed."
I read the first 10 issues and dropped, actually. I've still got a ton I want to read, so I will probably just end up wiki'ing this. I'm nearly done with my comprehensive mutant read, and only have these left:
Age of X
War of Kings
X-Men: Legacy 250-260 (end of Carey's run)
Spurrier X-Force
Mr. & Mrs. X
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He has a bad record on X-Men and what I've seen of his Illyana tells me he would write a really bad relationship with her in it
Can't wait
Higgins' specific claims is that his pre-order of Marvel 1K is 2% of his sales of Action 1K. Which is a very specific thing to lie about. I don't know anyone excited about Marvel 1,000 even though it will probably sell okay to retailers.
I mean his bad record on X-men begins and ends with Uncanny. As for his Illyana eh~ i think any illyana is hard to recommend a relationship with.
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