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War Scrolls is my favorite. Squirrel Girl is still Squirrel Girl quality. War of the Realms Strikeforce - The Land of the Giants is maybe the most fun single issue of the whole event. And Thor itself remains great. Not to say many of the others don't have their moments.
Other than venom I wasn't reading any of the tie ins so at least it got me started on those, maybe I'll pick them up when I'm off my mango phase
I'm glad that Aaron is doing that last Thor and Loki story because War of Realms would be such a crappy way to end his run.
Certainly would be given how many plot threads he'd be leaving dangling
I LOVE Nguyen's art so much. I really need to read his work on Batman sometime.
I like the Watercoloring in Descender/Ascender, but I think I would like it much more of it was standard pencil & ink. Before I get any hate, I haven't read much of the book so I don't know if it will grow on me or not.
That being said though, I do love these covers!
Edit: cool, you can resize images in the text box!
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I think his art looks kind of weird in ink and regular coloring, IMO.I LOVE Nguyen's art so much. I really need to read his work on Batman sometime.
I like the Watercoloring in Descender/Ascender, but I think I would like it much more of it was standard pencil & ink. Before I get any hate, I haven't read much of the book so I don't know if it will grow on me or not.
That being said though, I do love these covers!
Edit: cool, you can resize images in the text box!
His art certainly shines when it's watercolor, but I think it's alright in standard ink and coloring. But I have gotten used to his watercolor style more.
Also, Streets of Gotham is great and more people should read it.
Also, Streets of Gotham is great and more people should read it.
I think? It looks like it did on my end at least lol.
Yea I was put off by it when I first saw it, but grew to love it. I'm sure the same thing will happen once I actually read more of Descender. It got better too as his style changed a bit, like in the lil Gotham stuff.I think his art looks kind of weird in ink and regular coloring, IMO.
Just has an email that caught my eye:
Are the genuinely from the 80s, or am I missing smallprint?
I don't have much interest in comics but could these end up valuable?
Are the genuinely from the 80s, or am I missing smallprint?
I don't have much interest in comics but could these end up valuable?
His work with Dini is easily one of the best runs on Detective Comics.
He definitely got better as time went on and had Fridolfs inking him.
Also, everyone should read Bryan Q Miller's Batgirl. So much fun.
His work with Dini is easily one of the best runs on Detective Comics.
He definitely got better as time went on and had Fridolfs inking him.
Also, everyone should read Bryan Q Miller's Batgirl. So much fun.
Steph Batgirl was such a fantastic run.
First two issues of AoU were really good after that fucking awful. Thank god I have MU I wouldn't pay for that book
Woo. First Green Lantern Omni finished(up through the end of Sinestro Corps War).
Was not really expecting that War to become a pseudo-sequel to Infinite Crisis. Was a pleasant surprise actually(though I should have known given the timing of Johns' writing these, not to mention a few clues tucked away early in the run).
Good stuff though. It did get a bit hectic to make out a lot of the action when you have all these characters crunched on page with strong yellow and green highlights everywhere. Like my eyes often were overwhelmed and couldn't find where to draw my attention, so a lot of the battle splash pages were just nonsense. Even when I literally was squinting and trying to suss out all the madness, too often I just went by the text bubbles to explain what my eyes couldn't parse. Still good stuff and well...Blackest Night is coming next it seems.
Also, my custom cover for Blackest Night Omni arrived. This part of the shelf looking nice.
Was not really expecting that War to become a pseudo-sequel to Infinite Crisis. Was a pleasant surprise actually(though I should have known given the timing of Johns' writing these, not to mention a few clues tucked away early in the run).
Good stuff though. It did get a bit hectic to make out a lot of the action when you have all these characters crunched on page with strong yellow and green highlights everywhere. Like my eyes often were overwhelmed and couldn't find where to draw my attention, so a lot of the battle splash pages were just nonsense. Even when I literally was squinting and trying to suss out all the madness, too often I just went by the text bubbles to explain what my eyes couldn't parse. Still good stuff and well...Blackest Night is coming next it seems.
Also, my custom cover for Blackest Night Omni arrived. This part of the shelf looking nice.
You are very lucky those all fit in that one segment of the bookcase.
Yea, was not expecting them to fit so well in one cube of the Kallax.
Hey, I'm new here but I've been lurking for a while because this is the only place I've found where people talk about comics consistently. For the last year or so I got back into reading comics mostly due to my love for Spider-Man. I've been trying to read Spider-Gwen's solo stuff but there's a lame crossover every other issue so that kinda sucks.
So, I finished Strangers in Paradise. I liked it overall, and it had some seriously great moments, but I didn't quite LOVE it, I think partially just because it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I guess. Like, I was mostly there for the romance stuff, but a good bit of the book goes to like, crime drama stuff... and also the romance aspects are very much "will they, won't they?" back and forth with the actual relationship more as a goal at the end than anything else, which I think too much harem anime has gotten me a little warn down on. Like, I guess I just wanted more of them being together than "should we be together? Yes... no... yes... no..." But like I said, that's more personal tastes/what I wanted versus actual flaws with the book, and I still enjoyed it regardless. Ultimately, it's like... it had characters I loved, but the scenarios they went through were pretty hit and miss for me, I guess?
Oh, but I actively dislike that final twist
and think it doesn't fit the character or what we've seen up till that point at all.
Ah, and just on one more personal note... all the music and poetry stuff just didn't work for me. Which I'd imagine probably didn't help things. Also wasn't super fond of things temporarily shifting into being a novel essentially now and again, but that still worked okay-ish for me. Just felt it messed up the pacing a bit for my personal tastes.
Also read Strangers in Paradise XXV, and THAT was actively not for me at all, outside of the very few bits of family stuff. And then in the back half
(Tagging that because it seems to be fairly recent from what I can tell.)
Oh, but I actively dislike that final twist
of who Casey really is
Ah, and just on one more personal note... all the music and poetry stuff just didn't work for me. Which I'd imagine probably didn't help things. Also wasn't super fond of things temporarily shifting into being a novel essentially now and again, but that still worked okay-ish for me. Just felt it messed up the pacing a bit for my personal tastes.
Also read Strangers in Paradise XXV, and THAT was actively not for me at all, outside of the very few bits of family stuff. And then in the back half
there's what I'm assuming is crossover with Rachel Rising in particular, and also a bit of Motor Girl? Which admittedly I haven't read yet... but it felt like it fit super poorly in as a capper for Strangers in Paradise and just trashed the whole tone and any interest I had in the story being told. Just a real mess.
Spider-Gwen is a gorgeous book with a really cool world that is the definition of a wheel spinner.
Which leads me to believe that I don't think I quite enjoy Jason Latour as a writer.
I used to love reading the coverage of this book on Comics Alliance (R.I.P). Definition of batshit crazy.
Where did you get the custom jackets printed?Woo. First Green Lantern Omni finished(up through the end of Sinestro Corps War).
Was not really expecting that War to become a pseudo-sequel to Infinite Crisis. Was a pleasant surprise actually(though I should have known given the timing of Johns' writing these, not to mention a few clues tucked away early in the run).
Good stuff though. It did get a bit hectic to make out a lot of the action when you have all these characters crunched on page with strong yellow and green highlights everywhere. Like my eyes often were overwhelmed and couldn't find where to draw my attention, so a lot of the battle splash pages were just nonsense. Even when I literally was squinting and trying to suss out all the madness, too often I just went by the text bubbles to explain what my eyes couldn't parse. Still good stuff and well...Blackest Night is coming next it seems.
Also, my custom cover for Blackest Night Omni arrived. This part of the shelf looking nice.
It's one of my favorite Marvel Elseworlds concepts, but it seems like Marvel won't let this series breath on its own. Seems like Miles has the same issue. The art is dope though, makes me wish Spider-Punk got his own solo series.
So, is Flashpoint Batman planning to resurrect this universe's version of Martha Wayne or Flashpoint Joker?
I'm assuming this one.
It's his chance to start a family again, so going with the sane one makes more sense.
Woo. First Green Lantern Omni finished(up through the end of Sinestro Corps War).
Was not really expecting that War to become a pseudo-sequel to Infinite Crisis. Was a pleasant surprise actually(though I should have known given the timing of Johns' writing these, not to mention a few clues tucked away early in the run).
Good stuff though. It did get a bit hectic to make out a lot of the action when you have all these characters crunched on page with strong yellow and green highlights everywhere. Like my eyes often were overwhelmed and couldn't find where to draw my attention, so a lot of the battle splash pages were just nonsense. Even when I literally was squinting and trying to suss out all the madness, too often I just went by the text bubbles to explain what my eyes couldn't parse. Still good stuff and well...Blackest Night is coming next it seems.
Also, my custom cover for Blackest Night Omni arrived. This part of the shelf looking nice.
how is the Blackest Night omni arranged? Is it on order like the Final Crisis omni or did they pull Marvel and stick the tie ins at the end?
Of course, he is going to pick the younger version of Martha.
Haven't read it yet myself, but as I understand, it is in proper chronological reading order with the event issues staggered between the-ins.
DC seems to be better about than Marvel, but it's nice to see it confirmed. I may have to pick that up down the line.
You're assuming the psychological and spiritual breaking has stopped. ;p
I use the term Elseworlds for all that alternate universe Marvel stuff, like Ultimate Spider-Man or Marvel Zombies. Marvel Zombies sucked tho the more it progressed
This Waid/Garney Captain America is pretty cool so far. First story arc is a Cap and Red Skull team up lol.
Garney's art is great, but it looks like Andy Kubert has the best art in the omni. He might be my favorite 90s artist, aside from Joe Mad.
Garney's art is great, but it looks like Andy Kubert has the best art in the omni. He might be my favorite 90s artist, aside from Joe Mad.
Those covers look great! Definitely brings the collection together.
Welcome! How do you like Gwen's Ghost-Spider rebranding?
Finished the first two volumes of Astro City and I love it so far. Loved Kurt's spiel in the introduction against everything needing to be "realistic" and that the superhero was in need of reconstruction not more deconstruction, sums up my feelings. One thing that I'm really impressed by is how throughly mapped out Astro City is geographically. They've managed to make the city feel alive with all the different neighborhoods which have different feels from each other. Wish DC could apply the same technique to their fake cities.
I remember loving what he says about superheroes in the intro.
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I like the name Ghost-Spider more than Spider-Woman, it differentiates her more. But trying to fold her into the main universe is so lame when they're already more than enough spider-people in that universe. They did the same thing with Miles and that killed my interest in him for a while.
lt's fantastic. First Cap run I read and still maybe my favorite. That was Garney and Kubert in their prime and I love Waid's Cap.
The firzt spider-gwen run was full of gorgeous art and really interesting concepts failed by writing that was mediocre.
Latour had a lot of cool ideas and a lot of lame ways executing them.
The only four I think he nailed are
Evil SILK
KINGPIN Matt murdock
Blue Lives Matter Punisher
And Gwen's relationships with her friends and family.
Seanin's run is way more solid Story wise, but way less visually interesting.
Latour had a lot of cool ideas and a lot of lame ways executing them.
The only four I think he nailed are
Evil SILK
KINGPIN Matt murdock
Blue Lives Matter Punisher
And Gwen's relationships with her friends and family.
Seanin's run is way more solid Story wise, but way less visually interesting.
You can see how much his style evolved before and after Heroes Reborn lol. His Daredevil was my first real experiance with Garney and I enjoyed it a lot.
They apparently had to redo a bunch of issue #14 because the original was deemed too sensitive or something. I havent read it yet, but they included the original in the back of the omni. Its got a bunch of Hitler flashbacks, so I assume its got something to do with that.
Also feel like all of Gwen's writers overcomplicate a story that writes itself.
Superhero... in a grunge band
And they wanna focus on everything not the band even though that's the coolest part of her life.
Which is exemplified by the pitch of her next run. Gwen going to college... which nobody cares about.
like I don't give a fuck if Gwen drops out.
Superhero... in a grunge band
And they wanna focus on everything not the band even though that's the coolest part of her life.
Which is exemplified by the pitch of her next run. Gwen going to college... which nobody cares about.
like I don't give a fuck if Gwen drops out.
Yea thats was a great arc, but I completely dropped off after it. As cool as the new teams were he was introducing, I just have no desire to read anymore atm. That being said, I still really like the Red Widow lol.
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