This was Bob Gale.
i'm a bit behind now after taking a break but i kinda enjoyed it as a dumb fun event, my issue with it is if you try to actually get a story out of it, it's buried in 1 gorillion separate series and miniseries and it still doesn't really line up
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.
Certainly would be given how many plot threads he'd be leaving danglingI'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.
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!
Huh I've no idea who that is I guess sorry Dixon lol
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.
Too bad VanWinkle is too lazy to use it
Marvel fans, sit up and listen - we've got something really special for you. One of our suppliers found these Marvel trading cards made in 1984, in the back of their warehouse and they've given us an extremely limited stock.
We can't go back to 1984, so once they're gone, they're gone!
His work with Dini is easily one of the best runs on Detective Comics.I LOVE Nguyen's art so much. I really need to read his work on Batman sometime.
He definitely got better as time went on and had Fridolfs inking him.I think his art looks kind of weird in ink and regular coloring, IMO.
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.
You are very lucky those all fit in that one segment of the bookcase.
You are very lucky those all fit in that one segment of the bookcase.
Spider-Gwen is a gorgeous book with a really cool world that is the definition of a wheel spinner.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.
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.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.
So, is Flashpoint Batman planning to resurrect this universe's version of Martha Wayne or Flashpoint Joker?
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.
I'm assuming this one.It's his chance to start a family again, so going with the sane one makes more sense.
first time I heard it described as that
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?
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.
So, is Flashpoint Batman planning to resurrect this universe's version of Martha Wayne or Flashpoint Joker?
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
Also, my custom cover for Blackest Night Omni arrived. This part of the shelf looking nice.
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.
I remember loving what he says about superheroes in the intro.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.
Kurt Busiek said:The complaint, which never fails to charm me, is that superheroes are limited. They're inherently juvenile, I'm told. They're simplistic. They're just an adolescent male power fantasy, a crypto-fascist presentation of status quo values, elevated over anything strange and alien.
And sure, yeah, I can see that. Superman is adolescence personified -- Clark Kent the weak child whom nobody takes seriously, turning into the powerful, respected (and sexually attractive, but nervous around women) Superman as swiftly as a teenager's voice cracks, and then back to the meek, unimportant Clark. Spider-Man is adolescence from a different angle -- the teenager stumbling toward adulthood writ large, making mistakes with disastrous consequences and doing his best to remedy them as he learns to be a responsible man in an adult society. Captain America is the American ideal and self-image circa 1941 rolled into one -- the biggest kid in the global playground, who's going to make the other kids play nice, even if he has to get a little rough to do it. I can absolutely see that.
However -- and you knew there was going to be a however, right? -- what charms me about that objection to the superhero is the way it points out, in the guise of criticism, what to me is the greatest strength of the superhero genre -- the ease with which superheroes can be used as metaphor, as symbol, whether for the psychological transformation of adolescence, the self-image of a nation, or something else. A genre that can do something like that -- is that really a limitation?
I don't think so.
If a superhero can be such a powerful and effective metaphor for male adolescence, then what else can you do with them? Could you build a superhero story around a metaphor for female adolescence? Around mid-life crisis? Around the changes adults go through when they become parents? Sure, why not? And if a superhero can exemplify America's self-image at the dawn of World War II, could a superhore exemplify America's self-image during a less-confident 1970s? How about the emerging national identity of a newly-independent African nation? Or a non-natiounal culture, like the drug culture, or the "greed-is-good" business culture of the go-go Eighties? Of course. If it can do one, it can do the others.
I could go on, but I'll spare you. The point is, an attempt to describe how limited superheroes are quickly turns into the question, "What can't they do?" The possibilities of the genre are endless, and the terrain rich and inviting.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.The Vampire arc of Aaron Avengers with Marquez is good fun. It's a shame he left. The book was really finding its footing with those two.