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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 10:30:23 GMT -5
I love it. Was gonna crop it for myself but people already had the same idea : D Which brings me to this one shot. Do you think this Joker story will be any good? Hopefully. It's one of the few Villains one-shots I want to actually get. Especially since I saw Andy Clarke will be doing the art.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 11, 2013 10:33:15 GMT -5
I don't like how there's gonna be like a million f***ing batbooks coming out that month but that one I'm looking forward to. A couple other titles I'll give a shot but the share amount of bat-titles are insane. Guess they're testing the waters for when they inevitably turn their company into simply "Batman"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 12:16:52 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Coello on Aug 11, 2013 12:36:45 GMT -5
I don't like how there's gonna be like a million f***ing batbooks coming out that month but that one I'm looking forward to. A couple other titles I'll give a shot but the share amount of bat-titles are insane. Guess they're testing the waters for when they inevitably turn their company into simply "Batman" Which leads me to this horrifying thought: Were you mad at Tonto getting all the attention in the Lone Ranger movie? Replace him with Batman and multiply by 7, and that will end up being the Justice League movie. Hell, i'm pretty sure that will also be the story of the Superman/Batman movie.
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Post by Legion on Aug 11, 2013 13:09:00 GMT -5
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 11, 2013 13:36:47 GMT -5
I don't like how there's gonna be like a million f***ing batbooks coming out that month but that one I'm looking forward to. A couple other titles I'll give a shot but the share amount of bat-titles are insane. Guess they're testing the waters for when they inevitably turn their company into simply "Batman" Which leads me to this horrifying thought: Were you mad at Tonto getting all the attention in the Lone Ranger movie? Replace him with Batman and multiply by 7, and that will end up being the Justice League movie. Hell, i'm pretty sure that will also be the story of the Superman/Batman movie. When it all ends all that will be left is Batman and the f***ing Wolverine.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 13:47:50 GMT -5
I don't like how there's gonna be like a million f***ing batbooks coming out that month but that one I'm looking forward to. A couple other titles I'll give a shot but the share amount of bat-titles are insane. Guess they're testing the waters for when they inevitably turn their company into simply "Batman" I don't mind the number of Bat-books. It'd be weird if fewer of his villains were involved. The only thing that bugs me is that they converted just the main Bat-books into Villains specials. It's tough to accept (though I can kinda understand it?) that neglecting BATGIRL and BATWOMAN and even BATWING and TALON, and instead giving the main titles 4 one-shots each, could affect sales that much.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 11, 2013 13:52:42 GMT -5
I don't like how there's gonna be like a million f***ing batbooks coming out that month but that one I'm looking forward to. A couple other titles I'll give a shot but the share amount of bat-titles are insane. Guess they're testing the waters for when they inevitably turn their company into simply "Batman" I don't mind the number of Bat-books. It'd be weird if fewer of his villains were involved. The only thing that bugs me is that they converted just the main Bat-books into Villains specials. It's tough to accept (though I can kinda understand it?) that neglecting BATGIRL and BATWOMAN and even BATWING and TALON, and instead giving the main titles 4 one-shots each, could affect sales that much. Well all the main titles of each group just got the one shots. GL, Action Comics and Superman all got the one shots while the other titles didn't but that brings me back to Batman. Bruce has four main titles. Why the hell does he need so many? Honestly he doesn't need that many. With Grant going they should end Inc. but they won't. So that's 5 Bruce Wayne books.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 12, 2013 8:58:27 GMT -5
long as his chicken-scratch doesn't show up in anything I'm reading, cool.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 12, 2013 9:01:55 GMT -5
I don't mind the number of Bat-books. It'd be weird if fewer of his villains were involved. The only thing that bugs me is that they converted just the main Bat-books into Villains specials. It's tough to accept (though I can kinda understand it?) that neglecting BATGIRL and BATWOMAN and even BATWING and TALON, and instead giving the main titles 4 one-shots each, could affect sales that much. Well all the main titles of each group just got the one shots. GL, Action Comics and Superman all got the one shots while the other titles didn't but that brings me back to Batman. Bruce has four main titles. Why the hell does he need so many? Honestly he doesn't need that many. With Grant going they should end Inc. but they won't. So that's 5 Bruce Wayne books. my friend that runs my LCS told me once that they can put Batman's name on anything and it's guaranteed sales no matter how terrible it is. Batman (and Superman, Spider-man and the X-men too, for that matter) have a LOT of casual fans who only read those books and nothing else. and yet apparently they almost never see a jump in sales when a movie comes out.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 12, 2013 16:41:46 GMT -5
Explains why Batman The Dark Knight survived for so long. It got better for sure but when Finch was running that ship it was utterly terrible.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 12, 2013 17:01:41 GMT -5
As Greg Pak gets on Action Comics it's a f***ing Zero Year tie-in. I do think imma skip this whole Zero Year bullshit.
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Post by mo on Aug 12, 2013 17:15:41 GMT -5
I don't mind the number of Bat-books. It'd be weird if fewer of his villains were involved. The only thing that bugs me is that they converted just the main Bat-books into Villains specials. It's tough to accept (though I can kinda understand it?) that neglecting BATGIRL and BATWOMAN and even BATWING and TALON, and instead giving the main titles 4 one-shots each, could affect sales that much. Well all the main titles of each group just got the one shots. GL, Action Comics and Superman all got the one shots while the other titles didn't but that brings me back to Batman. Bruce has four main titles. Why the hell does he need so many? Honestly he doesn't need that many. With Grant going they should end Inc. but they won't. So that's 5 Bruce Wayne books. Batgirl, Catwoman, and possibly Talon are all getting one-shots that are simply apart of the bajillion Batman-titled books. I;m not following Birds of Prey or Batwing but it looks like the others aren't, unless James Tynion IV's League of Assassins book is Red Hood related. Spealing of villain's month, looks like DC screwed the pooch on the much hyped 3D covers. www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=47175
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 17:23:10 GMT -5
Explains why Batman The Dark Knight survived for so long. It got better for sure but when Finch was running that ship it was utterly terrible. Well, for some reason they seem to treat David Finch like he's a ginormous A-list deal. He did X-Men work for Marvel, but I'll be damned if he moved a sh*tload of books there. It's almost like DC felt they needed a Top Cow guy with a high profile too (like Marvel has with Marc Silvestri, only Finch is more regular with his output, whether it be good or not...)
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Aug 12, 2013 17:41:54 GMT -5
Explains why Batman The Dark Knight survived for so long. It got better for sure but when Finch was running that ship it was utterly terrible. Well, for some reason they seem to treat David Finch like he's a ginormous A-list deal. He did X-Men work for Marvel, but I'll be damned if he moved a sh*tload of books there. It's almost like DC felt they needed a Top Cow guy with a high profile too (like Marvel has with Marc Silvestri, only Finch is more regular with his output, whether it be good or not...) And he's freaking terrible. As much as I'm looking forward to Forever Evil. His art has me worried.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 13, 2013 10:24:11 GMT -5
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Post by Jiren on Aug 13, 2013 10:27:36 GMT -5
f*** Mark Millar
Aside from Red Son he's a terrible writer.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 13, 2013 10:30:43 GMT -5
and even Red Son was actually Grant Morrison's idea that Millar barely gave him any credit for. it's why they're not on speaking terms anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 10:33:06 GMT -5
All this talk about Mark Millar and no one's said the c-word.
Impressive. I didn't think it was possible for his name to not IMMEDIATELY force that word he loves using so much to appear in conversation.
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Post by Legion on Aug 13, 2013 13:37:43 GMT -5
C word?
Civil War?
That wasnt a bad crossover, it was mainly the other writers that turned everyone into narrow minded dolts
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