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Post by thechase on Jul 8, 2024 11:58:57 GMT -5
See, I don't think it's wise to show a bi-sexual kid because there's a strong chance you'll attract a load of pedos to the book. Jon simply shouldn't have a romance period. Meh. No one bats an eye at puppy love when it’s a boy and a girl, why should two boys be different? There's very few pre-teen romances in mainstream comics and it's largely for the reasons I've cited above. It's acceptable in moderation but you don't want to do it consistently for either sexuality unless you attract the wrong crowd.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 8, 2024 22:10:41 GMT -5
Phone call I just had with my youngest son,who's 21 early next year.
"So you were right this time"
About what?
"Ghost World comic is as good as the movie."
Told you that.
"You are still wrong about All Star Superman."
No it is ASS. The title says it all.
I hadn't been sure if Ghost World would play to his generation.
Then his GF told him he had to see the movie. I had a cheap beat up copy of the TPB laying around so had mailed it to him not that long ago.
Got told he got home from work. Opened it up and only stopped reading to answer a call from his boss.
Love that he has been into comics since he learned to read. Happy he is now branching out and reading non superhero comics. Think next surprise package will have some Conan stuff and maybe some of the extras of Dark Horse Presents and Negative burn I have in the collecction.
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Post by thechase on Jul 9, 2024 4:14:47 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Jul 9, 2024 9:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Jul 9, 2024 11:51:00 GMT -5
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Post by uewfigfed on Jul 9, 2024 14:29:51 GMT -5
What’s everyone’s opinions on which is Marvel’s “Kingdom Come”: The Earth X trilogy or Avengers:Twilight??
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 9, 2024 15:31:48 GMT -5
What’s everyone’s opinions on which is Marvel’s “Kingdom Come”: The Earth X trilogy or Avengers:Twilight?? I’m pretty sure that was the entire point of Earth X, they wanted their own Kingdom Come so they hired Alex Ross to come up with it. Avengers:Twilight is just another random mini-series.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 9, 2024 17:02:00 GMT -5
I need to know what book Wes Craig is working on for Absolute. Hopefully doing the art.
Also intrigued by Al Ewing's name being in the list.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 10, 2024 1:05:44 GMT -5
What’s everyone’s opinions on which is Marvel’s “Kingdom Come”: The Earth X trilogy or Avengers:Twilight?? Never read those....maybe Days of Future Past/Days of Future Present? Hell I don't think I have read Kingdom Come since it hit TPB a long ass time ago.
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Post by thechase on Jul 10, 2024 1:19:11 GMT -5
What’s everyone’s opinions on which is Marvel’s “Kingdom Come”: The Earth X trilogy or Avengers:Twilight?? Never read those....maybe Days of Future Past/Days of Future Present? Hell I don't think I have read Kingdom Come since it hit TPB a long ass time ago. I've had a copy of it since 1996, only read it once or twice. Made me loath Wonder Woman for years. It's also a 'must-read' for Superman fans who don't get Superman at all.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 10, 2024 2:11:11 GMT -5
Never read those....maybe Days of Future Past/Days of Future Present? Hell I don't think I have read Kingdom Come since it hit TPB a long ass time ago. I've had a copy of it since 1996, only read it once or twice. Made me loath Wonder Woman for years. It's also a 'must-read' for Superman fans who don't get Superman at all. Never been a Superman fan. It's odd I love many DC characters. But there isn't many comics with them in it that I think are worth owning. The DC section of my shelves of OGN,TPB,Hardcovers is 90% Vertigo stuff or DC Showcases of war and western comics.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 10, 2024 4:39:07 GMT -5
In general my stance on Kingdom Come is it's a largely dumb, largely bad comic that happens to have amazing art.
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Post by thechase on Jul 10, 2024 7:22:35 GMT -5
In today's Spider-Boy {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}They appear to have 'split' the two eras of Renew Your Vows into their own distinct universes, so Conway and Stegman's era with Kid Annie still exists and she wasn't aged up, but teen Annie and her family are still around.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 10, 2024 9:23:47 GMT -5
In general my stance on Kingdom Come is it's a largely dumb, largely bad comic that happens to have amazing art. I like it for what it is, but it does have this snobbish "comics were better when I was a kid and you're wrong for liking stuff that came later" attitude that pervades a lot of Alex Ross' work.
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Post by Talent Name on Jul 10, 2024 9:32:27 GMT -5
I need to know what book Wes Craig is working on for Absolute. Hopefully doing the art. Also intrigued by Al Ewing's name being in the list. I'm intrigued by Al being there and that may explain why Torunn Grønbekk is doing venom during venom war like a trial run
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 10, 2024 10:21:25 GMT -5
In general my stance on Kingdom Come is it's a largely dumb, largely bad comic that happens to have amazing art. I like it for what it is, but it does have this snobbish "comics were better when I was a kid and you're wrong for liking stuff that came later" attitude that pervades a lot of Alex Ross' work. Ross suffers from one major thing. His art is perfect for covers and splash pages. But his storytelling skills are weak. Almost as weak as Jim Lee's. Kingdom Come proved to me that Mark Waid ain't nearly as good as people claimed he was. Cause he took a great script,Twilight of the Gods by Moore,and made it into a subpar but well selling comic.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 10, 2024 10:23:37 GMT -5
I like it for what it is, but it does have this snobbish "comics were better when I was a kid and you're wrong for liking stuff that came later" attitude that pervades a lot of Alex Ross' work. Ross suffers from one major thing. His art is perfect for covers and splash pages. But his storytelling skills are weak. Almost as weak as Jim Lee's. Kingdom Come proved to me that Mark Waid ain't nearly as good as people claimed he was. Cause he took a great script,Twilight of the Gods by Moore,and made it into a subpar but well selling comic. He might have borrowed a few ideas from Alan Moore but it wasn't ever meant to be the Twilight of the Gods story. As for Mark Waid not being as good as people claim, his runs on The Flash, 52 and Fantastic Four speak for themselves. With Kingdom Come his job was mostly to write dialogue for Alex's paintings
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 10, 2024 10:29:16 GMT -5
Honestly everything I've ever heard about Twilight of the Super Heroes has made it sound like it'd probably be a miserable chore that thoroughly missed the point in its own right. Moore's a great writer but not everything he's ever done is a winner.
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Post by thechase on Jul 10, 2024 10:38:39 GMT -5
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 10, 2024 11:35:30 GMT -5
DC All In? Who will the Young Bucks face? But seriously, the article says 'like Marvel Ultimate but different', saying they'll be somehow connected. Isn't that what the DC Silver Age was? The new 60s heroes in one set of books, the previous set of heroes in a different dimension, sometimes they bridge the dimensions and meet. DC's solution to their business problems is sliding back to Pre-Crisis chaos?
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