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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 1, 2024 7:01:03 GMT -5
OOOH I JUST REALIZED WHAT DAY IT IS, TIME TO READ SAGA #67
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 1, 2024 20:55:48 GMT -5
John Arcudi and Jonathan Case's The Creep was excellent. Killer piece of ice cold noir.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 3, 2024 14:53:10 GMT -5
James Tynion and Martin Simmonds' version of Dracula was... Interesting.
I'm a fan of the surrealist art they used for The Department Of Truth, so seeing more of that was cool.
The dialogue is also as well written as anything else in Tynion's canon.
But, also just feels like there isn't much to the book. It starts, there's some scenes, then it's over. The characters don't really develop at all over the course of the narrative (except for Renfield, who I think they did a great job with).
Since Universal was a partner on the book maybe this is how they wanted it, but I feel like the creative team really could've done more with the IP.
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Post by thechase on Aug 4, 2024 11:55:28 GMT -5
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 4, 2024 14:04:55 GMT -5
Wow, I forgot all about her. With Piskor's death earlier this year and now this ain't a good year for people that worked with the modern Mark Twain that is Pekar.
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Post by thechase on Aug 5, 2024 11:34:56 GMT -5
From Brevoort's Substack
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 5, 2024 13:17:23 GMT -5
Slightly out of date video look at my shelves for comic tpb,hardcovers,ogns.
And the length of hair you see on the wall is from when I grew out a devilock for a bit. Cut it and it hangs on the wall.
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Post by thechase on Aug 7, 2024 10:55:00 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Black Suit and Blood was OK. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}There were four stories, JMD's story tied into the dead mobster Peter attended the funeral of in Kraven's Last Hunt, and JMS' story dealt with Peter turning down a deal offered to him by the remnants of the symbiote that stayed within his DNA after he rejected it the first time, it also ends with he and Mary Jane going to a black tie ball and dancing together because F U Nick Lowe.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Aug 7, 2024 12:44:00 GMT -5
All I remember about this series was that the "third Summers Brother" mystery was still unresolved, and Claremont was asked about it at a convention Q&A. He said he'd answer the question in an issue of X-Men: The End. So I picked up that issue. His third Summers Brother was Gambit, created by Mister Sinister using Cyclops' DNA. I did not pick up any other issues of The End.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Aug 9, 2024 15:00:57 GMT -5
SO I've missed out on a lot of DC of late because money, picked up the first couple issues of Absolute Power because of the hype with the Absolute line coming out this fall, but have I missed out on THIS much? Felt really....not great. Like random hero heel turn, that I'm guessing has been built up elsewhere, ass pull powers from the Waller and crew, and just really confusing stuff.
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Post by Kalmia on Aug 9, 2024 18:28:04 GMT -5
SO I've missed out on a lot of DC of late because money, picked up the first couple issues of Absolute Power because of the hype with the Absolute line coming out this fall, but have I missed out on THIS much? Felt really....not great. Like random hero heel turn, that I'm guessing has been built up elsewhere, ass pull powers from the Waller and crew, and just really confusing stuff. I'm hoping it gets better and sticks the landing, but the entire premise is pretty bad, IMO. I think most of the recent DC events have been kinda bad though and not worth interfering with the regular runs for.
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Post by thechase on Aug 10, 2024 1:44:47 GMT -5
There will be two Black Cats in Ultimate Spider-Man
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 10, 2024 8:00:29 GMT -5
SO I've missed out on a lot of DC of late because money, picked up the first couple issues of Absolute Power because of the hype with the Absolute line coming out this fall, but have I missed out on THIS much? Felt really....not great. Like random hero heel turn, that I'm guessing has been built up elsewhere, ass pull powers from the Waller and crew, and just really confusing stuff. Jeremy Adams' run on The Flash and Tom Taylor's run on Nightwing were both f***ing amazing. if you're only reading major crossovers you're not even close to getting the picture of how good DC has been lately.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Aug 10, 2024 8:32:51 GMT -5
SO I've missed out on a lot of DC of late because money, picked up the first couple issues of Absolute Power because of the hype with the Absolute line coming out this fall, but have I missed out on THIS much? Felt really....not great. Like random hero heel turn, that I'm guessing has been built up elsewhere, ass pull powers from the Waller and crew, and just really confusing stuff. Jeremy Adams' run on The Flash and Tom Taylor's run on Nightwing were both f***ing amazing. if you're only reading major crossovers you're not even close to getting the picture of how good DC has been lately. Oh, Tom Taylor's Nightwing has been the only DC comic I have kept up on. Literally one of my top comic runs of all time. Nightwing and Flash (Wally) are my favorite heroes, so I'm just happy their runs are great. I'm mostly flabbergasted at how annoyingly dumb Absolute Power was.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 10, 2024 16:59:31 GMT -5
Jeremy Adams' run on The Flash and Tom Taylor's run on Nightwing were both f***ing amazing. if you're only reading major crossovers you're not even close to getting the picture of how good DC has been lately. Oh, Tom Taylor's Nightwing has been the only DC comic I have kept up on. Literally one of my top comic runs of all time. Nightwing and Flash (Wally) are my favorite heroes, so I'm just happy their runs are great. I'm mostly flabbergasted at how annoyingly dumb Absolute Power was. I hear you on that. I always just avoid the big crossovers usually, can't remember the last time one actually did anything for me. I want to say Dark Nights Death Metal? And even that was at least half because it mostly made hash of the New 52. As for Marvel, it's been even longer.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 10, 2024 19:30:32 GMT -5
There will be two Black Cats in Ultimate Spider-Man Two?
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 10, 2024 20:26:15 GMT -5
There will be two Black Cats in Ultimate Spider-Man Two? One is part of Kingpins Sinister Six
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 10, 2024 20:31:41 GMT -5
One is part of Kingpins Sinister Six Yeah, Felicia's father is "Black Cat" in the sinister six. My guess this might be a Spoiler situation... where his daughter is rebelling against him... or maybe he died and she takes up the mantle... or maybe she has nothing at all to do with him! I do wonder if they will call her Felicia though since everyone else hasn't had major changes to like race/hair color since I believe the idea was Maker tried to find a universe as close t o the 616 as possible to f*** with.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 10, 2024 21:48:47 GMT -5
One is part of Kingpins Sinister Six Yeah, Felicia's father is "Black Cat" in the sinister six. My guess this might be a Spoiler situation... where his daughter is rebelling against him... or maybe he died and she takes up the mantle... or maybe she has nothing at all to do with him! I do wonder if they will call her Felicia though since everyone else hasn't had major changes to like race/hair color since I believe the idea was Maker tried to find a universe as close t o the 616 as possible to f*** with. Her hair could be a wig and what I find interesting about this universe is Gwen is still alive but with Harry and Norman is an AI
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 10, 2024 22:18:10 GMT -5
Yeah, Felicia's father is "Black Cat" in the sinister six. My guess this might be a Spoiler situation... where his daughter is rebelling against him... or maybe he died and she takes up the mantle... or maybe she has nothing at all to do with him! I do wonder if they will call her Felicia though since everyone else hasn't had major changes to like race/hair color since I believe the idea was Maker tried to find a universe as close t o the 616 as possible to f*** with. Her hair could be a wig and what I find interesting about this universe is Gwen is still alive but with Harry and Norman is an AI I mean of course Gwen is alive... she was only killed because of Spider-man... Spider-man didn't exist until recently
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