Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 14, 2020 18:37:18 GMT -5
I have a ton... Chuck Dixon is the best Batman writer of all time. All Mark Millar has ever created is cynical garbage. Jim Lee is the most overhyped artist of all time, as Scott Williams never gets any credit for being his inker on just about everything. The Wolfman/Perez New Teen Titans is the best traditional superhero team comic of all time. The Bat-Family is way too big. Chris Claremont was great with ideas but horrendous with written word. I hate the very suggestion of Marvel/DC crossovers. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing is far better than his other works. Mainstream comics should operate from model sheets. Until the 90's, characters in comics typically had a consistency between books. Look at the transition of Batman between Neal Adams and Jim Aparo. But then the 90's hotshot artist boom happened, and ever since we've been dealing with crap art from the likes of Humberto Ramos in our books. I agree with a lot of this, but what’s wrong with Ramos’ art?
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Apr 14, 2020 18:43:54 GMT -5
Isn't New Titans the book where Wolfman created a character based on himself, and had him marry Donna Troy?
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Post by CeilingFan on Apr 14, 2020 18:49:17 GMT -5
Azrael should've never been turned into "Agent of the Bat"".
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 14, 2020 18:57:03 GMT -5
Isn't New Titans the book where Wolfman created a character based on himself, and had him marry Donna Troy? Yes it is.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Apr 14, 2020 19:00:06 GMT -5
Isn't New Titans the book where Wolfman created a character based on himself, and had him marry Donna Troy? Yes it is. Thanks. I just like bringing that up along with the whole Deathstroke x Terra stuff from Judas Contract whenever Marv Wolfman is brought up. Because even the all-time greats need to have their sins remembered.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Apr 14, 2020 19:14:00 GMT -5
100 Bullets did not age well at all.
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dav
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Post by dav on Apr 14, 2020 20:54:53 GMT -5
Cassandra Cain was the best Batgirl and introduced a lot of elements to the Batfamily that could have really done with being explored further before turning her Heel, which was one of the stupidest moves possible. How is that an unpopular opinion? I have not nor do I ever wish to meet a Batgirl fan who thinks otherwise. Lots of Barbara fans as people have said, including those running DC who shoved Cassandra and Stephanie to one side so they could put Barbara back in the limelight.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 14, 2020 23:21:39 GMT -5
Chris Allan is the best Ninja Turtle comic artist ever. He took the 1987 cartoon models and added a ton of life and energy into them.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 14, 2020 23:33:53 GMT -5
I...I...I...liked Superman's mullet!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 14, 2020 23:36:14 GMT -5
I...I...I...liked Suoerman's mullet! Speaking of Superman changes, I thought the Electric Superman angle was pretty fun. The red/blue halves stuff was where it ran out of gas, but it was cool as a temporary change of pace.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Apr 14, 2020 23:37:51 GMT -5
Awesome Andy, and Dragon Man should get a turn at being Avengers.
Also turning Sandman back into a villain was a terrible idea. Once an Avenger, always an Avenger.
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Apr 15, 2020 0:07:32 GMT -5
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion but I liked Secret Wars II more than the first one.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Apr 15, 2020 1:57:42 GMT -5
I don't like Infinity Gauntlet. I think it has some of the worst and most cynical examples of comic book writing in it. The way Starlin writes Thanos as this nigh unstoppable being whose only weakness is his own subconscious undermining his will to win feels like some bad fan-fiction-like quality writing. I can only take a story where every single hero gets their asses handed to them the same way so many times before the story begins feeling redundant. Then to top it all off, the story doesn't even really have an end, Gamora gets the gauntlet, loses it cause she's not nearly as cool and awesome as Thanos, and then the latter escape and goes to live on a farm in peace. Maybe if Thanos had the same nuances that he was given in the MCU it might work as an ending, but we're dealing with a selfish nihilist who cares for nothing but himself and Death. Granted I haven't read the series leading into this story of the one that followed it. But either way I'm not motivated to in the slightest if this is meant to be as good at that arc gets. It was Nebula who got and lost the gauntlet after Thanos, not Gamora.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 2:00:57 GMT -5
When you get past the art Kingdom Come really isn't very good.
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Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 15, 2020 2:05:50 GMT -5
I...I...I...liked Superman's mullet! I also liked Superman's mullet! Really, it was my first exposure to comic book Superman. I had seen the George Reeves show as a kid and it's Superman so like, I was familiar with him in general, but mullet Supes was the aesthetic when I was first becoming aware of comics in the early 90s.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 15, 2020 3:53:04 GMT -5
I don't like Infinity Gauntlet. I think it has some of the worst and most cynical examples of comic book writing in it. The way Starlin writes Thanos as this nigh unstoppable being whose only weakness is his own subconscious undermining his will to win feels like some bad fan-fiction-like quality writing. I can only take a story where every single hero gets their asses handed to them the same way so many times before the story begins feeling redundant. Then to top it all off, the story doesn't even really have an end, Gamora gets the gauntlet, loses it cause she's not nearly as cool and awesome as Thanos, and then the latter escape and goes to live on a farm in peace. Maybe if Thanos had the same nuances that he was given in the MCU it might work as an ending, but we're dealing with a selfish nihilist who cares for nothing but himself and Death. Granted I haven't read the series leading into this story of the one that followed it. But either way I'm not motivated to in the slightest if this is meant to be as good at that arc gets. It was Nebula who got and lost the gauntlet after Thanos, not Gamora. Wrong daughters name, same issues.
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Apr 15, 2020 4:53:37 GMT -5
I have a ton... Chuck Dixon is the best Batman writer of all time. All Mark Millar has ever created is cynical garbage. Jim Lee is the most overhyped artist of all time, as Scott Williams never gets any credit for being his inker on just about everything. The Wolfman/Perez New Teen Titans is the best traditional superhero team comic of all time. The Bat-Family is way too big. Chris Claremont was great with ideas but horrendous with written word. I hate the very suggestion of Marvel/DC crossovers. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing is far better than his other works. Mainstream comics should operate from model sheets. Until the 90's, characters in comics typically had a consistency between books. Look at the transition of Batman between Neal Adams and Jim Aparo. But then the 90's hotshot artist boom happened, and ever since we've been dealing with crap art from the likes of Humberto Ramos in our books. I agree with a lot of this, but what’s wrong with Ramos’ art? Nothing. I just don't like it, which I thought might qualify for the thread lol. For me it's human anatomy. Old traditional comic art, while exaggerated, still felt like it adhered to a general rule that human proportions still mattered. Ramos draws people who have fists bigger than their heads. I just hate it.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 15, 2020 5:15:39 GMT -5
Jim Shooter ran Marvel like a professional and made sure to get books out on time rather than letting creators do whatever whenever while the company paying them burned readers and distributors with endless delays. His main crime was saying no to creative manchildren who demonstrated their level of maturity by burning effigies, blowing up his hometown in a comic series he pushed for and trying to destroy him in interviews anyone who'd listen. The implosion of comics in the nineties vindicates him on reigning people in, to a degree. We're still waiting for a plethora of books to see completion, decades on.
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Post by Glitch on Apr 15, 2020 6:02:50 GMT -5
Spawn works better as a dark action comic than as a horror comic.
Why the hell does a horror story need a guy in a cape and mask hovering around? He feels so unnecessary in his own stories. At least in his dark hero stories he's playing into he is. I wish Todd would get over this idea that Spawn is straight up horror.
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Post by thechase on Apr 15, 2020 6:15:47 GMT -5
Fatal Attractions is the best 'final' Magneto story, Wolverine should never have regained his adiantium either.
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