^^^ thanking u for screen name
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Haha, you're welcome
Anyway I haven't seen folks mention the Waid/Samnee Black Widow, which just finished a super fun first six issues, and features lots of panels like this:
http://i.imgur.com/PQHmsOW.jpg
Also it's one of the few comics that reads really well on the app with Guided View - maybe better than in print, even
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
I think of "tt" as being something Morrison had Batman say - where else has he flogged it?
― Shakey δσς (sic), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
I remember 'hh' (impatient sigh, presumably) being used for Batman.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
Yes, I'm really enjoying the current Black Widow series. While I was reading #6 I had the thought that Waid was pitching a ScarJo solo film.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
*flips through Invisibles* "TT" first appears two or three issues in
― mh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
it actually took me a little while of reading Morrison before I realized his predilection was for two letter guttural vocalizations. Wasn't sure if it was that or some weird abbreviation scheme I missed
― mh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Sound effects were always the giveaway for which 52 pages GM was writing
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:46 (seven years ago) link
haven't read the black widow series but on the strength of those two panels chuck_tatum posted i'm going to rectify that asap
― i can pee through time (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
Looking forward to reading Black Widow and Vision and all of the Marvel series that I've been buying and putting into boxes over the past couple of years once I get caught up (just finished Original Sin...sigh...this is never going to happen, is it?).
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
Original Sin was pretty good btw, for those of you who are further behind than I am. I'm kinda over Marvel "killing off" major characters but I dug most of the secret history reveals, which were largely impactful without being too dismissive of what came before. Not crazy about Dum Dum, though, wtf.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
Original Sin payoff is definitely a long game, since we still don't know what made Thor drop the hammer!
― mh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, wish I had it in front of me to confirm but I thought the implication was that Fury used something like an Asgardian cheat code to render Thor unworthy.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Still enjoying the Aaron Thor issues. I like the really transparent ploy at the end of the current issue. Thor and Jane Foster are both present?!? I thought Thor was Jane! What kind of trickery is... wait... oh yeah
― mh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's gotten better the past couple issues after a boring patch
This is persnickety but, while I dig the artist, I find his panel shapes really annoying
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
i guess no one else has talked about how much fun Squirrel Girl is? It's fun.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
I think we have somewhere, maybe on another thread. The issue with Galactus is one of my favourite issues of anything ever.
― salsa shark, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
omg the last issue of vision is SO SAD
can't remember having that "count the days until the next issue" feeling for a while
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 August 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
― Nhex, Monday, 29 August 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
in my head its the only marvel comic discussed on this board bar hickman's universe-ending thing i've just totally blanked on the name of. this is obv inaccurate. anyway squirrel girl yeah it's great
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
i think it's good in a way that 'fun' is unnecessarily diminutive of actually
but that's my weird predilection for narrative art that exists by virtue of the preposition 'hey, most narrative art of this genre is dumb'
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
Genndy Tartakovsky is doing a Luke Cage book and it looks like this:
https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2016/07/11/who-is-marvels-blaxploitation-luke-cage-comic-even-for-exactly/
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Jesus Christ.
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
that looks... suspect, but i'll warily give Genndy the benefit of the doubt until the book comes out because Samurai Jack was so good
also wow this was actually announced nine years ago??
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
That's a nicely written piece though, by comics bloggin standards
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
see, to me that cage sample reflects less tartakovsky and much more destefano: the rubbery limbs, contorted faces, bigfoot-style cartooning all 'roundi love destefano's work in general but Marvel putting him on something as culturally loaded as a blaxploitation take of power man running concurrent with the netflix relaunch of Cage as "unapologetically black" is tone deaf to the point of ugliness. i don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bigfoot Luke Cage story, but why not give it to Milton Knight or (DeStefano's Instant Piano cohort) Kyle Baker? Shit, I would buy those books in a heartbeat! Even Sanford Greene's work would be more appropriate and i don't even dig that guy's style.anyway pulliam-moore otm
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I'll personally wait on dropping the otm-bombs until we have more than one dialogue- and context-free page of art upon which to judge.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 September 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
(sitting stunned by how much I would love a Kyle Baker Luke Cage)
The elephant in the room here is surely that the reason he's a big deal these days is almost entirely due to a white guy.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 8 September 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
no offense OL but unless the placement of that page of art is "thing that luke cage reads in a grocery store tabloid and then shakes his head walking away" there is no particular context in which it's gonna play well.
the reason he's a big deal these days is almost entirely due to a white guy.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I thought he was a big deal because he released some acclaimed graphic novels in the '90s, I have no idea who this "white guy" is?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
I assume that he's saying Luke Cage is a big deal because of a white guy (or, really, a long succession of white guys) but I'm not sure why that's an elephant.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
TBF, I'd predict that Luke Cage is on track to become a bigger deal than ever almost entirely due to the performance of a black guy.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
the white guy Andrew Farrell is referring to is Bendis, right?
― soref, Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
That's who I thought he meant.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I thought he was talking about Iron Fist.
― how's life, Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
xxp I'm willing to hear a counterfactual, but as far as I know Luke Cage's profile has received an enormous boost over the last decade because Brian Michael Bendis featured him as a prominent character in a lot of his Marvel work - supporting character and love interest in Alias & The Pulse, and himself and Jessica Jones have been in various Bendis-written Avengers books since - they provide the "new family - how can we have children in a world/life like this?" role to varying degrees of eye-rolling depending on who's writing them.
I could certainly have been clearer that I meant Cage and not Kyle Baker, true.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
I too would love a Kyle Baker Luke Cage
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 9 September 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
If this is your kind of thing, the collected Steranko SHIELD is on sale for £3 on the Marvel app. It's about 500 pages.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
I've been reading late '00s Spider-Man, likely because I have a deep-seated self-loathing I'm trying to work through and reading questionable comics is how it's playing out.
I started out right before "One More Day." It's really as bad as everyone said it was! The partial retcon definitely helped, although it's still very clumsy in execution. It divided the two events that the plot encapsulated into more-digestible bits, at least.
The multiple issues per month deal was sloppy in that it kept the number of plots and variability of quality that you'd get across multiple Spider-Man series, but all under the banner of Amazing Spider-Man. You still end up feeling like there's a main title and some interesting side stories, but they end up being neatly divided between "written by Dan Slott" and "some other stuff."
The integration between Spider-Man and the two (!) teams he's on is decent, but still a little sloppy. You no longer end up asking "if the Sinister Six (or however many villains there are this week) are so powerful and they're in New York, then how come the Avengers don't help out?". It also gives Slott the chance to do a couple FF stories during Hickman's run, and you end up with some fun stories that are less about the plots-within-plots and more about Spidey playing off of the Richards family.
I really liked Superior Spider-Man! I'm sure the new status quo is starting to show some wear, but having Doc Ock take over was the world's longest shortcut to pushing Peter into being a more developed human being. Him being a scientist only because he had to sell out to Tony Stark via the Civil War shenanigans just never felt right, and now he has an actual job instead of decades of bouncing between photography and teaching gigs. He's turned into a little too much of an Iron Man-lite version now, though.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I remember some decent Waid/Marcos Martn stories in that period.
Feel like he's much more interesting as a photographer than a scientist.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
agreed, those were some of the better stories!
imo having him do science stuff is good, him being really successful is probably bad
there's also the weird anachronism of him showing up to the office with the classic "check out these pictures!" and "can we make the evening edition" style banter that continues on way too far into this century when absolutely no news room operates like that and I have no idea why he isn't uploading his pictures and while editions are important, newspapers upload shit all the time
Slott himself seems only half-sold on the Parker Industries thing at first. there's at least one "spider-mobile!" joke per issue for six months
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
I've recently started catching up slowly on some of the Marvel books from the last few years. Are they publishing anything else these days as focused and idiosyncratic as Tom King's Vision?
― one way street, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
Karnak had a shot, but artist issues and disastrously blown deadlines kind of derailed that.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Karnak is nearly far enough behind that Marvel Unlimited will have all the released issues by the time the next is out
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
it's only up to issue three right? first two were real good.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
I think I'm cautiously optimistic about Mariko Tamaki's take on Jennifer Walters; I don't know how well Tamaki's strengths will carry over to superhero comics, or how much of a free hand editorial will give her, but she's always been deft at character studies.
― one way street, Monday, 19 September 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Karnak's up to #4 (came out in mid-May). Theoretically #5 is out this week.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 19 September 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Mariko Tamaki's doing She-Hulk?! This is excellent news!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 19 September 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
I'll rep for the current Moon Knight series. Half a dozen issues in and I genuinely don't know whether the lead character has just had a breakdown and is imagining it all.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link