The Unholy Dragon
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I'll be baffled if that one doesn't turn out to be a fakeout. Particularly given the rumour that
SpoilerWally's death will be faked here to set him up in Azzarello's Suicide Squad.
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Hated Kirby as a kid, love him now.
Never really got big on Chaykin and a lot of the Peter Bagge crop of indie dudes never really did anything for me either. -
Related question: Is Disney getting Fox's shares in Boom! or are they staying with Sports Fox?
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So uhhhhhh Bleeding Cool is saying the other big Heroes in Crisis #1 death is...
SpoilerWally West
I...wait...what?
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On 9/19/2018 at 7:42 PM, D.Z said:
Is there any canon errors I'm not aware of? Not that Modern Marvel cares about that stuff too much since they fired or reduced editors since 2011 and Tom Brevoort says it doesn't matter.
I just seen some Xmen cover with Wolverine wearing the wrong suit in the outback era.
Wolverine showed up in the Infinity Wars prologue with all his faculties intact. That was where they resolved him having a stone in the Legacy issue where he returned by...fighting Loki and giving it to Black Widow.
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Can't wait to see how that gets squared with his Infinity Wars prologue stuff.
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Honestly a big part of my problem is just that it's a moment of brutal realism that breaks the internal logic of books. Specifically that Batman wears an armoured cowl and sends his kids out in domino masks.
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Yeah. Apparently it's a ride all around but the bulk of discussion I've found is Bat-dick centric.
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The amount of hype in some spots over Batman's dick showing up in Damned today is unreal. I wish Wizard magazine still existed so it could show up in "Hot comics" with "1st Bat Penis" next to it.
God bless the Black Label.
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Someone on Twitter said that the Phoenix set photos look like promo pics for the inevitable Hot Toys Phoenix Joker figure and I can't unsee it.
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Eh, they're restructuring the X-Line, FF proper are back, Sentry was a weird choice for a book anyway, and I'd wager DD gets a breather from Soule's run then a new #1 when the show drops, possibly under the revived Marvel Knights.
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They need to trim lines badly. I know some sell but their propensity to turn a single success into a four to six book line has really started to turn readers off of them. Make one book and make it good. MAYBE do one spinoff at a time. Not everything is the Transformers universe in terms of comics audience.
Also the fact they pretty much only seem to do licensed work now which has lower margins generally can't be helping.
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My understanding is that Moon Girl was golden as soon as the first trade hit the Scholastic market and prior to that it was doing the Ms. Marvel thing of digital pulling higher than normal relative to print. It's less that it was given a ton of rope and more that it was succeeding in markets we lack line of sight for almost immediately.
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I feel like Sandman would have died before Death was introduced if it launched in today's market conditions. No name writer/artist with a new character? Yeah, no.
Which really does make you wonder how many potential Gaimans are slipping through the cracks because they aren't getting those kinds of real, sustained chances.
I've been saying this for a while but I really do think the Big Two need lines where they expect to take an upfront loss and hope to recoup it. Publish weird or new books and give them minimum 18 issues to find their feet (basically up to the second trade's sales numbers coming in). Because while it's cool seeing Iceman and Wasp pop back, they could have had more material when the material was hot if they gave it a longer chance.
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Cody's list is all stuff that's impressive if you haven't read much. It's a lot of beginner's comics so I'd wager he's more of a casual reader.
Bleeding Cool saying the big Heroes in Crisis death (or one of them) is
SpoilerRoy Harper.
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7 hours ago, Eivion said:
Apparently King's Vision never sold well in the first place which brings up a good question of why they ever asked for a sequel even with the critical success.
Long tail. It perked up digitally and then they did a directorship cut reissue which sold better than you'd expect that sort of thing to before then doing well in trade.
Sort of what happened with Iceman too. Series cancelled for low sales then did great trade sales so they relaunched it. The current system is killing a lot of books before really determining what their long term or alternate market sales might look like.
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Apparently for editorial reasons with four issues in the can and everyone being paid for it in full (page rates anyway). Cain did not seem pleased though and was doubly miffed that Marvel told her to downplay it on social media so we'll see how that goes.
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In the past, J’onn has been too perfect. One of the reasons people have not connected to him is that he was a perfect upright cop on Mars, and yes, his family died but it was no fault of his own, and then he came to Earth and he was perfect. Our favorite characters, that’s not them, you know? Spider-Man let the burglar go. Bruce Wayne was too afraid to save his family. This book gives J’onn that moment, and that’s the keystone as to why this book will be, is, the Martian Manhunter story, because we finally know the why. Why he strives to be so good on Earth, why he has this journey, because he’s never really had one before. All of our favorite characters overcome their faults, and we hope he’s going to do it here, but he has to have them first.”
Steve Orlando's take, from the Hollywood Reporter on the launch.
I think this is a really bad take but his comics tend to be good so I'll see how it goes.
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I was more excited for it before reading press that said J'onn is too good and it makes him boring so they're going to give him personal tragedy and regrets so he can be brooding.
Like it's Orlando so it'll be good but man I fucking hate that take.
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So I got Absolute Killing Joke and it is VERY nice. As expected the art shines at the Absolute scale. Uses different paper stock for the Higgins coloured version to preserve those colours and includes a really interesting retrospective by Higgins on it plus some odd bits of process art. He posits that his colouring is the Joker's lens while Bolland's later recolouring is Batman's which is a neat concept.
It also includes Moore's full script and in case you needed a reminder he's always been a dangerous madman, it's 134 PAGES! For a 46 page special! Ridiculous.
The two short stories by Bolland and the art gallery round it out nicely. Maybe the funniest detail is that they do the big three credits fadeout style with an image next to a bio and Alan Moore's is the Joker standing in the rain looking miserable which feels like a petty joke if ever there was one.
Anyway, if you're a fan of the book and don't have a previous ritzy edition, it's worth the $50 in a Special Edition sort of way.
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Spoiler tags if you're going to lay out a whole issue's plot like that, damn.
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Impulse Omnibus cancelled. Apparently the colour files were messed up and it was going to look terrible at Omnibus scale so instead they're going to be reprinting the material at standard size in two trades, which suits me better anyway (and can roll on to the non-Waid/Ramos run if it sells well)
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Amazingly managing to drop two from the bottom while not making the bottom. Damn those puppets.
2018 HORROR MOVIE THREAD
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Watched Hereditary last night. Had managed to go in without spoilers and DAMN. Wasn't what I expected, the big signpost twist caught me off guard entirely and the whole film was WAY more emotionally gutting than I had prepared for. It got there with the scares but I do feel like the scare factor was overstated in a lot of early reviews. The thing that makes it great also holds it back a bit for me...it's evident real early that this will be a meticulous film, so I'm looking for patterns/repetitions/hints/themes and as a result a lot of the direction it took wasn't super shocking but it still got me in a few spots and the meticulous nature also meant seeing all my speculation play out was SUPER satisfying (I even got that the background Shakespeare analysis in class would turn out to be the arc of the film).
It's incredibly shot with great use of repetition altered by context. Prime example:
Peter's fixed gaze checking out his crush's butt in class early on followed by the same setup shot but with him staring into nothing, the camera focused on a blank spot of floor with her off to the side, unimportant, after the accident.
It's a real good movie. The only real fault I can find is that, in many ways it ramps too suddenly at the end. Like a thirty minute wrestling match with 25 minutes of tight headlocks and matwork followed by 5 minutes of big spots and finishers with nothing in between. And after a film that trusted the audience to follow it, the exposition-y explanation of the whole film at the end was a little flat.That said, a ton of the shots and sounds in this film will stick with me so I can't argue it wasn't effective on the whole and it hit WAY more than it missed. Big recommendation.