ArtVanderlay Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 http://watchthecomic.com/comic/keep-it-casual/#sthash.rJJ7FxVp.dpbs Watch Your Head creator Cory Thomas has had a pretty ugly meltdown over the last two years. His comic originally debuted in newspapers in 2006, seen as a replacement for The Boondocks, focusing on an extremely nerdy college student named Cory and his misadventures at a Historically Black College. Thomas bristled in interviews and on Facebook over criticism that Cory and his friends were unfunny, obnoxious, and in the cases of Omar (Black Militant), Quincy (Hip-Hop loving Ladies Man and "Get Rich Quick" scheme hustler) and Jason (wannabe gangbanger), reinforcements of negative black stereotypes. He started shedding newspapers in 2010 and responded by trying some character development, giving Cory a girlfriend and toning down Jason's presence, but eventually killed off Cory's girlfriend and brought back Jason with a vengeance. He finally ended the newspaper version of Watch Your Head last August and tried to reboot it as a webcomic with the idea that he would be supported by Patreon payments from his readers. In the new version Cory was completely absent and the main character was white (which leads to tons of Unfortunate Implications). In January he admitted that he was having to work multiple part-time jobs to pay the bills, and finally last month admitted that he was getting only 200 unique views for each comic and he would no longer be updating the comic on any sort of regular basis as he tried to get back into syndication or some other art gig that paid. Sad, as he is a very talented artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Pretty big DC sale on Comixology, up to 80% off collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 Pretty big DC sale on Comixology, up to 80% off collections. Think I'll have to pick up the three volumes of Knightfall. It's just a ridiculous value to pass up on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Pretty big DC sale on Comixology, up to 80% off collections. Think I'll have to pick up the three volumes of Knightfall. It's just a ridiculous value to pass up on. That is exactly what I bought. They have been on my wishlist for probably a year, and I couldn't pass it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'm finally going to read Walter Simonson's Robocop v Terminator. Been meaning to get around to it for 20 years and it's $4 on the Dark Horse SDCC sale. How the fuck are Comixology doing digital "SDCC variants" of regular comics? That doesn't even make any sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 How the fuck are Comixology doing digital "SDCC variants" of regular comics? That doesn't even make any sense. I've always been annoyed in general that all the variant covers aren't included with Comixology issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 To go along with the posting of Star Wars #1, Marvel posted another batch of Dark Horse Star Wars comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeFnMachine Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Gotham's Finest Sale going on over at Comixology, I picked up Office Down myself. https://www.comixology.com/DC_Gothams-Finest-Sale/page/7635?tid=E150804001&utm_source=comiXology+Digital+Comics+Newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E150804001_DC_Gotham_Sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 Today is the 5th anniversary of Morning Glories and in honor of that the first TPB is free on Image's website and Comixology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeFnMachine Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Huge Batman sale over at Comixology https://www.comixology.com/DC-Batman-1000-Sale/page/8136?tid=E150922002&utm_source=comiXology+Digital+Comics+Newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E150922002_Batman_1000_Sale_B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Finally a really good comic book bundle from Humble Bundle again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Looks like someone at Comixology goofed. The trade for What If?: Secret Invasion is $0.99 presumably in place of the single issue as part of their What If? sale. If anyone wants a trade of alternate timeline stories for a buck, there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Damn, looks like it's fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 How is Batman: Hush? That is the only Batman collection of the ones on sale that I'm interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Hush is a great first-timer's Batman story because it fits everything you could possibly want in. Unfortunately, basically everything it does has been done better, just not all in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I liked Hush for the mystery and final revelation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Hush is fun more than good. It's probably the least of the three yearlong epics with every villain Loeb did but Lee's art carries it if you dig his work. It's a big dumb epic and I dig it as such. It's alsp a stupid, terrible mystery with a Stephen King bad ending. It's a Jeph Loeb Batman book with Jim Lee art, basically. EDIT: Totally worth $4. As is basically everything in the ebook section. Eternal v1 and 2 is especially recent and bang for buck with something like 18-20 issues per trade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I read Joe Kelly's "I KIll Giants" over the weekend and thought it was brilliant. Anyone want to recommend some other books from Kelly that'd be worth tracking down? I looked at his comicbookdb page and nothing else really jumped out at me. Note: I'm not picking up Deadpool. Anything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Personally, I'm highly partial to his Superboy run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 He did some really good stuff with Superman too. Action Comics #775, "Whatever Happened to Truth, Justice, and the American Way?" is an obvious standout but I really liked the followups. Ending Battle really pairs well to follow on the Manchester Black story and Justice League Elite is super underrated in my opinion. It's all available in trades and digital I believe so yeah, check that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 JLELITE starts incredibly strong, but kind if falls apart in the last 3 issues INO. I liked Obsidian Age more than most sane people; I think the membership of the makeshift league hit my fan boy buttons hard enough to override questions of quality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I liked Obsidian Age. It's just, following Morrison's all-time best run on JLA and Waid's nearly as good run... It suffers mightily. But it's not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I just remembered a lot of people shitting on it on rec.arts.comics.dc.universe back in the day and feeling really weird for liking it. But I loved that it picked up the Major Disaster redemption threads from Giffen/Medina's Suicide Squad run, and I loved Ray and Dick co-leading (and seeing Ronnie and Jason Blood pop up always made me happy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I think i lasted about 3 issues, mainly bc i did not dig the art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Doug Monkey drew it, right? I remember him being polarizing but me being lukewarm-to-vaguely-positive on his work of the era. And since I've mentioned both the Kelly/Medina Superboy and the Giffen/Medina Suicide Squad today, Paco Medina is a weird artist for me. I absolutely adored his Superboy work and his fill-ins on Captain Marvel, but he was a terrible choice for SuSq. He's still working, but he never took off to the extent I was hoping. I think he muted his style to avoid massive clashes on the order of SuSq, but ended up losing a lot of what made him distinctive back in the day. On the right book he was perfect, but his "perfect" books were never going to sell, and when he toned it down it was impossible to rise above the pack for a book that might last more than 18 issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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