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The Unholy Dragon

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  1. For Batman 66, I wonder if streaming rights were included in the deal?
  2. I mean, they only have minority ownership of BOOM! but if this is any kind of indication, it'll be where they cluster their adult tv/film tie-ins I guess.
  3. In general, growing up in the post-Image 90s superhero scene it was real hard for me to get into a lot of older comics art. Oh man, here's one. William Moulton Marston. I can't deny the value of his work but I also still can't get into any of his Golden Age Wonder Woman stuff because the art BOTHERS me. It's not just the Golden Age adjustment either. I've read plenty of other comics from the period. Something about his I just can't do.
  4. Honestly I only really trust BC here. They have a track record for this sort of stuff. And it's weird, I hate this in principle. It's Identity Crisis v2. But Tom King isn't Brad Meltzer. I've enjoyed nearly all of his work enough to give this a shot.
  5. I 100% said while watching that Henry Fondle was the second coming of Vincent Adultman.
  6. PUPPETS~! But seriously, thanks to S.K.O.S. for running this again. Had a great time and I'll be here again as often as you're down to run the show.
  7. 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: 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.
  8. I'll be baffled if that one doesn't turn out to be a fakeout. Particularly given the rumour that
  9. 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.
  10. Related question: Is Disney getting Fox's shares in Boom! or are they staying with Sports Fox?
  11. So uhhhhhh Bleeding Cool is saying the other big Heroes in Crisis #1 death is... I...wait...what?
  12. 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.
  13. Can't wait to see how that gets squared with his Infinity Wars prologue stuff.
  14. 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.
  15. Yeah. Apparently it's a ride all around but the bulk of discussion I've found is Bat-dick centric.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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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