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ccoinhoarder said:
What does everyone think of Rebirth so far? I'm absolutely surprised by the quality of the comics they're putting out under Rebirth, they're really quite good.

And, just because I need to be contrarian, fuck putting Harley in Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad is a way to give gimmicky, forgotten, supervillains a second chance and give them a few good moments before they croak. So... Why put a high-profile villain you're most definitely not gonna kill off in charge?
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My feelings towards Rebirth are a mixed bag where I like some changes but this screams "NOT MUH DC: the event". I'm hoping they don't screw over New 52 Superman within the 2 years we have until the next event. He felt more like Kal-L who's my preferred Superman. The implied return of the JSA has me hyped.
 
I'm currently re-reading Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis, and I must say, it's not clicking with me like a hoped. It's good, don't get me wrong, but as I've gotten older I've come to find adult Peter Parker (think JMS' run) much more relateable than teenage Peter Parker (which makes me a bit disappointed that that's what they're going for in the MCU for the first few movies at least).
 
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Lensherr said:
I'm currently re-reading Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis, and I must say, it's not clicking with me like a hoped. It's good, don't get me wrong, but as I've gotten older I've come to find adult Peter Parker (think JMS' run) much more relateable than teenage Peter Parker (which makes me a bit disappointed that that's what they're going for in the MCU for the first few movies at least).
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Damn I was actually about to drop bills on the first three collected trade volumes. Anything else that's a minus about the series? I've heard great things.
 
KingGeedorah said:
Damn I was actually about to drop bills on the first three collected trade volumes. Anything else that's a minus about the series? I've heard great things.
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Ultimate Spider-Man or JMS Spider-Man? If we're talking about the former, I'd say that its biggest flaw is that it feels somewhat dated; it very much feels like a product of the early-2000s. If that's not a deal-breaker for you then I say go ahead and buy them.
 
I've read something kinda funny when Bendis was showing the preview art that his nine-year-old daughter (at the time) told him that she thought he was good looking.
 
Lensherr said:
Ultimate Spider-Man or JMS Spider-Man? If we're talking about the former, I'd say that its biggest flaw is that it feels somewhat dated; it very much feels like a product of the early-2000s. If that's not a deal-breaker for you then I say go ahead and buy them.
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Yeah sorry I meant Bendis and his run.
 
Is anybody else reading "vision"?
In my opinion this is the best series Marvel has had since before Secret Wars!
The latest issue made me cry and look back.
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A trusted former friend killed his son by mistake when he was spying on the family on behalf of the avengers. Vision has lost part of the the new family he craved and here he is comforting his daughter. Even though neither belive in god the both want some comfort. Now I'm going to cry again...
 
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Lensherr said:
I'm currently re-reading Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis, and I must say, it's not clicking with me like a hoped. It's good, don't get me wrong, but as I've gotten older I've come to find adult Peter Parker (think JMS' run) much more relateable than teenage Peter Parker (which makes me a bit disappointed that that's what they're going for in the MCU for the first few movies at least).
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In a better world, we'd be getting more adult Peter Parker. It's tiring hearing fans going on about how stale and overdone Peter is when the real issue is the editorial's weird obsession with bringing him back to his 60s and early 70s status quos. It's not even that difficult of a problem to solve

Another weird thing is I don't know why they don't just shove the teen Spidey role on Miles, who's never going to get pass his eventual college years in Marvel Time, just to free Peter from being a 26-ish year old man trying to act like he when he was 15. His creator, Bendis, has the worst ideas for the character like how he was planning to kill Peter off in Civil War 2 so Miles can be "the one true Spider-Man!" before Marvel told him to fuck off. He's suicidal if he thinks these plans will ever work.
 
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Have you ever had those cases where when you look back at a series you really liked when you were younger and now it just seems like it leaves a bit of a sour taste in your mouth? It's how I feel about Strangers in Paradise. I loved the series as a teenager, but thinking about it now and the first few volumes I've read (I lost interest after it seemed like the characters relationships weren't really getting anywhere). A lot of the men are weak, insipid, unfaithful louses. David is one of the exceptions and is mostly a saint who lacks a spine and can get whiny. (Granted he used to be a horrid person when he was a younger.) I honestly have to wonder when the author makes one sex look terrible (such as Brooke McEldowney's younger women often being petty, over-sexed, aggressive, self-absorbed nymphos who have no real life outside their man).
 
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RockVolnutt said:
In a better world, we'd be getting more adult Peter Parker. It's tiring hearing fans going on about how stale and overdone Peter is when the real issue is the editorial's weird obsession with bringing him back to his 60s and early 70s status quos. It's not even that difficult of a problem to solve

Another weird thing is I don't know why they don't just shove the teen Spidey role on Miles, who's never going to get pass his eventual college years in Marvel Time, just to free Peter from being a 26-ish year old man trying to act like he when he was 15. His creator, Bendis, has the worst ideas for the character like how he was planning to kill Peter off in Civil War 2 so Miles can be "the one true Spider-Man!" before Marvel told him to fuck off. He's suicidal if he thinks these plans will ever work.
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Joe Quesada, when asked why Spider-Man is unmarried in the main 616 line when we have Ultimate Spider-Man for that, said that adult Peter Parker can do things that teenage Peter Parker can't do, like have sex and watch porn.[1]

I wish I was making that up.

[1] http://www.comicsbeat.com/yet-more-chicago-scuttlebutt/
 
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Joe Quesada, when asked why Spider-Man is unmarried in the main 616 line when we have Ultimate Spider-Man for that, said that adult Peter Parker can do things that teenage Peter Parker can't do, like have sex and watch porn.[1]

I wish I was making that up.

[1] http://www.comicsbeat.com/yet-more-chicago-scuttlebutt/
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I don't know where to start with comments like that. Didn't 1610 Peter have very implied sex with Mary Jane and Gwen anyways? I remember it happening at least to Mary Jane in the 3 times I read the entire run.
 
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What do you guys think about Star Wars series of comics by Marvel? I managed to get my hands on a couple volumes of Darth Vader and Vader Down and I absolutely love them!
 
Alpha Loves You said:
I hate to drag the attention away from Spurging about shit movies, but what comic series does everyone want to have to have a movie spinoff. I'm personally rooting for SAGA or seconds to be adapted at some point, but what does everyone else think?
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There are several from 2000AD that I'd love to see made into movies.
This was a long saga that ran through years of Dredd continuity and even now, twenty years later, hasn't been completely resolved. The basic concept is that a protest movement forms in Mega-City One demanding an end to the rule of the Judges and a return to democracy. The Judges work to sabotage the movement by whatever means necessary, even resorting to illegal methods. Dredd himself finds himself questioning the system he serves and, to everyone's amazement, backs the calls for a referendum. Ultimately, the referendum does go ahead and, as predicted, everyone's too stupid and lazy to change the status quo.

It would be a great story to adapt, because firstly it continues themes set up in the last film, but secondly because it's a great work of political satire. Done right, it would be a really controversial movie that would get people talking.
The guy in my avatar. Set in the same world as Dredd, Devlin Waugh is a flamboyantly gay English 40-year-old Vatican-endorsed exorcist who becomes a vampire himself. He spends huge amounts of time tearing vampires limb from limb and generally kicking ass. You have to admire a guy who punches people through the throat while describing them as "irredeemably charmless."
Set in the future, where a nuclear war has resulted in the birth of mutants, who have become a victimised underclass. However, unlike X-Men, most have completely useless mutations - one of the more successful is Middenface McNulty, a violent Glaswegian whose power is being able to headbutt people really hard. Meanwhile you also have the likes of Kid Knee (who has a face on his knee) and Crabtree (who is a giant crab).

One of the few jobs open to mutants is bounty hunting. Our main character is Johnny Alpha, a bounty hunter whose eyes allow him to see through walls and who is partnered with Wulf Sternhammer, who is an actual Viking. The whole thing is completely insane and utterly brilliant.

Lensherr said:
I completely disagree that superhero movies are only viable when paired with a super-tanker of shoe-gazing hipster camp. Characters like Batman and Daredevil are much darker and brooding than say Spider-Man and Superman. Also, why must comic-books all pander to kids? What about stuff like Preacher or The Walking Dead?
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I think it's really just a case of matching the approach to the character. This was how Marvel did it - characters like Iron Man and Captain America get treated fairly seriously (while never losing sight of the silly aspects), while goofy characters like Ant-Man get treated in a silly way.

That being said, I am looking forward to the Lego Batman movie. I miss campy Batman.
 
I've read Watchmen twice. Maus for an assignment back in high school. Really liked the former. Probably would have liked the latter as well if I didn't have to read like three other Holocaust books at the same time.

Scott Pilgrim counts as a comic book, right? Because I really loved Scott Pilgrim. Haven't seen the movie though because Michael Cera is a punchable little pussy-boy and the entire point of Scott as a character is he's likable.
 
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What do you guys think about Star Wars series of comics by Marvel? I managed to get my hands on a couple volumes of Darth Vader and Vader Down and I absolutely love them!
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Darth Vader is the only Marvel book that I care to read and it's entirely due to the new supporting characters like Aphra, Triple Zero, and BT-1. Anything else Marvel is on my Pay No Mind list.
 
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/09/19/did-dc-comics-game-the-system-with-creative-bankruptcy/

This seemed to be the place to post this.

It's essentially a cry for help, from the author of the article, some guy that really wants to write for Marvel or something. I guess. More importantly, the fact is, DC is finally doing what the fans wanted for a while! That's a good thing.

As for non-experimental, DC has OGNs, Vertigo, Young Animal, and the Hanna-Barbera line (the Flintstones is the best comic either company is putting out right now).

And if DC doing what the fans have been clamoring for the last 4 years or so is creative bankruptcy? Then what the hell is Marvel doing that's giving us Civil War II (delayed to end in December, if we're lucky), Enemy of the State 2 (A classic Wolverine storyline), and of course, everyone's favorite Spider-Man topic! ANOTHER FUCKING CLONE SAGA! Man, the House of Ideas really knows how to think, don't they?
 
breadandcircuses said:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/09/19/did-dc-comics-game-the-system-with-creative-bankruptcy/

This seemed to be the place to post this.

It's essentially a cry for help, from the author of the article, some guy that really wants to write for Marvel or something. I guess. More importantly, the fact is, DC is finally doing what the fans wanted for a while! That's a good thing.

As for non-experimental, DC has OGNs, Vertigo, Young Animal, and the Hanna-Barbera line (the Flintstones is the best comic either company is putting out right now).

And if DC doing what the fans have been clamoring for the last 4 years or so is creative bankruptcy? Then what the hell is Marvel doing that's giving us Civil War II (delayed to end in December, if we're lucky), Enemy of the State 2 (A classic Wolverine storyline), and of course, everyone's favorite Spider-Man topic! ANOTHER FUCKING CLONE SAGA! Man, the House of Ideas really knows how to think, don't they?
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DC is letting Superman have a young son who also has powers, so how is that a lack of creativity? Those SJWs weren't buying the comics they demanded and if they did, it usually wasn't past the first few issues. (Of course, excuses were made.) I remember how in The Mary Sue the author of an article just wanted to point fingers for there not being enough sales for Angela: Queen of Hell (lesbian title character), but the fact that she never bought an issue destroyed that chance.
 
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