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I wonder wtf the deal was with that one sonic and spawn multiverse comic. That was odd
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Spawn is only in a single panel. that exists because Ken Penders was alongside writing sonic going to do an Image Universe creator owned book and it was a crossover between them basically. also Jim Valentino was going through a divorce and had a little kid who liked Sonic so he worked on it and allowed it to happen for that reason. it was to introduce some of those Penders characters but only a single issue of his image book ever came out. Batman and Popeye are in it for a panel too.
This next one will trigger rage. Image re-read part 2,
Youngblood...feel the blood
Youngblood is the anti-Spawn. It's not overpraised, people genuinely only seem interested in hating it. It's certainly easy to see why in Issue #1. It starts with the cringe DKR news panel intro. A horribly drawn splash page. So, the appeal of a military/gun edgy boy comics is the Dixon audience. These people LIKE accurate details. They want their boom boom sticks drawn somewhat well, planes and such. None of that's here. the backgrounds are lazy. The colors are at least creative, which is a nice way of saying I've seen worse. One thing Issue 1 does well is the end of the initial stories sequence. It's clear Liefeld had this end point of moral ambiguity, then drew a bunch of generic fight pictures. It doesn't justify the prior panels, but in isolation it works well. Then as if too pad and because Rob didn't have enough story, we get a completely second story.
So, Youngblood 1 isn't great. It's hard to learn much as info is scatter brained and shoved at you. Here's what we'll get people riled...the nice thing about Youngblood is, it's got allot of creativity and ideas being poured out. In Spawn #1-4, we get introduced to two important characters, Al and Violator. Both are flops. Here, we get flops, but Liefeld is introducing dozens of characters with potential and not overstaying there welcome. #2 gives John Prophet. He's clearly a mixture of influences, Conan and Cable. It's poorly written, but the DKR news panels are gone, it's completely moved on from Issue 1. I'll say it, I like that better than Spawn, four issues in and not going anywhere.
It's now issue 3, we've gone from April 92 to Aug 92 I think. So that's a pathetic three issues in five months, which is the equivalent of pissing millions of dollars away. Writing is still horrid, and we get a big lazy splash panel despite this book being late. Writer Rob tells us rather than letting his images speak for themselves. Immediately we jump from Prophet to DC, because that's not jarring. This issue actually follows through on the books failed premise, to be a reality, celebrity team of superheroes. The highlight though is the introduction of notsuperman aka supreme. illustrated by Brian Murray, I actually somewhat like the parts of this mini back up that feature Surpreme, but it should only have been two pages, typical bad panel structure..
It's now December '92, over six months and we have issue 0. It's bad. I'm sorry but, this is supposed to be an origin story and it looks like #1, with heavy military elements done poorly, the celebrity aspect left shallow and abandoned. We learn very little about the team and overall it's generic and forgettable.
Issue 4 comes out in February of '93, the first page isn't terrible. It's framing itself, giving us some idea of what's happening with the characters being better introduced. Then we get an entire fucking page of them jumping out the jet. Why is EVERY FUCKING Youngblood issue have them jumping from the jet in the same way as such a big deal? It not only isn't a great image, it's poorly built up to and diminishes the impact of this scene, like a hellicarrier scene in a Marvel book. The impact is just ruined by overexposure. He uses a 'diary' of a hero as a framing device, which is, to be fair, not a terrible concept. But its execution is weak. It's probably the best issue so far, in terms of plotting/writing and...fucking hell it's a crossover with another Rob title (he's launching spin offs and he's on issue four) Brigade. In the back up, we get Dale Kweon's Pitt.
And that's it. Issue 5 is published in July '93, so fuck that, that's a year later and not the first year.
Thoughts. Rob basically all the good will he earned on Hawk and Dove, New Mutants, and X-force and destroyed it. McFarlane produced a poorly written and plotted monstrosity, but he did so in a much more disciplined fashion (by the same date issue 5 comes out Todd is on issue 12 of Spawn.) Allot of my problems with Rob's Youngblood don't have anything to do with his art. From the get go, he fails to produce a coherent story, actual characters. The artwork is stunted because Rob wants to draw the fun pages and doesn't have someone to force him to do the hard work.
I'll follow up, his initial Extreme Studio output may be his nadir as a creative. I'm happy to explain why Extreme is much better than its reputation, rightfully earned by Image Year One. But I'll stick Liefeld with worst Image launch book so far.
Youngblood...feel the blood
Youngblood is the anti-Spawn. It's not overpraised, people genuinely only seem interested in hating it. It's certainly easy to see why in Issue #1. It starts with the cringe DKR news panel intro. A horribly drawn splash page. So, the appeal of a military/gun edgy boy comics is the Dixon audience. These people LIKE accurate details. They want their boom boom sticks drawn somewhat well, planes and such. None of that's here. the backgrounds are lazy. The colors are at least creative, which is a nice way of saying I've seen worse. One thing Issue 1 does well is the end of the initial stories sequence. It's clear Liefeld had this end point of moral ambiguity, then drew a bunch of generic fight pictures. It doesn't justify the prior panels, but in isolation it works well. Then as if too pad and because Rob didn't have enough story, we get a completely second story.
So, Youngblood 1 isn't great. It's hard to learn much as info is scatter brained and shoved at you. Here's what we'll get people riled...the nice thing about Youngblood is, it's got allot of creativity and ideas being poured out. In Spawn #1-4, we get introduced to two important characters, Al and Violator. Both are flops. Here, we get flops, but Liefeld is introducing dozens of characters with potential and not overstaying there welcome. #2 gives John Prophet. He's clearly a mixture of influences, Conan and Cable. It's poorly written, but the DKR news panels are gone, it's completely moved on from Issue 1. I'll say it, I like that better than Spawn, four issues in and not going anywhere.
It's now issue 3, we've gone from April 92 to Aug 92 I think. So that's a pathetic three issues in five months, which is the equivalent of pissing millions of dollars away. Writing is still horrid, and we get a big lazy splash panel despite this book being late. Writer Rob tells us rather than letting his images speak for themselves. Immediately we jump from Prophet to DC, because that's not jarring. This issue actually follows through on the books failed premise, to be a reality, celebrity team of superheroes. The highlight though is the introduction of notsuperman aka supreme. illustrated by Brian Murray, I actually somewhat like the parts of this mini back up that feature Surpreme, but it should only have been two pages, typical bad panel structure..
It's now December '92, over six months and we have issue 0. It's bad. I'm sorry but, this is supposed to be an origin story and it looks like #1, with heavy military elements done poorly, the celebrity aspect left shallow and abandoned. We learn very little about the team and overall it's generic and forgettable.
Issue 4 comes out in February of '93, the first page isn't terrible. It's framing itself, giving us some idea of what's happening with the characters being better introduced. Then we get an entire fucking page of them jumping out the jet. Why is EVERY FUCKING Youngblood issue have them jumping from the jet in the same way as such a big deal? It not only isn't a great image, it's poorly built up to and diminishes the impact of this scene, like a hellicarrier scene in a Marvel book. The impact is just ruined by overexposure. He uses a 'diary' of a hero as a framing device, which is, to be fair, not a terrible concept. But its execution is weak. It's probably the best issue so far, in terms of plotting/writing and...fucking hell it's a crossover with another Rob title (he's launching spin offs and he's on issue four) Brigade. In the back up, we get Dale Kweon's Pitt.
And that's it. Issue 5 is published in July '93, so fuck that, that's a year later and not the first year.
Thoughts. Rob basically all the good will he earned on Hawk and Dove, New Mutants, and X-force and destroyed it. McFarlane produced a poorly written and plotted monstrosity, but he did so in a much more disciplined fashion (by the same date issue 5 comes out Todd is on issue 12 of Spawn.) Allot of my problems with Rob's Youngblood don't have anything to do with his art. From the get go, he fails to produce a coherent story, actual characters. The artwork is stunted because Rob wants to draw the fun pages and doesn't have someone to force him to do the hard work.
I'll follow up, his initial Extreme Studio output may be his nadir as a creative. I'm happy to explain why Extreme is much better than its reputation, rightfully earned by Image Year One. But I'll stick Liefeld with worst Image launch book so far.
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I saw that today and was curious about it. Is it its own continuity? Right now I'm reading Unnatural Order. It's kinda neat, and I really like the art, but boy did I just see a page that would haunt me forever if I was the artist.
Classic fuck up. In case you're a gun noob, bullets don't leave the gun STILL IN their casing.
It really goes to show that if you're going to draw something for a comic book, you should probably do a basic amount of research on it.
I love Allred's past work on Batman, so it's regrettable I'm letting this one pass.
Mike has decided to hitch his wagon to Second Coming/Superman Space Age writer and pretentious clown Mark Russell. Given how terrible Space Age was, Its a pass. What's really criminal is Allred doesn't need Russell. I know he's won awards (in this day an Eisner means nothing). But Mike is a truly gifted storyteller who has actually done worthwhile work on Batman without the obnoxious mix of Hard Traveling heroes cringe and inhuman angst that permeated the last collaboration with Russel.
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So the Krakoa era is officially over. As much as I hold that I enjoyed its high points (and accept the peripheral books were mostly arse), I have to admit they really botched the end. Simultaneously too dragged out (because there was a lot of ground to cover) and too rushed (because they gave them too little time to cover said ground).
The biggest mistake was giving Duggan the main title and putting him in charge of the "mundane" side of the finale, the war against Orchis and Nimrod. Gillen handled the more convoluted and metaphysical side of the finale, the battle with the extratemporal ultimate AI, Enigma, and he did a good job all things considered. But Duggan is just so fucking unimaginative, so sloppy, so checklist-minded, his side of things just dragged everything down.
In the end:
Fall of the House of X + X-Men: Cyclops is sentenced to death by Orchis, but the X-Men rescue him. As noted, every problem or loose thread or enemy gets checked off of the list, one by one, quickly and unsatisfyingly. Every threat that in other books took great feats to defeat, now get taken out by just some simple attacks, often drawn by Noto in the stiffest, most boring way possible. At one point there's a planet-killer machine coming to destroy Earth, and they one-shot it by teleporting the SWORD space station into it. They also bring the Brood, and the mutants from Mars (both the Arakko ones and the ones from Earth that got exiled there). Even Nimrod, the definitive adaptive sentinel with multiple bodies gets all of his iterations destroyed by several mutants hitting him with his powers simultaneously.
Avengers/Iron Man/Magneto tie-ins: Mags gets resurrected via some introspective journey through hell thing with Storm's help, The Avengers release a bunch of mutants from Orchis prisons, Iron Man fights a ton of sentinels to draw them away from the X-Men.
Rise of the Powers of X + Dead X-Men + X-Men Forever: Most of the mutants of Krakoa are stuck on the White Hot Room, and the Phoenix and Jean are dying because one of the Essex clones tried to use them to ascend to godhood, and failed, giving rise to Enigma, the ultimate Essex AI who lives outside of time. Hiding in an undetectable place also outside of time, Xavier and a group of selected mutants (including Rachel Grey, as well as Sinister, secretly hiding in a clone of Doug) start an operation to try to prevent the creation of. They fail, so they move to try to reach Moira before her powers awaken in her last life and convince her to avert this future; but Xavier secretly plans to kill her. When he tries, the other rest of the team convinces him not to, and he moves onto another plan: to send Rachel to the WHR (by, uh, killing her) to try to heal the Phoenix so it can deal with Enigma. Rachel helps Hope revive the Phoenix and Jean (and sort of dies and/or becomes it or part of it, and irrevocably links the Phoenix to Jean -and I guess to hot redheads in general-); all the fighting mutants return to the present to join the Orchis war, while hundreds of thousands of non-fighting mutants stay behind in the WHR. Meanwhile he goes to the present and joins Nimrod to help him destroy humanity in exchange for the survival of mutants in their own little preserve (as stated, in the other books, Orchis, Omega Sentinel, and Nimrod are defeated handily, so that didn't pan out). Enigma shows up with all the other Dominions to fight Phoenix but they say "we don't really care, see ya losers" and bail. Enigma then tries to alter history and Phoenix hunts him down and undoes his fuckery, and ultimately does a spiritual SNIKT that Gold Experience Requiems him, causing him to be perpetually dying and screaming throughout all of universal history. Moira, who helped by providing the Phoenix a beacon to find Enigma, dies and gets an 11th life, as a reward, in which she's powerless and free.
X-Men Final issue: Xavier is captured for his crimes, Wolverine tries to kill him but Mags stops him. They have a talk, and of course Xavier says that Mags' current position of defending the oppressed regardless of if they're humans or mutants is essentially him admiting "Xavier Was Right". The White Hot Room Krakoa and its mutants reappear in the present, 15 years older, and having resurrected all the millions of dead Genoshan mutants (FUCK UP THO: these mutants were supposedly already resurrected in the far past, becoming the Threshold civilization from that god awful Marauders book), but while some chose to stay in the present, most will return with Krakoa to the WHR. This causes a fight, Apocalypse wants to lead them but they reject him, so he fights a bunch of the X-Men but ultimately accepts his time is over, and leaves. Krakoa and the millions of faceless non-X-Men mutants fuck off to the WHR (and presumably die on the way to their home planet). Xavier ends up imprisoned but still has some ways to use his powers and covertly protect random mutants from bigots sometimes I guess. And the rest of the issue is setup for From The Ashes which I don't care about.
It's been a ride. Again, I enjoyed it overall, but the rushed and sloppy final leg of the race really sours things for me. I can mostly ignore the shitty side books, but this part is the one that really hurts.
With this, I think I'm out of mainstream comics. Nothing that the Big 2 are putting out interests me in the slightest (with the exception of keeping a curious eye on Ultimate Spider-Man), and neither do most of the books from the smaller publishers.
Pardon the blogpost.
The biggest mistake was giving Duggan the main title and putting him in charge of the "mundane" side of the finale, the war against Orchis and Nimrod. Gillen handled the more convoluted and metaphysical side of the finale, the battle with the extratemporal ultimate AI, Enigma, and he did a good job all things considered. But Duggan is just so fucking unimaginative, so sloppy, so checklist-minded, his side of things just dragged everything down.
In the end:
Fall of the House of X + X-Men: Cyclops is sentenced to death by Orchis, but the X-Men rescue him. As noted, every problem or loose thread or enemy gets checked off of the list, one by one, quickly and unsatisfyingly. Every threat that in other books took great feats to defeat, now get taken out by just some simple attacks, often drawn by Noto in the stiffest, most boring way possible. At one point there's a planet-killer machine coming to destroy Earth, and they one-shot it by teleporting the SWORD space station into it. They also bring the Brood, and the mutants from Mars (both the Arakko ones and the ones from Earth that got exiled there). Even Nimrod, the definitive adaptive sentinel with multiple bodies gets all of his iterations destroyed by several mutants hitting him with his powers simultaneously.
Avengers/Iron Man/Magneto tie-ins: Mags gets resurrected via some introspective journey through hell thing with Storm's help, The Avengers release a bunch of mutants from Orchis prisons, Iron Man fights a ton of sentinels to draw them away from the X-Men.
Rise of the Powers of X + Dead X-Men + X-Men Forever: Most of the mutants of Krakoa are stuck on the White Hot Room, and the Phoenix and Jean are dying because one of the Essex clones tried to use them to ascend to godhood, and failed, giving rise to Enigma, the ultimate Essex AI who lives outside of time. Hiding in an undetectable place also outside of time, Xavier and a group of selected mutants (including Rachel Grey, as well as Sinister, secretly hiding in a clone of Doug) start an operation to try to prevent the creation of. They fail, so they move to try to reach Moira before her powers awaken in her last life and convince her to avert this future; but Xavier secretly plans to kill her. When he tries, the other rest of the team convinces him not to, and he moves onto another plan: to send Rachel to the WHR (by, uh, killing her) to try to heal the Phoenix so it can deal with Enigma. Rachel helps Hope revive the Phoenix and Jean (and sort of dies and/or becomes it or part of it, and irrevocably links the Phoenix to Jean -and I guess to hot redheads in general-); all the fighting mutants return to the present to join the Orchis war, while hundreds of thousands of non-fighting mutants stay behind in the WHR. Meanwhile he goes to the present and joins Nimrod to help him destroy humanity in exchange for the survival of mutants in their own little preserve (as stated, in the other books, Orchis, Omega Sentinel, and Nimrod are defeated handily, so that didn't pan out). Enigma shows up with all the other Dominions to fight Phoenix but they say "we don't really care, see ya losers" and bail. Enigma then tries to alter history and Phoenix hunts him down and undoes his fuckery, and ultimately does a spiritual SNIKT that Gold Experience Requiems him, causing him to be perpetually dying and screaming throughout all of universal history. Moira, who helped by providing the Phoenix a beacon to find Enigma, dies and gets an 11th life, as a reward, in which she's powerless and free.
X-Men Final issue: Xavier is captured for his crimes, Wolverine tries to kill him but Mags stops him. They have a talk, and of course Xavier says that Mags' current position of defending the oppressed regardless of if they're humans or mutants is essentially him admiting "Xavier Was Right". The White Hot Room Krakoa and its mutants reappear in the present, 15 years older, and having resurrected all the millions of dead Genoshan mutants (FUCK UP THO: these mutants were supposedly already resurrected in the far past, becoming the Threshold civilization from that god awful Marauders book), but while some chose to stay in the present, most will return with Krakoa to the WHR. This causes a fight, Apocalypse wants to lead them but they reject him, so he fights a bunch of the X-Men but ultimately accepts his time is over, and leaves. Krakoa and the millions of faceless non-X-Men mutants fuck off to the WHR (and presumably die on the way to their home planet). Xavier ends up imprisoned but still has some ways to use his powers and covertly protect random mutants from bigots sometimes I guess. And the rest of the issue is setup for From The Ashes which I don't care about.
It's been a ride. Again, I enjoyed it overall, but the rushed and sloppy final leg of the race really sours things for me. I can mostly ignore the shitty side books, but this part is the one that really hurts.
With this, I think I'm out of mainstream comics. Nothing that the Big 2 are putting out interests me in the slightest (with the exception of keeping a curious eye on Ultimate Spider-Man), and neither do most of the books from the smaller publishers.
Pardon the blogpost.
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The Krakoa Era of X-Men got exactly the ending it fucking deserved---a lousy ending for a lousy era. This 5-year fart of an experiment did absolutely nothing for the characters, and won't even be a footnote in their major history in all future retrospectives looking back at the 2020s. No tension, no interpersonal drama, no soap opera storytelling, no regard for character histories or past relationships...nothing but high concept cerebral piss, mutant round table politics and shitty prom dances. Can't imagine why this status quo was selling like liquid feces only two years into its existence.
The only silver lining is that from interviews alone, the new editorial team is looking to pull a Post-Morrison and retcon most if not all the mistakes that occurred in this era. Already, Tom Brevoort has come out saying that the stupid-ass polyamorous throuple relationship between Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey that Hickman came up with will not only be severed come the new comics, but that officially, it never happened in the first place--not even off-page, where it was previously implied to happen. They are literally deleting this shit like they did with Xorn in New X-Men, and the Krakoa Stans are losing their minds on social media, shrieking about the "throuple erasure."
I will happily read the new status quo out of spite, just to relish in every other thing from Krakoa that the new comics retcon into oblivion, and savor the tears of every retard that stanned for the Groomer Island Saga with all their might.
The only silver lining is that from interviews alone, the new editorial team is looking to pull a Post-Morrison and retcon most if not all the mistakes that occurred in this era. Already, Tom Brevoort has come out saying that the stupid-ass polyamorous throuple relationship between Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey that Hickman came up with will not only be severed come the new comics, but that officially, it never happened in the first place--not even off-page, where it was previously implied to happen. They are literally deleting this shit like they did with Xorn in New X-Men, and the Krakoa Stans are losing their minds on social media, shrieking about the "throuple erasure."
I will happily read the new status quo out of spite, just to relish in every other thing from Krakoa that the new comics retcon into oblivion, and savor the tears of every retard that stanned for the Groomer Island Saga with all their might.
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X-Men is for fags
Ultimates 1 came out (I also read the free comic book day special) and all I gotta say is, we are so fucking back. Hank and Jan are a healthy couple, Cap is getting his golden age brother back, Reed-Doom is great, no fag shit, a suicide joke, mocking the french…… it brings a tear to my eye.
That Cap reaction needs to be a meme template. Little Tony and unenhanced scrawny Reed restraining a deranged boomer is hilarious.
616 is garbage containment, Avengers? Never heard of her, Ultimates stand supreme.
Ultimates 1 came out (I also read the free comic book day special) and all I gotta say is, we are so fucking back. Hank and Jan are a healthy couple, Cap is getting his golden age brother back, Reed-Doom is great, no fag shit, a suicide joke, mocking the french…… it brings a tear to my eye.
That Cap reaction needs to be a meme template. Little Tony and unenhanced scrawny Reed restraining a deranged boomer is hilarious.
616 is garbage containment, Avengers? Never heard of her, Ultimates stand supreme.
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I think the idea of Orchis and Nimrod manipulating and building up all this shit was cool. The issue is just that the Krakoa era sucked ass at executions of everything.
Duggan shoulda been given some side-story while they gave the finishing of Krakoa to like. . . I don't know. I'd take anyone even semi-competent.
Ah man in the '00s, the whole Cyclops rescue woulda been its own crossover story. The entire last segment of the Krakoa era woulda been so cool with all the possible collab/crossovers. It pisses me off.
Tony marrying Emma is interesting but why I feel like it's going to go sideways inevitably.
Enigma. . . an AI.
We have Bastion/Nimrod and Ultron. No other AI villain is ever gonna succeed in Marvel unless it's on par with them lmfao.
So it got resolved. and Moira's impact on the greater marvel U is a blank slate again. Coolio.
wasn't Omega Sentinel a sorta hero at one point? Krakoa was such a garbage shitshow if they didn't try doing a bit of catchup with Omega and what's happened in between her popping up now and when she left the X-Men in the 00s. I recall her thing was struggling against becoming as genocidal as a sentinel.
Okay, fine. Is Magneto actually gonna be a permanent hero now? Can we stop flip-flopping on all this?
Don't care about the other stuff. Xavier's alive and I guess he's going to be slipping into borderline villainy now? Apocalypse needs to chillax and just be a big bad again later.
Could always read Olaf Stapledon's Odd John. It's a '30s sci-fi novel about a deformed mutant with godlike powers. Apparently it coined the term "homo superior". It's apparently pretty influential. I'll read it someday.
what sucks is that we had so many cool ideas like Rockslide's personality change, Betsy Braddock reclaiming her original body, Nightcrawler trying to be a spiritual leader and uncover Onslaught and etc. All stuff that woulda been really cool in the hands of competent writers.
Hell, Hank McCoy trying to be a "necessary monster" coulda been interesting if handled right. I fucking hate goyslop writers.
I guarantee you that 99.99999999999999999999999999% of the people whining about throuple erasure aren't comics fans.
Anyways I hope DC erases forced homosexuality too.
If Krakoa stans supported it so much how come they didn't buy the books?
sounds like the Ultimate books are at least fun. How's the Black Panther and X-Men?X-Men is for fags
Ultimates 1 came out (I also read the free comic book day special) and all I gotta say is, we are so fucking back. Hank and Jan are a healthy couple, Cap is getting his golden age brother back, Reed-Doom is great, no fag shit, a suicide joke, mocking the french…… it brings a tear to my eye.
That Cap reaction needs to be a meme template. Little Tony and unenhanced scrawny Reed restraining a deranged boomer is hilarious.
616 is garbage containment, Avengers? Never heard of her, Ultimates stand supreme.
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I didn't like the mini that started this new ultimate line, but hey, Ult Spidey is good, Ult Avengers started alright. Haven't read Ult Black Panther, but Ult X-Men is very different. It's a very slow-moving, painterly, manga-style story about a little girl in Japan dealing with a ghost-curse thing, while also being a mutant.
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Picked up a copy of 2021s legends of the dark knight (what is this the..4th time dc has revived that title?)
It's an OK done in one batmam story as legends tends to be mostly except for one bit at the end. Where Bruce Wayne kinda gets ancestor shamed. His great grandfather from 1910 apparently dismissed charges against penguins ancestor who beat and abused his maids because "Oh no 1910 times were unfair to women!" But it's tacked on at the very end and it's not like Bruce is totally shamed for what ue couldn't control before he was even born. But it's a 2020s batman story written by a modern cominc writing woman with a tacked on "be better." Message but it's not as pretentious or forced as most modern comics tend to be.
6/10 glad it was only a dollar from the box of cheap marked down comics at the shop.
It's an OK done in one batmam story as legends tends to be mostly except for one bit at the end. Where Bruce Wayne kinda gets ancestor shamed. His great grandfather from 1910 apparently dismissed charges against penguins ancestor who beat and abused his maids because "Oh no 1910 times were unfair to women!" But it's tacked on at the very end and it's not like Bruce is totally shamed for what ue couldn't control before he was even born. But it's a 2020s batman story written by a modern cominc writing woman with a tacked on "be better." Message but it's not as pretentious or forced as most modern comics tend to be.
6/10 glad it was only a dollar from the box of cheap marked down comics at the shop.
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That's pretty much all anyone praises when it comes to the Krakoa Era: its "potential", and nothing else. Not its actual story, or plotting, or character interactions...the ideas behind the concept. But an era can't run on ideas or potential for five years, anymore than a car can run on fumes. Potential is virtually all Hickman brought to this era...what he didn't bring was an actual story. He was content spinning his wheels, shitting out empty world-building and data sheets, instead of actually pushing the story forward. And his co-writers like Vita Ayala and Gerry Duggan (many of which he personally requested to be part of the Krakoa Writing Team, btw, in case anyone wants to cling to this notion that "Hickman did nothing wrong and he was fucked over by his lesser colleagues"), didn't do much better with the concept.
As for Duggan stinking up the ending, well...is anyone surprised? Anyone who read his dreadful Marauders series from early in the Krakoa Era should've known what to expect from him: murder-happy, OOC mutant characters exchanging crap dialogue and engaging in vapid, uninspired fights.
Which matches the aimless and creatively inept feel of the rest of this era, tbh.
And Bastion already did the definitive "AI Nemesis of Mutantkind" concept all the way back in the Decimation Era with the Messiah Trilogy and X-Force...because you had writers like Craig Kyle and Chris Yost, who could tackle that concept well.
Nowadays you don't have writers even remotely in the same caliber, so the idea of them tackling the same concept and doing it as good or better is untenable.
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Ultimate X-Men looks like manga slop and again, mutants suck
Ultimate Black Panther I’m not reading but I’m glad the black characters are safely contained in Africa for the moment, Maker’s new world truly is a utopia.
Ultimate Black Panther I’m not reading but I’m glad the black characters are safely contained in Africa for the moment, Maker’s new world truly is a utopia.
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I've lost count of how many times I've seen ads for various series over the years, from various publishers ranging from the Big Two to ones who were active during the 80s Black and White boom, and so on and having my interest piqued only to research and find out the title never came to be.
I'm reminded in part of this one grubby little comics shop, not a good place, the stereotypical hole-in-the-wall with the windows pasted over with faded posters for forgotten comics crossovers and a carpet that had probably last been cleaned in the middle of the Bush administration (the George Herbert Walker Bush administration that is) had the greatest accumulation of ill-advised promotional items that I recall running across in all my years. It would be harder to imagine more poorly placed posters for Marvel, DC, Valiant and Acclaim titles that nobody ever bought or read, but they also seemed to have collected every poster or promotional item ever released for any comic title that with a little research would reveal had never materialized, never shipped, never sold.
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Man posts like that take me back. Comic shops (where u find them) have become to...sterilized like more so than nessicary to the point you can smell the new chemically dipped paper companies print on these days. It's like that old mr burns line
Too cold and sterile where's the heart?
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As a kid the place near me smelled musty and had stuff on the shelves from the seventies from when it first opened up. I actually picked up an old Fourth World issue off the shelf. I was able to get some older, out of print TPBs from there, but at the time it was off putting because the guy running it seemed to be pissed off any time someone came in and there was this air that even though it was a store, you were going into someone's house. But it was the only option so I kept going back until it closed down almost a decade ago.Man posts like that take me back. Comic shops (where u find them) have become to...sterilized like more so than nessicary to the point you can smell the new chemically dipped paper companies print on these days. It's like that old mr burns line
Too cold and sterile where's the heart?
I always thought it was a weird way to run a business, but the more stories I hear, the more I realize Comic Book Guy was a more wide-spread thing than I thought.
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2018
We had a place near me that was in the bottom of a black church and only open on Sundays. It was wall-to-ceiling filled with longboxes. No new comics. Just old shit stuffed into every square of space and, while you browse, constant stomping and noise from the church service going on above you. I miss that kinda shit. The atmosphere. The discovery of finding some weird gem tucked away in a corner somewhere. Pre-internet days, so faggy youtube speculators hadn't picked everything clean yet.
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2024
My place was the local Walmart.
My mom got me on the hobby, we were moving around a lot and one day she handed me two issues, still have em, Ultimate Mystery (Nick Fury on the cover fighting Reed’s spore creatures) and an issue of Secret Avengers (Cap levelling a pistol and Shang Chi wielding a sword against an unseen enemy) I loved that era of Marvel so much I would read anything. The Dark Reign lead up and aftermath time period was fantastic, plus you had the upside of the House of M cleaning house. Some of my favourites were Incredible Hulks, Moon Knight, Ultimate Death of Spider-Man, Thunderbolts (Norman era), Agent Venom, Dark Avengers and I even have some issues of Daken.
Ultimate Mystery and the Reed reveal is what made me a lifelong Ultimate fan
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
Remember that one issue of Astonishing X-Men where Cyclops makes a comment about "black leather costumes making people nervous", as a direct pot-shot at the previous status quo?
Well...
Well...