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The format is take or leave, but I clicked on new comics and got 26. For the whole week. Is it a slow week or did amazon chop out a lot of the indies and smaller publishers that used to be shown there?
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It's a broken mess all around. Bunch of things are missing or more difficult to find. Wish lists, smart lists, recently purchased, archive are all gone. You can no longer view comics by publisher, lots of tags seem to be gone for no reason, view by creator is a mess now, some comics have problems displaying in HD, double page spreads are broken half the time, file sizes seem to be wrong on some comics, old recommendation system that worked well is replaced with shitty one used on Amazon, image quality is worse, and search is littered with unrelated amazon results even if you apply filters. And good luck discovering self-published comics from no name creators. Oh, and Amazon did not even bother to set up proper redirects if you had a comixology page bookmarked or stumbled upon an old link - now they all go to comixology replacement's homepage.
Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be fired, and a competent company would not approve this change. People were criticizing the design back when it was announced in 2021, and I thought that transition was delayed because Amazon was working on an alternative. This is one of the worst updates of anything I have ever seen. The literally put "download" and permanent "delete" options next to each other. That's failing at the very basics of UI Design.
At least there is always izneo and graphitecomics, although selection there is a bit smaller. Interface is not as good as what comixology used to have, but they sure are better than Amazon. It's a wishful thinking on my part, but maybe some new, good service will fill in the niche left by comixology's demise. Or one of the existing ones makes some good efforts. Instead, more people will resort to pirating or some low quality Chinese owned company will enter the market.
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Downloaded a comic to see, almost all the pages are apart from a few are a complete blank. Search functions are complete shit, subscriptions if you live outside the US and UK are gone it's a complete cluster fuck. Comixology could be clunky at times but this "upgrade" has almost completely destroyed the app.
Apparently they didn't listen or consider criticisms before the release of it either. Can't believe how bad it is or how Amazon imagines how it will make money out of it considering how they threw a lot of their customers out.
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Yeah I agree Ennis punisher and it's spitural successor Jennifer blood is probably the guys best work (also dicks was pretty funny) and unlike Millar even when he has to include characters he doesn't like in his work, at least the writing comes off as playful mocking not malicious.
Millar thought? The man just loves insulting the medium that made him who he is. Not to mention the man had no idea how to use shock properly.
Ennis: shows an image of a dead baby in the slavers to show how fucked up human trafficking is
Millar: has iron man parody blow up a whole maternity Ward because he thinks it's funny.
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Millar is a failed screenwriter who turned to comics because it was a path to the movies and television, that worked pretty well so far. Ennis was a failed scriptwriter who turned to comics because, so far the Boys is being written by hacks and the Englishman who professes to be an Irishman is doing well enough. I hate all British writers, it's something very subtle that makes me hate their writing. Maybe it's my quiet love of Thatcher for making them suffer and surviving the IRA? I don't even hate the PIRA, I just thought it was hilarious that she died of dementia when like every welfare parasite in England hated her.
I don't really care for the few Ennis military comics I've read. He seems to fall in with the same stuff about Axis and commies that the rest of them do.
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Never let it be said That Kevin Smith was once, "one of us." His movies where one thing ranging from ok to terrible even in his prime, but his comic writing has been hack tier since the beginning.
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That reminds me all the more gravely that 1. Avengers Disassembled would have made a HELL of a lot more sense if Carol Danvers was the villain and the big "fuck you I'm Bendis" twist, being that the Carol who massacres the team is a time traveler coming straight off the events of Avengers #200, so she has to be sent back in time after killing everyone to get her memories sucked out of her by Rogue who in turn gets her memories of Carol's massacre erased from her mind via Doctor Strange so that there would be a stable time loop deal and 2. for all of his talk about hating Carol running off with her mind controlling rapist, Claremont actually quadrupled down on shitting on Carol and basically rendered her radioactive for several decades.
Prior to The Long Halloween, which established that Thomas was guilted into performing illegal surgery on Carmine Falcone after he was shot while committing a crime, it was explicitly established that Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne were both purity stus of the highest order complete with the Silver Age origin where Thomas wore a proto-Batman suit to a costume party and beat the shit out of a high ranking gangster who crashed the party, resulting in Joe Chill being sicced upon them to murder them in retaliation.
This also ties into the narrative arc that (one Scott Snyder implied to as the motive for Nu52 Joker) Thomas and Martha and their charity work was the one thing that was keeping Gotham alive and thriving and a great place to live. When they died, it had a deathly impact on the city as without their works and their purity of goodness, Gotham quickly and almost immediately became hell on Earth with crime and poverty and the mob taking over everything.
But it was the Telltale Games that canonized the idea that the Waynes were just as corrupt as everyone else in mass media sadly, which carried over into the new Batman film.
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yeah I think the 2000s introduced the whole Thomas Wayne Jr. thing and the court of owls shenanigans.
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I've been trickling money into a fortnightly partwork for the past couple of years, "The Legend of Batman" which collects various significant arcs and issues from the Batman books. Partworks are designed to siphon money off of you and I'm not going to argue that I'm participating in a low grade scam. But I've not been collecting any other comics or manga in that time, and it's the same price as a couple of individual issues, so why not?
It started off at going to eighty issues, then they extended it to one hundred, and now, I've just learned that the series is being extended again for another twenty books. This time I'm annoyed and worried. Eaglemoss, the publisher, does another DC partwork and they kept extending that one until it was one hundred and eighty issues long. Another partwork publisher, Hachette, who's doing a similar Marvel comics line, has extended it to two hundred and sixty five issues and they're still going. I'm not up for that shit, I don't have the money, the patience, or the space.
I don't know what I'm going to do next. Keep going until I reach the nice round hundredth issue and call it quits? Keep on going for the extra ten months for that perfect set and satisfy my autism and just hope they don't tack on yet another sixty issues? I really don't know.
It started off at going to eighty issues, then they extended it to one hundred, and now, I've just learned that the series is being extended again for another twenty books. This time I'm annoyed and worried. Eaglemoss, the publisher, does another DC partwork and they kept extending that one until it was one hundred and eighty issues long. Another partwork publisher, Hachette, who's doing a similar Marvel comics line, has extended it to two hundred and sixty five issues and they're still going. I'm not up for that shit, I don't have the money, the patience, or the space.
I don't know what I'm going to do next. Keep going until I reach the nice round hundredth issue and call it quits? Keep on going for the extra ten months for that perfect set and satisfy my autism and just hope they don't tack on yet another sixty issues? I really don't know.
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there's ways to read shit online. i refuse to give money to these companies.
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Confusing shit.
Thomas Wayne Jr started out as another Bob Haney (the Bendis of his day with his contempt for continuity) brainfart; Bruce Wayne's brain damaged brother who was never mentioned before his introduction by Haney that was kept in a mental asylum. He later got downgraded to brain dead so Haney could have him be a "house" Deadman could possess to have a normal life.
The character was so unpopular that not only did editorial squash Deadman possessing him as his "host body" almost as soon as Haney established it, but also banned writers from referencing him and used Crisis On Infinite Earths to erase him from canon.
The concept didn't come back again until 2000, when Grant Morrison decided to make Owlman in his revived Crime Syndicate, Thomas Wayne Jr. An identity that has since stuck for all later incarnations of Owl Man.
When New 52 happened, Scott Snyder introduced a guy named Lincoln March who was part of Court of the Owls (also introduced in the New 52) and Snyder had him claim to be Thomas Wayne Jr. It was so unpopular that it was dropped when the character was brought back and another writer retconned the whole thing as a Court of the Owls mindfuck done against Bruce.
Aren't the Hatchet/Eaglemoss books UK only? Always wanted to buy them but they just aren't available in the US unless you buy them off Ebay for absurd mark up prices/absurd shipping costs.
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Some series, not all, also get releases in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. There are also German language releases too.
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I like Millar sometimes but he's overrated. I still think the Ultimates 1/2 is one of the best marvel comics of the 2000s, but a lot of that is more time and place and the fact they let him do some pretty wild shit alternate universe or not. not all of it works, the horny hulk thing is horrible dialogue but I think there's a lot of good ideas in that series, particularly I think it somehow strikes the perfect balance of it's readable as both a satire of bush post 9/11 america, and also as some AMERICA FUCK YEAH action movie shlock. I generally think he's at his best when he's doing actual superhero shit and not edgelord bullshit. His Superman was always pretty good, I liked that Buck Rodgers pastiche, all his work with Morrison in the 90s, shit like that. I like Kick Ass well enough but it came out when I was actually 13 and a lot of his work, going back to it it's obvious that was his target audience. Ennis has always had a more consistent balance between edgelord and more straightforward work that I think speaks to his superior writing chops in general. Millar also seems to generally have interesting ideas but executed like shit, and Ennis tends to have more layered execution. A plot synopsis of Punsiher Max arcs could probably sound like Millaresque shock comics but the actual book, for the most part is actually a pretty layered series.
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Millar is one of those writers that needs an iron handed editor to keep his retarded edginess to a reasonable level and keep his disgusting cuck fetish shit out of his stories.
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The Russia-Ucraine war kinda reminded me of the Ennis recent Punisher story, Soviet. I kinda bet that the russian soldiers in the future will be like Vallery.
Dying for other's shitty interest fucking suck
Dying for other's shitty interest fucking suck
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I literally just found out that had come out and read it last month and was thinking about that
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Finished Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? and man, it was great. I only knew about the case superficially but this comic went deep in the case. It is such a shame that this format is kinda rare, there is another author who does these kind of comics but I forgot the name.
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Haven‘t bought a comic book in over a month, but this time I’m picking up the Preacher series by Garth Ennis close to the end of the month.
After that, I might just read The Boys for the first time. It seems like it’s worth it when compared to the Amazon TV series.
After that, I might just read The Boys for the first time. It seems like it’s worth it when compared to the Amazon TV series.