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Recently, I was recommending Garth Ennis' Vietnam War-era comic featuring both Nick Fury and Frank Castle, it's a good read and all but I recently checked out another recent comic from him, "Babs" which is supposed to be a cheeky take on sword and sorcery comics, but instead comes off written like Ennis is trying to win Twitter arguments against "chuds" over five year old culture war discourse. Of course, there are plenty of people on Twitter and elsewhere who find this sort of content "relevant".

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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Black Bolt’s power isn’t sound related, it’s just connected to his speech. Kind of like how Cyclops power is connected to his eyes, but isn’t him reflecting a certain spectrum of light from his eyes or intensifying it.

I like those types of powers in fiction and it pisses me off when writers ruin it. I like Undead Unluck for this reason, the external targeting powers have rules around how they work.
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I had completely forgotten about this.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
Flash Rebirth is where a lot of the hate came from, and it only go worse after it.

For all the problems with Hal, Green Lantern: Rebirth worked and was a success, bringing Hal back and kicking off Johns' run on the title with a new direction and an old character coming back to the world, trying to rebuild his old city, and expanding on the mythology of the Green Lantern Corps. I didn't read Flash, but from everything I've heard, it didn't succeed the same way, which bothered Johns because he assumed it'd be exactly like GLR. Then Didio demanded that Flashpoint, which was just supposed to be an arc like the Sinestro Corps War, be this big event that launched the New 52, which no one was prepared for and didn't work because it was thrown together last minute.

I feel like had DC accepted that Barry wasn't going to get a good reception like Hal did and brought back Wally, having them both together like the Green Lanterns, Barry would have been fine. But they kept doubling down, and it just made things worse for the character.
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This makes me wonder how much of this was Dan DiDio's fault or Geoff Johns. "The Dastardly Death of the Rogues" was actually pretty good, but Vol. 3 rapidly went downhill afterwards, partly because Johns had set many plot threads in motion that were never realized.

The main difference between Barry and Hal was that Barry went out in a blaze of glory by saving what was left of the multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths. DC did Hal dirty because "Emerald Twilight" was a story designed for shock value like "Death of Superman" and "Knightfall" before it so there was an appetite to rehabilitate Hal's character. There was no such need for Barry, which made his return and subsequent shilling all the more grating.
 
Commander X said:
Recently, I was recommending Garth Ennis' Vietnam War-era comic featuring both Nick Fury and Frank Castle, it's a good read and all but I recently checked out another recent comic from him, "Babs" which is supposed to be a cheeky take on sword and sorcery comics, but instead comes off written like Ennis is trying to win Twitter arguments against "chuds" over five year old culture war discourse. Of course, there are plenty of people on Twitter and elsewhere who find this sort of content "relevant".

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is that cobson?

also like isnt it so funny that ennis' entire career is "i fucking hate capeshit" but he's also like "but wait these people arent criticizing capeshit in le hecking good faith, gender swaps to make money, characters winning fights for no reason other than writer incompetence and shitty forced politics are actually all good! theyre only bad because they le rape and disrespect soldiers"
 
Impressions one may get about American comic books are that they are always about superheroes, they are only about 20-30 pages per issue, and finding issue #1 can be hard.
 
Can someone spoil the rest of Ice Cream Man for me. I got up to the christmas "donate to planned parenthood" story and dropped it. This is why those sandal wearing gold fish tenders are slaughtering the american comic industry.
 
>Be me
>Think to myself; "Hey, I really liked the first few volumes of Immortal Hulk, I should finish up that run!"
>Look up the issue online
>...
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Goddammit I can't escape tranny nonsense even in my big green muscle man comics...
 
Beast From 20000 Faggums said:
>Be me
>Think to myself; "Hey, I really liked the first few volumes of Immortal Hulk, I should finish up that run!"
>Look up the issue online
>...
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Goddammit I can't escape tranny nonsense even in my big green muscle man comics...
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Of course not, they need to keep bringing that shit up or else their DEI overlords might blacklist them from the industry.
 
Jimjamflimflam said:
Can someone spoil the rest of Ice Cream Man for me. I got up to the christmas "donate to planned parenthood" story and dropped it. This is why those sandal wearing gold fish tenders are slaughtering the american comic industry.
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People actually read Image comics?

I joke, but not really. Monstress looks good, but I haven't actually sat down to read it. Can anyone comment on the writing/story?
 
Reading the Elvira comics. It took a bit to get used to the black and white but overall its a fun romp. Very tongue-in-cheek. Elvira herself is kind of like Halloween Deadpool in a way, moreso self depreciating. Tons of pop culture references and her trolling the staffers.
 
Commander X said:
Recently, I was recommending Garth Ennis' Vietnam War-era comic featuring both Nick Fury and Frank Castle, it's a good read and all but I recently checked out another recent comic from him, "Babs" which is supposed to be a cheeky take on sword and sorcery comics, but instead comes off written like Ennis is trying to win Twitter arguments against "chuds" over five year old culture war discourse. Of course, there are plenty of people on Twitter and elsewhere who find this sort of content "relevant".

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Hey, he needs that television money.

I read some of babs. Hopefully some of the Ennis stans will see this and stop going so hard for him.

Cactuar King said:
"How do I make the Hulk's rampages all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???"
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That's the immortal hulk run.

BetterFuckChuck said:
is that cobson?

also like isnt it so funny that ennis' entire career is "i fucking hate capeshit" but he's also like "but wait these people arent criticizing capeshit in le hecking good faith, gender swaps to make money, characters winning fights for no reason other than writer incompetence and shitty forced politics are actually all good! theyre only bad because they le rape and disrespect soldiers"
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the both side on the 'capeshit', man I hate that term, have become a metric of taste for me. If someone like Garth hates it I know they're a faggot. If, on the other hand, you have someone who's functional literacy with sequential art in American comics begins and ends with Claremont X-men as the 'hard' stuff I view them as a tasteless tranny.

I like good comics. Capes or tights or cossair sails or cowboy spurs. Damn I miss Crossgen.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
People actually read Image comics?

I joke, but not really. Monstress looks good, but I haven't actually sat down to read it. Can anyone comment on the writing/story?
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I have not read an Image comic in ages. I keep meaning to get back into Saga but just never can bring myself to.

As for Monstress, I bought the first trade and thought it was okay, but I never picked up volume two and can't remember much of the story years later. Maybe read the first couple of issues on a scan site and see if you like it.
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
RIP John Cassaday, loved your work on Planetary
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Oh shit, that's a rough one. Planetary was good and he elevated Whedon's work on X-Men.

Yeah, RIP.
 
Commander X said:
Recently, I was recommending Garth Ennis' Vietnam War-era comic featuring both Nick Fury and Frank Castle, it's a good read and all but I recently checked out another recent comic from him, "Babs" which is supposed to be a cheeky take on sword and sorcery comics, but instead comes off written like Ennis is trying to win Twitter arguments against "chuds" over five year old culture war discourse. Of course, there are plenty of people on Twitter and elsewhere who find this sort of content "relevant".

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Ribbon Queen is way worse. Only wymn and gays are good, white straight guys bad. BLM ACAB St Floyd and all that
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Feels like they are putting him on gunpoint for that shit or he lost it after getting the American citizenship. Maybe it is the garbage ass adaptations Preacher and The Boys have gotten. Making more woke shit hoping that TV networks will pick one up and rain shekels on him.
 
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