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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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The story, at least in the first volume, is kind of bland. The artwork is gorgeous. I keep meaning to try another volume to see if the writing gets any better.
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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I read Marjorie Finnegan and a Walk through Hell and they were both lousy. Anything where he has an opportunity to insert modern politics into the storyline is just awful. If it involves the military it's usually pretty good.
 
Johnny Storm isn't eating the bugs. He's just fucking them.
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Elwood P. Dowd said:
Johnny Storm isn't eating the bugs. He's just fucking them.
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We live in a society.

Bay Kemal said:
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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Man. You know? Am I the only person who isn't surprised by this?

Preacher ended like a wet fart (beginnings a decent idea/modern western but by Volume three it was starting to come apart.); His Constantine run starts great but again once that initial storyline ran its course early and I was fucking bored/tired of the pretentious shit quick. Maybe it's cause I've actually read comics older than 1995?

I'm thinking that's it because I've read good war comics. Not that I understand his fascination with them.

Either way, he's either the 3rd or 4th best Punisher writer after Dixon and Baron with maybe him and Carl Potts duking it out for fourth place?

Yeah his Demon is a gem and Hitman is a solid spin-off if a little long in the tooth. But the Boys? That's pretty artwork and little else. Hell, it's not that Ennis can't write. His stuff at Top Cow is perfectly solid. But isn't that more egregious? That there's someone with some talent there, he's just never grown as a person or artist?

Maybe the reason why he's so overpraised compared to better and more accomplished peers/people who never really get their due (Dan Abnett; Alan Grant; etc) is BECAUSE he serves as a champion in all the right ways for the mean and ugly people?
 
I just recently dropped around $137 dollars on both volumes of the question omnibus.

Expensive, but when part 2 comes in, I will happily own every single question comic ever made.

I'm very happy, I love the question, it's just a shame he's not used much.

As for non DC related comics, I just recently spent 8 bucks on volume 1 of a comic series called bedlam, it's about a super villain serial killer turned detective after being 'cured' of his madness.
 
Posted at Mike Grell's site:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 09132024
It’s my 77th birthday and the 5oth Anniversary of THE WARLORD. I’m pleased to announce that DC Comics will be publishing MIKE GRELL’S THE WARLORD OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 in 2025, to be followed by VOLUME 2 which will complete my full run on my very first comic creation. Over the decades THE WARLORD has proven a perennial favorite among fans around the world in many languages.
THE WARLORD tells the story of a US spy pilot whose SR-71 is damaged while on a mission over Russia and plunges through an opening at the North pole into Skartaris, the world at the center on the earth, where creatures of from mythology and Earth’s ancient past co-exist amid fantastic cities and leftovers of the civilization of Atlantis. TRAVIS MORGAN’S struggle to survive in this savage world is the heroic saga of a modern man in pursuit of his destiny in a land beyond time.
–Mike Grell
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Warlord was a perfect pulp concept executed by Grell during his run at a time when DC was mostly selling superheroes, and all told, the complete series ran for 133 issues and six annuals. Sword and sorcery with a heavy dash of the "lost world" sort of setting, originally a "hollow Earth" in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar stories, then revealed to be another dimension, a land filled with prehistoric creatures from various eras as well as even stranger monsters, and with plenty of magic, as well as long lost Atlantean technology around that some of the local civilizations use without understanding how it works.

It should be no surprise, considering Grell was involved, a lot of people in the land of Skartaris dress very lightly, our hero Travis Morgan, his friend Machiste with the spiked mace for a hand, his love interest Tara, the cat-woman Shakira (who is either a fur-bikini clad Amazon woman who can turn into a black cat, or vice versa), Mariah the Russian scientist and adventurer who deliberately sought a way to Skartaris, etc.

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Cactuar King said:
"How do I make the Hulk's rampages all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???"
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See, if the stupid tranny got the treatment the black chick got then it would be forgivable.

“Oh? You want to follow the damned wanderer? Try to be like him? Think your rage is greater than the being made to suffer? Fuck around and find out.”

But no, that tranny was the only one who shrugged off Xenmu’s mind control.
 
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
The most underrated Batman writer
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Alan Grant, Mike Barr, and maybe Jim Starlin.

Most overrated?

Cucka, terrible comics that ruined the titles. Scott Snyder. A decade later and everyone of the best artists at DC and nothing worthwhile to show for it. Maybe Morrison? Though I think he's actually pretty divisive.

Bay Kemal said:
Basically She-Hulk series in a nutshell. Being a woman automatically makes Jen angrier but in more control of it and Bruce can eat shit.
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Humble Architect said:
See, if the stupid tranny got the treatment the black chick got then it would be forgivable.

“Oh? You want to follow the damned wanderer? Try to be like him? Think your rage is greater than the being made to suffer? Fuck around and find out.”

But no, that tranny was the only one who shrugged off Xenmu’s mind control.
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One of the reasons I HATED how much praise Al Ewing was getting. Especially after Immortal Hulk. Before it was bad, some shitty Grant Morrison wannabe fag.

But whereas Morrison has a whole decade of playing things straight, loved superhero comics, and has stuff like JLA, Flash, Skull Kill Krew and others under his belt, what does Al Ewing have? His Immortal Hulk has nothing to say about Hulk that's really new. His Ultimates was cringe inducing. He's never just put out something that was good and solid and coherent. Everything is this meta-narrative riff on something that exists. Like a less pathetic and whining Jason Aaron.
 
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But whereas Morrison has a whole decade of playing things straight, loved superhero comics, and has stuff like JLA, Flash, Skull Kill Krew and others under his belt, what does Al Ewing have? His Immortal Hulk has nothing to say about Hulk that's really new. His Ultimates was cringe inducing. He's never just put out something that was good and solid and coherent. Everything is this meta-narrative riff on something that exists. Like a less pathetic and whining Jason Aaron.
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People just suck his dick
 
jspit2.0 said:
Alan Grant, Mike Barr, and maybe Jim Starlin.

Most overrated?

Cucka, terrible comics that ruined the titles. Scott Snyder. A decade later and everyone of the best artists at DC and nothing worthwhile to show for it. Maybe Morrison? Though I think he's actually pretty divisive.




One of the reasons I HATED how much praise Al Ewing was getting. Especially after Immortal Hulk. Before it was bad, some shitty Grant Morrison wannabe fag.

But whereas Morrison has a whole decade of playing things straight, loved superhero comics, and has stuff like JLA, Flash, Skull Kill Krew and others under his belt, what does Al Ewing have? His Immortal Hulk has nothing to say about Hulk that's really new. His Ultimates was cringe inducing. He's never just put out something that was good and solid and coherent. Everything is this meta-narrative riff on something that exists. Like a less pathetic and whining Jason Aaron.
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I like most of Immortal, it isn’t anything that hasn’t been done by David and Pak though, the Roxxon arc is genuine slop and it’s sold good moment got immediately ruined. The “Welcome to Planet Hulk” moment.

I just liked Joe getting some focus, even if Al had Joe say “trans rights” which made me wanna kick a chair out.

Yeah, Bruce’s inner amoral sociopath persona is gonna give a fuck about eunuchs.
 
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From the pages of Absolute Power Super Son, Jon Kent isn't just a homosexual, he's also now a chaser. The other character here is Dreamer, a totally original character created by the trans actor, Nicole Maines. Maines played Dream Girl on the CW Supergirl, then was tagged by DC Comics to 'create' and write Dreamer in the mainstream continuity.

He is co-writer of the issue. The main writer is Sina Grace, writer of the multiple failed gay Iceman series.

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