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Commander X said:
Paul is the embodiment of Marvel's weird editorial mandates that keep being "justified" and stubbornly enforced as part of the status-quo instead of being voided and moved on from, especially in:re One More Day and its consequences. Who did, say, "Jackpot" and other such things appeal to, besides Brevoort, Spider-Editorial, the Brand New Day "brain trust", and about ten other people still clinging onto the delusion that "One More Day" was worth all of the bad ASM Spider-stories that have been produced since in OMD's wake. None of these people involved with Spider-Man have had an original idea for the past couple of decades.

It's like Marvel's editors all speak from the same scripts. Does Brevoort have them put through a boot camp where the manifesto is drilled into them? Consider this from a recent interview, just this past December with senior editor Jordan White.
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No. typical of a man who never created these characters or played any role in making Marvel good.
Steve Ditko emphasized Peter going from an immature man-child with issues to being an adult. Ditko intended for him to grow past his trauma and mature.

He stopped being in High school in, what? the 30s to 50s of the ongoing? Fuck me he was an adult for most of the period before man child losers like Brevoort took over.

They've all been fed this Stan said bullshit where Lee felt the most important thing was relatability without including the context. He thought Peter should have stayed a teen because that was the audience for the bookswhen Lee said that. The problem is there are any number of ways you can tackle that. Him having, say, a teenage daughter, while his story progresses. Or recognizing your audience isn't 16 year olds anymore
 
sarna said:
Diamond Comics Distribution files for bankruptcy:

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It's not a full-on liquidation yet, but if I read between the lines right they're just looking for protection from their creditors while they sell off as much of the company as they can.
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It's been a long time coming, this is going to affect a lot of things but we won’t know everything right away. Most of the big publishers were doing alternatives after COVID like Penguin. that said some obscure indie comics could be screwed.
 
Read Jenny Sparks 6. I'm not even sure why at this point, maybe I'm that nigga scratching at open wounds.

Jenny yells at Superman over covid.

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This art and these words make me wish I knew Tom King in real life so I could tell him he's a lackwit hack. At least the art might work with some other property.
 

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Commander X said:
It's been a long time coming, this is going to affect a lot of things but we won’t know everything right away. Most of the big publishers were doing alternatives after COVID like Penguin. that said some obscure indie comics could be screwed.
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Anybody who's fronted Diamond product expecting payment later is probably gonna eat some losses. That said, there really aren't many publishers that depend on Diamond to the exclusion of other distro anymore. It's just Boom, Dynamite, Titan and a whole bunch of nothing. Boom has already announced they're moving to Penguin in the summer, Titan and Dynamite will go to Penguin or Lunar. The rest...might suck to be Antarctic Press, I guess, but how many readers care anymore?
 
jspit2.0 said:
No. typical of a man who never created these characters or played any role in making Marvel good.
Steve Ditko emphasized Peter going from an immature man-child with issues to being an adult. Ditko intended for him to grow past his trauma and mature.

He stopped being in High school in, what? the 30s to 50s of the ongoing? Fuck me he was an adult for most of the period before man child losers like Brevoort took over.

They've all been fed this Stan said bullshit where Lee felt the most important thing was relatability without including the context. He thought Peter should have stayed a teen because that was the audience for the bookswhen Lee said that. The problem is there are any number of ways you can tackle that. Him having, say, a teenage daughter, while his story progresses. Or recognizing your audience isn't 16 year olds anymore
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I may be misremembering my history, but I think Stan was the one who had Peter get married in the newspaper strip, which prompted Marvel to have them get married in the comics. For all of Stan wanting Peter to remain a teenager, he spent 30 years writing Spidey/MJ material in the strip (and retconned Brand New Day as a dream, only to write more Spidey/MJ stories until his death).


Prehistoric Jazz said:
Read Jenny Sparks 6. I'm not even sure why at this point, maybe I'm that nigga scratching at open wounds.

Jenny yells at Superman over covid.

This art and these words make me wish I knew Tom King in real life so I could tell him he's a lackwit hack. At least the art might work with some other property.
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Jenny Sparks is the book I would write as a parody of Tom King's try-hard pretentiousness. There was a time when I thought Grant Morrison was the biggest Alan Moore wannabe. Tom King basically told Grant Morrison, "hold my beer."

"Tell me you're Tom King without telling me you're Tom King."

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Stab You in the Back said:
Jenny Sparks is the book I would write as a parody of Tom King's try-hard pretentiousness.
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Reading this book has made me so fucking annoyed with him. I get that Authority was Warren Ellis playing FUCK YOU I'M IN CHARGE with wildstorm, but goddamnit, it was interesting and well done. It made you come back for more.

And she did make that world better. For years before joining Stormwatch, she tried being a pulp hero working with the british secret services and american OSI precursors, she did her version of The Spirit, created a team of avengers and a team of watchmen and did everything she could to fix things, and all it ever ended up in was short term improvement followed by a catastrophic crash. With Stormwatch, she crawled out of an alcoholic years-long binge to try again, and Bendix swore things would be different, only to fuck her over once again and kill her friends' team, causing him to kill himself. She fried that son of a bitch for his cowardice.

When she stopped listening to anyone else and took over the shiftship with the rest of Black Team and the newbies, she actually stopped multiple cataclysms, a multiversal takeover attempt and the cleansing of all life on earth. Jenny Sparks was one of the most successful heroes on that planet, all because she said "Fuck it, I'm done asking for permission first".

Either this idiot didn't read Stormwatch and Authority, or he did so such a long time ago that he forgot what she was: a person that got smacked down time and time again trying to do the right thing, and eventually refused to get smacked down anymore. Did the Authority eventually go too far and disappear up their own arse? Sure. But only because she wasn't there to slap them in the ear and bring them back to earth again.

This impression of her he's got going in this book? It'd be offensive if it wasn't transparently pathetic cargoculting. I'm hoping some future writer eventually takes the piss out of this shitbook and a better iteration of Sparks shows up to laugh at this ugly, ridiculous donut of a Jenny he's created.

ed- AND WHY THE FUCK IS SHE SO FUCKING UGLY? What is the artist doing here?
 
Diamond's collapse appears to be getting exciting pretty quick. Shops that ordered their last couple weeks worth of Image books through Diamond aren't getting them, probably because Diamond owes Image's distro half a million dollars that they aren't likely to pay back. ICV2 has a good breakdown of the bankruptcy filing:


Penguin Random House has annual revenues over $4 billion and surely couldn't care less about what Diamond owes them, but for Lunar/Image that debt is real money. NECA is probably feeling pretty fucking stupid about going exclusive with Diamond for some of their toy lines, too.
 
sarna said:
Diamond's collapse appears to be getting exciting pretty quick. Shops that ordered their last couple weeks worth of Image books through Diamond aren't getting them, probably because Diamond owes Image's distro half a million dollars that they aren't likely to pay back. ICV2 has a good breakdown of the bankruptcy filing:


Penguin Random House has annual revenues over $4 billion and surely couldn't care less about what Diamond owes them, but for Lunar/Image that debt is real money. NECA is probably feeling pretty fucking stupid about going exclusive with Diamond for some of their toy lines, too.
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let it burn.

please, oh god, it'd be so fucking funny to watch the american comics industry get uberfucked by this.
 
Alexander Thaut said:
please, oh god, it'd be so fucking funny to watch the american comics industry get uberfucked by this.
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At this point I see two groups taking it on the chin:

1. Tiny indie publishers that only distro through Diamond (and that are probably owed money they won't get back)

2. Tiny comic shops that only get books from Diamond (may also be owed money that they won't get back)

Losing Diamond won't be much more than a speed bump to big stores and big publishers. Comic shops that have their shit together order 90+ percent of their books from Lunar and PRH, and 100 percent of the DC/Marvel/Image/IDW/Dark Horse books that have readerships over low four figures.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
Read Jenny Sparks 6. I'm not even sure why at this point, maybe I'm that nigga scratching at open wounds.

Jenny yells at Superman over covid.

This art and these words make me wish I knew Tom King in real life so I could tell him he's a lackwit hack. At least the art might work with some other property.
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It’s one thing to have a profane character, another entirely for EVERY SINGLE PANEL they speak in to have a bunch of @!#&@?&$#! symbols shitting up their dialog, it is juvenile. I mean, this a Black Label book and King is still censoring stuff, what a cuckold mindset.
 
What If Mickey and Friends were the Fantastic Four? was a silly little piece of fun recreating FF #1 as seen through a funhouse mirror. Two best parts were realizing that Pete's moloids were the terryfermians from an old Carl Barks story, and Donald as the Thing calling himself "Uncle Scrooge's favorite nephew".

Perfect? Not by a long shot, but worth a quick chuckle if you like either side of the mashup.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
Kid Cudi made a comic

Not a fan of the angular artstyle but I'll give it a chance. Maybe it'll suck, maybe it'll be an ok story. Will report back.

ok, after a couple issues, I'm bowing out. Not a fan of the artstyle, and the story is Company sends people to the moon, something happens that gives them some form of Gravity Control. Once they're back on earth and released from quarantine it's clear the company is being dicks, or people are being shits and the company is done playing gently with them. The main character decides to use his abilities to help and gets into it with the security forces.

This is cliched and boring, I'm out.
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Moon Man, you say?

And it was made by a nægra?

Scarlett Johansson said:
Anyone read the X-Men manga? I cannot find scans anywhere.
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What do you mean? The Peach Momoko Ultimate X-Men book? Or an actual X-Men manga?

If the latter, I know there's a really old one, one about wolverine (by the BLAME! guy, appropriately called SNIKT!), a Deadpool one, and some other Marvel stuff. But nothing X-Men more recent.

Stab You in the Back said:
Did you check Nyaa?
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If it is the old one, it is on Nyaa
 
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Has anyone read any of those flashback Spider-Man comics they've been putting out these last few years, mostly by Peter David and JM Dematteis?
Symbiote Spider-Man
Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality
Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black
Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads
Symbiote Spider-Man 2099
Ben Reilly: Spider-Man
Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt
Spider-Man: Black Suit and Blood
Spider-Man Shadow of the Green Goblin
 
So I finished up Hellboy. It was pretty good, considering the abysmal size the world and its characters had reached, I am glad that Mignola atleast managed to tie it up with a nice knot and end it on that note.

It could've been a horrible ending but I am glad it didn't.

Now time to tackle a series produced in my country, PK New Adventures. Still to this day shits on anything superhero related made by Disney.
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Prehistoric Jazz said:
Read Jenny Sparks 6. I'm not even sure why at this point, maybe I'm that nigga scratching at open wounds.

Jenny yells at Superman over covid.

This art and these words make me wish I knew Tom King in real life so I could tell him he's a lackwit hack. At least the art might work with some other property.
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As someone who hates the Authority and the queer shits around it, watching their corpses be kicked by the generation of tranny creatives they pandered and in some ways created is just fucking prime kino.

Scarlett Johansson said:
Peach Momoko's Psylocke is fine. Everything else is.....ehh.

Anyone read the X-Men manga? I cannot find scans anywhere.
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I dislike Peach Momoko on American mainstream IPs for the same reason I generally hate Ameri-Jap gooner losers. Nothing wrong with liking a culture or art. Everything is wrong when that culture or art is nothing more than souless imitation or your obsession. Peak Japanese art is Kino in its context. It does some things well, and on other things it's frankly laughable. Momoko's artwork is fine in its category. But I don't think it fits the American IPs she's worked on well (except Psylocke which she just SUPER Japan'ed.)
 
I decided to dip my toe in Modern Epic Collections:

Hulk vol. 6 - "Who is the Red Hulk?"

I hate modern writing and I hate Jeph Loeb. This volume unfortunately contains both.

The Red Hulk is introduced killing Abomination by shooting him in the head. SHIELD shows up to investigate, and the mystery of "who is the Red Hulk" officially begins. Well, spoiler alert, they're not going to tell you who Red Hulk is. Not this volume, anyway. So we don't get a backstory or origin for Red Hulk. He just shows up, does whatever the writer wants him to do in a particular issue, and then fucks off somewhere else. And by fucks off, I mean it. Red Hulk just appears in random fucking places. Utah, Manhattan, San Francisco, Alaska, General Ross's secret underground base... wherever. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Is Red Hulk written well? Who the fuck knows, because we don't know anything about him. He kills Abomination because he wants to put an end to all gamma monsters. He doesn't kill She-Hulk, but instead taunts her, telling her he can kill her at any time. He has regular Hulk and A-Bomb at his mercy several times, but doesn't kill either of them. In one issue, he's suddenly a misogynist because She-Hulk decided to form a group of random women to fight him (she recruits BLACK WIDOW of all people to fight Red Hulk). The women get their "Girls get it done" moment, until it turns out Red Hulk is faking being unconscious and then they are almost instantly defeated. Red Hulk's characterization is frankly all over the place. You can tell he's meant to be the biggest badass who ever badassed, but its utterly toothless because he mostly just taunts people, beats them up and then runs away for no reason.

A bunch of random heroes show up for no reason to brawl, including Thor, Moon Knight and Iron Man. This is the post-Civil War era, so Tony is written like a massive dick. In one memorable scene, Maria Hill approaches him with some information:

Maria Hill: "Director Stark, I have that information you wanted."
Iron Man: "Agent Hill I don't have time to talk right now." (note: the art depicts him standing around welding some random machinery. He has plenty of fucking time.)
Maria Hill: "But this is the thing you asked me to get."
Iron Man: "Fine. Summarize it Agent Hill, but make it quick!"

Crack writing there, Jeph.

I fucking hate Jeph Loeb and I hated this book.

Rating: 4/10


Spider-Girl vol. 1 - "Legacy"

Spider-Girl, however, was a pleasant surprise. I didn't read Spider-Girl when it was originally released because I don't like alternate universe books. That includes Spider-Girl's M2 universe, 2099, the ultimate universe, Batman Beyond, etc. I decided to pick up the first epic collection because I happened to get some original art from the series and wanted to know more about it.

Spider-Girl is the story of Mayday Parker--Peter's daughter--who is just coming into her spider powers. The Green Goblin's grandson attacks, and Mayday picks up the mantle of Spider-Man and becomes Spider-Girl.

Spider-Girl does what I wish modern comics did more, which is actually force a child character to grapple with the danger and responsibility of being a super hero. Peter and MJ straight up tell Mayday that no, she can't be Spider-Girl, so she spends the first ten or so issues sneaking out behind their back. Other superheroes test her to make sure she's ready for the big leagues. She gets shaken when she loses a fight. And there are actual consequences to her decision to fight crime. For example, in one issue, she gets waylaid by Darkdevil on her way to stop her friends from fighting, missed the fight, which resulted in one of them being hospitalized. It really is Ms. Marvel done right.

I can't recommend this enough. Unfortunately, only volumes 1 & 5 have been released in the epic format. Complete collections (a previous trade format) collected volumes 2-4. 2 is out of print, but 3 & 4 are easy to find and cheap. There should also be a volume 6 at some point.

Rating 9/10
 
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