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Hodor said:
I will never not be a salty fucker over Slott. Spider-Man has been a godawful read for most of this past decade, and partially because he's such an unfunny fucker. His sense of dialogue is so abysmal- which is a problem, considering snappy dialogue is the whole point of Webhead. The worst part is, it's not that hard to at least polish his dialogue either. Make a single tweak to this page and the flow runs so much better. Just change the first dialogue box in panel 2 to "We're in Hong Kong." Nothing more, nothing less.

"We're in Hong Kong."
"I'm just used to beating up people of all races and creeds."
[beat]
"That's how I do it in New York..."

bam, flow is substantially less awkward. Still not particularly good or anything, but at least the flow isn't as stilted.
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I liked his SpOck, as well as most of Brand New Day and Spider Island, and I'm even a fan of his She-Hulk run. The rest though... I feel like his dialogues weren't as awkward five years ago. I wish someone like Rememder took over writing duties.

Hodor said:
I wonder if the Image version of the concept is any better. I mean it's painfully obvious it's supposed to be America Chavez from the MU.
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Well, what do you know! I did like Joe Casey's Milkman Murders, so I'm casually optimistic. Casey's one of those writers who actually feels like he's writing a comic book script, rather than something that was intended for television but was turned down.
 
I've never been a fan of Spider-Man, but yeah Dan Slott has made the character completely unlikable for years. And while I do appreciate that Slott's one of the few writers that remembers that Spider-Man's supposed to be a science guy, turning him from a Everyman New Yorker into a bargain bin Tony Stark is probably one of the dumbest things they did with him.
 
Spidey's my favorite cape right next to Superman and I don't really get what they're doing to him. Part of me is fine with him being Stark lite since I know the only alternative the current people at the company would offer is pulling a OMD and making it a shitty harem series about a 26 year old man who still tries reliving the "glory days" he had as a 15 year old because that's where their nostalgia is and nearly every media only covers the "Spider-Boy" years. I'm not entirely sure what would be the best direction to go in anymore.
 
to be fair, by the standards of current Marvel, Spider-Man's probably one of their better books. Damning it with faint praise, though.

TBH, the only cape comic I've been reading lately is Boom's surprisingly good Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers ongoing, outside of the Storytime of Pain treatment that America gets on /co/. Everything else goes right into the trash. It's kind of a shame how shit of a state superhero comics are in right now, honestly.
 
Squirrel Girl continues to do stuff like....well, this.

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At least with the original artist it would have been tolerable to look at.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Squirrel Girl continues to do stuff like....well, this.

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At least with the original artist it would have been tolerable to look at.
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Damn, the art is even ugler than before! You'd think the artist would improve simply from the practive she's getting from drawing the same characters month to month, but apparently Henderson is beyond petty trivialities such as skills. The seems as cringy as ever. Can't believe people still buy this shit, while barely anybody read Venom: Space Knight.
 
Wasn't the artist for Venom Space Knight the guy who stole assets from fucking Warhammer because the only thing he can draw is muscle men?
 
GabeRegan said:
Wasn't the artist for Venom Space Knight the guy who stole assets from fucking Warhammer because the only thing he can draw is muscle men?
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Fuck, I didn't know of that. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a hand drawn reference (after all there was this one DC issue in the '90s where both Wolverine and Dr Doom was murdered), but it does look like the ship design was straight lifted from a 3d model in a game. It's a real shame. On the other hand, the art and writing is way better than most of the SJW centric Marvel titles, so my point still stands.
 
I was disappointed in CChaCE that when Cave loses the titular cybernetic eye (spoilers), that the art style didn't shift to something far more in house for DC...
 
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What the heck happened to the faces of all the guys except Daredevil and Doctor Strange? Oh yeah, this is their rebirth knock-off if anyone missed that.
 
RockVolnutt said:
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What the heck happened to the faces of all the guys except Daredevil and Doctor Strange? Oh yeah, this is their rebirth knock-off if anyone missed that.
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What happened is Quesada drew it.

I actually saw this promo at IGN last week (yeah, I know, IGN sucks), and I was excited for maybe a few seconds... until I remembered it was still Marvel and I'm sure they'll fuck this up somehow. At this point I have absolutely no faith with them as a publisher.
 
_blank_ said:
What happened is Quesada drew it.

I actually saw this promo at IGN last week (yeah, I know, IGN sucks), and I was excited for maybe a few seconds... until I remembered it was still Marvel and I'm sure they'll fuck this up somehow. At this point I have absolutely no faith with them as a publisher.
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tbh I'd be fine if they kick the bucket right after Legacy takes effect. I rather not have everything end with the replacements and have some closure, it'd be a happy ending to me. Otherwise yeah, can't see them being at the level DC's at now.
 
Why the hell is Dan Slott allowed to keep working on Spider-Man? Is he blackmailing Quesada or something?
 
Lensherr said:
Why the hell is Dan Slott allowed to keep working on Spider-Man? Is he blackmailing Quesada or something?
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The fact Marvel's comic division is infamous for assuming 'big name character is selling?! Why it must be that writer, not the branding'. It's why we've been stuck with Bendis after New Avengers- aka 'let's put Sniktbub and Spidey in the same team book'- sold well.

Also probably because, supposedly, the comics guys love to piss off Disney and the Marvel Entertainment guys. That's unverified gossip though, so who knows if it's true or not.
 
Now that the Flintstones comic is ending, I decided to look into what future stuff there will be for the Hanna-Barbara characters. I have to say making Top Cat a Batman villain is just a stupid idea. Sure there have been oddball villains before, but they weren't anthropomorphic cartoon characters, either. Not to mention, from what I remember, Top Cat was a good guy at heart.

The Jetsons and Snagglepuss I have mixed feelings on. And Ruff and Reddy's reimaging is well, something. I give these people props for trying new things, but it's like they're trying so hard to be edgy/dark that it feels like something is missing. As for Scooby-Apocalypse, I'd like the series more if it didn't take itself so seriously. It can still be a darker take, but have a little more fun with it.
 
I'm not going to spoil it, but the new (was there even an old one?) origin for Rosie the Robot is possibly one of the most unintentionally fucked up things ever if she's still the family maid in the new comic.
 
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