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I've been binging through some of Donny Cates' stuff since he seems to be very consistently solid. Part of this was reading the Thanos annual. One story in particular really amused me. It's about Thanos picking some random guy to do something dickish to every year on his birthday - beginning with stealing a blanket from him in the crib. I loved the two following panels in the story:


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I only just noticed Thanos managed to (maybe) get David's cat a second time in the second page - what a dick.

After way too many stories where the writer tries to be more 'sophisticated' by giving the bad guy some motivation which is comprehensible and reasonable if itself if extreme, it's nice to read well-written stories about characters like Thanos and Darkseid who are just elementally evil.
 
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Affluent Reptilian said:
I've been binging through some of Donny Cates' stuff since he seems to be very consistently solid. Part of this was reading the Thanos annual. One story in particular really amused me. It's about Thanos picking some random guy to do something dickish to every year on his birthday - beginning with stealing a blanket from him in the crib. I loved the two following panels in the story:


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I only noticed Thanos managed to (maybe) get David's cat a second time in the second page - what a dick.

After way too many stories where the writer tries to be more 'sophisticated' by giving the bad guy some motivation which is comprehensible and reasonable if itself if extreme, it's nice to read well-written stories about characters like Thanos and Darkseid who are just elementally evil.
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In general, I find Cates to be one of the most effective writers at implementing humor into his books these days. The sole exception being Guardians of the Galaxy since every writer seems forced to treat it as “the funny book” and can’t live up to that expectation (two issues in and Al Ewing’s run is already godawful). Cates’ run on Doctor Strange is my all-time favorite of his.
 
Detrogen said:
In general, I find Cates to be one of the most effective writers at implementing humor into his books these days. The sole exception being Guardians of the Galaxy since every writer seems forced to treat it as “the funny book” and can’t live up to that expectation (two issues in and Al Ewing’s run is already godawful). Cates’ run on Doctor Strange is my all-time favorite of his.
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Dr Strange is so hard to write it seems. I think it was Joe Quesada that said that every new writer they signed to work on something immediately pitched their own Dr. Strange story to him. Everyone had ideas on how to write him, few were able to. Deadpool is similar, I haven't read that book for years but they went too hard on the wacky when I last did.

Old Deadpool from the 90's had those traits mixed with occasional darkness, like putting his roomate(hostage) in "the box", a small space filled with blades, glass, barbed wire... and she's old and blind.

A couple of panels from one issue. It's the first time, iirc, it's ever seen but it had been mentioned occasionally in the comic. It reminds you that the funny and wacky side of Deadpool truly comes from being an actual insane person. He's not a good guy.
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Bullseye is a buddy of his and they're not that different at their core.

Then Deadpool cracks jokes and does something funny so you forget about all of that, until the next time.

Whole thing is here and it gets disturbing:
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I've never really been into comics (I only ever read Watchmen and the odd Batman comic) but I've been reading through Crossed lately. I think I like it because it's fucking brutal. (Also, I searched for it after seeing one of the covers posted on the farms and thinking 'that looks fucked up') I just finished Badlands and have read Psychopath, the original series and a few of the other stand-alone stories. I think so far my favourite story has either been Shrink or the one about the guy looking for his parole officer girlfriend. They both had really cool twists. Otherwise, some of the stories suck - but the gore kind of makes up for them, I guess. It's a pretty fun series though, gonna start Wish You Were Here soon.
 
For whatever reason, I decided to go back and read the post-Annihilation Nova series. Damn, was that good and makes Marvel's decision involving Nova a few years later so baffling. Through the Annihilation events and then this strong solo run, they made Richard Rider feel like a true heavy-hitter in the Marvel cosmic scene. Why on earth they decided to kill him off and replace him with Sam Alexander (who they never did anything of note with or at least nothing is coming to mind) after putting so much time into establishing Richard is beyond me.
 
desertfoxgoggles said:
I've never really been into comics (I only ever read Watchmen and the odd Batman comic) but I've been reading through Crossed lately. I think I like it because it's fucking brutal. (Also, I searched for it after seeing one of the covers posted on the farms and thinking 'that looks fucked up') I just finished Badlands and have read Psychopath, the original series and a few of the other stand-alone stories. I think so far my favourite story has either been Shrink or the one about the guy looking for his parole officer girlfriend. They both had really cool twists. Otherwise, some of the stories suck - but the gore kind of makes up for them, I guess. It's a pretty fun series though, gonna start Wish You Were Here soon.
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Crossed is written by Garth Ennis, I really like some of Garth Ennis' writing, he wrote what's considered the greatest Constantine story ever told with Dangerous Habits, but I have noticed the man seems to like torture porn, and it seems Crossed is the series he created to get all of that out of his system from what I've read of it.
 
JimiHendrix said:
Crossed is written by Garth Ennis, I really like some of Garth Ennis' writing, he wrote what's considered the greatest Constantine story ever told with Dangerous Habits, but I have noticed the man seems to like torture porn, and it seems Crossed is the series he created to get all of that out of his system from what I've read of it.
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The only Ennis story I distinctly remember reading was The Thousand from Spider-Man. It certainly fits that M.O. with Spider-Man basically spending the whole book tied to a chair while The Thousand regales him with all the tales of people he’s murdered and how he intends to kill Peter and walk around in his skin.
 
Detrogen said:
The only Ennis story I distinctly remember reading was The Thousand from Spider-Man. It certainly fits that M.O. with Spider-Man basically spending the whole book tied to a chair while The Thousand regales him with all the tales of people he’s murdered and how he intends to kill Peter and walk around in his skin.
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I really don't read much Marvel stuff, like, at all. But I know who The Thousand is and it doesn't surprise me Garth Ennis created him.
 
desertfoxgoggles said:
I've never really been into comics (I only ever read Watchmen and the odd Batman comic) but I've been reading through Crossed lately. I think I like it because it's fucking brutal. (Also, I searched for it after seeing one of the covers posted on the farms and thinking 'that looks fucked up') I just finished Badlands and have read Psychopath, the original series and a few of the other stand-alone stories. I think so far my favourite story has either been Shrink or the one about the guy looking for his parole officer girlfriend. They both had really cool twists. Otherwise, some of the stories suck - but the gore kind of makes up for them, I guess. It's a pretty fun series though, gonna start Wish You Were Here soon.
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Crossed gets old fast. If you want the same kind of thing told much more concisely, I recommend Black Gas by Warren Ellis (the first mini, at least - the second isn't bad but isn't quite as good). From memory Ennis and Ellis actually wrote the two series in parallel after talking about the idea. Ellis has some good stuff generally - I recommend Supergod if you want another fun and gorey mini.

Also, second week without any comics shipping. I am actually kind of baffled that there are no concrete plans for the Big 2 or Image to publish things digitally. I get that they don't want to kill physical comic stores, which are still integral to sales, especially for superhero comics, but right now we have no date in sight for when those stores will open again. I would have thought something like 'We'll publish digitally if they're still not open after six weeks' or 'We'll publish some limited-run titles that don't tie into the main universes to tide you over' would have been announced by now.
 
Crossed was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, it was actually the first comic I ever followed. Got into Avatar Press through it after because I like violent & schlocky media.

Just finished God is Dead by Jonathan Hickman & still processing it. There were some genuinely amusing moments & arcs but it got bloated toward the end.

Anyone here read Ubër by Kieran Gillen? Gonna start that next. The art looks nice & the plot seems interesting plus I'm a sucker for military shit.
 
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Crossed was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, it was actually the first comic I ever followed. Got into Avatar Press through it after because I like violent & schlocky media.

Just finished God is Dead by Jonathan Hickman & still processing it. There were some genuinely amusing moments & arcs but it got bloated toward the end.

Anyone here read Ubër by Kieran Gillen? Gonna start that next. The art looks nice & the plot seems interesting plus I'm a sucker for military shit.
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You might want to check out Crossed +100. It's initially by Alan Moore and tells stories about 100 years in the future of the Crossed universe.
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Uber is fantastic. It's ugly and brutal and very often surprising. However, there is no end in sight. The publisher is a bit on the shady side and it looks like the final 4 issues may never be published. Avatar stated that the series "should" be wrapping up this year but I highly doubt it. Which is a real shame because Gillen seems to have had a solid plan throughout the series.

Gillen's most popular thing out currently is called Die. It's based on, of course, a DnD group. It's basically the setup to the 80s cartoon -- a group of kids get sucked into a fantasy world where they have to work together and face adversity in order to learn the right lessons to return home. In Die, those kids all made it home, but are traumatized and end up returning to the fantasy world 25 years later. It's selling well and has amazing reviews but is actually awful. There are endless references to the RPG rules that Gillen has "created" for the series and the art is muddy, ugly, and unclear. The fans are pretty rabid but they seem to mostly be leftovers from Gillen's completed work, the Wicked + Divine, which is full of SJW crapola.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
"Aggressively bilingual."

If only there were some way to portray a character who 'aggressively' speaks two languages.. some kind of balloon-like device through which a character's dialogue could be conveyed.

I'm stumped.
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He literally splits his tongue in two and screams through multiple megaphones in both languages, simultaneously in all directions.
 
Does anyone remember that Batman issue where he's being chased by an amalgamation of all his villains? Was that Tom Kings run or James Tynions? I fucking forgot and wanted to check something.
 
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