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IIRC, it was Gail Simone who wanted Cass to find religion and become the "Angel of the Bat", but DC nixed it.
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the 3 Jokers Barbara has been the best Barbara Gordon Batgirl in a long time.
Not that it's saying a lot.
the current Spidey books seem to be going somewhere interesting tbh.
uh indies. Invincible is always good and it ended within the last 2 years.
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Invincible always kept me excited for the next issue and it satisfied with that ending. Truly a run to finish with a smoke.
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Just reread Dark Nights: Metal for the third (possibly fourth) time.
Honestly, I don’t care about shit not making sense and being too over-the-top. That story still is one of my all time favorites. It perfectly embodies that off-the-wall nutso meta shit that I love so much.
Honestly, I don’t care about shit not making sense and being too over-the-top. That story still is one of my all time favorites. It perfectly embodies that off-the-wall nutso meta shit that I love so much.
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You're right. The thing that always made me remember the idea was that they talked about giving Cass a white costume, which I always thought was a stupid idea for a Bat character. Googling 'Cassandra Cain finds religion' finally led me to it.
That does sound like it fixes what the OMD era did. It was one of my problems with that Spidey era: they kept reverting and retconning shit but then doing nothing with it. They brought back Kraven... and then did absolutely nothing with him. They brought back Harry... and then did absolutely nothing with him. It's like the hacks thought "If we get the status quo back to the 80s when everyone loved Spider-Man comics then obviously they'll love our stories too!"
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Well, there are Red Sonja and Conan books out there already if you haven't read them. With Conan, I would ignore new Marvel books and go for Dark Horse (and old Marvel) and European ones published in English as "Cimmerian." Red Sonja books were a mixed bag for the last decade, but "Unchained" was a decent recent-ish story. If you want more swords and sandals, Dark Horse's Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser comic adaptation is pretty good too. It's about two wandering mercenaries. Lots of action (although drawn by Mignola), but no cheesecake from what I remember.
If you want to go full grimdark, action, and cheesecake, there is Requiem Chevalier Vampire for that. It's just a nutty story about a nazi who wakes up in hell as a vampire. There he gets involved in hell politics. That includes internal power struggles within the vampire kingdom, and vampires' war for power in hell waged against zombies, dragons, and other factions.
For something that's a bit swords and sandals, and a bit medieval (and a little bit scifi), there is Thorgal. Basic setup (alien baby stranded on the Earth and raised by humans) is similar to Superman, but Thorgal does not have superpowers, he is born around year 1000AD, and his adoptive parents are vikings. Thorgal is a warrior, but also a family man. Most of Thorgal's stories involve him getting dragged into something, and then trying to resolve the situation so he can save/get back to his family and live in peace. Tone fluctuates between light-hearted adventure, dark fairytale, and dark fantasy. Start can be a bit rough, but the longer it goes, the better it gets. There is some cheesecake that varies on per volume basis - for example, one of key recurring characters is a beautiful woman wearing nothing besides a magic belt but she is used sparingly.
European Elric adaptations and Dark Horse Witcher comics are solid dark fantasy stories too.
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the final issue of Simon Spurrier's Hellblazer came out today. So I'm going to talk about it.
and now I move on to read the newest Jason Todd comic which, finally, after 7 years has a new writer. So I'm looking forward to that. Then I'm gonna read a buncha Batman and JLD.
I liked it overall. I think the art that was done by I believe Aaron Campbell was beauitful and some of the most fitting art for Hellblazer in a long time. I liked the writing, I think it's some of the best Constantine has had in many years, I mean it was better than New 52 or Rebirth. It could get wordy and political at times, but let's be honest the original Vertigo Hellblazer was always political. One of the events in original Hellblazer was a fucking race war with white supremacists.
The twist with old man Constantine was...really good. Simple twists like that with Constantine work best I think, it doesn't have to be some giant convoluted conspiracy but just a simple new piece of information that makes everything work. For example Constantine's trick at the end of Dangerous Habits is as simple as it can get. Which is why it's brilliant and it's why the twist works here as well.
I didn't really see the point of making Noah into Constantines son, especially since I feel like Noah really didn't have much screen time for it to mean anything. I'm not necessarily against it, John has had three kids already, but I feel like the cancellation of the book definitely hurt that story moment since it just really didn't seem to matter. It felt like an extra twist tacked on just to be there after the great reveal about Old Man John.
Same with Nat and Willowtree, they literally never interact once, then try to do something, get saved by John and end up kissing, then Willowtree dies and Nat doesn't even react. That again must've just been Simon going "I want this to happen but DC isn't giving me enough time to make it happen naturally, so fuck it. We'll just speed run it"
The way he beat Old Man John and everything made sense as well. I do believe it could've worked just as fine with Noah being an innocent friend of Johns instead of his son, but the twist worked. Though it overall felt rushed, instead of it being planned it was just a spur of a moment of John going "well, demons are coming, this is the only way to stop them" and it just happened to also work out in his favor of corrupting his son which was too much guilt for Old Man John to handle.
Overall that's about all my thoughts on it, mostly based around the final issue, but I thought pretty much all of them were good. I didn't really understand the ending with John stating he wasn't breathing though.
The twist with old man Constantine was...really good. Simple twists like that with Constantine work best I think, it doesn't have to be some giant convoluted conspiracy but just a simple new piece of information that makes everything work. For example Constantine's trick at the end of Dangerous Habits is as simple as it can get. Which is why it's brilliant and it's why the twist works here as well.
I didn't really see the point of making Noah into Constantines son, especially since I feel like Noah really didn't have much screen time for it to mean anything. I'm not necessarily against it, John has had three kids already, but I feel like the cancellation of the book definitely hurt that story moment since it just really didn't seem to matter. It felt like an extra twist tacked on just to be there after the great reveal about Old Man John.
Same with Nat and Willowtree, they literally never interact once, then try to do something, get saved by John and end up kissing, then Willowtree dies and Nat doesn't even react. That again must've just been Simon going "I want this to happen but DC isn't giving me enough time to make it happen naturally, so fuck it. We'll just speed run it"
The way he beat Old Man John and everything made sense as well. I do believe it could've worked just as fine with Noah being an innocent friend of Johns instead of his son, but the twist worked. Though it overall felt rushed, instead of it being planned it was just a spur of a moment of John going "well, demons are coming, this is the only way to stop them" and it just happened to also work out in his favor of corrupting his son which was too much guilt for Old Man John to handle.
Overall that's about all my thoughts on it, mostly based around the final issue, but I thought pretty much all of them were good. I didn't really understand the ending with John stating he wasn't breathing though.
and now I move on to read the newest Jason Todd comic which, finally, after 7 years has a new writer. So I'm looking forward to that. Then I'm gonna read a buncha Batman and JLD.
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Credit where due, that was originally published by Marvel under the Epic imprint back in the day. Terrific stuff. Classic Mike Mignola artwork.
I actually really like the current Red Sonja series, the one Mark Russell's written. It's more of a war story than a swords-n-sorcery adventure story, but I love the tone he's hit, just pitch-black vicious satire.
Justin Jordan has written two arcs of a fantasy series called Reaver for Image, I thought that was pretty good. If you want blood, there's plenty, and good plot twists.
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it's pretty good. I like the entire Invincible extended universe stuff. You know, Brit, Wolf-man, Guardians of the Globe. It's all fun.
yeah but it does it decently.
Countdown didn't do it right.
the OMD era was just schmucks running amuck.
granted it has the moment where Spidey humiliates Jonah in court.
I'd also recommend Tintin and Asterix for variety. They're well known and beloved for a goood reason.
Authority and Planetary are decent Wildstorm titles too, but I feel it's not for everyone.
Camelot 3000 and Strikeforce Morituri were also semi-indie series run by the big 2 back in the day.
I didn't like it. I felt it was a 'I have to move on to my Netflix/AMC pitches boys, take this and go away now." But I was never very impressed with invincible beyond Ottley's art
I remember reading the end and was like, 'another hook for spin offs?" I'd like it more if it was something other than never ending decompression.
For all my frustration with Final Crisis, it had a beginning, middle and an end.
I doubt the Spider books will ever retcon that as long as the key OMD and BND figures are at Marvel.
Gail was always mediocre to terrible, but her shrill army of harpies caped hard.
Babs done right post crisis? Granted, you don't like her being in a relationship with Dick Grayson? There's about four issues by Kelley Pucket that are good that featured her as Babsgirl, a five issue miniseries written by Niecza and drawn by Kevin Maguire, then there is a nine issue mini by Dixon that's good.
There's the whole Crossgen line. Anything recent? Not in my opinion. The Conan out of Marvel was okay, just toothless for me.
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Maybe not retcon it entirely but Spencer's pretty clearly been angling to address it.
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Apparently black people are immune to fear toxin. Who would've thought?
Also some choice panels from The Other History of the DC Universe.
It reads like John Ridley neither likes nor understands capeshit or superheroes. (Also BLs wife leaves him cause apparently being a electricity shooting badass who cleans up the neighborhood isn't very appealing or something idk).
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This is how not to do a history of black DC characters.
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I second for Strikeforce Morituri. You really come to care about the characters as their lives are cut drastically short.
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I read that earlier, and I thought it was very good. Lynn left Jefferson because he was devoting all his time to being BL and almost none to her and their two daughters. Can't fault her for that. She even reveals that she knew her husband was BL the whole time, and was hurt that he kept it from her, even though he did it to keep them safe.
Jefferson does drop that chip on shoulder against Superman, Batman, and John Stewart.
It's funny how he had a mad on against John, who is now being retconned into being Lynn's brother or step-brother on Young Justice (both have the Stewart surname), much like they retconned him as a Marine sniper after JLU.
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the immunity to fear toxin is just kinda stupid. by extension you could have a lot of groups be immune.
honestly i sort of get why Lynn left but at the same time, dude literally has served his country in office as the head of the department of education, and as a rather renown hero. THey've even had 2 superheroic kids. Like come on let him have this one thing jfc.
like, are we going to get this resolved? I recall that Tony Isabella doesn't like the idea of Jefferson and Lynn seperating.
also re: John Stewart. Dude's been bland outside of the angry 70s. Absorbing sidebar material from the DCAU and YJ is a nice look for him.
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At the time of separation, Jefferson was still a teacher, and was not appointed as Secretary of Education when Luthor was President. Neither daughter was old enough to develop powersat that time, either.
In fact, Jefferson's daughters never came up during his time in the Outsiders in the 80s - just his former marriage to Lynn, who he tried to reconcile with when he was on the team. Anissa didn't "exist" until the first issue of the 2003 Outsiders came out, and Jennifer didn't "exist" until 2008 in JSA.
You thought wrong then.
Can and will. He's devoting his time to saving people. Great power mumble mumble great responsibility.
Being the wife of a cop or soldier is hard.
Not like a Hollywood race baiter like Ridley would understand that...
Pant's on the head retarded is the word for it. Why would black people be immune?
I know. Sadly I think its a bait and switch for the moment. I'll believe it when they out and out retcon it. Until then, they're giving you a token MJ/Peter scene here and there. But at the end of the day he's still the guy Joe Q and Slott spent the last fifteen years covering in trash.