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Post by The Cheat on Oct 10, 2023 12:48:40 GMT -5
I remember fans complaining about the No Man's Land storyline in the Batman books, where an earthquake destroyed Gotham: why aren't Superman, Zatanna, Green Lantern, et al. helping to rebuild it? Been a while, but fairly sure there was an entire issue about Superman offering help and Bruce turning him away for... reasons.
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Post by The Cheat on Jan 17, 2023 13:50:17 GMT -5
I’ve had to cancel my combination subscription of 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. Needs must. It’s £15.50 a month for both titles. The former is weekly, the latter is monthly. Now, £15.50 is cheaper than the shop price, but it’s still a huge chunk of money for a person with a variable income like mine. Also, 2000 AD is 32 pages. It can be read in a short time. It’s not 1989 anymore, when it was 32p. 32 pages a week sounds good, but when an individual copy costs £3.99, or slightly cheaper if subscribing, well… As for the Megazine, just a personal preference, but I wish it could be pure, unadulterated Dredd. It often isn’t. Devlin Waugh does not interest me. Partial reprints of vintage UK strips are fine, but they are partial so that you’ll buy the complete volumes. I’m not saying the mag should be Dredd story after Dredd story. We’d all get bored of that. But I wish it could be as Dredd as possible. I mean, in Dredd’s world, you’ve got the Special Judicial Squad (akin to Internal Affairs in our world) and an undercover squad. Why not give them strips? Or a permanent slot for other world judges? Or a permanent slot for Judge Anderson of Psi-Division? Just seems that more often than not, I’m wading through Devlin Waugh and other strips that don’t interest me. I can't justify the price of the Meg since I'm not interested in the reprint books that come with it, but I used to subscribe to 2000AD. I cancelled when they started doing regular kids issues every couple of months since I could save money by not subscribing and skipping them. There's also the added benefit of being able to buy a copy in excellent condition from the newsagent, whereas my old sub issues were often beaten up in the post by the time I got them.
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Post by The Cheat on Oct 27, 2022 12:42:46 GMT -5
Hershey currently has her own strip running in the Prog in which she looks considerably older, although it is kind of essential to the plot that she look her age.
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Post by The Cheat on Oct 26, 2022 12:51:55 GMT -5
I think the popular theory is that if they ever do finally off Dredd, then Rico will take over the lead role pretty seamlessly.
A weirder one for me is Anderson. She's still being drawn like she's in her 20s.
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Post by The Cheat on Sept 29, 2022 12:48:38 GMT -5
This is a little out-of-scope question (it's about modern comics) but there are still some heroes who fights "common" criminals? I remember in the 80s that even Thor or Superman had to do some some skirmish with drug dealers or child trafficking, but nowadays it seems to me that even the most street-level superheroes just fight supervillains. Batman is almost in some mega-catastrophic cross-ever event orchestrated by someone of his rogue gallery. Spider-Man is always at the center of some diabolical revenge by his enemies. I mean, he spends so much time defending himself against them that I don't know when he can help others. Daredevil just fights Kingpin, ninjas or a combination of both. I'm missing something? It's also tough to stretch out a story of a supehero fighting normal criminals to 6 issues to make a trade, which nearly every comic book story is these days. Brian Bendis says "challenge accepted!"
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Post by The Cheat on Sept 19, 2022 12:31:47 GMT -5
I finished Chew over the weekend. It took me a while to get used to the art, but once I did, I was in for a ride. What a weird and wonderful series. It was batshit insane but strangely moving. And always entertaining. Thanks for the memories, Chew! Funnily enough, I just finished re-reading this today too. Definitely a fun read, although I wish it'd ended after the Collector storyline concluded. I found the last volume a bit of a let down.
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Post by The Cheat on Aug 28, 2022 12:57:09 GMT -5
There should have been an Aunt May-Alfred teamup-and possible romance A decade too early for that one, otherwise Mark Millar would have been all over it.
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Post by The Cheat on May 31, 2022 12:57:46 GMT -5
Always love a good stubbly "been up all night saving the universe" Reed panel.
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Post by The Cheat on May 28, 2022 12:54:14 GMT -5
I'd love to read all the old Tick issues, but looks like there's no collected editions available in the UK.
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Post by The Cheat on May 24, 2022 12:55:06 GMT -5
I love how he's flamed on with the wig on his head. Let me guess... asbestos?
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Post by The Cheat on Mar 24, 2022 13:56:40 GMT -5
To be fair, during the 90s I seem to remember Detective being called "Batman - Detective Comics", with the Batman being in a far larger font than the Detective Comics.
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Post by The Cheat on Mar 9, 2022 14:02:12 GMT -5
But seriously folks... comics used to generate interest with a new exciting villain, with romantic interest or troubles, with work/life balance issues... But in the past 20 or so years, the wrong turn playbook has been: Hero is killed ("for reals", I'm sure) Hero's secret identity exposed Hero gets a kid (that's some real escapist entertainment right there) supporting character brutally murdered/raped/replaced by alien hero is succeeded by awful teenage version (I call this the Poochie effect, and it keeps on giving) hero is neutered to have "cutesey wootsie" adventures, or hang out at Starbucks instead of kicking ass Hero ALMOST gets married (not as much of a wrong turn as a fan fake-out) Hero becomes different sex, age (I'm looking at you, Thor) Hero has secretly been EVIL for the past 8 decades without anyone knowing (sort of a master-stroke wrong turn, where it taints all 80 years of previous stories... well done!) It used to be that plot twists and such gimmicks were minor course corrections, but this kind of stuff has really driven things off the rails, sometimes permanently damaging the characters, in my opinion. I mean, I couldn't even tell you right now if Iron Man is Tony Stark, or if it's a teenage girl, or if Stark is dead, or a god, or a ghost, or revealed to be a Skrull. Meanwhile, little Johnny's mom takes him to the comics store to try to find an Iron Man comic that's like the movies. No luck there. So, yeah, that's what really grinds my gears. Hear hear. Agree with all of that.
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Post by The Cheat on Feb 28, 2022 13:58:05 GMT -5
One thing that bugs me about the origin is that presumably Matt suffered from chemical burns but he has no scarring on his face. Are we meant to believe that radiation blinded him? How is that supposed to work? According to comic-book science, the radiation turned into transistors, which in turn activated Matt's latent mutant powers that transformed him into a sonar elemental.
What, no magnets?
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Post by The Cheat on Jan 3, 2022 13:59:03 GMT -5
It's twenty minutes shy of eight hours, and then a 3 and a half hour companion interview was released not long afterward. But you're right: it's not at all boring at any moment. I need them to release it as a podcast so that I can listen to it in the car. I listened to it (at 1.5x speed) on my morning walks, so must have got the audio somehow. Can't remember if I downloaded it as an audio file, or just ripped it from the video though. This should sort you.
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Post by The Cheat on Jan 2, 2022 13:50:53 GMT -5
If it was alphabetical, Abe Sapien to Zenith.
It's actually 100 Bullets to Final Crisis since my shelves seems to have naturally evolved to be:
Non-big 2, by author. Hellboy & co by date. Conan & Kull by date. Big 2 by character. Big 2 events by date.
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