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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 21, 2015 21:12:35 GMT -5
Okay, what's that "convergence" craER... thing at DC? Did the company decide to have another Crisis on Infinite Earths just after it brought back (sort of) its multiverse? The solicitations keep telling about an event that would deliver "a single universe" and blahblahblah.
Not that I care as far as DC goes, since it lost my interest many years ago... but I am worried about what it would mean for the industry in general, as far as super-hero comics are concerned. Are we really stuck that deeply in a rut?
Thank heaven for things like Saga, the Walking dead and the occasional Age of Bronze. And whatever series in which creators do their stuff without paying attention to their company's universe!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 21:18:34 GMT -5
It's a thing they came up with to cover the publication gap while they moved offices from NYC to Burbank and the regular editorial teams (and I guess regular creative teams who are not moving) were unavailable. It essentially brings back pre-Flashpoint favorites and recast them in the wake of the weekly Future's End and Earth2 World's End series as part of a Braniac fused battleworld or some such (at least that's what I have gleaned from snippets here and there) but it has nothing to do with what Morrison is doing with Multiversity. The single universe chatter is DC allaying their fans that their continuity is not going away after the event and there won't be multiple continuities in print, but a single DCU so all the hardcore fanboys can sleep easily.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 21, 2015 21:27:07 GMT -5
Thanks, mrp. I don't know if I should be relieved or not, though!
Things used to be so simple when you could tell whatever story you wanted by slapping a number on some new Earth and not worry about Crises and Zero Hours and NewDCs and the like. (Or Ultron breaking time and Mephisto changing history, for that matter)!
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 24, 2015 20:57:33 GMT -5
EARTH 2 WORLDS END #21
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #39
FUTURES END #43
SECRET ORIGINS #10
GALAXY QUEST JOURNEY CONTINUES #2
ORPHAN BLACK #1
STAR TREK #42
DAREDEVIL #13
NEW AVENGERS #30
SHIELD #3
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #9
DJANGO ZORRO #4
DOCTOR WHO 12TH #5
trade waiting
BATMAN 66, BATMAN ETERNAL, CHEW, SEX CRIMINALS, THIEF OF THIEVES, WALKING DEAD, WICKED & DIVINE, KICK-ASS, GEORGE PEREZ SIRENS
might check out SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 SPECIAL EDITION
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2015 22:49:07 GMT -5
Oh man, I didn't know there was an Orphan Black comic. I'll probably get that in trade.
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Post by berkley on Feb 24, 2015 23:51:39 GMT -5
I was planning to wait for the trade, but I broke down and bought the first issue of Nightworld when I saw it in a backissue bin last week. I liked it a lot and will still be getting the collection of the first four issues when it comes out, I believe next month. Excellent Kirbyesque artwork of a different kind to Tom Scioli's or Keith Griffen's, intriguing premise - I've always been attracted to supernatural stories like this and Nightworld delivers all the creepy old houses, mysterious ghosts, ill-considered demonic bargains, etc that you can ask for along with some bizarre characters and what seems to be shaping up as convoluted, back-stabbing intrigue.
In the letters page writer Adam McGovern mentions a few other things he and artist Paolo Leandri have worked on - Dr. Id and The Return of Idoru Jones. which I'll be looking for too. As far as I can tell, Dr. Id was a one-shot black & white comic, and Idoru Jones appears to be a web comic that can be read at hilobrow.com , a site that looks to have a lot of other cool stuff to read as well.
The other new comic I read last week was the latest Multiversity, Masterman, which I disliked. For me, the premise - a Superman who landed in 1930s Nazi Germany rather than the USA - feels like its playing to all our cultural self-satisfaction about having been the good guys in WWII - and on the world geopolitical scene in general.
A more interesting and a more honest exploration of the ideas behind this would have been a Superman who crash-landed in 18th or 19th century America (or Canada or anywhere in the western hemisphere for that matter) and ended up taking part in the extermination of the Native population. Or even a Superman who landed in a Germany that had won WWII 50 or 100 years earlier and that, as victors, had mixed feelings about, rather than straight acknowledgement of, its guilt in having slaughtered the Jews, Gypsies, and other populations. (edit: which is the case in Morrison's Masterman - but unlike "our" Superman, who came to earth in the 20th century, long after the US's victorious expansion across the continent, Masterman came to earth in time to participate in some of the Nazi conquests of this alternative earth).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 1:10:05 GMT -5
There was a self published Australian series I really liked called Eeek! a while back. He got five issues out before striking a deal with Asylum Press, which reprinted his five issues as a TPB. Then they swiftly gave up on print altogether. I haven't paid much attention to them since, mostly because their projects would take YEARS to come out and I got tired of the non-update-updates. But it looks like Eeek! was ongoing this whole time in digital only. I'm not a fan but I do buy Ralph Snart in digital only because there is no other option. I may catch up on this series in digital as well now.
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Post by berkley on Feb 25, 2015 1:36:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not a great fan of the digital format either, but sometimes you don't have a choice - and sometimes even if there is a choice I'll test out a digital version of something I'm not really sure I want to read.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 3:34:46 GMT -5
I'll soon embrace digital I'm sure, it's on the verge of being where I want it to be for the bulk of my reading material. I used to actively avoid TPB's and HC's and preferred floppies. Not any more. I bought maybe a dozen floppies as back issues last year. Maybe twice that in current, maybe a little more. So far this year I think I have a dozen back issues or so, thanks to eBay bucks for the bulk of it, and maybe 7 or 8 current floppies. I love HC's when they're priced right, which they seem to be more and more these days. And the build quality is great too, pages not coming loose on me. So I'm mostly a HC guy now.
I don't have a problem with digital, but since I read almost nothing that way I don't like the few things I feel like I have to. Ralph Snart, I bought I think two issues that haven't been available in print. Maybe five issues of this series now. That's it. I tried a few free samples, and they were cool on the iPad, but a lot of my material either isn't digital, or comes out way late, or comes out through multiple different sources, requiring multiple different readers (I assume), it's all just a little confusing to me right now. I don't want 30% of my collection to be digital, half% of that to be Comixology, the rest being a combination of direct PDF downloads, pay-to-view subsription, ect. I'd just like to open a comic app and have everything I read be available there. For less than print by at least 30% (And I'm thinking closer to 50%, since I believe the LCS will give me 15%-20% off the price of print with free bags and boards on top of that), and available day of release. At that point I'll be a digital convert, only buying the occasional fancy HC that I feel is worthy of possessing as a collectible. Signed slipcase editions and whatnot.
But it seems like more and more of what I want to read is available, being consolidated to just a few providers, and if I'm willing to wait a few months at an agreeable price for digital content. It will happen soon.
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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 25, 2015 4:34:34 GMT -5
Image Only week for me:
- Sex Criminals volume 2
- Criminal One-shot
- The Fade-Out Volume 1.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 25, 2015 18:58:32 GMT -5
Oh man, I didn't know there was an Orphan Black comic. I'll probably get that in trade. I didn't now about it until I saw it on Previews website. I'll have to Email my LCS to add it to my pull list as I won't be making it in today (working from home after yet another snowstorm). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 15:49:18 GMT -5
So, for this week:
Spider-Man/X-Men was sort of amusing / sort of annoying. Had Mojo in it, which is never a plus for me.
Men of Wrath came to an ending, I assume. Been a decent series about thoroughly not-decent people
Fantastic Four continues a long line of "meh"
All-New X-Men was Blaock Vortex tie-in, and not up the standard of whatever the last one was (Star Lord, maybe(
New Avengers is really cooking now, and Uncanny Avengers wasn't bad either.
Superior Iron-Man carries on in the same unlikeable vein (that's the book, not just the character)
Daredevil was another good issue.
All-New X-Men was a big dull fight.
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Post by berkley on Feb 26, 2015 17:34:19 GMT -5
I'll be getting Siren #3 this week. Might go pick it up tomorrow or Saturday.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 0:51:47 GMT -5
Thor Annual is the frst issue since Aaron took over that I disliked, although only 1/3 is his fault.
First issue of Orphan Black didn't instill much confidence. I feared it would just be a straight adaptation of the series, but it's even less than that. It's like an adaptation of a preview.
I'm enjoying Gotham by Midnight, but I have a hard time keeping stuff straight for some reason. I'll probably do a re-read soon.
Bought Secret Origins because I thought the last issue of Batgirl said there would be a reveal. Either that was wrong, or this series just went in an odd direction. The Firestorm and Poison Ivy sections were whatever.
I've really enjoyed Rasputin, but the ad at the end of this issue makes me kinda uninterested in the second half of the series.
Darth Vader was decent. The "twist" kinda felt like it came outta nowhere.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 3:11:33 GMT -5
Thor Annual is the frst issue since Aaron took over that I disliked, although only 1/3 is his fault. Forgot that one, which isn't a good omen. Didn't do anything for me, either. |
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