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Post by lobsterjohnson on Feb 24, 2017 16:22:22 GMT -5
I picked up the Dark Knight Returns prequel, Batman: The Last Crusade, from the bookstore yesterday. It was OK. It's a decent enough Batman story, but I think I was expecting something that felt a bit more... important, considering it's the prequel to one of the greatest and most influential Batman comics of all time. The back cover makes it sound like the story is about Batman's last battle before he retires for the 10 years preceding DKR, but much of the book focuses on Batman and Robin solving a pretty standard Poison Ivy and Killer Croc case instead. The story ends right as I thought it was about to take off, actually.
Batman's voice also felt off to me; at one point he says "It sucks, getting old.", which I can't imagine DKR Batman saying.
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Post by wickedmountain on Mar 3, 2017 9:15:54 GMT -5
Read digitally
Unstoppable Wasp #3
Champions # 6
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Post by wickedmountain on Mar 4, 2017 4:59:34 GMT -5
Read digitally
Justice League rebirth # 16
Monsters unleashed # 4( This mini event so far is kinda meh not great imo)
Nightwing # 16
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 11:10:39 GMT -5
 Read Paul Dini's Black Canary And Zatanna: Bloodspell graphic novel. It was amazing. I'd love to see another volume. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 14:35:27 GMT -5
Read Paul Dini's Black Canary And Zatanna: Bloodspell graphic novel. It was amazing. I'd love to see another volume. It took Dini like 3+ years and going through 3 or 4 artists to get this one done, so I doubt you will see another. The book was cancelled, rescheduled, had artists drop out, over and over again. It was originally supposed to come out before the Zatanna solo that Dini helped launch just before Flashpoint, then be the follow up to it, then it got delayed again as another artist dropped out, etc. etc. We're lucky to have ever seen it actually. And then it didn't sell as well as everyone hoped because it a) didn't have the superstar artist it was supposed to have (I forget who at this point), b) was no longer in the current continuity for Zee of Dinah when it came out i.e. the new52 versions, and c came out a couple years after it was supposed to have hit. All of which pretty much leads me to believe neither Dini no DC wants to try something like this again. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 17:42:19 GMT -5
Read Paul Dini's Black Canary And Zatanna: Bloodspell graphic novel. It was amazing. I'd love to see another volume. It took Dini like 3+ years and going through 3 or 4 artists to get this one done, so I doubt you will see another. The book was cancelled, rescheduled, had artists drop out, over and over again. It was originally supposed to come out before the Zatanna solo that Dini helped launch just before Flashpoint, then be the follow up to it, then it got delayed again as another artist dropped out, etc. etc. We're lucky to have ever seen it actually. And then it didn't sell as well as everyone hoped because it a) didn't have the superstar artist it was supposed to have (I forget who at this point), b) was no longer in the current continuity for Zee of Dinah when it came out i.e. the new52 versions, and c came out a couple years after it was supposed to have hit. All of which pretty much leads me to believe neither Dini no DC wants to try something like this again. -M  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 23:32:51 GMT -5
^I liked it too. I tried to preorder it at my lcs in 2012 when it was announced as a follow up to the Zatanna series and had to wait through several of the delays and such until 2014 when it was actually released.
But when...
...and then its announced again in 2011 for a 2012 release now with Joe Quinones as artist and doesn't actually show up until 2014, your going to lose a large chunk of the audience who was initially interested in it, and now 3 years later when DC hasn't really done any other OGNs aside from their Earth One attempted line or anything to follow up on this, it just seems like it's not a format or a content area they have any interest in pursuing, even if I think it is the format they should be promoting to capture the elusive new readers in the mass market rather than the Wednesday Warriors of the shrinking lcs customer base.
-M
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 7, 2017 23:27:31 GMT -5
Abnett's Aquaman Rebirth. Came for the undersea politics, stayed for gushing over how adorable Mera and Arthur are  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 12:15:29 GMT -5
Sat down and read the whole Spider-Man: Clone Conspiracy mini-series and tie-in issues.
It was interesting, but ultimately, didn't do much for me.
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Post by berkley on Mar 9, 2017 23:54:48 GMT -5
I like the cover of that Black Canary + Zatanna book anbd it's a neat idea to team them up, but after image-searching it the interior samples I saw didn't look quite as good. Zatanna's face looks weird, for some reason. But I'm one of these readers who thinks most superhero artists are better off giving their characters standardised "heroic" faces, rather than trying too hard to individualise them.
Last newish thing I read was Warren Ellis's Karnak run. As usual with Ellis, it was all very professional and accomplished, but at the same time felt a bit perfunctory - "All right, let me whip off these six issues and go on to the next thing." Some intriguing ideas are introduced but are more or less left up in the air, as you'd expect in such a short run. Maybe Ellis should contract for 12 issues instead of 6 for these things - though come to think of it that didn't help his Secret Avengers much.
Also, as with most Marvel product these days, it's too constrained and guided by whatever is going on in the MU at large, in this case the whole Inhumans are the new mutants thing. Everything is connected to SHIELD and Agent bloody Coulson is a major supporting character, etc, etc. And I don't really see the point of the idea that Karnak didn't undergo the Terrigan Mists - or rather I do, but it means nothing to me because I think that in a convoluted way it's motivated by this desire on Marvel's part to have the Inhumans take on the role in the MU once filled by the mutants.
So a mildly entertaining read, but one that left me unsatisfied at the same time, in view of Ellis's talent and the potential of the title character and the Inhumans in general. I used to stay away from Ellis's Marvel work but his Moon Knight was so good I've been giving it more of a chance lately. I think I'll give up it again from now on, though. MK appears to have been a one-off, perhaps because Ellis actually felt some interest in that character.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 10, 2017 9:22:52 GMT -5
Karnak not being exposed to the Terrigen Mist is not a new idea, it's been around since at least the early 80s (I remember reading about it in the old Handbook to the Marvel Universe around that time.), so I don't see how it's motivated by Marvel wanting the Inhumans take the mutants role?
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Post by Trevor on Mar 10, 2017 10:26:55 GMT -5
Thanks to Hoopla, I've read about 8 DC Rebirth trades in the last week or so. Wow, great stuff. It's like I'm 12 years old again and actually care about a connected superhero universe.
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Post by berkley on Mar 10, 2017 14:02:39 GMT -5
Karnak not being exposed to the Terrigen Mist is not a new idea, it's been around since at least the early 80s (I remember reading about it in the old Handbook to the Marvel Universe around that time.), so I don't see how it's motivated by Marvel wanting the Inhumans take the mutants role? I knew I should have looked that up before going out on a limb! In the Ellis story, it seemed linked to the idea that the Terrigen Mists, instead of being something the Inhumans saw as a natural part of their culture, were an evil that Karnak's parents wanted their child to be spared, for fear he's become a freak and an outcast, as MU mutants were seen as freaks and outcasts rather than cool superheroes. Now that I do look it up, I see the wiki article on Karnak has this quote from Ellis: So I would revise my earlier statement and say that Ellis took a previous writer's idea that Karnak never underwent the Terrigen Mists, and tied it into this new situation where the Inhumans are taking on the Mutants' old role in the MU - unless someone else came up with that too and Eillis just carried on with it. Regardless, the main point is that Ellis's Karnak is much too involved with this new view of the Inhumans, to my taste. Not that I should be surprised, of course, since that's the way Marvel works. I took a chance on reading the book and it didn't pay off for me, that's how it goes. I'll stick to Ellis's independent work from now on. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 22, 2017 14:50:58 GMT -5
X-O Man-O-War #1 by Kindt My opinion on this long-awaited book can be easily surmised as follows (not sure if I can adequately express my extremely contemptuous sarcasm, but I'll darn well try)  "Finally Valiant, you've purged Vendetti of his aimless meandering on a book that stopped being good ages ago! You've actually given Aric to somebody who knows what he's doing and can easily excel at his craft to the point where he's making 'box office league blowouts' out of forgotten characters from twenty years ago! Good job, you finally got your ***king act together! Stop huffing glue and give these characters their due!" |
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Post by Golddragon71 on Mar 23, 2017 16:05:48 GMT -5
Just Read Flash 19 and while the Flash/Kid Flash Boomerang Story was alright, the End with Reverse Flash is my favorite Part...
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