So lately, I've really been getting into Daredevil and the Marvel Knights Captain America. Unfortunately, the quality went down CONSIDERABLY when they started that stupid Red Skull angle.
I hate Red Skull. He's the lamest recurring villain ever conceived. The comic was getting so good until his bitch ass showed up, too. Jerk.
I also liked the Marvel Knights Punisher, even the silly one where Wolverine, Daredevil, and Spiderman team up to stop him. The very first compilation was also extremely good, and I'm glad that the Punisher ended up killing an annoying sidekick. Sweet.
While I'm rambling, the attempts to give the Punisher a recurring villain were incredibly lame. Jigsaw. A poor man's pudgy Two Face. The whole point of the Punisher series is NOT to have recurring villains, because the Punisher kills them horribly. And that's WHAT WE LIKE. It's why we play D&D. Viewed in that light, I guess that's why the Punisher/Batman crossover didn't make me as happy as I had wanted.
I like Tim Drake as Robin, but I really liked him after Hush and the Crow Flies. Yay him.
Hush is also my favorite Batman comic so far, except for the one where the Arkham Asylum inmates gets a white collar criminal who pleaded insanity. Go Riddler. And Doodlebug.
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Best comic book ongoing for me is, by far, JSA. Simply outstanding series, a good mix of old heroes and new, excellent characters, involving plots, and epic villains.....just plain good stuff.
My two favorite limited series right now are everyone else's as well--Green Lantern: Rebirth and Identity Crisis. Each has been really cool and really complex, and I await the next issue of each one. I think ID Crisis raps up in a week or two.
Beyond that, let's see...I like Outsiders. And, below that, I have some others that are pretty good, but not my absolute favorites: Superman/Batman, Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, and JLA.
My two favorite limited series right now are everyone else's as well--Green Lantern: Rebirth and Identity Crisis. Each has been really cool and really complex, and I await the next issue of each one. I think ID Crisis raps up in a week or two.
Beyond that, let's see...I like Outsiders. And, below that, I have some others that are pretty good, but not my absolute favorites: Superman/Batman, Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, and JLA.
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I have high hopes for GL: Rebirth. The sooner we can get that stupid Paralax storyline behind us the better. I am aware that they had written in too many Green Lanterns, but that was the worst possible way to resolve that problem.
I mean, Marvel seems to have gotten over their Onslaught temporary insanity without too many hiccups - why can't we just hold our heads together for a few minutes and erase the Paralax storyline from causality.
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I mean, Marvel seems to have gotten over their Onslaught temporary insanity without too many hiccups - why can't we just hold our heads together for a few minutes and erase the Paralax storyline from causality.
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Wait, I haven't pimped Mark Oakley's Thieves and Kings here.
The fifth graphic novel is out now. It's a totally sweet series, and now there's a free webcomic to promote it on the website Linky
The fifth graphic novel is out now. It's a totally sweet series, and now there's a free webcomic to promote it on the website Linky
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FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1102549714[/unixtime]]I have high hopes for GL: Rebirth. The sooner we can get that stupid Paralax storyline behind us the better. I am aware that they had written in too many Green Lanterns, but that was the worst possible way to resolve that problem.
I mean, Marvel seems to have gotten over their Onslaught temporary insanity without too many hiccups - why can't we just hold our heads together for a few minutes and erase the Paralax storyline from causality.
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After reading Rebirth #3, I must say that Johns is doing an absolutely superb job of fixing the Parallax issue.
This miniseries might be Jeff Johns' best work ever, even including his excellent Black Reign storyline from JSA and Hawkman. I look forward to Rebirth each month, and each issue has been tremendously, tremendously good.
Favourite all time comic is Transmetropolitan.
Other than that, I tend to like DC's bat-family books, especially Gotham City Sirens, short though it's run may have been, and Green Lantern, when I pick it up.
Other than that, I tend to like DC's bat-family books, especially Gotham City Sirens, short though it's run may have been, and Green Lantern, when I pick it up.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I'm a huge fan of Conan the Barbarian comics, and still pick them up regularly. Mostly though, I'm into indies these days. And even then, most of the indie series I follow are either wrapping up (The Boys) or essentially dead in the water (Orc Stain, Whatever Happened to Captain von Shock?, Desolation Jones, etc.); I'm not even entirely sure why I pick up Elephantmen anymore except out of habit. I would buy the shit out of an original Howard Chaykin series. I am really enjoying the new Dark Horse Presents, those sort of anthology series (like 2000 AD) will always have a place in my withered black heart.
I was really getting into Marvel's "secret" titles (Secret Warriors, Secret Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D.) but the massive event-driven plots have basically killed a lot of my interest in Marvel these days...there just hasn't been anything to really capture and hold my interest for a while.
Same-same DC really, especially with the reboot, although I still pick up Hellblazer; I think they've really missed some opportunities the last couple years to streamline and consolidate the universe without having DC editors punch the continuity in the nuts.
I was really getting into Marvel's "secret" titles (Secret Warriors, Secret Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D.) but the massive event-driven plots have basically killed a lot of my interest in Marvel these days...there just hasn't been anything to really capture and hold my interest for a while.
Same-same DC really, especially with the reboot, although I still pick up Hellblazer; I think they've really missed some opportunities the last couple years to streamline and consolidate the universe without having DC editors punch the continuity in the nuts.
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i recently got an HDD back from a buddy of mine.
i now have about 400 to 500 gigs of marvel and DC comics at home . . .
As for silly: Deadpool < = nothing beats him in terms of silly.
Some things come close though.
I'm reading the complete chronological civil war right now . .
Ben "Thing" Grimm said it best:"i miss the times when you knew who the good guys were and whom to hit over the head with a car"
i now have about 400 to 500 gigs of marvel and DC comics at home . . .
As for silly: Deadpool < = nothing beats him in terms of silly.
Some things come close though.
I'm reading the complete chronological civil war right now . .
Ben "Thing" Grimm said it best:"i miss the times when you knew who the good guys were and whom to hit over the head with a car"
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
When I was extremely young I liked Batman and, to a lesser degree, Superman. Yes, and Wonderwoman and Catwoman, who possibly helped me decide which way to swing at a very early age. I also had a few ancient books filled with Batman and Superman comics from the really early days, when the world only had three colours.
In my teen years, when it was on TV, I liked Spiderman and X-Men, and from there got into the various other ones. I didn't collect that many of the actual comics, though. Mostly I bought cheap ones from a secondhand book store, so odd issues from here and there in different series and story arcs, and all outdated. Cheap though.
These days I'm not really interested in Marvel, and don't like DC at all. I want to check out Witchblade (American, though it inspired an anime). Mostly I read manga/manhwa:
[*]Ikkitousen Battle Vixens (stopped reading ages ago)
[*]Battle Club (likewise)
[*]Grenadier
[*]KissxSis
[*]Shitsurakuen
[*]Freezing & First Chronicle
[*]Mikarun X
[*]Needless
[*]Rosario to Vampire
[*]K-ON
...that's a lot. Anyway, good entertainment there. And not all of them are filled with fan service, even.
In my teen years, when it was on TV, I liked Spiderman and X-Men, and from there got into the various other ones. I didn't collect that many of the actual comics, though. Mostly I bought cheap ones from a secondhand book store, so odd issues from here and there in different series and story arcs, and all outdated. Cheap though.
These days I'm not really interested in Marvel, and don't like DC at all. I want to check out Witchblade (American, though it inspired an anime). Mostly I read manga/manhwa:
[*]Ikkitousen Battle Vixens (stopped reading ages ago)
[*]Battle Club (likewise)
[*]Grenadier
[*]KissxSis
[*]Shitsurakuen
[*]Freezing & First Chronicle
[*]Mikarun X
[*]Needless
[*]Rosario to Vampire
[*]K-ON
...that's a lot. Anyway, good entertainment there. And not all of them are filled with fan service, even.
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Stuff I've enjoyed (besides the obligatory Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc):
--POWERS (before Bendis lost his grip on the narrative)
--Fables (though I'm not current)
--Astro City (though I'm not current)
--Top Ten (first 2 volumes, and '49'ers...nothing else, not even the Smax mini)
--The Sword (excellent mini)
--League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (first 2 volumes, anyway...I found Black Dossier lacking, and I haven't read the 60's one)
--The Walking Dead (the first 4-5 volumes were good, but then I started to lose interest)
--Strike Force: Morituri (don't know if this has been collected, but it should, as it is really pretty awesome)
--Runaways (up through maybe volume 6?)
--Team 7 (3 different 4-issue miniseries, probably the best stuff Image did)
--Noble Causes (first couple collections were pretty good; when they switched artists, it went downhill IMO)
--Invincible (only read the first couple volumes, good stuff so far)
--G.I. Joe (original series by Larry Hama...surprisingly decent)
--Identity Crisis (I liked it anyway...I hear some folks hated it)
Manga:
--Bleach
--Full Metal Alchemist
--Nana
--Banana Fish
--Gunsmith Cats
--POWERS (before Bendis lost his grip on the narrative)
--Fables (though I'm not current)
--Astro City (though I'm not current)
--Top Ten (first 2 volumes, and '49'ers...nothing else, not even the Smax mini)
--The Sword (excellent mini)
--League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (first 2 volumes, anyway...I found Black Dossier lacking, and I haven't read the 60's one)
--The Walking Dead (the first 4-5 volumes were good, but then I started to lose interest)
--Strike Force: Morituri (don't know if this has been collected, but it should, as it is really pretty awesome)
--Runaways (up through maybe volume 6?)
--Team 7 (3 different 4-issue miniseries, probably the best stuff Image did)
--Noble Causes (first couple collections were pretty good; when they switched artists, it went downhill IMO)
--Invincible (only read the first couple volumes, good stuff so far)
--G.I. Joe (original series by Larry Hama...surprisingly decent)
--Identity Crisis (I liked it anyway...I hear some folks hated it)
Manga:
--Bleach
--Full Metal Alchemist
--Nana
--Banana Fish
--Gunsmith Cats
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believe in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up quicker. it will be the one you are full of, shit.
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believe in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up quicker. it will be the one you are full of, shit.
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Ah, this thread. In four more months I'll be bumping it to cry about Spider-Man... well, you know what.
It's a TGD family tradition!
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In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Or Ben Riley.
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Heh, allways good fer a larf ^^
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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You know what the surprising bit of awesome from NuDCU is? Animal Man. Yeah, I said it: the Animal Man reboot is awesome.
Most of the reboot I could do without. Especially the new Flash. Wally West was the best fucking Flash, and bringing back Allen was a huge mistake. He is only different from Wally in that he is less interesting, blonder, and has less entertaining dialog.
The new Superman setup is pretty good. Every time there is a crisis, Superman gets powered down to the point of being merely insanely powerful. And that's good for him. His stories are fun to read at that power level. And the new Batman setup is just the old Batman setup since with all the retconning they left Batman Inc. in place. Which is good, because Batman Inc. is awesome.
But the real gem in all this is Animal Man. That is some nice storytelling.
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Most of the reboot I could do without. Especially the new Flash. Wally West was the best fucking Flash, and bringing back Allen was a huge mistake. He is only different from Wally in that he is less interesting, blonder, and has less entertaining dialog.
The new Superman setup is pretty good. Every time there is a crisis, Superman gets powered down to the point of being merely insanely powerful. And that's good for him. His stories are fun to read at that power level. And the new Batman setup is just the old Batman setup since with all the retconning they left Batman Inc. in place. Which is good, because Batman Inc. is awesome.
But the real gem in all this is Animal Man. That is some nice storytelling.
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I just started reading the Getter Robo manga from the beginning and it's proving to be quite interesting.
Oh yeah, it inspired me write this little bit:
Oh yeah, it inspired me write this little bit:
Kouji Kabuto (Mazinger Z): I was given my giant robot by my Grandad.
Tetsya Tsurugi (Great Mazinger): My adopted father made my giant robot and trained me from childhood so I could safeguard humanity.
Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam): My dad designed my robot, which I took to save my friends, and eventually, end an apocalyptic war.
Simon the Digger (Gurren-Lagann): I had to find the robot to go with the key I use to activate it.
Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion): My dad made my mom into a giant bi mechanical monster, with a penchant for eating angels, that I pilot from what is functionally an expy of a womb. FML.
Haruto Tokishima (Valvrave the Liberator): I had to become a body-switching vampire to drive my robot.
Ryoma Nagare (Getter Robo): I had to defeat an entire stadium full of the top karate fighters in the world, kill three super-powered assassinswhile I ha a knife embedded in my shoulder, then survive an attack by a giant pterodactyl by bailing out of a car hurtling down the freeway while carrying the old man that sent the assassins, and I haven't even *seen* the robot I'm supposed to be driving.
Tetsya Tsurugi (Great Mazinger): My adopted father made my giant robot and trained me from childhood so I could safeguard humanity.
Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam): My dad designed my robot, which I took to save my friends, and eventually, end an apocalyptic war.
Simon the Digger (Gurren-Lagann): I had to find the robot to go with the key I use to activate it.
Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion): My dad made my mom into a giant bi mechanical monster, with a penchant for eating angels, that I pilot from what is functionally an expy of a womb. FML.
Haruto Tokishima (Valvrave the Liberator): I had to become a body-switching vampire to drive my robot.
Ryoma Nagare (Getter Robo): I had to defeat an entire stadium full of the top karate fighters in the world, kill three super-powered assassinswhile I ha a knife embedded in my shoulder, then survive an attack by a giant pterodactyl by bailing out of a car hurtling down the freeway while carrying the old man that sent the assassins, and I haven't even *seen* the robot I'm supposed to be driving.
The rules are the game, without them you're just playing cowboys and indians with a side of craps.
