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Niku · « **Reply #1020 on:** November 08, 2010, 04:14:59 PM »

Yeah, I can't recommend DW highly enough right now. Looking forward to Rescue Rangers.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1021 on:** November 10, 2010, 02:19:35 PM »

JMS off Superman and Wonder Woman

So what's the last thing he's finished? Babylon 5?

Thad · « **Reply #1022 on:** November 10, 2010, 02:30:23 PM »

Focusing on OGN's isn't a bad idea for him; most of his stories work better longform.

The exception is TB&TB, which really was a great little series of done-in-ones.

The other benefit to doing OGN's is that it presumably won't involve as much fuckery from editorial.

Büge · « **Reply #1023 on:** November 11, 2010, 12:03:26 PM »

Thanos Imperative #6:

[spoiler]You're Gonna Carry That Weight[/spoiler]

TA · « **Reply #1024 on:** November 11, 2010, 12:22:05 PM »

Is this necessarily the relevant thread? Unsure. But today is Veteran's Day in the US, and this is the Garfield that ran today.

Jim Davis swears it's a coincidence, that it was written sometime last year and put on the queue.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1025 on:** November 11, 2010, 01:43:14 PM »

Of course he doesn't have a calendar with important dates, that'd require him to keep a sliver of touch with reality.

Bal · « **Reply #1026 on:** November 11, 2010, 01:46:58 PM »

Quote from: Constantmean on November 10, 2010, 02:19:35 PM

JMS off Superman and Wonder Woman

So what's the last thing he's finished? Babylon 5?

And Rising Stars.

Mothra · « **Reply #1027 on:** November 11, 2010, 07:26:43 PM »

Quote from: TA on November 11, 2010, 12:22:05 PM

Is this necessarily the relevant thread? Unsure. But today is Veteran's Day in the US, and this is the Garfield that ran today.

Jim Davis swears it's a coincidence, that it was written sometime last year and put on the queue.

I'm trying to figure out if that's just a huge tasteless knock against vets who fight to be remembered or if he's trying to make fun of how little the public seems to care about these sorts of holidays. The latter would imply some kind of metaphor in a Garfield comic so you know what? No.

Did Garfield make the holiday himself to remind spiders that they should take no comfort in being a martyr (i.e. attempting to subjugate and demoralize and essentially terrorize his enemies) or did the spiders make the holiday to forever mock the very attempt at standing up to this vindictive, murderous beast (in essence bowing to terror and helping his reign to continue unchallenged)

Also fuck everything about the official Garfield website

Mongrel · « **Reply #1028 on:** November 11, 2010, 07:56:56 PM »

I think you're ascribing way too much thought to the Garfield comic creation process.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1029 on:** November 11, 2010, 08:24:40 PM »

He had released an apology stating that ~~his best friend is black~~ his son is a marine and he totally didn't mean anything by it. If any conspiracy theory is going into play here the most likely would have to be that he found a way to make Garfield topical again for five minutes and took the shot.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1030 on:** November 11, 2010, 08:40:09 PM »

Why would he want to make Garfield topical? That is not one of the qualities that it uses to make money.

A² · « **Reply #1031 on:** November 11, 2010, 09:32:57 PM »

The Garfield site crashed my flash plugin.

Jesus CHRIST

Thad · « **Reply #1032 on:** November 16, 2010, 08:52:46 AM »

Bleeding Cool (so standard grain of salt): Vote to pick which Deadpool series gets canceled.

Granted, it's an opportunity to fire Rob Liefeld, but it still seems like a dick move.

Mothra · « **Reply #1033 on:** November 16, 2010, 08:57:37 AM »

Deadpool's been kinda spiraling the drain since Simone went to DC, by the looks of it. I will never forgive myself for following Cable and Deadpool as long as I did.
Goddddd that series

Also: MAN people weren't kidding about Ultimates going downhill huh? 2 had its moments in the first half (before the bad guys turned out to be a terrorist supergroup of all America's enemies from the past 50 years and somehow everyone suspects goddamn Captain America over the random russian spy character), 3 is pretty much the exact reason I can't pick up an Avengers or Captain America comic these days, and holy shit Ultimatum. Just WOW that thing is unreadable.

Still, reread Ultimates 1 again and liked it quite a bit more than I remembered.

Next on my list is Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run.

Thad · « **Reply #1034 on:** November 16, 2010, 09:22:11 AM »

Quote from: Mothra on November 16, 2010, 08:57:37 AM

Deadpool's been kinda spiraling the drain since Simone went to DC, by the looks of it.

The main, Daniel Way-written series is actually quite good.

The Merc With a Mouth series...well, at least it had awesome covers.

And I liked the first Deadpool Teamup I read (where Deadpool deliberately gave himself brain damage so he'd be immune to mind control -- and then started talking about how much he liked Glenn Beck) but haven't followed it past the second.

Anyway, more from Bleeding Cool: Liefeld (who's done with his 9 issues anyway) says this is all a publicity stunt and Deadpool Corps was only intended to go 12 issues in the first place.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1035 on:** November 17, 2010, 02:57:40 PM »

I <3 Bully.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1036 on:** November 24, 2010, 10:49:07 AM »

Chris Sims and Nedroid present: Super-Hero Thanksgiving Parade Balloons.

The Alan Moore balloon is fantastic.

Healy · « **Reply #1037 on:** November 26, 2010, 06:17:13 AM »

The KGBeast balloon is fantastic-er.

Thad · « **Reply #1038 on:** November 26, 2010, 01:01:23 PM »

So, finally got a copy of Neonomicon #2.

Don't think I'll be picking up #3.

Moore at his most flat-out depraved and horrifying. I can't say it's bad, because it does exactly what it sets out to: it's sick and it's violent and it succeeds in the mission statement the early pages give: it adds sex to Lovecraft's horrors.

It actually feels a lot like your typical horror/occult hentai, except Moore's at least got the decency not to suggest that any of it's actually titillating. I think it's fair to call it pornographic, but it's certainly not sexy.

Anyhow, if you want something to disturb you, well, Moore's outdone himself on this one. But I don't think I can take any more of it. I'll be here waiting for the next issue of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1039 on:** December 06, 2010, 06:29:47 PM »

The preview for Knight and Squire #3 looks amazing

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