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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #600 on: December 10, 2009, 04:51:51 PM »

:itsatrap:  ...didn't we used to have an emote for that?  Oh well.

Do not buy that issue of Adventure Comics.  Everything after the attack on DC HQ is shit.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #601 on: December 10, 2009, 07:09:48 PM »

:trap:
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:akbar:
:ackbar:

Hm, I guess not!
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #602 on: December 10, 2009, 07:27:02 PM »

:itsatrap:  ...didn't we used to have an emote for that?  Oh well.

Do not buy that issue of Adventure Comics.  Everything after the attack on DC HQ is shit.

awww :(
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #603 on: December 10, 2009, 11:25:20 PM »

 ::(: :facepalm:
Dammit. Now I have to hunt up the scene from the UY cartoon where Megane does an Ackbar. Complete with "ITS A TRAP" in mangled English.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #604 on: December 12, 2009, 09:00:57 PM »

...yeah, had a feeling it was something simple, but I was in a hurry.  Thanks for your help.

Anyway, to elaborate: after attacking DC, Superboy gets sent back to his parents' basement (because jokes about losers who live in their parents' basements weren't old in 1995, you see) to whine some more.  About that point, the fanboy schtick quits being funny and pretty much gets downright mean-spirited.  Which is not to say that fanboys don't deserve to be mocked, but John comes across as being just as petulant as Superboy here.

The most self-aware moment of the issue is where Prime whines that it's not his fault, they MADE him a villain -- yeah, that's straight-up teen angst crap, but in this case it happens to be literally true.

Basically, a great setup that runs out of gas halfway through.  Where the story could have continued cleverly skewering the foibles of the industry and its consumers alike (I think it was the Newsarama review that pointed out Superboy should have been bitching about the two-issue event tie-in, and there's quite a lot of shit he could have said about how the story ended), but ultimately it turns into a writer using his bully pulpit to mock the people who say mean things about him on messageboards.

Oh, and there's a backup story with the Kon-El Superboy.  It's very boring.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #605 on: December 16, 2009, 05:51:33 PM »



WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME OF THIS?!
I had to find it on my own. Lucky I checked the rack today.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #606 on: December 16, 2009, 08:38:38 PM »

It's not that good. Cool that it exists, though.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #607 on: December 16, 2009, 08:50:52 PM »

I thought it was good.  :nyoro~n:

Decent set up for a series, gives insight into the main character and why he is an evil villain, decent art work, and you get what you'd expect from the writing.

I think it works well for what it is.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #608 on: December 18, 2009, 05:06:32 PM »



Not as great as the source material, but that is a fucking high bar.  A good read; sorry I didn't bring it up sooner.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #609 on: December 20, 2009, 06:51:55 PM »

Cross-posted from the Canadian news thread: Old man donates comics collection to Western University

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With an estimated value in the tens of thousands of dollars, the Dr. Eddy Smet Comic Book Collection includes rare Batman appearances from the seventies and eighties written by living legend Denny O’Neil, Frank Miller’s revolutionary run on Daredevil, Alan Moore’s complete runs on Watchmen, Miracleman and Swamp Thing, and the first 14 issues of Captain Canuck, arguably Canada’s most popular and important superhero comic.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #610 on: December 21, 2009, 03:58:01 PM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #611 on: December 21, 2009, 04:49:30 PM »

MARVELOUS

i love the FISH & CHIPS flying out of the school
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #612 on: December 21, 2009, 06:33:23 PM »

if you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #613 on: December 21, 2009, 09:12:32 PM »

Oh Japan
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #614 on: December 21, 2009, 11:46:10 PM »

Ohh, it's the same westaboo guy who made (NOT) MADE IN JAPAN, that makes sense
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #615 on: December 23, 2009, 11:19:53 PM »

I may have to revoke my thoughtful-reader card. Green Lantern 39 and Blackest Night 6 played me like a harp. Is this... hope?

I dare not! I'm supposed to be against large events not written by Morrison.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #616 on: December 23, 2009, 11:47:02 PM »

WOW, i thought shit got real in the last issue. Clearly i was mistaken, as shit has just gotten real.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #617 on: December 24, 2009, 10:14:26 AM »

ALPHA NEKRON HAS RISEN AGAIN FIND ME SIX EARTHLINGS WITH ATTITUDE

seriously why recruit six more dudes

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #618 on: December 24, 2009, 10:34:10 AM »

so they have more lasers to kill zombies with until indigo-1 gets back didn't you even read it
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #619 on: December 30, 2009, 08:43:51 PM »

#6 wasn't much on story, and the [spoiler]"oh yeah I can just clone a bunch of new rings"[/spoiler] bit was pure deus ex machina (and in fact right off the Doctor Who Bingo sheet; just replace "Time Lord" with "Guardian"), but it did what it's good at: it toyed with symbolism.  I quite liked the color-coded choices.  A trifle obvious for the most part (though I really don't think red is [spoiler]Mera[/spoiler]'s color), but again, this series is about playing with the archetypes these characters represent, and it does it well here.  And of course the plot thickens with [spoiler]Wonder Woman[/spoiler] -- that's probably the most important clue since Don Hall refused to wise fwom his gwave.

...also, anyone else notice Hal got the details of Ollie's resurrection wrong?  He came back when Hal was SPECTRE, not Parallax.  He DIED when Hal was Parallax.  Um, I think.  I really didn't read any DC back then.
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