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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #800 on: June 30, 2010, 11:57:40 AM »

Well, a guy's dealt in Magic Cards for nearly two decades probably has no right to be amazed at the value of any collectible item, really.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #801 on: June 30, 2010, 12:06:04 PM »

Niku roughly how much of card captor sakura did you end up watching

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about three fourths.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #802 on: June 30, 2010, 12:30:34 PM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #803 on: July 01, 2010, 09:55:26 PM »

So, okay.  I quit reading Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis after the first issue because the art is just senses-assaulting bad.  But Astonishing X-Men #34 is pretty good!  Sure, the guy drawing that (Lanning?) has a completely bland House Style, but at least it's inoffensive.

Ellis's plots on this series have been largely forgettable.  His dialogue's up to his usual snappy standard, and that's worth the price of admission, but where he's really shone is the relationship between Scott and Hank, and that's once again where this issue stands out.

He just nails the idea of two guys who have been friends since they were kids and who don't see eye-to-eye anymore but who still have a tremendous care and respect for each other.

To wit: Hank tells Scott to go fuck himself because he's turned into a prick.  For about two pages.

Then there's a panel of silence.

And then they both start laughing.

And in that exchange, Ellis just manages to say so much -- not just about the tonal shift of the past Jesus-Christ-is-it-really-almost-50-years of X-Men history, but of the very fucking nature of enduring friendship.

The man's very good.  Even the shit that seems like he just thought it up over breakfast -- well, hell, my avatar's from one of those.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #804 on: July 02, 2010, 07:08:04 AM »

Yes, buy it. It is in-fucking-credible.

I gave in and bought it yesterday at The Beguiling. Along with Vol. 9 of Girl Genius.

I'm weeeeeeak
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #805 on: July 02, 2010, 10:55:06 AM »

TEG (and anyone else who was interested in Blacksad): I just found out that the hardcover dark horse Blacksad is actually all three of the first volumes, translated. So don't bother getting a separate copy of Arctic Nation (volume 2) or anything.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #806 on: July 04, 2010, 01:00:25 PM »

The most interesting bit in Captain Swing #2 is two namedrops: the policeman identifies himself as Charlie Gravel, and Captain Swing's real name is Jonathan Rheinhardt.

(Plus there's also a bit about Viking warriors; I suspect that's a reference to Wolfskin.)

Now, I don't think Ellis is doing anything quite so boring as building a shared universe out of his various creator-owned books.  But I DO think there's probably more to this than just a quick wink-and-nod reference.  I bet we'll be seeing a little bit more connective tissue as this goes on.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #807 on: July 16, 2010, 06:28:55 PM »



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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #808 on: July 16, 2010, 08:25:14 PM »

... Horse Thor? :wat:
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #809 on: July 16, 2010, 09:13:13 PM »

That's Beta Ray Bill.  He's a badass muthafucka.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #810 on: July 16, 2010, 11:29:38 PM »

As well as fucking better than Thor in every way.  Beta Ray Bill is like Thor + Captain America's Speeches - the lame villains IN SPACE
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #811 on: July 17, 2010, 04:28:34 AM »

... Horse Thor? :wat:
The proper term is "Thorse."
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #812 on: July 20, 2010, 09:31:56 PM »

Superman Goes for a Walk, Chapter 1

You know, it's hard to explain Superman to people who hate Superman.  It's easy not to like Superman, because 90% of Superman stories suck.  That's not a higher ratio than anybody else, it's just that even terrible Batman stories are exciting.  Or have George Clooney in them.

The problem is, much of the time people write Superman as fucking boring.  And he shouldn't be.

Now, it can't all be All-Star.  (And you shouldn't fucking try.  More on that in a bit.)  But there are ways to make Superman interesting.

The "Superman walks across America to get in touch with the common man" premise is a perfectly good one.  The trouble is that, so far, it's about 80% Boring, Sanctimonious '90's Superman and 20% Crazy Social Justice Vigilante '40's Superman.

I love '40's Superman.  He was like if FDR got up out of his chair and PHYSICALLY FORCED motherfuckers to treat the working class right.  Run an unsafe mine?  Superman's going to trap your ass down there until you promise to impose strict safety guidelines.  Is your neighborhood full of run-down, abandoned buildings?  Superman will just KNOCK THE FUCKERS DOWN so that HUD will come build new ones.

So when Superman shows up in a neighborhood full of drug labs and burns them all up with his heat vision, and then mocks the dealers?  That's EXACTLY the kind of shit Joe and Jerry would have done.  THAT is Superman connecting with the common man and solving real-world problems.

Too bad he spends the rest of the issue spouting smug platitudes in a bunch of scenes we've seen before.  (Seriously?  Talking a girl off a ledge?  I don't know which is harder to believe, that JMS hasn't read All-Star or that he has but still decided it would be a good idea to do a shittier version of a scene from it in a book whose target audience is mostly made up of people who read it.)

Point is, I love the original Superman, and for a brief, fun moment, he's in this book, using his might to make life better for people in a seedy neighborhood, while mocking the thugs who have made it so bad.  I want more shit like that.  I want him to come to Phoenix and stick Joe Arpaio in Tent City.

But of course that's never going to happen, and the best we can hope for is that he takes down a few more conventional comic-book thugs in-between his sanctimonious lectures.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #813 on: July 21, 2010, 04:18:44 AM »

He, uh, also informs a man that he's having a heart attack and then just walks off.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #814 on: July 21, 2010, 05:53:09 AM »

Between Superman and Green Lantern, DC is in such an American-centric moment I all but stopped reading their comics.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #815 on: July 24, 2010, 04:19:24 PM »

Grr, I hate that Spider-Man! I sure wish there was a way to get back at him for all my fellow brick walls he's incidentally punched over the years.

Then have I got a deal for you...
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #816 on: July 24, 2010, 07:59:56 PM »

One Moment In Time somehow managed to be even more fucking retarded than Brand New Day. I hate Joe Quesada so fucking much I've begun crying tears of bubbling pitch every time I think about that motherfucker. That said, Grim Hunt was actually pretty fun.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #817 on: July 25, 2010, 12:26:04 AM »

And as has been pointed out elsewhere, OMIT was just completely fucking unnecessary.  They needed to give an explanation of why the wedding was called off?  Really?  The wedding that almost got called off like 7 different times in the course of the original story?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #818 on: July 25, 2010, 08:32:11 AM »

Quesada really feels he can make this a good story.

Also, he needs to explain how Gwen is coming back.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #819 on: July 25, 2010, 08:49:46 AM »

CLONE SAGA.
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