So I guess Paul P0pe got out from under #metoo by virtue of getting #metoo'd before #metoo?
― Nhex, Friday, 5 April 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
do I actually want to know what that’s in reference to, or would it just be more extraneous shit that makes me throw out things I could actually sell?
― mh, Friday, 5 April 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
serial sexual creep allegations back in 2015? 2016?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 5 April 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
He disappeared for a while following harassment allegations (haven't heard of anything he did since the third Battling Boy/West book in 2015), but i notice he's come back doing covers for Brian Azzarello/Maria Llovet's Faithless mini.Not that I'm trying to raise pitchforks, honestly, but i'm surprised nobody noticed this
― Nhex, Friday, 5 April 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
A film adaptation of that graphic novel Sabrina is being developed:https://variety.com/2019/film/news/drew-goddard-sabrina-movie-1203183484/They will probably have to (or will want to) change the title for the movie version...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link
when does Top Notch get a movie though #nichetweet
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link
lol "a grieving man"
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
Die's first arc just completed. I'm definitely into it - the art alone is very nice, and I dig the idea of this RPG/social deconstruction. Warning though: super teen goth angst!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
I like it more than WICDIV, but I'm not so sure about the art! Just a general Vertigo-era fear of painted comics
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
so i may have access to a seedbox that is slowly being populated with complete runs of FF, Hulk, Tales to Astonish, 1940's Cap and more for cbr download or on screen viewingif that's a thing ilxors might be interested in, maybe note here and you could possibly get an ilxmail
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
don't you already have those as part of that mega chrono collection? Or are these better versions.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 19 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
no, i got em already; just found this as a resource to share.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 20 April 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
I thought this was a cool tribute to Carlos Ezquerra by Chris Weston. It's being auctioned off for a Cancer charity. I can name quite a few of the characters, but a bunch I don't know. Bloody Mary is hidden way up in the right top corner. I like how Gronk is right by Carlos.
https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2019/4/23/d/4/d/d4df869f-259c-4b98-b981-1c57375eaac2.jpg
― earlnash, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
so the conan books have been really good! like surprisingly so! There's a cohesive story, a long game, due deference to tradition, and the art does what it's supposed to do.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
You know an old-school Marvel artist like Ron Garney is LOVING being able to do some Conan. If the editor is good, I would not be surprised you see quite a few names drop in doing issues.
Marvel for the first time really does the back matter really great on those Conan omnibuses. You can tell they got Roy Thomas in to work on it to make it a good book. They should be doing that type of context work on all of the old really classic Marvel reprints.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
If you're into it, there's a whole serialized conan short story in text going on in the main book too.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:55 (five years ago) link
Thoughts on Ales Kot?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:08 (five years ago) link
Got into his stuff a couple years back. Ok, loves dropping all of his interests/reading into things, stories are kind of flat. Doesn’t come off as clever as he’s aiming for but a couple books were ok.
― mh, Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
generation gone was readably okay superheroes-in-the-millar-hyperviolent-fashiondays of hate thought it was quite clever but moved into a space where i didn't give a damn very quicklyhis take on bloodborne, quite frankly, doesn't do justice to the video game; this is mostly on point - http://www.tcj.com/reviews/bloodborne-the-death-of-sleep/tried two issues of New World and signed offnot a fan.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
I think of his non-Marvel/DC work I enjoyed Zero the most. I don’t think I’ve read either of the ones forks mentioned
― mh, Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I found Days Of Hate a total slog. New World was a relief by contrast, just through virtue of being more colourful and playful and having a sense of humour. Tradd Moore is a dope artist imo.
I was wincing along to the idea of a rebel in the future listening to RATM and Billy Bragg. Then I saw the "Elena Ferrante will never die" graffiti and started to think "ok, maybe they're being ridiculous on purpose".
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 10 May 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link
Parts of Zero was good, but parts of it was total art school showoff bunk. It didn't jump the shark as much as spend a couple of whole issues showing the jumping of the shark with lots of blood splatter and bullets.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
I read Zero in singles the whole series and I was kinda pissed reading near the second half. They just went nuts and did that fight scene that went across a couple issues and then the plot got even more bonkers. Thing is for how wack it ended, there was some pages and parts of the comic that were really well done.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
I get lured into these Image comics by the first issue being really interesting, then I get behind on my pull list and reading and get the whole series. Once I catch up and read them, I realize that 1/2 of them go totally off the rails and I think "I spent $40 bucks on this turd"... I supposed one more reason to follow series in trade.
The other sadness of following indie comics on a pull list is the one that is amazing that just cold stops and never concludes. Those are worse, as you really do want to read how it turned out.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
earl otm on all points
His Winter Soldier series for Marvel is 90% characters and planets named after musicians and Aphex Twin songs
― mh, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
"Die Die Die" by Kirkman, Chris Burnham and some other guy is another one. First couple of issues were fun but good lord people are just f-ing nuts when it comes to the gore these days. Burnham has done some cool comics but I was pretty honked up after reading the next few after say #3 later on in the comics pile. Parts of it seemed a total nick of The Boys and honestly, I don't know if you really want to go there anyway. I dropped Die Die Die from the pull list afterwards with extreme prejudice.
― earlnash, Saturday, 11 May 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
"Black Science" is another series I read the whole thing and wish I would have bailed way early on. There were some parts that were ok, but pretty much all the characters are totally unlikable. Fear Agent is a good read though. I need to get my set of Black Science together and try to blow it out on ebay. Stuff like this makes me just want to go read old Moon Knight or Swamp Thing.
― earlnash, Saturday, 11 May 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
<i>Heroes in Crisis</i> finally ended; I have to say it didn't wrap up as neatly as I hoped. It was a fun read but didn't quite come together. I also hate mysteries where previously known facts are hand-waved away as imaginary. I really liked individual bits of it (particularly the confessionals).
Doomsday Clock #10 came out and we finally get an answer to what Doctor Manhattan's been up to. I have to admit, as silly as this whole project is on a meta level (Geoff Johns, lol) it's been a pretty entertaining series. This issue in particular was quite good, imo.
― Nhex, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
Is that this?
Here's an honest to god page from DC's big murder mystery event comic. People have been praising the writer as a genius for years. pic.twitter.com/BNOIyvq3LK— Hurb Cherpley Sea-Doo (@hurbcherpley) May 29, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
So that's by Tom King? His Vision run from a couple of years back was awesome, what happened to him?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
He wrote a Mister Miracle 12-issue series that covered a lot of the same ground -- marriage and parenthood, what we'll do to protect them, etc. I liked it more than the Vision series.
― The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
It was just announced yesterday that he's scripting Duvernay's New Gods movie, for whatever that's worth to you.
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Saturday, 1 June 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
King's run on Batman has had dips but has been consistently enjoyable for seventy issues and running.Omega Men and Vision are both excellent; I need to return to Miracle Man.I thought Heroes in Crisis was garbage; highlighted all his writerly weaknesses unnecessarily and made almost no sense.Overall, my sense is that DC is overworking him and his output is watering down but he's proven himself worth following.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
also i swear i've made that post like three times already.
xp pretty much agree with you
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Overall, my sense is that DC is overworking him and his output is watering down but he's proven himself worth following.See also any popular superhero comics writer everI swear at any given time the whole industry is being written by just 5 or 6 ppl
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
well sure! But not all those "doing 42 books at once" guys are at all interesting even when they started; cullen bunn and jeff lemire come to mind immediately in that category.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
"Hey Bill Mantlo, can you get me a script with (insert character) by 2pm tomorrow?"
"No problem."
― earlnash, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
Sounds like a dream job, even in that situation lol
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
I've heard that Joe Gill (who was perhaps only behind Paul S Newman as most prolific American comics writer) was asked to write stories just as he was about to leave and could whip something up in 15 minutes, probably shorter than 22 pages though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
guiltily agree that Doomsday Clock is trash but a fun read
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
feel kinda bad that geoff johns must think it’s his Big Artistic Statement though
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
why would you feel bad, he got paid $$$$ to deconstruct his own mistakes
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
That tweeted page (“Bros before heroes”) is indeed awful... the art sucks too. (Who’s the green, bare-breasted heroine?)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 2 June 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link
Well, she's getting hugged by Harley Quinn, so if she's not Poison Ivy, she should watch out...
Cullen Bunn and Jeff Lemire were already writing The Sixth Gun and Sweet Tooth respectively when they started their big careers - I'd rep for both. My read is that Lemire is interested in doing a bit of everything (I enjoyed Descender), whereas Bunn would rather be making horror.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 June 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
guys, get this: Doomsday Cock. It’s about Dr. Manhattan’s casual nudity
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 03:52 (five years ago) link
i thought this run of TCJ diaries was pretty good; will keep an eye out for Melanie Gillman's work in the future:http://www.tcj.com/author/melanie-gillman/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
http://images.tcj.com/2019/05/WLAR-Day-10-768x1024.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
check out When the Crow Flies if you like this
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 June 2019 06:10 (five years ago) link
Saw the couple pages where Manhattan is explaining how the timeline is shifting and I have to say that is some pretty potent DC nurd catnip. It seems an extension of the old 'hypertime' that Morrison and Mark Waid were putting out there.
I still say Johns it would have been a heck of a lot cooler if the Flash that showed up in Final Crisis and in the New 52 would have been the Barry Allen from old Earth 1. One reporters opinion.
― earlnash, Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link