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Deathstroke was really boring. The rest all told me things. I need to fly back to FP/a comic shop and buy Suicide Squad. I think Suicide Squad is what you hope Deathstroke will be, Daft.
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Oh.
Here's a bleh drawing of Black Lightning I did for another forum game (draw the superhero you're assigned). It HAD to be coloured and since I can't colour in anything other than proper paint, it looks like shite. Used 'watercolour pencils' (fuck them) so it's kinda all over the place.
Plus I hate his square jaw/big head and his pose is off, but I'm over it. It was trying to be stylised (I'm trying to find my style, but this isn't it).
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I watched the extended director's cut of Daredevil late last year/earlier this year. I didn't notice a significant difference BUT then I didn't hate the original film. It wasn't offensively bad, just blahmediocrenothing. Better than Elektra...
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Resurrection Man was brilliant! READ IT./ not brilliant. but really good, and I'm so ready for the next issue.
As was Batwoman. The most beautiful comic art I've ever seen? Possibly.
Deathstroke was nothing. It just has nothing interesting to say. Sure it's a first issue, but blah. Not bad or good.
Demon Knights is potentially interesting, with the cast of characters. Hey Ystina! Hey Madame Xanadu.
I read the first page of Superboy and really couldn't be arsed.
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RE: Waller, they obviously wanted a Waller that reflected the one shown in Green Lantern, only younger and sexier.
God you guys are boring these last two days. Where's the nu52 chat?
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I love how RPG'ish this is. Come on everyone's choice weapon. I love them all. You can tell the most effective part combo (of 4) would be Iron Man, Red She-Hulk, Dr. Strange and Spidey.
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Read so far + thoughts:
Batman & Robin 1
Yeah, glad I didn't buy this. Nothing wrong with it, just not particularly interesting. As you said, Happenstance, I'm kinda over the 'taming' Damian by now. Even though he and his dad haven't worked together much officially...Damian was past that while with Dick (I felt). Story wasn't very interesting.
Red Lanterns
Fine/nothing. I have no attachment to the GL universe and this won't convert. Probs won't read the others until I hear stunning things.
Suicide Squad
I liked this! I kinda wish I'd bought it today. Really surprised, it has bad press already and people were complaining about the redesigns, losing Secret Six etc...but it was fun/entertaining. I might even buy it still. Yeah, my fave of the three. I'm on the fence about Harley's redesign (it looks deviantart-esque). I love her and King Shark's presence though.
Will wait for reviews of Demon Knights...I might buy that too.
EDIT: Where do you guys get your comics online? (As in buy, to be sent to you)
Disposable Heroes, while cheap, has epicly long delivery BUT now seems to be selling out of stuff, or just it isn't listed anymore. And eBay usually has lots of 'preorder' issue stuff but I can't find ANY for Wonder Woman and some others...and a copy of Suicide Squad issue 1 is going for £12..?? WTF.
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Yeaaaaaaaah vote:Heroicjanitor
I feel I've no purpose in this game right now. Other than to turn up and vote e'er so oft.
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I bought Batwoman and Resurrection Man in town today. Had various others in my hand too, but just didn't feel like I truly wanted to pay for them. Suicide Squad I've heard is pretty rubbish but liked the idea of Harley Quinn, Red Lanterns I have little interest in but Milligan is a good writer, Batman and Robin has Damian...nyeeeeah. Glad with my choices. Haven't read 'em yet though.
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Why not make her from a place that you know more about, so more stunning detail can be added?
She hates/hated it there and spent as much time as she could in Edinburgh.
"God, I'm talking in clichés! That proves we're not characters in a story -- no one would write such terrible dialogue."
Animal Man was clearly ghost-written by R.L.Stun.
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I'm such a Delta fan.
Out of the Blue is perfection for me. Love that song. Really like a lot of her stuff.
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Lol no, by using present tense, I mean I'm still doing shitty sketches of costume ideas. The focus/heroine is called Triumphtina (not sure what her powers are yet, other than generally being super), though..it might not be 'about' her, more about her impact. It's light-hearted/serious at the same time, but quirky and not giving a shit in an underground comics way.
The opening page is a newspaper article/news reporter/someone saying/reporting "The Superman exists and he's a woman!" - playing on the "....and he's American!" quote from Watchmen. Plus we all love playing with genders ideas/it might set the tone.
It's just a big joke. With some quite gruesome bits I've planned that'll make you cross your legs in horror.
Triumphtina herself is Scottish. From the small town of Anstruther. Also home to the (voted) Best Fish & Chip Shop in the Uk. Her shorts bear the saltire.
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I'm writing/drawing a comic (I decided this a long time ago). Everytime I draw these days I hate, except with I'm doodling without pretension/intention and take ages over it. So my style will just be that.
I invented a stable of my own characters with Chair, but am choosing just one of them as the focus, strangely the only one I hadn't defined, power-wise, or given a personality.
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Batwoman WILL be stunning, even if just to look at.
I have my eye on Resurrection Man for that reason you mentioned Daft. I knew of him before nuDc, but no idea his powers/story. Whereas Swamp Thing is quite famously amazing (from when Alan Moore wrote him onwards anyway) and Animal Man too.
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So I've been in a massive Wonder Woman mood, and have been reading what many deem her essential stories.
So I read the first 10 issues of George Perez's Wonder Woman post-crisis reboot (her origin basically) from the late 80's. That was good. Less painfully dated than I expected. A solid origin story, and I LOVED that she couldn't speak english, instead speaking in a Ancient Greek/Greek hybrid. It made me look up how that might sound, so I could properly imagine her voice.
Then I skipped right to Phil Jimenez's early 2000's run as artist and writer as I knew bits he introduced from reading the Ultimate WW Guide I had when I was younger, and I heard it was a definitive run. That was good too, though I skimmed a few issues about dinosaurs, to get to the good bits with cool baddies.
silly bitch
Just finished Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (my favourite new word), a one-off, fairly short graphic novel by Greg Rucka. It's excellent, and succinct. Whiel J.G Jones' art was good on Final Crisis, here I would've preferred a more stunning artist. It's fine though. But considering J.G Jones is a stunning painter (my av and sig), he should've painted it all rather than drawn.
Gonna read Justice League: A League Of One next, but I might buy that.
There's something about Wonder Woman...people (the average comic reader, and by that I'm talking about e'erone in this thread) don't give her a chance really. And she is notoriously hard to write. Hmm. I'm gonna give Rucka's full run a go next.
I need to channel my feelings into something creative.
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So tomorrow is the next batch of nuDC titles. What'll people be picking up/reading from this lot?
Batman & Robin 1
Batwoman 1
Deathstroke 1
Demon Knights 1
Frankenstein: Agent of Shade 1
Green Lantern 1
Grifter 1
Legion Lost 1
Mister Terrific 1
Red Lanterns 1
Resurrection Man 1
Suicide Squad 1
Superboy 1
Only certain buy is Batwoman. I'm interested in Batman and Robin, Demon Knights, Ressurection Man and Suicide Squad too. (Though appaz Squad is crap)
I'll try out GL though I still give so little of a shit.
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Yay! Now read the original run by Morrison k.
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You bastard / thanks.
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A good review even though I don't read an DC comics. I'm glad the article wasn't overexploited with "Cunt" everywhere.
I do need to write a review in Paj! mode. I just wrote a Batgirl one in 'professional' mode...time for a Paj mode one I think. But that's hard to review a single issue in...
I think I'll review an entire characters comics history in Paj! mode. I'll review Batman's 70+ year history. Yes.
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I do think there was a strange lack of anything actually happening this season. Sookie was crap, all she did this season was get fucked. After finally going to Fairyland and meeting other fairies, she uses her powers like...slightly more than usual this season. I think more could've/should've been done with Marnie et all, felt like they were in the shop for ages.
I don't think the writers knew how to balance so many characters and plots at once.
I enjoyed it though. If it were badly written, it would affect my enjoyment, and it isn't, so it's fine.
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But...this logic is dependant on their being an INTENTION for a final chapter to be how it turns out. There was clearly never meant to be a Terminator 3 after T2. If in T3, they made some bullshit retcon up like...Sarah Connor was terminator the whole time (or something), but it was obviously made up after the fact and doesn't make any sense in the context of the original films with her in, why would you pay attention to it/let it ruin the films? It makes no sense.
When a retcon along those lines (or less ridiculous) is introduced which then is carried on as canon in later installments of whatever metaphorical story we're talking about, then I suppose you have more cause for complaint, BUT it still wouldn't change the fact that the originals weren't created with that in mind, so it's fine.
I'm a comics fan - I have to deal with, and accept or reject alterations/additions/subtractions to a fictional, never-ending, always transforming 'canon' every month of my life for the last...13 years. You learn to realise what was tacked on later, and what was part of a greater vision.
I fail to see why others let shitty things that weren't part of the original's plan taint earlier greatness.
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VOTE: AQU1LA
I'm for actually lynching in mafia games.
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To Paj and Moogle, does your logic extend to social situations or just movies?
I'm just wondering what you would say to someone who had an accident on, let's say a plane, and as a result had their experience of air travel tainted - would you just say to them "Forget about it" and push them onto the nearest choppa?
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Yeah but it'd be far worse is Terminator 2/Alien3 ended with a cliffhanger/intention to be continued in another film, and then the next film was atrocious. As it was, both films concluded conclusively. Anything after that, and it's quality, should have no bearing on the films previous. It's not like the final chapter being crap. Both T3 and A:R were tacked on. They mean nothing to their respective previous films, really.
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P.S Dan I'm writing a Batgirl review. I dunno if it's any good but I'm writing it and I'll go over it when I'm done.
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COME ON STUPID CUNTS
absolüt transicon
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So having read Action Comics I really don't get why people (well Dan and Daft, haven't seen if anyone else hated it) are so up in arms about 'rats' and 'I'm your worst nightmare'.
I mean, he's starting out, completely unsure how to act, and presumably having no precedent (if in this universe there aren't (m)any Superhumans before Supes) for how to be a superhero. It sounds like someone trying to be overconfident and 'heroic', like something you'd see in a classic movie, or an old comic. Additionally, it reminds us that he's this young guy from the backend of nowhere who has been raised very simply...that's what his use of 'rats' reminded me of.
I don't really understand how else it could be taken. Seemed obvious to me. It didn't take me out the comic either.
I'm over the art. It was better than generic, and it was handled fine, but I just kept thinking how gorgeous it would've been with like...anyone else on it. Mainly Frank Quitely. *sigh*
But yeah, it was fine. I like how Superman feels so far. Not amazing at life, just really great/strong/fast. I want to be his Landlady's friend.
Also, some people are saying the '3' friends who visited are meant to be the 3 from Stormwatch, but if they were, it's an editorial mishap as this takes place five years ago and Supes is in his normal costume in Stormwatch.
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I really enjoyed Batgirl. Felt so solid, and the character came off the pages, and felt realistic (her reactions to things). I'm potentially stunned by The Mirror. I need to wait and see how he/it develops through the arc though. I hope/like to believe Simone was influenced/turned to Maya Deren's films for inspiration.she clearly didn't. I would've. Anyway, yeah, really liked it.
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Animal Man is my favourite thing so far. YESSS. So glad. The art was bloody fantastic...I wish more comics were ALLOWED to have this calibre of artist on board. Ugh. I saw some oaf on CBR boards compare it to a 3-year old's scribble. SRSLY. The art was stunning. Loved the writing, loved the opening..yes. I'm sore beween my legs in anticipation.
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I think it won an Eisner award (the only real comic awards).
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Just starting Grant Morrison's Animal Man. It's shaping up to be good, despite the first bit feeling slightly dated.
It'll blow your face off with it's restraint.
It's actually brilliant.
The whole thing is that he's really normal/this was a character no one had an opinion on before. / Morrison had never done 'his view on a DC hero' before now. So it's all gradual and stuff. Issue 5 is where you realise. You realise what is to come.
And everything you see has bearing later on.
Comic Book Discussion Issue #2
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No. The only reference to anything DC-wise was to Clayface. (briefly)
And he's still called Slade/looks the same.
Didn't even mention the Titans. So not sure if this is a hard reboot or not. (Won't really know until Teen Titans comes out...thought Bette Kane mentioned being a member in the past in Batwoman 1)