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[TageRyche]

do you ever read the Superhero titles that aren't DC or Marvel??
i remember Spawn and Invincible being pretty good
and i remember having some IRL friends that loved Witch Blade

I don't read any of those titles either.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

I don't read any of those titles either.

i guess i wasn't really clear
what i meant was that i remember (a while ago) people saying that the Superhero titles if Image and Top Cow were way-the-fuck-better than the horribleness of the crappy things that Marvel and DC were doing with their fucked-up story-lines

https://screenrant.com/weirdest-superhero-stories-ever-trivia/

https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hated-marvel-storylines/tyler-mitchell

https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hated-dc-storylines/brent-sprecher

 

[TageRyche]

i guess i wasn't really clear
what i meant was that i remember (a while ago) people saying that the Superhero titles if Image and Top Cow were way-the-fuck-better than the horribleness of the crappy things that Marvel and DC were doing with their fucked-up story-lines

https://screenrant.com/weirdest-superhero-stories-ever-trivia/

https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hated-marvel-storylines/tyler-mitchell

https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hated-dc-storylines/brent-sprecher

Honestly, every company has their share of horrifically bad superhero stuff. It's just Marvel and DC that raise that badness to galactic levels of awful.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Marvel and DC that raise that badness to galactic levels of awful.

which has gotten worse now that Marvel and DC are now focused on making movies instead of being more focused on trying to make good comics, it's pretty sad really

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@TageRyche

here's a "unified theory" explaining Spider-man's power-set

if spider-man (1) has "organic webbing" (2) as opposed to "mechanical webshooters" (3) and if this organic webbing is designed for "brachiating" (4) as opposed to being designed as "weapons", then spider-man's other powers (5) as they exist in "Earth 616" (6) would be neccassarry for "webslinging" without killing himself

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man

2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man's_powers_and_equipment#Biological_webbing

3)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man's_powers_and_equipment#Artificial_Web-shooters

4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiating

5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man's_powers_and_equipment#Original_abilities

6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-616

there's actually a pretty huge "hole" in this theory
let's see who can figure it out the quickest

 

[Burkhard]

Source. (There are another two parts of this "story arc" as well as a selection of other free stories.)

 

[Einherjar86]

Reza Negarestani’s Chronosis was some wild shit. Not an amazing work by any means (way too thin narratively, and seems to think it’s more substantial than it actually is), but an enjoyable bit of speculative psychedelia. Recommended for hardcore fans of the form, but definitely not everyone’s cuppa tea. I’d describe it as a philosophically dense, convoluted mind-melt about the coming-to-being of time (time imagined as a sentient thing). It’s weird, fun, and makes no sense, haha.

Also, it reads as though narrated by Cormac McCarthy’s Judge Holden.

(The actual graphics are in color, images available online seem to be B&W only)

 

[AbelTim]

I have been informed that there is an insane villain in The Punisher universe called Barracuda. Is there a book collection for all his stories?

 

[TageRyche]

Did anyone take part in Free Comic Book Day festivities last weekend?

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@TageRyche
The limited series "Rising Stars" written by J M S was actually pretty awesome

 

[TageRyche]

@TageRyche
The limited series "Rising Stars" written by J M S was actually pretty awesome

Yep, I loved it. I've met JMS and even got a hell of a compliment from him in the letters page of another comic series he wrote called Sidekick.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Yep, I loved it. I've met JMS and even got a hell of a compliment from him in the letters page of another comic series he wrote called Sidekick.

J M S is actually a good superhero writer

Everyone élse just sucks at writing superheroes

When people refer to Chris Claremont as the greatest writer of superhero comics, it's always people referring to Claremont's run on the X-men comic (frequently by people who have actually forgotten that Claremont has written non-x-men superhero comics) but as good as Claremont's writing actually was in the X-men comic, a huge amount of what made Claremont's run seem so completely totally awesome was the fact that everyone else totally sucked at writing X-men comics (cyclops' family tree, Jean grey's clone, Jean grey coming back from the dead more times than anyone else in superhero comics, the x-men doing cross-overs with non-mutant super-powered people)

also
The reason I loved the watchmen movie so fucking much was because of all the differences between the movie and the comic
What I saw here was
Alan Moore made mistakes and Zack Snyder fixed them
(Example, in the comic it appears as if Dan has his dick inside Laurie at the moment Rorschach dies, which was already freaking me the fuck out way the fuck before anyone at all ever said the phrase "watchmen movie", but then in the movie, Dan actually watches Rorschach die and his response to it was beautifully filmed)

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@TageRyche if you want to see just how bad the non-Claremont writers fucked up the x-men comic click here

https://doctordisaster-tumblr-com.c...8429710/cyclops-the-worst-leader-an-interview

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@TageRyche if you want to see just how bad the non-Claremont writers fucked up the x-men comic click here

https://doctordisaster.tumblr.com/post/12328429710/cyclops-the-worst-leader-an-interview

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@TageRyche

i just found this hilarious joke-page
https://absorbascon.blogspot.com/2017/06/100-faces-of-jean-loring.html?m=1
WARNING
this joke-page is based on the idea that you've read DC's Identity Crisis
so if you haven't read Identity Crisis yet, the joke really just won't work

 

[TageRyche]

I just finished the science fiction hardcover graphic novel Sapiens Imperium and I found it to be superb. Not only did it have me hooked from start to finish, it made me eager for the writer and artist to produce another volume in the story as soon as humanly possible. You can check out what I had to say about it via my Goodreads.com review link.

 

[TageRyche]

A couple of friends of mine from my local comic shop went to Fan Expo Boston this weekend. I wasn't able to go but they thought of me and got me a copy of New Mutants #1 and had it signed by show guest (and the book's co-creator/artist) Bob McLeod.

 

[Bloopy]

 

[CiG]

Any fans of TMNT: The Last Ronin? It's finally being adapted as a live-action movie.
Probably my favourite piece of TMNT material ever.



Time for a re-read soon, hopefully the movie is just as violent. It's being adapted by the screenwriter of Boy Kills World, which looks cool based on its trailer:

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Been moving a bunch if shit around and found these OG Terminator books stashed in the corner of one of my closets ...

Plus a few signed books...