BAMF! SNIKT! GLORF! The Comics Thread. - The Bear and Badger

tigersgogrrr

Oof, anyone else caught the whirlwind surrounding Alyssa Wong?

Long story short- Awesome writer announces she is now working with Marvel. Tweets are dug up by individuals supposedly showing that she slammed Stan Lee in the past. She says these are fake. Comicnerds go into meltdown and start slaughtering her.

Absolute jokers.

Diluted Dante

I mean, even if she did, who cares?

tigersgogrrr

Lots of people, Dante.

Lots of people.

Tempy

People is stretching it.

hylian_elf

BUMP!
POW!
BLAM!

For Face.

Facewon

You're a gent, elf. Thanks.

Picked up black science v1 and kill or be killed v1 today, because I stumbled on a great comic shop. Been a while. Both from Image.

Gremill

I've got Black Science v1&2 - both are excellently weird.

Tempy

Hearing good things about Hickman’s current X-Men run

EvilRedEye

I've been sent an exclusive invite to buy a Folio Society edition of five old Marvel comics for £150.

cindemon

Tempy wrote:

Hearing good things about Hickman’s current X-Men run

Aye me to. Tempted(really tempted as I'm a mutant fan more than anything) but the last time I bit into comics was the Geoff Jones run on Green Lantern & that cost me a fair bit novel wise.

For the mo, it's just Walking Dead hards & Saga softs with the odd manga every now & then.

Time_on_my_hands

Anyone read Ennis' "The boys"? Apparently the TV adaptation is great but I haven't had time to watch it.

Preordered the next volume of Papergirls by Brian Vaughan - lovely art that really complements the batshit story. Also preordered the final LoEG (I've been so out of the comics news loop that I hadn't realised that Moore was even writing another).

Brooks

The comic is edgelordy shit, Ennis has done better before and since. What I've seen of the show isn't great but it's better than the source.

Time_on_my_hands

Cheers. might save my money. I always liked Marshal Law for the anti-superhero stuff.

Diluted Dante

Time_on_my_hands wrote:

Anyone read Ennis' "The boys"? Apparently the TV adaptation is great but I haven't had time to watch it.

Preordered the next volume of Papergirls by Brian Vaughan - lovely art that really complements the batshit story. Also preordered the final LoEG (I've been so out of the comics news loop that I hadn't realised that Moore was even writing another).

I read the first 3 volumes I think. Its pretty good. The show veers off a bit from the comics apparantly.

Facewon

Facewon wrote:

You're a gent, elf. Thanks.

Picked up black science v1 and kill or be killed v1 today, because I stumbled on a great comic shop. Been a while. Both from Image.

Gremill wrote:

I've got Black Science v1&2 - both are excellently weird.

Amen to that. Started black science v1 yesterday. Fucking awesome.

Will be straight into the shops today for v2. (and hoping there's a v3+.

Kill or be killed less so. Nearly gave up midway through vol1.

Comics don't always do subversive so well, IMO. I'll grant I'm not well read on all of the cannon, if you will, but sometimes, in comics, satire if a dumb trope is.... Just the dumb trope.

Anyhoo, it got a little more interesting, and I have just enough interest in the mysteries that I'll try next volume.

Frosty

Just noticed that the copy of Immortal Hulk Vol 1 I picked up today seems to have been signed by Al Ewing on the first page. Weird.

Think this tweet potentially confirms its his signature. The third photo is signed.
https://twitter.com/ForbiddenPlanet/status/819867849455968257?s=19

Facewon

Captain Britain? Woah.

Bought v2 of black science.

Also nabbed another by same writer with different artist.

Looks equally awesome weird space opera.

Blue Swirl

Frosty wrote:

Just noticed that the copy of Immortal Hulk Vol 1 I picked up today seems to have been signed by Al Ewing on the first page.

I have a copy of Out of the Pit that I found in a carboot sale that appears to be signed. I think it cost be a quid. Dunno if the signature is real or not, but I'd be willing to pay that for just the book, tbh. Nice find, Frosty.

Facewon

So so hooked on 2 Rick Remender series now.

Back science vol 2 was as good as 1. I'm in for the long hawl.

Started 7 to Eternity today.

Halfway through vol1 and it's equally great.

He's clearly got a thing for stories about relationships between fathers and families vs callings. It's no bad thing.

Unless they both fall right off I'm in for a treat.

Blue Swirl

Oh, my brother lent me the first volume of Huck. It's rather good, bar a couple of minor plot holes.

Dinostar77

Anyone been reading the DC comics black label stuff? I'm gonna ask the missus for the White Knight comic as a birthday present. There seems to be a few different character focused black label comics.

Blue Swirl

Black label? Is this the name of the latest reboot (New 52, Rebirth) or a sub-brand?

Dinostar77

A sub brand I believe.

"DC Black Label is a DC Comics imprint established in 2018 that specialises in providing unique, edgy, and provocative standalone stories based on DC Universe characters, in the tradition of defining works such as Batman: The Killing Joke, Watchmen, and DC: The New Frontier.[1] It was intended to allow writers and artists the opportunity to tell their definitive DC stories without being constrained by continuity or age ratings. The imprint publishes prestige original limited series, both canon or otherwise,[2] as well as reprints of critically acclaimed and standalone graphic novels.[3]"

Original titles
Batman: Damned
Batman: Last Knight on Earth
Superman: Year One
Batman: Curse of the White Knight
Harleen
Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity
The Last God
Joker: Killer Smile
The Question: The Death of Vic Sage
The Other History of the DC Universe
Batman: Three Jokers

Reprints
Batman: White Knight
All-Star Superman
DC: The New Frontier
Kingdom Come
Watchmen
Ronin
Batman: Year One
All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Dark Knight III: The Master Race
Luthor 10th Anniversary Edition
The Joker 10th Anniversary Edition, and The Joker by Brian Azzarello: The Deluxe Edition
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: Year 100
Superman: Red Son
Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: Dark Victory
Black Orchid
Batman: Haunted Knight
Catwoman: When in Rome

cockbeard

The end of Wicked and Divine. A comic I've really really enjoyed but am way behind on, I'm rubbish at episodic stuff so buy/steal the trade paperbacks/binarybacks when they come out which is less easy to remember. But I can't wait to sit down and catch up from start to end again. Intervioew here with McKelvie and Gillen, only partway through so hopefully it isn;t banal

https://www.newsarama.com/46971-the-wicked-+-the-divine-45-jamie-mckelvie-kieron-gillen.html

Tempy

I have every issue of W&D in floppy form, but I haven’t even made a dent in the Imperial Phase stuff

Dinostar77

Happen to be in forbidden planet in soho earlier today. Only had 30min spare so wasn't there long. You could honestly spend hours in that store. So much stuff.

Facewon

Man, forgot it existed. Spent a good while in there on first trip to London. Amazing.

Tempy

Gosh! Comics is a billion times better in London, FP is just a generic geek chain these days.

Best story about them was when the indie comic shop in Notts, Page 45, opened up next to them and after a few years FP moved. David vs Goliath.

Roujin

PAGE 45 THE DONS.

Facewon

I need to revisit minatour, which is near work. I keep lamenting the lack of a specialist sci/fi fantasy books store in Melbourne, but I actually think they do a big range.

The lack of Ursula Le Guin in most places does my head in.

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