Last Comic Book You Read 1-10

[spacehamster]

Sex #4-10 - 7/10

I'm not sure why I'm reading this. It's not the porn parts. I dunno.

[The Real MPD]

Amazing Spider-Man #39-150 - 9
Adventure Time #1-29 - 7

[The Real MPD]

uuuhhh...

ill still watch the fuck out of the pilot.

[riley-o]

Conan (Dark Horse 2004-2008) #1-50 - 8.5/10

[The Real MPD]

The Sub-Mariner vol. 1 #1-72 - 7

[The Real MPD]

Grant Morrison's run on The X-Men - 9.5
The X-Files Seasons 10 and 11 - 9

Outcast #1-6 - 7
Lazarus #21 - 8
Silver Surfer #15 - 8
East of West #22-24 - 7.5
Sex Criminals #14 - 7.5
Saga #31-35 - 8.5
Savage Dragon #204-212 - 7
The Walking Dead #147-153 - 8.5
Silver Surfer (2016) #1-3 - 8
Injection #1-5 - 6
Low #1-6 - 6.5
The Fade Out #1-4 - 7
The X-Files (2016) - 8

[The Real MPD]

Fall Guy For Murder and Other Stories by Johnny Craig - 9

[The Bill]

So, all these #52 issues of DC comics are the end for the New 52, but are they rebooting again? Are they reverting back to the original? Are they starting mostly fresh again, so now Aquaman can be transgender, and Flash can be a latino woman? I did very much like the Batman comic (as long as it stared Batman, and not MechaRabbit) and Harley Quinn was light hearted sometimes, but I never touched most DC stuff (Animal Man and Swamp Thing started pretty good, actually). Whatever they do, I wonder if it will be worse than Marvel, because they will need to work their asses off to be worse than the present product.

[Honky Kong 64]

The editing job they did for Akira to the big screen is unbelievably good. I forgot how much the manga drags.

[Eight Bit Alien]

So, all these #52 issues of DC comics are the end for the New 52, but are they rebooting again? Are they reverting back to the original? Are they starting mostly fresh again, so now Aquaman can be transgender, and Flash can be a latino woman? I did very much like the Batman comic (as long as it stared Batman, and not MechaRabbit) and Harley Quinn was light hearted sometimes, but I never touched most DC stuff (Animal Man and Swamp Thing started pretty good, actually). Whatever they do, I wonder if it will be worse than Marvel, because they will need to work their asses off to be worse than the present product.

I think they're actually working towards a dismount on all that stuff. The "DC You" initiative was the mega-inclusive thing... the Rebirth titles look like a huge return to norm for the most part. Maybe just a balance between the two extremes.

I think the idea is just that the New 52 universe is getting a huge injection of the 1985-2010 continuity.

What's weird about it to me is the writers that they have lined up for everything... almost none of the big names. They're all randos to my eyes, and the ones who aren't are like... guys from the late 80s and 90s?? Weird as fuck.

Honestly I'm just psyched to move forward from the new 52 era. There were some great books but the shit they had going on with the justice league, teen titans, jsa, superman... not fun.

Not being able to use legacy elements is like antithetical to DC, misses the point of what makes all of it so fun and weird.

[Eight Bit Alien]

The editing job they did for Akira to the big screen is unbelievably good. I forgot how much the manga drags.

Are you reading the Marvel colorized thing?

[Honky Kong 64]

The editing job they did for Akira to the big screen is unbelievably good. I forgot how much the manga drags.

Are you reading the Marvel colorized thing?

Yeah

[Honky Kong 64]

Chiyoko and Birdman btw.

[The Real MPD]

Amalgam Comics - 5

[Eight Bit Alien]

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is back, bought/read issue 5 yesterday. Very into this weird little thing for some reason - it got off to a great start, glad it didn't get shitcanned. I think I just love real witches? The devil's harlots doing weird shit in the woods, not stupid wicca good people. Comics set in midcentury America are always so much fun.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vols 1-2 were great, as well. My first attempt at reading this years ago ended pretty quickly, for some reason I thought I wouldn't be able to understand all the weird literary references. Picked it up recently and blew through it with great joy, turns out all I had to do was wikipedia Alan Quatermainnnnn

Civil War II FCBD one-shot was kinda dumb. I know it's just a commercial but blegh nowadays Marvel... looks so pretty, offers so little of interest for me.

Apparently Civil War 2 is about determinism vs free will? What the fuck is this? Some neckbeard is going to make some sorta minority report joke because of tumblr-reactive marvel inclusionism...

[The Real MPD]

Aztek the Ultimate Man #1-10 - 6.5

[Foot Foot]

Fucking DC

http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... sover-2016

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

As Wally and Barry's conversation continues, the scene shifts to Batman in the Batcave, glancing at the letter from his father that Barry gave to him at the end of "Flashpoint" (in "Flashpoint," Thomas Wayne became Batman, with Bruce dying in Crime Alley). Batman's attention is then drawn to something shiny in the walls of the Batcave, and he chips away to find -- insert dramatic pause --





the Comedian's blood-stained badge, the most iconic image from "Watchmen" and something that doesn't seem to make any sense at this point to be hanging out in the Batcave. Wally's dialogue on that page puts a finer point on it: "We're being watched."

And that's not it: A four-page epilogue also by Johns and Gary Frank shifts the narrative from Earth to Mars, where Wally West's missing watch -- seen on the first page of the issue -- is telekinetically disassembled and reassembled by an unseen presence; depicted in a nine-panel grid reminiscent of Gibbons' "Watchmen" storytelling. The narration is dialogue direct from the end of "Watchmen," with Ozymandias asking Doctor Manhattan, "I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end." Doctor Manhattan answers, "In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."

So, yes: Somehow, Doctor Manhattan -- the only superpowered character in "Watchmen," who possesses seemingly limitless godlike abilities -- is responsible for the creation of the New 52, and for changing DC Universe history as fans knew it. The two pages following the epilogue are issue credits in the distinct black-and-yellow palette of "Watchmen," along with a watch face -- indicating 15 minutes to midnight -- adorned with the iconic blood splatter from Comedian's badge, accompanied by the text, "the clock is ticking across the DC Universe."

Like much of "Rebirth," the use of Doctor Manhattan feels like meta-commentary on the direction of DC Comics. A commentary by Devin Faraci on Birth Movies Death argues that the use of Doctor Manhattan is drawing a straight, metaphorical line between "Watchmen" and some of the drearier comics of the New 52, as the more realistic and adult tone of Moore and Gibbons' deconstructionist work has led to conventional superheroes being affected in a negative way by similar approaches. Doctor Manhattan literally made a fictional superhero universe a darker place, much like "Watchmen" did to real-life comic book series.

[The Real MPD]

Optic Nerve #1-13 - 8.5
The X-Files (2016) #2 - 8

[The Bill]

What's this here:

http://time.com/4347224/captain-america ... -brevoort/



The fuck?!

[Honky Kong 64]

Stray Bullets is some grim shit.

[Eight Bit Alien]

Fucking DC

People are goin bananas over this. The Rebirth special single issue was really fucking good, for what it's worth. Never been the most loyal Flash reader but seeing Barry and Wally do their thing was great, the Johns definitely tickled my heart for a minute there.

It's pretty artfully done as well - the page layouts for some scenes correlate directly to similar moments in Watchmen, not just in the one-shot but in some leadup moments in other comics, as well. The looming force that Wally blames for having distorted DC cosmology is presumably Dr. M - with some neat subtext musing about the lasting effect Watchmen had on the tone of superhero comics as a whole.

Basically the promise laid out is that DC is going to be getting it's legacy back, with the older century-spanning families being restored - and that there will be a tonal push-back against the edgy post-silver age gritty realism, both of these things being a fight against Dr. Manhattan.

Touching Watchmen is obviously breaking a taboo and I seriously doubt it could ever be done tastefully, but at least in this initial outing it's been pretty fucking great.

This is also allegedly going to be the last comic book work Geoff Johns does for about five years, since he's being shuttled off to Hollywood to try to corral Snyder.

[Foot Foot]

yeah but Alex Ross and Mark Waid already did the whole "Silver Age > Bronze Age" deal w/ Kingdom Come in '96. it's twenty years later (thirty since Watchmen/Dark Knight Returns) and they're going back to that well? i'd also argue that Crisis on Infinite Earths had a more negative impact on their superhero comics than Watchmen, but i get using those characters and that iconography from a marketing perspective. i just think it's shallow and dumb writing (and i've enjoyed a lot of Johns' work).

[KITCHENS]

Stray Bullets is some grim shit.

Yes, it's the fucking best.

[Eight Bit Alien]

yeah but Alex Ross and Mark Waid already did the whole "Silver Age > Bronze Age" deal w/ Kingdom Come in '96. it's twenty years later (thirty since Watchmen/Dark Knight Returns) and they're going back to that well? i'd also argue that Crisis on Infinite Earths had a more negative impact on their superhero comics than Watchmen, but i get using those characters and that iconography from a marketing perspective. i just think it's shallow and dumb writing (and i've enjoyed a lot of Johns' work).

Heheheh did you catch Morrison's 'Pax Americana' issue of Multiversity??

[Honky Kong 64]

Heheheh did you catch Morrison's 'Pax Americana' issue of Multiversity??