My only incentive to read BN: Titans was the Benes art and it was only 3 dollars. Thanks for saving me money with 2 lines of text. I’m in the same ship as missing the first few issues of the BN main line and will wait to get it all in maybe Feb. next year. Cheap ass E-Bay/ Amazon here I come.
How is the JLA Cry for Justice arc coming along? Missed the second issue :shake: and stopped after that. Beautiful art and unique inking. Thought it was supposed to be out of 7, but DC online showed 6?
A look at Manupal’s Flash (Barry). Looks amazing! A little young though.
Batman and Robin is still realy good
BNR 5
[details=Spoiler]So The Hood after all is Jason i was kinda hoping for someone else and not him
airplane scene was twisted[/details]
Theres a new ginger in the DC universe…kinda
interesting.
is this a retcon re: Red Hood’s hair?
its like morrsion fucking w/ continuity- hes blending Jason’s pre-crisis back ground where he dyed his hair and post-crisis Jason
Here’s a question:What was Scarlet’s reason for teaming with Jason & how did that come about?
Anyone else find this second non-Quitely-drawn arc a huge downer when compared to the first?
Is it just the art or is this book like legitimately wack now? Or is this just more of my compulsive need to hate?
Wildstorm is DC, right? No separate thread for that right?
So I was re-reading all of Planetary again in preparation for #27…and I realized that #26 came out in like 2006. That is like a lifetime ago.
This book is so good. I might be just coming off a Planetary high, but I can’t think of too many books I would recommend over Planetary. Especially for new readers or those that aren’t completely into conventional superhero books - even Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns are kind of heavy…like I wouldn’t necessarily recommend those to new readers as the first comic books they read.
But Planetary…that might be the one, up there with the first FAAAABLES!!!11 trade. Amazing fun, probably the best artist in the industry, no need for all those nasty sticky decades of superhero continuity to get in the way…just a really good fucking book.
I can’t think of a title that brought it as hard as Planetary did issue to issue. I’d say most of the greatest single issue, 22-page stories I’ve read are all Planetary issues.
If there’s someone here who hasn’t touched this book yet, I would absolutely recommend you put it on the absolute top of your reading list.
No, its to the point where I DON’T want to read the new Grant Morrison superhero book. Thats something I didn’t see coming.
Thank God Cameron Stewart is on the next arc.
It’s gotta be the weak art coupled with your compulsive need to hate, Clinty. When you look at the list of artists Morrison has lined up - Quitely, Tan, Stewart, Irving - one of those guys clearly is way out of his league… And I hate to say it, but it’s the Asian dude.
Makes me sad. Almost like discovering that, yes, James “Starman” Robinson does indeed have an Asian girlfriend.
It’s still good not fucking great like the first arc but still good, and…
Everything compared to Quitely will be a huge downer
his crazy-ass drawings go hand to hand with morrison crazy-ass writing, can you imagaine All Star Superman without Quitley for example
Atleast i know Stewart will be a huge step up and i think Frank is coming back after him
we can’t really blame Morrison completely.
I think Superboy-Prime’s reality altering continuity punches might be to blame a bit as well.
heh.
anyway, basically what this is then, is a combination of multiple plot points converging, which is basically all anything is anymore, especially when Morrison’s involved.
man, I long for the days when telling a good story was more important than continuity.
Since the Green Lantern thread slipped off into the abyss, I’ll post here.
I just got a chance to read GL #46. Can I just say, “Sinestro, fuck yeah!” Oh man, I have been waiting and waiting for that moment, and it was certainly worth it. It’s about fucking time, sir.
Doug Mahnke should have been the #1 artist for Blackest Night. I like Ivan R-whatshisname a lot, but Mahnke draws creepy like nobody’s business. It’s possible that if Doug Mahnke was trying the Blackest Night issues I wouldn’t be hating on it as much and it might not seem as completely ridiculous and goofy as it does to me right now. God, I love to hate.
Definitely, Quitely and Morrison are a fantastic team now - We3 couldn’t have been done with any other team, and I didn’t like it at first, but New X-Men wouldn’t have worked without Quitely as well now that I look back on it.
That’s part of it, yeah - especially considering how Quitely set the tone for the book right out the gate. Just like with All-Star Superman, they just jumped right into this crazy new All-Star Universe and didn’t even bother trying to coddle readers into it - Superman’s entire origin story was told in three panels. And I loved it for that. Just hit the ground running, the readers will figure it out as they go, which is the thrill of it.
First issue of Batman & Robin, a full splash of the new Batmobile. It flies now. Nightwing is Batman. Robin is the psychotic one. That’s how it is, roll with it, we figure it out as we go. From page #1…“THIS IS THE NEW BATMAN, DEAL WITH IT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!” and left it at that, never looked back.
Until the second storyarc, where they looked back. Maybe it’s my own preconceptions of this book that are ruining things for me, I keep thinking this is like an All-Star Superman version of Batman - and maybe it’s not. Second arc seems really pedestrian to me so far, nothing that interesting in it, especially when compared to the tone they set in the first arc.
Also, this goofiness with Red Hood’s hair and that silly line about the helmet giving him pimples? What the fuck is this, a Bendis book? Where were the parenthesis then?
Or it could just be the art, which is what I’m hoping. I can’t remember ever seeing Phillip Tan’s art, but I don’t really like it very much. …first Asian artist I didn’t like?
Damn, James Robinson. That both surprises me and yet doesn’t surprise me at the same time.
Tan worked on Final Crisis: Revelations which was probaly the best thing in FC and the GL Agent Orange arc
which were both realy good beacuse the art fitted
Like you said beacuse we got the crazy Quitley tone start going to something less crazy and dare i say fun is simply a setback, which is why i think stewart will fit nicely into the book
Johns said on his twitter that during the No comics shipping week (12/30), Blackest Night #6 will ship. Something to look forward to 
looking at solits for upcoming months, I’m digging all of the Superman titles, but there’s just one thing, a problem I’ve had since the beginning of Johns’ run and it’s his fetishism towards Richard Donner and all things Superman movie. I just couldnt give two shits about General Zod, and I really hope New Krypton won’t hinge on him.
I’m still waiting on that JMS Superman book. I think he and his Midnight Nation/Supereme Power buddy Gary Frank should get back together for some All Star Superman 2 or whatever. Plus, Gary Frank’s already settled into drawing Superman. At first, he kinda had a John Bryne thing going on, but four issues in he was like “Fuck it, I’m drawing Superman to look like Christopher Reeves”. Which is awesome, hence why its my avatar.
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