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download?
>_>
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Nope, do KOTOR download.
Morrison's Animal Man is crazy good to liveblog simply because of the high concepts going on.
I bought some stuff.
Flash 2: The art in this is really amazing, and I like what's going on with him speeding his mind up. We get some cool demonstrations of just how fast he is. The main plot didn't get too much advancement here, but is looking to be interesting.
Wonder Woman 1: I can't help but notice that the only New 52 series I've checked out with a female main character is also the only one with a nude scene. Never change, DC. Actually, please do change. Please. Anyway, that aside, it looks interesting, though it didn't really reveal much other than "the Greek gods are fighting." Still, looks interesting enough.
Action Comics 1: Interesting. Not sure if I'm going to actually follow it, since it costs more, but seeing Superman just getting his whole hero thing figured out is pretty neat.
Frankenstein Agent of SHADE 1: Well, this is weird. That's not an insult at all, just...I wouldn't even know where to start talking about it. I like it. Will keep reading.
The New Teen Titans 1: It was on sale, so I figured what the hell. It pretty much does everything a team book first issue should do. Get the team together, establish personalities and character dynamics, imply some long-term threat they'll have to face...the only thing it doesn't really do is establish why they're getting together, beyond "Raven says they'll be needed at some point." But that's probably going to be explained soonish, and I liked it quite a lot overall. I think I'll go ahead and grab the second while the sale's still going.
So I figure I might as well ramble about this here. While I generally agree with Moviebob about comics in a broad sense. But this video made me stop and go "No Bob, that's bullshit". The whole idea that superheroes can't get married because it is inherently selfish is... grah no. Look man, superheroes, be they space aliens or robots or just guys who fly around in metal suits are people. They have human needs, especially the need for loved ones. Expecting them to just completely devote themselves to helping people and never indulge their personal side... leads to really dangerous messes like the Plutonian from Irredeemable or Dr. Manhattan.
And the bit about how it is harmful to their loved ones because they are in danger all the time... well fuck, under that logic policemen and firefighters and military folks shouldn't have families either. It's not like these loved ones don't know what they are getting into when they marry a superhero.
Funnily enough, I thought that was handled tastefully. I mean, people sleep in the nude all the time and we don't really get much fanservice out of it. She's just nude and Chiang draws her like a person not like a fantasy
It was, and I guess that's something, but still.
^^^Yeah the one made my head hurt.
The idea that superheroes shouldn't want anything for themselves is pretty ridiculous. If you want to take care of others you have to take care of yourself.
Honestly, I'd see not acting on a consensual relationship you both wanted as worse than actually trying it.
As for naked Wonder Woman I honestly thought it was perfectly fine and logical. If nudity was like that in more comics I doubt there'd be the complaints about nudity. Hell the first thing she does naked is fucking strangle her intruder. It's not a voyeuristic fantasy.
The New Teen Titans 2: This series is really fast-paced, but not in a bad way. I think it's just the number of panels per page. In one issue, it's covering what would take three or four in some other series I've been reading. Anyway, this issue introduces Deathstroke. He's a much more three-dimensional character than the animated version I'm familiar with, having an actual reason for hating the Titans. And while that plot's going, we get character development, and some backstories are established...a lot of stuff happens, basically. Screw it, I'm buying the next four issues while they're still on sale.
Yeah, I can't argue with that. I just thought I'd mention it because it occurred to me.
I forget, is the New Titans the Marv Wolfman story way back on the eighties or the horrible thing that is being published these days
depends on the reader
but yeah most people seem to agree that strangling = not hot
The eighties one.
Considering that the second issue has Deathstroke, I think it's the original. What with Deathstroke having his own terrible comic which will soon be drawn by Rob Liefeld.
And honestly there's a part of me that has some vindictive joy in that since I have to deal with one guy who insists Deathstroke could take out the Justice League.
Seriously? With backup, he was barely evenly matched with the Titans.
didn't he do it, though? of course it was in the horrible horribleness of identity crisis, but still
The way comics writing works, just because someone does something doesn't always mean they're reasonably able to.
Oh, that is true and I wouldn't hold Identity Crisis as a shining example of how superhero power levels work (Or relationships. Or basic human interactions.) I'm just saying that anyone can easily read that and think that it's a fact that Deathstroke can beat the shit out of the League
It's more that the dude has a raging boner for gritty amoral characters and Deathstroke is (well, was) an actually well-written one. Now he's descended into a parody of himself.
I get into frustrating conversations with him about it, like how he said Raz'z Al Ghul should make Deathstroke his successor instead of Batman and had an argument about how Raz'z wouldn't choose someone so selfish and amoral for the very reasons that led him to choose Batman.
I doubt I will ever love a woman like he loves Deathstroke.
The New Teen Titans 3: A new set of enemies this issue, a group of supervillains who teamed up because...one of them placed an ad in a supervillain newspaper. Seriously? Well, anyway, we also learn Starfire's origin and Raven explains that she got the team together to stop the Justice League from accidentally causing the end of the world. Turns out said supervillain group is being manipulated by their psychic member to kill the Titans so they can't prevent all that. Raven wants the Titans to ignore them and focus on the League, but instead they attack them and get completely demolished. Raven then has to go rescue her team...no, wait, she's just going to go to the League herself. Why didn't she do that in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, I still like the series, but the plot in this issue was kinda all over the place, likely as a consequence of using a relatively small space to introduce/reveal a lot of stuff and tie it all together.
Remember the comic was an era when Luke Cage followed Doctor Doom all the way to Latveria for stiffing him $200.
That...actually sounds kinda awesome.
Malk and INUH, cast yer votes for the comic liveblog.
I vote 52. It's been awhile since I read it but it was pretty great.
^^^Wut.
^^Animal Man.
Also that panel is reason to revive the "Why I love comics thread"
I love comics because a man will fly across the Atlantic ocean in a space car to force a dictator in a metal mask to pay him the money he is owed.
I love comics because Luke Cage, who is pretty much Marvel's Shaft, goes up to Doctor Doom and has the stones to say "Where's my money, honey?" without a hint of fear in his face
ladies and gentlemen. for your consideration. Luke Cage for best person in the Marvel Universe
And then Bendis started writing him all the time. Bluh.
Can't be a good character without a horrible writer to your name.
Bendis just shouldn't write team books. At all. Street level stuff like Spider-man, Daredevil and Moon Knight he can nail. Big stuff or stuff with lots of characters needing to sound different and he totally drops the ball.
...yeah I'm not happy that the man his going to start heading up some X-men books after AvX.