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[Bitching Thread VI] A Brand New Day (for bitching)

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Well, they waiting a long time for the dude to come back and write that. They weren't going to do any standalone type Young Avengers comics without him. And I guess they over did that commitment a bit.

    Yeah. I'd have liked other creators to use them as well. It was bad enough when Bullseye was unused when Kevin Smith had him in the target mini-series he never finished. Thankfully Bendis got the go ahead to have Bullseye in Daredevil years later.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    goddamn forums

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    MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    $8!

    Do not buy that.

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    UltimateInfernoUltimateInferno Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Really you change that into a bitch about pricing period (specially Marvel), I mean I still love them, but $4 for 20 pages is pretty crazy.

    and they're getting silly with their hardcover / trades too. I mean Captain America Vol 3 is going to be $25 for 4 issues...

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    JyrenBJyrenB St. AugustineRegistered User regular
    $8 for an annual? That's...wow. 48 pages seems way too light for that price.

    $5 is something I'm a bit used to, and at least they're generally double sized to almost account for the price, but $8 is nuts.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    welp

    just as I feared

    The MTMTE annual in august costs the same amount and has the same amount of pages

    goddammit

    I want to support both those books and get all the story but for crying out loud

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Man, The Tick #100 was seven bucks, for 24 pages of story.

    I decided to buy a volume of Case Closed ($10, for 176 pages of story) instead.

    I say it all the time, but if it costs so much to print, ship, and stock these things, companies really need to find a way to sell them digitally, at an affordable price.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Damn straight.

    Only reason I'll be buying these annuals is because I have a 20 percent discount at my LCS. Takes a fair amount of the bite out of it.

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    noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Really you change that into a bitch about pricing period (specially Marvel), I mean I still love them, but $4 for 20 pages is pretty crazy.

    and they're getting silly with their hardcover / trades too. I mean Captain America Vol 3 is going to be $25 for 4 issues...

    Not only that, but they don't do the DC way of lowering the price after a month.

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    WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    My Motw WAS gonna be hearing a new Batman cartoon might be in the works,... but then my Bitch is, someone bumped a thread from 2007 , sigh no new Batman.

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    Beware the Batman should be out in several months, though.

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    B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    Munch wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Man, The Tick #100 was seven bucks, for 24 pages of story.

    I decided to buy a volume of Case Closed ($10, for 176 pages of story) instead.

    I say it all the time, but if it costs so much to print, ship, and stock these things, companies really need to find a way to sell them digitally, at an affordable price.

    Man, all these complaints about prices...

    I tried to pick up Adventure Time #5 today, as it was the issue with the Penny-Arcade cover.

    $$THIRTY BUCKS.

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    Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    B:L wrote: »
    Munch wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Man, The Tick #100 was seven bucks, for 24 pages of story.

    I decided to buy a volume of Case Closed ($10, for 176 pages of story) instead.

    I say it all the time, but if it costs so much to print, ship, and stock these things, companies really need to find a way to sell them digitally, at an affordable price.

    Man, all these complaints about prices...

    I tried to pick up Adventure Time #5 today, as it was the issue with the Penny-Arcade cover.

    $$THIRTY BUCKS.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Well I feel better now about my licensed books

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Munch wrote: »
    Crime-fighting vigilante Batman teams up with swordmistress Katana and his gun-toting ex-secret agent[3] butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld led by Anarky, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad, King Kraken, and Magpie

    man, i don't know about this

    the brave and the bold is so amazing, and it is being replaced by this

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    B:L wrote: »
    Munch wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i would like to bitch about the price of annuals
    five bucks for the latest animal man issue

    eight bucks for Robots in Disguise's upcoming 48 page annual, and it's essential.

    Man, The Tick #100 was seven bucks, for 24 pages of story.

    I decided to buy a volume of Case Closed ($10, for 176 pages of story) instead.

    I say it all the time, but if it costs so much to print, ship, and stock these things, companies really need to find a way to sell them digitally, at an affordable price.

    Man, all these complaints about prices...

    I tried to pick up Adventure Time #5 today, as it was the issue with the Penny-Arcade cover.

    $$THIRTY BUCKS.

    Variant covers always cost a ton though

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    sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    Munch wrote: »
    Crime-fighting vigilante Batman teams up with swordmistress Katana and his gun-toting ex-secret agent[3] butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld led by Anarky, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad, King Kraken, and Magpie

    man, i don't know about this

    the brave and the bold is so amazing, and it is being replaced by this

    I was looking for Paul Dini in the credits. He was not there, so I cannot reassure you that "everything will be alright" or anything.

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    KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Paul Dini is in the credits for Ultimate Spider-Man.

    Where's your reassurement now? Where?!

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Paul Dini is in the credits for Ultimate Spider-Man.

    Where's your reassurement now? Where?!

    He won't have Loeb interfering, DC's animation is overseen by Bruce Timm. The premise has potential in the right hands.

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    The villains that they're choosing to emphasize tell me that they aren't doing a rote adaptation of Batman or pandering exclusively to kids.

    That's enough to pique my interest.

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    herojoeherojoe IndianapolisRegistered User regular
    Alfred using guns doesn't sound too kid-friendly either.

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    KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Munch wrote: »

    It is produced by Glen Murakami, so it might be good.
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Paul Dini is in the credits for Ultimate Spider-Man.

    Where's your reassurement now? Where?!

    Clearly, he was sent by DC to sabotage Marvel.

    Oh and I am getting really tired of the short-sightedness of both the DC and Marvel editorial/managerial staff. It's like they don't even see the potential so many of their great characters have.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I just had to share this in here
    While explaining why she doesn’t read comics anymore…
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    sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    This is way late, so I'm sorry, but League of ExtGents: Black Dossier was atrocious. It starts out mildly interesting and degenerates into Alan Moore porn-lit... stuff. I don't even. It was the most heartbreaking thing I've read in a while (back when I read it).

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    cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    Ooo...my bitching senses are tingling....

    A sidekick for Spider-man? Named Alpha? Who has a horrible costume?
    Whatever happened to him mentoring Spider-Girl?

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    VermisVermis Registered User regular
    This is way late, so I'm sorry, but League of ExtGents: Black Dossier was atrocious. It starts out mildly interesting and degenerates into Alan Moore porn-lit... stuff. I don't even. It was the most heartbreaking thing I've read in a while (back when I read it).

    LXG is like the Alien franchise. There are only the first two. Anyone who says different is a liar.
    cshadow42 wrote: »

    And really messed-up legs. I swear Humberto Ramos is the Rob Liefeld of the 21st century.

    Otherwise, looks like a Poochie.
    Andy is confident and unpredictable

    To the extreeeme!

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I'm sorry, but I have to bitch about A.O. Scott again. In a new article, he and another New York Times critic are discussing the rise of superhero films:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/movies/the-amazing-spider-man-and-the-modern-comic-book-movie.html?pagewanted=all
    The four “Superman” movies with Reeve vary in quality, but I still have a soft spot for their blend of sincere romanticism, swashbuckling action and unabashed silliness. The Batman series that began in 1989 and continued (or rather rapidly declined) into the ’90s was campier, kinkier and more self-conscious, but both of those franchises were playful in a way that seems to have gone out of fashion lately. The Joker’s mocking question from “The Dark Knight” — why so serious? — echoes through the past 10 years, when, with a few exceptions, there has been very little that is comic in comic book movies. Instead these movies have mostly been angry, anxious and obsessed with the idea of revenge.

    I have no idea what this lunatic is talking about. What superhero in any film of the last ten years has been obsessed with revenge? Punisher: War Zone, maybe? Maybe that one movie? Besides that, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America I thought were well known for their playfulness with their stories. I have no idea which superhero movies Scott imagines he's seen over the last decade.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Catwoman

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    SkulloSkullo Registered User regular
    Iron Man is all about revenge. Stane took a whole pizza away from Stark.

    That is on par at least with Loki's villainy. Maybe more so.

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Vermis wrote: »
    And really messed-up legs. I swear Humberto Ramos is the Rob Liefeld of the 21st century.

    Anyone who hates Ramos' bigfoots, clearly didn't grow up reading Impulse.

    That said, I'm not terribly enthused about the idea of Peter having a sidekick. But, the main Spider-Man title clearly isn't for me, and hasn't been for some time.

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    At least with Slott I feel like he won't be writing Alpha as himself in the comic, ala Robert Kirkman or Marv Wolfman.

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    UltimateInfernoUltimateInferno Registered User regular
    hahaha magician.

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    SightTDWSightTDW Registered User regular
    I am not thrilled with Ramos on ASM, but my beef isn't with him specifically. I just don't think I could look anyone that was involved with the late issues of Runaways in the eye.

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    sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    Why is james stokoe considered a "good" artist? I don't get where being the second coming of Crumb (or someone else if you disagree!) is somehow better than Humberto Ramos and his Uberfeet (this kind fo ties into the above griping about Ramos, and I kind of like his stuff going back to... yes Impulse).

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    sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    Also I sincerely appologize for bringing a semblence of positivity to this thread (defending Ramos a bit).

    It will not happen again.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    stoke puts so much detail and precision into his linework that I can't help but appreciate his stuff

    ramos make loose caricatures in comparison

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    I think Ramos is a fantastic artist. His characters have a ton of personality, and diversity in terms of build and general design. Recently, his Age of Apocalypse covers have been really well done (thanks in no small part to whoever's coloring them), and ditto for his Deadpool Team-Up covers.

    I do think he draws better men than women, and he's fallen into a bit of a rut, but the guy has a certain style and energy to his work, that's always resonated with me.

    It sort of drives me up the wall to hear fans casually say X artist sucks, is shitty, etc.. Something can not be to your tastes, and still possess positive features, or be the product of a lot of skill and practice, which I think should be recognized.

    I grant a special exemption for traced art, though, which I'm happy to heap scorn upon.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    for the record, I like some of Ramos's work depending on the story

    but I think Stokoe is a bit more skilled.

    I'll admit I have a problem mixing my opinions of artists or writers with their abilities.

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