Demon Knights is moving so slowly that it's getting really hard to keep track of alliances and minor events month to month. I'm excited for this battle to be over and this first arc/trade to be done with so I can drop it and maybe revisit it later on in trade.
Resurrection Man was a good one and done, but also pretty aimless. I like this book, and it's easy enough to follow along with, but I wish more was happening.
I was just thinking yesterday that most of the comics I was pumped about before the relaunch are really petering out. My beautiful OMAC is cancelled, Demon Knights - which I really liked at first, mostly because it was making my mouth water at the potential - is taking its time (and I'm finding it pretty boring in general), not a whole lot happened in Resurrection Man, and so on. I'm even getting disillusioned with Frankenstein!
I don't know if it's because at first these books benefited from the "this is a new thing" excitement, or if they genuinely lost steam (or if I've just become more bitter and joyless over the last half a year), but in any case I suspect I'm going to be pruning my DC buy list a lot very soon.
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
Maybe it's just me being a noob, but the only DC book I've been thinking about dropping - JL Dark - got a pickup already with Lemire writing it soon-ish.
It's sad, because they're not bad books at all, but it's just like... do I really need to be reading this? Do I really want to?
I kind of have the same feeling with Frankenstein. It's kind of weird, because I'd never drop it and when I do finally get around to reading it, it's always great, but it's just... it seems so unnecessary.
Maybe if the universe as a whole was fleshed out more, and I could see what these books were adding to the overall picture, I'd have a reason to stay, like I kind of do with the Teen books (they're not the best books, but the way they're all tightly plotted around eachother draws me to read them to see how one book may affect another).
Either way, I will pull Frank until it's canned, and Res man for the forseeable future unless it falls into endless cross-overs after the Suicide Squad thing or if it focuses more on flashing back to dickbag Mitch. But there's no turning back on Demon Knights now that
Vandal Savage is a bad guy again, and Cornell has left Stormwatch taking Adam-1 with him to remove a lot of the potential for interplay that could've happened with those titles.
Meanwhile, JL Dark and Stormwatch, the other two books I was planning on dropping, got a save via some smart creative team changes.
So, Caitlin from Superboy/Gen-13. And we know Rose Wilson will be there as well. I feel like I should recognize the big dude in the back as well, but I have no idea who the others are.
Then again, Teen Titans is selling really, really well so there's always a chance for surprises.
Teen Titans also has a bunch of fairly big name characters and brand recognition
this has neither of those
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That's...a really bad cover.
I understand they're trying to portray her as some kind of bruiser type character, but that's a horrible contrast when everyone else gets a jumpsuit. Even Red Spiky Guy, who's barechest for some reason, still gets a suit that matches the rest.
But more than that, that's a lousy group shot. I think each character was drawn seperately without any thought to the greater arrangement and then the individual figures were shuffled and rearranged until they seemed to fit. What are they looking at? I guess they're surrounded? Where are Lightning Girl's feet? Is she sitting on Lizard Tail's back?
Again. If the group shot was better-and it easily should've been-we wouldn't even be talking about the cover. But maybe we'd be talking about the comic itself.
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Ravagers looks fucking awful going off that cover, but in sadder news-
Foreman explains why he is leaving Animal Man:
“I just want to chime in briefly, because everyone here has been so supportive of the book and because there’s so much behind the scenes stuff that goes on with these books… I read a lot of comics and I too get confused about whats going on in some books and ultimately feel like we’re getting a raw deal sometimes.
The change on Animal Man boils down to the reason I was on the book to begin with, which was that I needed to take on a job after my mother died (to deal with the financial end of someone being sick for a while and then passing) and Animal Man was the only thing DC was going to let me do. Which in any other time frame would have been perfect.
But really the context of me dealing with the death of my mom and drawing the kind of content in Animal Man just burned me out sooner than I thought.
I had hoped to stay on the book until at least the spring so that the artist I wanted to replace me was free from his commitments, but I would have ultimately just dragged the book down if I did, because it was becoming harder and harder to concentrate on the work.”
Tairu on
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Well, having Fairchild in as little costume as possible or destroying her costume in every fight was a running joke in the Wildstorm-verse for years, so their just maintaining tradition.
I honestly don't know why I am still reading them. Like I said, I guess I'm just kind of hypnotized by the continuity. Red Hood and Superboy range from good to OK, while TT so far has been from awful to OK.
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Legion Lost kind of interested me, then I read JLI #1 and realized I wanted that team book way more.
Red Hood seemed absolutely fucking terrible until the clips of #5 or whatever it was with the memories.
I really liked Lobdell in the 90's, but he's one of those writers whose style never seems to have evolved. I can go back and re-read his stuff from that period fondly, but haven't been able to get into his new DC books at all. Much like Starlin's work from the 70's or Claremont from the 80's.
Following today’s creative-team reshuffling that sees Steve Pugh return to DC Comics’ Animal Man, artist Travel Foreman stopped by the Comic Book Resources forums to explain why he’s leaving the well-received series for Birds of Prey.
“The change on Animal Man boils down to the reason I was on the book to begin with, which was that I needed to take on a job after my mother died (to deal with the financial end of someone being sick for a while and then passing) and Animal Man was the only thing DC was going to let me do. Which in any other time frame would have been perfect,” Foreman wrote. “But really the context of me dealing with the death of my mom and drawing the kind of content in Animal Man just burned me out sooner than I thought.”
Foreman, who before Animal Man was best known for his work on Com.x’s Cla$$war and Marvel’s Immortal Iron Fist, launched the series in September with writer Jeff Lemire as part of DC’s New 52. But with the solicitations for March’s Issue 7 came the news that Pugh would fill in as artist — well ahead of today’s announcement. Pugh continues his fill-in with Issue 8 before becoming the regular artist the following month.
“I had hoped to stay on the book until at least the spring so that the artist I wanted to replace me was free from his commitments,” Foreman continued, “but I would have ultimately just dragged the book down if I did, because it was becoming harder and harder to concentrate on the work. Steve was bending over backwards on his fill-ins to keep the book on schedule so you have to keep that in consideration. Really, he won’t skip a beat once he’s doing the book full time.”
On his blog, Lemire wished his collaborator well, writing that, “The success of Animal Man is due in no small part to Travel’s artistic vision and I was lucky to have worked with him.”
"Ride or Die?" asked Goku
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
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I was just thinking yesterday that most of the comics I was pumped about before the relaunch are really petering out. My beautiful OMAC is cancelled, Demon Knights - which I really liked at first, mostly because it was making my mouth water at the potential - is taking its time (and I'm finding it pretty boring in general), not a whole lot happened in Resurrection Man, and so on. I'm even getting disillusioned with Frankenstein!
I don't know if it's because at first these books benefited from the "this is a new thing" excitement, or if they genuinely lost steam (or if I've just become more bitter and joyless over the last half a year), but in any case I suspect I'm going to be pruning my DC buy list a lot very soon.
I kind of have the same feeling with Frankenstein. It's kind of weird, because I'd never drop it and when I do finally get around to reading it, it's always great, but it's just... it seems so unnecessary.
Maybe if the universe as a whole was fleshed out more, and I could see what these books were adding to the overall picture, I'd have a reason to stay, like I kind of do with the Teen books (they're not the best books, but the way they're all tightly plotted around eachother draws me to read them to see how one book may affect another).
Either way, I will pull Frank until it's canned, and Res man for the forseeable future unless it falls into endless cross-overs after the Suicide Squad thing or if it focuses more on flashing back to dickbag Mitch. But there's no turning back on Demon Knights now that
Meanwhile, JL Dark and Stormwatch, the other two books I was planning on dropping, got a save via some smart creative team changes.
So, Caitlin from Superboy/Gen-13. And we know Rose Wilson will be there as well. I feel like I should recognize the big dude in the back as well, but I have no idea who the others are.
that looks really bad
I mean she is basically in her Underwear.
Power Girl's costume is more modest than that.
Then again, Teen Titans is selling really, really well so there's always a chance for surprises.
this has neither of those
I understand they're trying to portray her as some kind of bruiser type character, but that's a horrible contrast when everyone else gets a jumpsuit. Even Red Spiky Guy, who's barechest for some reason, still gets a suit that matches the rest.
But more than that, that's a lousy group shot. I think each character was drawn seperately without any thought to the greater arrangement and then the individual figures were shuffled and rearranged until they seemed to fit. What are they looking at? I guess they're surrounded? Where are Lightning Girl's feet? Is she sitting on Lizard Tail's back?
Again. If the group shot was better-and it easily should've been-we wouldn't even be talking about the cover. But maybe we'd be talking about the comic itself.
you aren't number 48 anymore
Yeah I was going to say
That cover basically goes screams "LOOKIT DEM TITTIES"
Those Tron style costumes could look great but manage to look weird as well
Also other stuff
Basically that is a bad costume
I mean she is probably 18 because she was working in that lab but it is still super skeevy
Foreman explains why he is leaving Animal Man:
dang
that
fuck. i have no words.
that seems like a totally legit reason
Also yeah it does seem pretty skeevy Blank, as well as pretty jarring next to all of the other full body costumes
Also I really, really, really hope Foreman still does the covers
Well, having Fairchild in as little costume as possible or destroying her costume in every fight was a running joke in the Wildstorm-verse for years, so their just maintaining tradition.
agreed
i dont like a single one of those costumes but fairchild's is the worst
which looks so goofy
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
that is the culling
at the colony
which is what the massive crossover with TT, Superboy, and Legion Lost is going to be about in May.
Am I the only one reading the Lobdell books still?
I tried, Hadji. I really did. I just can't stand Lobdell's dialogue.
Red Hood seemed absolutely fucking terrible until the clips of #5 or whatever it was with the memories.
Both the Legion books are
I enjoy them
Rocafort should move to Animal Man.
Rocafort should be on any AAA book.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
So he's off the book already then. Now I'm really curious as to who his intended replacement was.
Who else is finished with a #6?