Maf Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 So today I’ve been catching up on Justice League issues 13 through 19 + the annual. This is post The Witching Hour event, which I really liked, and Drowned Earth, which I really didn’t. Even though they both kind of fit in too the events of the on going story about the Totality, it’s good to be back on track. It’s taken me like, nearly 3 hours to read 8 comics because they are just so dense. Character’s say things and I have to stop and go “Wha”. And read it again to try get what they’re on about. But it also just pouring over the artwork. Mostly handelled by Jim Cheung and Jorge Jimenez, it is the best looking comic out right now. This is a comic I really enjoy most of the time, but just find it’s reveals and bullet points just don’t really hit home. I love the characters (Especially liking Hawkgirl and surprisingly Martian Manhunter), I love the scope and the interweaving of the story, the really creative ideas, and generally the writing is really good and interesting. But at the same time I kind of feel like it still hasn’t got going, 19 issues in. I don’t know. It’s definitely not a slow burn, things kick off pretty much immediately. But because the writing and ideas are so dense, something will happen like the bad guys get more of the “Forces” they need to awaken basically the god of all gods, but it’s hard to feel the weight of most of the things that happen because the ideas are so dense and, ironically for a comic, not represented visually. Gorilla Grodd gets the Still force. Okay, well, what is that, what does it do exactly, and why has he not done anything with it so far? That happened like, around 10 issues ago and I still couldn’t”t tell you. But then it is supposed to be this long, winding thing. I am enjoying it, but more for the characters and artwork than I am the larger story. Which I think is interesting, but rarely exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I wasn’t going to buy this because I buy enough already but this cover is too good not too Marvel Team-Up #2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Dc put out a list of the 33(!) variants for Detective Comics #1000 Here is my favourite Here is them all if if you want to see https://www.cbr.com/dc-detective-comics-1000-variant-covers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 I’ve seen this artwork before but never knew what the guy’s name was, but Scottie Young is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Yay! There’s finally, after years, another good Spider-Man comic. Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man written by Tom Taylor and drawn by Juann Cabal. Cool new characters, fun writing, dynamic, clean art and doesn’t feel like it’s lumbered with and trying to justify Dan Slott’s continuity. (That bottom left panel. How beautiful) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 To be fair, in Marvel Universe consensus, the Fantastic Four are legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 3 hours ago, OCH said: To be fair, in Marvel Universe consensus, the Fantastic Four are legendary. Have you seen the Immortal Hulk? I think you should read that book if not, I think it would be up your alley. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 22 minutes ago, Maf said: Have you seen the Immortal Hulk? I think you should read that book if not, I think it would be up your alley. I have indeed. Returning the Hulk series to it's body horror roots and not the naff Avengers-Friendly Hulk of the last few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 I really like most of the issues but I’m confused about what they are saying about Banner’s dad and whatever that big gamma cloud thing was. And that the Hulk is now the One Below All? Like the true devil? Or was that what he”s dad was infected with? I didn’t really get it Also when that guy shot Betty lol! I wish Samson wasn’t there to deal with it. Woe betide the poor soul who would shoot Devil Hulk’s girlfriend in the head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 The One Below All is in the guise of Banner's Dad. As it messes with Hulk on multiple levels whenever someone does that. The Marvel Universe also has multiple "devils". Devil Hulk was merely one of Banner's strongest (and super evil) personalities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 I felt like the implication was every gamma irradiated person has a ‘green door’ inside of them that can let the devil in, and that’s what happened to Hulk. And the more gamma irradiated people he came into contact with and absorbed made it easier for this One Below to All to get in and overtake. But when Absorbing man took all of it from Hulk and then went to the original gamma bombsite that place + power combined is what set it free. And then he’s dad turned up and there was a big cloud thing and I was distracted because it seemed like a big reference to that first movie. But they do a retcon where he’s dad witnessed the green door when Bruce was still a baby so...I don’t know if that was he’s actual dad or not. I really liked the comic, though. I forget what issue it is but the one where he gets cut into pieces and put in to jars was crazy. And when Crusher gets split in two and it’s just he’s skull on he’s spine dancing around. For a Marvel comic it’s really visually dark sometimes. Which is fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Hulk used to be about Radiation mutated freaks, Hulk and Doc Samson being the only ones even remotely "normal" looking. It is good they have returned to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Unknown to the Justice League Superman has been trapped in an empty, void pocket dimension and in he’s place...a future Superman? Does the Sixth Dimension really exist or is it a lie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Cover for The Batman Who Laughs #6 This series is only at #3 so far and has had been another great Snyder ‘Let’s best the living shit out of Batman’ run, probably darker and worse than he’s done before. Just hope Batman doesn’t win the day by hoping a lot like he seems to in a lot of Snyder stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Jarro is the best new comic book character in at least a decade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Maf said: Jarro is the best new comic book character in at least a decade Poor Starro. From the very first serious foe of the Justice League to.. Whatever the hell that thing is supposed to be? Talk about 'How to crush the legacy of a Supervillain'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Starro was always stupid. This is fun. He’s a fun character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 8 minutes ago, Maf said: Starro was always stupid. Of course it was. Starro was made in the 60's... But the concept behind it, was fascinating Cthulhu-level stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I like 1984, both 1994’s, 2000 and surprisingly 2015. I really liked that whole costume only after playing the PS4 game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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