The Comic Book Thread

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So during my teenage years, wherein my love of comics was established. There was a local comic book shop in the high street. I went there whenever I had money of my own. I thought I owned loads of comics, back in the day. It's funny now to see they basically fill a small hold all bag. But at one stage, the owner was given promo posters for the big event of that summer: Onslaught. I expressed a huge interest in the main poster he received, at the time. A year or so later, the shop was closing down. The owner was moving to bigger premises in another town. On the last day, he calls me to the till and hands me the immaculately preserved, now folded, poster. For free. "As a valued customer". I was beaming. 

 

Ironically, I loved the poster too much. Mum attached it to the bedroom wall ..permanently, with glue. A bedroom redecoration or two later and it was lost forever.  Why mention this now? I recently found the artwork online and thought I would share:

 

The original piece had huge font at the bottom, which read: Onslaught is here! No one is safe.

[Maf]

 

This is so cool. I think sometimes it pays to draw Superman really small because it emphasises how big the things he does are 

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Reading some older Batman stuff because all the new comics are boring me a bit. No one writes like Grant Morrison. Sometimes topics or viewpoints shift from bubble to bubble or panel to panel it’s like the characters aren’t even talking to each other properly. But I don’t know. It helps keep me engaged. There’s also this underlying level of fun to everything. It’s almost like the character’s smirks are them smirking at the things they say because it’s so fancy and silly. But it’s done with such style. I just love this guy’s work

 

 

 

“Man-Bats. Ninja Man-Bats. Alarming twist” 🤣
 

 

Also I don’t know who’s idea it was to use a comic art gallery as a scene so they can put onomatopoeia from that art in the background for the action. But’s it’s so clever.

[OCH]

Last year gave us Godzilla vs. the Justice League. This year the King of the monsters jumps to Marvel..

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This comic is so beautifully done. A great mix of grand comic sci-fi and classic Marvel interpersonal drama. You can feel the frosty tension of the first panel on the second page without any context or things being said. 

[OCH]

Spoiler

Reed's characterisation (and interplay with Susan) has come a long way..

[Maf]

I think Hickman did a good job of keeping their relationship similar to that but subtracting the sexism and modernising it. He is still talking down to her. But instead of putting her down for being a woman he is saying, of course I can read your mind I’m a genius. But it’s also got more nuance because he is talking down to her, but clearly he cares he’s just struggling to balance the responsibility of his mission 

 

Which is to solve everything