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Post by buck on Feb 6, 2013 14:01:33 GMT -5
Green Arrow 17.
Soooooo Gooooodddddd.
If I could only get one book from now on this is it.
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Post by C_Miller on Feb 6, 2013 15:04:44 GMT -5
Is this Jeff Lemire's first issue?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 16:46:50 GMT -5
Is this Jeff Lemire's first issue? Yes. -M
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 23:26:12 GMT -5
Green Arrow 17. Soooooo Gooooodddddd. If I could only get one book from now on this is it. Definitely agree this issue kicks ass and takes names. Finally a GA book I can read again. I have to say though that Misty and Val kicked just a little more ass though...Fearless Defenders was an absolute fun E-ticket ride of a comic. These two are definitely staying on the pull list, so there will have to be 2 casualties somewhere in the mix to make room for them. Batgirl and Supergirl are the lost likely to go-H'el on Earth cross over just killed all interest I had in the Supergirl book and Batgirl has been up and down from the beginning-now that the Death of the Family tie ins are over and it has the fill ins coming up its a good time to let it go and check out the trades down the line. -M
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Post by unchartedfan1 on Feb 13, 2013 21:35:07 GMT -5
Is anyone else disappointed in Snyder's Death of the Family conclusion?
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Post by Ultimate Silentking on Feb 13, 2013 21:56:38 GMT -5
I haven't read it yet, so I don't have an opinion yet.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 1:25:52 GMT -5
Is anyone else disappointed in Snyder's Death of the Family conclusion? What didn't you like about it? -M
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Post by unchartedfan1 on Feb 14, 2013 11:22:11 GMT -5
It just left me...unsatisfied. I loved his Joker, I love how he puts Batman as wanting a family, but there's just something about it. What was inside of the platters was a total let down, and we never find out what the Joker told anyone, which I feel like we should have to some extent. No one died (although I didn't really expect that), I have no idea what was up with Alfred (why was he a zombie?) and all in all, with the exception of whatever the Joker told them, the DotF tie-ins pretty much were useless and a waste of money.
But I will say that Snyder's joker was awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 14:12:08 GMT -5
There be spoilers here so don't read if you don't want to be spoiled.
1) Snyder is not responsible for the tie-ins, he comes up with stories he wants to tell for the Batman title and editorial decides to make events out of them and spread them across the entire line when they probably shouldn't. It's a money grab and a way to try to boost sale son secondary Bat-titles since Batman sells head and shoulders above the rest.
2) As to what he told each f them, I think that is best left for the aftermath and should be revealed in each characters own book as it has effects on them down the line, it is only pertinent to the Batman book if he knows what is said, and if it affects him, he didn't and he may never know really with the way the bonds between Bruce and the other members of the Bat-Family were damaged. In the end, the Joker won because he did kill the family.
3) As for Alfred, he was a victim of the same toxin Joker used on the other Bat-family members, just a slightly altered version.
4) As for the dinner platter reveal, I actually thought it was a brilliant play on the whole debate of whether Batman or Bruce Wayne is the mask, and the sense of each of the family members striving to find their own identity in the shadow of the Bat. Dick especially has struggled with that his entire life, and all of them have identity issues-symbolically stripping them of their face as a means of stripping them of their identity as anything other than costumes was the cruelest cut the Joker could make on all of them, and a jab at Batman showing he has failed as a father figure in bringing up his children to be their own persons.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 14:16:16 GMT -5
One final thought-the most influential moment in Bruce's life is when crime took his family away-the Boy became the Bat in that moment, and now Joker has taken has surrogate family away-how will that impact Bruce-what will the man become because of having his family taken away this time?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 3:52:34 GMT -5
Dove into another series that caught my attention in the Twelve Days of Christmas thread over on the classic comics forum at CBR-Martian Manhunter: American Secrets #1-3. Liked it so much thought I would mention it here.
I vaguely remember getting this when it came out, but it didn't stand out in my memory, and the books long since left my possession, so I had to re-acquire these from Lonestar (issues 1-2) and a local store having a big sale on back issues (#3). I am glad I did. This was a great quirky, subversive little tale that had so many layers to peel away to find more stuff and beautiful art by Eduardo Barreto.
Manhunter has been one of my favorite DC characters since I discovered him when he returned to the JLA in the later part of the series run just before the JL Detroit days, and especially during the early DeMatteis/Giffen/Maguire days of the League. This series was a decidedly different take on his mythos, but one that was brilliantly executed and fully realized. It fit into the larger picture of the DCU of its time (circa '92) even though set in the early 60's. Who can resist analogues of Mad Magazine, Elvis and the Beaver combined with beatniks, jazz, rock-n-roll, pink Caddies, the Mafia and intricate alien invasion plots, plus a cameo of Castro playing baseball? Pure gold. I was never a huge fan of Gerard Jones' DC work (Emerald Dawn is always what I think of and I really disliked that series of events for GL), but he hit this one out of the ballpark. If he had produced more layered material like this for DC, I think I would have become a fan.
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Post by liquidsword34 on Feb 17, 2013 9:02:28 GMT -5
Finally got around to finishing the first TPB of Garth Ennis's Battlefields. Definitely as good as his War Stories stuff, if not better.
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Post by buck on Feb 27, 2013 14:04:12 GMT -5
Alright so over a hundred issues in the first two months of the year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 0:15:46 GMT -5
So February is done.
Reading highlights of the month include:
Modern:Green Arrow 17 and Fearless Defenders #1 Classic: Blackmark, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, Ditko Dr. Strange
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 3:40:31 GMT -5
Woot cracked 300 for the year....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 23:33:25 GMT -5
March highlights...Ditko Dr. Strange, Alex Raymond Flash Gordon, Kubert Hawkman, East of West #1, Helheim #1, Lemire Green Arrow, Cho's Savage Wolverine and the awesomeness that is Fearless Defenders.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2013 5:29:40 GMT -5
So, again, I am getting back into this. I'm somewhere near about 600 for the year thus far, but, I can't really remember. I was keeping a rough tally.
At any rate - at this moment in time I'm really, really enjoying the Waid Legion of Superheroes. I've been interested in the Legion for a long time, more because of the fact it's been rebooted three times and then returned to it's original form.
There's a lot of really interesting elements to it, and Waid's keeps shifting gears. I'm reading an issue now which is Chameleon boy in a Philip Marlowe role. It's really very, very good!
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Post by adrini on Apr 18, 2015 22:36:20 GMT -5
Reading the first Green Arrow of Convergence, the next to last that will ever really be. It's wonderful. He's warm, human, real, the social mindedness is there. The respect for the city, issues, helping out the "little guy". It almost hurts to see it.
Once this is done I'm stuck with the green prozac commercial who runs around with Felicity. Cause everything has to be the TV show. ><
Why am I even here anymore?
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