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Regarding Marvel Digital Comics
Regarding Marvel Digital Comics
The following is in direct response to the recent announcement that starting in February 2017, Marvel print comics will no longer include a voucher for their digital versions but will instead be redeemable for a limited number of old comics which may or may not be related to the comic purchased. If there’s a TL;DR, it’s this: I drive an hour each way every week to buy Marvel books, and only…
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Legit a sad to see the “DCYou” books doing badly as what I’ve read of DC’s recent offerings “Starfire”, “Midnighter,” and “We Are Robin” have been quite good. Heck I’m even enjoying Jim Gordon In Chappie Cosplay as Batman though that’s a ridiculous concept that happens when your toy department makes creative decisions.
Though really this is the culmination of DC making a string of bad decisions dating back past the start of the New 52 combined with Marvel doing a superb job of hyping Secret Wars.
I really hate all the needless hate DC has been getting ever since the new 52. It’s like people ignore the genuine good stuff it has.
“Jim Gordon in Chappie Cosplay” is an absolutely perfect description of what’s going on, hahaha.
Agreed though. I’m only reading Starfire and Batman but I’ve enjoyed them quite a bit thus far.
New talent at Marvel comics: Ashley A. Woods
“Comics book creator in her own right for several years, she is the artist for Niobe: She Is Life, a new comic written by Sebastian A. Jones and Amandla Stenberg” - Bleeding Cool
“Born and raised in Chicago, Ashley A. Woods is an illustrator who got her start through self-publishing her action-fantasy comic series, Millennia War, while attending the International Academy of Design and Technology. After earning her degree in Video and Animation, she traveled to Kyoto, Japan, where she presented her work in a gallery showcase called “Out Of Sequence.”
Her work has also been included in Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (edited by Damian Duffy and John Jennings). When Ashley isn’t working, she enjoys playing video games and studying Japanese.” - Rosarium Publishing
Her projects include “Niobe: She Is Life” from Stranger Comics and ‘Baaaaad Muthaz’ from Rosarium Publishing
Artist website / twitter / tumblr
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Laura has been through so much; she’s been living in the streets, she’s sold her body, she’s assassinated people—you know, lots of [expletive], but now she’s left all that behind. I mean, it’s there in her emotional backpack, but it’s not everything she is. This time she wants to take her own decisions and make her path. I see her as someone emotionally distant with some temper; she looks like she’s disappointed, but it’s more against herself than the people around her.
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Okay, so I help with a cool website that specializes in all things geek. Now that may sound like a lot of websites out there, but Checkpointahead.com is the only one whose name excites gamers and makes drunk drivers nervous. If that was a bad joke don’t let me know.
Anyway I’m going to be putting together a list of the top 100 comics you need to read in your lifetime. So what I ask of my followers and anyone who reads this is to send me a list of 5-10 comics or graphic novels you think everyone should read in their lifetime. In the case of long running titles, specify the writer/artist team. For example, if you say Daredevil, Waid/Samnee or Frank Miller.
I don’t have a definite time for when i’ll stop receiving submissions. It will probably depend on how many I get. You can also email [email protected] with the subject Comic List. If you have questions, feel free to ask. Go ahead, send me your list dude.
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so in iron man 2
a little boy in an iron man helmet tries to shoot one of the rampaging suits with his lil toy flight stabilizers
in spider-man 2
a little boy puts on his spiderman suit and stands up against the rhino
that’s great for all the little boys in the theater, but you know what I want?
i want a little girl to help the heroes
i want a six-year old redhead to kick nat’s gun to her
i want a twelve-year old with braces and a lisp to shake cap back to consciousness
i want a nine-year old latina girl to take clint by the hand and walk him down unfamiliar streets back to the main fight
i want a sixteen-year old black girl to kick an enemy in the back of the knees to save sam wilson
because girls are sitting in that audience too
and they deserve to see that
THIS.
I want a 3 year old in a tutu to bring Thor’s hammer to him
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That’s why I loved the 90s Spider-Man cartoon so much. There was an episode where he planned to quit fighting crime forever but his biggest fan, a little girl, convinced him to keep being Spider-Man by being heroic in her own right. That has been burned into my memory since I was like 6. It instilled so much confidence in me and honestly had such a huge effect on what I thought I was capable of. I mean it’s such a small thing to put in a film, but can have such a huge effect. We deserve it. Girls are heroes too.
Checkpoint Reached! #1
This is Checkpoint Reached!, where I take stock of a month’s worth of gaming and invite you to do the same. This month, I’ve been playing Dragon Age Inquisition, Tales from the Borderlands, and Life is Strange. Dragon Age Inquisition (PS4) I spent an inordinate amount of my final months in Columbus playing my roommate’s Xbox copy of Dragon Age Inquisition, during which time I completed every…
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So, even if Marvel sets him loose on the women of New York again someday, that’s not going to change a personality that has been established for the last 45 years. Sure, he could be written as a happy go lucky stud boy who chucks his entire marriage without so much as a single sliver of guilt - hitting the singles scene again - but what would be the point? The “doomed to fail” syndrome would just start all over again. And frankly, that’s a creatively bankrupt approach. Before we go on - let’s talk about the “doomed to fail” syndrome. Basically, it means that every relationship that a hero gets involved in is doomed to fail. It has to be, because unless there is a walk down the aisle (or even sometimes when there is), there comes a point where either (1) the relationship just doesn’t work out or (2) the relationship is working out, but the hero can’t bring himself to admit to his girl about his double life, and so it ends. In the old days, it was either (1) or (2) because the girl never found out about the hero. It just didn’t happen. Modern writers have loosened up considerably on the old secret i.d. jazz (for example, under Stan, Peter would never told Felicia his real name, and MJ would never have known that he was Spider-Man). But then that gives us option (3), in which the girl is killed by the villain, or (4) she finds out, but the relationship doesn’t survive because she can’t live with the double life thing. And that’s it. Well, then there’s (5) marriage is erased from continuity after a deal with the devil. Writing a marriage is boring? How can that be more boring that continually writing the “doomed to fail” scenario? Or reading it? Betty was a case of both (1) and (2), Gwen was (3), and Felicia was (4) in the reverse, since she couldn’t handle Spider-Man’s civilian identity and responsibilities. MJ has been a victim of (4) & (5). And if you don’t want the character to have a marriage or a successful long-term relationship, then one of those four (or five) scenarios has to play out over and over and over again. That’s why I find it utterly ridiculous that some writers actually want to end the Superman/Lois Lane marriage, considering that those two are even larger figures in American popular culture than Spidey and Mary Jane. Everyone, even non-comic fans, knows who they are, and knows that Superman has always loved Lois Lane. Superman will never love anyone but Lois Lane - it’s a modern mythology. It’s a cheat and a waste of time to try to convince the reader that he could love anyone else - so let’s stop screwing around with that dopey love triangle (where Lois isn’t even smart enough to figure out that Clark Kent and Superman are one and the same - how often and how long can THAT story be told with today’s more demanding audiences?) and focus on telling some real stories.
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ADAMancy #3 - Condensed Serial
ADAMancy #3 – Condensed Serial
Maybe by thinking about what is lost when we extract having-to-wait from a story, we can also appreciate the stories we still wait for. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman: Dark Victory was published across thirteen issues (fourteen, if you count #0), between December 1999 and October 2000. It is the sequel to Loeb and Sale’s rather more popular Batman: The Long Halloween, which likewise ran from…
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How a Lack of Racial Diversity Inhibits ‘Life Is Strange’
Life Is Strange is an incredibly good game. I know, I know, I’m late to this party, but it’s true. New installments have me salivating. Chloe Price has me swooning. I am simultaneously tickled and intrigued by Life Is Strange, and I’ve gone from curious about it to pushing it on anyone who will listen in a series of days. I thought I’d actually be able to hold out playing it until the fifth and final installment arrived; I thought wrong, and after bingeing all four available episodes in one week, I am desperately hungry for more.
Part of why I gave in was because I saw so many people—women, especially—singing its praises. That’s no accident. The game is praiseworthy at the very least. But as I played through it, I found myself wondering why I hadn’t seen anyone mention what seemed to me like a pretty glaring issue with the game, particularly in regards to its cast. You see, for as progressive as it is—for as good as it is—there’s a gigantic elephant in the room when it comes to Life Is Strange, and it’s this: every single member of the main cast is … drumroll, please?
White. Very white.
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ADAMancy #2 – Burnout It remains a view shared by many people: comic films are a bubble, and a burst is coming.
To mark the tenth anniversary of House of M, and ten years of event-driven storytelling, we're asking you to determine which Marvel event was the very best.
Vote for Annihilation!
Some of these events sound like they were truly polarizing (recall: I only got into comics at the tail of 2012, basically in the ashes of AvX). So it’ll be interesting to see which ones were actually loved.
I will say this: Marvel events have in general been pretty underwhelming (when not infuriating) since I’ve started reading. Thus far, however, Secret Wars has been fantastic (in my opinion). While part of how an event is remembered also includes its lasting impact on the continuity (which is where Secret Wars stands to gain or lose the most, I feel), at the very least the actual main book has been top-notch, and the event has generated a lot of high-quality miniseries.
Yeah aside from Annihilation (which was great) most of the Marvel events from the past decade have ranged from being mediocre to infuriating. I’m REALLY enjoying Secret Wars right now but I’m a little worried about Hickman is going to stick the landing. I really enjoyed House of M. as a cool alt-reality that could be revisited only for them to really muck it up with the whole “No More Mutants” thing. That was supposed to fix a perceived glut of X-Men titles without you know… actually lowering the number of X-Men spin-off titles. So all it really accomplished was taking a lot of newer characters off the table and straight-up ruining New X-Men.
As for other Marvel Events I liked Secret Invasion is actually a lot of fun in a Independence Day style action movie kind of way, and Siege was enjoyable in watching Norman Osborn’s prolonged breakdown and humiliation. Annihilation Conquest isn’t bad but it’s just not nearly as good as Annihilation and in some ways feels like a retread.
Duly noted.
While I still identify December 2012 as when I started reading comics, I did have a brief stint in college where I picked up some Deadpool and X-Force comics after having gotten super-discounted Civil War trades at a local bookstore. (This is why when I got back into comics, aside from New 52 stuff, my first complete run was Kyle & Yost’s X-Force.) The Secret Invasion “Embrace Change” ads were pretty great. I have never forgotten this one:
On the negative side of things Civil War feels in hindsight to be dated and poorly thought out. Avengers vs X-Men is basically a drawn-out idiot plot, just read the Avengers Academy tie-ins. Original Sin is a great-set up without a good pay-off though it does have some crack character team-ups (particularly the bit where we get to see The Punisher and Dr. Strange working together.)
World War Hulk is just one big fight-scene, albeit a really well drawn one. Shadowland is one big, badly done poorly though-out fight scene.
Axis feels like one of those gimmicky late 90s DC crossovers but not as fun as Sins of Youth or engaging as Underworld Unleashed. It did give us a really fun Hobgoblin tie-in I’d recommend checking out. One of the biggest problems with Axis is that so much of it ties into Uncanny Avengers a book that was supposed to be a big deal, but never really found a consistent tone.
Funny you use the word “dated” to describe Civil War. Perhaps elaborate?
I think thematically, with the registration act stuff, that plotline continues to be a pretty relevant commentary on American politics (especially dealing with immigration, gun rights, counter/anti-terrorism measures, etc.).
“Great set up without a good pay-off” is a pretty good summary of Original Sin.
To mark the tenth anniversary of House of M, and ten years of event-driven storytelling, we're asking you to determine which Marvel event was the very best.
Vote for Annihilation!
Some of these events sound like they were truly polarizing (recall: I only got into comics at the tail of 2012, basically in the ashes of AvX). So it’ll be interesting to see which ones were actually loved.
I will say this: Marvel events have in general been pretty underwhelming (when not infuriating) since I’ve started reading. Thus far, however, Secret Wars has been fantastic (in my opinion). While part of how an event is remembered also includes its lasting impact on the continuity (which is where Secret Wars stands to gain or lose the most, I feel), at the very least the actual main book has been top-notch, and the event has generated a lot of high-quality miniseries.
Yeah aside from Annihilation (which was great) most of the Marvel events from the past decade have ranged from being mediocre to infuriating. I’m REALLY enjoying Secret Wars right now but I’m a little worried about Hickman is going to stick the landing. I really enjoyed House of M. as a cool alt-reality that could be revisited only for them to really muck it up with the whole “No More Mutants” thing. That was supposed to fix a perceived glut of X-Men titles without you know… actually lowering the number of X-Men spin-off titles. So all it really accomplished was taking a lot of newer characters off the table and straight-up ruining New X-Men.
As for other Marvel Events I liked Secret Invasion is actually a lot of fun in a Independence Day style action movie kind of way, and Siege was enjoyable in watching Norman Osborn’s prolonged breakdown and humiliation. Annihilation Conquest isn’t bad but it’s just not nearly as good as Annihilation and in some ways feels like a retread.
Duly noted.
While I still identify December 2012 as when I started reading comics, I did have a brief stint in college where I picked up some Deadpool and X-Force comics after having gotten super-discounted Civil War trades at a local bookstore. (This is why when I got back into comics, aside from New 52 stuff, my first complete run was Kyle & Yost’s X-Force.) The Secret Invasion “Embrace Change” ads were pretty great. I have never forgotten this one:
To mark the tenth anniversary of House of M, and ten years of event-driven storytelling, we're asking you to determine which Marvel event was the very best.
Vote for Annihilation!
Some of these events sound like they were truly polarizing (recall: I only got into comics at the tail of 2012, basically in the ashes of AvX). So it’ll be interesting to see which ones were actually loved.
I will say this: Marvel events have in general been pretty underwhelming (when not infuriating) since I’ve started reading. Thus far, however, Secret Wars has been fantastic (in my opinion). While part of how an event is remembered also includes its lasting impact on the continuity (which is where Secret Wars stands to gain or lose the most, I feel), at the very least the actual main book has been top-notch, and the event has generated a lot of high-quality miniseries.
Women In Refrigerators: Gail Simone On the List That Illustrated the Problem With Female Comic Characters
I really enjoyed this story, it was nicely bereft of sensationalism.
But I was so hot from running across San Diego to get there in time, I wish I had had a moment to collect myself! It was SCORCHING that day and we had to almost run all the way from the Gaslamp District. :)
Funny that that’s all I remember when I see this. Good story, though! Loved Marguerite Bennett and G. Willow in this.
Monthly Pull #1 - August 13th, 2015
Monthly Pull #1 – August 13th, 2015
Alright, honesty time. I sat down to write out this inaugural Monthly Pull thinking I was going to recap everything I’d read this month. And I got about halfway through before I realized it was, well, outrageously boring. I’ve committed to ensuring Novelly Graphic is worthwhile, and what I’d written would’ve been letting us both down. SO. This month, I’ve chosen instead to only discuss a few of…
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When you come into a comic book movie expecting adaptation, you shortchange your ability to enjoy it for what it is. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man was released to American film audiences on May 3, 2002, a...
