Random Comic Book Crap
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It's funny, but a lot of his re-vamped Batman concept sounds a lot like The Punisher (except for the "no killing" part). And it still baffles to me to this day why cops adopted a symbol of a character who...doesn't support them and thinks they're corrupt and incompetent? Is it really just "Hurr hurr...skulls are cool. Pew pew bad guys!"? I guess there's a reason it's not "Back the Brains".
I used to work with guys who called their shift The Shield and all took nicknames after characters from that show. Unironic in their love of how badass it was. Hell, you can probably find posts from me parroting it from those days here if you look far enough back. Introspection and policing do not go hand in hand.
It's not like they end up killing one of their own, not even one that was Internal Affairs, on the show... and it ends with one of them screwing the guy that was the one left alive that wasn't as guilty of stuff (like not being an accomplice to the original killing of the IA guy) in order to not be punished.
But i'm sure they all think of themselves as a Mackey instead of a Shane, Lem or Ronnie....
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One of the greatest Justice League stories - nay, one of the greatest comics, PERIOD - is finally getting a collection. I am so here for it.
(Well, okay, it's not GREAT, but it's a lot of fun.)
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(Well, okay, it's not GREAT, but it's a lot of fun.)
JLApe: The Complete Collection TP Reviews
Read reviews and discussion of JLApe: The Complete Collection TP from Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett and Keith Giffen, published by DC Comics
Gonna be honest, the more reviews of the Boys comic I've read, the more glad I am to know to just stick to the shows.
ALSO, is Butcher really a PARODY of the Punisher or just... literally just the Punisher?
ALSO, is Butcher really a PARODY of the Punisher or just... literally just the Punisher?
Garth Ennis has the same problem that Mark Millar has, in that a lot of the adaptions of their work are just... leaps and bounds better than the original work itself.
I feel the main difference between Preacher and the Boys, is the former has a lot more love in it (as well as a protagonist who doesn't become a monster) whereas the Boys just got more mean spirited as it went along.
THAT and Jesse is an original protagonist, whereas Butcher is just the Punisher with powers.
I thought Poe was directly referencing that the live-action adaptation of Preacher was pretty lack-luster, compared to, say The Boys or Kick-Ass, which I sadly have to agree. The books ended up being so much stronger than the series. ...well, to a point, anyway. I feel like all these comics suffered from the same problem, which is their cornerstone is shock-value graphic violence, and the longer they ran, the more they started spinning their wheels. You can only let a story coast on shock for so long before it becomes bland since you desensitize your audience. Preacher definitely suffered from this for the second half of it's run, although I do agree with your assessment of Jesse and his character.
figmentPez
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I thought @ThatNickGuy might like this Superman fan comic.
figmentPez
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What does Ben Grimm have against Canadians?
I see they've read my fanfiction...
I saw pages with a QR code online.
That's what this is all about?
Somewhere Scott McCloud is doing a facepalm.
figmentPez
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It makes pirated copies that much more appealing.
I bet collectors just love having incomplete copies all bagged and sealed.
EDIT: Reading this article, it seems that Marvel views this as a way to control "early spoilers". They don't like that physical copies of books have their contents leaked online before the street date, so they're keeping the final page digital so that they can try to keep something to reveal when the comic officially goes on sale.
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To me, this just sounds like a way to collect data correlating unique IP addresses with comic book sales, which can then be mined for "relevant trends."
EDIT: To go a bit further, this is no different from a software activation code for a game, and it would be but a single, easy step for this to essentially become the same, where the "comic" you buy is merely a physical vehicle for giving you a printed, redeemable download code for the DRM-laden e-book version of the entire comic that you would then not be able to trade/sell/hand down, and I legitimately wonder if this isn't the "testing" to suss whether the comic-buying public is willing to tolerate that model.
Do not want.
--Patrick
EDIT: To go a bit further, this is no different from a software activation code for a game, and it would be but a single, easy step for this to essentially become the same, where the "comic" you buy is merely a physical vehicle for giving you a printed, redeemable download code for the DRM-laden e-book version of the entire comic that you would then not be able to trade/sell/hand down, and I legitimately wonder if this isn't the "testing" to suss whether the comic-buying public is willing to tolerate that model.
Do not want.
--Patrick
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Feels kinda like an easy pipeline to NFTs.
Mom to pay son for throwing out comics - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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The mother says they were starting to get mildew from the humidity, but wouldn't that just make them more authentic?
--Patrick
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