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Full Ennis is great. It certainly won't appeal to everyone but he knows what he's doing.

 

So a bunch of media that I follow (at least 3) were talking about Starlin's Infinity War since the movie is coming up so I figured I'd read it, and the plot was completely unrecognizable from anything that's been set up for the movie, and it ends up what I was looking for and what people were apparently wrongfully describing was Infinity Gauntlet. Which is weird and is now going to be something that annoys me. Anyway I didn't like War but I really enjoyed Gauntlet and Thanos Quest. (I don't love the 90s)

 

The first issue of Underwinter was amazing. I have read it like 10 times. It is so surreal and unnerving.

 

Yeah and he's building such an excellent world with the addition of Field of Feathers. I'm not sure what his plan is with the series but he's got a lot of places to go with it if he chooses.

 

Has anyone been reading Metal? I was gonna trade wait it but my LCS has the first 5 for sale and I'm tempted to grab them because the covers are so cool.

 

I've read everything but the tie-ins in other books, and I still don't get it...but I'm in too deep and will end up getting number six when it's out. Feels like you need to know an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge of DC lore (which I do not) to enjoy it fully. The art and concept are killer, though.

 

It's excellent but I'd reccomend reading all of the tie ins. Its been a pretty full and satisfying experience. The Wild Hunt for example feels pretty damn necessary

 

My wife got me an early Easter present :)

 

Does she read comics?

 

Nope. I've tried. Does your wife read comics?

 

DC: "Hold the line at $2.99, and we're all about the artists!"

Also DC: double-shipped Justice League relaunch & weekly Man of Steel mini are $3.99 an issue, and two of their new "artists first" series have new artists by the 4th issue


Like, I don't mind rotating artists if the artists are good and are utilized in a way that works for the story. But don't make some big marketing push about how you're the *real* pro-artist company, and then let a couple series where literally the only selling point is "these titles are driven by the art of Jim Lee & JRJR!" fail to put out even a full trade's worth of material with said artists.

And, both Big 2 companies need to experiment with simple $3.99 monthly schedules. For real.

 

She's read some in the past

 

Just read about all this Comics gate bullshit and it's disappointing hearing about Van Sciver

 

WE3 is great

 

He was very vocally pro-trump during 2016.

It’s more of the same from him, unfortunately.

 

Snyder’s Justice League essentially being the JLU Timmverse roster? Fucking awesome.

However, what in the actual fuck are the rosters to JL Dark, JL Odyssey, and Titans? Dark is missing the huge opportunity of Constantine’s insane popularity right now. Man-Bat and Renee Montoya also seem like strange choices over like Deadman or Etrigan. Wonder Woman is also an odd fit.

The most disappointing is Titans though. I LOVED that book and it’s roster. And now every member other than Nightwing is MIA. Strange.

 

I'm a lot more into JLD than I am Odyssey. Something about that lineup just doesn't appeal to me.

 

JLD still have an ongoing comic?

 

Alfred's origin story in All-Star is great

 

I’ll read anything that has Swamp Thing. I want to see how the JLD reboot does.

 

Different from Earth-One Graphic Novels?

 

I haven't read those yet. I ordered the first volumes of Batman and Superman this week.

 

Read Superman: Birthright and really loved that version of his origin. I've read about 15 Superman trades now and I think I've covered most of the big ones (All-Star, Secret Origin, Death of Superman, Red Son). But I'm up for some suggestions if anyone has 'em!

Made myself a small reading list for now. Next up is Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits, then the first two Flash books from Geoff Johns. I have a bunch of stuff from him to read left on my shelf. Green Lantern and Teen Titans stuff but I don't think I have the complete run for either so I keep putting it off.

 

Earth One Wonder Woman was something... You can tell it was written by a creepy ass dude.

 

Probably my least favorite of the Earth One's so far. Definitely didn't make me like Morrison any more than I already kinda don't