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I know the Joelle Jones Future State: Wonder Woman has gotten the attention (which, I personally am not drawn to at all), but Immortal Wonder Woman is the good one.

The main story was just so pretty. I think it’s the first Jen Bartel interior work to really be full on Jen Bartel illustration, which... that many illustrations, in print together? My goodness, yes. The storytelling could’ve been a little stronger, but as a whole, it’s just delightful to look at.

The backup story about Nubia was also really strong. More traditional superhero art from Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, & Emilio Lopez, who all complimented each other & Nubia’s design really well, & look good on this paper DC uses. More than Diana, or Yara Flor or whatever, I think I just want more Nubia from DC, lol.

 

Jen Bartel sounds familiar...is she in a band or in the punk community in some way?

 

She might sound familiar ‘cause I’m obsessed with her work, lol.

She’s a really dope illustrator whose stuff you might’ve seen in a store here & there. Most of her comics work has been via covers (she’s more of an illustrator than a cartoonist), though she’s also done some Jem & the Holograms, a couple Black Panther issues, & an Image series that only lasted one arc.

 

That Spidey is super dope!

I swear there is an all women punk band with a Jen Bartel but maybe I'm mixing names up

 

New Kickstarter from Shelly Bond dropped today. Not as big of an anthology this time, but I immediately backed it.

HEAVY ROTATION

 

“Their critically-acclaimed work on AVENGERS...”*

* citation needed

“Where Thor is a hard-drinking atheist who despises hammers.”

...lol.

Well, I have enough stuff to read in the coming months to not be mad that Marvel’s next event doesn’t appeal to me. Haven’t bought an event series as it was coming out in forever regardless, even ones as good as House of X or fun as Absolute Carnage.

Saw the old Mark Gruenwald 12-issue Squadron Supreme series from the 80s in a dollar box this past weekend, which I’ve been meaning to check out for the longest time, so maybe I’ll just pick that up instead, lol.

 

A certain comics website that's annoying & bad but also bizarrely plugged into comics gossip is saying that Bendis is no longer DC exclusive.

Which, is something I'd been wondering about with all their changes over the past year. He was recently announced to be contributing to The Old Guard's upcoming anthology miniseries. Though, Big 2 "exclusives" often get away with Image stuff, & he's buddies with Rucka, so doesn't necessarily mean anything.

If true, it'll be interesting to see if Jinxworld ends up at Image or something when it returns. Also, if he'd end up contributing any small things to Marvel here & there. Would love to see Jinxworld be his primary outlet going forward, though. I know he's got a manga-inspired series in the works with André Lima Araújo, who's deep into drawing it last I knew.

 

What's the story on that site being bad?

 

Lots of feeding into & creating drama; lots of annoying gossip & clickbait & speculation; shining spotlights sometimes on people it shouldn’t; sketchy maintained relationships with sketchy people like Warren Ellis; & also, just, generally a shitty, ad-heavy website with terrible writing, etc.

So weird to me that they’re still so connected to the industry to actually break as much comics news as they do.

 

I’ll cop to the website being straight out of like 2005 and the writing is simply abysmal. Just sooooo many fucking typos.

That said, it’s the only comic book site that actually gets scoops and doesn’t simply play the press release game. And Rich’s track record is actually pretty solid. So, it will always be my go to website until a better run alternative presents itself.

 

I look at it now & then out of curiosity, so I'm definitely part of the problem, but I'm honestly not convinced it's better than press release blogs. The comics world would 100% be better if it just disappeared off the internet, lol. Such gossipy, drama-starved, unscrupulous trash that only "serves a purpose" because, in an industry so devoid of actual good journalism, gossip & leaks will suffice.

The best website for comics stuff is honestly probably Twitter, lol.

 

Finished up The Walking Dead this morning. Definitely glad Kirkman decided to end it, couldn't see it lasting much longer. I was really impressed with how much I enjoyed the whole thing though

 

Does this mean I shouldn't keep making videos with my opinions on comics?!? (please read that with all of the sarcasm)

 

I mean, hopefully your average video is a lot better than their average article, lol.

And, hopefully YouTube’s shitty algorithm doesn’t try to connect your viewers to #ComicsGate videos! That shit popping up in my recommendations is the biggest reason I haven’t watched Cartoonist Kayfabe recently (though Ed Piskor is also often annoying, lol).

 

Most of what I've done so far has been reviews for Hill House and then a couple on DC Universe, so thankfully no comicsgate nonsense as of yet.

 

didn't see this posted

 

Colonel Weird showing that even though Black Hammer is over Lemire still wants to rip my heart apart.

 

@Tim i think it was you who recently mentioned updating the first post in the thread with new recs. Just wanted to drop this here in case you’d like to include it. But no worries if not!

 

I’m down for that... but I’m neither the original poster nor a mod, so I don’t have that power, lol. That’s a job for @Henry.

 

Let me know what you want to add and I'm good for it.

 

Feel free to add the video a few posts up if you want! I recommended Ms. Marvel, Doctor Aphra, and a handful of other comics.

 

Anyone here use WEBTOON at all?

I’m not a big digital reader outside of webcomics I see on Twitter (& perhaps some glancing at websites of questionable legality to see what’s going on in certain mainstream titles not on my pull list). But, decided to finally download the WEBTOON app, & it’s pretty neat. That popular Lore Olympus series has some very pretty art.

 

I made a personal goal for 2021: "get into comic books".

Got a Marvel unlimited subscription and I've already read Matt Fraction's Hawkeye and absolutely loved it.

Making my way through Tom King's Vision and started House of X / Powers of X, too.

Loving everything so far.

 

Is Heroes Reborn gonna be one of those events where the main story is lame, but some of the tie-ins are pretty fun?