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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:15 pm

I'll wait.
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:17 pm

dc's other better writer is brian azz.
scott snyder is at johns level already, but his bag is just so different and it's not like he could take johns place or anything.
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:23 pm

I'm not sure who could say Grant Morrison is making the best comics at DC right now

Azzarello is a serious answer

Snyder I think we can all agree ain't it at the moment
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:26 pm

anyone who has read batman inc 1-3 could say that
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:31 pm

You know me, I think Morrison operates daily at level most guys just dream about

But I feel like he's in this weird peripheral period where Azzarello may be in genuine mainstream ascendency
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:36 pm

I have been thinking about the one year anniversary of New 52, planning a larger post for next week
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:36 pm

neither morrison or azz are MOR in the same way johns is. neither is bendis tbh. johns' closest analogue at marvel is either loeb or waid

i know i'm making a different arguement but i think it's dumb to compare three vastly different writers
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:37 pm

right on.
i'm still very disturbed by the odd doom and gloom posts when there are just simply more compelling and must read dcu books than there were previously
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:40 pm

Mandingo wrote:neither morrison or azz are MOR in the same way johns is. neither is bendis tbh. johns' closest analogue at marvel is either loeb or waid

i know i'm making a different arguement but i think it's dumb to compare three vastly different writers


loeb hasn't done anything that has felt even slightly consequential. waid is just a class act with a very light workload in the big 2.
it's bendis. the big ideas, madcap/zany exuberance, unpredictable brutality/violence
bendis just defaults to crime and 70s b-heroes while johns is all about old school buddy heroism
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:52 pm

not saying that bendis isn't the guy at marvel but at his heart bendis is a crime writer. his "big idea" stuff just doesn't work on the same level as johns and it feels incredibly forced in comparison

at their hearts loeb, johns and waid are superhero writers

i dunno i think millar is actually johns' closet competition
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:52 pm

Johns is the total embodiment of DC to me

In a way that really has no comparison, even in a franchise player like Bendis

Anyway as I am making a list of all the titles DC is doing right now, that's the way I'm looking at it who is putting up a body of work that can beat what Johns does for them, everyone else has some sort of downside or feels too slight
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:53 pm

Johns downside is that he bores the shit out of me, but I get that's personal
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:55 pm

Mandingo wrote:not saying that bendis isn't the guy at marvel but at his heart bendis is a crime writer. his "big idea" stuff just doesn't work on the same level as johns and it feels incredibly forced in comparison

at their hearts loeb, johns and waid are superhero writers

i dunno i think millar is actually johns' closet competition


bendis has done so much non crime superhero stuff
entire avengers infinity gems arc..........cmon. his big idea stuff like apocalypse's avenger horsemen absolutely worked exactly like a johns book.
millar is a good comparison but that dude has just completely checked out
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:57 pm

creationist what's the best book dc is publishing

and also what's your favorite book dc is publishing
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Postby creationist » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:57 pm

I don't like to reveal what my favorites are until the end of the year

But then I guess it's more of who did the best job for twelve months, at this moment it's probably not what you think

Maybe I'll talk about it next week
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:02 pm

manvstrees wrote:
Mandingo wrote:not saying that bendis isn't the guy at marvel but at his heart bendis is a crime writer. his "big idea" stuff just doesn't work on the same level as johns and it feels incredibly forced in comparison

at their hearts loeb, johns and waid are superhero writers

i dunno i think millar is actually johns' closet competition


bendis has done so much non crime superhero stuff
entire avengers infinity gems arc..........cmon. his big idea stuff like apocalypse's avenger horsemen absolutely worked exactly like a johns book.
millar is a good comparison but that dude has just completely checked out

the best bendis comics are the ones that work on a street level and/or are crime. can you honestly tell me that any of his avengers work feels as right as ultimate spider-man, daredevil or alias? hell powers completely devolved once he started getting all cosmic in it. he can wear the cosmic hat well enough, but it's never felt quite right
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:03 pm

creationist wrote:I don't like to reveal what my favorites are until the end of the year

But then I guess it's more of who did the best job for twelve months, at this moment it's probably not what you think

Maybe I'll talk about it next week

imma gonna guess red hood and the outlaws

and i dunno the dark knight
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:06 pm

Mandingo wrote:
manvstrees wrote:
Mandingo wrote:not saying that bendis isn't the guy at marvel but at his heart bendis is a crime writer. his "big idea" stuff just doesn't work on the same level as johns and it feels incredibly forced in comparison

at their hearts loeb, johns and waid are superhero writers

i dunno i think millar is actually johns' closet competition


bendis has done so much non crime superhero stuff
entire avengers infinity gems arc..........cmon. his big idea stuff like apocalypse's avenger horsemen absolutely worked exactly like a johns book.
millar is a good comparison but that dude has just completely checked out

the best bendis comics are the ones that work on a street level and/or are crime. can you honestly tell me that any of his avengers work feels as right as ultimate spider-man, daredevil or alias? hell powers completely devolved once he started getting all cosmic in it. he can wear the cosmic hat well enough, but it's never felt quite right


i'm uncomfortable with that convenient bendis talking point, and just immediately think "bullshit". but yeat, i think lots of his avengers work feels that way. cap holding out his hand to spidey on the raft, the illuminati meeting busted up by skrulls, the best dark reign issues.............yeah. up there with any of his other stuff easy.
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:09 pm

fair enough
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Postby Mandingo » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:10 pm

oh crap umm.. i forgot you are such a spaz mvt. grrrr
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Postby Mandingo » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:06 am

you do realize that creationist and myself basically were saying exactly that?
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Postby Mandingo » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:49 am

what about gi joe & danger girl #2
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Postby Mandingo » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:03 am

plus the danger girl girls showing up

anyway did you read the last danger girl mini? a lot of fun
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Postby jerbear » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:51 am

is Crossed any good
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Postby lunatic96 » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:03 am

If you like insanely violent Ennis comics, then it'll probably be right up your alley. I find it to be a bit much myself.
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Postby acapelli » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:48 am

bought jason's "what i did" yesterday. my first jason comics

"hey, wait..." is pretty devastating
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Postby manvstrees » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:57 am

god justice league is so middling, what was i thinking buying that instead of green lantern
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Postby Rhodes » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:12 pm

jerbear wrote:Whatd you think of the April micro Rhodes? I think it was my favorite of them.


It was enjoyable, yeah.

Hadn't read anything of Barbara Kesel's since idk when. Wasn't expecting that reveal. Spike??

Honestly the book was spinning its wheels with the Shredder arc; but now, with all these new threads Waltz and Eastman are pulling, there are few books going right now that have seen this much plot and character development in a year's time.
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Postby Rhodes » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:14 pm

Plus the next micro-series is the Fugitoid, and that rules.
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Postby Architecture » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:09 pm

I read the first trade of the new TMNT ongoing and wasn't particularly moved

So I guess we'll never see the end of Undying Love, huh
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