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A few more #cosplay highlights from earlier today at #LongBeachComicCon. #GreenArrow, #Azirophale and #Crowley from #GoodOmens, #WonderWoman and #CaptainAmerica again, and Anger from #InsideOut.
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Some highlights from the #cosplay I saw today at #LongBeachComicCon: #WonderWoman and #CaptainAmerica, #Gwenpool, #Katana, and #RamonaFlowers.
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#DCComics #MarvelComics #ScottPilgrim #Comics #LBCC #LBCC2019 #ComicCon
Going to miss #Vertigo, but IMO it’s less the name than the editorial independence that matters. Not sure if DC Black Label will have that. #DCComics
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-consolidates-publishing/ @comicsbeat
As for consolidating DC Ink and Zoom into DC Kids…I’ve got to agree with the commenter who points out that it’s likely to turn kids in the 8-12 target audience away from it. Kids that age don’t like feeling talked down to.
Link: “Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
“Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
I feel like I ought to write something for @SpeedForce
about what’s going on with Heroes in Crisis and The Flash, but unlike anger, severe disappointment just isn’t motivating.
Fortunately, Ed wrote something better than I could have, and broadened it to the way Heroes in Crisis is handling mental illness as compared to The Unstoppable Wasp.
“Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
The #RainbowRaider steals priceless art at #WonderCon2019 !
#Cosplay #TheFlash #comics #rogues @wondercon #WonderCon https://www.instagram.com/p/BvptQWLDHKb/
Amazing costume and a great photo!! The painting is the perfect added detail 😀
It’s hard to tell in this shot, but the painting’s the cover on a messenger bag (she hid the straps to pretend to be stealing the painting), so it’s not just a perfect detail, it’s useful too!
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Photo taken at: Wondercon
The #RainbowRaider steals priceless art at #WonderCon2019 !
#Cosplay #TheFlash #comics #rogues @wondercon #WonderCon
Photo taken at: Wondercon
#BlackFlash #cosplay spotted at #WonderCon today!
Aquaman Funnies by Kerry Callen:
http://kerrycallen.blogspot.com/2019/02/aquaman-funnies-from-mad-6.html
A page of comic strips about Aquaman in the style of Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, The Far Side, and DIlbert.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to open an issue of The Flash since I saw the list of casualties in Heroes In Crisis #1. I’ve been buying them. I’ve picked the next one up a couple of times to read it. But I just haven’t been able to do it.
I’m getting close to the why-are-you-buying-it-if-you-aren’t-reading-it point.
Oh wow: Colleen Doran adapts Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples.”
If you haven’t heard of the short story, it reverses the Snow White/evil queen tale into one where the new queen is desperately trying to protect her kingdom from her evil stepdaughter.
Think of other legends that involve pale skin and cutting out hearts…
NSFW (according to Tumblr): Top 10 Art Posts You Won’t See on your Dashboard This Week
Seriously, these make absolutely no sense. There is nothing NSFW in this list, or that would violate the specific rules given.
I was already numb to any interest in reading Heroes in Crisis. Having read the list of confirmed deaths in the first issue alone, I’ve changed my decision from “maybe pick up the trade if reviews are good” to “nope.”
I’m tired of any character who isn’t currently headlining a book being one editorial decision away from cannon fodder.
And I’m tired of comics repeating story beats just to repeat them without looking at what made them work (or not) in the first place.
This sounds amazing: BOOM is going to be doing graphic novels based on The Magicians (the books, not the TV show), starting with an OGN next summer focusing on Alice: her life before Brakebills and the events of the first book from her POV.
I’m not familiar with artist Pius Bak, but writer Lilah Sturges is a perfect choice.
Boom! Studios Brings Lev Grossman’s THE MAGICIANS to Comics
THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY original graphic novel is slated for release by the publisher in July 2019.
I found this old post I wrote on how Marvel or DC would have milked Lord of the Rings as an “event” comic book, with tie-ins, spin-offs, and character spotlights…
…and realized it’s not that far off from what the Hobbit movies actually *did*.
What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
@lapis @zephasaurus_hex
Some of the #comics I’ve read on that list:
Daytripper is amazing.
I quite liked the original Elfquest.
Fun Home is really good.
Planetary is a fascinating exploration of superhero/scifi tropes, but works best if you know the references.
Transmetropolitan is really good, but not everyone’s cup of tea.
Sandman is epic, but start w/the 2nd collection & go back for part 1 if you like it.
Astro City is a great reimagining of superheroes, hopeful & standing on its own.
@lapis @zephasaurus_hex To clarify with Sandman: It took 8 issues for the series to find its voice. So while the first collection establishes the setting and characters, it’s a very different tone from the rest of the series.
@lapis @zephasaurus_hex Oh, and Hark! A Vagrant! is a lot of fun also, especially if you like literary and historical humor. It’s a collection of unrelated comic strips rather than an ongoing story.
I’ve started listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of 52, and I can’t get over Booster Gold’s totally surfer accent, dude.
After listening to the audio version, I re-read Final Crisis, Rogues Revenge & Superman Beyond, plus read some of the tie-ins for the first time.
– Superman Beyond is essential.
– Submit (Black Lightning/Tattooed Man) adds a lot by showing the personal impact of the event, plus fills in plot.
– Resist (Checkmate) broadens the scope but can be skipped. (I do like using the captive villain AIs as a way to get around the ALE’s control of communication channels)
#AmReading #comics #FinalCrisis
Rogues Revenge was in the works before Final Crisis, and it shows. It still works as Rogues: Rebirth, but now I think the FC connections hurt more than they help.
Revelations is a much tighter story that weaves in and out of issues 2 & 3 (if not seamlessly), picking up the Crime Bible & Vandal Savage and showing the early stages of Darkseid’s takeover. I didn’t read it originally, but I’m glad I finally got around to it.
#comics #FinalCrisis #AmReading
I didn’t re-read Requiem. I still haven’t picked up Rage of the Red Lanterns. (I’d forgotten the Alpha Lanterns were involved in Final Crisis.)
I also didn’t re-read Legion of Three Worlds, which IIRC has nothing to do with Final Crisis except Superman passes through it between Superman: Beyond and his return to Final Crisis when Braniac 5 shows him the Miracle Machine. (3 versions of the LSH, none of which were the one that I actually followed).
I do want to re-read Multiversity now, though.
Finished listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of FInal Crisis. It actually flows better than the comic, especially toward the end, when the comic starts fragmenting the narrative (which is great metatext, but there’s a lot of “what just happened?”). Scenes are fleshed out, and the multi-flashback structure of the last chapter is made linear instead.
#amreading #comics
A lot of that is probably the novelization it was based on (it credits the story only to Greg Cox, with no mention of Grant Morrison or any of the artists, which seems a shame), but I don’t think it would work well as a book.
The voice acting, music and sound make up for a lot of the lost visual punch and visual structure of the story, and it needs more than just the words.
