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Re: Comic books
« Reply #100 on: October 20, 2015, 05:08:13 AM »
I got the impression he'd already been born before the Battle of Endor but gotta say, you make a good case for believing otherwise.
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« Reply #101 on: October 20, 2015, 02:42:09 PM »
a limited set immediately post-Endor that's about the parents of one of the Force Awakens main characters

The best part about that book is the very strong implication that Poe Dameron was conceived to the song "Yub Nub" with Wedge Antilles right outside.

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« Reply #102 on: June 07, 2016, 04:02:54 AM »
I'm not much for comic books, but my evil SJW friend loaned me some of hers a few months back, so...

Squirrel Girl - #1 & #2, the recent run done by the "Dinosaur Comics" guy.  This was really funny!  I really liked it.  Anyway, seems notable to bring up here since I"m pretty sure Squirrel Girl is Marvel's shot at the equivalent of the RPGDL for comic books - the people who extensively analyze every character's power set, how they match up with everyone else, why that one issue from 1996 should be ignored, why character A is totally stronger than character B, etc.  But the real answer is that whoever wins is whoever the writer wants to win.  Squirrel Girl, whose power is largely, um, squirrels, gets to beat up all the Avengers off-panel because that'd be funny.  It's not even a big deal!  She famously beat up Dr. Doom back in the day, and even Galactus isn't that big a threat.  No, it's evil Norse troll god-squirrels that are the REAL problem.


Ms. Marvel - #1, the new one.  It's *slightly* more serious than Squirrel Girl, but still pretty nudge nudge wink wink about taking comic evil plots TOO seriously, which is fine by me.  Anyway this series is famous for having a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel who is a Muslim, which is always tricky, since frankly religion doesn't normally combo too well with superhero universes?  Either you have some alternate universe where there's hadith about how to deal with Galactus and such (and risk making it not resonant to people familiar with the "real" version of the religion), or there's some vast crisis of faith about how {Your Religion} is clearly wrong since the Norse pantheon exists and Moses/ Jesus / Muhammad/ Krishna / Buddha / etc. didn't include many teachings about how to deal with supervillains, which seems a colossal oversight.  Like, shouldn't you be able to pray Galactus away?  Would God really let Earth get devoured?  ANYWAY, smartly enough, the book doesn't actually focus THAT much on the religious side, and keeps the focus more cultural.  The immigrant experience in America & all that.

Anyway, I was amused.  The only complaint is that the #1 series begins to take its villain plot slightly more seriously toward the end, and it's something that even given the usual extra "it's a comic universe" nitpicking defense, I didn't really buy.  If you've seen the anime Eden of the East, it's a bit similar a note as far as "society disrespects the young generation", which is fair enough, just this was a little over-the-top.  Still, a minor complaint at most.

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Re: Comic books
« Reply #103 on: June 07, 2016, 06:45:52 AM »
Ah, so you're looking at Volume 1 of Squirrel Girl then.  I think the second volume (Both of which started in 2015... as in, yes, marvel published two distinct "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1"s last year.) only continues on the path of awesome and the book gets better and better continually.

I'm not nearly as in love with volume 2 of Ms. Marvel as I was with the first though.  It's still solid, easily staying on my buy list, but the first storyline lost me a bit.  I don't think I have a strong  enough connection to urban life to really feel where the supporting cast is coming from.
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Re: Comic books
« Reply #104 on: June 07, 2016, 05:35:11 PM »
Squirrel Girl, whose power is largely, um, squirrels, gets to beat up all the Avengers off-panel because that'd be funny.  It's not even a big deal!  She famously beat up Dr. Doom back in the day, and even Galactus isn't that big a threat.  No, it's evil Norse troll god-squirrels that are the REAL problem.

Jesus fucking christ I wish they could come up with a new joke

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« Reply #105 on: June 12, 2016, 02:47:02 AM »
CK: Pretty sure it was #2 with the evil Norse squirrel, riots over database design, dinosaurs attacking the statue of liberty?  I actually read #2 first then #1.

Squirrel Girl, whose power is largely, um, squirrels, gets to beat up all the Avengers off-panel because that'd be funny.  It's not even a big deal!  She famously beat up Dr. Doom back in the day, and even Galactus isn't that big a threat.  No, it's evil Norse troll god-squirrels that are the REAL problem.

Jesus fucking christ I wish they could come up with a new joke

#1, I don't follow comics and I'd never heard of Squirrel Girl before, so it was new to me.

#2, if not obvious, "happening off-panel" means that the comic spends like 1 panel on it then moves on.  If you're worried that it's all "lol Squirrel Girl smashes a bunch of famous Marvel characters", then no, that's just something happening in the background, the actual comic is doing its own insane thing.

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« Reply #106 on: June 12, 2016, 04:16:44 AM »
Yeah, if there's one thing Ryan North has gotten real good at it's coming up with new jokes within an established setup.
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Re: Comic books
« Reply #107 on: June 12, 2016, 04:42:27 AM »
CK: Pretty sure it was #2 with the evil Norse squirrel, riots over database design, dinosaurs attacking the statue of liberty?  I actually read #2 first then #1.

Squirrel Girl, whose power is largely, um, squirrels, gets to beat up all the Avengers off-panel because that'd be funny.  It's not even a big deal!  She famously beat up Dr. Doom back in the day, and even Galactus isn't that big a threat.  No, it's evil Norse troll god-squirrels that are the REAL problem.

Jesus fucking christ I wish they could come up with a new joke

#1, I don't follow comics and I'd never heard of Squirrel Girl before, so it was new to me.

#2, if not obvious, "happening off-panel" means that the comic spends like 1 panel on it then moves on.  If you're worried that it's all "lol Squirrel Girl smashes a bunch of famous Marvel characters", then no, that's just something happening in the background, the actual comic is doing its own insane thing.

I'm just disappointed, not surprised. There's only one Squirrel Girl joke and they've been retelling it for thirty years.

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Re: Comic books
« Reply #108 on: September 05, 2017, 12:52:41 AM »
I thought we had a thread for this! Wow, it's been a while.

Anyway, got Ed Brubaker's Velvet for the birthday this year, and just read that. It is good. Very entertaining in that fast-paced, thrilling page-turner way. I'm not sure how I feel about the plot reveals, but getting to them was a great trip. I will probably have to reread later to figure out where I place it against his other work, other work read by me being Fatale and The Fade Out. Fade Out is clearly the winner and the thing I would recommend that people read, just not sure the order after that. Brubaker is bee's knees.

But mainly I've been meaning to post in this thread to hype Monstress at people (since I got that for the birthday last year). Monstress is fucking incredible shit and you should read it. The setting is an Asian-mythology-slash-steampunkish fantasy world where the human half severely one-upped Gestahl in finding gruesome ways to extract power from the non-human half. There are ninja cats and they're 100% serious and that is amazing. I love it when someone commits to material this far out and plays it completely straight. The writing walks that fine line between brutality and empathy that is extremely difficult to land effectively, but pretty much guarantees my loyalty when someone can actually do it. Also the art is mindbogglingly inventive and it's about the only series I can think of that is seriously dedicated to making you sympathize with the Lovecraftian abomination. This is one of my new favorite things.

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« Reply #109 on: September 23, 2018, 08:27:02 PM »
But mainly I've been meaning to post in this thread to hype Monstress at people (since I got that for the birthday last year). Monstress is fucking incredible shit and you should read it. The setting is an Asian-mythology-slash-steampunkish fantasy world where the human half severely one-upped Gestahl in finding gruesome ways to extract power from the non-human half. There are ninja cats and they're 100% serious and that is amazing. I love it when someone commits to material this far out and plays it completely straight. The writing walks that fine line between brutality and empathy that is extremely difficult to land effectively, but pretty much guarantees my loyalty when someone can actually do it. Also the art is mindbogglingly inventive and it's about the only series I can think of that is seriously dedicated to making you sympathize with the Lovecraftian abomination. This is one of my new favorite things.

Repost because volume 3 now exists. I'd say the pacing is off compared to the first two, but it's still good. Fucking read this shit, you nerds.