The Comics Thread

Super Aggro Crag · Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:52 pm

Talk about comics with me fuckos

So Marvel in their quest for more money has decided to release variant covers with Mary Jane with super powers. Ain't that fucking great. After all last time this happened the house of ideas gave us such wonders as Spider-Gwen and Gwenpool. I look forward to MJayverine and Iron Jane! I'm being sarcastic. I wonder which of parkers sexual partners will get a variant next? How about Skip, the guy who molested him as a teen?

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:25 pm #271112

one time I read Bone

That was alright

Super Aggro Crag · Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:14 pm

Why doesn't the hulk wear a shirt?

calzilla1 · Post by **calzilla1** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:17 pm #271568

Web comics?

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:32 pm #271580

Super Aggro Crag wrote:Why doesn't the hulk wear a shirt?

sex appeal

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:16 am #272349

Best comic series ever.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:10 pm #272544

Ricotez wrote:(fuckhuge image)

Best comic series ever.

when I was in elementary school we had to do half the day in french because lol canada and we had this + tintin to read and it was fucking awesome

I never really got the french because it was written above my level but tintin especially was great

Post by **Armhulen** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:38 pm #272599

Qbopper wrote:
Ricotez wrote:(fuckhuge image)

Best comic series ever.
when I was in elementary school we had to do half the day in french because lol canada and we had this + tintin to read and it was fucking awesome

I never really got the french because it was written above my level but tintin especially was great

god i am SO DOWN WITH TINTIN

Knaive · Post by **Knaive** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:22 pm #272662

New Iron Fist show came out and it was dogshit. New Iron Fist comic came out and it looks promising.

also if we're gonna talk webcomics, nedroid and oglaf are cool

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:02 am

I'm not an iron fist fan

Screemonster · Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:18 am

there was some tumblr whinging about iron fist and the like because "reee stereotypes"
Like they tried to make a comparison like "Auuugh you can't just have ninjas as baddies how stupid would bit be if a japanese hero went to investigate a corrupt american corporation's headquarters and cowboys just burst out into the room with lassos or a chinese guy crashed his plane in texas and returned to the east with the ancient art of gunslinging"

the general response was "I'd totally fucking watch that actually"

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 3:23 am #273186

Qbopper wrote:
Ricotez wrote:(fuckhuge image)

Best comic series ever.
when I was in elementary school we had to do half the day in french because lol canada and we had this + tintin to read and it was fucking awesome

I never really got the french because it was written above my level but tintin especially was great

Asterix is chock-full of French inside jokes and puns, so even if you spoke French fluently most of the jokes would've still gone over your head.

But the translations all try to localize the jokes into their own languages, so I encourage you to just read the English translations instead. From what I've seen they're very good. I read the Dutch translations myself, which are divine.

Super Aggro Crag · Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:20 pm

Remember the time jimmy Saville molested Minnie the minx?

Lumbermancer · Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:16 pm

Donald Duck.

Look at those con men, jesus fucking christ I want to strangle each and every one of them.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:25 pm #273338

truly a perfect example of the horrors of a capitalist society

scrooge taught those three well

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:55 pm #273369

Lucky Luke is also a great French comic. Takes place in the 1800s in America, and follows the adventures of a Pony Express rider/cowboy/vigilante named Lucky Luke, and his deadpan snarker horse Jolly Jumper.

Lumbermancer · Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:14 pm

Why are you explaining Lucky Luke?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:27 pm #273440

why do people explain things

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:41 pm

After months of blaming retailers for falling sales and mocking DC for being "regressive" with DC rebirth actually suceeding, marvel finally admits tumblario and huffpuigi doesn't buy comics and they shouldn't put all their eggs in that basket

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:50 pm #275257

Suggesting the answer to the question of why people's tastes suddenly changed was better answered by Direct Market retailers, Gabriel told ICv2 that "What we heard was that people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don't know that that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales."

Gabriel described what was no longer viable as "things that we had been doing successfully for the past three years..."

"We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against," he explained. " That was difficult for us because we had a lot of fresh, new, exciting ideas that we were trying to get out and nothing new really worked."

Gabriel cited other factors for the market shift, including the economy, specifically events occurring in October/November that affected how consumers wanted to spend their money (with the unsaid implication of the U.S. presidential election), unease and lack of cash flow due to returns to Diamond Comic Distributors from DC's "Rebirth" initiative, a glut of product, and just a general sense of anger over all these issues.

"There was anger because of story reasons for all of us."

"It was the old things coming back in that time period, three books in particular, Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, that had Spider-Man and Mary Jane married, that worked," he further explained. "The Venom book worked and the Thanos book worked. You can take what you want out of who might be enjoying those three books, but it is definitely a specific type of comic book reader, comic book collector that really liked those three series."

They still don't understand why the backlash happened.

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:56 pm

Boy I sure do hate brown people and women!

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:31 pm #275271

i don't know what the context is here

did they make some new comics that happened to have minorities/women that were just kinda meh or something

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:43 pm #275273

>Captain America is now an evil nazi! New Captain America is a minority.
>Thor is now unworthy of his own name and hammer. New Thor is a woman.
>Tony Stark is gone (not that anyone seriously misses him). New Iron Man is a black loli. Also, Doctor Doom. Still trying to figure out which one is worse.
>Hulk is now an asian.
>Red Skull is now borrowing his rhetoric from Trump rallies.
>Just in case you weren't sure where Marvel stands on the elections, here's Trump as supervillain MODOK

And it goes on, and on, and on, and they keep shoving it down our throats. Don't get me started on this disgusting America series.

Thank god I'm not a Marvel fan!

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:57 pm #275275

Sort of. Kind of. For example, former cap is now the center of Secret Empire story, while Thor has now the Unworthy Thor comic. Meanwhile, in the actual Thor series...

This is not edited in any way.

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:06 pm #275279

Yes, you're out of touch. This is Marvel now.

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:30 pm

Don't forget that literally every black superhero in marvel shave a secret club they all hang out at to talk about how hard it is to be black. Edcept for Blade. He doesn't care about anything but draculas

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:52 pm #275292

the censored meme panels are deadpool humor why are they spilling out of it

I mean it's obvious from some of my other posts where I lie politically but even I was shaking my head at that second image (though I did exhale air through my nose at the thor one)

no one wants that shit in their comics, jesus christ, do they really think people will read that and go "HAHA YEAH THIS IS GREAT"? people on the right will be feeling "wtf is this shit, why are they attacking me" and people on the left will think "why is this in a fucking comic book

InsaneHyena · Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:07 pm

WTF, I love Red Skull now

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:32 pm #275301

ok can we talk about comics and not politics now

has anyone else read that one Archie spinoff with the zombies? found it really damn good, was fucking weird as hell to see them start to swear though

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:01 pm #275473

Marvel had to face the fact that their readerbase consists largely of male crybabies who can't handle womyn or black people in their comics and will scream and cry about evil SJWs when someone even mentions the word "minority", but at least they tried.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:29 pm #275480

cmon Rico after seeing the actual published examples in this thread you can not possibly think that only "muh sjw" is to blame for this failing can you?

TheColdTurtle · Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:02 pm

^
There is diversity and then there is marvel. Just look at the examples in the thread and most of marvels new comics.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:17 pm #275491

it's hilarious how offended you guys get by those examples

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:29 pm #275495

I'm not offended in the slightest, but it is very clear they are trying to push a specific political agenda and calling people crybabies because they don't want to pay money to read that shit is retarded. I would think it was just as stupid if it was a right wing agenda. Quit trying to trivialise peoples opinions

Screemonster · Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:39 pm

"I don't want to waste my time reading this tat so I'll spend my money on something I enjoy"
"BLUH BLUH BLUH SO OFFENDED TO BROWN PEOPLE OFFEND YOU BLUH BLUH CRYBABIES"

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:03 pm #275512

i am curious Ricotez do you buy comic books?

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:13 pm #275552

Ricotez wrote:it's hilarious how offended you guys get by those examples

dude even the most left of wing comicbook readers must think this is fucking embarrassing, no one is "offended"

also rip comic thread it turned into politics 2.0

Knaive · Post by **Knaive** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:53 am #275611

quick post webcomics

calzilla1 · Post by **calzilla1** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:09 am #275654

InsaneHyena · Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:33 am

Speaking of comics, here in Russia we don't really have Marvel or DC. At least if we have comic books, I haven't seen any. But we do have this.

Super Aggro Crag · Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:14 pm

Cool covers! How are the internal?

Lumbermancer · Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:44 pm

Is this a comic, I think it's a comic.

Spoiler:

InsaneHyena · Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:04 pm

Super Aggro Crag wrote:Cool covers! How are the internal?

I've only read the first few issues of each years ago, but they seemed pretty shitty to me - except for Major Thunder, it was decent.

Quick rundown on each:
Major Thunder is a russian cop with no superpowers, but crazy analytical mind. He's like Batman, but no mask or cape.
Red Fury is a spy/criminal. From what I can remember, she's literally Black Widow with serial numbers scratched off, and on her every cover she's barely clothed.
Enoch is a time-travelling priest. Judging from his first issue, his enemies are jews and catholics.
There's also Demonslayer (literally - Impfighter), essentially a Spawn/Hellboy character.

Major Thunder is getting a film adaptation, but since we're talking russian cinema here, it'll be shit. The trailer looks decent, though.

If there's interest, I can translate this to english, but I bet someone before me did it already.

InsaneHyena · Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:06 pm

Oh shit, there are actually official translations. You can read first issues of each for free. They translated Enoch as "Friar" for some reason, though.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:07 pm #276212

Friars historically were kinda link monks with the church i think

InsaneHyena · Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:10 pm

Yeah, I've had a brainfart.

Knaive · Post by **Knaive** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 2:57 pm #276985

It's Wednesday motherfuckers! New comics out today! Whatchu reading?

The new Iron Fist is like Mortal Kombat in comic form so I'm diggin it

Super Aggro Crag · Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:42 pm

The new America Chavez book is so bad that its almost an example of Dadaism. Its practically incomprehensible.

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:49 pm #277024

Funny you should say that, because I was just reading it. At no point I had any idea what's going on.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:33 pm #277051

is it bad that I unironically want a modern reboot of the Doom comic