Greetings, PREP TIME POSSE!!!!!
We were ahead of the curve, harbingers of cool...ALL HAVE ARRIVED!
SCALPED will be on television, LEX LUTHOR has OMEGA BEAMS, everybody is up on TWD, PREACHER is coming and, (SPOILER ALERT!!!!!) NEGAN is free.
Life is good if you are a fan of the four-colored realm.
We saw this pop culture wave years before it struck the coast of MAINSTREAM AMERICA.
What's next? Do expound.
HAIL, GOD EMPEROR DOOM!
GET FREE.

Poll question: COTSeason: MILES, rocks The North Face!

Poll result (4 votes) DC COMICS' REBIRTH (0 votes) Vote CIVIL WAR 2 (0 votes) Vote THE WALKING DEAD (1 votes) Vote PREACHER on AMC (0 votes) Vote SCALPED on WGN (2 votes) Vote ED PISKOR (1 votes) Vote

1. THE WALKING DEAD
2. SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA
3. SNYDER's BATMAN

What are yours?

The Walking Dead has been at the top of the list for a while now.
Star Wars & Darth Vader are tied for #2.
Uncanny Avengers has been been stupidly entertaining.

I've been reading a lot of John Ostrander's Suicide Squad though, it's actually quite fantastic.

Sit comfortably at spots 4 and 5. The minis are heat as well. Stoked for that POE though!

Mine so far


The Vision
Star Wars
Vader



also like

All-New Wolverine
Spiderman (Miles)
Powerman & Ironfist (it has only been one issue but that was heat)

I liked the art too.

Killer stuff beginning to end. Sad that, TOM KING signed an exclusive with DC. This opening salvo SISTERS arc was amazing. Hopeless' ALL-NEW XMEN book is heat too; UNCANNY is also coming correct.

1. MONSTRESS
2. PRETTY DEADLY
3. EAST OF WEST

You still fucking with, HICKGOD?

I love it but the issues compliment each other in a way that rewards "binge" reading

Issue 22 was a GREAT stand alone joint tho

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I devoured all four of the previous trades in like two weeks, max. Fortunately it appears that trade #5 is dropping at the end of the week.

I'm completely "read by trade" these days. The only thing I'm considering on going issue-to-issue on is Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, because they mostly do one-shots or two-issue arcs. They've only done the five to six issue "made for the trade" arcs once or twice.

fhweiouow4twefeskfsejkfjweruw4uwjaagaggagahah!!!!!!

This shit is Flaaaaaaaaames!

I'm almost afraid to keep reading for fear that it won't be able to maintain this level of heat. But it's encouraging to know y'all are still into it. I got the first 3 trades from the library and haven't felt this hyped on a comic in a while

Only following 2 monthlies right now:

-Pretty Deadly
-Ms. Marvel (my son's as big a fan as me now so he won't let me stop getting it)

Been picking up Hellboy in Hell since #1 so I'll get those last few when they come out too.

Also planning to get Future Quest when it drops, love Jonny Quest and most of those 60s/70s Hanna Barbera action shows.

1. Shutter
2. Rumble
3. Batgirl

I liked #1 and #2 a whole lot at the time. Somehow the next one I picked up was #6. It was great, so I went back to pick up the intervening issues and reread the whole thing. Dynamite. Ellis firing on all cylinders.

I've read like five issues multiple times cuz that book has tons of stuff going on. Have you read Planetary by Ellis? Similarly dope stuff!

just in time for that last issue which took like 3 years to come out.

Last issue of Injection was a little too (and unnecessarily) heavy into Viv's sex life, but *shrug* it's a great little ghost-in-the-machine story. Hope it doesn't drag out forever...

Are they just reprints of the stuff already published?

I cop the single issues and pass them off to my graffiti pals to EDUCATE them on the illness of comicbooks!

TWD
Southern Bastards
Daredevil
Spider-Man
Power Man & Iron Fist
Swamp Thing
HHFT
Black Hood
Back to the Future
NIOBE: She Is Life (get on this if you haven't heard of it)

The daughter is coming home and WETUMPKA won! Ooooooph.

I am loving, Bendis' work on the main book and the sister title met my expectations. I think, Stark's parents are also, Doom's parents. I cannot wait to see how this all shakes out. The opening was c-c-c-c-cooooold!

International was a surprise to me last week. Cant wait to see where this goes. I had the same thought regarding doom and tony's parentage. Isnt Doom's ma still around? When magic is dying in Dr Strange last week i think she got bame checked?

Have you guys read Letter 44?? With Invincible on hiatus it's a current fave. Synopsis: on his first day in office an incoming president reads the letter from the outgoing prez outlying an eminent alien attack? It's really really good!!

Hope by now every comic head has Warren Ellis' Planetary, it's a fave of mine and his current Image book, Injection, reads almost like a sequel, it's really well done, trust!

Jason Aaron's Doctor Strange has been really strong too. A war on magic? Plenty doc voodoo? I'm there!

Sad Chew is coming to an end but each issue is really well crafted. Strong art (even tho Rob Guilory is a bitch! Long twitter story,dont ask)...

Too many Xmen titles cant keep em straight. The team with Magneto and M and Psylocke saving mutie healers is cool tho for the life of me who put Betsy and Sabretooth on same squad?? I remember the beatdown she caight from him in late 90s BRUTAL

The team with Rogue and Deadpool is ok, i think they are the Uncanny Avengers. Love the banter so far! Cant stomach All new Xmen with lady wolverine and angel *cringes*

Loving Amazing Spidey and Invincible Iron Man (is MJ gonna be Rescue? )

I got more but my ciggs out.... I'll go thru my current Image loves next

>Jason Aaron's Doctor Strange has been really strong too. A war
>on magic? Plenty doc voodoo? I'm there!

JASON AARON'S THOR, is bananas!!!


>Too many Xmen titles cant keep em straight. The team with
>Magneto and M and Psylocke saving mutie healers is cool tho
>for the life of me who put Betsy and Sabretooth on same
>squad?? I remember the beatdown she caight from him in late
>90s BRUTAL
>
>The team with Rogue and Deadpool is ok, i think they are the
>Uncanny Avengers. Love the banter so far! Cant stomach All new
>Xmen with lady wolverine and angel *cringes*

ALL-NEW XMEN is my piff!!! Love that book. Extraordinary is tied with the WOLVIE solo for second and Uncanny rounds out the pack. I think UNCANNY is about to get live though!!! Mystique and Fantomex, playing the wall.

>Loving Amazing Spidey and Invincible Iron Man (is MJ gonna be
>Rescue? )

I think so. BENDIS, is killing across the board. I like how he is playing a long-game and putting all the cards on the table...

it was good, but not *great* and I try to limit myself buying books to ones that I think are consistently *great*.

THat's why I'm losing interest in a bunch of stuff: Descender, Low, dropped Black Science recently as well.

I tend to do better with limited stories anyhow. I've been reading comics for a decade now and very few open-ended books have consistently held me in thrall while they were coming out: Scalped may be the only one I can think of that never really dipped.

ULTIMATES gets more crazy each issue. Do you like cosmic mindfucks? Read ULTIMATES!

WHACHUKNOW BOUT DAT PETER PARKER CORPORATE SPIDEEEEEER-MAN?

By the end of the first nature the ULTIMATES have changed the fundamental nature of Galactus.

By the beginning of the fifth issue they have journeyed outside eternity.

Just cop already!

Thanks.

Can't find that first issue for some reason, but I'm on the hunt.

FIYAH! Shell MAN, never lies. Great stuff. Cool cast, major concepts and, mad scientific. I feel like, EWING is going for that HICKGOD SCOPE but making it more digestible for the masses.

Yeah Ultimates is killin it

MARK, is home and it is 5 years later. Word on the block is, THRAGG has been out conquering space and rebuilding MUSTACHES IN SPACE COSMIC JAM!!!!

STAKES IS HIGH.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

In my opinion, SNYDER nailed the landing. It was a little confusing when, Mr. Bloom gave all the Batman robots the appearances of the rogues gallery; I enjoyed the monologue about how we are all Gotham and, Batman. New look is solid, Duke is tight. A tragic Robin coming from a fucked-up situation. 8 out of 10.

I didn't think I was game for another "origin story"... But I like how they were basically like, "Well we ain't gonna out-Miller Miller, so let's go all the way left" and just put together something really wild and fun and colorful. You had the Red Hood Gang, Bruce had 3 cuts in his eyebrows trying to wild out... And then there was Post-Apocalyptic Batman on a Dirtbike (which I what I wanted to name our son but my wife objected). Shit just had an energy to it. Felt like a manga.

How they shit on all the progress made in Uncanny X-Force by making Warren Archangel again.

EEEEEEEEE.

and Rumble for that matter

Yep, I am hyped for DC REBIRTH. DC was the jam before INFINITE CRISIS #4. I have a feeling that this reboot is going to be great! So what 3 titles are you most looking forward to? Any publisher etc.

1. ALL-STAR BATMAN
Snyder, and a rotating crew of artists exploring, BATMAN's rogues? Fuck yeah. There.

2. BLACK PANTHER
Come on, man. Marvel has been dropping that heat lately. Now it is the KING OF WAKANDA's turn to shine. I am stoked to see, BP fight for control of his nation. Plus, T'CHALLA is quickly becoming a favorite character.

3. INVINCIBLE (when it returns in APRIL)
5 years later, CORY WALKER drawing it and, THRAGG taking over space? YES PLEASE!!!!!!!

Other 3...
1.BLUE BEETLE (JURGENS+ KORD and REYES)
2.CIVIL WAR 2 (Um.....FUCK YEAH!!!!!!)
3.TWD (Whisperers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREE NEGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

further proof that Ellis is in top condition right now, killing several titles at once.

The Bond VARGR wasn't *quite* as good as the comic shop hype had me hoping - my curiosity was piqued when I overheard a guy and my favorite clerk talking about it with words like 'favorite comic out now' and 'best on the stands' a few weeks back. Finally picked everything up last week & this week and it's maybe a half notch to a notch below Velvet on the espionage tack, but that meanns it's still excellent.

Recommended (to my surprise)

Was randomly thinking about how much I enjoyed playing The Wolf Among Us since it involves the characters from the comic. The story in that game was great so if the comics are worth it I may take a dive in that as well.

I'm looking to read the entire series if it holds up.

I've read it all in trade from the library so there were gaps in my grasp of the story at points. But it was generally fun and one of the grandparents of the sudden resurgence in folklore, fairy tales, Grimm references, public domain character usage, etc. over the past fifteen years.

I think I'm going to check this out, based off your recommendation seems like something I'd get into. Story for the game was so cool, pretty nice idea of all these fairy tale characters living in modern day New York.

Not sure if I want to pay so local library may be my first step and if it really grips me I'll spend the money on a few others.

It was at times excellent. I didn't like the first two trades: the first one sets the stage/world with the oft used murder mystery deus ex machina, and the second one was kind of dull. It really starts to get moving once it starts being about "bigger" things. "March of the Wooden Soldiers", vol. 4, is amazing, and it's where it starts hitting it's stride. Only real blip between that and #100 is "The Great Fables Crossover", which was dumb.

I fell off on it when it got past the #100s. I have no idea it stayed good or not.

WHATCHU UP TO, MAGNETO?
Yikes. This was flambe! Magneto, risking lives and killing in the name of. Acting all coy with your top secret plans around a squad of killers? Ooooooooh, gangsta! And you got, RAVEN and FANTOMEX off the reservation? Dang, yo! Sooooo good.

NEGAN, is going to assassinate all The Whisperers and steal, RICK's thunder.
Furthermore, EUGENE is in touch with some remnant of the US Military.

Kill em all and then Rick has to deal with the fact Negan saved his Bacon

Interesting theory

Their numbers aren't that many and yes, NEGAN will slaughter them all. This alludes to the fact that, RICK is growing more and more paranoid and is on the path to total lunacy.

I think the real threat will stem from, RICK hiding the truth from his people. The new group is also kind of suspect too...

I now hope and want this to happen.

all fairly interesting, fun books I never see anyone mentioning...

still reading Nova, but just because....pass on the others.

...can't wait to see where it ultimately goes

commence mind expansion protocols

ACTION + SPY genres usually bore me to tears...
ACTION+ SPY + WAID + SAMNEE = HOT HOT FIYAH FLAMES!!!!!!
Black Widow is two issues deep, get in on it while you still can.

I did not buy in to the hype nor did I really get where it all came from, after I put the issue down. Shit just read on some expected cliches and redundant, T'CHALLA having issues shit.

about 2/3 of the way through now; I'm unfamiliar with the source material but man the book & the story are just wonderful.

My mom got Daytripper from her library and loved it. Reminded me that I needed to keep up with these dudes

I knew she read Daytripper and loved it (as did I), but I haven't actually had a chance to read Two Brothers yet. I got on to these guys from Cassanova and have loved everything else I've read that they're involved with. Been meaning to checkout their Hellboy-verse stuff (BPRD or something?)

...hadn't been in a couple years.... paper comics are really expensive LOL.... I love the feel of my paper comics but I'm really used to digital, and spending $15 for 3 books felt like too much.....Made me miss the $1.25 or less books I remember salivating over in the stores as a kid

...Anyway, BP was pretty cool.... I really like that they don't ignore the craziness Wakanda has been through the last half decade or so, even though I thought maybe Reed retconned that part just to hook up his homie T'Challa

I picked up the new #1 cause dude seems like a cool character but I'm ignorant about this guy

what other marvel characters is he associated with?

SWARMING ANUBISES AND DOGHEAD DOCS were that piff. I do not like crazy outside of BATMAN. Weak shit, yo.

Enjoyed the first issue a lot

...A gold LIMEY robot with feminine tendencies. I vibe with the art and the spiders but that issue was pretty LETHAL WEAPON with a cursing, MEL GIBSON. Weak!

JUGHEAD on the other hand is phenomenal. Comics should not make you laugh, it is not their purpose. JUGHEAD makes me snicker like a biznatch!

DARTH VADER, stays killing Ls against his employer. His breezy turned all evil and the droids (COOL IN THIS BOOK!!!!!) slaughtered allot of fleshy ones. Dope.

Keeping BATMAN, adding ALL STAR BATMAN, might go with BLUE BEETLE and, patiently waiting on DC to announce the, HICKGOD book.

REBIRRRRRRRTH!

my God. Mongo's comments in the GD comics post last week seem generous when I finally saw what he was talking about. It's like DC decided to take the abandoned WTF? banner from last year or whenever it was and applt it to THE WHOLE UNIVERSE.

>Keeping BATMAN, adding ALL STAR BATMAN, might go with BLUE
>BEETLE

Ted Kord is somehow alive again, yeah? And Jaime for that matter? (Didn't he die too?)

and, patiently waiting on DC to announce the, HICKGOD
>book.
>
>REBIRRRRRRRTH!

I could swear I've seen the 'Rebirth' title somewhere before....

I haven't been this confused since I read Intersect

lightest book from Millar in a while, glad he kept it that way all the way through

QUASAR, IS BACK.
RED SKULL, IS BACK.
ZEMO, IS MIA.
TWO CAPS.
THUNDERBOLTS.
NEW HYDRA.
MARIA HILL, SAYS FUCK YOU GUYS.

DOPE.

Loved this issue. Snyder, closed the chapter on one of the best threads that I feared he had left hanging. It was brilliant too. Joker, got closure in one panel. Amazing work and aside from the final issues of DEATH OF THE FAMILY and COURT OF OWLS, Snyder produced a near flawless run with, Capullo. Excellent work.

GALACTUS, squishing CHAOS' dome-piece and bloodying, ORDER's floating head? Dang, yo! Galactus does what Galactus wants! Who chained, ETERNITY? Thanos...I don't think so!

B. SHELLS, put me on that fire!!!!! Follow suit, PTP.

CUZ GOLD LACTUS AINT HAVIN THAT SHIT

http://www.amazon.com/Stay-Home-Scarface-Raising-Your/dp/1942099096

It's called Stay At Home Scarface, and it's an adult coloring/activity/comic book about Tony Montana discovering it's harder to raise a kid than it is to run a drug empire.

It's pretty much the Watchmen of gangster/baby themed adult coloring books

y'all are crazy

And what's AFKAP up to??

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2964522&mesg_id=2964522&page=

I think Amazon shipped it to me possibly before it's "real" release date.

Regardless, it's hilarious. Even showed the wife some of it, and she thought it was great.

And yes, there is no pain like stepping on a Lego. I don't even have kids and I've discovered that.

>And yes, there is no pain like stepping on a Lego. I don't
>even have kids and I've discovered that.

Appreciate 'cha, sir

1. CIVIL WAR WAS FIRE FLAMES. ANT-MAN and SPIDER-MAN, were my fave faves!
2. FCBD CIVIL WAR. SHE-HULK and RHODEY, GETTING GOT? OOOOOWEEEEEE?!
3. FCBD CAPTAIN AMERICA (THE WHITE ONE). HYDRA IS ISIS!!!!! YIKES.

LOVE & ROCKETS, always a pleasure
HILDA/FANTASY SPORTS, I dig what Nobrow is putting out. Love the colors.
BLACK MASK, bc I was a big fan of "We Can Never Go Home"
COMIC LAB, which I haven't read yet

y tu?

.....AND MOST CONSISTENT SERIES OF THE PAST DECADE! SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN INCLUDED.

Fuck your long-game, Hickman. Slott, been at it for 10+ years. The heart of the saga? OCK vs. Spidey! Ever since BIG TIME, SPIDER-MAN has been at the number one spot. And yes, the comic is hilarious, smart and, a great study on character evolution. ASM, is constantly evolving and offering refreshing spins on on our lead, while successfully telling a long-form story. Fuck your GAME OF THRONES, Tiger has it all.

this book is so good it's obscene

it's heartbreaking how infrequently it comes out but they have *NEVER* put out a bad issue

I'm dying to see how the next arc plays out (and what surprises await)

Amazing series. Not SCALPED-level but damn good.

In particular because the art is so good. I just want full Bastards every time it comes out, so I'll suck it up and wait.

Also, fuckin Obama

By Aaron & the they are pretty great

Loving it so far. AARON and RM, are MAGICAL MOVE MAKERS!!!!!!!!!!

Allen, barely escapes a political assassination. MUSTACHES IN SPACE continue to destroy and conquer. What's that, EVE? You had a man. TRIFLING!!!! MUSTACHES IN SPACE heading to EARTH....ROBOT-RUN EARTH, FOOL! Hide yo kids, hide yo wife....THEY KILLING ERRYONE OUT HURR!!!!

.

Amazing Spider-Man steps but yo, aside from ASM.....VINCY TAKES THE CAKE ALL THE WAY TO THE MUTHAFUCKING BANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MUSTACHES IN MUTHAFUCKING SPACE >>>>>>>>>> EVERYTHING ELSE

BIG BOY WEEK!! The first in a long, long time.

And Nighthawk #1 too

All of it. All of it. All of it.

And then the last page and epilogue destroys everything but mostly my brain

What if DC was cool again?

















EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Dude is running things on the film end as a full-time job now.

"Rebirth" served as a basic thesis statement for the direction of both DC comics and films: bringing back hope, friendship, love, and optimism.

It's likely not going to make me start reading mainstream DC stuff again, but it was an interesting step in the right direction.

The meta mea culpa sentiment was cool to me. But I'm still kinda like "we don't believe you/you need new people" about the whole thing.

I am onboard with the GL book. CRUZ and BAEZ, are ill. Sticking with BATMAN because, TOM KING is fresh with it and, I am adding SUICIDE SQUAD because, JIM LEE is a wizard and...GJ is done with JL. Sad but dope end to that run...

Nice seeing, Wally break on through and the overall REBIRTH execution was stellar. Not too keen on the WATCHMEN hype. I am impartial and in the minority when it comes to, MOORE's creations and their impact on comics.

Intrigued by the three Js...

I might fuck with JSA depending on the writer and I am patiently waiting for that HICKGOD release.

In the right hands that is a really dope idea to explore. In the wrong hands it can go bad 100 different ways which it probably will but still... At least they're going for it. Whatever *it* is remains tbd

....This read as an apology to that single issue. I am not mad. I am satisfied but skeptical of DC's new initiative.

Look! Chill, yo. RED SKULL, manufactured the ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL. The cosmic cube, KOBIK (from PLEASANT HILL) restored, CAP's vigor and youth. Something more is afoot here, folks! CAP, ain't no killer! Trust. No peace.

NICK SPENCER, is an adept writer aaaaaand this twist was long hinted at waaaaaay early in, Remender's run. I am a huge CAP fan and I love this new wrinkle. HATERS? No dice, fuck 'em!

SPOILERS.

RHODEY = DEAD
JENNIFER = DEAD


In short, MARVEL, IS NOT FUCKING AROUND!

*Menace II Society

Thanos mopped them niggas, and it was ugly.

HE RIDES WITH THE NOW FREE, GUCCI MANE!

Dropped BATMAN. Heard the REBIRTH issue was gross and kind of whack!
Loved the GREEN LANTERNS REBIRTH issue; down for the cause!
Sinestro, out on some takeover shit, NEW! OUTCAST GUARDIAN, BAZ and JESSICA have tons of potential (BEST NEW CHARACTERS TO ROCK DC IN FOREVER!!!!!) and...RED DAWN!!!!!!!!
Subscribing to GREEN LANTERNS and that HAL JORDAN title.
Also giving SUICIDE SQUAD REBIRTH a shot to win me over...

...different...

I don't see myself sticking with Baz and Cruz for long.

Superman was kinda just there.

I actually enjoyed GA the most last week.