Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Printable View
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Somebody's gonna get Fucked Up next issue.
Holy shit yes. I hope whatever happens to that asshole is the most gruesome twisted and drawn out death ever drawn in the pages of Invincible (which would put it in the running for most gruesome in a comic ever IMO).
That shit was just traumatic. Possibly worse than Walking Dead 48. I mean, shit is supposed to be terrible in the zombie apocalypse, but up until recently, Invincible has been light on genuine tragedy. I think that comic fucked up my day when I read it. I have never gotten so worked up about characters in a superhero comic. Easily one of my favorite books right now.
BTW, if ANY of you in this thread are using iPhones or the iPod touch and you haven't picked up the comiczeal app,do it now or shoot yourselves in the face. It is amazing, easy to use and makes taking a shit ANYWHERE an infinitely more enjoyable experience. Easily the best $2.99 I've spent in the app store.
"So whatever you did to piss us off --thank you. This has been fun."Quote:
Originally Posted by JM
I haven't read much at all of Invincible, just the first 15 or so issues and the most recent couple of issues, so #63 didn't really hit me. (Pun intended given the contents! zing)
Well actually it did, earlier in the issue when it looked like the kid brother was going to get ripped in half. I really thought that was going to happen and got more worked up over that. So perhaps the bait and switch took the air out of what followed.
Or maybe the only thing missing was for the dead girlfriend to be stuffed in a refrigerator. Comics!
Through the run a LOT of time is spent on said character, so it's kind of a thing when it happens.
The kind of a thing was kind of telegraphed, btw.
Much more "meh" for me is the new creative team for Justice League of America, James Robinson and Mark Bagley. What's his black face, the guy who got canned for saying online all the ridiculous editorial interference he had to put up with, I didn't think much of his JLA (unsurprising given the editorial bullshit perhaps). Then again I didn't like what I read of his Fantastic Four either for that matter, from what little I was able to stomach before thankfully moving on.
Speaking of JLoA, screw Brad Meltzer for this stupid shit where every hero in the DC Universe knows each other's secret identities. And calling each other by a first name basis.
I do like the announcement that Phil Jimenez will handle the art chores for the next Astonishing X-Men arc. Which, hopefully, will be finished by 2011. All one 6-part story of course because that's how Warren Ellis writes his funnybooks.
I dropped all my superhero books, but was thinking of getting JLA again because I used to dig James Robinson a lot. Starman and Leave it to Chance was hot shit. Thanks for saving me a few bucks a month.
If I had a pull list, it would be less than four books. The Marvel/DC superhero stuff is well into wiggity-wack, even though Captain America seems alright.