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[Prehistoric Jazz]

Am I crazy or is Iron Maiden's Eddie in the left? The Predator head is on the right but not sure if other heads are references to other stuff.

from left to right: Eddie, Deathdealer with upswept horns, Motorhead, Megadeth, Predator, Darth Vader, Doctor Doom and maybe an overly fangy xenomorph?

 

[strumpets exeunt]

Even if I think how she broke into comics was retarded and a prelude for the thirdwave feminist nonsense we’d see online in the 2010s, her Night Nurse was about as interesting as you could probably make that book without getting too stupid, and her Birds Of Prey run is pretty good. Other than that, she’s incredibly overrated and I can’t think of anything within the last 10 years that’s been decent. Say what you will about Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, et al. but Swamp Thing is fucking sick. Animal Man is fucking sick. Watchmen? Overrated but still pretty good and people still talk about it. Whatever they may be doing now like getting into wizard fights and generally being unlikable cunts they have good work that’s stood the test of time. I may like Simone’s Birds of Prey but it can’t hold a candle to any of those.

I'll stand by her Villains United run of Secret Six, even if I hope Scandal Savage and whatever bull dyke she's fucking this week die in a grease fire. Fuck, I hate boss bitch lesbian characters so fucking much.

 

[Registration]

from left to right: Eddie, Deathdealer with upswept horns, Motorhead, Megadeth, Predator, Darth Vader, Doctor Doom and maybe an overly fangy xenomorph?

Ah, the Motorhead one I thought it was a character because he had a similar helmet with the horns and he died, the Megadeath one is obvious now that you said but Doctor Doom I cant see at all.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

Ah, the Motorhead one I thought it was a character because he had a similar helmet with the horns and he died, the Megadeath one is obvious now that you said but Doctor Doom I cant see at all.

I could very well be wrong, but that skull on the wall/hanging from the chain between the predator and the big fangy fuck kinda looks like Doom's mask without his hood.

 

[DocAwe]

I'm still mad at Gail for that shitty Plastic Man series she did.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Also recently, I'd read the 10 issues from Dark Horse years ago but I've been going over a previous series from 1986, the initial six issues from Blackthorne Publishing, of Rich Hedden and Tom McWeeny's Roachmill - a sci-fi story of a professional pest exterminator, who is legally allowed to include humans and aliens amongst his targets, in a future New York City that mostly looks the same as the scummy parts from the 1980s, only more so. The artwork is really vital and makes good use of black, and has a underground comics feel to it at times

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This run was perhaps one of the best titles from Blackthorne Publishing, which came about after the breakup of Pacific Comics. It originally published cost effective reprints of comic strips like Dick Tracy, Kerry Drake and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Many of these titles were over a quarter of a century old and in the public domain when Blackthorne put them out. The money garnered from these titles allowed the small publishing shop to branch out into 3D titles and original series. Legal loopholes allowed them to put out 3D titles for properties held by Marvel, like a successful Star Wars 3D series, by creating a new product category that the licensing contracts didn’t cover. Their creator-driven black and white comics were a very mixed bag, a couple of good to decent books and some were low quality rip-offs of then current trends, as you saw during the black and white boom of the 1980s.

The Blackthorne Dick Tracy strips were a monkey's paw deal... It was material from the late 40s through the mid 50s that had never been reprinted but it was also some super weak material from those years. The only good thing from their reprinting was that they did a one off special of the entire Mrs Pruneface saga that upon reading it when I managed to track a copy down, lived up to its hype for gruesome content.

 

[One_True_Yuri]

Its a real travesty that no one can write good batman or joker stories anymore. No one!

Joker stories peaked and I doubt will ever go back up again after I, Joker

 

[MirrorNoir]

Agreed, I love em. They’re the OG of their trope and they’re consistently the best when they show up. With their N52 versions being the best for just how fucking insane they were.

DC is the story of missed opportunity and they could’ve easily banked off their competition and the craze of the “superheroes but twisted” craze. Villian protagonists rock, as shown with Ultraman’s low-functioning sociopath compared to Owlman’s high-functioning psychopath.

I’ve said it before but my dream series would be an Earth 3 ongoing where the Authority (Wildstorm originals) crash land and have to replace Luthor’s dead league because their “greeting” was Ultraman killing Carrier and they’re stranded, realize they were wrong and get a humbling from the real evil Justice League. Just the full “plot armor off” treatment.

Disagree. Grant Morrison's revamp of the Crine Syndicate sucks, especially since he irrevocably fucked up a key element of Earth 3 via msking Lois not Diana be Super Woman as Lois was the outlier of OG Earth 3 who was just like regular Lois, in terms of veing good in spite of the upside down nature of the place

 

[Humble Architect]

It also helps that Millar and Ennis are still the most normal writers to come out of the British Invasion of writers

I’m prejudiced against Garth, both for his masturbation of the military (despite not serving) and his assigning himself voice of the people by saying Captain America was “an insult.” I also find the name Garth to be the worst name in the English language and anyone I’ve met with it was a scumbag.

But Millar is my guy. Ultimates blew my ten year mind and I really like his Millarverse, very excited to see his inevitable public domain Superman (Supes is already in the Millarverse) and the ending of Nemesis: Forever is literally Nemesis going into soft character retirement.

 

[MirrorNoir]

I fell in love with She-Hulk because of Byrne.

Next Men is kInDa like X-Men but not really.
A secret government project is used to "trigger" latent DNA in humans to give them powers.
The were raised in an artificial VR type environment and not taught anything about the real world.
Only about five of them initially exist and by issue 30 only two more come about in any significant way.
I don't really want to give a whole lot away but there are drama, political, sexual, and class themes.
And of course a sci-fi element.
Give the first several issues a go.

Always wanted to read Next Men but the trades are out of print and it's not worth hunting down the individual issues because there is an issue in the middle of the run that goes for around $200-400 if you are lucky.

 

[Humble Architect]

Disagree. Grant Morrison's revamp of the Crine Syndicate sucks, especially since he irrevocably fucked up a key element of Earth 3 via msking Lois not Diana be Super Woman as Lois was the outlier of OG Earth 3 who was just like regular Lois, in terms of veing good in spite of the upside down nature of the place

Well Grant’s Crime Syndicate is near the bottom of the team iterations, next to the awful one that got their own series and mostly killed off by Waller.

The Crisis on Two Earths and N52 versions are the peak “evil Justice League” iterations. God damn those two are perfect, absurd, interesting, intimidating and clever in the twists.

Because of Crisis on Two Earths, a friend jokingly said Mark Wahlberg would a perfect live action Ultraman and I can’t unsee or hear it.

 

[Nick Obre]

Holy shit blogspot is a treasure mine for comics. These niggas have the most hyperfocused interest in all things comics. I dont think people understand how much variety comics used to have when it was a dominant media before films and games. Even smaller countries like Portugal was releasing lots of stuff of all genres.

And they even translate into their own language for their community, just like that the manga scans scene. And how they focus on stuff that they just fucking enjoy like children's comics from their childhood. Man I am discovering so much shit. I don't even speak spanish but I will DEFINITELY read this comic about Lucy.

If you have the willpower to install and actually use fucking Emule in current year, take a look at a place called La Mansión del CRG. Absolute treasure trove of any and all comics in Spanish. American, Franco-Belgian, Spanish, Latin American, English, Manga, recent or ancient, whatever you want, big chance it's in there.

I'm familiar with the blogs you posted, but if you have any others, I'd love to take a look. The aforementioned site does make them a bit obsolete, but I enjoy looking at the posts with all the extra info the dedicated bloggers tend to add.

Its a real travesty that no one can write good batman or joker stories anymore. No one!

Joker stories peaked and I doubt will ever go back up again after I, Joker

But isolated, self-contained, limited series, they sure can. Dark Patterns wrapped up recently and it's fantastic. Doesn't involve Joker tho.

I think just being able to take Batman from a vague timeframe and set him against a crime mystery without having to worry about current continuity or forward momentum is just a blessing. Same for elseworld stuff. Gargoyle of Gotham finally ended, after years of hiatus, and it was good for what it was.

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About Morrison, I'll always say the best thing he ever wrote (with no shade thrown at Animal Man, Doom Patrol, or any other of his higher tier works) was Seven Soldiers of Victory.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Speaking of independent/creator owned works from celebrated people who've done good work at the Big Two, I've been reading Keith Giffen's Trencher:
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Yes, it is as fucking weird and unhinged as the cover implies that it is.

Keith Giffen is one of my favorite creators of all time in comics. I love Ambush Bug, Lobo, his work on Justice League International. Trencher is probably Giffen at his most "Giffen-iest", there's tons of in-jokes from the time, general weirdness, and tons of over the top gratuitous violence. What makes Trencher different from Lobo is that it turns up the weirdness meter so much it becomes surreal/abstract art in the form of a 90s antihero comic book parody:
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A lot of the first issue especially is borderline unreadable because of how fucking abstract everything looks. It's both simultaneously incredibly busy and muddy/sloppy at the same time.
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The story is completely nonsensical. It's more about just making the most fucking batshit looking comic they could come up with, Trencher is like a robot/undead guy that I think is a bounty hunter? It's not really clear but it doesn't need to be. My favorite part is this page where he's being lectured by a cactus-man superhero who's giving some liberal pussy speech about understanding the villains feewings and Trencher punches his fucking teeth out:
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This had me laughing harder than most things I read do. I know Keith Giffen's not everyone's cup of tea but as someone that appreciates vulgar weirdness, if you like that turned up to 11 I highly recommend Trencher. It's only 4 issues so it's not a huge time commitment.

I've seen keith giffens drawings of batman and it was very weird for me, quite similar to sam keiths batman which is also weird. Someone posted this on twitter saying people would have a stroke trying to read this if it released today. That is true, I have great difficulty understanding what's happening and it's quite similar to marshall law which I would also say has really weird art despite the good story. I had a very hard time reading marshall law.

It also helps that Millar and Ennis are still the most normal writers to come out of the British Invasion of writers

I would say pat mills, john wagner and Alan grant are pretty normal as well. Its probably cause they're not weirdo fobby types like morrison and moore. I want to say peter milligan is sort of normal?

I’m prejudiced against Garth, both for his masturbation of the military (despite not serving) and his assigning himself voice of the people by saying Captain America was “an insult.” I also find the name Garth to be the worst name in the English language and anyone I’ve met with it was a scumbag.

But Millar is my guy. Ultimates blew my ten year mind and I really like his Millarverse, very excited to see his inevitable public domain Superman (Supes is already in the Millarverse) and the ending of Nemesis: Forever is literally Nemesis going into soft character retirement.

I'm the exact opposite, I have a shrine to garth ennis and Frank Miller cause I think they're gods gift to comicdom. Millar on the other hand is very hit and miss, old man logan is good but I really hated the ultimates, with how hackneyed it is. Secret service is sort of good but wanted is shit, similar reasons. I read his newest, the ambassadors and it's the most generic trash I've read in a while.

 

[Registration]

I'm familiar with the blogs you posted, but if you have any others, I'd love to take a look.

I like the download ones more but there is this blog that I posted here before that has so much random stuff in a blog way like it was common to do in the 00s. Nowadays this would be a youtube short or a TikTok

https://quadripop.blogspot.com/

Now for some translations ones in Portuguese there are, mostly euro stuff

https://ndrangheta-br.blogspot.com

Back then there was these two blogs that would scan comic books published in Brazil, so lots of rare stuff but it was taken down and IIRC they moved to telegram. Rapadura Açucarada and aspanoir.

But some more, they kinda reshare the scans so there is lots of different sources for the same stuff. There is also a strong scanlation scene for capeshit that I used when I started reading before going to the originals (they would make packs like 50 issues covering marvel events like M Dynasty)

https://omundodeaquilonbrasil.blogspot.com/

https://osinvisiveishq.blogspot.com

https://gibiscuits.blogspot.com/

https://quadrinhosinglorios.blogspot.com/

http://www.artehqs.com.br/

https://tralhasvarias.blogspot.com/

https://rockquadrinhosscans.blogspot.com

https://guiaebal.com/

https://hqvintage.blogspot.com/

https://aquilesgrego.blogspot.com/

https://oldcomicsworld.blogspot.com/

https://fantasmabrasil.blogspot.com/

http://www.agibiteca.com.br/

https://gibiteka.blogspot.com/?

I wish there was a scanlation scene nowadays for English comics I remember that there was a dude in indonesian forum named kaskus whom would share his scans there, Sosich I believe. Not sure what happened to him but I never heard him again. There is too much historical comics that I want to read that he gave to me. Nowadays with AI, it would be even easier to translate it from French than before.

 

[Pomniman]

Still reading New Teen Titans (now Tales of the, or some shit at this point in the run). Brother Blood was really hyped up here compared to the cartoon network show from what I recall. Also the whole Terra betrayal thing is a lot edgier here. I'm not really surprised that an 00s cartoon network show was pussified to this extent compared to a comic from the 80s but the contrast still amuses me.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Still reading New Teen Titans (now Tales of the, or some shit at this point in the run). Brother Blood was really hyped up here compared to the cartoon network show from what I recall. Also the whole Terra betrayal thing is a lot edgier here. I'm not really surprised that an 00s cartoon network show was pussified to this extent compared to a comic from the 80s but the contrast still amuses me.

It was interesting reading those stories after seeing the Teen Titans cartoon adapt them when I was a kid (Don't know if Go did anything like that, took one look at a clip of them acting like retards and decided 'not for me'). It was actually surprising to me because I was waiting for Terra to redeem herself like she did in the cartoon, but nope, she dies evil.

It was funny seeing Deathstroke being referred to as The Terminator all the time though.

 

[DocAwe]

Always wanted to read Next Men but the trades are out of print and it's not worth hunting down the individual issues because there is an issue in the middle of the run that goes for around $200-400 if you are lucky.

IDW put out three volumes titled "Classic Next Men".
I was able to get all three without much effort and they weren't that expensive.
Otherwise I'm sure you can read them online.

 

[MirrorNoir]

It was interesting reading those stories after seeing the Teen Titans cartoon adapt them when I was a kid (Don't know if Go did anything like that, took one look at a clip of them acting like retards and decided 'not for me'). It was actually surprising to me because I was waiting for Terra to redeem herself like she did in the cartoon, but nope, she dies evil.

It was funny seeing Deathstroke being referred to as The Terminator all the time though.

Teen Titans Go ironically is the only Titans adaption to portray Terra as being a straight up villain in it's general topsy turvy anti canon lore.

Also Brother Blood is a character that got royally fucked over in modern era comics with Geoff Johns and Judd Winnick replacing him with a never before mentioned teenage son, retconning the Church of Blood into a Trigon worshipping cult, and completely removing the fact that Brother Blood was created as a Jim Jones expy complete with the fact that he had Cyborg's bitch of a childhood sweetheart murdered because she tried to get Vic to rescue her after scorning him, when she tried to leave the cult and was marked for death.

 

[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

Teen Titans Go ironically is the only Titans adaption to portray Terra as being a straight up villain in it's general topsy turvy anti canon lore.

Teen Titans Go is one of those shows that I have a soft spot for.

I also thought the movie was legit good. But that's probably because I loved the Shia LaBouf joke

 

[ChampFantana]

It also helps that Millar and Ennis are still the most normal writers to come out of the British Invasion of writers

That says a LOT. Not much of which is complimentary.