>old Cinemaphile
I’ve been here for well over a decade. I’m so sick of people remembering a thread or two likely during the shill-infested “Cinemaphile is love” era and thinking it was the norm. For the most part nobody read this.
>inb4 election tourists >inb4 /misc/ invaders
Just accept that your memory is clouded by rose tinted glasses.
It's one of those stories that has a novel concept but the problem is that the concept itself is incredibly shallow once the novelty wears off. It runs far longer than it should because real fricking fast you say to yourself "what, does everyone have superpowers?" And like all projects it's obvious the writers had no fricking idea how to end it from the beginning so you're subjected to just lol random bullshit until they finally end it.
I just realized what I wrote can also describe Saga.
It's one of those things that just get so fricking stupid you wish you hadn't read it because you can't forget how fricking stupid it was.
>what, does everyone have superpowers
One of my first thoughts as well. One of the first issues even explicitly states that the powers are rare, but almost everyone in the cast has them.
It's ye olde capeshit conundrum. Powers are super rare, but the story only follows those that have them because otherwise it would be generic slice of life.
>what, does everyone have superpowers
One of my first thoughts as well. One of the first issues even explicitly states that the powers are rare, but almost everyone in the cast has them.
It's ye olde capeshit conundrum. Powers are super rare, but the story only follows those that have them because otherwise it would be generic slice of life.
I mean, to be fair, he works for a government agency that specifically deals with those types of things, and the primary antagonist hunts people with powers, so yeah, there's like one new one and issue. At least they're creative and not just "strong man punch strong".
It's good for about thirty chapters, when it's actually about a guy uncovering a bunch of seemingly unrelated phenomenon that all relate back to some secret, grand conspiracy (this is what Cinemaphile means when they say it gets 'random.') And then I think it's either chapter 30, or 40, exactly, when the comic decides to stop focusing on the conspiracy entirely and just becomes about the main character fighting a vampire. Then chapter 58 is a guy walking into the room and going 'okay, here's the entire conspiracy for you. No need to figure it out, we wasted all those chapters. Here's what's going on.'
Is this thread done by IA? all the questions are random, don't sound like you ever read a comics or anything, it's just noise that barely pass as human sentences.
I didn't like how there were so many powers with latin names that were so different and numerous. I ended up rolling my eyes everytime I saw a new one and scanning over the words every time. Then I just lost interest. I think it took 20-30 issues.
Looks pretentious.
Ok but is it any good?
homosexual
Pretentious is the last adjective I would use to describe Chew
Chew is one of my favorite comics of all time.
No
Yes
Dunno, really. Never read it.
However...!
Art is ugly.
Opinions.
Yes. I remember old Cinemaphile loving this series. What happened?
It's glorious. Read it.
Anon, it ended 8 years ago.
There was a brief spinoff.
Storytime it and we’ll see.
>old Cinemaphile
I’ve been here for well over a decade. I’m so sick of people remembering a thread or two likely during the shill-infested “Cinemaphile is love” era and thinking it was the norm. For the most part nobody read this.
>inb4 election tourists
>inb4 /misc/ invaders
Just accept that your memory is clouded by rose tinted glasses.
>shill-infested “Cinemaphile is love” era
I'd much rather return to that than continue with the "Twitter screencap ragebait trollpost" era.
It ended years ago and Cinemaphile rarely talks about good comics
I enjoyed the series but you may dislike how random it gets at times.
In a lol random way or artsy way?
It's lol random.
It's one of those stories that has a novel concept but the problem is that the concept itself is incredibly shallow once the novelty wears off. It runs far longer than it should because real fricking fast you say to yourself "what, does everyone have superpowers?" And like all projects it's obvious the writers had no fricking idea how to end it from the beginning so you're subjected to just lol random bullshit until they finally end it.
I just realized what I wrote can also describe Saga.
It's one of those things that just get so fricking stupid you wish you hadn't read it because you can't forget how fricking stupid it was.
>what, does everyone have superpowers
One of my first thoughts as well. One of the first issues even explicitly states that the powers are rare, but almost everyone in the cast has them.
It's ye olde capeshit conundrum. Powers are super rare, but the story only follows those that have them because otherwise it would be generic slice of life.
I mean, to be fair, he works for a government agency that specifically deals with those types of things, and the primary antagonist hunts people with powers, so yeah, there's like one new one and issue. At least they're creative and not just "strong man punch strong".
too long and does not stick the landing. till then its quite enjoyable, though
>too long
We've now reached a point where 60 issues is considered too long?
the humor gets insipid for me after a while
>does not stick the landing
That ending was perfect.
It very quickly goes off the rails into lunacy
It's good for about thirty chapters, when it's actually about a guy uncovering a bunch of seemingly unrelated phenomenon that all relate back to some secret, grand conspiracy (this is what Cinemaphile means when they say it gets 'random.') And then I think it's either chapter 30, or 40, exactly, when the comic decides to stop focusing on the conspiracy entirely and just becomes about the main character fighting a vampire. Then chapter 58 is a guy walking into the room and going 'okay, here's the entire conspiracy for you. No need to figure it out, we wasted all those chapters. Here's what's going on.'
It drags in the end, but it's still good
Is this thread done by IA? all the questions are random, don't sound like you ever read a comics or anything, it's just noise that barely pass as human sentences.
Not sure why internal affairs would be on this site
I loved Chew for a good chunk of the series and then this whole conspiracy thing happens and the series is ok.
Probably not.
I didn't like how there were so many powers with latin names that were so different and numerous. I ended up rolling my eyes everytime I saw a new one and scanning over the words every time. Then I just lost interest. I think it took 20-30 issues.
>I didn't like how there were so many powers that were so different and numerous.
So you hate originality and fun?