It wasn't that great.
They should have done something more interesting with the art. That was running through my head the whole time I was reading it.
A bit of a letdown.
The Wrong Earth
It wasn't that great.
They should have done something more interesting with the art. That was running through my head the whole time I was reading it.
A bit of a letdown.
i remember really liking this and i dont even remember any of it, i just know its good.
like deus ex machina
>i dont even remember any of it
>it’s completely forgettable
heh
would you recommend it ?
No, it’s completely forgettable
Then why did OP make a thread?
Because I had just read it and wanted to share my thoughts on it.
thumbs up for sharing! thumbs down for long text story in a 3 color comic - or is it 4
These somewhat acclaimed non-big two cape comics are turning out to be really disappointing. Same happened with Black Hammer. I hope Pink Lemonade doesn't disappoint.
My belief that the genre ran its course decades ago is being reinforced with every recent cape comic I pick up.
Not really, unless you don't mind a flimsy exploration of the question "what happens when a light-hearted not-Batman and a brutal not-Batman switch worlds?", done with incredibly bland art.
Cankor was another disappointment, and it went for a completely offbeat approach. At least the art was good.
It's a very boring story for a somewhat interesting concept
Why is Cinemaphile infested with shit taste?
State your case, man.
Problem?
The original comic side of Cinemaphile died almost a decade ago.
Oldgays' interest in comics evaporated the moment the Big 2 shat the bed big time with all the SJW cringe.
Mind you that, aside the three or four good runs that would eventually be quietly shurned out, Big 2 comics were already a steaming pile of shit before. The damage was already done.
With total hack writers like Bendis and moronic editorial teams pumping all those shitty forced events that would constantly promise shitass changes in its universes' status quo and forcibly involve other solo book titles, affecting specific runs' storylines in the proccess.
All the character assassinations, as in changing a character's portrayal drastically or outright force a WWE-style heel turn to create shock value buzz.
All the SJW shit was basically the straw that broke the camel's back and woke old readers out of their beaten housewife syndrome-tier cycle.
After that, most people just outright dropped the board due to lack of interesting comic-related things to discuss, aside from storytiming older books, moronic Twitter beefs between creators and Muh Culture War shit.
Then the inexperienced newbies came, whose their interest in comicbooks came from watching capeflicks and Culture War YT content. With no oldgays in sight to gatekeep the board and introduced newbies to actual good shit to read via Storytimes, newbies came in and shat all over the place with their absolute shit taste, leading to where we are today.
Igle is literally defending the homosexuals ruining the industry at the moment. It’s not “shit taste” to call homosexuals like him and mark Russell insufferable untalented c**ts.
You make a good point.
You're both condemning oldgays and putting them on a pedestal. Are they perpetual slop consumers that only broke their streak when it got beyond unbearably bad, making them piss poor judges of quality because they ate shit for so long, or are they seasoned readers and worthy guides to newbies?
Not saying the entire comic side of the board happened to miraculously have pure patrician taste back then.
I remember people getting genuinely blown away by King's early books like Omega Men and Vision back in the day - to which it might prove your point about them being piss poor judges.
But I'd say there were at least enough people that clearly had enough of a good taste that resonated across the board (no pun intended).
You'd have actual interesting discussions in the storytime threads, where anons wouldn't actually shat the whole threads, but instead give their often times genuinely interesting and insightful takes on the book, almost much like a book club.
Interesting obscure books, from both the Big 2 and non-Big 2 sides of the isle, were constantly getting promoted through said storytime threads btw. This is where I got introduced by titles like Stardust the Super-Wizard, The Eternaut, Ennis' Hitman & Section 8, Silver Surfer Requiem, Brandon Graham's Island anthology (hell I even remember the thread where Graham himself came in here, did a Q&A thread and posted an exclusive look to an upcoming issue).
Thread "genres" like the Hypercrisis threads, where anons could go full on schizo mode on trying to piece together the inner workings of the DC universe and share their theories with eachother.
I think the Shelf threads are probably the last vestiges of that old era tbh.
Fair enough.
And /shelf/ is full of consoomers.
If I were more patient and believed that this board had any hope, I'd storytime less-read comics like mad.
I also remember when Forever Evil was considered on of the best comics of the year around here despite being your usual Johns slop.
Oldgays have/had shit taste. Not as bad as newbies.
I honestly thought this would be done in like 5 - 6 issues. I stopped reading at 3 to wait for more then come back to find it's got a bunch of spin-offs.
What the frick happened?
People really liked it so they churned out some extra stuff while they plan on how to continue the main story.
Ok.
I like it well enough, it's main problem is that it keeps adding filler to pad it out. It's a good concept with an okay execution.
Yeah, I thought as much.
Happens every time. No one wants to discuss anything, just shit on each other.
I just think it's cool that Tom Peyer is working.
Why?
I completely dropped off what was happening with this after the twist with the third dragonfly
>the third dragonfly
Yeah. Frick this shit.
I liked that he was sort of a Batman Beyond/Spider-man 2099 version of Dragonfly-man, but yeah he was poorly used. He took the other two Dragonfly-men right to his base and told him to check out his computer: where they found out he was the big bad guy of the whole mirror thing.
it is good now read second coming is also good.
>it is good
No.
>second coming
Given all the other Mark Russell I've read, there's little chance of this being good.
I was pissed with the side story about them building a stadium and both of them skimping.
The guy who is good to the point of purity and the guy who hated corruption and was willing to kill get shafted to make a 'lol, billionaires joke.
Also, the change of plot with Prime number 1 was moronic
This thread made me remember this comic so I checked it out and I just read the one you're talking about. The "good" Dragonflyman hired illegal immigrants, pressured the mayor for more funding, cut corners on the construction anyway, drove away from the collapsing stadium and, in a press conference, put all the blame on the mayor and walked away.
It started off well enough with the parallel good/bad thing, but they really dropped the ball right at the end.
Like a lot of ahoy, it’s decent yet forgettable
What else do they have?
More comics.
I thought people liked this comic.
I did, but I can admit it came with flaws that became apparent the further on it went. Still enjoyed the contrast between the two Dragonflies and how they still held true to their particular style of vigilantism despite being willing to bend a bit for the sake of their sidekicks.
After the first 6 issues, more and more things that annoy me popped up.
I hope igle blows his fricking brains out. I’d love it even more if he streamed it.
Why? What happened?
A'ight, I'll bite. What is all this about?
Adam West Batman and Frank Miller Batman trade continuities and deal with the consequences therein before more multiverse shit occurs. I wouldn't call it particularly deep or profound, but the first volume is charmingly simple in its approach. The second volume is when it starts getting a bit up its own ass, but until then it's just a fun romp of both protagonists taking swipe at the weird cliches of their respective counterparts' universes.
>Frank Miller Batman
I wish, satan. Then it would have been more interesting.
He is admittedly softer than Frank Miller Batman in general. Then again, he did have the balls to actually kill someone compared to Miller Bats.
>getting a bit up its own ass
What does this phrase mean?
"Up one's own ass" means to have a overly high self-opinion of in an obsessive manner. The later issues and some of the side stories can get far too enamored with the meta-commentary of the nature of the multiverse or the different comic eras they're making light of, and having read better efforts at deconstruction it comes off as more self-absorbed than decent thinking material.
I think that's a stretch.
I decided to read the first two volumes. It's a very interesting premise but it doesn't do as much as it could.
What?
Russ Braun to the rescue.
What's the right Earth?
I thought it was a decent story, for a modern comic it was good but I don't really have much to talk about.