i'm waiting by the all american rejects i swear to god this is low-key one of my favorite songs and i'm just now realizing it. it puts me in an emotional place that no other song does and is impossible for me to describe right now and i don't know why.
oh my god i'm going to be sick. i don't think i can read past page 16 of this ultimate spider-man revamp. you killed it Bendis. and not in a good way. actually, I don't even know what happened. but the things you're doing? this is sacrilege. this is not okay. I don't like anything post-Clone Saga in the original 133 issue run. I can't even bring myself to step back and look at it objectively because it's just so frustratingly antithetical to everything that I loved about this book. Is this Immonen's doing? how much say did he have on the story and characters? I don't understand how something can go from so amazingly perfect to.. not. okay so reading more past the new #1 and thinking back to everything post-105 in the original 133, it's not bad, bad. I do still hold that there was some inconsistent characterization going on and I resist some of the decisions that were made in the later issues and in this new numbered run, but it's not really bad. There are good things about it but it seems like editorial decided (because I can't even fathom why Bendis would make these changes) to just.. change some of the characters to something completely different. Like Gwen is not even kind of the same person she was before. Mary Jane is very oddly insecure and moody which is also not who this character was originally. Peter's pretty much the same, aside from an arc that seemed to be completely dropped after the Clone Saga arc.
Bendis seems off his game ever since Bagley left Death of a Goblin was good but everything else is just.. whatever. about to get to War of the Symbiotes. the characterizations feel inconsistent when they never did before, and the Peter and Mary relationship doesn't feel as strong as it once did. and then theres the thing that Kitty is in waaay too much of this. i don't know if that's a character that Bendis really likes or something but he keeps making these very uncomfortable and unnecessary references to her past relationship with Peter. like just stop it. at this point the thing to do is have Peter and Mary have a stable relationship but he keeps challenging it. it's not like there's serious tension or anything but it doesn't feel as sweet and as honest as it did before. it's there but it doesn't seem quite as thoughtful. and there's been literally no mention of the themes that were dominating this book for over 100 issues.
wayne-tier is wayne-tier
sound logic indeed cannot argue that
finally someone else i can talk to
yea i thought so I can't recommend anything other than Sex Criminals that's not superhero but the guy's done a few things other than SC for Image which I hear are all pretty great.
and im the one who introduced you to it that like that counts for something right? like when you retire this whole place is mine right? (but for real it's awesome that you liked it)
my favorite video is kind of insensitive
dont tell me what to do make your own darn list[DOUBLEPOST=1432869935][/DOUBLEPOST] Rocafort was my favorite for a while but like you said sometimes his style doesn't feel appropriate and it seems like he's usually working on less that great books so justified or not that might have hurt my liking of his art it's high on the list of things. I've heard very good things about it.
somewhere in a hole getting his broken back broken back into shape
I haven't read anything Miles yet. I wanted to go in order since this is a series very near and dear to me. Nostalgia factor is strong with this...
lists of my favorite writers and artists in comics. i didn't put a huge huge amount of thought into this. i basically just wrote down writers and artists that i like and organized them based on knee jerk reaction to how much i like their stuff. i want to see what other people would put down writers 1. Bendis 2. Paul Dini 3. Fraction 4. Wolfman 5. Scott Snyder 6. Miller 7. Simone 8. Morrison 9. Azzarello 10. JMS artists 1. Bagley 2. Manapul 3. Damion Scott 4. Capullo 5. Pichelli 6. Rocafort 7. Mazzucchelli 8. Bruce Timm 9. George Perez 10. Jock like I said if I sat down and put considerable thought into this it may be very different. I hesitate to put Bendis at the top because I'm not sure if I like him that much but I loved what I read of his early Daredevil stuff, his Guardians is kind of fun, and I'm having a profound experience with his Ultimate Spider-Man. I also don't know if I like Fraction enough for him to be all the way at #3 because I've read very little of his, but what I've read was very good and I liked everything about his style of writing (Sex Criminals is outstanding).
i salute you and your soon to be wrecked emotions. unless it's not to your tastes, which I would understand.
wait are you
Spoiler: more ultimate sm stuff wow i'm really not feeling this whole kitty/peter relationship (which i p much expected). And not just because I want to see Mary and Peter together so so bad, but because this Kitty feels kind of.. shallow? I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate but like 15 issues into their relationship not much has been done to make me like her as an individual, so if I already wasn't okay with this for personal preference I'm really not liking it now. Like when the relationship stats in the first Annual, Kitty is introduced as this very typical lovesick high school girl who only thinks about why she's not dating whoever and who she will date next, while in that same issue, Peter's inner monologue starts out echoing the same thing she said but immediately turns to him thinking about his life as a whole and how he's unable to live without restriction. And I get it. This whole relationship is part of Peter's arc about juggling responsibility between feeling responsible for everything that happens to everyone around him and not being willing to take responsibility for Mary Jane putting herself in danger because of him. And in that it works and i guess I kind of like that it's not built on a super solid connection, it's just two kids who have stuff in common dating like you would expect, but it makes reading these issues kind of painful. Like I can't say it's bad because it's contributing to a larger whole but man I'm not enjoying myself. And not in the way that it's so bad that I don't want to read, but in the way where I feel like I was the one who was broken up with and I'm having to watch the person who broke up with me date other people (which is a feeling all too familiar). it sucks. okay yeah after her tantrum in 97 i feel completely validated with this if you're tired of me talking about this you might as well put me on your ignore list bc this is all I will be able to talk about for the foreseeable future
okay duel me on dn fyi my deck is confusion of nature and no quitting allowed i'm just kidding i would never do that to myself
i literally cannot adequately express how much ultimate spider man is messing with my emotions and ability to function at this point. i just read the hobgoblin arc and.. oh my god. i mean what the actual heck is going on anymore i don't understand how i am capable of liking a single comicbook that much. it's just a comic. it should not be affecting me this much. and then i get to issue 78 and game ****ing over. right up until the end I thought Bendis was going to hurt my feelings even more, but then those last two pages.. oh man. its so damn perfect. I don't know where this is going and depending on that I could be made to like it less, but right here in this issue it's handled so eloquently that even though i'm crushed by what happened i'm still optimistic. is this is real life or something i don't know anymore.
