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Review Group Week 213 - DAYTRIPPER #4
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Yay for Ba and Moon! 
Boo for me not being able to come up with anything to say here! 
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Daytripper #4 selected by 48THRiLLS[/center]Written by FÁBIO MOON and GABRIEL BÁ Art by GABRIEL BÁ and FÁBIO MOON It's a day of celebration as Brás' son is born! But why is Brás' mother at the hospital before him? And when it comes to his family getting bigger, why might he not want to welcome all its new members? Vertigo | 32pg. | Color | $2.99 US | Mature Readers 
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Irredeemable #12 selected by MrBlack[/center]Writer(s): Mark Waid Artist(s): Diego Barreto, Peter Krause With Modeus at last revealed and standing by Plutonian's side, the Paradigm--and the world--have no defense against Armageddon! But is this the end? Or only the beginning? A not to be missed issue of BOOM!’s bestselling apocalyptic superhero ongoing by multiple Eisner Award-winning KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE author Mark Waid. 
If you would like to join the group it's easy. Just post a review and I'll add you to the member's list. As long as you stay active, eventually it will be your turn to make a pick. With $4 comics becoming the norm, the economy being what it is and the growing popularity of mail order services the Review Group recognizes that it's becoming harder and harder to commit to participating each and every week. As long as you can post one review per calendar month you will stay in the member's list. It doesn't matter if you post your review the week of it's release or if you post it later. Going forward, there is no such thing as a "late" review. The only request I make with the new format is that if you don't plan on posting a review or if you're going to be posting late is that you drop a note in the thread so that I can keep track of who is active and who isn't. The Spreadsheet of Doom is thorough, but it can't read your mind. 
Comics are to be scored on a scale from 1-10. 1 being suck, 10 being a damn good comic. Beyond that, there's no right or wrong. 
If it's your week, you must announce your selection by 5pm EST the day Diamond releases it's shipping list. If you do not announce your pick at that time, I will add a poll to the thread that will remain open until 12pm EST so that the group can make the selection for that week. (If you're seriously MIA, I'll probably put the poll up sooner) To ensure that you know it's your week, I will PM you when Midtown's list goes live on Thursdays. 48THRiLLS (4) (this week) MrBlack Dragavon (1) Old Man Twigglet Spicy Dick Jude Terror GLX Mr_Batman Punchy Chubbles guitarsmashley starlord Kerny amlah6 john lewis hawk thefourthman Fieldy Snuts Daringd Eli Katz Greg GHERU spidertour02 doombug YeaSureWhatever Amoebas #s in parentheses indicate carryover jumps still to be applied from Week 208. BLUE indicates explanation given for not posting a review. RED indicate that no review or explanation has been posted in two weeks. RED and BOLD will be deleted at the end of the week unless a review or explanation is posted. 
Each Tuesday I will putting together all of our reviews and we will have our very own article on the front page of The Outhouse! If you would like for your review to be included, please try to have it posted by the end of day on Monday. |
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[spoiler]he dies[/spoiler] |
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That's the point, it's what makes the book interesting. |
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no it really doesn't, in fact, it makes it pretty predictable. It's really pretty and there is great character work, but the conceit is obnoxious. |
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I doubt it. I don't like either of these two. |
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You're obnoxious. The reasoning behind Bras dying every issue is apparently a mystery which will be explained in the series. |
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unless this issue does some major revealing, we are a third into the series with nothing but random death. Having read Pixu and Mesmo Delivery Service, I don't have enough faith in them as creators to believe that this going somewhere. It is a nifty creative writing experiment that would have gotten them a B in college. |
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Jesus, have some patience, you're so pessimistic. |
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patience... pessimism? I have read enough of their work to know that they tend to just go (eventually nowhere) and this book has all the tell tale signs of that . I like it, a lot and if this were issue one or two, yeah I would be with you it will get high scores, but solid character work and pretty art isn't going to get it a pass forever, something needs to progress in this issue to make me care going forward. The funny thing is all the trade waiters on it are going to be super annoyed because the conceit will be way more obnoxious in a single sitting read. |
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How do you know this issue won't have any progress? I think you're too jaded, when good art, great character work and the fact that you liked #1 and #2 aren't enough, you need to take a step back and ask what you're looking for in your comics. You don't want to become the stereotypical hyper-critical comics reviewer. |
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I want a story and I don't know that it won't have progress, but this is not my first experience with the creators. This isn't jaded. I love the hell out of comics. If I were jaded I wouldn't have read The Twelve Spearhead, which so far this week is far and away the best thing I have read. It's not jaded to use the experience I have had with the creator's work and the experience I have had with the book so far to form an opinion about the current issue. It is what we all do. It is what makes us drop books or keep them or add them to our pull list. This book has everything, but a story, and a story is the primary thing I look for in a comic book. Just because I don't fall over myself in love with something you do doesn't mean I am jaded, it means I have a different opinion than you and obviously, different expectations. |
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But you've said you like it! You're being too harsh I think. |
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