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by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:59 pm

AMS wrote:
Now that is a little much...

That's what she said.

by **GLX** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:22 pm

ITT: People flash colorful crotches at their red state parents.

by ****** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:26 pm

GLX wrote:ITT: People flash colorful crotches at their red state parents.

Do your parents inspect your comics or something?

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:27 pm

GLX wrote:ITT: People flash colorful crotches at their red state parents.

I'll flash your mom if you flash mine.

It's like Strangers on a Train...criss-cross..

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:28 pm

Frank Einstein wrote:
Do your parents inspect your comics or something?

Methinks the lad's a wee bit cock-shy.

by **Royal Nonesuch** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:06 am

What I like best about Butcher Baker #1 is the sort of institutionalized pop culture motif in its world. It isn't Dick Cheney who (along with a smug Jay Leno) recruits our hero (an aggressively typed exemplar of masculinity) for a mission, it's the popular image of him. That mission, of course, being one of near contextless violence, the most crowd-pleasing kind of violence. There is an interesting meditative quality to a super-buff, mustachioed superhero pondering how life got to the point where doing the right thing means looking at the small picture (while he wears an American flag banana hammock). The plot, such that it is, is definitely secondary to the world-building, and the abrupt ending certainly makes that apparent.

There aren't many artists who could have illustrated this story effectively, but Mike Huddleston is one of them. His energy is manic and sends a constant stream of information into the reader's brain. It's great stuff, and it works for whatever it is Joe Casey is getting out of his system here.

8/10.

by **Daringd** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:24 am

When to the comic store yesterday Butcher was in my pull. I asked the LCS manger what it was. He described it as "The book you want" And I agree. It was awesome. The art was incredible, Joe Casey is a solid writer but I've never when ape over his work. This on the other hand. Added to the pull list I'd buy the book for the art work alone, damn good book.
9.3/10

by **Starlord** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:58 pm

Next week is Brightest Day #23

by **GLX** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:04 pm

Frank Einstein wrote:
Do your parents inspect your comics or something?

I just don't want to get heckled for having a comic with a bright crotch on the cover. "Why are you reading a gay comic, GLX?"

by **guitarsmashley** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:29 pm

GLX wrote:
I just don't want to get heckled for having a comic with a bright crotch on the cover. "Why are you reading a gay comic, GLX?"

Cuz U R teh gay.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:48 pm

GLX wrote:
I just don't want to get heckled for having a comic with a bright crotch on the cover. "Why are you reading a gay comic, GLX?"

Wow, this from the kid who started the Man Watching thread, eh?

Show them the part where he's banging all those chicks, then. Point at that and say, "does that look gay, Mom?"

How is this a "gay comic"?

by **GLX** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:00 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:
Wow, this from the kid who started the Man Watching thread, eh?

Show them the part where he's banging all those chicks, then. Point at that and say, "does that look gay, Mom?"

How is this a "gay comic"?

I keep my posting a secret from the fam.

The quotes signify that they'd call it a gay comic. They have homophobic tendencies. :smt102

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:11 pm

So putting a dude's groin front and center on the cover makes it a "gay comic", and all the comics covers with a giant pair o' boobs occupying the same real estate, that makes them what, "straight comics"? Or "lesbian comics"

by **GLX** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:18 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:So putting a dude's groin front and center on the cover makes it a "gay comic", and all the comics covers with a giant pair o' boobs occupying the same real estate, that makes them what, "straight comics"? Or "lesbian comics"

I'm just going with what might be said. My mom thinks Alex Ross is (literally) gay because of his work, so who knows. :smt102

by **BlueStreak** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:26 pm

GLX wrote:
I'm just going with what might be said. My mom thinks Alex Ross is (literally) gay because of his work, so who knows.

I understand. My father thought the same thing about Elton John after he went to one of his concerts.

Homophobia just runs rampart through our parents' generation. :smt011