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by **Punchy** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:51 pm

Eli Katz wrote:Vicky Squid, your optimism and enthusiasm are inspiring.

I don't know what the opposite of inspiring is, but it's more like that.

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:53 pm

starlord wrote:

I'm not sure I can stock that much.

Half & half it is then.

by **Starlord** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:54 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:
Half & half it is then.

nice one.

by **Eli Katz** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:24 pm

Punchy wrote:
I don't know what the opposite of inspiring is, but it's more like that.

Soul crushing? Depressing? Buzz killing?

Your choice!

by **guitarsmashley** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:34 pm

starlord wrote:

you are wrong on so many levels with this that I've decided your now the bottom in our relationship until you come to your senses.

I'll try giving it a reread but the art was a problem and the supporting characters were awful and connor just seemed off.

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:36 pm

Eli Katz wrote:Soul crushing? Depressing? Buzz killing?

Your choice!

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:28 pm

Well, this book really had a pair of problems.

by **Starlord** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:34 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:Well, this book really had a pair of problems.

I don't remember Power GIrl being in it.

by **SilverPhoenix** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:46 am

guitarsmashley wrote:I really wanted to like this. I loved essex county, the nobody and am still pissed I decided to trade wait on sweet tooth..but there was just something kind of off on this story. The art is only partially serviceable. but over all not very good at all. The Parasite looks amazing and is in full on monster mode but every one else looks like they have a thick layer of dough underneath their skin and the fight with parasite was pretty lame.

I like Lee fell in love with this character back in the pages of Johns Titans run and this character is that one, if he was hit in the head with a hammer repeatedly...dialogue is choppy and doesn't flow through pages in general. This book is a bit of a disappointment and the addition of Poison Ivy still leaves a bad taste in my mouth from what DC/Dini did in my previously favorite book.

5

Okay. I am probably asking for trouble. But what did they do to Ivy?

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:22 am

If you were to ask me what my biggest pet peeve with DC comics was, above all others, it would be characters like Superboy. There's nothing hokeyer than female, boy, and dog versions of popular characters. As soon as Hawkboywomandog or the like shows up in a DC comic, my brain immediately quits paying attention and I'm taken right out of the story. Legacy characters are bad. Boy sidekicks are worse. But dogboywoman clones of characters is just too fucking much. If there is one thing that will forever keep comics marginalized as a medium for manchildren, it's this shit. Ironic that Lemire is acclaimed for his serious business hipster literary comics and then he signs on to write this otherwise mediocre embarassment.

Story: 5
Art: 5
About Superboy: -4
Final: 1

by **Eli Katz** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:27 am

Jude Terror wrote:If you were to ask me what my biggest pet peeve with DC comics was, above all others, it would be characters like Superboy. There's nothing hokeyer than female, boy, and dog versions of popular characters. As soon as Hawkboywomandog or the like shows up in a DC comic, my brain immediately quits paying attention and I'm taken right out of the story. Legacy characters are bad. Boy sidekicks are worse. But dogboywoman clones of characters is just too fucking much. If there is one thing that will forever keep comics marginalized as a medium for manchildren, it's this shit. Ironic that Lemire is acclaimed for his serious business hipster literary comics and then he signs on to write this otherwise mediocre embarassment.

Story: 5
Art: 5
About Superboy: -4
Final: 1

by **Punchy** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:32 am

Jude Terror wrote:If you were to ask me what my biggest pet peeve with DC comics was, above all others, it would be characters like Superboy. There's nothing hokeyer than female, boy, and dog versions of popular characters. As soon as Hawkboywomandog or the like shows up in a DC comic, my brain immediately quits paying attention and I'm taken right out of the story. Legacy characters are bad. Boy sidekicks are worse. But dogboywoman clones of characters is just too fucking much. If there is one thing that will forever keep comics marginalized as a medium for manchildren, it's this shit. Ironic that Lemire is acclaimed for his serious business hipster literary comics and then he signs on to write this otherwise mediocre embarassment.

Story: 5
Art: 5
About Superboy: -4
Final: 1

Y'know, the fact that you hate these derivative characters is a pretty hipster attitude.

by **guitarsmashley** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:46 am

Punchy wrote:
Y'know, the fact that you hate these derivative characters is a pretty hipster attitude.

Boom! Roasted.

by **guitarsmashley** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:48 am

SilverPhoenix wrote:
Okay. I am probably asking for trouble. But what did they do to Ivy?

Nothing in particular, but dini stopped writing Gotham City Sirens and DC didn't tell anyone till it was way too late for all other than in store buyers....So they fucked up the character and a book I was really enjoying,