A. Heathen

I wish for Mr Suarez a great disappointment.
What about that Spain vs Spanish Tax Evaders game?
Ronaldo's attitude pretty much lifting his team to a draw was amazing. The group stage won't have a better game than that.

(Still hoping someone stamps on Ramos)

I have my tee shirt ready for today.
https://grapevine.is/culture/football/2018/05/22/smitetheworld-iceland-world-cup-2018-football-t-shirt-now-on-sale/

Ref 1 VAR not consulted 

Correct decision.

How many Jesus comics are there now?
Do any of them do better than The One?

It turns out that Rich Handley,  often of these parts has contributed some essays to this so at least there's something good involved. 

7 hours ago, Christian said:

Yeah, I thought those covers on DD were neat too. The stories were pretty crap at that point, but that story-arc had some nice covers.

I really liked Fall From Grace.
The first issue (319) was one of the first to not be distributed properly, including UK newsagents, and so was very scarce here.
It was probably one of the first comics I bought off the internet three years later.

You have to be careful with that Eclipso cover.

What a poor selection they have chosen. 

For a moment I was thinking 229 was the awful issue where Denise Mina explored London terrorism. That's a fair choice for Carey. 

I would have edited together vignettes from the stories in flashbacks rather than another useless compendium. 

The recent two page spread flashback of the demons Constantine has wronged would be an example but perhaps more of a sequence.

One page pin ups such as Newcastle by Leo Manco and the Last Temptation of Gabriel by P Craig Russell.

Maybe some folks who do art elsewhere- Graham Humphreys springs to mind. https://grahamhumphreys.com

That Mucus Membrane gig with everyone in the audience by Sean Murphy.

Fucking rehashed collections my arse

On 23/05/2018 at 10:50 PM, JasonT said:

 

 

I got the other cover, obviously.
Yesterday on the bus, two young gents used "fam" and "bruv" in polite conversation.

It's remarkable how much they allowed the inking and colouring to spoil the art on this.
The two page spread of Constantine's This Is Your Life is nice enough if a little too much like Continuity Porn.

Then sadly we get soft porn Nergal and Ames.

The final scene sets up really nicely, and then I am not sure what t say about the last page.
it looks a little like someone thought to do  tribute to Warren Pleece and John Higgins.
Knowing that this arc is meant as a finale, I could have condensed The last 10 issues into about four or five then had London Mob Hellblazer for the remainder. It feels unsatisfactory and overlong right now.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/05/31/hellblazer-canceled-writer-tim-seeley-end/

That new JC portrait by Sean Phillips has more of a look of David Bowie.
 

On 27/05/2018 at 6:23 AM, JasonT said:

* stabs LIKE button *

That's what this forum is missing... a good cheese emoji.

Mine has been dandy, thanks for asking. Quite the release of tension after a punishing week at work. It's mostly been about reading, sipping coffee (fresh ground from PNG beans♥), eating blueberry bread, and booking a trip to Thailand in early July. And I cooked dhal from scratch for the first time.

Christian is TYNION SLAMMISTER !

My DCU seems to be Miracle Man and The Watchmen ("LOL")

Oh I might give Catwoman a go because the preview art looks gorgeous

Wasn't the X Men a Fox "product"?
(That's what Deadpool told me)

From memory (and bear in mind I have generally had little interest in X-People) I'd say the starting point for the Inhumans renaissance was Paul Jenkins & Jae Lee,
was that before Earth X? Maybe Ross (and Busiek) planted the seed earlier in the Marvels?

Shame about the TV show.

I know it's not finished yet, but I went to see Deadpool 2 and then to an Indie Cheese Festival

Tomorrow I may be meeting my friend for some sort of dog pack meet with lots of dogs on a hill near Harrow.

congratulations, and Upwards and Beyond !

Yes, I read the first two series and then missed that there had been more. I shall look for it in the trades. 

Here is a list of comics I have recently enjoyed.
It's not all of them, just some of them.

Infidel. Days of Hate. Gideon Falls. Death of Love. Family Trade. Beef. Barbarella.

And that Thanos one you all mentioned was fun, although it's a Marvel and those comics have their own thread.

If I can draw your attention to Death of Love, it's sort of like What If Sex Criminals Was Not About Sex, nor about criminals.
It's fun.

1953.

You're welcome

Outrageous. 

Don't worry it's going to hit you again in 10 years.

Slowcoach.

I can save you waiting for the Next Big Thing if you like.
I expect you have seen The Good Place?

If so, the next next big thing is LA to Las Vegas.

Remind me your address by the usual channels.

That comic about the potato with aphid power looked ace. 

Yeah I voted.

congratulations on those nominations.

I know that, just wasn't sure about whether this was an editorial @@@@ up or the modern kids slang.

LIke I said, the slang terms are a little too over-powering, and yet strangely under-done.
eg they all call each other "bruv" and one of the characters is called Joey Bruv and it's a story revolving around to brothers from London's old school mob generation.
They also call everyone "fam" which I'd understood as close friends/allies.
 

There are two references to snatch, both referring to females. BUT they changed it to "snitch" which means something else all together in UK crime terms.