Lou K

I cannot say that I cared for the last two issues of Black Hammer though. It's not that it was bad, but the 'creations meet their creators' bit has been done to death and if this is where the whole thing is headed then it seems like a cheap cop out to me.

Picked up the 2 Umbrella Academy trades. Grant Morrison jocking it in Supergods got me interested. Only cracked the first couple of pages but I dig it so far. Love the art, and any story that begins with an atomic elbow on a space squid pretty much has my attention

Oh that is a good idea.

Like the Swamp Thing?

I would always get a laugh when my Injustice pals would speculate who would be in 2, and John's name got floated around a lot, and I was like, "Why? Homie can't fight."

I have not, no

2 hours ago, JasonT said:

Yeah, that was a great comic. Have you read Fatale and The Fade Out?

Got em both in the hopper 

I do not know how drug testing works, I've never done it. But could one not argue, "Oh, I smoked the night before, must be what triggered the test, I was not stoned while driving."? Or maybe the roadside tests have advanced, I don't know.

But really I appreciate the decriminalizing possession aspect of it. Our prisons in Michigan are extremely over crowded (have family and friends who are corrections officers, can confirm). Housing non violent drug "offenders" does not help that situation. Nor does housing the mentally ill. Some years ago the Governor decided not to spend money on Mental Health Institutions, so a lot of those troubled souls ended up on the street, which leads to alcoholism, vagrancy and ultimately jail. That is NOT the help these people need. But, sadly, incarceration is an industry, and their currency seems to be people.  

Reading Velvet by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting.

Pretty damn good comic. Brubaker is great at espionage tales and this one delivers. It's pretty much, and this is obvious so I don't think it requires a spoiler tag, a James Bond tale where "What if Miss Moneypenny was actually a high profile agent".  

3 hours ago, A. Heathen said:

What are proposition 1 and 2?

 

Prop 1

Prop 2

Now, I am a weed smoker, so of course I do support Prop 1, but I also feel like it is quite open ended. I think the tax revenue stream will be amazingly beneficial but I have absolutely no faith that the funds will find their intended target (fixing roads and schools). I also question whether the general public can act responsibly. (For example, my car has been smashed twice in the past four months, on one occasion having to go without it for over a month due to repair). Each time was a kid on their cell phone. Now give them weed. Great. So hopefully some regulation comes into play here to lay down some guidelines.

EDIT - From the detroit news - " Smoking marijuana in public will not be legal under the new law, nor will driving under the influence of marijuana. " So that is a good thing. I don;t know how you will test for driving under impairment as it stays in your system for so long.

I am in!

I loved that bit

Shit, you may be right, I'd have to go pull my copies form my vast comic dungeon to be sure

1 hour ago, dogpoet said:

 

He did the Saint of Killers mini for Preacher as well, didn't he?

 

Had to check, Steve Pugh

35 minutes ago, dogpoet said:

 Those Rifle Brigade comics are still entertaining if you've not read the stories he's taking the piss out of then?

 

They are, but maybe less so (clearly I wouldn't know having not read the source material). After a wile they become just another Garth Ennis dick and fart and homo jokes extravaganza, which is probably why I no longer have them in my collection.

GAWD DAMMIT!

forgot about those hahaha

edit - I think my first exposure was the Bloody Mary minis they did for Helix (Vertigo). Dredd was not as easy to get over here as it is now, or maybe I didn't look hard enough.

On 10/8/2018 at 12:47 PM, Christian said:

Plus, he also did artwork with Garth Ennis on a few projects, and Ennis is a pretty big name.

 

That's how I came to know his work.

YES!!!

Last page of Quantum Age made me say god DAMN

R.I.P.

Much like 45, circus peanuts are unpalatable

I mean, she doesn't have any powers, right?

No doubt about it.

Heroes in Crisis 1 - not sure what to think of this. It's not poorly written, but I follow so little DC stuff that I am not sure what's really going on. And, the powers that be certainly over-value Harley Quinn.