GottaGetAGrip

Did look kinda murky to me as well, but I assumed that was just a byproduct of sitting in the third front row in the side.

 

I was expecting Vader to do a bit more than

 

 

Well, Swamp Thing sure felt like he amounted to all of nothing in this book if this is the last we'll be seeing of him.

 

Marj reunion scene aside though, most of this issue felt like padding-padding-padding. Probably my least favorite issue of Rebirth John so far...

Carrie Fisher has passed away at the age of 60 from a heart attack:

 

http://www.nytimes.c...-leia.html?_r=0

I'm also certain that scene where the Empire blew up Alderaan counts as evidence for evil.

And also, get this; in this show, he doesn't smoke. No no, he eats lollipops. LOLIPOPS! lol

 

 

Jesus Christ my prediction came true!

Talk about opening and closing your show with a bang. I actually thought that Lost Legacy could've been a TLoU spin-off when I was watching the live-stream, I was expecting a clicker jump scare until they revealed Chloe.

 

There's a new

game in the works. I've seen rumors though that it'll be heavily MCU-influenced with no X-Men or F4 characters and I wouldn't be too surprised if that turns out to be true.

New

Trailer

 

Now with more Mads Mikkelsen, and what appears to be Guillermo Del Toro.

I enjoyed the gangster stuff, but I did find myself glazing over the Swamp Thing stuff. Did anyone else find it very corny when Swamp Thing began speaking his thoughts out loud in some of the panels?

 

As a word of note, this is Moritat's last issue as artist: Philip Tan will be taking over as the regular artist starting #7.

The first solicit for Warren's WildStorm reboot beginning in Feb is here:

THE WILD STORM #1

Written by WARREN ELLIS • Art and cover by JON DAVIS-HUNT • Variant cover by TULA LOTAY • 1:50 variant by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS • 1:100 pencils-only variant by JIM LEE

Retailers: This issue will ship with four covers. Please see the order form for details.

 

A troubled woman, barred by her employer from continuing her research, walks miserably through New York City. It takes her a moment to notice that everybody else is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of the Halo skyscraper.

 

And that woman—Angela Spica, sick from the transhuman implants she’s buried in her own body—is the only person who can save him.

 

What she doesn’t know is that the act of saving that one man will tip over a vast and secret house of cards that encloses the entire world, if not the inner solar system. This is how the Wild Storm begins, and it may destroy covert power structures, secret space programs and even all of human history.

 

New York Times best-selling writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, RED, THE AUTHORITY) returns to DC to curate Jim Lee’s WildStorm world, with this debut issue resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, the Engineer, Jenny Sparks and others.

 

“I couldn’t be more excited to see these characters that are so near and dear to me reintroduced under the guiding hand of Warren Ellis. WildStorm represents an incredibly fun and exciting period in my career, and I can’t wait to see what Warren and Jon have in store for fans in February.”—Jim Lee, DC Comics Co-Publisher

I'm not sure if you can alter the age of the characters in ME character creation (I've only ever played the first one and it's been some time) but I'm certain that the Male Ryder will have the option for a multitude of beards if such is desired.

Fuck.

A six for me. Not firing on all cylinders yet, but I'm generally enjoying what I'm reading.

 

If anyone's interested, there's an interview Oliver did right before this issue came out. There's behind-the-scenes stuff as well as info about the next two arcs at the end...

http://www.comicsbea...the-hellblazer/

Though I'm mixed on his overall run (I guess I'd put him in my HB-writers mid-tier), RSVP is my favorite finale of all the Hellblazer runs.

Is the UXM the one with a foreward by Chris Claremont? I got a copy of that one also. It wasn't bad, if you're a X-Men fan, and since it was my first series, I am.

It did have Claremont's foreward. I used to be a big X-Men fan in my youth but I've fallen out of touch with the recent comics.

 

Was the villains thing one of Mike Conroy's?

Googled it, and I believe it was his 500 Comic Book Villains.

Morrison's Supergods probably is the only book I own that's about comics. And my dad got me a copy of Doring-Kindersley's Ultimate X-Men Guide for Christmas once, it might still be around his house somewhere.

 

There were these two books that I used to check out from my library in my youth, though. Don't remember the titles and I don't think the library carries them now, but one was an encyclopedia of comic book villains and the other an encyclopedia that covered a broad swath of comics from both the mainstream and underground. I think that latter encyclopedia was where I first read about Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

http://filmratings.c...ng_bulletin.pdf

 

According to this film rating list, the JLD animated feature will be rated R for disturbing violence.

 

Anyone suppose that violence will include a scene of "bonding" between John and SW Manor Batman in the Batcave following the big victory while Zatanna watches?

They were the dark vortex, the forbidden fruit, the books that must not be named who haunt Jim Lee's dreams at night to this day.

Class act for Ennis, I think, namedropping Delano's stories rather than his own. His take on John's Post-Vertigo career was extremely inspired, not something I would've thought of but now I just can't get it out of my mind.

 

Anyways, regarding this issue, I gave it a six. There were some nice moments and dialogue though I didn't like it as much as #1, but still found it a better read than the clumsy Rebirth issue. Though it is moving slow, I'm interested to see just how the various plot threads converge in the next issues.

First trailer for Ben Affleck's

 

http://www.cbr.com/alan-moore-confirms-retirement-from-comic-books/

 

So Alan is planning his retirement. He'll finish up his current works like Providence and Cinema Purgatorio and he says he has one more "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in the works.

Had the chance to finally check out the Injection trades that are out at my library this weekend. The series picked up for me with the second trade and I'm interested to see where Warren's planning to take all of this.

I heard it was hilarious, as Ennis was spoofing Alan Moore's scene from JC's first appearance.

 

Hey, will this be the first time Ennis has written John since the "Son of Man" story?

 

Well, technically speaking, Ennis did give John a one-panel cameo in his previous Section 8 mini-series but this probably is the first time that he's written John in any major capacity since SoM.

 

I'll parrot the My War Gone By praise.

I found his flick Edge of Tomorrow to be pretty solid entertainment, though I can't actually remember much about The Bourne Identity aside from that Moby song.

 

I'm guessing it'll probably be one of the two unannounced DC movies set for 2018/2019.

So the sales data was released, and I have to say 70K+ copies sold is probably the best John's sold in a while... but I doubt that it'll last once the Rebirth boom runs its course.