Three guys drink beer and discuss their favorite comic books. While sitting on chairs. Nothing fancy. (the chairs, that is. Just your standard hardwood, four legged-variety. The videos however, are quite well-crafted.)
UPDATE: The chairs have been replaced. We now sit atop 2 large metal stools. More to come as it develops.
I actually prefer this to Long Halloween. Got the pathos of Robin, plus a better mystery. It kept me on my toes. I also think Sale's art is more epic and gorgeous. The double page spreads of Bruce seeing dick mourning, Harvey getting rescued from the courtroom, Batman and Robin double teaming Joker and Two Face, there is nothing like any of that in TLH.
I just found this channel recently, and regardless of whether you do more episodes, I’m really glad to see you guys looking happy and healthy 👍 Love the show
I really hope that 1 day you guys can do a video on JMS and Gary Franks other work they did for Image comics called Midnight Nation it’s a really good one
@@GreggNowhere a project I'm part of called the invisible salon has been powering through, though we are more of a project inspired by than an actual retrospective, but we have need returning and reading though again (and for some of us for the first time if there is such a thing) and yeah, it's been happening.
@@GreggNowhere we are on here under that name, and also Facebook, most of our work has been in creating video and audio rituals, so we have a bunch of stuff on Bandcamp as well as vimeo
I actually really like the first 8 issues, though i understand why people don't, i like unlikable characters but dane is such a nasty peice of work that i can understand why people don't want to read about him. But theres this bit where he screams at big malky his teacher "it was Kropotkin, and you'll never understand me" i feel that so much, dane is more intelligent than anyone around him and just absolutely filled with a level of rage that even he doesn't understand. Then there's shelly and byron and desade, i already knew about those guys, im a fan in various ways or at least i find them fascinating, so i was kinda able to be into it. Interestingly Byron did die while taking part in the greek revolution, he did put his money where his mouth with, he may has well have been an invisible agent.
@@ImperiusRex disagreeing with facts is pretty silly. It was objectively the most watched show when it came out. That is fact. Disagreeing with it means you are objectively wrong. You can not like it. You can claim it will be forgotten. You can claim it wasn't very good. You can claim it didn't have any social relevance but you absolutely can't claim it wasn't the most watched show on streaming when it came out because this last one is fact.
My comic book ritual is I sit down and I flip through the whole thing first before I read it. If I have multiple titles, I’ll check them all out before I jump in and start reading.
Aliens was actually (kind of) adapted as a comic too. Dark Horse released a mini-series called Aliens: Newt's Tale which tells the story of the Aliens movie from Newt's perspective, so we get added scenes of stuff that Newt witnessed before Ripley and the marines arrived and we lose scenes from the movie that didn't involve Newt. I've got all the Dark Horse Aliens stuff and I'd rank Newt's Tale in the top 3.
Wally is another word for idiot in the UK and a sage is a wise man, so Morrison naming a character Wally Sage must have a deeper meaning, although as with much of Morrison's work, I have no idea what that deeper meaning is lol. Also, there was a famous UK drag artist called Danny La Rue who was on TV in the UK in the 1970s, and that's where Danny The Street came from. DTS even quotes a lot of La Rue's catchphrases during the series. Evil Dead 2 is a masterpiece! Have you read the comic adaptation by John Bolton? He also did an adaptation of Army Of Darkness years ago, but the Evil Dead 2 adaptation is a fairly recent thing as far as I'm aware.
My favourite Batman pastiche is probably Private Eye from Marshal Law: Kingdom Of The Blind. The writer, Pat Mills, is well-known for hating superheroes, and boy, does it show lol (if you think that Joker beating Robin to death with a crowbar was harsh, you should see what happens to the Robin character in Kingdom Of The Blind!).
My favourite Neal Adams comic is Skate Man. It's an absolutely terrible comic (there was a time when it was considered the worst comic ever published, but I think Mark Millar's The Unfunnies has since taken that title), but Skate Man was the first non-Marvel or DC comic I ever read and it introduced me to the wonderful world of independent comics, so it will always have a special place in my heart.
I think I totally disagree with the other witches seeming like filler. I do wish they had more impact on the story overall, but the world’s lore building was so cool. Also when Hester was talking to Malachi, and there was the reveal that Hester ate all of them, that was one of my favorite moments because of all the previous exposition about their assorted powers. I probably should’ve assumed she did that when she ripped off all their faces, but I didn’t put it together until that moment. This review was super fun
One of my favourite Galactus appearances is when he shows up in Bob Layton's 1980s Hercules mini-series. We get to see Galactus without his helmet and we also see him get drunk, which is kinda fitting for this channel.
If you're gonna do more manga I'd recommend two books for different reasons. Blame!, for great art and funny moments I'm not sure are intentional, and Chainsaw Man. Latter is brutal and funny, former is more atmospheric
I've read a little of Chainsaw Man. Cool action moments- but nothing really grabbed me past the character design... I've heard great things about Berserk- but that goes for like 1000 books, right?
@@ImperiusRex 41 vol and counting. Blame has 10, much quicker read. Chainsaw got me cos it was surprisingly mature in how it handled the characters. The bit with eyepatch lady for one.
One could argue that Josh Simmons and Patrick Keck are channeling what Alan Moore did with his lost girls series. By taking well known mainstream properties and injecting them full of sexuality and psychology.
Great energy from you guys. I remember reading them and immediately forgetting they happened. They didn't make a lick of sense. Proabaly my new favorite video on youtube! Thankfully I just read the comics on an archive site. I love your guys presence, great clashing but interesting takes on a very odd and (most) outlandish stories ever written. Thanks for the half hour escape from reality guys! Much love from canada. (Also thanks for explaining the story as i couldn't make out a thing from the writing style)
I'm old-school, so my favourite Moon Knight is still the Moench/Sienkiewicz version, especially the B&W strips from the Hulk magazine. There's a great two-parter where Hulk meets Moon Knight. Both parts tell the same story, but one part is from Moon Knight's perspective and the other part is Hulk's perspective.
with the question in the final section of the video, i think my answer about what i'd want to see from the finale is that I would want to see what happened with Darkwing. How did Darkwing come back? the hosts make a really great point about the Mark - Marky conflict could have been so cool to see explored out and thematically it'd be so important for the story to show that plotline
