Superhero Comics 101

[Chronowraith]

Never fear erm... me of the past, IDW just announced at Wondercon that their own GI Joe continuity will return in September, though they didn't give out any more details on how it will be back. Also they are going to do a GI Joe vs Transformers mini series too because apparently the 7+ times that's been done before by other companies that held the licenses just weren't good enough...

... and every time G.I. Joe and Transformers has combined they have been shoved together mindlessly and every time it happens in the future the same thing will happen... because the two HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON. It's like teaming up Neil Gaiman's Sandman with The Punisher. Or the recent laughable attempt to mix Masters of the Universe with the DC Universe.

[Brakkart]

... and every time G.I. Joe and Transformers has combined they have been shoved together mindlessly and every time it happens in the future the same thing will happen... because the two HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON. It's like teaming up Neil Gaiman's Sandman with The Punisher. Or the recent laughable attempt to mix Masters of the Universe with the DC Universe.

I dunno, I quite liked Devil's Due's first 6 part GI Joe vs Transformers series which had Cobra finding the Ark and reactivating/enslaving the Autobots and Decepticons they found there and GI Joe as a unit being formed to combat this new threat. The 3 follow on series weren't anywhere near as good, though one of them does feature a few pages of pure Dinobot awesomeness which utterly rock. If you've not seen it, the Dinobots basically get teleported directly into Shockwave's command centre on Cybertron to the alarm of every Decepticon in the room who all take a step back as Grimlock looks around, grins and just says "Mmmmm Decepticons..." what follows is a few pages of a very one sided fight as the Dinobots tear the place (and most everyone in it) apart.

The other attempts though have been truly terrible, especially Marvel's ham-fisted efforts back during the 80's/90's when they had the licenses for both properties. I have to agree on the Masters of the Universe vs DC series though, that was just awful and I love DC and Masters of the Universe.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

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I'll just leave this here................

[eldargal]

Hehe nice.

[Darren Richardson]

heh, if you think shoehorning G.I.Joe into Transformers was bad read the original Transformers 4 part miniseries....

They shoehorned Venom Customed Spiderman into it....

Mind you saying that it wasn't too bad for a youngester back then

[Gotthammer]

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[Kaptain Badrukk]

It is absurdly cool that they bothered doing that!

[eldargal]

I need to learn parkour.

[eldargal]

Anyone reading[URL="https://www.comixology.com/Rat-Queens-Preview/digital-comic/48000"] Rat Queens[/URL]? Liked the preview so ordered the TPB. Issue #1 is also free on comixology, in addition tol inked preview.

It's a humorous adult medieval fantasy comic with a team of female adventurers.

[Brakkart]

Trying to find space in my budget at the moment to add Batman Eternal to my comic pull list. It's a weekly title that DC started 4 weeks back. I've read issues 1-4 thus far in my FLGS and I'm hooked. It will run for 48 issues apparently, through to February next year when it (and both of the other weekly titles DC is launching) will all conclude at the same time... on the 30th anniversary of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, so there's bound to be something epic happening then. Apparently Batman Eternal will continue after whatever happens then, after a short hiatus. It's being written by a team of writers, overseen by current main Batman scribe Scott Snyder and both the writing and art have been excellent so far, plus it's brought back Stephanie Brown, one of the characters missing since the start of the New 52 era. I highly recommend checking it out.