JSA Storytime: Suicide Squad

Good evening owls of Sup Forums,

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So my ISP went out yesterday for over 12 hours, entire metro area. Sorry about that!

Wow, what? Who are you with?

Hello Storyteller.

No stress. Life happens.

You're back!

U-verse. They got a lot of really, really mad people. :)

I see Nick Spencer is over his "Rebirth was a nice issue" phase and is into "you're all going to be sorry because DC is evil" again.

Deadshot's laser gun is just a bluff, isn't it? I'm not going to get to see Stalin's eardrums perforated.

so I started Morrowind

combat is confusing because I can't always tell when shit is coming for me, and Vivec is SO BIG wtf

>tfw asked for a story with the adult batfam members in this storytime a few days ago
>this crossover where Kate takes Barbara's place as adult member member is announced
I'll take it even if the 'Tec teenagers are in it and there's a lack of Luke and Helena

Also how do you do it storyteller?
First Thunderbolts, then LOSH, and now this small little arc request.

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Yeah, there's no question that in terms of combat mechanics the later games are superior. But when you're a bisected demigod, go big or go home IMO.

Didn't we used to think Spencer was a really cool guy? Now he's suddenly coming off as a bit of a douche.

>Orlando writes the entire Batfam for one month
>MONSTERS EVERYWHERE, ALSO KAIJU AND HERO-CLAYFACE SHENANIGANS

Spencer really doesn't wear his butthurt well

Apparently he was always a douche on the Bendis forums.

The monster designs in this look super cool.

He's always been a social media douche. Or at least for the past year+. Lieber is the cool one.

You doing melee, magic or DICKASSery?

Lieber is the Sup Forums favorite since he posts here. Spencer got some love by association and since his work was generally enjoyable.

It always takes me a while to get into one of these

Speaking of games, oh my god Waifu Academy Black Knight is a fucking hoot

I wouldn't eyeroll at it so hard if it weren't so hypocritical

did you all see that IGN article that got discussed?

>The monster designs in this look super cool.
That they do

Glad Orlando says it's gonna be fun cause giant monsters in Gotham sure sounds fun

I think I made myself a Dunmer scout

This is a really great Atom scene.

>first crossover of Rebirth is yet more Batwank
Sigh.

On the other hand, I'm with you on the Kate thing. I still love how people got mad when the ex-Marine had the gall to start ordering these little kids around. yeah, how dare the trained military officer take charge. Not like she had any worthwhile training or is an adult or anything. Idiots.

I've never really rated TES combat. I mean I played Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma at about the same time and there is no comparison, DD's dragon fights blow Skyrim out of the fucking water. But I do remember just kind of randomly jabbing at shit without knowing what was going on in Morrowind.

I think marvel has a requirement that you have to be butthurt and shit on DC at least once a week or something

>Dunmer
You're good people, storyteller.

Oh don't worry there's going to be a Superman crossover right after the Batman one is finished.

>wanting other books to be plagued by crossovers

I want the Superbooks to go one full year without a crossover to see if Berganza's head explodes.

His Jimmy Olsen was goat, but he didn't gel with DC very much.

Now he got infected by the SJW Marvel club.

I know you don't play PAD any more, but the most hilarious shit happened in JP

Somebody asked the creator of PAD to roll in a godfest and buff whatever he rolled...so he did. And his pulls were horrible. His first egg was a silver and he cracked up when he realized didn't even recognize one of the monsters... So, he buffed them all really hard! No joke.

I'm interested for the freaky monsters and for Orlando. I think Orlando just kind of gets characters right. Kind of like Ewing, actually? He just handles a character's "voice" very well.

His reputation had its ups and downs. He did some decent DC work, got but there with them and jumped ship, did mediocre work for Marvel, rumors of him being a scandalous politician surfaced, he redeemed himself with Superior Foes, and now he's back in the shutter.

>WAID! Get in here!
>Y-yes Mr. Brevoort?
>My Twitter feed is showing you haven't fulfilled your DC shitflinging quota for the week, and the day is almost over.
>I know sir, I was just about to throw a massive fit about Wally, trust me sir! Just give me an hour!
>You better, or it's your ass on the line

I was a Skyrim Nord, so this is appropriate

the component of TES 'combat' I like is the "Can I survive fucking around here in the wilderness?" stuff, not "this boss fight takes strategery"

rekt

>DD's dragon fights blow Skyrim out of the fucking water.

You are Mah nigga.

that's awesome

I just forget to play, I should see what's up

That's intentional, Bethesda doesn't make "being good" a requirement to complete their games. It's a coasting experience with slight bumps along the way.

Waid doesn't need to be toss mud at DC. He does it for free.

Squad solicits are out early. Issue 2 is introducing "a demon-possessed graphic designer named June Moore " and "the most dangerous man in the DC Universe" issue 3 is Harley vs everyone going crazy in Belle Reeve

Jim Lee still arting!

i could never get into elder scrolls/bethedasla games because the fighting was never fun enough to go through

Everything's different again. For the better, but 3x skillups and 10x plus eggs are now super normal.

>I see Nick Spencer is over his "Rebirth was a nice issue" phase and is into "you're all going to be sorry because DC is evil" again.
any choice tweets?

Man I remember joking about how he was the hot new writer who was gonna flame out and disappear and fucker's still around. respect

>the component of TES 'combat' I like is the "Can I survive fucking around here in the wilderness?" stuff, not "this boss fight takes strategery"
Dragon's Dogma kind of has that in spades too. At low levels just fucking around with lanterns at night is nerve-wracking. Worth a look if you're ever uh, looking.

LOL

At least he's got stuff to be mad at them about.

Joe Quesada really poisoned the well forever.

Nice to see that absolutely nobody thinks for even a second that Trinity is going to be anything but Superwank.

No, it just saddens me to see that DC just cannot resist sucking the Batcock.

>did you all see that IGN article that got discussed?

Yeah and I don't think it's that surprising. Really hoping my "CW2 is Marvel's Convergence" proclamation pays off. They need to fix their shit.

So is the Suicide Squad comic just going to be the Suicide Squad movie in comic form

When will Joker show up
Will he have "damaged" on his forehead

They should've done this in June so it would be over and in trade by the movie.

Bethesda games are dumb sandboxes to toss things in. The only reason they were considered good is that they were doing their own niche and had some funny writing.

Also, tons of modders doing the work for free.

And loli sex mods

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>People forget how much gushing and 'excitement' there was about the New 52. They're born by the minute, you know.

>"This time is different!" Yeah? *checks editorial credits*

>more pages=higher cost. pretty simple. I get they opened with a loss leader, though.

>I think when your reputation has suffered enormous damage, discounting is a plausible strategy

>the horror. me, I'm slightly more concerned about the shoddy treatment of creators.

The Nine Divines are boring.

Daedra are *never* boring.

I can actually hear the creepy way he stretches out Amy.

Nah it sounds ok. unless you're one of those "Movie team REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" types

>“THE BLACK VAULT” part 2! What was meant to be a routine mission to retrieve a “cosmic item” from an undersea fortress has become a nightmare beyond anything the Suicide Squad ever expected. And with half the team down, it’s up to Harley Quinn, Katana, and a demon-possessed graphic designer named June Moore to save the Squad from the most dangerous man in the DC Universe. That’s right...they’re screwed.
>“THE BLACK VAULT” part 3! It looks like a well-deserved day off for the Suicide Squad—until things go off the rails when the bizarre energies of the dark sphere Amanda Waller’s team brought back slowly drive everyone in Belle Reve Penitentiary to acts of violent, bloody madness. Everyone except the crown princess of crazy, Harley Quinn, who’s somehow been…cured?

god deadshot's new mask is dumb

There's plenty of worry to be lobbed at DC's treatment of creators, but, uh, they're not the only ones, Nick.

His "double shipping is different when we do it" stance is one of the weirdest.

>> Taking another page from the Stan Lee playbook, Mr. Quesada has ended the long period of unnatural détente between Marvel and its rival DC Comics, the home of Superman and Batman, now owned by AOL Time Warner.

Since the so-called Silver Age of Comics, which took place from 1956 to 1969, readers have defined who they were by their allegiance to Marvel or DC.

DC was Dick Van Dyke’s 1960’s. It was The Flash, alter ego of handsome, earnest police scientist Barry Allen, and his reporter girlfriend Iris West, whose sharp, delicate features, Capri pants and hair ribbons made you swoon, but not lust. The lettering was clean, and the art, wide and open, imbued with the sense of Ivy League decorum and buttoned-down sensibilities.

Marvel, meanwhile, was Lenny Bruce. Beginning with the Fantastic Four in 1961, Mr. Lee and his crew created comics that tapped into the roiling social and sexual energies of the time. When the heroes weren’t fighting villains, they were battling their inner demons, unsympathetic cops or other superheroes.

As Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay , the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about two comic-book writers in the 1930’s, put it: “DC was part of the establishment. Marvel was different. When I was younger, I liked the heroes of DC because they seemed like parental figures. When I was older, I liked Marvel, because they seemed like they were my contemporaries.”

Mr. Quesada is convinced that some good old-fashioned gloves-off rivalry will be good for business. “I liked it when the two companies hated each other,” he said. “It made it better for the fans. You know, if you like DC, then you hated Marvel. If you like Marvel, then you hated DC.”

You're saying everything I like to hear, OP! I hope you dig Morrowind.

he isn't wrong! except I checked and Berganza is away from the Titans books!!

>defending $3.99 and $4.99 books

How did he get this salty?

>>People forget how much gushing and 'excitement' there was about the New 52

Aside from "slutfire" and continuity hangups, nu52 was still plenty readable from the beginning

lmao he is so salty

I can't recall any shoddy treatment stories recently. Who's getting mistreated with Rebirth?

Hahahaha the fucking AOL slam.

Remembering the hell out of the weak ass burns from Marville.

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I actually really loved the Oblivion expansion where you got badass paladin swag because I can't not play Lawful Good

>"double shipping is different when we do it"
Right, that's just company wars bullshit. And the way he tried to defend the oversized Deadpool issue that Big Bang noted turned off a lot of people.

In Skyrim, you can be in allegiance with 15 daedra at once and it doesn't matter. It's retarded and kills the need to replay the game.

Nick Spencer, somehow, obviously.

>Hahahaha the fucking AOL slam.
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>Remembering the hell out of the weak ass burns from Marville.
>>“What the fuck is DC anyway?” Mr. Quesada said, stoking the fires. “They’d be better off calling it AOL Comics. At least people know what AOL is. I mean, they have Batman and Superman, and they don’t know what to do with them. That’s like being a porn star with the biggest dick and you can’t get it up. What the fuck?” (Paul Levitz, DC’s president and publisher, declined to comment for this story through a spokesperson.)

Also, the "more pages = higher cost", he has to know that that higher cost is driving a ton of readers away, new or old, right? Trying to milk every dollar you can from a very small readership is a terrible move if you want to actually grow your base, but I guess it's the way of Marvel.

>months from now dc stops double shipping
>the prices get raised to 3.99 for the a list and b list books again
>spencer catches wind of this, vomits plasma from his mouth, red lantern style
>"3.99 is only okay when marvel does it!!"

>Mr. Quesada is convinced that some good old-fashioned gloves-off rivalry will be good for business. “I liked it when the two companies hated each other,” he said. “It made it better for the fans. You know, if you like DC, then you hated Marvel. If you like Marvel, then you hated DC.”

HAHA LET'S ENCOURAGE CONSOLE FUNPOSTING. THAT COULDN'T END WRONG

>>"This time is different!" Yeah? *checks editorial credits*
Honestly, that's a fair point. How the fuck is Berzinga still there? I'm inclined to believe the accusations of blackmail.

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Knights of the Nine? One of the dudes on that was Michael Kirkbride, who is The Guy on Morrowind. He's responsible for most of the weird lore in TES.

I know right

I miss those tweets from that shop in Ireland where the 4.99 price points for #1s did stop people from picking the book up

cause people took it seriously.

hell people on Sup Forums still think Stan Lee was actually mad at Slott for Superior

Unf so thiq

Because you can't legally fire someone for shit they did and were punished for just because people are mad years later when they find out, I'm guessing.

That's Big Bang, they tweet regularly about sales, very specifically

yessss

DO NOT SEXUALIZE THE BEAR WOMEN

According to the closest sources, it isn't. It's a theory that's easy to believe though, for obvious reasons.

The more depressing and more likely reality is that DC as a company doesn't actually want to address the sexual harassers in their midst or doesn't even see a problem, much like many, MANY companies do with these issues.

The going standard in a lot of places, not just comics, is that you don't take this stuff up with HR because it's honestly more likely to get you fired. With comics, it's worse, because if you speak about it publicly, it's likely to get you blacklisted behind scenes and fellow creators to burn bridges with you, because they're more likely to side with, well, the shithead and harasser.

Notably, Brian Wood hasn't taken much of any damage among his peers. A lot of people will just side with and defend really bad fucking people.

this is the best teamup

If he hasn't done anything recent they might not be able to do anything. Already been disciplined internally and maybe the cost of buying out his contract would be too much or it's otherwise just not possible. Hard to know when these kinds of details aren't publicly known.

Damn, she was so perfect in this comic.

Slightly disappointed they didn't go full Nosferatu with Schrek. Love those eyes though.

Johnston said HR handled it though.

Oh, Werner, this is not the time to show some ethics

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You know, I want to say, this is one of the best series I've ever read, not just in these threads but in all of my comic readings.

I just love it so much. I'm so glad you've introduced me to this, OP.

Dragon's hoard now? Not horde? This is the New Warriors all over again.

speaking of DC editorial, from Byrne

>There were several meetings, as you might expect, leading up to MAN OF STEEL, and at virtually every one... I brought up the Legion. "You know that's the book that will be most impacted by what I'm doing." The response was each time...a kind of metaphorical tousling of my hair. "Don't you worry your pretty little head about that! We have it under control."...Sure, until six or eight months in, when came the panicked call from my "editor". "WHAT YOU'RE DOING F*CKS UP THE LEGION!!!!".....Like I keep saying, DC is @ really good @ at thinking things thru. @ = sarcasm

I am happy to share the greatness of this run. It does so many different things well.

dat fundoshi

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hey, how are you owls?

BASED LIEBER

And people also forget that the current group editor title is a demotion from where he was before the last incident.

oh yeah, that Ms. Marvel preview page wherein Carol is all "Profiling is blaming a group! This is narrowing it down to one person!"

this gonna be wanky

I would 100% buy a superficially G-rated Pretzels mini that was loaded with over the head of the kids horribleness

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