GW is licensing 40k comics

Hype anyone? Or is hype the first step on the road to disappointment?

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Man, Titan Comics got licences to everything.

oh man, I wonder if Dan Abnett is gonna write some

It's just going to be more bolter porn. We'll never get something like Deff Skwadron ever again.

Nope. DC has exclusive rights to him. The only way that he is going to get in that action is if someone in DC gives him the clear.

That being said, I would not mind if someone adapted the Inquisitor series into comic form as it seems that we will never get any more printing of those masterpieces.

Oh wow. I wonder which of their "superstar" writers is gonna write these. This is gonna be a clusterfuck.

Written by George Mann (Dark Souls), with art by Tazio Bettin (Independence Day) and Enrica Eren Angiolini (Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen).

The first issue of that mini will be out on October 12.

Exclusive contracts generally just mean don't work for Marvel. He's still doing stuff for 2000ad for example

>Bendis writes 40k dialogue
>between fucking Inquisitors

I mean its not like its the first time they've done it, there was inferno and warhammer monthly in ages past, back before the final conversion of white dwarf from a hobbyist magazine into a sales magazine.

"hey"
"What?"
"You're a heretic"
"No you are the heretic"
"No you are Im possitive."
"You think? Im sure you are the heretic."

I'd be hyped if it was like a Legends thing where they dug real deep into the vault. Like, half-Eldar, the frat boy beakies, Ork rokkaz, that kind of stuff.

Depends on the content. Will it be canon with the novels?

I've noticed a lot of video game, television and movie comics from the recently.

I think that 2000ad is owned by Warner Brothers who own DC. I think ultimately they really wouldn't care as Abnett is still making money for them in the end. I don't think that Titan has that same relationship with WB so it would be unlikely Abnett will be allowed.

2000AD is owned by video game company Rebellion Developments

>Dark Angels
More like dark faggets

Well, 40k comics have usuall been pretty solid - I've certainly never heard of a BAD series from that setting
Whoa whoa whoa, back the fuck up... there's a Dark Souls comic?!

Oh boy Dark Angels, the most interesting chapter to read about. Fucking Ultras and DA are the goddamn Poochiest chapters in 40K, give me some Salamanders or Fists or something, fuck.

It's atrocious and has nothing to do with DaS

>WH40k with additional pandering since its the current year
I will pass.

>Fists
No one actually likes Imperial Fists, even GW. They're Ultras in uglier colour. And they got almost wiped out by an ork in M32 or so.

Fists are like UMs that are even bigger macho assholes, and their ability to fail makes them more interesting to read about.

Welp, never mind then.

>Another possability at getting a flyboyz like comic

PRAISE MORK

>Well, 40k comics have usuall been pretty solid
There were some with really really terrible art.

Titan has the licence to print and distribute a lot of nerd stuff in the UK, and they own Forbidden Planet bookstores as well. I think one of the owners sold the whole company to Diamond in the 90s as well.

Deff Skwadron: Deff 'Arder would be brilliant, so of course GW won't do it. You'll take your marines and like 'em!

>there's a Dark Souls comic
In name only. I gave the first issue a read, it's garbage.

>WH40k with additional pandering since its the current year
wat

No, DC like to use 2000ad creators that's as far as it goes

Perhaps he means more cameos from new Fan Favourites the Stormcast Eternals! Got to let go of the Old World, you losers, and get with the times.

He means you can't sell a comic these days if it does not prominently feature transwomen of color.

...

>Immediately releases a game with a AAA developer set in the old world
I'm getting mixed messages here, GW.

Don't pretend that that is not a common position to take on Sup Forums.

You have to understand that there is a deeply ingrained mindset among GW management that video games are direct competition, ie. that every copy of, say, Dawn of War that was sold was a lost purchase of Space Marines. Allowing games like Mordheim, Vermintide and Total Warhammer to be made now makes perfect sense from this perspective - the developers can do what they want, they're not going to take any sales away from a dead setting!

GW is an amazingly terrible company, and it gets worse the more you know about them.

If there's not at least a cover by Geof Darrow then what's the point?

>kill off Karl Franz, swaggest mother fucker this side of the Reik
>keep Archeon, Arielle, Grimgor, god damn Nagash because fuck it
>make a whole set of not-Space Marines that totally are their own thing guys, we swear
>Tomb Kings never

Fuck off, GW

Grimgor bought it during the End Times, he got turned into the "Incarnate of the Lord Of Beasts" and then Archaon beheaded him at Middenheim. Someone on the writing staff was clearly PISSED at how Storm of Chaos went down the first time.

On the other hand, Grimgor got out with his dignity still largely intact, while Archaon is now one of the *stars* of Age of Sigmar (only without his sweet ass model, aka the thing people actually liked about him). I'd call that a victory, on balance.

Spare a thought for Brettonia, land of shining knights and dung eating peasants, murdered offscreen to show the Skaven meant business and then never heard of again.

Brettonia was doomed as is. They were decades behind the Empire and Dwarves tech wise, plus they're reliance on muh Lady of the Lake kept thier armies too top-heavy. If the Skaven didn't do them in, Chaos would eventually.

That sounds abominable. Tell me more

I don't know about that. Apart from the fact its all made up anyway, when you've got superhuman knights that can tank a cannonball to the face and keep on trucking all the Early Modern technology in the world won't help you. Same principle as Chaos Warriors, and they get by OK.

They were mostly doomed because GW didn't care enough to update them. Their last update was in 2003, and then nothing until the Warhammer World got exploded. Didn't help that between then and now GW went insane with the "try to secure a copyright on absolutely everything and prevent competitors from producing equivalent units". Whichever way you slice it, Anglo-French Medieval types were always going to be around in some form so long as historical wargames exist.

True, but how many Grail Knights did they have for every peasant spear man in their ranks? You can have an army of Captain America's but even they can't outlast thundering hordes of mutant berzerker knights or literal millions of demon rats.

Also, did GW seriously try to claim the image of a Medieval knight as their own? Jesus.....

They tried to do various other things. I think even they realised they were onto a loser with medieval knights, which was one of the reasons Bretonnia all but disappeared but its been so long now I can't remember. They did all sorts of other shit though. The Spots the Space Marine saga, or the Chapterhouse debacle, for example.
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I can't find all the Chapterhouse details right now, but I remember reading at the time that even the Judge told them they were making a big mistake going in

GW went to shit as soon as they became a publicly traded company. They make terrible decisions because their share holders see anything other than exponential growth as a complete failure.

>somone uses spess merines, a concept older than GW itself
>NU-UH, WE TOTALLY OWN THE SPESS MERINES!

This is why copyright/trademark laws are a double edged sword. Keeps rights in the hands of creators but also keeps basic, universal things in the hands of come truly knobbin' gits.

Mann you should have seen the stupid things they tried to copyright. there's a court document floating around where a solicitor picked apart some of their cease and desist letters and found that they claimed to have invented the word "space marine" and have the sole copyright on the roman number V

No Necrons no buy.

>Yfw they bring back based Redeemer

You also need to understand that once Kirby left and Rountree took position, that, in the past year, the company has slowly become a lot better, improving Age of Sigmar dramatically, putting out really good boxed sets that contain great deals and are a perfect way to get started, a return to a monthly White Dwarf, that isn't an advertisement for that week's products, and smarter decisions as a whole that benefit both the gamers and the company itself. Games Workshop is returning to its former glory.

what's rountree's background?

I've tried looking him up, but can't find much. He actually plays the games the company makes unlike Kirby.

Is it only going to be Space Marine stuff?

I want Eldar or Tau or something.

>Day 67
>It has been weeks since my battle against the cowardly sorcerer who flung me through the warp and into this realm.
>I have successfully infiltrated the ranks of these "stormcast eternals"
>None suspect me

Fantasy was dead for years

I like Age of Sigmar
High fantasy doesn't get enough love
Want to see how they refine the setting

I didn't even notice it until now

>Necromunda Ongoing

All glory to the Redeemer!

So, what's the best way to get into the Warhammer 40k universe?

GLORY TO HIS NAME

1) Play Dawn of War and the Sequels as far as you like
2) go to one of the wikis and just binge on anything you find interesting
3) Read Imperial Guard Black Library books.
Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human, because chances are it will be fucking awful. You're not safe just sticking to IG, but you've got a better chance at something decent.

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Just read this. GW is notorious for being a mess in management. It's a wonder they are still ongoing.

games work shop doesn't give two shits about any thing but making money.

we would have several WH40k movies if other wise.

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Germans came up with one.

>companies shouldn't make money

Cool socialism bro

>stupid reduction

Cool assumption bro

Which ones are by cosmic king?

Play the video games (Dawn of War, Space Marine, Battlefleet Gothic -is it good btw?-), browse the wiki pages, read the novels and stay the fuck away from the tabletop games.
40k and every other licence of GW are stuck in this weird position of having an interesting enough setting that its worth to seek out but where the source material is utter garbage.

But user, there is an official movie.
youtube.com/watch?v=tsvCLG1QZjs

>Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human
RIP as always

I'd argue that the tabletop RPGs are well worth getting into even if the wargame is terrible because they get into the interesting stuff about the setting in a lot more detail. They even make Space Marines interesting, for God's sake.

>Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human


The honourable exception to this rule is Deff Skwadron, because Top Gun with Orks is the best thing that's ever come out of Games Workshop.
cold-moon.com/40k/Deff Skwadron/deff_skwadron.htm

maybe bendis will write the thoughts of the tyranid hive mind

It isn't really, polucucks don't call us Sup Forumsmblr for nothing. In every thread where the word diversity gets uttered it's always just two or three stupid shills trying to saturate everything with their righteous, wholesome and non-degenerate memes. If anything it's only a vocal minority that get their panties up in a bunch over that stuff.

I suppose in hindsight I should have said to stay away from anything set in important areas.

The basic rule of thumb seems to be that the more central it is to the setting, the more likely it will be shit.

>Horus Heresy that tells us shit nobody asked for and makes everyone a dribbling retard
Shit
>False Hero syndrome Commissar in the ass end of nowhere that bullshits his way to glory
Great
>Ork Diplomats humiliating the high lords of fucking Terra with Ork Deathstars
Utter dogshit
>Plucky regiment dealing with the loss of their homeworld and unlikely leadership
Great
>Reworking Macharius, the single most obvious reference in the setting, and somehow missing the point
Suicide inducing
>Deff Swadron
Propa Orky/10

Etc Etc.
it's why the video games are generally good; they don't have fluff ideas above their station.

What else could this post mean then?

Honestly, I hope this will be an occasion to republish some old stories. I'd kill for a trade of Deffskwadron and of The Redeemer.

You might be onto something there, but I wonder if its not so much the "iconic" events that are the problem so much as GW only really trusts its in-house writers and authors, to do the heavy lifting on them. Sandy Mitchell on Ciaphas Cain was clearly a fan, but he was a freelancer. The classic Warhammer Monthly comics were almost all written and illustrated by 2000AD's then current stable. Dan Abnett's early work on Gaunt and Eisenhorn was when he was one of those freelancers and corporate management was a lot more hands-off with what would become Black Library. Si Spurrier did some damn good work back in the day too, although they've sort-of retconned quite a bit of his best GW novel, Lord of Night since then. I'm pretty sure he swore off the company having become sick to death of GW manegment dicking him about too, but I can't remember where I found that out. Might be just gossip.

I managed to snag a complete digest edition of Daemonifuge, the Sister of Battle comic, the last time they did that, back when it was half-way affordable.

Kinda sad that I completely lost interest in GW's stuff at about the time that Based Rountree came in.

It's very possible, and makes sense since the early HH novels are generally more well regarded, and the later ones are clearly a bodge job (like that shit with the Navigator guilds being the reason the emperor was secretive, apparently thinking that his own children were gossiping housewives when galactic scale security is at stake).

Normally it would be baffling that more attention being focused on a series would make it worse, but GW is brilliant at making absolutely pants-on-head retarded decisions.

"not the important areas" might also explain why the RPGs work so well - it goes back to the original mission statement of the setting that "The universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed..." Your groups adventures can be enormously important for your own little corner of the galaxy, with the actions of the players having epic consequences that will shake the fate of worlds... but the galaxy is so big that this is true for every other game group in existence. One of things 40k did really well that's been lost is a good sense of how bloody enormous the galaxy is. Your Dudes could be immortal heroes and terrifying villains on a par with Abbadon or Creed, but the sheer scale of the galaxy means that even the most terrifying warlord is still a mostly local phenomenon. The increase focus on the GW made special characters and sub-groups has meant thats been lost to a certain extent. I mean, I love the Black Templars and Biel Tan and all that, but I also liked the fact that an Empire of a million worlds had so much more than that going on.

Does that make any sense, or am I just rambling?

>decide to give the GW webstore a look since I've not kept up with them
>everything is of course twice as expensive as it was last time
>the names have all changed and its a complete clusterfuck, the empire for Age of Sigmar is split into a bunch of factions and theres five different sub factions for space marines
>battleforces have been replaced with something even poorer value for money, 'Start Playing' boxes
>the Imperial Guard one comes with 13 fucking models for £50

Can the whole GW board of directors just commit seppuku already

It makes perfect sense.

The setting allows characters to have major events occur with them, yet not steal the spotlight, still feel like the underdogs and have real risks at stake, given that a planet or two getting blown up in the Imperium is, depressingly enough, just another Tuesday..
When it's explicitly stated to be Galactic importance, you're less engaged because they feel less relatable, and the stakes actually get lower because you know the Eternal Fluff Stasis will kick in .

The All Guardsmen Party, for example, would be much less entertaining if they were elite marines trying to save Terra and Mars, because we know damn well that they're still going to be there at the end of the day.
What we don't know is how badly the Vampire Ork, disguised as an exceptionally lucky interrogator, will fuck things up for the heroes.

>gays, trannies and female space marines

yeah, great....

I bet you unironically like He-Man too

>talking shit about the Dark Angels

>ITT

...

Hey... it was a big fucking ork. There were a lot of big fucking orks.

>it was a big fucking ork

>Not Ultramarines or Space Yiffs.

I'm tentatively interested.

>I managed to snag a complete digest edition of Daemonifuge, the Sister of Battle comic, the last time they did that, back when it was half-way affordable.

Would you say the current $40 price is worth it?

Slut Patrol Reboot when?

Warhammer is almost entirely immune from these effects.

Seriously, you don't see this stuff outside of people baiting with the whole "female space marines" nonsense.

I think even the emperor was like

"That's a big fucking ork, damn"...

I'm confused, I think the emperor fought another really, really big Ork.

I dunno, apparently Waagh! the Beast was like... regular boyz were Warboss sized and the warboss was like warhound titan sized. They were also really smart.

It's been a while since I've fucked with 40k lore.

I know. I just elaborated on my percieved meaning of the post I linked, since user asked.

Karl Franz may be dead, but he's in a better place. And by better place, I mean anywhere but Age of Sigmar.

I swear to god, if it bring back Karl Franz as one of those god awful Stormcast, which look like what would happen if Dobson was asked to redesign C-3P0, I'm going to be pissed.

I envy Brettonia in a way. Unlike the Empire, they don't have to play second banana to the Stormcast.

Honestly? Unless you're a huge Sister fan, no. The story certainly has some really good bits, but as a whole its somewhat disjointed. The strongest bit is the first and final story, but the end clearly sets up a sequel that isn't ever going to come (and didn't really in the first place - the final part of the story was never published, because Warhammer Monthly was wound up before it could properly concluded).

If you're rolling in cash, I'd suggest following before Daemonifuge: The Redeemer (Necromunda, lunatic religious fanatic with flamethrower hat scourges and purges), Kal Jericho (Necromunda, cool bounty hunter hunts bounties), Bloodquest (three stories about a group of Blood Angels on a quest to recover a relic), Titan: God Machine (about a titan and its crew) and of course Deff Skwadron. Some of the Boom! comics are OK, the ones with Tancred the Dreadnought particularly, but they didn't grab me as much as the older Warhammer Monthly ones.

I hate to break it to you user, but its already been implied that Sigmar is wearing Karl Franz's body like a meat sock and had his soul bunged into the "Lord Celestant Prime", ie this thing. Double the violation!

I still have the trade of Bloodquest Volume 2.

It's actually one of my favorite comics, and normally I hate black and white comics. But the arts really good, and the story is cool.

I just want a mini series of a Tau Pathfinder squad trolling Orkz in a jungle planet.

make it happen!

40k is terrible, and Games Workshop is worse, so disappointment.

The only good thing they had was Warhammer Fantasy, and its dead forever because they wanted to be DC fucking Comics.