JSA Storytime: Wildcats 3.0

Good evening owls,

we salute the National Park Service, tonight

so what's up in the world of comics?

probably two issues tonight because I still haven't gotten my shit done, sorry, there was this whole "taking a nap" thing

Hello OP

HI user

and here we go, this is probably the nicest Griffles has ever looked

Hello, Storyteller.

Dare I even ask what you mean by that? Cause I can't help but think it refers to something terrible.

MAC stealing Superboy's costume

Wellll....you'll see later on in the run, but I was honestly reminded of this run thanks to the rogue NPS agents speaking out in various places, so this is the result

Agreed

It feels weird they're giving her a uniform.

Quinones really loves 90s Superboy

This is Agent Wax. He's going to be with us for a while. He's kind of a fucker.

here we go

Oh, that's right--you can say 'fuck' in this run.

>also that's how I feel about work tonight

He looks like Hair Bear.

Please be Good.

This is early Dustin Ngyuen, weird, innit?

I feel like it might not last, just a dream sequence or something. It's not on the other covers at least.

One thing I will say about this run is that some of it is remarkably prescient about branding and technological disruption.

that gentle feeling of a lecture wrapped up in a narrative

Bleeding Cool says Marvel is whimping out on political stories and going meat and potatoes
A shit ton of DC Rebirth has been returned
Still no Legion and now everyone's gonna associate the name with David Haller's tv show and I bet we don't even get the Bible verse

How could it have been returned if the book stopped being returnable like two months ago?

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Defo. I feel like he's going for a Travis Charest kind of a vibe here.

okay, we get boobs in this book too

Is this self-parody?

Fuck The Ray. I am so tired of all these fucktarted casuals spending hours pretending about a character they never even heard of before they heard DC decided to change him up a little. Shit, at least now this complete nobody is somewhat worthy of note. For fucks sake.

But a peepee is a step too far!

This is Joe Casey so 50% of the time my irony meter is broken, at minimum.

I think it's just the principle of the matter of changes that people like arguing about instead of specific instances.

I know, right? God forbid we see Griffles' junk, it's all ass shots

I re-read the end of the run the other night and there's some stuff in it that's so painfully Casey that we'll have fun with, when we get there

I do find it pretty ridiculous comics can't do nudity and swears (but can double down on violence) at this point. The Rooftops issues of Batman were a pretty good example - the most explicit thing you got was a throat stab, and it's actually to the detriment of the comic

the ladies in back are all "heeeeey"

I'm still so fucking here for gay Snagglepuss, I love it

People definitely have exaggerated reactions to specific content. I didn't care very much for The Ray's intro issue but I also don't care about the character has been changed.

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apperently there's pics floating around of just huge amounts of returned comics

>However, there is a cost for that kind of thing. And while sales of DC Comics are also up, so is the returnability, at record high levels, and something DC and Diamond didn’t anticipate.

Orlando's a huge fanboy for him so I'm good with it

>gun covers his dick
Damn, that's some censored-Steranko levels of suggestive.

I get your point but then it just go to HBO level where they curse and show some boobs but then avoid everything else. Wherever the line is draw it never stops feeling silly.

Wax has mind powers

this will get him into trouble

>I don't understand how this is even a story and how/why Rich is clearly trying to make it a negative one at that.
It's a photo of some fucking pallets.

Such a fanboy he had to turn him into a degenerate faggot.

nothing beats that one Katehunter cover, which BTW 100% of the comics-reading lesbians of my acquaintance approved of

Not all media is like that though, right? How do you get to the balance? The fact you can't do it at least partly contributes to what actually makes it so saleable.

lol

i mean if they're being passed around by people would be interesting to see them.

I guess I feel like the only time it doesn't feel dumb is when it's non-sexual nudity of someone just dressing. But that's relatively rare outside of like artsy paintings and photography shit.

The "what can you show" discussion reminds me, did anyone ever read that fucking awful Fantomex MAX comic Marvel put out a few years ago? That was the purest example of "We got to show boobs and swear so we forgot to do a story to support it" I've read.

What an oddly specific demographic!

Ah, we won't agree if your position is "sexual nudity is always dumb".

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>fucking awful Fantomex MAX
Storytime of pain When ??

i've heard that's most non-Punisher MAX books

Oh shit, I actually forgot about that! brb, gotta download those to add them to the storytime
which WILL resume
soon
ish

Grifter and Middy definitely have a few things in common.

ugh, it's just plain bad...

I admit I'd read Hickman's X-Men MAX book he always wanted to write.

Thank you based user.
Is this related to Planetary or it's is own thing?

this is peak Casey

now Grifter/Midnighter, that's always a good gay time

Not the nudity itself is dumb but it feels dumb that they crop out certain things just for "decency" or whatever. The line drawing itself is the dumb part regardless of where it happens, but I get that it has to happen because they're not literally producing porn.

>ugh, it's just plain bad...
Austen scale how bad .

It's in the Wildstorm U and previous readers of the CATS will recognize Grifter and Spartan as our chief protagonists

Nothing in it is memorably "I have to see this" Austin-trainwreck bad

>I admit I'd read Hickman's X-Men MAX book he always wanted to write.
Man, there's so many non-canon X-books I'd read if that meant they'd let the writers go wild. What can I say, I'm a sucker for crazy reinterpretations.

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Oh right, no I'm pretty on board with you there. It can be absurd that you have to censor this stuff - sometimes it's perfectly fine to show a dick or a nipple or whatever. You have to judge what and who the content is for.

Possibly biased on this from growing up with comics that gave few fucks about it, but "Rooftops" really jumped out at me as an example of where needing to be PG-13 is sort of ridiculous.

That's my position. Even if it makes sense for the narrative.

Until we as a species stop giggling like morons at the idea of people fucking, art should avoid it at all costs. Or do you want more Sword Art Online tier sex scenes?

He said it with such glee that I figure he has something totally fucking crazy it'd have to be MAX to get away with, you know?

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I see what you mean about the fucking irony meter.

two scruffy white dudes, but one has a beard, thank god

Part of it is probably that they don't want to make a single issue have a different rating from the rest. I don't think they'd generally be opposed to it in like a mini or something since it would be properly labeled.

we're only getting started

As long as it's not just crazy mutant sex...

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>The Florida Keys
Bullshit. I don't see any pink taxis.

that's boring and expected, I want to be surprised

or cute little deer!

yes, that is a chibi Ladytron

Man, you just went and got blood all over your fresh money. You have to shoot him before you open the suitcase.

incoming tl;dr, so if you ever thought Ales Kot liked to talk...

Thanks, I am becoming a big fan of Wildstorm with this threads.
What are you hoping for the new Wildstorm universe? Also who?

Guess they don't call it blood money for nuthin', hyuck hyuck!

>Also who?
Gen 13 art by Frank Cho or otto

mai waifu Zealot

lots of characters who aren't THE AUTHORITY

Madge

Imagine if they both took the same freshman philosophy class.

Kev.

That was bad and you should feel bad.

My african american.
But she is no longer wearing her slutty gear.

It just pinged to me that they have some very similar (bad) habits as writers/thinkers

Did we know JLA was going to be based in Happy Harbor? Bc LOL

And keep Lobdell away from them.

>My african american.
Or even a new Deathblow mini

>And keep Lobdell away from them.
This

I have always considered him superior to Deathstroke.

Finally got around to reading Transformers/GIJoe. Regret.

still waifu

for once, Casey has a really good point about the absolutely under-taught issues of economics in the American Revolution, but it's always done as infodump

I regret nothing

not gonna get political tonight, but this is pre-Citizens United

>Regret

>Lobdell writes teen heroes, it's a disaster
>Lobdell writes edgy antiheroes, it's a dark horse success
Huh.

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>using that font

Look you know how hard it would be to teach like the actual facts.

Washington has like 30 barrels of gunpowder for the entire first year, its fucking amazing we won. I'm mad now we don't teach history, who wants to do a President comic w me

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It was a different time :^)