JSA Storytime: Howard the Duck

Good evening owls,

Happy birthday Steve Gerber

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legit didn't read anything today

My only pulls this week were Scooby trades.

me either

Hey OP.

I've actually read some of the new releases!
DugGoTG is still bretty good, and deployed the full set of Cosmic OCD Immortals to go with the three the story has clearly been about the whole time.

maybe coffee will get me through storytime?

Hello, Storyteller.

So between this and Omega, I'm guessing it's typical of Gerber's work to be COMIC BOOKS as fuck.

Also, video games are coming closer and closer to not being worth it anymore. Fuck you, 2K.

You can't wish happy birthday to a dead man, you moron.

Sup Forums's been pretty shitty today too. I wish some of these threads would get cleaned.

fuck you

You didn't miss much. Justice League and Trinity were, well, they exist.

Although, Circe had a good moment, so that made me happy. Fuck you, Constantine.

"the black dog" is a common euphemism for depression

>Howard the Cuck

>Also, video games are coming closer and closer to not being worth it anymore. Fuck you, 2K.

"Good Graphics" drove the cost of making games way too high, and consoles becoming PC-like enough to allow for Expansion packs in the form of DLC (to recoup dev costs) really damned the entire industry slowly.

I read a few issues of that old Vertigo Anthology Flinch, and a few stories were good. It makes me miss anthologies, but I understand why they are dead.
John always has a plan

Huh, it's really pretty outside tonight.

It's also fucking hot. :(

lol that Alonso interview is some retrospective rationalization

no one believes that Legacy is Act 3 of a Deliberate Plan for the Marvel Universe, dude

I didn't know you played basketball games, Cranky.

Do people actually give a fuck about graphics anymore though? Indie folks seem to make bank just making games that are appropriately niche or nostalgic or horny enough to get a fanbase.

Like, I legitimately remember this one guy on /tg/... constantly posting his idea for a VN with this loli futa elf and her bride (but it was a legit, considered fantasy world you understand, the story was the important part). He got IMO very justly mocked like crazy on the board but you know what? He actually fucking went and did it. He made like $$$$$ on Kickstarters and has a whole bunch of porn games out.

the appeal of sports games that aren't TECMO BOWL elude me

>“When Jason pitched the concept of the 1,000,000 B.C. Avengers at an editorial retreat, everyone in the room’s jaw dropped,”
Must've been lunchtime.

Oh, I believe Legacy is Marvel's Act 3, the bit where their hubris finally finds them self destructing, like the end of Gangster movie.

The way they talk about this stuff isn't even good bullshit anymore

There is no act 3.

But mentioning an Act 3 like he did is only going to piss off the fans of the legacy characters.

I hate Alonso. Smarmiest motherfucker ever. Almost as bad as Bob Kane.

>Do people actually give a fuck about graphics anymore though?

Well, I think the PC Master Race types do, with their demands of constant 80 fps video in their VR headsets etc. etc.

But the big studios have pretty much committed themselves to Graphics, even if that's not nearly worth the money going into it.

I kinda don't buy that excuse that "Oh, but video games are just so expensive to make! The money's got to come from somewhere!". If your profits are not coming from actual sales of the base product, you're a fucking moron who doesn't know how to handle their fucking budget. Tons of quality indie and small studio games come out all the damn time made on the cheap.

Notice it's almost always the big name studios who cry poverty to justify their avarice. 2K in particular publishes Grand Theft Auto for fucks sake, so I don't wanna fucking hear that shit from them.

He edited that anthology that I'm reading, and everytime his name pops up I wonder if this is some hardcore sabotage.

Sholly Fisch? If not you should get on that, everyone should.

>Not Blades of Steel

I thought you were a woman of taste, OP, now I learn you don't even FLIPTHEFLIPTHEFLIPTHEPASS.

I'm biased because I never gave that much of a shit probably.

The idea that there's some sort of objective perfect standard of graphics independent of the product is dumb as hell anyway.

It's my second favorite Sup Forums theory after "Humphries was the CW2 leaker"

Is this a L-Ron episode?

as someone who dropped some cash to upgrade the PC to run fast and smooth, it's really a treat to finally experience some current good graphics, but VR? bleh.

Tecmo Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete of all time

so we have Scientology and Hare Krishnas, lol

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Well said.

What's your specs op? How much money did you burn on it?

I can't get over that fucking Jaden Smith "anime"

Jude Law as the robot butler, what in the fuck. Relevant to the thread because and general insanity.

Seee, I started out just upgrading graphics and then went "oh well" and replaced almost everything

I put an i7-7700 in there with a GTX 1070 and have an m.2 SSD to boot to

It really has. The fall of Marvel creates a vacuum that only racebaiting movietards can fill.

Since people's taste isn't as shit here as rest of Sup Forums, which contemporary indie and European creators should I follow? I'm a pleb when it comes to both, current indie creators I follow are Tomine, Clowes and Ware and I know Jack shit about Euroshit.

I am firmly committed to passing on that one, I think.

No matter how much of a fantastic waste of money it was.

I don't. I just follow industry shenanigans because this stuff affects video games as a whole.

In my opinion, a rock solid art style is far and away more important than high definition textures. Some of my favorite games of all time are Metroid Prime and Banjo Tooie. Both are old as fuck, but still look good to me because of good art direction and competent design. Graphics whores can suck the fattest part of my taint, to put it diplomatically.

I know very little about Euroshit but I've been enjoying Alex Alice's Wagnerian comic

Scrub specs. Get good or get out.

hey, I'm happy.

I buy games years after everyone else has them, anyway

>i7-7700
Meme processor but otherwise good stuff.

('transparent' is an obvious reference to the Scientology state of Clear)

I deserved something nice for surviving the shittiest year ever

>Tomine, Clowes and Ware
I do not think I have anything for you senpai.

revisionist curtains

True enough, there's also the rise of crack dealer style microtransactions that have come in thanks to the iPhone.

(these scans don't have the ads)

Mœbius is the big one. Otherwise there's a lot of good titles out there, both classic and contemporary:
Tintin, Corto Maltese, Lone Sloane, The Metabarons, Royal Blood, Nikopol Trilogy, Blacksad, The Throne of Clay, The King of the Ribalds, Samurai, Sky Doll, Requiem Chevalier Vampire (stupid but fun), Orbital, Wake, Adventures of a Japanese Businessman, Arsene Schrauwen, Blue is the Warmest Color, Dungeon, It Was The War of the Trenches, Josephine, Moomin, Torpedo, Caza, Aama, etc.

Alex Alice's Siegfried trilogy is really, really good. His art has this excellent animation-like quality to it, much like Blacksad.

>tfw already reached peak of funnybooks on first try
Might as well stop reading comics.

Is the third volume out in English? I've kind of lost track of things, but if it is I'll actually hardcopy that for my Wagneriana collection

Thanks ma dood.

I just mean I don't really like them. Kinda, craft without content for me? But I don't like e.g. Nikopol Trilogy either. But a lot of other stuff in that post is good! I think there's a kind of stereotypical sci-fi/fantasy Eurocomic and once you have read Moebius everything else trying to be like that is like ashes in your mouth.

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It is finally out, yes.

>duty-bound malarkey

Like a stand up comedian at gunpoint.

there's always manga

oooh

The Ms. Marvel generations issue had nice art, but played with continuity a bit much (sliding scale and all). The belly-suit also appeared for a page, but was probably a mistake.

I'm increasingly dipping towards manga, which feels weird because I wasn't for years. I had the same teenage manga phase as a lot of people do but then dipped out again. Soil finally got fully scanlated. Hope someone picks up Deathco.

I really like Kerascoët, which is a collaborating duo. Also Blutch, Igor Baranko off the top of my head.

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Already tried few good ones and going to try few hipster ones.

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I wanted to like Sky Doll more than I actually did

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The one thing I think is totally wild in the Siegfried comic is how well the atmospheric conditions - and I mean the actual fucking weather - are used to drive the comic visually? Like it's SO consistent: incredible gusts of wind, amazing frames of light at daybreak, totally overpowering lightning bolts.

It really adds to that animation factor but just on its own on a single panel or page is really striking, and the fact it's achieved so often, I really love it. It creates an impression that goes beyond what you actually see and magnifies the whole subject matter, so Siegfried really does feel like a mortal in a realm of gods.

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she apparently knows about the more unpleasant habits of male ducks

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Microtransactions in 60$ games is bad enough, but now they've gotten worse with FUCKING loot boxes. Which are gambling no matter how much you to argue otherwise.

And that's not even touching on the Forthog insanity, which is the most morally despicable thing the industry has pulled, possibly ever. Do not buy Shadow of War.

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>buying a corporate game ever

>"oh yeah, the dinosaurs had Iron Man suits all along, and they created space colonies and terraformed Mars and to this day 1/10 people are Secret Dinos."
Please make this your Act 3 Marvel.

This is why I only play Pokemon these days.

>with FUCKING loot boxes

If it's just cosmetics then I don't care. If you're upset because you can't resist the temptation to buy Overwatch crates that's not my problem.

this is too real

what is the appeal of Overwatch

Showing the hallucinations/imagined villains just at the beginning and then dropping to only the voices isn't just economical, it's a pretty slick way to do it.

I can forgive a million speech bubbles here because when the speech bubbles start to overpower the art, that's you getting Howard's experience. And fragmenting the panels more is nice too.

The stuff in the last few issues has been pure Howard. But this page? This page could be verbatim from a Disney Donald short.

A character tormented by the narrator is practically the entire joke in Sports Goofy.

It's a team objective based multiplayer shooter where each character has their own play style.

So I guess, fun?

A lot of the time it turns into pay to win scenario.

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Has anyone read the new Image #1's or the Millarworld Annual?

Ohhhh

the last FPS I was any good at was, ummm, Hexen?

Waifus with guns, I think. Waifus with guns who are in a LOT of SFM porn.

Also, maybe "Team Fortress without the very real feeling that Valve has all but forgotten the game exists because OMG there's a wifi connected TP dispenser in the 3rd floor washroom!"

We hate Image out here.

Waifus and husbandos desu

>Millarworld

Why would I ever?

Oh, right, almost forgot the husbandos.

Now that is the last thing I expected as an actual not-parody cameo

Who do you hate more: Image or Boom?
I've read a few Boom mini's recently, and most of them scream "TV pilot/movie script"

>new Image #1
Gravediggers Union doesn't start til November. I'm waiting for that and Rumble

The best overwatch summary was definitely that "nobody fucks, but we IMPLY everyone fucks"