New Super-Man

Well, just finished up the second trade of New Super-Man. I'm loving it so far, though I think they did a disservice to Lex's character. He was a bit too dumb.

Anyway, I only bought this because of y'all's recommendations, so we may as well have a thread. Also, where can I read about the Great Ten? I know nothing of them.

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They had a mini, IDK about it quality wise since I haven't read it.

Fair enough. I'll look into it.

JLC may be coming, given the title comment.

Neat! Baixi and Wonder-Woman are better characters than Kenan anyway.

Robinbot please

The Great Ten had their own 9 issue mini a little while back, they also appeared and played an important role in 52 along with the subsequent Checkmate Storylines all pre Flashpoint.

Reading stuff before Rebirth tends to confuse me, but that is to be expected.

>Not liking the successor to Superbro, the Chinese Superchad

Gay

>mportant role in 52
They barely appeared in 52.

Liking Fatbat and Wonder-woman doesn't mean I don't like Kenan.

the world needs more snek and Tubby and Best Boy, let's not fight

I'll drink to that! And also to Marvel fucking up with absolutely no good Asian representation whatsoever!

That's remarkable.

I also bought the first two trades this month because of Sup Forums's recommendations, glad I did, does anyone else like Bat-Man over Bruce as a character? I like that Chinese Batman is fun and not a constant downer like Bruce is.

I like that he's not fisticuffs and has a strong focus on random gadgets. The B.U.V. was a great gag.

Kenan seems to be the mopey one while Baix is the one who has a fun and relaxed demeanor, absolutely love the role reversal. I'm actually pretty curious how a meeting between Kenan and Damian would go.

Fuck you. I'm loving monsters unleashed.

Peng Deilan is the best!

What did you guys think of the octogon parts of body stuff with his powers? I'm not sure I'm into it, to be honest.

its based on this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua

Its super cool and a great example of working in a characters culture into their powerset without seeming uncreative.

Is it wrong that I want Kenan to meet Terry?

>Superman Beyond cartoon that takes the premise of NSM and moves it into the future, after Superman has died/retired/disappeared

Would that work timeline wise? I guess Terry would be young and dumb to a much wiser, older Kenan.

I'll admit, since I'm only the two trades in, I don't know how it all works out but I imagine that Supes' powers don't easily correspond to them.

Yeah its pretty cool, good to see this one isn't ending at 18 like Superwoman and BB

Those were supposedly bad, right? I like Jaime because of the Brave & the Bold show, but I never read his comics.

I fucking loved this trade. My big issue was Avery Ho feeling like she came out of nowhere. Granted it's been a while since I read Flash rebirth, but I barely remembered her and was super confused at how she still had her powers and how she was willing to join JLC at the drop of a hat. Even more confused the JLC let her join.

It's cool as fuck if you grow up with Taoism

I love it. It's a really unique take on a classic powerset, and ties into the cultural themes of the book really well. Plus, it forces Kenan to actually figure shit out in an interesting way that runs counter-intuitive to his personality.

Read his 2006 run. It's Jaime's first run, and definitely worth it. A lot of the stuff that came later was mediocre to bad.

sounds perfect as a toy feature (octagon side lights up when you press the specific superman power).

Haven't read Superwoman, but BB wasn't bad really its just not pulling sales enough, plus that frees up Kolins to work on something else. The Ted and Jamie duo got 3 solid tpb's though... it is what it is.

I like it.

A learning curve for young superheroes is a necessity. I love Superman, he's a great character, but just "okay now I'll use this power" isn't something you should pull out for young characters. Even Jon has his own learning curve.

Plus it allows for failure, an important lesson for up-and-coming heroes.

Amazing how well it tied in. I love it

Justice-League

So for everyone shitposting about this from the last thread you guys need to chill.

Tamaki blows on Hulk and Supergirl because she can't into serialization yet, she's a graphic novel writer. She'll probably be fine in a one-shot story where she controls the pacing.

Did the Great Ten have any good comics? They seem awesome.

I straight up didn't recognize it as the same character as well. She's fun though.

Her graphic novels suck. And wasn't Supergirl like 3 issues? How is a mini too much serialization to handle?

Being Super was 4 issue and it was very safe and mediocre

>Japanese(-Canadian) chick

Most Excellent Superbat WHEN

Oh no, people don't like this writer? I know nothing about comic book writers. What makes them bad? I can deal with boring, I'm more worried about the humor being lost. Or it biting off too much and becoming a melodrama with plot holes.

So serialization has nothing to do with it and she's just a bad writer.

Let's hope the editors do a good job

How are Gene's other books?

Boxers and Saints is good.

Her pacing is pretty lousy. That's the only problem I've had. I heard her GNs were alright but never really cared enough to track them down.

I've been loving New Super-Man, but I have to admit I wouldn't be enjoying it half as much without the Sup Forums storytime threads where people explain the Chinese stuff like and Grass Mud Horse.

That kinda makes me worry about how the book is being seen by people (Americans at least) who just pick it up in the shop and read it by themselves.

Me too. I only got a lot of the stuff because I'm chinese.

>cao ni ma
>white/green snake (definitely gave me the feels)
>bagua
>qi stuff

I actually did those grounding exercises as a kid and the stuff about emotions and qi is the same thing my sifu said

Don't know why but I never liked Diana. I like this Wondy more than others. Hell even like Artemis in RHatO more.

>white/green snake
>Fa Hai is a doomsday turtle
I wonder who's gonna be Xu Mengjiao and who's gonna be Green Snake

Do you think it'll hit #50? I only like buying trades...

Bought this for a Sup Forumstard and he liked it. He hated brohulk

>ONE ISSUE

THANK FUCKING GOD YES!!!!!!!!!

I like the idea that they let her join because they had no idea how to get a flash of their own and weren't about to say no when one showed up at their door

I think I-Ching spoke for Avery, so that's automatically an in

What writer would make you drop the series?

Anyone not Yang to be honest. Unless they bring in someone just as knowledgeable about China and equally good writer, I probably will be disappointed regardless
That is not to say I will drop the book when Yang leaves though

Fun fact: Yang initially declined this series because he felt like he didn't have any connection to China. So all the mythology is him doing research

I quite like her GN, but her Supergirl and She-hulck were not very, mainly due pacing issues.

*very good

I only knew the stuff that they explained directly in the comic. Which there admittedly is a lot of explanation for.

Because WW is all over the place in terms of everything. This one is pretty consistent.

Her rather typical teenage behavior does seem pretty funny in hindsight given her origin.

Yeah it shows.
This is who we should ask for, someone dedicated to this craft. Who else does this?

kek.
Thats also kinda cool though in a way because he's learning about it on the fly and working it all in without any kind of mental boundaries.

Regardless of how good or bad it ends up, I'm glad it's only a fill-in

I liked Kenan after the superman zero escape

This series is fucking kino

That seemed like a tremendously stupid move. Is Zero a new thing? Is he like a new Superboy?

> we'll be making some changes to the title!
> we're getting rid of I Ching and now Kenan is a rapper and the book's changing its name to Big Hero 10!

subtle

they had a mini that was cut short by I think two issues because it didnt sell. IIRC Socialist Red Guardsman and Thundermind didnt get their backstories. I was pissed because Chinese Shazam had me interested, it was a decent read.

>my sifu
I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE FAT UGLY AND SMELL I ENVY YOU NOW

That's because Deilan is a pure snakefu.

Cho was much better in Incredible Herc. I honestly don't dislike the idea of Cho becoming a Hulk and it's one of the few legacies that makes some sense, but the execution is seriously lacking.

Okay, I read Flash Rebirth 1 again and yeah, I didn't even realize that Avery was Chinese. The name should've tipped me off "Avery Ho", but still, I thought it was just a joke teenager.

Wonder how she got involved with China Triad or whatever. Or who the fuck those guys even are.

>over design mons
yikes

>Who else does this?
Most people don't even research the characters they write. And some like Bendis and Priest are firm and open in their decisions to not research.

I enjoyed his Avatar OGNs, but I eventually fell off of them. At the very least The Search is worth reading for the conclusion to the cliffhanger from the end of the series.

hes honestly the only reason i still read avatar occasionally

Boxers and Saints felt like a gut punch (in a good way)
I was expecting something like Mulan where it's one big romanticization due to the artstyle but it gets depressing as hell especially when you know the greater context of the Boxer Rebellion (they seriously thought the whole spirit possession shit was legit).

>Priest
>Not Researching
Deathstroke is full of callbacks to things that happened outside the book. He did deliberately ignore Tony Daniel's run though and things he doesn't give a shit about.

My reaction exactly. GLY needs to write this book until the end of time.

Y'all ordering the variant covers?

What did he disregard?