Good evening owls,
back to where we left off
JSA Storytime: Grendel
Carter Harris
Jeremiah Davis
Carter Cox
those are some pointy tits
Ian Roberts
Adam Sanchez
the thick lines on this are wild
I can't get over the red-headed dude, either, he's the most 80s thing I've ever seen
Jason Wood
Furious I’m working tonight and can’t read this finale until later.
Hi OP!! Doomsday Clock is so dumb
Jayden Phillips
What happened in this issue?
Jaxon Wood
HI user
Justin Diaz
after this it's right back to DQ11 because TWEEEST and I'm playing the game almost completely unspoiled (I used some guides for the crossbow targets) and zomg
Jackson Long
Doctor Manhattan talking about Ferro Lad was fucking surreal
Sebastian Nguyen
Xavier Watson
Basically all the heroes except the trinity went to mars to fight Manhattan and got owned. Guy Gardner got to say shit though. Manhattan also went to the future to see dead Ferro Lad
The best panel was Lex asking Lois about Wally.
Austin Powell
Owen Butler
This art style with that design burned itself into my eyes the first time I read this.
Elijah Johnson
Angel Rodriguez
Gotta say I guess I don't actually like Grendel. The amount of text in and the internal narrative in this really takes any impact out of the action for me.
Joshua Reed
Dominic Flores
It's funny how DC have just fallen back on their old shit after Rebirth.
Michael Campbell
To be fair, Grendel 2 isn’t something I would put as a high mark. It’s interesring but the highlight is the prologue story.
Cooper Robinson
John Bell
Mason King
Nothing... as always.
Benjamin Ortiz
this isn't, like, the best thing we've ever read, but it's so weird in some ways I'm fascinated where this even came out of
Noah Wood
Grayson Richardson
The vampire planet in GL was the corniest shit ever and I really loved it.
Joshua Taylor
Also this post is accurate
Zachary Davis
so tell me about Bloodborne because I know some people who are weirdly fond of it
Austin Ross
It's a game. Play it.
Juan Garcia
oh ps4 only, lol
Jordan Gomez
Hello, Storyteller.
Green Lantern was pretty solid, yet again. It's almost like proper pacing makes a story much more enjoyable or something.
>the vampire planet is called "Vorr"
I mean really though.
Cooper Wright
Isaac Martinez
Oh lol
Anthony Peterson
Jonathan Allen
SO: 1) do we want to keep on with the rest of this story which is weird shit with Argent 2) what else do we want to read because next storytime is Saturday
Daniel Martinez
>old ways
Always been retarded trying to play catch up.
Ryder Harris
Josiah Lewis
Furious we didn’t get him seeing some proper crazy Legion stuff
It’s April 20th, 2965. I see Space Moby Dick off the forward bow.
Ferro Lad dying in 3019 and not his proper time of 2960something upset me
Austin Thompson
I think you would hate it because it's a high-intensity punishing failure action game. But if you're into Souls style stuff it's insanely good, and the world it builds up is kind of Victorian/Lovecraftian horror and completely fine with lurching into some dark and less-explored (at least in mainstream) spaces. To me it runs with its inspirations in some original and extremely complimentary lines, so it's hard for me to look at it and not think 'this fucking works'
Nathaniel Rogers
The NEGASUN at DEATHNOON
Such a good fucking issue. I loved how DND it randomly was, plus the blood goth architecture was so bloodborne
Jayden Brown
Hey Dave have you seen/what did you think of Alita?
I re-read the first 10 chapters of the manga after I watched it and I thought it was insane how much stuff was directly adapted.
Jose Campbell
>It’s April 20th, 2965. I see Space Moby Dick off the forward bow.
This would have redeemed Doomsday Clock for me.
Julian Kelly
Seriously glad you're enjoying it!
Michael Morris
>high-intensity punishing failure action game
yeah, noooooo
Michael Carter
What's the deal with Hawk/antiHawk autist? They've been spamming for months now
Owen Martin
Tex now I have to rebuild my Zoom location library goddammit!!!!
Julian Carter
some people are just fucking stupid, I think?
Landon Wright
Between Creature of The Night and The Seeds being on hiatus, the comic book industry is in a really depressing state, has been for 3 years now. Thank God for Green Lantern, for no other reason than the fact that it's so genuine with it's insanity, it just believes itself instead of being yet another post ironic piece of fiction.
Bentley Rodriguez
>Captain Atom exploded AGAIN in Doomsday Clock
Brayden Diaz
Ryder Ramirez
The Countess was straight up DM'ing Hal's solo session. It was fuckin' great.
Also, Sharpe's art really suits the aesthetic. His style is usually hit or miss for me, but the dark coloring and scratchy inks just works here.
Carson Cruz
Eli Nelson
Jace Sanders
Spamming? on Yea Forums? impossible. Now let's talk about Jim Gordon wanting the Joker raped, how Marvel always rehashes "Dr. Doom as omnipotent" and calls it a masterpiece, fanfiction about the inside workings of the big 2 and while we're at it, let's have a casting thread.
Evan Martin
Juan Clark
>liking morrishit
Logan Jenkins
Mason Jones
I though #1 and #3 were fine but really enjoyed #2 and #4 and #5 was half meh pages and half really amazing ones. He's inconsistent as fuck, but it's fine, considering modern standards.
Wyatt Wood
hi sugartits
Jose Reyes
I really enjoyed it.
It was definitely written at the same time as Titanic and Avatar, but it had a little key things that made it run smoother as a character piece. Really well done if very cornball at times.
David Brooks
Jace Sanchez
Is there any other interesting Wagner we could read?
John Allen
Carson Smith
Double back and get some Shadow and Hunter Rose in.
Jack Hughes
we could read omni 1, if there's something in particular in it?
Matthew Powell
Benjamin Kelly
Christian Evans
His Batman stuff? I mean yeah, it's Batman, but he does a good job, and it's a really good approach to remaking a Golden Age Batman story: use the basic Bill Finger premise while updating the script, and jettison every possible Bob Kane "contribution"
Thomas Cruz
William Reyes
I really do wish writers would stop trying to be clever and deep, cause they demonstrably are not. Just tell a story. Stop trying to redefine, stop trying to deconstruct, just tell a story. For fucks sake.
Morrison can be damn good when he gets his head out of his ass and lays off the meta shit.
Also, this meme was never funny. Stop trying to force it. And if you are genuine, stop anyway, cause nobody gives a shit.
Nolan Nguyen
I feel like the two bigger stories are either the original piece or the larger one at the end. And the latter is rather spoilery.
Benjamin Peterson
>Adam Hughes once bragged about being the first person to get Diana's nipples printed
>and yet there was Earth 2 Diana in Infinity Inc #5
I recently finished reading this, and wasn't too impressed. They seemed to do more talking about heroics than actually doing them (and being very dramatic all the time).
Mister Bones was definitely the highlight of it.
Ian Price
So this story is actually long--it ends on page 370, and then there are two trippy as fuck followups, but they're both kind of not great on the screen, so lemme look at omni 1 and think
Brandon Flores
>The Countess was straight up DM'ing Hal's solo session. It was fuckin' great.
I want them to bone
Zachary Turner
I forgot to attach the page
Christian Taylor
II has some vintage Todd McFarlane pimpin' capes in it, too
Nathaniel Sullivan
Parker Morales
>readcomicsonline
pathethic
Xavier White
IMO Omnibus 1 is mostly short stories that we could use as interstitials.
The one with the visions of the future fucked me up since I don’t know where Grendel is going. Shit looks insane
Christopher Thompson
Liam Morgan
I'm a filfthy phone poster right now becuse the wifi's been down for a bit.
And honestly, the digitals that DC released for the later issues are "fake." They're just high rez scans
Aaron Flores
Yeah. It’s one of those stories that doesn’t quite work I think in the chronological order. Since it’s a clear book end.
Joseph Anderson
Alexander Wilson
Jackson Davis
And so many guys wonder why so many women think men are disgusting pig monsters.
Tyler Rogers
Nathaniel Gray
Luis Powell
Camden Reyes
Evan Flores
Levi Hall
They almost certainly will. Gotta figure both are aware the other is running game, so a good opportunistic fuck session is inevitable just for the sake of it.
Lucas Campbell
Sebastian Diaz
Kevin Peterson
Ryan Adams
I think this is a fabulous image to end on because this story has like another 100 fucking pages to it
SO Saturday, maybe let's read some Hunter Rose, and if someone wants to upload some Wagner Batman, game for that too
thanks for reading, owls, as always
Dylan Carter
Bit random, but anyone else love when a character uses their powers or advanced technology for completely mundane, normal tasks?
Connor Hall
They whitewashed Hugo's character a bit too much and didn't make Iron City shitty enough. Crowds were a bit too clean and normal looking. Also left out the big dude's crush on Alita and addiction to brains. Other than that though, it's an excellent adaption that I recommend to any fan of Gunnm.
Nathaniel Price
>What a stupid weapon
Christine. Shut the fuck up with your bullshit doublekatana electrospear.
Brayden Diaz
The art was usually pretty good. Lots of strange "plot panel, plot panel, plot panel" then a "pin up that takes up 60% of the page" happening though
Zachary Smith
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.
>another 100 pages
How does one even go that long on a story this deliberately weird?
Brandon Rogers
it was the 80s and the man wanted to draw capes
Camden Perez
>And I know, that you know, that I know, that she knows that you know that I know.
>y'know?
Colton Sullivan
I agree. Wagner tends to overwrite. Or tended to. I think Grendel is where he revels in excess while Mage is far more restrained. Or maybe this first arc just isn't as good as others - the Hunter, Eppy, Orion, or War Child. Funny how people really disliked the shift from the Pander Bros to Bernie Mireault. Panders really do some gonzo stuff with this first arc. It was fun to see how they used the same style with the story they did for Black, White, and Red. Anyways, yeah, this isn't the best arc. I do love it, though.
Jason Clark
>How well do you know Chris
Bibically.
Dominic Johnson
If you can post the silent chapter before moving on, that would be fantastic. If not, no big deal. That issue is what hooked me back in the day when I randomly found the issue in a bargain bin.
Jonathan Brown
Hey OP. Starting late.
Carter Allen
I have to say, that as someone who was only ever AWARE of Grendel, I'm actually surprised at the number of vampire/werewolf/mutants involved.
I always though it was just the story of a killer/vigilante/psycho.
Jackson Gutierrez
>We know she'd like to meet him. She knows she'd like to meet him. But does John know she'd like to meet him?
Luis Jenkins
>he's the most 80s thing I've ever seen
And at this point, Spider Jerusalem(or Archie 3000) times Wolverine.
Logan Cook
It’s like the penultimate story so it still kinda works but it’s more of an ominious warning instead of like a retrospective.
I’m in love with how despite being like 2 decades of stories they all come together for this portrait of Hunter
Adam Phillips
>500-600 pound tv
Jesus, future. What happened to the 90 inch TVs you could pick up one handed because they were basically giant cell phones?
Jackson Campbell
Funny, or disappointingly predictable?
Justin Taylor
That's really only the first and fourth Grendel
Lucas Diaz
That is some fucking gun right there.
Jaxson Morgan
Autumnlands vol.3 when?
Josiah Jenkins
>Ferro Lad dying in 3019 and not his proper time of 2960something upset me
Legion is always inexplicably exactly 1000 years in the future, even though that's lazy as hell and wastes the opportunity that being a thousand years in the future allows you in terms of timeline pliability.
Jeremiah Jackson
Up until Reboot, well probably actually 5YL, they did a decent job of it moving in semi real time. It was the current year + 1000
Jaxson Taylor
Thanks for running, OP.
Dylan Garcia
What's wrong with your faaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Leo Nelson
Let's not act like Rebirth was a return to form, they just stopped with the gimmicks for a little bit but the writing was still pretty shitty. Hell, DCYou actually had a handful of books I liked.
Tyler Parker
I'd say this part is the worst victim of that. Its present everywhere but it hurts the most here. I think it mainly has to do do with the less focused narrative
Henry Brown
Is there ever going to be a comic continuation to the future story line? I enjoyed the hunter stuff and the shadow crossover but I'm still curious to see where he's going to take prime. Especially after all the upgrades and neat shit he was shown to have in the Batman crossover.
Carter Ramirez
Just wait till you get to the super pope and the part where he becomes a memetic virus
Noah Taylor
Tbf the memetic thing is there from the start it’s just (mostly) subtle