Good evening owls,
we continue to explore the range of kinks in this book
JSA Storytime: Gen13
Eli Robinson
Lincoln Richardson
Austin Cox
Jose Garcia
it's a giant babby!
Henry Mitchell
Hello, Storyteller.
More Millennium Legion designs were revealed today. Thoughts?
Josiah Thomas
Purple and white has to be Phantom Girl, the disco cut outs. The others are largely obvious except the blue and white, maybe Ayla?
Not a fan of the kind of similar looks on Star Boy and Sun Boy, but a full starfield could change that.
Xavier Wright
I mean, who hasn't been drunk, angry, frustrated, and paranoid
Logan Jackson
Kevin Morgan
I've got Blok, Gates, and Wildfire confirmed already so I'm pretty happy castwise.
David Moore
I don't like that Tinya is just purple. Like, I'm always bitching about how the Legion should have more proper aliens, but humans with weird skin colors is lazy. Could've made her look like a space ghost(not that one), or something.
Also, Blok is just a pile of rocks. How inspired.
William Lee
It's like Fant4stic The Thing
Liam Williams
Yeah, I think that's my sideye at Star Boy and Sun Boy too, it's that kind of special fx skin color that feels like a dodge. It works on Shady, but we also occasionally got to dig into her planet's culture and weird shit, which was nice.
Nathan Garcia
101 degrees today, AC unit doesn't get here till tomorrow, hopefully I'll still be alive. Cats are loving it, though.
Looks like the typical bad modern fan reimaginings.
Really can't figure out what they're even going for with Imra there.
Overall, the Legion have looked worse, but the whole thing just feels very uninspired and like it's from the perspective of an outsider looking at the Legion as something that needs to be fixed and remade.
Bentley Adams
>a good leader can't be angry, frustrated, and paranoid
And yet, DC keeps insisting that Batman is the leader of the Justice League. Almost as if the self-obsessed jackass with the people skills of a drunk gnat has no business being in charge of anything whatsoever.
Also, there's a giant baby. It's comic books. Of course there's a giant baby. Why the fuck not.
Aaron Barnes
James Wilson
It's literal Shrinking Violet
Andrew Morris
yay made it home just in time-ish
those are ugly, Sook is overrated
Luis Sanders
The designs aren't TOO bad. But the buzz cuts need to go!
Jaxson Bell
Tasmia gets away with it because talokians have always been mystical and such. Incidentally, hers is the only redesign that looks legit good.
>the whole thing just feels very uninspired and like it's from the perspective of an outsider looking at the Legion as something that needs to be fixed and remade
So... Bendis.
Fuck, you're right. I can't unsee it now. Thanks, Dave.
Cameron Cooper
...also possible
the endless fucking sidecuts, watch them shear Dreamy of her glorious hair
Nathan Thompson
Hey OP.
I wouldn't trust Grunge with a regular baby, never mind a giant one.
Christopher Campbell
Shady is barely even a redesign, that's like a light tweak
Nathan Cook
GIANT DOGS!!!!
Jaxson Sullivan
Agreed. Again, I actually like sidecuts, but they really only work when they fit the character, like Crush. Why the fuck would Imra, Garth, and Rokk be rocking sidecuts? That makes no sense!
>Shady is barely even a redesign, that's like a light tweak
Hence, why it works. It's basically just her Reboot design, but now she has those cool shadow clouds surrounding her.
John Kelly
It's already better than anything johns ever did
Benjamin Russell
Grunge has leveled up in stupid this run
James Cox
>Why the fuck would Imra, Garth, and Rokk be rocking sidecuts?
I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's them saying "what would fashion look like in the year 3019?", but if that were the case why would they pick a fashion that is already common right now?
So it's more likely just 40 year old men's idea of what teens today think is cool.
Colton Gutierrez
unironically this
Blake Clark
Alexander Carter
I hate almost all of them, except Shady, who did apparently immune to bad designs.
Samuel Scott
It's really hard to fuck up Shady's look
Dreamy should be an easy one too
Benjamin Collins
Oliver Davis
Liam Martin
attention, attention, exploitable panels
Zachary Ward
He's also being a huge asshole for no reason. Grunge really is the worst. 90s kids must've looooved this crap though.
>So it's more likely just 40 year old men's idea of what teens today think is cool.
Again, Bendis, and Sook.
It's especially stupid, because as you say, they're from the future, not today. They're also a bunch of nerds who read some history books and said "Hey, we can do that!". They are not "hip", and nobody asked them to be.
Adam Watson
when does Frank leave and Gen13 gets sexy again
Ayden Collins
At the same time? Me. I rarely drink, only two hangovers that I can remember. Don't much need booze for the other three though.
Caleb Adams
Brayden Hall
Isaac Watson
I like Mon-El's puffy sleeves and Dirk a cute
Daniel Clark
Credit to Frank, his weird faces lead to prime reaction fodder.
Huh. Has Tasmia ever had a straight up bad design?
>Dreamy should be an easy one too
'Should' being the key word here.
Carson Fisher
Oh shit, Gates has been confirmed?
Mason Bailey
Aaron Russell
I am dying at Grunge's WTF face
Hunter Parker
Adam Jenkins
Zachary Thompson
Yoshida seems to be backtracking a bit
He seems to have been offended by Newsarama reporting that Marvel is now offering bigger discounts on Marvel #1000. Their article implied that Marvel #1000 was the book that Yoshida wanted to hit 1 million copies.
He reached out to them, pulled the "I never SAID it was this" card, and now they updated the article to be more passive aggressive, including the entire tweeting history of him saying to watch for big announcements in the week that Marvel #1000 was revealed.
Aiden Campbell
Caitlin is best girl.
Gates is a bit of elephant in the room. I don't normally clutch my pearls about censorship, but I can't help but wonder if Gates will have his socialist leanings toned down. Like, dude is literally a commie, and while he's usually played for laughs, he is sometimes presented as having plenty of legit points.
Joseph Perez
AND SWOLE GRAMPAS!
Isaac Gray
based Yoshida
Logan Gonzalez
Nice to see Yoshida continuing the stupid streak of marvel, not that it's very surprising
Kevin Barnes
Nice contrarianism.
And I say that as someone who hated Johns Legion.
Christopher Wood
He was always pretty dumb. I mean, not being Roxy's One Woman Man?
Jason Fisher
>a comic book, ANY comic book, selling a million copies in 2019
Wow, that is disturbingly naive.
>pulled the "I never SAID it was this" card
Just in case you needed a reminder that these people are indeed corporate executives, and not plucky small business people from around town.
Colton Carter
3119, they decide to crank the future dial up a century for absolutely no good reason.
Daniel Reyes
Carter Young
does she have armpit hair
Jeremiah Jones
I enjoy the pass-agg response from Newsarama, genuinely
Lincoln Hernandez
Seriously. This was the original article
>Original story published June 24 and edited June 25: Marvel has announced several discount incentives for retailers to raise their orders for Marvel Comics #1000. This 96-page one-shot may or may not be the project Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski has publicly hoped/speculated will sell over one million copies.
>"The last comic to sell a million copies was Star Wars #1. Which was almost five years ago. I feel it's about time we publish another title that sells over seven figures. And I think I have an idea..." Cebulski said cryptically on his personal Twitter back on May 3
Retailers can receive up to a 15% discount on Marvel Comics #1000 if they order more than they did War of the Realms #6. The scale of the discount is determined by the amount ordered - 15% if they order double, 10% if they order 75% more, or 5% if they order 50% more.
>The deadline for retailers to place their initial orders of Marvel Comics #1000 is July 15, with a scheduled on-sale date of August 28.
and this was the update
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Connor Hughes
>Updated June 25, 2019: According to Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, August's Marvel Comics #1000 may or may not be the project he was referring to in early May with a series of tweets teasing a comic book he speculated could sell one million copies in the comic book Direct Market.
>Monday (see below) Newsarama reported on several discounts being offered to Direct Market retailers for the Marvel Comics #1000 special (or launch of a new series?), and in our story presumed it was project Cebulski was referring to when on Friday, May 3 he tweeted:
>"The last comic to sell a million copies was Star Wars #1. Which was almost five years ago. I feel it's about time we publish another title that sells over seven figures. And I think I have an idea..."
>Later that same Friday, May 3 he followed up with another tweet, shooting down speculation (what he referred to as "good guesses") published by Newsarama and other sites that it was a Star Wars relaunch. His follow-up tweet read:
>"Good guesses, folks, but it is not a Star Wars relaunch. For a story firmly set in the Marvel Universe. More hints next week..."
>The next week on Tuesday May 7, Cebulski tweeted that readers should "be sure to read every page of every new Marvel comic tomorrow, folks!" which turned out to be large series of teasers that would eventually be revealed as creative teams for the massive Marvel Comics #1000, the first of several tweets that week referring to the teasers/special.
>But this week Cebulski tweeted that despite the timing of his original Twitter teases, he never actually directly connected the original May 3 tweets with the May 8-9 tweets and Marvel Comics #1000, specifically correcting Newsarama on our assumption. He wrote:
>@Newsarama I don’t believe I ever said which comic I thought would sell a million copies. Please don’t assume and put words in my mouth. Thanks.
>Newsarama has edited Monday's story to reflect this more accurrate information.
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Jeremiah Rodriguez
The whole thing is juvenile, teasing like that and then going NUH-HUH
Samuel Ross
Wyatt King
"hey kids, come home and stop hunting for dates"
Alexander Baker
just found out Waid's Doctor Strange is cancelled
gay
Parker Russell
Probably just getting a relaunch under a different name.
The sales are pretty good (27K, lol), so it would be dumb of Marvel to just can it
Juan Torres
Cameron Torres
so... What comic DID he mean? Abrams Spidey?
Mason Gray
Clearly he meant Absolute Carnage
Carson Robinson
I couldn't fit the final line from the newsarama article in the dump, but here it is
>We also contacted Marvel Comics directly to ask what project Cebulski was originally referring to. The publisher responded Tuesday morning there was nothing to share in regards to those tweets at this time.
hahahah
Lucas King
ok that is pretty funny
David Collins
Darth Vader/Thanos
Sebastian Lewis
Reminder Star Wars #1 only "sold" a million copies because it was bundled with Loot Crate and now that they're running out of money they actually sent out spare SW #1 copies they had lying around, so not even the LC copies were completely delivered either, let alone the actual LCS ones.
Brandon Green
this is a typical WildC.A.T.S. scenario
Noah Davis
Grayson Cox
Carter Jenkins
Dominic Myers
OH KITTY!!!
>I'll ask it after we kill it.
Cole. My dude. The robot murdercat can't talk if it's dead. This is why Zannah is always giving you shit.
Adrian Kelly
LOL
crank up the dial on the soap opera! that's always been the best part of the X-Men. I treasure the huge relationship chart.
Levi Watson
bum bum bum
Blake Sullivan
Ah, I see the entire cast was replaced with shapeshifting aliens who can't quite grasp how facial expressions work inbetween issues
Andrew Price
LBR, you think Zealot's any better at not killing shit than Griffles
Jose Myers
I'm kinda digging this odd couple dynamic between Roxy and Sarah.
>Roxy's mom knows Alex
Oh, we're diving into that element of every 90s thing ever? Okay then!
Gavin Davis
Sebastian Sullivan
Brayden Green
didn't it also have like, 80 variants?
Oliver Cruz
>LBR, you think Zealot's any better at not killing shit than Griffles
... Fair enough. In fact, if anything, she'd probably scold him for letting it get away.
Andrew Edwards
Jason Nelson
Did the scan not have the back up for this issue? Or was Planetary subbed in for it?
Nathaniel Peterson
Scans end there, sadly
Carson Thompson
Yep, close to if not outright 100 I think actually
Ryder Wright
Roxy, no.
Rainmaker, long enouh to braid.
Michael Howard
Kevin Myers
Frank draws Cole too normal.
Luis Perez
One thing that never makes any sense about the villains of these kinds of stories, is that they keep pursuing the protagonists no matter what. Yeah, it's the storytelling engine, but in-universe, you'd think Ivana would just let it the fuck go by now and consider the Gen-13 project a lost cause. Girl, cut your losses and call it a day.
Nathan Reyes
Frank's action scenes are hella boring
Andrew Cruz
not his strong point, no
Ayden Campbell
makes me wish Immonen drew them
Nicholas Turner
Gen13 was more fun to me without the drama, and higher on the hijinks.
Lincoln Reed
Oh man I’m already going crazy. I think the redesigns are fine, maybe even good!! It’s gonna be awful for me if I don’t hate the book in here
Cooper Fisher
is he on anything right now?
Josiah Wright
>muh bronze age
>muh head canon
Bendis is trying something new, not retreading ground
Michael Sanchez
AND NOW A BACKUP drawn by Art Adams
Isaiah Hall
Damn, Black Razors upgrade to proper mechs.
Josiah Brooks
Arcudi, Claremont and Simone's runs sorta suck
rest is really fucking fun
Charles Reed
Leo Morales
New doesn't mean good, dude.
Brayden Long
he's "retired" after ASM and getting Millarworld money but doing a webcomic with his wife and going to do a page in Marvel 1000
Gabriel Moore
Art Adams has some monster legs, but I still love his art.
Jaxson Murphy
he did one of the Generationx crossovers too right
Easton Rivera
BIG BEEFY CAITLYN ARMS.
Anthony Parker
Well, I'm glad he can work on what he wants to
Parker Harris
Art Adams makes me think of Longshot makes me think of Mojo reminds me of that one Remender Uncanny Annual that was a thinly veiled dig at everything Marvel editorial was doing at the time
thanks owls back tomorrow hopefully on time
Cooper Rodriguez
That was pretty funny. Not sure whether it was backtracking now that everyone is like "lol THIS is the thing that's gonna sell a million? A book that panders superficially specifically to the most hardcore fans?", or it's another part of the corporate line towing trying to imply that they always have something even MORE "internet breaking" up their sleeve.
Parker Lopez
lol, Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E got added to that DC mobile game.
Johns strikes again
but they also added Jay and Alan a few months ago, but both suck
Nicholas Cruz
all those Millarworld artists made a few cool mill
thank OP have a good night
Levi Stewart
I'm pretty sure it's going to be a status quo change.
Most likely the Eye of Agamotto turning into a giant knife and the book being renamed "STRANGE".
James Lopez
sexy, hope he doesn't wear a shirt
Jose Reyes
Yeah, an instagram webcomic. Shit's tight
Ayden Bailey
Ironically that probably will sell more than 1000, since everything related to Spider-Man with "#1" on it tops the sales charts instantly, and this is straight up SPIDER-MAN #1
Nathan Stewart
Thanks OP.
If anyone wants to stick around, here's an issue of Hellblazer from when John was a kid
Alexander Brown
Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.
I think I may have mentioned it once or twice, but it bears repeating. Caitlin is best girl. She's kind and caring, smart yet naive, and is a natural leader. Kinda like Diana. And Imra. And I just have a fucking type. Great.
Aiden Campbell
Nathan Perez
The only context needed is that John's suffered quite possibly the largest defeat of his life.
Caleb Johnson
Frazer Irving
Isaac Lee
Jackson Rodriguez
Some of these faces look a little Corben-eqsue
Christopher Powell
You really do have a type, but it's a good type, Cranky.
Parker Adams
Caleb Robinson
I've seen enough people praise Anka's redesigns to know these do appeal to some folks. Again, the Legion have worn worse. It's just, as usual, "if it ain't broke".
I'm really just expecting the book to be safe and feel like it was written in an afternoon before heading off the the artist, full of Buffyspeak, because Bendis seems more intent on just stamping his name on as many DC characters as he possibly can rather than having any specific vision for a certain character.
There's just such a massive different in how every other writer treats a book they're on and how Bendis does. He's just making the DCU an all you can eat buffet. I wouldn't complain if he just took Superman and stuck to that and tried to do as much as he could with it instead of trying to pile as much on his plate at once as he can while leaving everyone else to pick through scraps.
Grayson Carter
Tyler Torres
This is the story of John's first time.
I think it takes place around 1961.
Grayson Thomas
And Donna!
Kevin Scott
Liam Watson
>He's just making the DCU an all you can eat buffet
It's reminding me a lot of what Byrne was doing in Action Comics at the time.
Almost every issue was a team up with whoever he wanted
Xavier Bell
Thanks for running, OP.
To think that MRSA could have saved us from the horror of Bendis Legion.
Colton Hill
Tyler Lopez
she's one of the best comic waifus ever
David Gray
FWIW and it’s probably nothing bc people treat his name as mud, but Bendis said he’s been working on this for a year and a half
I think I also just have rose colored glasses just because I don’t have the same visceral hate towards Bendis everyone else here(Yea Forums) does
James Green
Oliver Moore
Ian Phillips
Luke Lewis
Josiah Campbell
Is Grunge supposed to be half Chinese or full? Because they draw him like a white guy with awkward Asian eyes.
Gabriel Reed
Brody Morales
Comic artists can never do half mixes ever.
Cassandra Cain and Rose Wilson come to mind.
Brody Mitchell
I have two types, actually. Serious minded nice girls, and bitchy good aligned bad girls. There are some who fall somewhere in the middle though, and that's good too!
There are two ways Bendis Legion could go to make it not the worst thing ever. As you say, safe, by the numbers, likely retreading. Or, a hilarious Earth-2 style train wreck. Either is acceptable, frankly, cause the worst case scenario is that it's just bad bad.
John Butler
Blake Williams
Brandon Harris
I wonder what comics he had to give her. We know that in the 1980s he had a collection of Silver Surfer that one of his exe's stole.
Adam Fisher
Gabriel Campbell
The end.
Next fall we'll learn how he dealt with the Meanest Teacher
Charles Diaz
And Donna!
>I don’t have the same visceral hate towards Bendis everyone else here(Yea Forums) does
Same, but it is incredibly annoying how much the dude saturates the line up with himself.
Brandon Ward
the thing is though he's not saturating the line up himself, DC gave him an exclusive, a marketing campaign and probably a lot of dollars to come and get people interested in some of these properties again. this is literally what they wanted him to do, he's not sitting in a sandbox going MINE NO ONE ELSE TOUCH while other writers try to call dibs, they're giving stuff to him that they don't think other writers could have revitalized
and it's true honestly, I don't love or hate Bendis but he's a draw and DC doesn't have many of those especially not ones that are willing to work on this many titles. if it wasn't Bendis it would be fucking Williamson or Tynion and there'd be zero interest
Jayden Reed
DC should promote Yang
Landon Sanchez
Hey, we're the same. I like Zealot as much as I love Diana.
Charles Morales
Yeah like the young justice stuff was (seemingly) being actively discouraged! Otherwise he’s kinda contained to Superman stuff. Batman kinda doesn't count imo cause they give everyone’s bat stuff.
Bentley Campbell
I think the problem is that Yang's usual audience isn't generally interested in his capeshit
Jaxson Rodriguez
There's a lot of writers who've been wanting to write Legion and YJ for years now.
Though I see your point about Bendis being one of the last "name" writers around, so maybe YJ wouldn't have had a chance otherwise, but DC has been hyping the return of the Legion for a few years now, I think anyone who's going to buy it will be interested more because of the Rebirth hype than Bendis's name.
Landon Roberts
Man, this Ms. Spaulding is completely different from Wild Storm's. Down to being a blonde.
Christopher Carter
>the largest defeat of his life.
Tail End of Carey's run?
Camden Adams
This is why Carey is John's best writer, he'll just go below the damned belt.
Jaxon Walker
Yep. Losing his sister because of her awful husband. Stacking gambit after gambit and losing.
Two regular issues followed it, and wrapped up the rest of the Carey plots.
Then he did do one final issue a year later after Mina crashed and burned