Been a long while I storytimed anything. Hope everyone enjoys some fun Thunderbolts issues with Luke Cage not being a total knob.
Parker - Thunderbolts
Dylan Martin
Xavier Miller
Nathaniel Howard
>Been a long while I storytimed anything
PM-IF user?
Nicholas Ross
Juan Gray
Nah. More known for super crappy opinions and getting drunk and taking out my frustrations on characters after bad breakups.
Adam Cox
This comic is one of the influences I constantly reference when thinking about adopting this horizontal layout in my comic. Walker stalks horiztonal panels of varying size on top of one another and while he deviates at point, this is his standard mode of operation. It gives the comic such a unique feel and manages to ensure at no point do you ever question what's going on. He doesn't even use split panels, just smaller horizontal panels to accommodate the space requirements. I love 3x3 but god damn is this effective storytelling.
Mason Rivera
Do peeps view this style of panel layouts lazy or just another method of storytelling? I previously used 2x4 but don't feel I ever truly took advantage of it to its fullest extent. I think the horizontal stack would be the easiest way to plot things out and ensure simplicity for the reader (just read down the page), but the 3x3 grid offers the greatest degree of control but to properly utilize takes work. Years of working on my own scripts make me feel more confident with 3x3 but I always think I should just stick with the stack and modify from there.
Lincoln Powell
Elijah Cox
This scene alone made me realize that Parker has a handle on Luke Cage that Bendis only dreamed he could have. And he manages to do it without reducing Cage to a goddamn stereotype.
Julian Thompson
Joshua Gomez
I love this run, thanks user.
Zachary Watson
Luke is fucking ruthless! The true mark of a good T-Bolts field leader.
Lucas Cox
Nice. This is a fantastic run.
Austin Garcia
Aiden Ortiz
I am so glad you all enjoy. Was worried this wouldn't be popular enough to gather an audience but I'm glad I was wrong.
Blake Gomez
Weirdly, I didn't take any of what Marko said as a threat. Dude seems to know what he can do and what he'll probably be used for. Nothing he said was factually wrong.
Andrew Harris
>getting drunk
Texas?
Landon Richardson
I'm with Luke on this one.
Mason Butler
I only jumped on this book after the team went full AWOL but gearing about Parker’s Luke is heartening.
Mason Adams
I like how Walker's art has changed so much over the years.
His editor should have caught that he confused Satana for Lilith though (in costumes)
Angel Green
I strongly feel that he should bring back his classic Beetle costume. He was actually the first Spider-Man villain I ever watched on TV.
Joseph Allen
Think more angry and bitter.
Lucas Jackson
I miss Songbird's old hairstyle
Parker Hernandez
I love that Parker likes Pym. Dude should have been a reserve member or something but then I remember he's on Remender's Secret Avengers team and all is forgiven.
Benjamin Adams
I think is a really great method of storytelling, it's simple but effective.
I got it recommended in one of the /shelf/ threads and it got me hooked immediately
Eli Barnes
I love Man Thing but I need more Swamp Thing exposure. Anyone know how the new show is? I adored Doom Patrol and consider it in my top five cape seasons of all time.
Brayden Bennett
Long hair is super sexy. As one of my friends said, when you see a chick with super short hair she is either a fighter or she has given up on life.
Gavin Rodriguez
Working on my own comic has made me so conscientiousness of how panel layout dictates the flow of the story and while I really want to use 3x3 to use a classic approach to a modern story, I can't ignore that the horizontal stack allows me to think more fluidly, capitalize on left-right space, and to ensure that the scripts are easily translatable to page. I just don't know which to stick with as converting an issue to a different layout is an endeavor.
Cage is such an awesome character in this series. Not just a self insert for Bendis' black power fantasies.
Jordan Rivera
>Anyone know how the new show is?
No clue. I'm being completely serious when I say that 99% of the hype for that show died when it was revealed that it was actually cancelled before it released. People found out because WB stopped paying rent for set storage.
The first episode was pretty good, and it had crazy special effects. But I never bothered to track down the rest of the season.
Plus, it had it's episode count cut during production, so whatever ending they had is not what they planned.
As for comics, Moore is the highlight, but pretty much everyone after him have moments in volume 2. Veitch is good despite getting fucked at the end, and the guy hired to replace him had some good ideas but rough art and rougher execution.
Oliver Barnes
Love this shot.
Henry Miller
Thomas Ramirez
Cranky? I didn't think cranky ever storytimed.
Anyways, I'm pretty much out of named storytimers, and I don't remember x-user being angry
Adrian Sanchez
Anthony Hughes
Well alright. Now it's officially a Thunderbolts title.
Dominic Reed
The "you want me on your side" is making him seem like Cage needs him more than the other way around. Sign of power for someone that's supposed to be working for someone else. I can see Cage not liking a prisoner he doesn't want telling him he should be lucky.
Josiah Watson
ProfessorBro lol. I think my cynicism probably ranged depending on the storytime.
Ryder Collins
I completely understand that line of reasoning, I guess I'm just thinking off pure logic so his comment doesn't raise any alarms. Yes, I would love to have a fucking Juggernaut on my side but I still have an entire talent pool at my disposal. Juggernaut is the epitome of, win some you lose some.
Adam Taylor
Charles Lewis
>Ghost asking 'Is this Nigga serious?' to the readers
Gavin Clark
Parker Perry
Parker is my favorite Luke Cage writer
Juan Brown
My fucking man.
Tyler Nguyen
Ryder Nguyen
here and reading. its been awhile
Sebastian Morgan
I love how Pym tried too much to help prisoners for most of his Mighty Avengers/Avengers Academy time.
Cameron Perry
moonstone is who's villain ?
Luis Flores
She was adopted by Carol in civil war, that's all I know
Luke Hill
Aiden Price
>Works fine.
I love this version of Luke.
Jack Nelson
You can practically hear Karla's panties drop after that verbal lashing. Sploosh.
Jaxon Gomez
And now we're back to the horizontal stack. I feel like the last series that did this was The Authority and I will argue the panel layout did afford the series a more cinematic feel to it (I feel like Millar's Ultimates wasn't afraid to emphasize the horizontal panel). Does anyone else have any recommendations for more of this panel layout?
Luke Bailey
Brandon Martinez
Cooper King
It's not something I consciously notice, sorry
Isaiah Evans
Kev Walker was a beast on this book
Aaron Rodriguez
Moonstone has always been a Ms Marvel villain
Brody Sullivan
I remember the Songbird/Classic Thunderbolts stans relentlessly shat on this book. They're as bad as hard-core Rich Novafags. Something about B-list books brings out the autism.
Liam Howard
You're golden. Literally the only reason I pay attention meow is because I've had to write my own scripts and planning for an anonymous artist does not do your confidence any favors. Aside from giving artists scripts and telling them to wing it, I feel like horizontal stack will allow them the greatest amount of flexibility while still operating within your established parameters.
That said, unless you write scripts like Alan Moore and provide sketches of the pages, having an artist operate the 3x3 grid without being in constant contact is a terrible idea. Also while i love the layout I feel that having that amount of control over the artistic expression diminishes what the artist could bring to the table.
I'd love to hear from someone that has had to convert a comic script to a page so I know how to best accommodate for your wishes. I heard some artists love having everything spelled out so they just follow the guide whereas some love the freedom of expression to take your idea and make it theirs.
Chase Turner
Colton Ward
Brody Ortiz
Levi Morris
John Cassaday does this quite a bit
Luis Perez
Lucas Bell
all this time I thought man thin was just a mindless killer
Aaron Butler
FUCK YESSSSS!!!!! Thank you for mentioning Cassaday! I had also added his work on Astonishing X-Men and Uncanny Avengers to my influences for that art style. It's so simplistic on first viewing but realizing that while the horizontal space is always static but the vertical space could be whatever you want it to be really appeals to me. I think the big reason is that because the panel layout itself is so basic, I could potentially pencil and letter the entire thing from scratch as I only have to work on penciling small yet wide pictures lol (this is an awful idea and I would never be successful at it).
Samuel Watson
Connor Morales
Damn user I want to remember the good times but it hurts
Leo Cook
Bentley Howard
Austin Price
Isaiah Lewis
I'm here for ya. I'm willing to continue if you are. I can go from Parker-Bolts to Parker-Dark Avengers. Again, only if I'm not inconveniencing too many people. Not having a pass makes my posting much slower.
William Carter
>Do peeps view this style of panel layouts lazy or just another method of storytelling?
I like it, mainly because it reminds me of Bill Watterson. He liked to use full Horizontal panels to create feelings of space and isolation or distance. Or, as a convenient place for his editors to chop off so they could fit more strips on a page. He called them "throwaway Panels" because of the latter use.
Brody Gray
Perhaps these fight scene panels are askew to show the how chaotic things are
Nolan Rogers
Oh shit son
Carson Hernandez
>Parker's first issue - Thunderbolts #144 sold 33,276
>Parker's last "Thunderbolts" issue - Thunderbolts #174 sold 18,792
>Parker's Dark Avengers #175 - 39,532
>Parker's Dark Avengers #190 - 15,905
Why's he cursed bros?
James Fisher
best girl
honestly I dropped the book when it became Dark Avengers, just lost interest in the new direction
Jackson Kelly
If this scene was ever adapted, I'd want them to alter the angles, so you can never actually see him. There's something really fucky about actually seeing Ghost's face. I was introduced to Ghost through this run, but I still don't like it. The viewer should never know what he looks like without his mask.
Mason Turner
wait no, his first issue was Thunderbolts #138 during Dark Reign
>31,224
Cooper Garcia
Weird question, but would readers consider a beginner's attempt at the 4x4 grid needlessly pretentious or would they give them slack for trying? My only real exposure was Miller's Dark Knight Returns and I was goddamn floored. It allows for literally any page imaginable. Depressing and Uplifting? Action heavy and morose? The possible layouts of 4x4 which includes 2x4 is seriously on another level. All that said, would Yea Forums be pissoed off if a writer didn't stick the landing with that layout or would they appreciate the effort?
Landon Young
Hudson Harris
I think that it shows way better in Planetary, specially when they capture the not-human torch. Also it is not a bad idea to do your own panel layouts, you can see how the story flows, but if you are working with an artist ask first if there's any problems with that.
Matthew Moore
Just gave it a look and I would say Batman: Last Crusade adopts a variation of the 4x4 but Romita definitely has fun from start to finish. Truly a joy to read.
Cooper Powell
I need to give Planetary a serious read (only read it passingly). I think I'm operating from a fixed layout because I am planning for this to be interpreted by another artist and I HAVE to have a layout that I know "works" if that makes sense. I have to ensure that the script I provide can be interpreted by a true dipshit with no artistic abilities because I don't know who I would be paired with. If I had an artist in mind, I'd be more free with my layouts but because I have absolutely no one in mind I have to be a bit more deliberate.
Jaxson Young
>I'm a man you want ON YOUR SIDE
It's subtle, but it's there. Probably something Luke heard a lot back in his days in Sing Sing. Or was it Ryker's?
Hudson Powell
According to the MCU it was Seagate.
Jonathan Hall
>It's subtle, but it's there. Probably something Luke heard a lot back in his days in Sing Sing. Or was it Ryker's?
Now that it's laid out like that, I get it. My unique experiences prevent me from interpreting intimidation and just viewed it as "duh facts".
Cameron Morris
Ah, poor girl's mom. I've read some Japanese comics about that exact scenario.
Isaac Perry
To be fair it's the kind of threat that doesn't translate well in printed media because the it relies highly on the tone it's said in, the artist did his best to convey it in his face, but again the thing that would differentiate it from a statement of fact and a benign threat is tone of voice so yeah
David Phillips
Kayden Moore
Landon Mitchell
I really think it's just me not registering. I'm not autistic, but unless a threat is absolutely obvious I view it as the person trying to be intimidating while incorporating passive aggression and that doesn't even phase me. I'm too used to dealing with obvious assholes to the point where the indirect ones are phased out lol.
Isaac Cox
Posting busted?
Cooper Sanchez
Dylan Williams
>I dropped the book when it became Dark Avengers, just lost interest in the new direction
Hopefully you're willing to check it out again. Love having readers with alternative opinions on stuff. Part of what made the Invincible threads a treat.
Jonathan Anderson
Aaron Scott
Karla is straight up fiending for Luke. I love it.
Lucas Sanders
Jonathan Murphy
Zachary Collins
Dominic Fisher
Jordan Lewis
Ethan Sanders
>Weird question, but would readers consider a beginner's attempt at the 4x4 grid needlessly pretentious or would they give them slack for trying?
I'd say, unless I was aware of the name, I wouldn't know a beginner from an expert.
Cameron Morris
Not really fiending, her whole thing is psych profiling people and trying to find ways to manipulate them, she's trying to get him to sleep with her just so she can use him. The way she keeps trying to come up with new ways to get ahead and failing really made the run fun.
Cameron Watson
Jayden Cooper
You'd think for someone as intelligent as her Luke wouldn't cheat on Jessica Jones in a million years unless she cheated first and he verbally declared he checked out of the marriage. Dude has a moral compass that is unwavering in every sense of the word....unless he makes promises to Osborn. Then Luke is a shifty shitball.
Thomas Powell
Ryder Brown
Dominic Rivera
Is it easy to use bitcoin to buy a Yea Forums pass? Don't like having to download extraneous software to fucking post on this site. It's the extra step too many.
Jeremiah Bailey
Man Kev Walker's art is so damn good
Owen Nelson
Caleb Hughes
Sexy page.
Aiden Roberts
Matthew Cooper
Nathan Stewart
Daniel Phillips
Eli Baker
Luke Adams
Asher Martinez
I'll be damned. She actually respects Cage.
Anthony Walker
Jack Green
It is so refreshing to see a writer with such a strong handle on all the characters. It is such a fucking treat.
Parker Scott
Jacob Lee
Liam Cox
Gabriel Price
>UNHAND ME
Daniel Richardson
SOrry I'm not posting as fast. Not having a pass is an issue.
Josiah Gomez
Jayden Gomez
>posting an image during a storytime
Well that's one less than OP has room for now
Camden James
Leo Thomas
Man-Thing's pose game should not be as strong as it is. He's not even capable of cognitive reasoning, but he always knows when to pose like a team. Or like he's done anything in the last few pages.
Zachary Green
I'm planning on dropping acid in the future. What comic media should i watch while tripping? Here are some options.
>Legion S03
>The Boys S01
>Doom Patrol S01
>Movie Options: The Incredibles, Into the Spider-Verse, Hellboy 1-2, X-Men First Class, Days of Future Past, Dick Tracy, Constantine (Keanu Version), Mystery Men, Hercules.
TV Options:
Corporate S02, Agents of Shield most recent season, Frisky Dingo, Venture Bros S06, American Dad (any season), Astonishing X-Men (Whedon Digital Comic).
Jeremiah Peterson
Watch Fantastic Planet
Anthony Wood
More options:
>Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk: Motion Comic
>Iron Man Extremis (motion comic)
>Venom (2018)
>Raimi Spider-Man Trilgoy (2002-2007)
>Prince of Egypt
>Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Watched it too many times along with The Adventures of Mark Twain.
Eli Murphy
Nuke is based
Grayson Garcia
Austin Flores
Christian Collins
Carson Lee
Walker is a fucking beast and deserves to be Warden. He's clearly the only man tough enough for the job. If he did this with missing limbs, you can only imagine how big of a bastard he'd be with them.
Hudson Lee
Leo Barnes
Lucas Jones
Rewatching Ghost Rider 2 meow. I feel like this is something I should watch while tripping.
Dominic Robinson
Easton James
Camden Moore
Bentley Anderson
that's just cold
Christian Davis
Benjamin Hall
based! thanks Prof for the storytime
Zachary Robinson
Christian Powell
You ever just see a set of panels or pages and start subvocalizing music over them? Because, I can hear the obnoxious fight scene rave music reading this and I love it.
Luis James
Glad to have you here! my storytimes have been severely lacking but I will try to see Parker's run finished to the end.
Christian Wilson
Find a youtube video and post it bra. Easy choice would be:
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
Logan Brown
Luke Butler
I'm not sure if I should go by ProfessorBro anymore. My last teaching venture was last spring when I taught at community college and that was an absolute shitshow. In the meantime I've worked administration and adjusted the surveys used to evaluate professors. I have also served as numerous recommendations during this time and am currently working on assembling a set of lectures for incoming graduate teaching fellows. I feel like a professor even if not teaching if that makes sense.
Gavin Morris
youtube.com
Though, I guess it's more chase scene music, or at least in my head, thanks to Test Drive 5.
Hunter Morgan
I discriminated hardcore when I taught community college. The class average was a 77 but not a single person in the class graduated with a "C". You either did exceptionally well or you failed. The class had a True/False final that if you passingly studied for you would have killed it but even that wasn't enough. All that said I was able to identify two students that I adored and contacted numerous other instructors about these students because they were the fucking real deal and deserved every ounce of assistance we could provide.
Wyatt Nguyen
Austin Nguyen
PrincipalBro or AdminBro just doesn't have the same ring
Benjamin Carter
What subject was it?
Gabriel Roberts
Does the fact that the entire department uses lectures I made years ago as the de-facto prototypes for incoming lecturers to have soemthing to work with? I don't teach directly atm but I do make lectures for different departments when people get dropped due to illness (college kids be icky). Still mostly work in the office that does the Uni's evaluations and various other data projects they need work on.
Jace Taylor
Intro psychology. I got to cover all major content areas. THe material wasn't hard in the slightest. I added a mountain of extra credit via two extra credit essays (that were mostly subjective and should have been fun to answer given the content). Community college is literally filled with both extremes of students and it caught me off guard.
Xavier Green
As mentioned previously, there were some kids that fucking blew me away with their intelligence and critical thinking skills. I remember after one class they asked if I was agitated with them because of how they asked questions and I told them that I absolutely adored their feedback and would never ask them to stop. I remember some of the research questions required me to give some brutally honest answers and it shut his ass down for a good fifteen minutes. Definitely a top tier experience lol.
Evan Powell
Charles Young
Jayden Morales
Jayden Cooper
You know, I notice that Parker really likes suprising the reader with the ways character's act, but doing it in a way that's not OOC. I'd never expect Juggernaut to be a voice of de-escalation, for instance. But it makes sense because he puts it in a way that a hardened convict who's been in and out of prison dozens of times would put it.
Easton Flores
It is so fascinating you mention that because I feel like his continued characterization in issue 150 and beyond really start to convey an underlying depth with the character that is by no means apparent up front. A lot of his character is only unveiled by him being somewhat vulnerable and that shit doesn't happen to often at all.
Elijah Cruz
And then Crossbones tries to murder a guy in response to banter, because Crossbones. And, natural selection because the genius baited a freaking assassin.
Logan Cox
Nolan Mitchell
Nolan Jones
Julian Turner
You get they already have ghost in the MCU right?
Christian Reed
The show is really good!
David Wood
Almost but not quite. I feel they could slip this version of ghost in with minimal issues.
Michael Gonzalez
Tyler Cooper
Well that is fucking awesome to hear. If this something I should watch while tripping or maybe a bit much and should keep it lighter? The Fly creeps me out and I would never consider watching it while tripping if that makes sense.
Asher Roberts
Jace Barnes
Jaxon Sullivan
Jacob Peterson
Yeah, but she's got all of fuck all to do with this Ghost. Though, putting her into the actual comics does pique my interest a bit.
Alexander Campbell
If anyone ever asked me about a criminally underrated Big 2 run I’d have to point to Parker’s T-Bolts. Such a great run especially the issues with Kev Walker on art. They way the characters and environments are drawn give it all a cartoony but eerie vibe. Like Nightmare Before Christmas or something. I wish this team had been adapted as playable in a game of some kind at the time because Crossbones, Ghost, Jugs, Moonstone, Luke, and Man-Thing were a great squad.
Nicholas Cook
Luke Ward
Benjamin Bailey
Henry Ortiz
David Powell
Brody Davis
Connor Evans
Parker James
Jaxson Moore
Parker Jenkins
I think it might freak you out if you're high watching. It goes pretty heavily into the cosmic and supernatural horror stuff and gets gorey. I think you'd enjoy it overall though. It's definitely the best thing DC's made for their streaming site.
Parker Adams
Asher Evans
Juan Nguyen
I will definitely put it in the column of most certainly watch, just not while losing my mind on acid lol. I think I'll keep it PG with Incredibles and other related films like Megamind lol.
Kayden Stewart
Andrew Collins
Awesome! Hope you enjoy it! And thanks for story timing this, OP! This is one of my favorite comic runs ever.
Joseph Nguyen
Ethan James
Good to know that Cain hates caves
Brody Davis
Jaxon Reed
Jaxon Foster
Camden Stewart
Carter Butler
Justin Phillips
Nicholas Williams
And this is going to be it for me. I'll be certain to start much earlier tomorrow (that or I'll by a Yea Forums pass). Everyone have a wonderful night!!!
Aaron Wright
looking forward to that tiddy grab
Jaxon Jenkins
Makes sense, given how many times he's been buried alive.
Nicholas Lewis
Thanks OP! man... I hope someday we have a T-Bolts team as good as this one, Marvel is wasting them as Punisher villains.
Julian Cooper
Thank you, ProfessorBro!
Eli Edwards
thx for t-bolt story time, op!
Lucas Phillips
bump
Angel Jones
Ah, Ghost you loveable freak.
Tyler Bennett
>Let me tell you about the Thubderbolts.
Owen Roberts
Cute
Gabriel Harris
I miss Troll...
Aaron Lee
>Can you make me intangible too?
>No.
Based Ghost
Brandon Howard
This was good. Thanks prof.
Logan Wilson
All I remember is they butchered Songbird's hair, and that is absolutely unforgivable.
Liam Baker
Andrew Carter
Even after close to a decade, this run is still the tits.
Matthew Ramirez
He's not kidding. I remember Excalibur #1, where he was kept immobilized in Broadmoor prison, arms elevated, 24 hours a day. Plus, British food.
Camden Ross
Jeff Parker really is great damn writer.
Angel Bennett
Personally, I LOVED Planetary. Must have read it half a dozen times. I'm even more intrigued by that concept now, since we could have a reboot with 1.1.2000 babies. Please, Ellis, plz.
Ian Barnes
I haven't really followed any Marvel series closely for a long-ass time, so forgive me. Isn't Mettle dead as fuck?
Matthew Turner
Oh yeah. Super dead.
Isaac Ortiz
man-thing, fuck yeah
Grayson Stewart
There's even a giant-sized man-thing later on