What Good Is There To Talk About In American Comics?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- Wes and Dok have a good old fashioned rant about what good there is to talk about in comics. wes explains why his frustrations with American comics are at an all-time high. Why he finds it difficult to hype even the best written comics from DC and Marvel. Many viewers are upset with Dok's negative ways. Wes calls him out and asks Dok if he's going to lighten up moving forward. A good old fashioned rant about what good there is to talk about in American comics.
Recommended Video
How DC And Marvel Killed Floppy Comics & Shops
• How DC And Marvel Kill...
🛒 SHOP THINKING CRITICAL - Official Merch!
www.redbubble....
DO NOT CLICK THIS! bit.ly/3E4PLkY
Thinking Critical Comic Book Podcast is live on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, TuneIn + Alexa, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM and Listen Notes.
Link: thinkingcriticalcomicbooks.podbean.com
Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content.
Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical
Thank you for supporting the channel!
Thinking Critical Discord: / discord
Twitch Channel
/ thinking_critical_yt
Contact Thinking Critical:
Twitter: / wes_from_tc
Email wesdigscomics@gmail.com
#dccomics #marvel #comicbooks
![Write Your Life And Become A Better Storyteller - Mark W Travis [FULL INTERVIEW]](/img/n.gif)
Agreed with doc sometimes you gotta let a thing fail before it's successful or comes back like a Phoenix.
I'm personally a fan of when the old man comes on the channel and shakes his fist at the cloud.
Dok is one of my favorite parts of your channel! I like Aaron sparrow the most. I also really like mad science comics a lot too. Don’t get rid of any of the people you make content with they are all awesome.
Ya, I agree. The cancel Dok trend that lurks in the comments from time to time is annoying. With that said, Dok needs to be checked when he is on a panel sometimes. I don’t want him to leave tho. Same with Josh. He has a great sense of humor and has a way different perspective from me. I often hate his takes and “insider secrets” on the MCU, but that is no reason to dump him. I actually try to defend Josh’s staying on the panel even when his MCU takes and defense of Feige is absolutely abysmal. Dok and Josh are both good dudes.
Wes maybe you are the reason, if every time you talk up a comic the publisher removes the writer. Start talking up all the bad writers and see if the publishers will fire them.
You can’t possibly believe the entire industry is watching this UA-cam channel
@@brandonscott3423 It would do them good to do so.
Best is to let it all burn. The beatings will continue till morale improves. The problem is there are more than one writer and there are the companies that help and enable these writers and artists who are toxic towards fans. I for one switched to manga, i refuse to give a cent to the western comics industry and for all i care Marvel, DC, IDW, image can all get driven into the ground. I'll be reading Chainsaw Man or whatever's good while it happens
If the frustration burning in my soul had a voice, it would sound like Dok! 😂
I’m going to be honest; outside a handful of titles, Moon Knight, World’s finest and Rogue Sun, I find it hard to get excited about modern comics. Case in point outside Rogue Sun, I usually just read the trades or a bunch of issues back to back. Contrast this to manga like Kaiju No 8 or One Piece. I will eagerly read each and every chapter that comes our weekly. The storytelling there is sharper and the mangaka clearly care about their craft. The big two if they aren’t talking down to their customers, it’s just endless reboots, events and that stuff. And I can’t take it. It’s why I prefer reading back issues, pretending they are their own thing.
Kaiju No 8 is incredible.
I canceled Moon Knight. One Piece is great. So is My Hero Academia.
Wes, Could you please include a link to your quests UA-cam channel in the video description? You have some really great guests and I’d like to hear more from them.
You can find The Doktor at Thinking Critical…
hey Doc , i love when yah boy Zach talks about you and he calls you the Doctor !!
Zack lost his damn mind.
@@StratumPress you lost YOUR damn mind, fool. Thrash Metal rules
I always get a chuckle out of that.
This is well stated and not being a heel. Simply make good comics about hero’s and villains. The comics that do this don’t use gimmicks to sustain sales. The market speaks each time.
I appreciate the mention of Arc Athena. I could use more good crowd-funded comics.
Hope I can find the new issue on the secondhand market, dont feel like giving Iconic money anymore
@@brodymullett2177 Am I missing something?
What gets me is this knight terrors thing. They just restarted the while superman line, announced green lantern and flash and wonderwoman but then we get 2 full months of those books being on break. I was enjoying the superman releanuch but I'm dropping every single book that Knight Terrors is interrupting. Too bad I was looking forward to green lantern and Shazam. Oh well I don't play fuck fuck games.
Hey man, love your videos. Do you ever review Scout comics?
Astrobots! #1 comes out tomorrow, and I've already read it due to buying the Advance Copy a month ago. It's a very good first issue that's left me excited for the series. Simon "Transformers Scribe Extraordinaire" Furman is the writer, and the fantastic Hector Trunnec is on art. This initial run is only a 5 issue mini, but I'm really hoping it succeeds into a regular ongoing.
Astrobots also has a toy line that's actually been out for about 4 or so years now. They're pricey, but they're very, very cool.
If you can, pick up #1 tomorrow and give it a shot. Oh and #2 comes out at the end of the month, so a bit of a shorter wait.
Didn’t he create Deaths Head?
I have Astrobots on my pull list, specifically the Trunnec cover.
@@matthewschwartz6607 Yes, he sure did.
Ok I have to say this.... American Comic books isnt the problem... MARVEL AND DC ARE. Dynamite, Dark Horse, and Image are delivering classics but because people constantly complaining about Marvel and DC and creates the narrative that comic books as a whole is doing bad or they suck. Scorched doesnt suck, Vampirella doesnt suck, Saga is dope, but no lets based their success off of what DC AND MARVEL non writing asses are doing.
It upsets me because it makes them guilty by association. So if american comics is failing we as a fanbase helped with it or why else companies like Valiant are failing
Dok going on a rampage is the best part of the videos 😂
What Good Is There To Talk About In American Comics? I'm actually catching up on issues and graphic novels from 10-20 years ago that I couldn't find the time to read!
Totally understand you guys. My interest in new, current comic books from Marvel and DC is as low as new Star Wars-related content. That's why I'm more hyped about going back and reading stuff like Marvel pre All-New All different BS, 90's comics, etc. also... By not reading the awful new stuff, more time to catch up with another passion, MANGA! 😂🔥
I think One Piece and My Hero Academia are both great. But I’m very normie on Manga and Anime. Gantz is underrated IMO. Solo Leveling and The Beginning After the End are good Manwha/Webtoons.
@@basementbrotherscollectibles interesting titles there. I'm currently reading One Punch Man, Dragon Ball Super and Jojo part 9 releasing every month. Also dipped my toes into Rokudenashi Blues, a boxing manga and Gangsta, which is exactly that, a gang/mafia manga XD.
I’ve walked away from comics twice: Ron Marz’s destroying of Hal Jordan and Dan Slott’s Superior Spider-man. In both cases, I fell into the trap of follow the character. It became like visiting a friend who was in the hospital because he was addicted to jumping off buildings.
What got me back is following creators instead. Even ones that I’d given up on. I hated Mark Millar’s Marvel books and avoided some great Indy stuff from him as a result. Dumb mistake. Word of mouth got me to try Magic Order, Nemesis and king of Spies and I have not been disappointed. Now, I follow Millar, Waid, Peter David, Levitz, Scottie Young, Adams, Maxwell Prince and some Indy stuff that friends recommend. I’m a much happier person.
Emerald twighlight was dc comics Ankan Skywalker turning into Darth Vader
Following creatives and teams is the way to go, especially nowadays. However, if the team starts to suck or goes whacko from ego and attacking fans, dump them.
Yeah. With a creative team, you can go for the ride for as long as their good, then abandon them if they start to lose it like Zidarsky or Donny Cates. Plus, a creator can go through rough patches and rebound. With a character, the damage is done. Then the next team has to deal with whatever mess that character’s in.
I totally agree that freedom of association is very important. Too much nerd-fighting is poisonous.
And totally agree with your comments about Mark Millar. That guy can do no wrong. Complete hero.
I am reading Magic Order 4, Ambassadors (my favorite Millar book so far), and Nemesis Reloaded. I missed Night Club, and it always sells out where I’m at.
@@basementbrotherscollectiblesI've only been aware of Millar's indie stuff in the last year. I wish I had known of these books before. I just got the Magic Order trade #1. Excellent series.
Comics died the moment Hollywood got in, and that was 2009. It's not coming back, the amount of damage DC and Marvel have done to their flagship characters has ended them.
Dok is one of the reasons I view the channel. I got the same gripes. Know that you got at least one fan. Birds of a feather and all that.
I heard that Dark Horse is going to be reprinting Creepy and Eiree again as sort covers and that new Conan book from Titan looks good. So there's that.
I like Wes and dok together and with Aaron sparrow as well. Dok ranting is pretty much one of the highlights of my week. So yeah I would love to see a show with them.
I completely feel this way about Marvel. DC actually has stuff I'll try (the Superman books, World's Finest, I'll jump back on Batman, the Johns stuff, I fell off Flash, but I'll buy the one-minute war trade, I'm reading all Geoff Johns stuff, I'm gonna read Josh Williamson's next push). I haven't bought a Marvel comic in months.
The best Adam’s Flash is before One Minute War FYI. Find where Adam’s started on the run and read those TPB. That’s the better stories, but One Minute War is alright.
Current big two comics I always pick up - Moon Knight and ummm.... well, I do like miniseries like Avengers War Across Time (great!!), Danger Street, Superman Lost (interesting, but will it be worth 12 issues??) and Sgt Rock vs Army of the Dead (great!!). Everything else I've picked up in past month or so has been an indie, a big two reprint or a back issue.
Sgt Rock vs “Evil Dead Army but Nazis” was so good. I overbought that book bc I liked it and the variants.
Had to add this one to the "liked" videos 👍🏾🔥!
The Saints Volume 2 on Indiegogo from Allegience Arts is worth talking about. Volume 1 is one the overall best crowdfuded books out there. Volume ll2 looks to be even better. You should have Mitch from Allegience Arts on your channel to talk about the Saints. A killer product and read.
How and where are you getting comics in the Philippines? Also, what island are you on?
Why stop being negative if the comic book industry is dog sh$#? Keep telling the truth, if the truth is negative then so be it.
Is there list of actual links for trades for sale of comics in chronological order of Clarmont's X-Men and Spider-Man? I just want to read comics when they are good without spending too much. I just want to read when comics were good in order. I got one trade of Venom when he was started from Spider-Man and trade of Cloak and Dagger.
After all the hate I get for saying bad comic where bad being called racist and what not made me like comics less. But the final nail really was for me that you had a few comics I liked, like Hickman's X-men, Cates Venom/Thor/Hulk and last the Flash run. But it either goes nowhere and just ends or the few decent writers leave! Don't blame them more money is nice, but it makes me care next to nothing about new idea's because they most likely end the same.
If America isnt rewritting characters to be unrecognizable, making bad storylines or pushing agendas or bad artstyles...its just not the same. Seriously im reading Spiderman to see where that trainwreck goes, Gargoyles, Darkwing and Spawn cuz i like them...and buying comics for my favorite cover artists like J. Scott Campbell, Linsner and Frank Cho. Sadly not alot of them is for story.
Spider-Man? Where it always goes, to „but in the next story, Peter & MJ will maybe come together … nah, just kidding“.
I am going to watch the car crash that is ASM 25 & 26. I’ll re-evaluate after that. Most likely to cancel.
Doctor Strange + Alex Ross covers. Yes please. However, interior art is mid level and Jed McKay doesn’t write Doctor Strange or Clea like their personalities are. Clea has become this angry, aggressive girlboss. She was a deeply cerebral character, not an action hero who shoots first and asks questions later. Clea was the person who basically doomed herself for her lifespan to help Doc Strange when he stumbled into her realm bc she believed he was in the right rather than the people who were in charge of her realm. Where’d that lady go? Oh yea…that is the patriarchy so of course Marvel will dump the nuance for ham-fisted feminism.
This is why the manga industry is beating out a lot of the American comic book industry.
As you guys said they want good storytelling, if you guys remember the Tom King Batman issues where King had tried to marry off Catwoman to him but the editor-in-chief said no we're not going to marry off Batman it wouldn't translate well but the audience. Then there's the Superman revealing his identity for the third time did that go anywhere no and that was under Brian Michael Bendis has run.
As far as the Spider-Man issues are concern I really just don't care about that, as I stated before, that I prefer Spider-Man to be with black cat which is what they kind of did during the miniseries Symbiote Spider-Man and even during the Animated Series back in the 90's.
MJ is the true love of Peter Parker life.Felicia is a jerk to him and just love the mask not the poor fool behind her.
Marvel and DC want Batman and Spider-Man to stay bachelors forever. I haven’t checked it, but that may be connected to something with the estate. Same with why Superman can be with Lois. Perhaps that what the handlers want for those characters?
Don’t forget all the challenges with IPs and ownership of characters.
Tim Drake is ruined and the damage has been done. Dc and Marvel has a track record of destroying fan favorites characters. Yet for some odd reason they forgot that comics is a business.
They lost the entire point of the all thing.
I read almost strictly Image and indies every week. Great stuff. Just leave DC/ Marvel superheros behind.
YES. Good approach. Absorb the positivity and reject the bad.
Indies comics is very superior them Marvel and DC in nowadays.
Am I the only one who visualizes Dok as Ron Swanson?
Awesome work guys
This is why I adopted the approach of not getting all that excited about anything. Be it comics, movies, games or tv shows. It is a bit of a downer approach I admit, but that way at least I'm not getting burned all the time and getting even more jaded.
I remember when Mark Millar was basically Grant Morrison's friend, doing back up stories and such. That was his foot in the door. Everyone needs that at least once. I understand that. And he ran with it. He's a just... he's a talent and a smart boy. Grant is more than a little weird. I read Seaman and some of his Doom Patrol and it's almost incomprehensible. Or I'm stupid. Mark is much more accessible. He's more grounded. And personally, I love Dock. I recently rewatched Grumpy Old Men, and Jack Lemmon is a bit more upbeat, while Matthau is more cranky. And it completely works. Dock is right; most comics stink right now. But there are a lot of back issues out there.
With regards to Dok, its good to vent your spleen occasionally, its good for your health.
Probably why my blood pressure never goes over 95/65
Of all the X books I regularly read Wolverine. The art by Ryp is outstanding and the book is pretty violent. I like the idea of the Beast doing a heel turn and basically becoming like the Dark Beast. Two other comics I tried that a lot of youtube channels I listen to that were down on were Scarlet Witch and the Ryan North Fantastic Four. To my surprise I enjoyed them quite a bit maybe because my expectations were so low. I am looking forward to the new Avengers book, Jason Aaron's run was filled with so much grandiose and pretentiousness it was actually boring. Iron Man, Cap, Spider-Man and Thor desperately need A list creative teams.
I tried to get into the current FF run, but the interior art is so different from the cover art I just can't get past it. Glad to hear it's an enjoyable book though.
@David Allen unfortunately if you see Alex Ross on a book its only ever going to be covers. All Ross doesn't do interiors anymore unless it's the fully collected trade and in that case he used digital art and not his painted covers everyone recognizes. Just a heads up if you see an Alex Ross cover don't expect to see him on interiors.
@Drew Johnson I didn't expect Alex Ross art on the inside, I just expected the interior art to be better than it was. Perhaps the interior art is good, but it's just not my thing.
Beast character assassination ruined the character forever to me.
At a comic con, I walked up to one of the writers of Wolverine, bc who doesn’t know Wolverine, and was looking at the books on display. He was polite and talking to me about the book. I asked him as politely as I could. “I’m sorry, and you are?” He paused. “I’m the writer for Wolverine.” I think he was more disappointed than offended. I had no idea who he was tho. 😂 still don’t even know his name. I didn’t buy the book either.
I guess I’m the rude one in that instance. It wasn’t his fault, and frankly, I don’t think it was mine either. More so a condition of the industry.
I guess we’d count IDW & Boom as Indie ? TMNT (Armageddon Game) and Sonic from IDW is fantastic! Never read a bad issue of Power Rangers sooo friggin’ good! I am loving Venom over at Marvel but… I feel Eddie’s gonna become the villain
It certainly feels like a weird moment in comics. Lots of creators in the kickstarter type business, the traditional comics have been surviving almost out of spite and upsetting fans, but it feels like its finally just moving to apathy. Comics elite is hanging up the weekly updates, Zack seems to be basically done with keeping up with the bad comics more or less, and i feel like this loss is going to take a chunk of the remaining market, either from the people who were directly funding it, or the only actual news and attention these failing series could get. I feel like Doks got the right idea. Some big shake ups are about to happen. And we just gotta hope it can rise back stronger and hotter than ever
That writer’s strike in Hollywood is going to either be the death of the industry or the culling of dead weight. Guess where some of them will land? The comics market.
Remember when Donny Cates pitched a Gambit solo at the onset of HoX/PoX? Good times.
YALL NOT EXCITED ABOUT HELLFIRE GALA 23'?!
If people don't want to hear dok, they don't have to tune in
Unleash the Dok of War!!!!!!
Weirdos are everywhere, you can't escape them.
When they brought back wally I decided to wait 1-2 years to see if I would go back to DC then heroes in crisis happen and I decided that I would read other stuff or just some tpb and not follow comics anymore.
There is good to be talked about but you guys talk about comics like the big two are the only that exist. It sometimes seems like you guys find no value in comics outside of Marvel and DC. No decisions about the plots or stories in Cyber Frog or Isom or Earthworm Jim or Jawbreakers. Personally the only way to save the comics industry now is to drumb up interest in the stories and characters found outside the big two. (Not just the sales figures)
Wes mentioned his main issue with crowd funded comics is the international shipping. Both cost and wait time.
@@PubeStache I think West is big enough and known enough that he can ask for review copies. That may not be his style but I think that's a door that he could open. And id bet up and coming creators looking to expand thier audience would be happy to be featured on this chanel, and have West and Doc talk about what makes thier comic great or suck
There have been so many times I've been about to say something, then Dok says it. 😂
I wager a LOT of this drama comes from these idiots having such incredibly soft, kush, problem-free lives that they've got to do *something* to add a little flavor.
More Dok please!!!!!
Wes, if you ever write a comic yourself, i would be honored to do some of the artwork.
I used to spend all my disposable income on comics, big 2 merch, statues, original art, omnibus editions, MCU Blu-ray's. But both companies have outright told me they hate me, don't want me, and worse that I'm a bad person. I have a lot more £££ now
I feel your pain. I've recently stopped grabbing monthly titles and will now only buy graphic novels. I would love for you to cover more things outside the big 2. If Mark Millar is hot right now then you should talk about it more. I want to hear about great comics no matter whose publishing them. Keep up the good work, Wes
EricJuly’s Rippaverse is a new and exciting thing. I did get put in comment jail for criticizing some of his approaches tho. It’s basically sold as a graphic novel rather than monthly titles.
If Dok leaves WE RIOT
A significant portion of stuff from places like Image, Boom! and other smaller publishers are great. DC and Marvel publish recognizable characters, but the products are largely terrible and redundant. It's actually a Golden Age of Comics right now, but DC and Marvel are heading towards a much-deserved irrelevancy.
I have no interest in modern DC/Marvel, so I don't read or talk about them. Enjoy the classic back issues and the modern quality books from publishers that can't rely on the foundation set by talent long past. Ignore the rest.
@Shade Draws Rogue Sun is a good example. I even bought the first trade because of how much I enjoyed it and will pick up the second. Good comics exist but because there’s so much mediocrity; they get buried. And it’s a shame because a comic like Rogue Sun would do gang busters if promoted better and if the industry as a whole was healthier.
@@Avarn388 YES! There's actually an overabundance of great stuff out there. DC and Marvel actually need to go away and take the friggin' speculators with them so the actual medium can move forward. Too many people are married to and devoted to the "Big 2" characters and refuse to enjoy anything else.
@@ryebaldy8479 I don't agree with Dok at all. Quite the opposite. He refuses to read Manga, even though there's so much great Manga... because it's not Marvel. He won't shut up about how terrible X-Men is... but keeps reading it. I don't agree with Dok at all. He only sees DC and Marvel and only vaguely acknowledges everything else. I don't read what I don't like; he does and then complains about it. Can't help that.
A channel called "Upper Echelon" just did an excellent video on the subject of a company called Parrot and how easily their data might be manipulated using AI. I suggest checking it out.
With DC and Marvel giving you nothing new, how about doing that Superboy-Prime and how his treatment was patient 0 for how comic writers treat fans?
Well to be fair, Doug Ernst brought it on himself since he was running ghey ops and got outed, so hes adding to the drama
Lately I've been reading fanfics of DC and Marvel characters that exceed in quality everything these companies are publishing, it's a shame that so much talent isn't used, most of the fanfics are written by true fans who repeat the original material and They know how to make each character act just like the original would.
It's kinda like watching the slow death of a friend-and the average person can't do a thing about it.
BTS with Dok!
In the case of Dexter,the TV show ,it bent over backwards to please the growing female fan
base .The result was a decline in quality for the last four seasons.
They tried to fix this in the new season, but it was too little, too late.A great reflection of what has happened in the comics industry in the last few years.
I feel like Doc 90% of the time has nothing interesting to add to any discussion. His audio quality being dogshit also doesn't help. The constant peaking is annoying.
The good news is Jeremy adams is going to green lantern. I wish he stayed on flash but green lantern is a character that desperately needs a face-lift. It's gonna be hal jordan too!
The fans are Charlie Brown the mainstream industry is Lucy. Good stories are the football
I only 💘 collecting back issues of Marvel and DC at Ollies! Good stuff cheap!
Who the hell wants to remove Doc from the channel. That’s stupid. Doc says for everyone to hear what I’m thinking.
Eh. He's better one on one with Wes, but on Aficienados, he tends to become a character and takes up too much time railing about stuff, relegating the other guests into being silent observers.
Y'know, the Philippines is a hotbed of artistic talent... Bet you a dollar you can bankroll an indie studio in Manila specializing in good American super hero books for export.
Or find creators at a con and support their books.
I just decided 'fuck it' and preemptively wrote off the next Decade or so until the earliest Comic Books start going Public Domain.
Wes and Dok brought it! Absolutely enjoyable video of two men flinging poo at every guilty party. The hypocrisy of CG-affiliated personalities behaving like the "allies" of the mainstream is pathetic. I have a book in the planning stages that I am slow rolling due to a lack of enthusiasm for dealing with the pettiness of people.
Lol I was thinking about reading flash too nvm
Curious, does Doc hate-buy to keep x-men run complete?
Not anymore.
I gave up after the fake spider-Inferno-web thing with Ben & Maddy.
@@ScienceJesus thx for answering
Keep Doc on the channel !!!!
Two of Marvels biggest sellers are in the worst state that they have ever been in (Spider-Man and Avengers). Overall though, I think the All New All Different era (2015-2019) of Marvel was even worse. DC on the other hand, I think that this is the worst state that they've ever been in.
Up to around 2010 I was buying 20 to 30 comics a month. Now I only buy 2 (Immortal X-Men and X-Men Red).
With the exception of Coffin Comics (Lady Death, HellWitch & La Muerta) I to stopped supporting crowed funded campaigns. Besides the insane shipping prices the crowed funded campaigns to my opinion also rely to heavy on (over priced) variant covers, they are a pain to collect if you werent there from the get go. Aaron if you ever read this, I really wished you guys would release Miss Meow TPB'S instead of reprints hehehe 😬😁😋😉. Also platforms that only use CC"s arent helpful either for a lot of people outside of the US. I hope that the succesful crowed funded comics expand soon by looking for printing & distribution partners on other continents. To my opinion that time has come, and Im aware not every artist can do that but the big ones should be able to do it.
I pointed this problem out on EricJuly’s channel…probably poorly but I tried…and got roasted by his followers. However, he’s gonna end up like Image or Wildstorm. After the hype dies down, it’ll be his most dedicated fans, many of whom live in a niche cultural vacuum bc they dare not support anything mainstream, supporting him. I think Eric is happy to do that, and I wish him the best, but he won’t be toppling the elephant in the room-manga. He’ll ring DC and Marvel’s bells every few months when he releases a new issue. But he has to make a digital version and/or a cheaper physical copy if he ever wants to create that “parallel economy.”
8:03 I dropped World’s Finest after the last issue
I follow online comics. Writers aren't out to mock us fans.
In regards to the drama, I dropped Iconic Comics when they got found out. Attacking creators is a massive no-no. THEY went out of their way to create drama. Remember that. It should never be excused. I'm voting with my wallet. HOWEVER, I don't care if your friends with him Wes. It doesn't effect my enjoyment of your channel one bit. You stood up for your friend. I can't fault you for that.
Wes also is in the Philippines, which as he said, has him miss out on certain comics we have easy access to. I’m just happy Wes still can read and review comics.
You cannot cannot drop Dok, he is absolutely the best supervillian in comics right now. Marvel and DC between them cannot muster a character with the ruthlessness to say their enemies should be thrown into the sun, and the Joker might think he's edgy, but he's never said anything as irrational as "f*ck soup".
Dok is your best guest. Always entertaining
Yikes.
The painful true is that Shitty books sells.Just checked the Top 50 cmic books sales of the past month the awful ASM#21 of Zeb Wells is number 1 for the third consecutive month. The fact is Spidey and Batman books sells yet don't matter how badly your stories are. This needs to change with new indies books from Image,Dynamite and Boom outselling the big 2 main books. Just something so drastic like that can do DC and Marvel rethink your comics marketing and hire worth writers.
Is Marvel rebooting again? How did I miss the announcement
Indie comics are the future! The Superhero genre is the only one in comics that will just fade away and lessen over time.
Dok is my twin.. lol
Some good in the current industry? Well, they (or at least Marvel) are releasing a lot of classic runs in omnibus format, so its pretty easy to buy and read some old-but-new-to-you comics. And there's a new Conan the Barbarian book on the horizon. Beyond that, though, I've got nothing...
Dok is the best. Angry Dok rules!!!
I am 100. On board. I think there is this idea that your not cool enough to read the cool book that only I know about. I came back after years of military service/ raising kids living a life and I was meet with h absolutely shitty attitudes I of course felt violence would be a acceptable response but being a dad I decided to look up videos and figure out what was what where I ran across comics elite and found out I wasn’t the only one. Another reason manga is doing so well. They want you to know the story’s. They make it easy to find the best Stuff Where comics want you to waste money and time on crap and maybe you figure out how to get the best stuff
Even average mangas is done very better than the Big 2 in nowadays.
You write like a Marine, but you think like Air Force…
There's some decent indie comics. Like Trese and Spawn.
Well and now Jim Lee is DC President.
GREAT VIDEO 💙🩵💜💗😇
Not lying about the drama in indie comics. I haven't checked out on them but I have turned down the noise because it makes no sense to have all these different factions and having to choose a side or group. I don't care about any litmus test on who is truly 'conservative' or 'based' enough. It was never written that everyone who is tired of the big two have to get along. Just make good comics.
And keep Dok for sure. He is the mouthpiece of our frustration.
“‘*Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive meaningless art.*’ Images of heroes and their achievements can lift and inspire. They are reminders of greatness past, and hope for greatness yet to come. Separating Americans from their highest ideals through meaningless or vulgar art is a turn back toward the swamp…it was achieved by government rules and sponsorship, as well as private funding…”
-W. Cleon Skousen
“45 Goals of Communism”
The Naked Communist, 1958-2017©️
Yeah I just don’t see it. I’ve got plenty to read right now and plenty more to be excited about. Chip Zdarsky just came out with Batman’s 900th issue which reads like a love letter to the history of the character. Jed MacKay is still going strong on Moon Knight, with a new Avengers series around the corner (I wasn’t sure how to cleverly insert it but his Doctor Strange has also been good). PKJ hasn’t skipped a beat on Action Comics and now he’s penning a new Hulk series that’s setting itself up to be the spiritual successor to the Immortal Hulk. All this without even mentioning the stuff that Joshua Williamson, Mark Waid, Al Ewing, and Ram V have been working on. Even still there’s also stuff on the indie scene with something for everyone. Personally, I’ve been really enjoying the Barbaric series, Gunslinger Spawn, and Radiant Black. So like I said I just don’t see.
DC and Marvel need to go away. The same characters. The same stories. The same events. The same gimmicks. The American comic industry can't truly bloom while these recognizable icons keep stealing the spotlight away from genuinely great stories being told by other talent at other publishers, most of them indie.
Zdarsky Batman run is very mediocre but I liked of issue 900 so much.A true homenage to Batman across another medias.
@@StratumPress I’m just gonna pass by the stuff about Marvel/DC because we’ve already had that talk and I think I’ve already spelled out why I think that is probably the dumbest position to take. However I will say that as it concerns to Indies, you’re essentially saying they aren’t capable of standing on their own two feet so we need to give them a pity pass so they have a fairer shot. Thats probably the most insulting suggestion I’ve heard as to how Indies can surpass the Big Two. Might as well give them a participation trophy while you’re at it.
Today I tried to read FF 5&6. It was terrible in every way. It's freaking depressing. I've been a die hard Marvel fan since 1971. I never dreamed the quality could fall this low.
Love it when Doc’s on the channel
Why do I get a feeling that dok is a dentist? Never met a happy dentist.
I’m a “fixer”. I fix things. I find the flaws. I correct them. Rinse & repeat.
It doesn’t seem like they made Peter Parker an a*hole but back to a loser.
Yeah, they can’t stick the landing.
When Dok rants to the point of asphyxiation you know he’s not f’ing around