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[Wild self]

DC's been dropping all year, but I ain't gon keep telling you nikkas to start reading Robin.

It's a battle shounen in the DC Universe. What the fukk else do I need to say?!

People here are stuck in the 90s. They shyt on DC for dropping quality and hype up any random Marvel book. Mosts of these posts in this thread are about Marvel and some random book that will be forgotten in 3 months.

 

[MenacingMonk]

People here are stuck in the 90s. They shyt on DC for dropping quality and hype up any random Marvel book. Mosts of these posts in this thread are about Marvel and some random book that will be forgotten in 3 months.

Yeah, DC hasn’t been talked much about recently. Straight up, everything I’ve been reading for the past 2 years has been mostly DC.

 

[Wild self]

Yeah, DC hasn’t been talked much about recently. Straight up, everything I’ve been reading for the past 2 years has been mostly DC.

But this thread doesn't reflect that

Just a bunch of Marvel worship on ehhh-level books.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Honestly, Marvel has been in a holding pattern all year. A lot of their big titles have ended or are ending soon, like Immortal Hulk, Cates Venom, Hickman X-Men. Books I was really enjoying have been getting unceremoniously canceled, like Jim Zub's Conan and Ewing's Guardians. The big titles that are supposed to be coming out (Ridley Black Panther, Ewing and Ram V's Venom, Cates Hulk) keep getting delayed. I'm honestly not sure what's going on because they don't seem like they're cleaning house for a relaunch or anything.

There are still a few ongoing titles I like (Strange Academy, Shang-Chi, Cates Thor, Zdarsky Daredevil, Thompson Black Widow and Captain Marvel), but the best Marvel books this year have all been the five-issue minis, like Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade, Spider-Man Spider's Shadow and Beta Ray Bill.

Even this week I looked at the new Marvel issues and was like . All I got was the two Death of Doctor Strange tie-ins.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

People here are stuck in the 90s. They shyt on DC for dropping quality and hype up any random Marvel book. Mosts of these posts in this thread are about Marvel and some random book that will be forgotten in 3 months.

Yeah, DC hasn’t been talked much about recently. Straight up, everything I’ve been reading for the past 2 years has been mostly DC.

But this thread doesn't reflect that

Just a bunch of Marvel worship on ehhh-level books.

DC's been dropping all year (or at least, after Future State). Robin, Nightwing, Action Comics, Flash, Swamp Thing, Suicide Squad, all the minis. There are some books that I'm not as crazy about like Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Girl and Teen Titans Academy, but those are okay at worst.

There was a Twitter thread where people were listing their top four DC books of the year, and I realized I didn't have any of those books on my list, but I totally understood why they had them on theirs. They've just had that many good books this year.

This doesn't mean anything about the two companies long term. They both always have this period where one is good and the other isn't. The last couple of years Marvel has had some pretty good books while DC was an absolute shyt show creatively until Infinite Frontier.

 

[Jmare007]

Honestly, Marvel has been in a holding pattern all year. A lot of their big titles have ended or are ending soon, like Immortal Hulk, Cates Venom, Hickman X-Men. Books I was really enjoying have been getting unceremoniously canceled, like Jim Zub's Conan and Ewing's Guardians. The big titles that are supposed to be coming out (Ridley Black Panther, Ewing and Ram V's Venom, Cates Hulk) keep getting delayed. I'm honestly not sure what's going on because they don't seem like they're cleaning house for a relaunch or anything.

There are still a few ongoing titles I like (Strange Academy, Shang-Chi, Cates Thor, Zdarsky Daredevil, Thompson Black Widow and Captain Marvel), but the best Marvel books this year have all been the five-issue minis, like Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade, Spider-Man Spider's Shadow and Beta Ray Bill.

Even this week I looked at the new Marvel issues and was like . All I got was the two Death of Doctor Strange tie-ins.

There's paper shortage and Diamond has been de laying shyt left and right for the past 4 months. shyt has gotten ridículos this past month and it's not gonna end soon.

Basically every relaunch and big books have been pushedand will continúe to do so until february or march at the least.

The whole X-book relaunch is gonna end up being in match instead of january

 

[AquaCityBoy]

There's paper shortage and Diamond has been de laying shyt left and right for the past 4 months. shyt has gotten ridículos this past month and it's not gonna end soon.

Basically every relaunch and big books have been pushedand will continúe to do so until february or march at the least.

The whole X-book relaunch is gonna end up being in match instead of january

Marvel released a statement denying it had anything to do with the paper shortage. And Marvel's switching to Penguin Random House so it'll only be the indies still using Diamond. I think it may have more to do with that transition than the paper shortage, at least right now.

I'm inclined to believe it because Marvel didn't have shyt out this week. Paper shortage or no, there is no reason they couldn't have released Venom this week and held off on fukking Winter Guard or Darkhawk.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Marvel released a statement denying it had anything to do with the paper shortage. And Marvel's switching to Penguin Random House so it'll only be the indies still using Diamond. I think it may have more to do with that transition than the paper shortage, at least right now.

LATE: The X+2 Weeks Lives And Deaths Of Wolverine, And Other Marvels (bleedingcool.com)

• X Lives Of Wolverine #1 was solicited for the 5th of January but is now scheduled for the 19th of January.
• X Deaths Of Wolverine #1 was solicited for the 12th of January but is now scheduled for 26th of January.
• X Lives Of Wolverine #1 was solicited for the 19th of January but is now scheduled for the 2nd of February.
• X Deaths Of Wolverine #1 was solicited for the 26th of January but is now scheduled for the 9th of February.
• Inferno #3 was solicited for the 24th of November but is now scheduled for the 8th of December.
• Inferno #4 was solicited for the 29th of December but is now scheduled for the 5th of January
• Wastelanders: Doom #1 was solicited for the 29th of December but is now scheduled for the 5th of January
• Amazing Spider-Man #85 was solicited for the 5th of January but is now scheduled for the 12th of January. Amazing Spider-Man #86 was solicited for the 12th of January but is now scheduled for the 19th of January
• Spider-Man: Ben Reilly #1, Defenders #5, Devil's Reign: Villains For Hire #1, Miles Morales: Spider-Man #34, Strange Academy #15, Venom #4, Ka-Zar Lord Of The Savage Land #5 were solicited for the 5th of January but are now scheduled for the 19th of January
• Star Wars: High Republic: Trail Of Shadows #4 was solicited for the 5th of January but is now scheduled for the 26th of January
• Spider-Woman #19 and The Marvels #8 were solicited for the 12th of January but are now scheduled for the 26th of January
• Alien #9 was solicited for the 5th of January, but is now scheduled for the 2nd of February, a three month gap between #8 and #9.
• Fantastic Four Reckoning War Alpha was solicited for the 5th of January but is now scheduled for the 3rd of February.
• Star Wars: Crimson Reign #2 was solicited for the 12th of January but now scheduled for the 3rd of February

OK I take that back.

Is this the Comic Book Gods' way of punishing Marvel for spending years of flooding the market with superfluous books?

 

[abominable1]

Yeah, DC hasn’t been talked much about recently. Straight up, everything I’ve been reading for the past 2 years has been mostly DC.

since the new 52 - almost 90% of my reading has been DC
trying to catch up with Marvel - just got to 2018 books last month.

 

[Dillah810]

There are still a few ongoing titles I like (Strange Academy, Shang-Chi, Cates Thor, Zdarsky Daredevil, Thompson Black Widow and Captain Marvel),

Glad to see somebody else fukks with Strange Academy. I thought I was the only one.

 

[Neuromancer]

People here are stuck in the 90s. They shyt on DC for dropping quality and hype up any random Marvel book. Mosts of these posts in this thread are about Marvel and some random book that will be forgotten in 3 months.

Daredevil >>>>>>anything DC has put out recently

 

[Neuromancer]

LATE: The X+2 Weeks Lives And Deaths Of Wolverine, And Other Marvels (bleedingcool.com)



OK I take that back.

Is this the Comic Book Gods' way of punishing Marvel for spending years of flooding the market with superfluous books?

Don't DC have like 53 Batman titles out next year ?

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I love Daredevil but it is not seeing Swamp Thing or Action Comics. You need to stop with that cap.

 

[Neuromancer]

I love Daredevil but it is not seeing Swamp Thing or Action Comics. You need to stop with that cap.

Agree to disagree.

 

[Dillah810]

I love Daredevil but it is not seeing Swamp Thing or Action Comics. You need to stop with that cap.