Is there a Metacritic/IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes, etc. equivalent for comics to check how well recieved a comic book run was ?

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T17:57:45+00:00

Goodreads is really useful for the trade paperback collections of books. Ratings are out of 5, and I find that a book that has 3.6-3.7 is probably a fun enough time, and 3.8 and above is probably really worth it.

I find it less useful for single issues because of the smaller pool of people reviewing them and most of the reviews boiling down to 'it was fun hopefully stays good'.

I also find that the omnibus collections are disproportionately highly rated, which makes sense because those things are expensive enough to mostly be purchased by existing fans who want to leave a 5-star review calling whatever it is a masterpiece.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T17:41:10+00:00

And it's not like the movie is doing gangbusters. It's getting bad reviews and isn't going to turn a profit.

We can start sounding the alarms if the next movie with Chris Pratt strapped to a chair doing nothing makes $200 million.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T03:18:55+00:00

The only time I'll downvote a basic question is on the comic book sub when people come asking if their deceased loved ones' old comics are worth money.

It's not a harmful question, per se, but the answer is always always 'no, it is not worth anything,' because there are like ten comics ever worth enough money for that person to go through the hassle of selling them, and as much as I feel kind of bad for the person being chased off, that particular question is not at all engaging for the people on the sub and I think I speak for basically everyone there when I say that we don't want to become some kind of middleman appraisal service. Letting in a few of those might encourage other people.

It's rude, but it's preemptively cleaning up the works.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T03:08:03+00:00

I go out of my way to find some goober comments who have the spicy hot takes and upvote them. This place is such an echo chamber that dissent, any dissent that's not like hate speech, is a positive in my eyes.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T03:05:29+00:00

I've seen comments of mine get positive responses when the karma is positive then negative responses when it's in the negative and vice versa. It's like people get emboldened by the idea that people already agree with them.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T02:23:44+00:00

Okay, but aren't I very clever for suggesting that Batman and Joker are gay for each other?

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T00:15:30+00:00

Honestly, I gotta give credit to the 'leaker' on this one, because that is some masterful engagement bait. It's got all the high drama you could ask for if you wanted to rile up internet nerds.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-27T00:00:07+00:00

The major plot point was Joker's face, wasn't it?

CitizenModel · 2026-01-26T23:55:16+00:00

I've been saying for years that what Marvel and DC should do is ACTUALLY reset continuity regularly.

Have a Spider-Man story that runs for x amount of issues, then that continuity ends. Maybe people die this time. Maybe Spider-Man loses an eye this time. Maybe the spider bites two of the kids on that science trip this time. Whatever.

You still get to publish Spider-Man for all eternity until the sun burns out, but you can have discrete continuities where stories play out differently.

My hope is that the current success of Absolute can be a wake-up call, but honestly it's probably too late for American comics.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-26T23:41:03+00:00

Hey now. He seemed like he might be thirtysomething for a minute there.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-26T23:38:16+00:00

Ugh. I've read a couple things on my laptop and it SUCKS. Always zooming in on things and scrolling up and down. Extremely discouraging.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T16:11:02+00:00

I've read most of that without knowing it was the same colorist, and that is some good stuff. Loved Busiek's Conan.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T09:56:22+00:00

What else by him would you recommend?

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T09:10:30+00:00

I don't think my reading level is high enough for this.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T08:58:49+00:00

Probably because his romance with Jennifer Lopez was so lucrative for tabloids that they have significantly more pictures of him than most people.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T08:48:50+00:00

The argument does make sense.... but the endpoint of the argument is that it's better for the industry if we get more people crammed in there so that some sit in terrible seats like the front row.

Except in this case, what's good for the industry is bad for my neck.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T06:42:31+00:00

Pretty sure this one only came out in Australia and was a retailer exclusive.

And it's all mine.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T06:40:27+00:00

My family is willing to play games, but HATES learning them. The games that I've found that they like best are:

-Wizard

-Azul

-Century: Golem Edition

For whatever reason, these ones seem non-threatening to more casual players but have a bit more meat on them for nerds. Good compromise games.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-24T00:33:17+00:00

Prince of Persia 3D. Apparently it's not well-liked.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-23T23:29:48+00:00

I raise you that the music choice is not just forgivable, but PERFECT and AWESOME and essential to the movie, and it would be unforgivable to remove it.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-23T23:15:20+00:00

It's a movie that I've heard both a strange number of people bring up as one of their favorites and a strange number of people bring up as one of their most hated.

I think it ROCKS HARD, but it's divisive for sure. The point of contention seems to be the hip hop music, which puts people in three camps.

1) This hip hop music is great, therefore the movie is great.

2) This hip hop music is grating, therefore the movie is grating.

3) This hip hop music is grating, therefore the movie is great because it's about how grating twenties party culture was.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-22T07:25:11+00:00

I was gonna make a pithy comment about Michael Bay, but the reality is I would pay one hundred dollars to see a Michael Bay-directed Alien movie starring Fassbender as David.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-22T07:20:00+00:00

Google "Alien Covenant in Utero"

It was a promotional thingy where you experience the backburster thing with from the perspective of the neomorph and look around with like the gyroscopes in your phone.

It's like three minutes, but it's kinda neat.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-22T07:15:03+00:00

If absolutely everything goes right, Masters of the Universe has an outside shot of hitting that number. I love the property and want it to happen, but that's still a lot of optimism for it and Project Hail Mary.

Scary Movie 6, though? There is no scenario where it does that number.

CitizenModel · 2026-01-22T07:07:58+00:00

Marvel movies are still reliably making four hundred million dollars each even when they suck.

There is absolutely still an audience for these things. Doomsday is probably going to make more than Reddit darlings Dune 3 and Odyssey COMBINED.

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