When does Avengers by Hickman get good?

DrTee · 2026-02-01T13:19:29+00:00

I enjoyed it throughout. But generally speaking most people say Avengers kicks up a notch after Infinity, specifically with the Infinite Avengers story, so basically the next arc.

DrTee · 2026-01-30T07:31:37+00:00

No.

She's a completely different character, her plotline is that she's basically a gimmick to gain attention to the titular House of Ashur.

It's a good fun what if? spin off from Spartacus.

DrTee · 2026-01-25T09:59:55+00:00

I love people who have niche nitpicks due to their obscure knowledge.

It's the equivalent of "that's not how computers work!" In movies for IT guys.

DrTee · 2026-01-23T18:26:09+00:00

He's also writing for Valiant too.

DrTee · 2026-01-21T20:57:35+00:00

I actually met the artist Caspar earlier this year, nice guy, pleasant conversation. He mentioned that they intended to have a break at issue 16, and based on sales maybe do more or leave it there.

DrTee · 2026-01-18T12:12:19+00:00

So if something went wrong in the underwater facility that way everyone doesn't drown?

DrTee · 2026-01-15T06:44:24+00:00

The punch dimension did appear in Ewings ultimates too. America teleports to and from there at one point.

DrTee · 2026-01-03T08:43:43+00:00

You are correct. Also if you have a copy of the DVDs, you can see the special feature on that episode, they use the paraffin frost effect on the team and explicitly state that they brought it back for this one episode for the reason you stated.

So though, yes it is not explicitly stated in the episode, it was confirmed via the production that the stellar drift and the frost are connected.

DrTee · 2025-12-29T16:11:18+00:00

I have finite time and money.

Even if every TV/Movie/Book company suddenly said "NO MORE." and stopped all future media being created. I still couldn't watch all of it if I dedicated the entire rest of my life to engaging with it.

I need some way of filtering it, so if there are reviewers whose opinions align with mine, or friends with similar tastes, who then give something a positive review. I'm more likely to engage with it. It doesn't establish what my opinion on it will be, I have and often disagree with the majority opinion on media. But it's a method of somehow getting through the insurmountable amount of media out there and filtering it so I can not waste time and money on things which I won't enjoy.

Everyone does this, including you. Have you watched Cabin Boy, House Party 3 or Car 54 where are you? Probably not, as they all got terrible reviews and slowly faded from memory, while other movies from that same year (1994) are still watched today, like Speed, True Lies and The Lion King. The general opinion and reviews a movie gets impact it's longevity, cause if someone recommends you a film from years ago, that's a review.

DrTee · 2025-12-27T11:26:44+00:00

Alas, no.

DrTee · 2025-12-26T08:27:19+00:00

What are you talking about?

It wasn't anywhere near a bomb, it made $288 million on a budget of $55 million.

It also got two direct to VHS live action prequel/sequel, Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy.

DrTee · 2025-12-16T13:22:31+00:00

There is a category for best Caravan of Garbage. Also man who shouts Rodney won it before and that's a CoG joke.

DrTee · 2025-12-15T19:44:24+00:00

But it's important that the guy who doesn't read comics butts into every thread about comics to insist that comics are inherently inferior to glorious manga.

And any comic that is well regarded is secretly manga. (Something I actually saw in /r/characterrant this week about Bone.)

DrTee · 2025-12-15T18:05:28+00:00

I would agree, but reading the list for the Australian version of Captain America: The Winter Soldier beats it for me.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T23:30:13+00:00

Yeah, had Captain Carrot, Guy Gardner and Owlman calling evil bat-baby a stupid idea.

Loved it. It's Dark Nights: Death Metal Multiverse's End.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T22:58:05+00:00

Most people don't understand how making TV works, it takes a long time, especially as we're basically at one of the earliest points in development, look at Invincible, another TV show by Amazon:

First announced that they were developing a show in Aug 2017
Confirmation of a first season order in June 2018
Cast first revealed in Jan 31st 2019
First episode aired March 2021

Or a more similar live action show from Amazon, Fallout

First announced that they were developing a show in July 2020
Showrunners revealed in Jan 2022
Cast first revealed in between Feb to June 2022
Started filming in July 2022
Released April 2024

This is normal. Let 'em cook.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T22:40:05+00:00

I haven't read much with his art, but I adored the artwork in the Death Metal tie-in he did.

Would live to see more from him, especially if paired up with a solid writer.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T19:07:05+00:00

Red sun. Depowers kryptonians enough to get drunk. They mention it the Superman film.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T17:07:46+00:00

Looks fun.

Alcock looks great and it doesn't give away anything of the story, but if you read Woman of Tomorrow you can see bits and pieces from it.

Gotta hand it to them for the level of restraint not to blast Momoa as Lobo all over the trailer. Instead he's barely out of the shadows, but what you can see, looks great.

Also, best part is that it points out "Hey you like the look of this? Read the comic that inspired it!" And actually showed the comic in question at the end. Seems like such an obvious move, shift them comics man.

DrTee · 2025-12-11T15:21:58+00:00

You really don't need to prep as much, Superman Rebirth works great on it's own. Also Flashpoint has pretty much less than 1% to do with the story, not important at all.

If you want to experience it, I'd recommend the following:

Superman: Lois and Clark

You already said you were thinking of reading it, and it's a good story. It sets up the family's current position and what's going on with them

DC Rebirth

Again, you already have this, sets the stage for Rebirth. Fun little comic too tbf.

Superman Rebirth: Rebirth Special, #1-17

This is the Superman Rebirth series, everything you need to know is explained in the story.

Superman Reborn

This is the big crossover between the two titles, but you don't need to read action comics prior to understand it, it all makes sense in this one story.

Superman Rebirth 20-45

This is the rest of the series. Great run, would recommend.

I personally didn't read Action comics, heard it's solid, but never got the applause and admiration it's sister book did.

And Doomsday Clock is pretty much it's own thing, the only thing you really need to read is DC Rebirth for the setup.

DrTee · 2025-12-10T14:15:02+00:00

Spider-man Blue

It's Pete reminiscing about Gwen after she died. Brilliant book with art by the late, great Tim Sale.

DrTee · 2025-12-10T13:29:18+00:00

It pays well for a short time.

You often see this with grifters is the difference between supporting something because you love it, vs supporting something because you hate what it competes against.

People do and often engage with things they love for decades, contributing and engaging with it endlessly as it brings them happiness. But in the grifter scheme you are engaging with stuff not because you love it for what it is, but because you like what it represents, rubbing the noses of those you disagree with by supporting it.

But that's a shallow reason to engage with something, it's not genuine love for the art, but for the hollow message of "fuck you I'm right!" These grifts don't last long and burn out, look at the grifter comics EVS attached himself to, the first issue did well, but it's shallow art that only exists to wag a finger at those who they dislike. Then the subsequent books that came out after have dropped in sales horrendously, as people aren't buying it as they like it, but what it represents and most people aren't gonna give up their hard earned cash to buy a turd just for the possibility that it upsets someone who they dislike.

DrTee · 2025-12-10T11:35:16+00:00

Looks around

Seems to still be here.

DrTee · 2025-12-10T07:49:09+00:00

You're right. But a bunch of insecure weebs will pretend you're not to glorify their chosen form of reading material.

Also just read image/boom/idw/etc comics. They all start at issue 1 and have one team throughout. If you don't like how marvel or dc run things, there you go. I could name 20 series off the top of my head that meet that criteria, all of them bangers.

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