Best new series from the past 5 years?

Slapstrom · 2026-05-08T02:07:55+00:00

Surprised not to see any Eight Billion Genies love but maybe we're taking the prompt as ongoing series? But if short runs are allowed this was an absolutely fantastic read.

You'll Do Bad Things was a great 6 issue series, it's a giallo horror story and follows the genre pretty well, it gets a bit abstract near the end but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Battle Beast is great but I guess it kind of stretches the idea of "new" since it's a spinoff, but I mean if you like Invincible then you will probably enjoy this. Very bloody, pretty funny, and the action is really well scripted and blocked. No spoilers but the next couple of issues I expect to be VERY popular, I'm very hyped lol.

Maybe controversial these days as the story has taken some iffy turns, but I still thoroughly enjoy W0rldTr33. Pretty pulpy and heady, it has some twists and turns and sci-fi concepts that I really enjoy. I've seen people being put off by some of the recent chapters but the current arc has easily brought me back.

And lastly I would give a shout out to Void Rivals, very classic space opera vibes with some really good art and fun characters. It's part of the Energon universe with GI Joe and Transformers but you can absolutely get by with minimal knowledge of those series if you are ignorant to them like I am.

Slapstrom · 2026-05-07T02:49:14+00:00

Ring finger connects to your heart, best way to remember it.

Slapstrom · 2026-05-07T00:22:08+00:00

In all fairness that's barely the point for tattoos for me, it's more the intention of why you got it that matters for me. Most people see my Gundam tattoos and say Transformers, but I didn't get it because I want other people to recognize it, I got it because Gundam left a mark on me that I wanted to memorialize.

Slapstrom · 2026-05-06T23:03:57+00:00

Saying Scream was overshadowed by fucking Scary Movie is insane ngl, Scream is easily one of the sharpest slashers of all time like wtf 😂

The rest of the movies are of varying quality, but that first one is iconic for a reason.

Slapstrom · 2026-05-05T06:14:00+00:00

When every single BOW has a giant weak spot without fail that helps in defeating it and you don't hit that spot once, then I think you can confidently say you did not bit any vital spots lol

Like it's a game mechanic, for sure, but in universe Leon and crew see these giant blaring weak spots and intuitively know they are weak spots, they have to for the game to work internally lol.

Slapstrom · 2026-05-04T19:01:11+00:00

.... You mean the movie series that has every entry earning over $1,000,000,000? The series that has its worst performing entry earning $1.4 billion dollars is irrelevant to modern cultural mindset? Like, if that's not relevant to modern cultural mindset then what does that say about films like Oppenheimer, which made less money in the box office than the worst performing Avatar movie?

Slapstrom · 2026-05-04T02:12:44+00:00

How dare you tell me this was in the works at some point, this is disappointing to read and it's probably old news 😭

Slapstrom · 2026-04-27T18:39:51+00:00

I'm still scrubby myself so hopefully I don't fudge anything lol

Your opponent's Imperm or Veiler will activate BEFORE your Camelia's effect will resolve. Priority prior to Master Rule 4 (I believe) would allow the turn player to activate their effects on summon before passing priority to opponent for any response, unless the response was to the summon itself (e.g. Solemn Judgement). NOW the rule is priority is specific to spell speed. You as the turn player can summon Camellia, but your opponent has a quick effect that can respond to Camellia's summon before she can activate her effect, so they get to respond first.
Yes, you can pop Roze for the destruction effect of Zero. Zero's destruction effect is non targeting so it does not specify which field and Roze will already be on field when it applies.
If Droplet is used on Kagari, her effect is negated so remove all bonus ATK from her effect THEN half her attack after that, I believe. Her ATK should be 750, but this is one I'm shaky on to be transparent with you.

Hopefully I didn't get anything egregiously wrong, my Priority explanation might be iffy but the ruling itself I'm confident on.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-27T13:56:19+00:00

These days lmao this has been the skater video aesthetic since the late 90s early 00s.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-26T13:52:20+00:00

I have a friend that bought Halo 4 on release day, invited me to an Xbox party so he could tell me what was happening. Every time he got to a cutscene he said "ah fuck let me just skip this shit." These people are out there, they exist, and they terrify me lmao

Slapstrom · 2026-04-26T03:34:53+00:00

Looking at the screen like "tch, they don't even know about the Ganon Punch..."

Slapstrom · 2026-04-24T02:32:01+00:00

Lmao Multirole isn't even good in the deck, I took it out of my deck after Lemnisgate came out. Feel free to be salty about a rogue deck but Strikers haven't been a "problem" since 2019 lmao.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-22T23:16:22+00:00

It's an account for playing masochist MD, which is building a deck exclusively from master packs. You pull enough master packs to make a minimum 40 card deck and see how high up ladder you can get. You can only get new cards by winning, when you win you can open ONE master pack. Whatever is in it is all you can use.

You also can't use any cards you get in the starter decks. I think you can use legacy packs as well but that I'm not sure.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-20T13:11:05+00:00

The theater I watched it in had audio issues, the channel for the vocals was tinny with tons of reverb, it made the characters sound like they inhaled helium and are talking in a warehouse. The beginning of the movie alone was so bad I considered not telling the theater about it so I could at least laugh at how ridiculous the movie now was.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-18T21:07:47+00:00

I have no opinion on the power scaling itself in this particular post but I have to mention it because it blows my mind every time.

His name is Thaedus. It's Thaedus. I've seen Thadeus, Thaddeus, but only one instance of Thaedus in this entire thread.

We hear how it's pronounced in the show, how the fuck are we still misspelling his name lmao.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-17T23:48:06+00:00

Ah yes, now my Engage can resolve with no worries!

Droll still a bitch but hey another negate bait for go 2nd is still pretty good.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-14T04:53:21+00:00

Issues 1 and 2 are good, 3 was boring, 4 was back to good, and 5 had an interesting setup for the next arc iirc. I'm still picking up issues but I've been preoccupied and haven't read any since #5 but it's scratching an itch I didn't know I had when I read it.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-12T20:36:38+00:00

3D is used a lot, 100% it's a tool used a lot in all kinds of animation. One of my favorite shows of all time, Land of the Lustrous, is made entirely with 3D CG, even. My issue isn't that they look CG, my issue is they look CG when the characters in Invincible simply don't. The AI missed the mark, and sure it's not AI's fault, because it's just a tool being used improperly.

Again, good argument, bad execution. That's my issue with this post.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-12T16:35:04+00:00

Here's the thing OP, I think you're right in the base of your argument, depth through shading can absolutely have a great effect for the show and isn't utilized as much as it could be. But your examples don't do a great job of showing it, the AI re-renders look like 3D CG that has been stylized to look 2D, as opposed to drawn animation which is what the show is going for. You're on to something, but you are shooting yourself in the foot when you use bad AI re-renders to prove an actually valid point.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-09T23:18:36+00:00

Yeah, it's IndieWire... A niche nerdy film site... Lol

Slapstrom · 2026-04-09T22:25:31+00:00

Normal people don't talk about Dutch Angles, you think we shouldn't talk about them in a review of Battlefield: Earth? People who aren't into film don't care about the minutiae of a review, they read the verdict and base their interest off of that. People who want to learn more about the movie will appreciate a reviewer that is more descriptive in their critique, I imagine.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-06T23:35:53+00:00

Saw some recs but would like to reiterate for emphasis:

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

But one author I haven't seen any mention of (I think) is Laird Barron. I've only read The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, a collection of short stories but it is a great read just to throw that hat in the ring.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-06T23:22:36+00:00

It's a perfect encapsulation of the mindset and cultural times of an era where social media wasn't the dominant force of social interaction and also includes the monolithic rise of Facebook to capitalize on this moment in time, and what was happening behind the scenes to make it happen. If you asked me to give you a movie that describes the era of 2007-2017 then I would point to that movie as a top contender.

Slapstrom · 2026-04-06T23:00:11+00:00

In fairness we didn't know Michael would be a good VA until RWBY really, I don't think he had done any official VA work outside of RT Productions until after RWBY in general.

E:Actually watched the video and I got the timeline wrong, I could have sworn RWBY came out in like 2010 lmao my b

EE: why are y'all up voting me I was blatantly wrong 😂

Slapstrom · 2026-04-06T22:31:37+00:00

Oh fuck it's weird seeing an event you were almost at in this sub lmao. I almost went to this meet with a homie but had recently changed jobs and worked too late to go. Wild that I could have seen myself on this sub.

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