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Is Lazarus Planet important to Batman/Superman: World's Finest? [Batman/Superman World's Finest Vol 1 Issue 1 - Written by Mark Waid and art by Dan Mora]

Batman/Superman World's Finest Vol 1 Issue 1 - written by Mark Waid and art by Dan Mora

I just picked up Batman/Superman World's Finest 1: The Devil Nezha from my LCS. I'm looking forward to reading it!

I did hear that Nezha appears in the Lazarus Planet event. Is it necessary to read Lazarus Planet after reading World's Finest's first arc or can I just skip the event? If the event is not necessary, is the event worth buying the HC?

Thanks! I'm somewhat new to DC & Marvel comics, so, I'm just trying to get a sense of how events work. I will definitely read Kingdom Come since I heard World's Finest does explore that story again in the later issues.

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2024/03/27
21:38 UTC

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Trying to find a comic's name

Years ago in college I read a mini series about a woman who had matter manipulation powers and was disassociating, I believe she had black hair and one red and one blue arm. I can not remember the name of this comic or figure it out online. Does anyone have any idea what comic this is?

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2024/03/27
21:33 UTC

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Does anyone else find Magneto’s origin to be the most tragic?

Born and raised in the oppressive era of the Nazis rise to power. Witnessing his race being hunted down, beat, and eliminated. His whole family is wiped out of existence and is forced into a concentration camp where he becomes a goddamn Sonderkommando. Given the task of herding people to the chambers and then dumping the bodies, among other grisly tasks that the Kommando’s were given.

Then when he falls in love, escapes, and starts a family, he realizes that he’s a mutant. Can you imagine surviving the brutality of the nazi regime and only to realize that even if you are accepted for being a Jew, that you will never be accepted as a human being because of your mutant powers. To once again be shamed, chased, harassed, and looked down upon. Not only that but your own child is killed because a mob just wouldn’t leave you the fuck alone. It’s no wonder this man has so much hatred and disdain for humanity, the man has been put through the ringer

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2024/03/27
21:10 UTC

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So how do we feel about the new Ultimate Universe overall?

Personally I'm loving it. It feels like a great example of how you can do a dynamic and wholly complete story within the Big 2 framework (it reminds me a lot of THR). While USM is an inversion of traditional Spider-Man, UBP allows for a Wakanda that can actually act without status quo damage, and UXM is a wholesale reboot; they're both setting for an interesting and purposefully built overall story instead of worrying immediately about crossovers.

It's a darn great feeling watch Hickman and co work.

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2024/03/27
20:43 UTC

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To those who had a period where they didn't read many comics, what brought you back to the medium?

For me it was seeing these dope portraits from 'The Wicked & the Divine' that made me instantly order the first two volumes (along with Sex Criminals and Fables).

https://preview.redd.it/d6p5mjagqxqc1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c67421ca620fe42cdff7e2b8abf0b8309c96636

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2024/03/27
20:21 UTC

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Marvel and DC make it so hard for me to want to buy single issues. Between the decompressed storytelling, the wild price for a single issue, the constant event comics, and the number reboots and creator musical chairs. Its no wonder manga is booming.... but it bums me out.

I love single issue comics i love collecting them i like busting them out and reading them, i love them.

Recently its tough to want to collect them. Single issues are over five dollars, and they have really leaned in to the decompressed story telling so even if you are reading single issues you are really just reading for the trade. One modern marvel trade has about the same amount of story telling in it as a single issue or 2 had back in the 1980s and they want like 20 bucks for 6 issues.

Im not saying that stories in decompressed comics are bad just that its gotten to a point where pages are just wasted and the storytelling is so loose. Judge dredd in 2000 ad was doing more with 8 pages than modern comics are doing with 40 and each issue is wildly expensive

There are also so many different series coming out and sometimes 3 or 6 of them are being written by the same writers. Which of course because each issue only had like 120 words and a half an act of a 3 act story. So there are like 60 comics a month coming out and no one is reading half of them. So they try to put a popular writer from another book on the failing comic cutting the quality of the book they were originally working on. This happens to al ewing a lot as he is constantly co-writing.

There seems to be a multi book event going on at pretty much all times. Which makes it so no single book really has time to breathe, because they have to pause thier story and put in like 2 to 4 throw away issues to tie in with whatever event happens to be going on. Dont get me wrong i dont hate events when there is one cohesive event every 2 to 5 years. They have impact that way, and it gives characters more room to grow in thier own storylines without constant inerruptions.

I think if marvel and dc had more faith in thier writers and published less comics we could have runs like immortal hulk or grunewalds captain america or morrisons xmen or claermonts xmen busieks avengers where one writer has 5 years or so to really develop characters themes and worlds without being moved around or cancelled.

At this point the market cant support 120 books from the big 2 at 5 to 8 dollars a pop. Especially when you can buy a manga volume for the same price as 1 to 2 single issues which seems crazy. Manga is never sidetracked by events. Its always the same creators, and there are all genras.

Thats my rant on why i have such a hard tume Buying single issues.

Tldr

Price, decompression, constant events, oversaturation, and writers not staying on books for more than a year makes it harder to want to buy single issues.

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2024/03/27
20:13 UTC

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The Perfect Stakeout (Ultimate Spider-Man #3)

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2024/03/27
19:57 UTC

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Guess what comic verse that became my new favorite :)

Hi let's have a little guessing game I will give three hints for anyone to try guess what comic verse that I discovery and really like as my fun guilty pleasure read, here we go hint #1: the name of the verse starts with C. Hint #2: This comic verse has heavy metal/hell motif. Hint #3: It has famous anti-heroine with a cult following. Good luck everyone I will response back to the answers once I get back online later.

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2024/03/27
19:47 UTC

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Deadpool and Spidey

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2024/03/27
18:47 UTC

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Ultimate Spider-Man [2024] Vol. 3 #4 (J. Scott Campbell Exclusive Variant Cover)

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2024/03/27
18:18 UTC

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Classic Magik fanart by Me

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2024/03/27
18:16 UTC

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does the marvel unlimited worth?

So i want to read comics on my phone and I think that unlimited is cool. More specific i want to know if does have oldschool comics like 1960-70, but and a general image about content, price and new releases. Thanks

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2024/03/27
18:01 UTC

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The Six Fingers/The One Hand

Wanted to get people's opinions on these books for those who are currently reading. I was originally going to trade wait for these series but I'm seeing some stuff that says that reading as they release is a great experience. Should I scoop up the first couple issues and pull the rest or stick with my original plan and trade wait?

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2024/03/27
17:56 UTC

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Another month of dating Ram V can write whatever he wants as long as he keeps fixing her (Detective Comics 1083)

I can’t wait until she’s not commissioner anymore. No more supercop!

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2024/03/27
17:29 UTC

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Comic book haul day 1

(Help ,me find the correct word , it’s not a haul , but everything I read / saw comic book related)

dragon ball super vol 4 (I already watched the anime)

dragon ball super vol 5

and 1/3rd of dragon ball super vol 6

half of walking dead vol 22 (I already watched the show)

jujutsu kaisen episodes season 1 episodes 1-4 (first time watching)

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2024/03/27
17:26 UTC

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(LoEG) Who is the little girl in the mirror on the cover??

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2024/03/27
17:18 UTC

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Donny Cates' Thor run

I appreciate Donny Cates has went through an extremely tough time and understandably stepped back from a lot of his projects but I'm just wondering if a lot of things in his run - Mjol-din, Corvus Glaive etc - are picked up anywhere else or in Ewing's current run? Cheers for any help!

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2024/03/27
16:55 UTC

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Ed Piskor cameo in Red Room #1

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2024/03/27
16:35 UTC

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So when putting my comics in a few collection apps, I've noticed that this arc is strangely absent from any Terminator comic searches in the apps. Any ideas as to why?

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2024/03/27
15:20 UTC

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Daredevil Reading Order

Hey everyone!
I'm still a little new to Daredevil, I have a few books, but I haven't cracked them open yet. I was just wondering whether what I have is sufficient to know the story.
I start with Miller's Man Without Fear, move on to the Miller and Janson omni, then on to Born Again, then Guardian Devil, then the Saga of Maya Lopez (9-15 & 51-55), then (I don't have these yet, but planning to get them soon) Bendis omnis 1 and 2, the Brubaker omnis 1 and 2, then Mark Waid's run, then finally finishing with Zdarsky's run up until Devil's Reign.

Am I missing anything? Is there anything essential I need to get in between all this?
Thank you! 😁

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2024/03/27
14:39 UTC

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Some fanart I just finished. Let me know what you think!

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2024/03/27
14:05 UTC

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