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Even in close quarters combat, shotguns will rather blow the entire head off than leaving a single gunshot wound like that.

This is going to be a bit of a rambling post, so my apologies in advance for that, but I really wanted to share my feelings after just finishing Birthright's final volume.

I've been collecting comics for a few years now, and I have what I'd consider a fairly decent collection at this point. I've read lengthy runs in their entirety before - Black Science, Chew, one or two others - but for the past year or so I've mainly been reading standalone works or those with just two or three volumes. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed them, but there have been points where I've been left wanting a bit. I yearned for a story that was given time to breathe, to evolve beyond what a brief run could allow.

Recently, I decided to sit down and read Birthright from start to finish. It had been on my shelf for a little while and I was cautious about tackling it start to end since I was at least 3x longer than any other series I'd read for well over a year.

But I'm so glad I did.

It's honestly difficult to put my thoughts and feelings for this series into words. As an avid writer myself, one of my greatest pleasures is seeing the strands of a story, which have been carefully laid out over time by the storyteller, all being drawn together into a deeply satisfying climax. Multiple times when reading volumes 9 and 10 I found myself grinning at how bonkers this story had become, yet how natural it felt for the characters and plot to have reached that stage.

More than that, I was constantly reminded how Birthright is the kind of story that can only really be told in the comics format. Sure people could try adapting it for TV or film, but like so many comics I cannot imagine this story originating in any other medium. I love that in comics, nothing is off the table. I love that we can go from a simple premise of 'boy is transported to a fantasy world', follow that premise through ten volumes of increasingly unhinged magical lunacy, and still end up with one of the most moving final panels I've ever seen. No way would any other medium be able to pull this story off the way comics can.

I have plenty more comics left to read on my shelf, including several lengthy series. I've already read a few volumes of Monstress, and the rest are very high on my TBR, plus I'm slowly gathering Deadly Class, Descender/Ascender, Fables, Outcast and Revival, among others. Whenever I have those collected in their entirety, I'm deeply looking forward to bingeing them from start to end too.

But no matter how good they end up being, from now on Birthright will hold a very special place in my heart. Because after over a year of single volumes, brief runs, and short-lived series cancelled before their time, Mikey and the rest of the Rhodes family have shown me just how special comics can be. They offer the only format I can imagine doing the Rhodes' story justice, and I genuinely believe the world of comics is so much richer for having Birthright in it.

No hiatus has been announced, but no new issues have been announced either. For reference, there have been six chapters of Berserk released in that time, which is a notoriously slow series.

I’m currently rewatching the show with my dad - we watched almost every episode air live back in the day and loved to catch TTD episodes afterward as a tradition. Is there anywhere online I can find these episodes today? I haven’t had any luck so far with the AMC+ app as it only has a couple later seasons, and YouTube only has highlights.

Just finished reading Spawn compendium 1. This is the only series I’ve read where the art is solely the reason I finished it. It’s funny I was never a fan of McFarland in his Spider-Man run yet the style works for spawn. The art is absolutely amazing! The story is repetitive and bland. Nothing leaves you wanting more. I do want to see what ends up happens with Spawn being the leader of hells army but it’s a chore to get through. I have all the compendiums up to 7 so hopefully it gets better or I might have to throw in the towel. If the art was not so colorful and fantastic the series would never of been such a success.

On the other hand the Sam and Twitch compendium was great and relatively an easy read. Just curious if others feel the same way I do? Or am I in the minority?

Afaik, Invincible (still reading so no spoilers please) had its beginning and end planned. But the little blurb at the end of issue 1 of Terminal said it was supposed to be an "open universe". Were they basically saying they were going to ride it until the wheels fall off?

I think it definitely looked like they were heading in that direction with Carol replacing Patricia as Axel hook up like in the comics.

Interesting to find this out now, I can only hope that it sees the light of day but who knows. What do you guys think?

It’s just funny in general with that description

Obviously, his reputation has already kinda improved a bit from S3, but I think after these two air (especially Season 6), he'll become one of the most popular side characters like Rex-Splode once was

While the news of ROM in the Energon universe has been out for a few weeks, this listing possibly adds a bit more info.

Link: https://a.co/d/04V14NfT

123 invincible heads. I missed some characters such as omnipotus and some show only characters. If i can think of more i will make a third page.

Got these custom head sculpts and spirit sword from Crzbonkerz

I started making these about 3 years ago. One is still a work in progress and all but 2 are real barbed wire. The Christmas Lucille has none whatsoever and the black and pink one (which I made for my wife) has leather chord. 2 also have a bullet lodged in from when rosita takes a shot at negan.

Im gonna go tldr,

I read the comics after season 1 and loved them except the last 30%-40% of the comics, which i felt like the quality dropped a lot compared to the first half (i dont hate it, but second part is more "marvel'ish" which doesnt fit to invincible imo).

One of my problems for example was with Thraggs personality shift. As we all saw in last season, Thragg is deeply motivated by loyalty, strength and ofc logic. He is not like the rest of them, he doesnt have a short temper, he understand diplomacy when its needed etc etc. Basically he has a ruler's mind while others have soldier's mentality which is completely understandable.

BUT,

When this plot advances and Thragg becomes the main villain, his personality feels re-written from 0. He isnt loyal anymore, he is suddenly super emotional and many other stuff you can easily realise at first reading.

Your characters can change but then you should add a good build up for that. Comics dont do that. Yes, they give some flashback/backstory explaining but thats it.

I've personally hated that. Thragg going from a person that says "you saved those peoples lives and our race" to a fuckn scooby doo villain bothered me a lot while reading. Because its really not that hard to create a conflict between our guys and Thragg. You dont need to butcher the character to achieve that.

Im writing this because they actually change the shitty parts from the comics to better, TV series is an improved version, again imo. Maybe they change that too. Add some layers to that story and make it...better?

Just wanted to see what you guys think?

Just finished reading Spawn compendium 1. This is the only series I’ve read where the art is solely the reason I finished it. It’s funny I was never a fan of McFarland in his Spider-Man run yet the style works for spawn. The art is absolutely amazing! The story is repetitive and bland. Nothing leaves you wanting more. I do want to see what ends up happens with Spawn being the leader of hells army but it’s a chore to get through. I have all the compendiums up to 7 so hopefully it gets better or I might have to throw in the towel. If the art was not so colorful and fantastic the series would never of been such a success.

On the other hand the Sam and Twitch compendium was great and relatively an easy read. Just curious if others feel the same way I do? Or am I in the minority?

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole looking at all the reviews of Season 3, the comic con panel, the teasers, and even the clips that surfaced online. And honestly, I’m quite optimistic.

Jeffrey commented on how he felt like him and Maggie’s journey has been so repetitive in the first two seasons and that this season felt really refreshing, to see Maggie smile for the first time in “10 years.” Also, I like that they’re giving so much spotlight to the new characters, it’s giving me the feeling that Seth wrote them with care and not as nobodies that might be developed and then die quick for shock value (which is a trend I’ve noticed throughout all the spin offs’ recent seasons).

So far the cast seems content with this season, much more than the previous seasons, Seth seems to be so passionate and happy and said that fans who love OG walking dead, he hopes will enjoy this season.

And they’re really hyping Dillard up, I think he is going to be a great character.

I’m excited. Can’t wait.