Your Comic Book Pet Peeves...

[Mardroid]

Hyuh, hyuh, hyuh!

[JOE SOAP]

I suppose I was more forgiving of Ezquerra's earlier depictions of Red because the kind of woman he drew so consistently well conformed to the long-legged, full-lipped, heavy eye-shadowed dolly birds that populated the films from the late Sixties that I watched on telly as I grew up, and who had a (ahem!) formative influence on my preferences.

Red, Angelina diGriz, Velma Bestardi, Galen de Marco, and- more recently- Sequenta Tells, shared the same morphology; so when I used the term 'the name Ezquerra' in my post, it was leaving open the possibility that there was a younger hand and libido behind the changing face and figure of the female form in Ezquerra art. Some things, no matter how old a man gets, aren't subject to too much change. Have you seen Mrs Ezquerra? The man's got a type.

Biki's withdrawing the contents of his Wank-Bank before our very eyes.

[Bubba Zebill]

ive seen the inside of your mind and know you're literally only seconds away from turning into sid james at any given moment. Dont fight it, man.

SBT

'Muh - Ha - Ha -Ha'...That's my Sid James impersonation...I'll get my coat.

[Frank]

I suppose I was more forgiving of Ezquerra's earlier depictions of Red because the kind of woman he drew so consistently well conformed to the long-legged, full-lipped, heavy eye-shadowed dolly birds that populated the films from the late Sixties that I watched on telly as I grew up, and who had a (ahem!) formative influence on my preferences.

Red, Angelina diGriz, Velma Bestardi, Galen de Marco, and- more recently- Sequenta Tells, shared the same morphology; so when I used the term 'the name Ezquerra' in my post, it was leaving open the possibility that there was a younger hand and libido behind the changing face and figure of the female form in Ezquerra art. Some things, no matter how old a man gets, aren't subject to too much change. Have you seen Mrs Ezquerra? The man's got a type.

Biki's withdrawing the contents of his Wank-Bank before our very eyes.

I left a deposit on yer Maw's face this mornin'. Loren and The Shrimp belong in anyone's portfolio, surely? Claudia Cardinale's a more specialist investment; but when your libido's fixated on the way women looked forty years ago you save a fortune. For me, flicking through the sun-yellowed magazines in my dentist's waiting room is like a trip to the Raymond Revue Bar.

I suppose my beef with Ezquerra's (Hector or Carlos?) revised anatomy isn't that it objectifies the character, but that it doesn't objectify her in the way I prefer. The male gaze is inherently objectifying (so's the way women look at each others' bodies), so the only distinction to be drawn- in terms of art- is whether you find it aesthetically pleasing. The combination of wasp-waisted hard bodies and zeppelin hooters doesn't particularly float my boat in life or in art.

[PreacherCain]

I have a specific pet peeve with The Walking Dead. It's when a character - usually Rick - uses the phrase "We could really make a life for ourselves here" or a variation on it. It's said so. many. times. Rick actually said it again in an issue a few months back and I threw the comic down and cursed out loud.

Kirkman gets a lot of credit for his writing but I think he's prone to repetition quite a bit. Not just in terms of plot but dialogue and characters too.

Oh and another thing about TWD that was happening for some time was when something would happen and right afterwards a character would describe what just happened and how everyone feels about it and how it's changed someone completely from behaving one way into acting another. Show, don't tell, Mr. Kirkman! In fairness, they did print a letter from a reader a while back who criticised him for some of the same things and Kirkman responded. The most recent issues have been a marked improvement on the last twenty or thirty issues.

I do mostly enjoy TWD really but for a while there this became so prevalent and the series wasn't going anywhere that I almost dropped it.

Another pet peeve is Brian Michael Bendis' dialogue which grates on me so much I actually avoid his comics. I have no idea why Powers is so popular; I thought it was a bit shite (and again, incredibly repetitive) 

[locustsofdeath!]

Oh and another thing about TWD that was happening for some time was when something would happen and right afterwards a character would describe what just happened and how everyone feels about it and how it's changed someone completely from behaving one way into acting another.

I've posted this exact complaint a few times on this forum. TWD went from "must read" comics to "eh, I'll wait for the collected" pretty much because of this. Kirkman's writing, to me, has proved nothing but repetitive and boring since probably right after the prison arc.

[PreacherCain]

Oh and another thing about TWD that was happening for some time was when something would happen and right afterwards a character would describe what just happened and how everyone feels about it and how it's changed someone completely from behaving one way into acting another.

I've posted this exact complaint a few times on this forum. TWD went from "must read" comics to "eh, I'll wait for the collected" pretty much because of this. Kirkman's writing, to me, has proved nothing but repetitive and boring since probably right after the prison arc.

It's even more frustrating as the series gets more popular and he seems to be assuming that people like this (hell, maybe they do!). You're right that TWD hasn't really been anywhere near as good as it was once the prison arc finished (in issue 50!?). I do think the last few issues have seen an improvement somewhat but the fact that Kirkman won't even deal with real-world, practical things all that much kind of bugs me too. Has the whole world shut down?! How have the characters not reacted to this?

Personally I think the best thing to do might be to kill off everyone and start again. Or at least jump to a new location and group and leave Rick and company alone for a while. I'm not sure Kirkman is a good enough writer, frankly.

I also gave up on the TV show a few eps into season 2. I think the only episode I actually liked was the pilot. How can a show about the zombie apocalypse be so incredibly dull? The show suffers a lot of the same problems as the comic, to be honest. Characters talking about what they should do, something happens, characters talk about what happened. Repeat ad infinitum.

[johnnystress]

The current Grey Area story, though shaping up surprisingly nicely is bugging me because of the ridiculous tit-enhancing breast plates on the womens' armour.
I think it was on another thread here where someone in the know explained how armour like this could cause terrible injury to the wearer.
Everything else about the story is fine..just lose the domed breast plates. I think we can work out who the female characters are through other means

[Link Prime]

The current Grey Area story, though shaping up surprisingly nicely is bugging me because of the ridiculous tit-enhancing breast plates on the womens' armour.
I think it was on another thread here where someone in the know explained how armour like this could cause terrible injury to the wearer.
Everything else about the story is fine..just lose the domed breast plates. I think we can work out who the female characters are through other means

I'm sure more than a few male 2000ADonline users would have to be issued with that armour if the world of Grey Area came to pass in the ridiculously-near-future.